You're havin' my baby..

So I guess Cory posting was a clue to get my buns in gear and post something on this blog of mine! I'll try to keep this short and to the point but it might be kind of long. Cool!

First item of business is... we are having a BABY!! Come sometime around May 21st we will have our first child and we could not be more excited!

We found out at the beginning of September after we went to the Blackfoot fair. I had my suspicions and that day I kind of felt weird and tired and then all of the sudden I was like, "Okay we have to go home I am so tired." So we went home and I fell asleep for 2 hours. That night I took a pregnancy test, and covered it with toilet paper while Cory and I waited the 3 minutes (yes he was in the bathroom with me through the whole.. process). We uncovered it and only saw one line. Disappointed, I threw it away and went on to other business. A few minutes later Cory said, "Hayley! I think you're pregnant!!" I guess he had a feeling to check one more time! He got it out of the garbage can and lo, and behold there was the faintest of pink lines! We jumped up and down with excitement and proceeded to take 2 more tests, kind of excessive I know.

The next day Cory went and got a fancy digital test just to be sure. That told me I was pregnant too! Then I went and got a blood test and my HCG levels tested positive! We waited a few days to tell our families. We didn't do anything special but we did just say it out of the blue and their faces were just priceless!

During my first trimester I did have some nausea and since I work at a dentist office I had to stick with the Zofran and it saved my life! Other than that I got the 24 hr flu and had to get an at home IV! Lame! It was over Thanksgiving. Then I caught some kind of nasty throat virus thing and couldn't speak for 3 days. So I have gotten sick, but I have had it pretty good. 

Getting my IV!

                                            The nice nurse absolutely obliterated my vein

Once my second trimester hit I had more energy for about a week and then that is when I got sick with the flu and the other virus.  So I haven't had too much extra energy, but my nausea is completely gone and I have started gaining weight so that is good.

 

13 weeks- not really showing but I want to see the progression..

Nasty picture- 16 weeks

 

So now I am almost 19 weeks, just like that! We went in yesterday to find out the gender and........


THEY COULDN'T TELL!! Our lovely baby was clear down in my uterus and facing the wrong way with it's legs together. The WORST possible position to be able to tell. And my poor doctor tried so hard to get the baby to move! I tried what I could but it would just wiggle and stay in the same position. So we were really bummed out and it actually made me really grouchy for the rest of the day. Especially because  no one believed me when I told them we didn't find out. They thought I was joking! Haha, I guess it would be a good joke. So we go back at the beginning of January to find out the gender. Good news though, everything with the baby is healthy and right now the baby is even a little bit big for my approximate due date. 

I have felt the baby move quite a few times this past week! Last night, after the Doctor's appointment, it was going crazy! I was just thinking, "really baby?! Now you move?!"  We strongly considered driving to Provo and paying $40 for a gender check at the clinic there. But, there is no time! Christmas is coming!! So we will wait to find out. It is funny because when Cory and I told our siblings, his said, "Oh the baby is stubborn just like you!" and my sister said, "The baby is already stubborn like you Hayley!!" So I guess we are in trouble. 

One funny thing is, is we decided to start trying to get pregnant I think everyone else and their dog did too. I seriously feel like I am following a trend! I swear half of my high school got pregnant at the same time! Before we put it out there on social media, all these other girls did! It is so crazy. It really is such a sacred decision between you, your husband, and the Lord, but I guess it was on all of our minds at the same time! It really is funny and I am so happy for all my friends that are having babies too. 

In other news, Cory just finished another semester of school and I am so proud of him for the long hours he puts in practicing the Organ and for how well he does in school. He was just selected to receive a prestigious scholarship for full tuition for 2 semesters! That is such a blessing for us. He is also really excited about the baby and I know he will be such a great daddy. 

We also got a dog. Her name is Tutu, she is a Shih-Tzu and she has one eye! She is very very sweet and we are so excited to have her! My sister works at an Animal hospital in Salt Lake and she was "fostering" this dog for a few days and I just fell in love with her and convinced Cory we should take her!! We can have a dog now because we are moving out of our current apartment and into the home of a couple that are currently serving a mission! We also have to take care of their dog, which is an 18 year old poodle named Poppy! We are really excited for this new phase of life and I am so excited to have some creatures to take care of. 

Anyway there is the update. I want to start doing weekly updates like my SIL Megan did with her pregnancy, they are so fun to look back on. I hope everything is doing well and I hope all of you have a Merry Christmas!!

