14 weeks and 23 years!

Saturday we celebrated my 23rd birthday, and my 14th week of pregnancy! Neither thing is too crazy exciting, but oh well. :) Sam and I went out together Friday morning before we worked and had lunch and we went and picked out my birthday present...a new CAMCORDER! I'm so excited about it! I've wanted one for awhile now, and when we found out I was pregnant, then I really wanted one!

This is the one we ended up getting.. it's sooo fun! All the videos go on a little SD card, so we can stick the card right in our computer and upload the videos! It's super fun.

Sam also got me the Leona Lewis CD, and I LOOOOOVE it! I almost have the whole thing memorized :) So I had a good birthday eve with Sam. I love that boy lots! I had to work at 1 that day and I barely had time to walk in the door before all the kids came running to me so excited for me to open my birthday presents from them! They were soo cute, they went to Build A Bear and made me a bear with a little bear ipod, and if you squeeze his foot he sings happy birthday. They named him Mr. Beary Chocolate Hamster...exactly what I would have named him! :) They were so happy about it and kept telling me that I can give it to my baby when it gets here! They also got me a pretty crystal heart paper weight type thing that says "Amy Super Rocks" on it. They got to pick out what it said and the font and color, so they were pretty excited about that too! And they also gave me a pretty candle from bath and body works! Fun! It was so cute and I felt soo special!

On my actual birthday, Sam and I got up early and drove down to Tucson so Sam could work at a fair with his family. I just hung out in a hotel room most the day with a few our nieces and nephews and Sam's mom. It was nice, we had lunch and then took a 2 hour nap! It was great! After the fair we all went to a casino for my birthday dinner... it was all you can eat seafood buffet and OH MY WORD all those tongan guys went CRAZY on all the food! I just kind of sat there and stared in amazement. :) But we had a fun night..and all in all it was a pretty good birthday! No complaints from me!!

Like I said earlier, Saturday was also my 14th week of pregnancy! Which means....I only have 3-5 more weeks til we find out what we're having.... and only 4 more weeks til I'm half way thru being pregnant! Crazy! I can't wait to get my first ultrasound and find out what we're having!!! This is what's up with my baby this week...I get a weekly update from a 3D pregnancy website and this is what it says...

Your baby now has fingerprints! Book 'em, Danno! Believe it or not, he actually created them himself while swimming around in the amniotic fluid. As he moved his hands, the skin on the tips of his fingers formed unique ridges and folds. That's why no one on earth has the same fingerprints, not even identical twins! Cool, right? Baby's arms are now in proportion to his tiny body, but his legs are still on the short size in comparison.Meconium, that tar-like, sticky first baby poop, is now loading up your baby's intestines, which means you might want to set aside a bottle of olive oil, one of the few things that will get the gooey poop off of baby's bottom. Your baby continues to gain new and impressive skills such as practicing and controlling voluntary muscle movements (this will help him fling food across the room later in life). Your tiny dancer's movements are no longer the jerky, uncontrollable twitches of yore—he now moves with graceful control. Your baby is now weighs about an ounce and is the length of a flip phone, or roughly 3.5 inches—he's tripled in size from a mere three weeks ago! Luckily, you haven't done the same.

...Pretty exciting right? :)

And speaking of babies, here are a few more pictures of baby Sophie...gosh, I just can't get enough of her! She's too too cute! Oh, and another speaking of babies.. one of my best friends Amanda had her baby on the 18th! She had a little girl named Addelyn. SHE is stinkin' cute too! I can't wait to go see her in a few weeks!! OK, so back to Sophie..here she is..

baby sophie

Ok, so this picture is from my phone so its not the best, but I look at it like every ten mins cause she is just so dang cute!! She's my brother Aaron's 3rd little girl and she is the sweetest little thing on earth...love her.

babyutahhospitalwork

So, it's been awhile.....
Nothing fun or interesting has been going on with us, so I've felt no need to write! But I guess I'll do a little update since I have nothing better to do right now! Sam started working for US Airways Feb. 16th and his schedule SUCKS and I hate it...but, we are both so grateful for his job and the awesome benefits we get. So we are putting up with the crap schedule. He works mon-fri, 3-11:30pm. So basically we never see each other. I go to work in the mornings, so he's usually asleep when I leave, and then I'm asleep when he gets home! And he's been working a lot for his family on the weekends...so we REALLY never see each other. But oh well..such is life. We kinda like each other so we put up with it :)

