What did you order?

The other day I got online and looked at some maternity clothes. Well, one of the stores I like was having a sale and they had some cute maternity clothes, so I indulge and got two shirts and a pair of pants. Would you know the UPS guy delivers them at 5:30 on a day JP g0t home at 5! JP also happens to be out front when the package is dropped off. I am getting the package off the front porch when I hear "What did you order?" There JP is standing smiling at me. I smile back and tell him that the baby ordered something because they don't want me attempting to get into some of my non maternity clothes anymore! Later JP comes inside to see what I ordered and accuses me of hiding the package. If by hiding you mean setting on the middle of the bed then yes I am guilty of hiding it! Little does he know that packages will be sporadically appearing over the next seven months. Bring on the maternity clothes!? (I think!)

3 months and Cute Grandma

Today baby Dillier is 3 months old (that's 12 weeks in case you wanted to know). That means in 8 weeks baby Dillier will hopefully reveal if they are a boy or girl. I am showing but not in a good way! I am showing in that is she fat or pregnant way, ugh! I still get those moments where I am off in thought and someone says congratulations and I go, that's right I AM pregnant. Today my dad was asking how I was and how the baby was. It was a crazy day and I stopped and said that's right I am pregnant, no wonder I am starving! Even with the wonderful indigestion I am loving being pregnant. I have also started taking a maternity water aerobics class my sister-in-law told me about and I really like it.
So far I have not had any weird cravings but I did crave KFC biscuits for a couple of weeks. I drove through once and ordered 4 biscuits and that was it. The drive through guy laughed at me. What is it with me and drive through guys!? The other day funeral potatoes sounded really good, so I searched and searched at my parents house for the recipe with no luck. What, you say, no luck with the funeral potato recipe, what kind of house doesn't have the funeral potato recipe? Well turns out they did I just overlooked it in my earnestness to find it. I ended up calling my grandma for the recipe. I would have asked my mom but she was out of town. Anyways, my cute beyond belief grandma is giving me the recipe and asks if it is for me or a funeral. I tell her they are for me. She then gets really excited and says "If that baby wants funeral potatoes then I will make them for you!" I tell her it is OK and now that I have the recipe I can make them. Of course this is not acceptable to her and she insists on making me the potatoes. So I give in and she tells me she will drop them off at work the next day. Then I get a phone call about an hour later and she tells me the potatoes are ready and she can have them heated up by the time I get up to her house. This was very tempting but my stomach was shouting NO MORE FOOD! I got the potatoes the next day and yes they were as good as I thought they would be. And they have continued to be good, as I have a 9 by 13 pan of them!

Here are the pictures

The first one is not the best, but it is the 10 week picture.

This one is 8 weeks.

Don't blame it on baby

Since getting pregnant, baby and I have been a having hard time finding that something to eat for dinner that doesn't make us have indigestion all night. I am NOT complaining, just stating a fact. Even if I eat early I will lay down to sleep and here comes the belly ache. The other night I was laying in bed rubbing my belly and said "Oh baby, you need to stop beating me up." JP turns to me and says totally serious "Don't blame it on baby. They didn't do anything."

Technically baby is too small to have done much but, it is because of them that it takes me like 12 million hours to digest instead of the normal 6 hours (or how ever long it is). My body is taking every last nutrient it can from everything I eat (even if it was not nutritious, like a doughnut which tasted really good!). Now I have not, knock on wood, thrown up, so if I just get a belly ache every night and have to live on TUMS them I am fine with that! (Even if TUMS do taste rancid, they work really well.)

The post you have all been waiting for!

Here it is, the post you all have been waiting for....

I'M PREGNANT!!!!!!!!!

I am ten and a half weeks along. Here is where I would post a picture of my little peanut but you are going to have to wait until I go to my parents house and scan it in! My due date is May 5th!

It has been a surreal and crazy past couple of months. For those of you who want to know the whole story keep reading. As you may or may not know JP and I ended up doing IUI. What that is is intrauterine insemination. I took those home ovulation tests and when it showed positive we called and went into the Reproductive Center the next day. JP made a deposit for them and an hour and a half later I went back and they put the little swimmers in with a catheter type thing. Very comfortable!? Then we waited two weeks.

I took a pregnancy test three days early and it said negative. I took another one the day I should have started and it was negative too. I took another one a couple of days later and nothing had change. Of course I was upset but what were our odds of it working? Well two weeks later I had still not started my period so I took another test while I was at Fish Lake with my in-laws. Guess what it said? It was a very light positive. I didn't really believe it but I took another one three days later and it was a light positive too. Everyone I work with kept telling me you cannot get a false positive, so even if it is light it is positive and I was pregnant. So I called the doctor and told them I was pregnant. I also scheduled an ultrasound. See when I was going through all those fun fertility test I was told I have some polyps on my tubes and where they are located puts me at a high risk for ectopic pregnancies. Just what I wanted to hear!? Hence why I scheduled the ultrasound. This is where the story gets weird.

