A lot has
happened in the last month! Which also
explains why I have not had any time to do a new post. The week of July 4th, I ended up
going to my foot doctor because I’d been having this awful pain on the top of
my right foot. We spent the weekend of
June 30th in Idaho with my grandparents and when we were out
shopping with my parents, it was almost unbearable to just walk. Since we were going back to Idaho Falls for
July 4th, I knew we’d be walking around a lot and I just knew in my
soul I had broken my foot. I went to my
foot doctor and sure enough, I had a stress fracture. UGH!
He didn’t want to do an x-ray where I’m pregnant, so just from what he
could feel on the top of my foot and the pain I was having, he put me in a
boot. That thing was so obnoxious!! I
wore that stupid thing for 4 weeks like I was supposed to. I am very thankful that everything is looking
good on it now. I’m finally able to go
on a normal walk without hobbling around town.
July was
filled with hay cutting and fence fixing.
I sure love going to Dry Lake. I
had had enough of not being able to go to Drylake that I ended up wrapping my
boot in a garbage bag and going up anyways.
It was so beautiful!! I had to be really careful during the first couple
of weeks of July. Our house didn’t have
AC so it got hot, which made me swell.
Because I had to have the boot tightly wrapped on my leg, it would cause
some extra swelling. Again, thankfully
everything worked out great!
Since July
24th is a holiday here in Utah, and it was on a Tuesday, Devin and I
decided to take Monday off of work and have an extra-long weekend. It was so nice! When we got married, we stayed at the
Anniversary Inn in Salt Lake. We bought
a certificate that would expire in 5 years.
Back before I had the job that I have now, I worked a lot of weekends,
so this certificate was only good on weekdays.
Well, long story short, here we are 5 years later, certificate about to
expire, and we haven’t used it yet! Now
that I work weekdays, we took this “long weekend” as an opportunity to use
it. We left Sunday night and stayed in
the Lighthouse Suite. It was a cool
room! The bed was very uncomfortable,
but oh well!
The next
weekend, Devin’s grandparents took us to a cabin for a night in the
Uintas. It’s always so gorgeous up
there. It was much, much greener then it
was down here. We ended up seeing 4
moose in total! 3 cows and a calf. “Moose
seeing” (as I like to call it) isn’t as fun in the Uintas as it is in Jackson
Hole. People don’t pull over to stop and
take pictures, nor do the slow down! I
really didn’t even use my camera, which in a way was nice too. It’s always nice to just enjoy the beauty and
nature that God has given to us. The
cabins that we stayed in are always nice.
It had a big deck off the back so we could go out and just sit and enjoy
the pretty view. Boy was it pretty! We saw a mama deer with 2 fawns cross the
river. We decided to go on a ride about
10-15 minutes later and ended up seeing the same mama and fawns cross the road
a couple miles from the cabin. Man they
move quick!! It was nice to be able to
spend some time with D’s family.
Sunday,
August 5th, we had a nice little surprise! My little brother has been doing summer sales
in Kentucky since the beginning of June.
We were down eating lunch after church with Devin’s family when I heard my
mom’s truck pull away from their church. (Mom and dad’s ward goes to the church
just next to grandma and grandpas house.)
I texted her to see if she was okay because I found it kind of strange
that she was leaving in the middle of sacrament meeting. After a while I got a text from my dad saying
that his car wasn’t broken and to be honest, I was so confused! But then the
picture came in and it was a picture of mom and Kendal standing on the front
porch! Kendal wasn’t supposed to come
home until August 20th! The
little butt surprised us. Dad told mom that he had to go into work (which does
happen sometimes) and when he was coming home he texted mom and said that he
coasted down the canyon hill to the park and ride because his car died. Turns out, he was at the airport picking up Kendal!
He wanted to spend the last month
before his mission at home with family. *heart eyes* I was quite surprised that
Devin knew about it and he didn’t tell me!
Devin and I have a really hard time keeping secrets from each
other. Not that that’s a bad thing, but
it can make things like birthdays and Christmas a little difficult. I started to freak out when I got the picture
of K being home and Devin came running in the living room and was just
smiling. I could just tell that he knew
and he knew that I knew that he knew. (Say
that 10 times fast!) He’s known since the MIDDLE OF JULY. I honestly don’t even know how he kept
that. It’s been nice having K home. Except I think I’m going to get attached to
him being here that it will make it really difficult come September 5th. Oh well, guess we’ll see.
We had our
latest baby appointment on August 9th. I had to take the dreaded glucose test. What that means is they are just testing me
to see if I have gestational diabetes. They
give you a drink that is full of a bunch of sugar and then exactly one hour
later, they do blood work. Whatever they
are looking for in your blood, it gives you a number. Depending on how high your number is, you may
have to do the drink again, but then have your blood tested every 3 hours. (You ‘fast’ during those hours.) If you test
positive for gestational diabetes after that, then you become high risk and
will be watched a little more carefully as it could really affect both you and
your baby.
Back to the
drink—they gave me the drink at my July appointment. It had been staring at me in the fridge for a
month, almost like it was taunting me! I
was hoping for a little bit of a good flavor with the drink, but I was honestly
expecting to gag. A lot of people too
say that it tastes like a flat orange soda.
To me it tasted more like an orange otter pop that had a burning
aftertaste. (It’s an orange drink, in case you didn’t know.) It honestly wasn’t bad at all! I went to my doctor, had my blood drawn,
listened to baby’s heartbeat, and moved on!
I ended up getting a call from my doctor. Whenever the doctor’s office calls me, it
scares me to death! I did pass my
glucose test, however I am anemic. All
that means is that my red blood cells are low which can be common. They just want me to be on an iron supplement
for the rest of my pregnancy.
Since I have
officially reached my third trimester, I get to go to the doctor more
often! I’m going to start going every
two weeks. Once we reach 36 weeks, I will
go weekly until our little guy is here!
It’s getting so close! When
people ask how much longer I have, it feels shorter if I say 11 weeks versus 2 ½
months. I don’t know why it sounds
better/shorter to me. Haha! I have finally got most of his nursery put
together. It is honestly my favorite
room in the house. It has more
decorations than any other room in the house.
I’m just waiting on a couple of decorations that I’ve ordered online to
show up and then we will be all set to go!
My baby shower is in a week from Saturday and honestly I am just so
excited. What an exciting time in Devin
and I’s life. We are so incredibly
blessed for the love and support from our family and friends. We couldn’t be more grateful to have this
little boy coming into our lives.
