36 weeks seriously??

Pregnancy has flown by and in less than a month we will have our baby here!! We have been going to the doctor weekly now and she's getting to be a big woman!! Last Monday (with 5 weeks to go) she measured 6lbs 12oz!! My doctor suggested that I be induced at 39 weeks so I don't have a ten or eleven pound baby!!
How far along: 36 weeks!
Total weight gain: don't judge, 30 lbs!
Sleep: becoming more uncomfortable! She hates when I sleep on my left side which only leaves my right side and then my right hip hurts! I only have to get up once during the night to pee so that's nice! I think it's because I already have a nurses bladder!
Best moment this week: seeing her in the ultrasound, my doctor suggesting to start me early!! Getting all her stuff set up and ready to go, swing, bouncer, playpen, carseat, crib! We've had generous friends and family who have given us all this stuff!!
Miss anything: my normal sized ankles! They're huge by the time I get home!
Movement: constantly especially in my ribs!
Food cravings: everything
Anything make you queasy or sick: I've had acid reflux pretty bad and there are weird things that trigger it, mainly fruit and things with a lot of butter! Weird!
Symptoms: awful acid reflux! Hopefully that means she'll have lots of hair!!
Belly button in or out: out!
Biggest fear for the future: being unprepared for her arrival, getting everything ready, too many babies being born this summer so having to wait to be induced a couple days!! Here's a huge belly sitting by the pool last week! Can't wait to meet our little brink!!

Lava

Jared and I have been working a lot lately! We kept saying we needed a vacation even a one night get away. Well my parents asked us the other day if we had a day we could go help up to their property, so we got our schedules changed and went up for the night. It was so fun!! We set up our tent and then went on a little walk. Jo heard this deer and we were able to get close to the little guy. We walked down by the pond and then came back and cooked our tinfoil dinners. After dinner we went and relaxed in the hot pots. My parents came up the next day and we got a wood chipper and cleaned up some trees on the property! It was so fun and relaxing! So nice to get away!!

Mothers day

I really need to get more pictures updated because I have so much to blog about but for now I just want to brag about my hubby! I showed him
how I wanted the nursery and have been talking about what I wanted in there. Well he started working on the walls and ordered our crib. I worked mothers day and came home to this amazing scene! He finished the walls, set up the crib and bough me a glider!!! Oh my heck I love him so much! There's still a lot left to finish in there but it's starting to look amazing!!

Pregnant thoughts 29 weeks and other ramblings

Pregnancy is still going great! This week we have an appointment with another ultrasound and glucose tolerance test. Hopefully I pass!
How far along: 29 weeks
Total weight gain: haven't dared step on the scale lately so prob too much!
Sleep: for the most part pretty good! Not too uncomfortable yet thank goodness!
Best moment this week: this was a couple weeks ago but we were getting an ultrasound and the tech said look at the screen. What's your baby doing with her hands? I thought she was saying rock on and Jared thought she was hanging loose Hawaii. No! She's saying I love you in sign language!! Aww.. Cutest thing ever!
Miss anything? Nope
Movement: constant throughout the day! On Easter we were taking a nap and we could just see my belly bouncing so Jared would press down and she would kick do hard!! It was so fun to watch her play with her dad!!
Food cravings? Still anything and everything!
Anything make you queasy or sick? Sometimes at work certain odors from patients get to me but for the most part no.
Symptoms: growing belly
Belly button in or out? Still in but closer to coming out!
Biggest fear for the future: getting everything ready for her and of course her health!
These last couple weeks have been a little difficult! We have been so busy with finishing up school! My grandma thornley passed away right before Easter and even though we knew it was coming it was hard! My grandpa has been gone almost 18 years and she's missed him so much! She's had Alzheimer's so she was to the point she couldn't remember out names but you always think your grandparents will be around forever! I was excited because grandma was going to have 3 new great grand kids within 2 months of each other this summer but I know she's up counseling them and preparing them to come to our family! I was scheduled to take my boards when she passed away so was stressed about not passing them since there was so much on my mind that week. I took them Tuesday morning, went to her viewing Tuesday night, and funeral wednesday. I was so stressed that I hadn't passed but paid Thursday morning to get my quick results and found out I did!! Jared had left to take his rad tech boards that morning so when he called I shared my good news and he had some of his own.. He passed too!! It's been such a long road but we are so glad to be at this point in our lives!!
I went and checked out city creek center with my family! Such a pretty place! My dad is just a goof and I always laugh when I'm around them!! I am done with my first semester of the bachelors program and am so excited I have the summer off to play and get ready for the baby! Have to throw in a pic of mylittle jo! She loves the ranger! So much going on in our busy lives!!

