Pregnancy Update

So, as of today I am twelve weeks pregnant. According to babycenter.com, my baby is the size of a lime. I would like to say that pregnancy thus far has been a glowing, wonderful experience--but "I cannot tell a lie". Too be perfectly honest it has been downright miserable. I started throwing up the day I was six weeks pregnant, and I have not stopped since. Over Christmas break, after throwing up seven times before 3:00 in the afternoon, Jordan called my doctor who finally prescribed me Phenergan. While Phenergan makes me feel like I haven't slept in four days, it does quell the nausea which I am extremely grateful for! I also started noticing around six weeks that my left sciatic nerve was bothering me a bit. By seven weeks, (I am not exaggerating), I could not walk, sit, stand, or lie down without constant sciatic nerve pinching on both sides. I tried physical therapy for 3 weeks, but did not see any relief. I started going to a chiropractor 2 weeks ago, and I am a believer. Hallelujah. Amen. While the nerve pain is ever-present, my pain factor went from a 10 to a 3. I know, I know. I'm screwed later on if my nerves are already bugging me. Last Tuesday I had my second OB visit, and he decided to do another ultrasound for me. As I sat watching my baby wave to me on the ultrasound monitor I decided that maybe pregnancy wasn't so bad. I don't mean to sound whiny and ungrateful, because I couldn't be more excited and feel more blessed to be expecting a baby right now. I know there are plenty of girls that have experienced FAR worse, and even more that would put up with anything if it meant they could get pregnant. I just needed to vent a little. Thank you cyber world for listening. Here is my first belly shot. Yes, I am already showing at 12 weeks. That's what you get for having a one-inch torso. Enjoy.

Here Goes.....

In an attempt to catch up on the past month and half, I am going to briefly touch on events. Here goes....
*Christmas with the Hales--My parents and Annie spent Christmas in Minnesota, so we celebrated Christmas here in Utah on the 20th. This was the night that we announced our pregnancy to my family. We made my parents calendars on Jordan's computer, and wrote, "Laura's baby due" on August 11th. My dad flipped through the calendar quickly and was done looking at it. (Shocker) My mom was flipping through carefully, and when she reached August I said casually, "Check out the August birthdays". My mom said, "We don't have August birthdays" and kept flipping through. When I made her go back to the August page she finally saw our little note and started crying.

*Christmas with the Walkers--We moved a bunch of clothes over to the Walker's where we spent the entire holiday break. While I missed my family, it was SO nice to stay one place over the break. We had such a great time with Jordan's family (minus the fact that I was throwing up seven times a day). We had planned to tell Jordan's family using calendars as well, but I was so sick that we had to tell them a couple of days before Christmas. They were so excited too. We were so excited about telling our families our good news, that we weren't even that excited for Christmas. Christmas was wonderful as usual this year though.

Jordan holding our new niece Abbi Walker.

*Clark & Michelle's Wedding--Jordan's brother, Clark, got married two days after Christmas. He married Michelle Gilmore, an awesome girl from my parent's ward. We're so happy that she's part of the family now. Their wedding day was perfect (although a little cold). Congrats you guys!

Freezing their little butts off.

The Walker sibs.

*New Year's Eve--Our friend's got together on New Year's and had a smashing good time. I had to post this picture of our friend, Scott, because he looks so "happy". Enjoy.

*McCall Trip--We headed to McCall with the Walkers over Martin Luther King Day weekend. This year was a little disappointing for me, because there was perfect snowboarding conditions and I couldn't go. Sob. Everyone else had a great time on the slopes. Two and a half year old Emma went skiing for the first time and LOVED it. She was so cute on her little skis, and she skied amazingly well. Our kids will have big shoes to fill.




I feel so much better now that I'm caught up. I'll discuss pregnancy stuff in another post.

My Excuse for Recent Slacking...