I would have been six and a half weeks when I went in for the ultrasound. JP and I were very excited to see our baby. Well the lady looked and looked and took lots of pictures. Then she tells me to go empty my bladder because she wanted to do a vaginal ultrasound. I go to the bathroom and come back and the lady continues looking and taking pictures. The whole time I am watching the screen and things don't look "normal" to me. Finally the technician tells me that I was pregnant but I miscarried. This was definitely not what I wanted to hear. Thank heavens JP was able to get off work and come with me because I broke down! Even typing this now makes me tear up a little. We left and I came home and climbed right into bed and fell asleep. You know how sometimes you think I will just sleep and when I wake up it will have all been a horrible dream and things will be OK, that's what I was hoping!

My doctor wanted my body to do its own thing and pass the baby on its own. So I schedule another ultrasound for a week later to see how things were progressing. In the mean time I was not cramping but I was also not really bleeding. I was spotting lightly and that's all. A week later I went back in. JP was not able to come with me because of work, I think more he couldn't emotionally handle being there. I don't blame him! I didn't want to be there either but had too be. The lady calls me back and I explain why I am here. She starts looking and I am watching the screen and things look a lot different then they did the week before. She takes some pictures and next thing I know she turns on the heart beat and I can hear a heart beat. Again I broke down sobbing! I was shaking so bad. I kept asking the lady if that was real or not and she said that it was real and there was a baby. She then told me to empty my bladder and went and told my doctor.

After going to the bathroom she took me over to talk to my OB-GYN. He had no idea what to say. He gave me a 50/50 chance of things being OK. I KNEW things would be OK! I just felt calm and peaceful about it. He then told me that I could not work out for the next little bit and I would be visiting weekly for ultrasounds. In the mean time I was frantically trying to get a hold of JP. I called his work phone and cell phone multiple times. He finally called me back as I was driving home. I told him that there was a heartbeat and a baby. I broke down crying again, as did JP. Later JP told me he was on a job working on a safe and when he started crying the lady working at the gas station was all confused. I did not let JP tell anyone until we had two good ultrasounds. So after my ultrasound the next week I called him and said you can tell people now. He proceeded to call everyone in his phone, including my brother. I am very excited but JP is ecstatic! I went in for my ten week visit on Wednesday and the baby was going nuts. They were flinging their arms and kicking their legs. The doctor said "You have a very active baby." To which later my dad said "Did you expect anything else?"

Thank you every one for your positive thought and prayers!

Viva Las Vegas

JP and I took off to Vegas last week. We left on Wednesday night and after some stops in Provo for JP to work we headed to St. George. We stayed there for the night and the next day drove the rest of the way to Vegas. We stayed at Excalibur, which was really nice. JP decided to sign up to go to a time share presentation because it would get us free tickets to a show and give him free gambling money. Friday ALL morning was spent at the time share presentation. Now that JP has been to one it is VERY safe to say he will not be attending another, EVER!! At least I won't be attending one ever again! The rest of that day was spent hanging out with my family, who was also there. That night we ate at the steak house in Excalibur and it was really good! I had a cold so I was not up for much, so JP went gambling and I went to bed. The next day we just hung-out. We went over to the shops at Cesars and wondered around. That night was our show. We saw Chris Angel Mind Freak, and well it is a good thing it was free (well technically money wise it was free but time wise it was not!) because I was not too impressed. The cirques so le (I have no idea how to spell that!) people wrote the show with Chris. So it was a lot of dancing in crazy costumes and very little magic tricks. If you are going to Vegas in the future this is a show that you can miss and be ok with it. JP originally wanted to see Beatles LOVE but because the tickets were free to Chris Angel he chose those. I would pay the extra money to see another show. After the show JP again headed to gamble and I headed off to relax and watch tv. The next day was a lazy day. We ordered room service and took our time getting ready for the day. We went back to Cesars and JP went to FAO Swarts to check out the transformers. He ended up not getting the huge one and is now on the look out for it here. Then we headed back to St. George. That night JP went to the priesthood session, while the girls went to Tuachan and saw AIDA. I love AIDA. It really is a good play. Sunday we slept in and took our time getting ready. JP didn't wake up until around eleven. We headed to come home around four and after another stop in Provo for JP to work again we were home! I really like going on vacation but I also like coming home to my own house and bed!