the night before hand

*It really is the oddest thing sitting at home the night before we go to the hospital. Its also odd knowing the exact day that you will go into labor and have her.

*My last doctors appointment i was 3cm dilated and 50% effaced so my doctor said it was fine that she induced me a week early.

*even if she didn't induce me there would be no way I would last the week til my due date, yesterday I was contracting about once an hour and the fact that i didn't feel anything that caused me to be 3cm seems pretty impressive to me

*I really wanted to be able to have my sister there because she moves on my due date. I love my sister i cant imagine having something so huge happen and not have her here.

*I'm getting antsy beyond belief and anxious because its so daunting to think about.

*tomorrow i'll have my daughter in my arms.

*this has been so unreal for me because i never thought that it would happen.

*it took three years and a lot of blood sweat and tears for it to happen.

*i'm as prepared as i can be at this point theres nothing more that can happen.

*3:30 am is verrry early to be awake which has caused me to realize i'm not going to be sleeping tonight and if i do somehow fall asleep it really isn't going to be very long.

*Ryans trying to help me not loose my mind right now but he's just as excited as I am

*I put in the extended edition of Lord of the Rings to help pass the hours but it seems like time is crawling by....

*when I get bored and dont know what to watch I put in Lord of the Rings

*I've watched the special features of them at least three times each

*I'm sure they are easily longer than the movies themselves

*I've been watching Big bang theory lately... I love that show

*soft kitty, warm kitty, little ball of furr! Happy kitty, sleepy kitty, pur pur pur!

*I'm slightly random at the moment if you cant tell

*I know the last thing I'm going to eat before I go into the hospital is a bowl of fruit loops

*my doctor told me I should eat before I go in because they aren't going to let me eat hint the fruit loops

* I still haven't done my thank yous from my shower...

*I think I'm the worst person at writing thank yous ever

*I'm going to have Madison blessed the first Sunday of march if you want to come

*I just got the dress dry cleaned

*I wonder if I'll be able to get a nap in the hospital tomorrow morning before the contractions get too bad

34 week

Well I had a blast of a baby shower! A whole lot of people showed up and showed us a lot of love. While there my cousin Alicia told me to come over and look at some of her baby stuff to start a baby stuff swapping club between us since we live in the same city and live fairly close in the same city. Between her and my shower we are set. There are still a few odds and ends we would like to get like a rocking chair and a swing... I still need to wash all of the clothes and write the thank yous and find a place for everything, which is a lot harder than it sounds.
My old man kitty was limping around for a few weeks, my mom thought that he landed wrong when he was jumping off the fence in the back yard. Well he started not limping so bad and we all thought that he was getting better. Well then last week my mom found him licking his chest raw... well no one was taking him to the vet so I kidnapped him and took him to the vet, my mom met me there. It turned out that the vet thought he had gotten into a cat fight and he got an abscess on his chest that opened up. She thought he was calm and that they would have no problem with him... hahahahahaha... people never believe us when we say he doesn't like the vet and he doesn't like people messing with him when he doesn't know them that well. Well the vet tec came back into the room with him with the leather gloves that go up past the elbow and they hadn't been able to do anything with him other than give him the shots he needed. So I got to cone him and he was growling the whole time. He's doing a lot better now, I'm glad I vetted him.

Ryan and I are in Ely this week... Not working is fantastic! There is a huge storm that stretches down below Hawaii and is called the pineapple express. Well it was raining in Vegas when we left and it was raining in Ely when we got here. That night the rain turned to snow and it snowed all night long. It then snowed Monday and its currently snowing right now. I don't think I've even had to deal with snow like this before... Its very pretty but it isn't fun to drive in.

Yesterday when it had stopped snowing for a little while the kids, Ryan and i went sledding at the park right next to their house. Well I didn't sled because hello that would be stupid, but it was funny to watch. This was when Ryan went down with Emily. They were trying to forge a good path down the hillside and it would always work better when there were two or more people on it. It was funny when all four of them went down on the same sled...

I am currently 34 weeks pregnant. I swear after my shower I blew up I think I grow an inch a day now, it was an over night thing. I guess that being freakishly small for so long had to catch up with my eventually. Its getting harder and harder for me to move around and her head likes to go in and out of my pelvis. I showed Ryan her head when she was trying to escape through my stomach while we were out and about. He though I was just being crazy but then he felt one side and it wasn't anything then he felt where I told him to and he felt her big head. I haven't gotten to the point of where I want her out already I'm still content with being pregnant. I still haven't felt a braxton hicks or any contraction yet. I'm starting to wonder where the heck she's going to go because she's already in my ribs I dont know how much higher she can go! She should be weighing close to 5.5 pounds by now if she is gaining the half a pound a week.