One year

So, we have been married for one year!! I really can't believe it has already been a year. Sometimes I feel like we have been married for a week and sometimes it feel like 20 years!! Both are a good thing, I promise, haha. So to celebrate our one year anniversary we decided to go to Salt Lake for one night and stay and Little America! (And maybe a little shopping...) It was really fun, but also really COLD. The earth decided to dump snow in Utah that weekend! Nevertheless, it was still a fun time and it was so wonderful to spend some extra time with Cory. We still really like each other, so I take that as a good sign.

Organ recital, duh

Eating our cake! My mom double wrapped in the saran wrap, tin foil and a plastic bag. It still tasted good!

Um.. Cory cut into it first ha ha

So this is how they do it...

This is Cory. The husband of Hayley. I have never done this before, and it looks like I am just typing into a word document. I'm guessing that once I'm done writing, I will just click the fancy orange publish button, and it will magically look all frilly and such. I always thought it took great talent to make a blog post look cool....

Anyways!, I have realized that Hayley has not written anything for over a month, and a lot has happened. In fact, the little posts she has made have been about strange or interesting things, and not really about normal life. So since I know all of you who read this (I have no idea if anyone reads this...I do once in a while if I remember) are very interested in every detail of our life, I will try to give an update on some of the fun things that have happened to us over the past 6 months. Come along for a wonderful journey of the stories of life by Cory. That kind of rhymes.

I think the best way to approach this is to just go through the pictures, and describe what happened over the last little bit. Hayley's camera has a strange black dot on the lens, so until we get a new one, we have been, and will continue to use my phone camera. It's not too bad.

We'll start with the trip to Colorado. We left during the afternoon of someday in August, and drove down to SLC. We stayed the night in a hotel by the SLC airport, and then in the morning, we headed over to the airport to catch our flight to Denver! Everything was going wonderfully. We made it through security in plenty of time to get to our gate. In fact, we had enough time to peruse some little stores and food places, in a very relaxing fashion. After we were done wandering, we decided we should head back over to the gate, and get ready to board the plane. We were sitting in the terminal, and a lady came over the speaker announcing that our flight was just about to board. She mentioned that every once in a while, they will check IDs to make sure that they match the boarding pass. No problem right? WRONG. I started to gather up our things and looked at Hayley, who was sitting right beside me. She looked like there was a colony of ants climbing up her pants. She looked frantic, and was searching for something. In my calm way, I simply said, "What are you doing?" She replied, " I can't find my Driver's License." Wonderful. Just great. A million things started to run through my mind such as missing the flight, just going home, getting arrested for not having an ID (realistic, I know), and a variety of others.

I made the grave mistake of asking Hayley how in the world could she have lost her driver's license from security to the gate, and this was the face I received:

 

This may not actually be a photo from the airport, but this is the face that helps me understand my boundaries. Anyways, we went and talked to the people, and they said we shouldn't have any trouble getting on board. They were mostly concerned for us returning home, since she would need it to get through security coming back. Yes, we made it on board safely, with no issues. Great start to a vacation...

 

In reality, the vacation went very smoothly. We enjoyed going to places such as the Denver Aquarium, Water World, and our favorite, Elitch Gardens, and cool theme park. Here are a few pictures from the trip:

 

 

 

Here we are at the Denver Temple

 

This was a cool Roller Coaster

 

 

 There are people's legs

 

 

 The Old Spaghetti Factory where we had dinner

 

 

This is Hayley. Hi Hayley.

 

 

Shark, this was our seat at the aquarium restaurant.

Merperson

 

Hayley was able to see her friend Amber!

 

 

After the trip was over, we headed on home, and were able to get back home without Hayley's ID. All she had to do was the Hokey Pokey in the airport, and they let her through. Actually, she had some other forms of ID that helped them know she really was Hayley.

 

Well, that is all that I have time for, and I will let Hayley inform you of some of the other events happening in our lives right now. There will only be two of us for a little longer......Stay Tuned for the update by Hayley!



Isn't It Strange?

   I heard this poem once last summer when I was a counselor at Be The Best You camp, and I loved it. I was so sad that I wasn't paying attention and missed who the author was! I remembered some of the poem, but not enough to google search or anything.

 

   So tonight as I was looking through some of our books for ideas for FHE, I FOUND IT!! I was so excited that tears came to my eyes. I just have to share it. This is a poem I want to memorize and engrave it into my children's brains!!

 

Isn't it strange, that princes and kings,
and clowns that caper in sawdust rings,
and common-folk like you and me,
are builders for eternity?
 

To each is given a bag of tools,
a shapeless mass and a Book of Rules;
and each must make 'ere time has flown,
a stumbling block or a stepping stone

 

R.L. Sharpe

 

I love the message in this poem!! 

