Baby update and sick little girl!

So, as many of you remember when I was pregnant with Emma I was diagnosed with Preeclapsia at about 30 weeks. Well, at about the same time with this pregnancy my blood pressure started to get a little high. So, for the last 2 1/2 weeks I've been on semi-bed rest. Basically I need to be laying down and resting most of the time unless Emma needs me. I still take her back and forth to preschool, but am resting most of the time. It is helping and my blood pressure has stayed down. My labs are still normal so I technically don't have preeclampsia. I'm sure the rest is helping with that. So, basically I get pretty bored and frustrated, but I just try to remind myself that being on bed rest is better than having my baby born too early. He is doing great though. He moves around great.

 

My poor Emma has had a rough weekend. She woke up at about 1 am saying she didn't feel good and then a half hour later started throwing up. That kept up until about 530 and then more sickness at about 1030 this morning. My poor baby was pretty miserable. I'm glad Robert was home to help me. It was definitely a blessing that it happened on the weekend. She's already back to her normal happy self. What a weekend. Things might be pretty boring around here until baby boy arrives. I'm doing all of my Christmas shopping online and Robert has been a great help at keeping up with things.

 

 

 

Halloween Fun!

We had a great Halloween this year! Since I am on partial bed rest it was pretty simple, but we had fun. Emma and Daddy carved pumpkins.

 

Last week was the Trunk or Treat at church. Emma was very excited to wear her Merida costume.

 

 

Halloween day was busy and fun. I tried to rest as much as I could, but we decided to go to Pizza Hut for a Halloween lunch.

 

Then as soon as we got home we had to race to get ready for Halloween at preschool.

Such a beautiful Merida!



 

After school my friend Mindi took Emma trick or treating downtown. Then we had some chili and Daddy took Emma trick or treating around the neighborhood. I joined in at the end when we drove around to a few friends house. We had a great Halloween. I loved handing out candy and just enjoying the excitement of the night.

 



My fun Emma

Emma has been so fun and so excited for the baby. She tells everyone she meets that she is going to be a BIG SISTER! She still wants a baby sister, but is happy to be having a baby brother for now. Last week we started a new preschool. She was super excited and is doing well. I'm hoping its a good preschool for her and she continues to do well.

 

Here she is under her name for her hook to keep her stuff on.

 

 

The past couple of nights she has wanted to sleep in her tent. We set it up in her room. She loves it. I didn't think she would make it the whole night. Not only did she sleep the whole night, she slept in until 8!

 



Baby Shower!!!

My baby shower was last night. It was fun to get together with friends and ladies in the ward. Kaysi Webster, Madelyn Dustin, and Cailin Blasi threw me a great shower. We played a couple of fun games, Cailin gave a really nice little spiritual thought. They made some awesome yummy food. At the last minute I decided to bring Emma with me. We had a long talk about her being a big girl and being good at the party. It turns out she had a couple of her friends there so she had a great time! My friend Elenna and I took a lot of candid pictures.
 

 

 

Playing games!

 

The girls had to tear a baby out of a piece of paper behind their backs. Then I judged the best ones!

 

Emma had so much fun helping me open gifts. She loves everything for the baby and is so excited. She was so cute the way she was oohing and ahhhing at everything. 





 

 

I love these pictures of her reactions. They are adorable!

 

I feel so blessed to have such good friends. It was a great shower!

 

Quick Baby Update!

 

On Tuesday we drove over to the Dr. My blood pressure was a little high so I'm supposed to be resting when I can. It seems easier said than done. Hopefully things will be okay.

Pumpkin Patch Fun!

We had a great time on Saturday! Our plan was to go to a farm with a pumpkin patch and all of the fun things that go along with that. Then, we found this nursery with all of these fun activities that was completely free. Emma was able to paint and decorate a pumpkin. She had a great time!

 

 

I loved taking these picture in front of the pumpkins!

 

They had a fun little petting zoo. Emma was all about the ponies. She really was not interested in the other animals. When she saw those ponies that's all she cared about.

 

A little hayride around the nursery.

 

 More animals!

 

We love October! It was so fun to see all of the pumpkins!

Just for posterity. I'm about 29 weeks pregnant in these pictures.

The rest of the day we ran a few errands. I even did some early Christmas shopping for Emma. With the baby coming right before Christmas I feel like I need to get things done early this year. We quickly went to Home Depot, Target, and Once Upon a Child. I love any chance I have to do any shopping. When you live in Rawlins it happens few and far between. 

Our Weekend

 

We had a busy fun weekend. Our Anniversary was on Sunday. We decided to celebrate on Friday night.  Our plan was go to dinner at an Italian restaurant in Saratoga, but since it was snowing like crazy we decided to stay in town. We went to a restaurant here in town called the Aspen House. We have been there for work stuff with Robert, but never by ourselves. It was really nice to go on a real date. Then we went to see the movie Gravity.

 

 

 

It was a pretty cool movie in 3D. It is definitely one you want to see in 3D. It was fun to get out and spend time together. I meant to take pictures all night, but didn't take any until right after we got home. The lighting is terrible, but I wanted to document our 7th anniversary!

 

 

 

 

Then the rest of the weekend was General Conference! We get to have church in our pajamas and watch at home! I love that! The talks were great. It's always hard to pick my favorite. There were so many great messages of peace and hope. We watched on Saturday and Sunday so that was pretty much our weekend. Here is a picture of us on the couch. No makeup and in pajamas! It's always fun to be able to spend so much time as a family.

First Snow!

Last night it started snowing and when we woke up this morning it was a winter wonderland! Emma was soooooo excited! She couldn't wait to go out and make snow angels. We had a busy morning, but as soon as we got home we dressed her in her warm clothes and headed out. She was a happy girl in all that white snow.

Making a snow angel!

 

Hot chocolate to warm up afterwards!