32 weeks

I went in to get my last ultrasound. Madison is so cute I do love to see her whenever I can. Jenni was able to go with me. She is head down and she seems perfect. She has a FULL head of hair right now. The doctor actually measured it and its a half inch long so far. He was surprised that she had so much hair so early in the pregnancy. He tried to get a good 3d picture of her but she kept her head against the placenta so it was only a smushed picture of her. Its getting so close, I can count the weeks left on my fingers... I can actually see the end in sight. I like having her in me it feels so safe, I dont have to worry if shes cold or lonely I know that shes there and mine.

The baby shower is on Saturday and I'm very much looking forward to it. I'm excited to see everyone. It took so long to make all of this happen and now it finally happening.

Ryans grandma is in the hospital. She has a blood clot in each lung and is in the icu at Salt Lake. They are going to try to break it up with medication. Its kind of a wait and see kind of thing.

Thanksgiving

Well Thanksgiving week was a world full of fun at work. It was crazy busy and we got a lot more work. I was very happy to be off by ten on thanksgiving day. It was great to have John home for the little time that he was here for. He still has a bigger belly than me... he was pushing, me not so much.

This was the first black Friday in the history of ever that I didn't work it. I didn't really care one way or the other but Ryan thought it was be fun to do "mild" black Friday shopping. So we left the house at 8:30 (I told you it was mild) to go check it out. We went to a few different stores and I discovered that babies-r-us half off is wal-marts normal price... We got ourselves our first Christmas tree... It was fun to set it up, even though we wont be in Vegas for Christmas this year...

30 weeks

30 weeks so far I have been perfect. My feet hurt when I'm done with work but thats normal with everyone... I dont have heartburn, or leg cramps and I also have had zero braxton hicks contractions. I have had some rather vivid dreams lately... the other night I dreamed that my mom got another pet turkey and some more chickens and the chickens were sleeping on a box with kittens and one of them was pink... yeah that a quite a lot of zombie dreams... work has been interesting I just did an overnight this week. It was the easy, I actually finished two hours early working painfully slow then after trying to find stuff to do we left an hour early...

Ryan and I had a family function at his aunts house... I do try to be social when I am there. Its actually a lot of fun talking to them.

I am on season three and a half of gilmore girls... I am so happy to know someone who owns the show!!!

28 weeks

So I find it interesting that I'm "small" for seven months. most people freak out when I tell them how far along I am. I was at church today and people looooove to come talk to us because we are "new" and she said:

"I'm going to be a grandma soon! She's due in April! Is that when you are going to have your little one?"

"No actually I'm due in January"

I loved the look I got from her like I was crazy... I get my sugar test tomorrow, I've kept my drink in the fridge for a while so I'm hoping that it wont taste too nasty. I also dont plan on drinking (anything but water) or eating before the test. I really have no desire to have to go back in for the four hour test. We have set the day for my baby shower, its going to be December 11th at my moms house. Its going to be fun... It will be a few days after my 34 week check up. Oh time is flying and I dont like it

26 weeks

So we have had a lot of issues with our car lately... literally. One day Ryan was driving home from work and the radiator blew up... yes I'm serious. Once we got ripped $650 for a brand new radiator he went to go get it smogged and oh yes it didn't pass smog. Someone disconnected the battery when they replaced the radiator and now the computer needed to be rest because it wouldn't complete a drive cycle. This happened the exact same time last year when we tried to smog... it cost us almost $700 to fix it that time. When Ryan went in to try to get it fixed to our luck they had no tecnitions. Ryan seriously thought about driving the car off a cliff or burning it the desert but instead he went online and we were approved for a car. Once I got home from work we went down to planet Nissan and we walked around and talked to our wonderful sales guy that had a sense of humor. We were going to buy a used car, but when they did the work up and looked at it it would have been crazy to buy a used one. They need to advertise how great they are, we dont have perfect credit, we dont have horrible credit either but thats not the point. Used car would have been 10% interest and the new one would be 1.9% with a lower per month payment. So we got the new car... it has 30 miles on it! I love it! It drives soooo smooth! So old car 22% interest (yes I had a credit card interest on my crappy crappy car) to a brand new safe car that we can bring Madison home and not worry.

I love the second trimester of pregnancy... it is a breeze. Its wonderful! I can still work fine, I am still movable... She likes to kick me but she's good while I'm at work... its very hard to concentrate when she is wiggly in there. I'm days away from the thrid trimester.... Less than a hundred days until I get to see her little face!!! We picked a day for my baby shower!!! Its going to be December 11th (Saturday) at 4pm at my moms house... by the way I like monkeys and those giant flower headbands... hint hint hint I want those giant flower headbands. January is going to come sooner than I would like...