Pregnant thoughts 25 weeks

I have been awful at keeping my blog updated and recording my pregnancy!! Things have been going great so I wanted to post what has been up thus far into my pregnancy! Saw this on another blog so I'm stealing it!
How far along? 25 weeks!!
Total weight gain: 10 pounds
Sleep: usually wake up early in the morning to pee and sleep decent still. I roll around a lot to get comfortable but haven't been too uncomfortable yet!
Best moment this week: feeling her move daily!!
Miss anything? My flat stomach but I know it's just going to get bigger! Sometimes miss sushi
Movement? She moves the most when I'm trying to fall asleep. I felt her moving a ton at work the other day too!
Food cravings? Anything and everything! I feel like my appetite is out of control lately!
Anything make you queasy or sick? Taking my prenatals makes me a little gaggy still.
Symptoms? Rounded belly!
Belly button in or out? In for now but Jared keeps telling me it's just a matter of time before it pops out!!
Biggest fear for the future: her coming too early, needing a c-section, getting everything ready, having the money to buy everything, her health!
Honestly everything is going great! Our baby is super active and growing right on schedule (along with her momma) I really haven't been sick or tired lately but am feeling more stress to finish out this semester and get ready for her! We are so excited for our baby girl!!

The cat is out of the bag..

So Jared and I are excited to finally announce that we are having a baby! We had been talking about when we were going to have kids and we decided we needed to wait until I was done with school. Well I was having a hard time convincing Jared that it was time until his sister Darcie said they were going to start trying for another. After I heard that this was my conversation with Jared:
Me: "Jare, Darcie and Mont are going to have another kid so if we want our kids to have cousins the same age then we need to start trying."
Jared: "Ok."
Me: (seriously it was that easy the whole time??)
We found out the beginning of November that we were expecting but wanted to tell our families after our first doctors appointment. I had my first appointment and then graduated the next day. We made little cards for our parents with a picture of our ultrasound that said: "Card $0.36, envelope $0.05, the look on your face when you see your grandbaby for the first time...PRICELESS! Baby Stokes arriving July 2012." We gave these cards to our moms as we were leaving the Dee events center. My mom stopped to open hers and Billie kept walking. Jared finally had to stop his mom and tell her to open it and when they did we were all in tears. Everyone probably thought we were being ridiculous bawling at a graduation.
Everything has been going great! I haven't been too sick and my doctor says the baby is looking great. She told us today that we were having a little girl. Jared suspected it all along but I thought it was a boy. We are so excited! A little girl is going to be so fun! We thought we were 16 weeks today but our doctor said she is measuring 17 weeks- which is awesome! Anyways we cannot wait for this phase in our lives! I know it will be hard and a complete change but we welcome change!

End of the year happenings!

November we threw a shower for my sister in law Ali and her little guy.




Jared turned 24. For his birthday he wanted to go out and shoot his swan. He took his pup and had a great time.

Jared loves his Wige!

We went to Wendover on the fun bus with the Buehlers and the Boultons. I was some drunk guys good luck charm and he gave me $100 and then I won another 60 so we came out ahead!

We had cake and ice cream to celebrate.

All of the sisters at Abby's madrigal dinner

I graduated with my RN. My parents, in laws, little sisters and husband went to my graduation and then I snuck out early to go Maddox.


We went down and saw the lights at temple square with some friends from the ward The Webb's. We went to dinner at The Old Spaghetti Factory and then walked around. It was such a fun night!


We hosted our second annual ugly sweater party. We had our families over for pizza, games and the ugly sweater contest.


Cami just had her wisdom teeth out so she was trying to not look so swollen!

Christmas eve Jared and I both worked at the hospital. Christmas morning we got up opened some presents and went over to grandma Stokes'. We had breakfast and opened presents. We then went out to my parents for dinner and presents. I was supposed to work Christmas night but was so sick and had to call in. My sweet husband was so good to me! I just love him!!



December 29th we got a new nephew. He is the first grandkid on the Thornley side so my parents were super excited. He is so so cute and has got tons of reddish hair!