Growing Babies is Hard Work

I'm 33 weeks pregnant today, and this is my first blog I've done since I've been pregnant. I'm really sad about that. I have never been able to understand it when people have told me, "I hate being pregnant", until this pregnancy. My other 3 pregnancies have been awesome! I didn't get sick, I never had any health problems....I just enjoyed watching my "baby bump" grow, and feel the little miracle growing inside of me. But now I get it. I was really sick for about 14-16 weeks. I couldn't eat anything. I was so dang tired and nauseous all day every day. Then when I hit 10 weeks, I started having horrible migraines. (I had never had a migraine before in my life.) They woke me up in the middle of the night. My right arm and my tongue went numb. I had Mike take me into the doctor's office on a Saturday morning, who then sent me to the ER to get a CAT scan and a couple of other tests. Ok, that freaked me out. (As if having migraines wasn't bad enough, now I had to worry about radiation making my baby have problems.) Everything came out fine of course, but I dealt with those awful migraines for 2 weeks straight before they started to level off. The doctors gave me Lortabs to get rid of the pain, but those things made me more sick than having my "morning sickness." I'm still having them, about every 2 weeks or so, and when I do I'm down for a whole 24 hours. I was feeling pretty good for a few weeks in my 2nd trimester, but as soon as I hit my 3rd trimester I started feeling awful again. I'm extremely tired all of the time, my back is killing me, and I'm still having migraines. I know, some normal things of pregnancy, but for some reason they are much worse this time.
This all kinda sounds like I'm complaining, but I'm really not. I love being pregnant, I'm just not enjoying it as much this time. It is such a miracle to me the whole process of growing babies! Even though I haven't felt very good for the past 7 months or so, I love feeling every movement of the baby growing inside of me. And we are having a little baby boy!! We are so excited!! Now we are counting down the days til this little guy comes!

Blog? What Blog? I Have a Blog?

I think I almost forgot that I had a blog. It's a new school year, we are on a schedule again, and now maybe I can remember to fit "blogging" into my schedule again. ;)

I seriously can't believe how time flies. My kids are growing fast, I'm getting old fast......and time isn't waiting for me to catch up. Anybody have a solution to this problem? There never seems to be enough time in one day. Maybe I need to take the turtle's advice on Finding Nemo, "Ride the wave, and go with the flow Dude."

(Picture of me and my siblings. I love this picture!)

Oh My Puppies!

My puppy (Belle) just had puppies! What an experience this has been. We bred our poodle with a malti-poo (maltese/poodle mix), so I guess these puppies will technically be malti-poos too. They are so tiny they fit in the palm of my hand. My kids just can't seem to leave the poor little things alone. The other morning, Lexi was the first one awake and she took the liberty of taking one of the puppies out of the basket, and took it upstairs to her bed. Not quite sure why Belle didn't bite her, but thank goodness she is a great dog!

(These pictures were taken when they were one week old.)

More Wedding Pix

Here are some more wedding photos. (And I actually think that I mixed up these two wedding posts, but oh well.) My sister Danielle took most of the wedding photos (all of the ones that look professional). She is amazing! I wish I could post more, but I have no more room and no more time! ;)

Kylie's Wedding

My baby sister Kylie just got married! I am feeling sooooo old! She looked so amazing and the wedding was beautiful!

My,Oh My, How Time Flies

Has it seriously been 3 months since I've blogged? Goodness gracious how time flies! I don't think I would've even blogged for another couple months if it wasn't for a few hints from some of you ;) One example of why I'm not a good "journaler." (Not sure if that's a word.) In this picture: Me and my siblings, minus one (miss u Noel!)

Easter in Phoenix

We travelled to Phoenix for Easter, where the majority of my family lives. We got to spend time with my parents, siblings, and niece and nephews. I was expecting Phoenix to have beautiful weather......nope. It was chilly, and it had rained all day Saturday. Thank goodness it was good enough weather for the Easter Bunny to hide the eggs! In these pictures, the kids are dying eggs, and going on an Easter egg hunt. The kids wanted to eat the eggs as soon as they were done dying them, except for Raimee. She didn't want to ruin her pretty eggs.