I had my first doctor appointment Feb 26th and it was great! Sam was able to go with me so we both got to hear our baby's heartbeat! It was pretty amazing...the whole us having a baby thing, became a lot more real. I still get really overwhelmed when I stop and think, Ok...I'm having a baby....there's a baby growing in me right now.... Yeah it just happened again. Overwhelming. I couldn't be happier or more excited, but geez it's a lot to take in still! My next appointment is the 27th of this month and I'm really looking forward to it. I can't wait to have an ultrasound done and find out what we're having...we still have another 6 weeks before that happens though. That's about it on the baby update... I'm feeling quite a bit better. I'm not sick to my stomach all the time, so that's nice. I still feel tired a lot, and could sleep all day, but I'm getting used to that. So I've gone to feeling like I'm going to barf every 2 seconds....to gagging every 2 seconds. I gag ALLL the time. Especially when I'm hungry. So I try to eat every few hours, but NOTHING ever sounds good. Except for roast and potatoes...but that ALWAYS sounds good. :) So it's hard for me to want to eat when everything sounds gross, but I have to or else I'll gag to death. And all the sudden, in the last few days, I've felt so extremely fat, way more fat than I normally feel. Which weirds me out cause I eat way less now than I did before I was pregnant. I thought it'd be the opposite....?? Anyway, so I'm thinking it's about that time to go buy a few new shirts and a belly band. Good thing my bday is coming up.. speaking of, for those of you who don't know when it is, it's the 21st, which is Saturday. So be thinking of what to get me..it's only a few days away!

Let's see..what else... Oh yes, last Tuesday night I was sound asleep, and woke up and felt REEEEEEALLLY sick, so I sat up and before I could do anything else I threw up all over our comforter. Gross gross gross, I know. But it seriously came on so fast I didn't have time to move! So I got our sheets and comforter in the washer and went back to bed. I had a killer headache so I had a really hard time sleeping. Anyway, I went to work Wednesday and still had a bad headache but just tuffed it out. I stopped by the grocery store on my way home and felt like I was going to throw up again so I literally ran to the bathroom and barfed my brains out. Pretty, right? And I dunno about everyone else, but throwing up is so exhausting to me... So I went home and got in bed. I wanted to get our apt cleaned up and get packed for my little trip to Utah that I was supposed to leave for Thurs afternoon, but I felt so so crappy I couldn't do anything. And all I did from about 6 to 9 was throw up. I talked to Sam on one of his breaks and told him how awful I felt, so he called his sister Salo to come get me and take me to Urgent Care. But all the urgent cares were closed, so she took me to the hospital..which I did NOT want to go to, but I felt so bad I knew I needed something. I thought I had a migraine and that's what was making me so sick. So we got to the hospital at like 930 and waited til 1030 to be seen by the doc...he told me he wanted me to get a head CT scan since I've had several migraines before and never gotten checked out. So I had to go back to the waiting room and wait til about 1 am to get the CT scan, and they also gave me an IV for dehydration and some meds to help my head. Oh, Sam came to be with me after work and Salo went home.. I was so glad he was there with me, he's such a comfort to me. Anyway, so I got an IV, and then at like 2:30 the took us to a room with a bed and a tv, so I could finally lay down and sleep and Sam sat next to the bed and held my hand and watched sports. A doc came in around 3:30 and told me the CT scan was normal, and my brain looked beautiful...such a compliment. He gave me a paper to go get a prescription for some medicine to help settle my stomach and to help me sleep off the migraine. So we got home at about 4am. I woke up at 8 to go get my prescription then went back to sleep and we were both OUT til 1pm. Sam had to go to work, and I just stayed in bed and slept the rest of the day, and all thru the night. I was supposed to fly to Utah that afternoon like I said, but we changed my flight to Friday morning.. I felt SOOOOOOOOOO much better so I was able to go. I got to Utah at 1030 fri morning and Andrea picked me up and we went up to Aaron and Cyndie's to see little baby Sophie. SHE IS SOO STINKIN PRECIOUS. I have some really cute pictures, so I'll have to upload those later. We nibbled on her and fought over who got to hold her for a few hours then went back to Anneke's. Then all of us girls went out to dinner at Wingers. Brad came up and we played Cranium and had some good laughs. Saturday Ammon's girls came over and played for a few hours and it was so fun to see them too! Andrea and Brad came back at 2 and we had a yum BBQ and and just hang out and visited! It was a fun day. I love love love spending time with my family...the only thing that would have made it better is if I could have seen my Mom and if Sam would have been there with me! But it was a fun short trip... I flew back here to arizona early sunday morning in time for church! I slept most the afternoon cause Sam was working, and that's about it! PHEW!

So there you have our life story... :) Sorry it's so long and boring, but what can ya do?! I'll put up some pictures from Utah soon! So until then....adios!