 



Crazy Life

Life has been crazy lately. Cory started another semester of school, I work, but we still manage to have a little bit of fun. It's just kind of hard because Cory leaves early (most of the time I am still in bed, haha) then I go to work, leaving an empty apartment. Then I come home to an empty apartment. Cory gets home, we eat and then he leaves again to go practice until we go to bed!! It isn't like this every night. I bet he stays home in the evening half the time. But I am glad I don't have to force Cory to do his homework and get good grades, because I would be like, "don't do your homework, lets go get some froyo!!!"

(Before the Mormon Tabernacle Choir concert! It was so so great)

So this little confetti piece or whatever the H it is was found by my mom and she was like, "Look Hayley I found this!!" And I said, "Well, what is it mom?" She then informed me, "It's Moses holding the ten commandments!! Funny huh?!"  So then I stared at it for a little longer and turned my head sideways and said, "Mom, I think that is a man and a woman dancing..." Then we laughed.

I'm pretty sure I need to blog about our trip to Colorado, but I was able to see one of my best and dearest friends Amber!! Her husband is in the army and they are stationed just outside of Denver. Actually I might have blogged about this already. I will check, sheesh. 

A couple of things have happened in the past month that have changed my family quite a bit! The first being my little sister Emily moved out and is up at BYU I!! My parents are officially 'empty nesters' I can't believe she is so grown up and is OLD enough to be in school and she even hangs around boys that are returned missionaries! *gasp* I can't believe it.  she and her roommates even have 'cupcake breaks' when they are doing their homework in the evening, hahaha. (I totally warned her about the inevitable freshman 15 don't worry)

(My "little" sister who is 3 inches taller than me)

The second thing that happened was my dad was released from his stake presidency calling. This was such an emotional day for all of us I think. He had been in there since I was 11. Emily was in second grade, now she is graduated. I wasn't even in Young Women's yet and now I am married!! I feel like my dad has always had that calling and it is SO weird that he doesn't anymore.  My dad and the other members of that stake presidency are some of the most dedicated men I have ever met, they did so much for the youth growing up, we all just loved them.  They loved their callings and I never ever heard my dad complain once about going to the same meeting every  Tuesday  night for 10 years. I never heard him complain that he didn't get to sit by my mom in church for 10 years. I know that my dad had his toughest trials during the time he served in the stake presidency, but I also know that our family has been SO blessed.  My brother Preston was able to serve a mission after open heart surgery. My other brother Logan started heading in a much better direction, and we all have grown so close.  Anyways my dad hasn't had a relaxing Sunday in YEARS!! But now he can, and he has a lot of time on his hands. My parents bought some property up in Ashton and I think that will be good for them, it can occupy their time so they don't become idle ;)  I am so grateful for my dad, Pres Wheeler, and Pres Kennedy and for their hard work ethic and always staying close to the Lord.

(Dad and I shucking corn on Labor Day)

I don't know, I just found this.  Have no idea what I was doing. 

Zucchini Casserole

So the other day at work, my boss comes in and he has three HUGE Zucchini's with him, he tell us they are ours for the taking. So I took one home, thinking I could do something with it.

The next day I was at work for FOREVER because after work my co worker needed to have some work done, which was fine because I like my co workers. So I get home  around 6 and Cory had made dinner! He made Baked Mac n' cheese and Zucchini casserole.It was basically mac n cheese with chunks of Zucchini in it. I was like, "Cory how did you know how to make this?"

He goes, "Oh I looked it up online." Woweee!! Without pinterest? How? (haha)

Anyways we ate this casserole and it was surprisingly good. I may have thought it was even more delicious because I didn't have to make it, that's how it works, right?

Later that night I opened our Ipad and I saw the recipe was opened, so i read it. Then I exited out of that window and the next page was a google search page, and typed into the search box was, "How to cut a large Zucchini."

Hahahahahahaha you guys I about died laughing!!! He said, "Well I didn't know if I should cut it in half and then slice it into wedges or if I should slice it..."

He ended up just slicing it without cutting it in half. I thought it was so cute that he was worried about how to cut the Zucchini!!

This Summer

Well, I haven't been very good at posting this summer, it has been really crazy!!! So here are some pictures of some things we've done. 

(Big JUDDS)

(Denver Temple)

(Cory and the GPS, he loves electronic devices that talk)

(Waiting to be seated at The Old Spaghetti Factory... YUM)

(Cory and Grandma)

(I should never ask to take a picture with Cory... because the following happens...)

(Please don't pay attention to my fat finger)

(He's such a gem)

(My sweet cousin Josh left on his mission to Lubbock, Texas)

(Sister Jill)

(Dallin.. I have no idea who took this)

(Yay!! A normal picture!!!)

I have some good stories to tell... later....