Summer Update

So a lot has happened since I updated last, we are officially moved to Delta! The last few weeks in Logan were crazy busy, I was working a ton, Dal was finishing up projects and finals, and we were trying to move everything we owned into a storage unit and get the house cleaned and get all moved.  We were busy but we got it done and it's SO NICE to have life chilled out a little bit.

 Outside of our ghetto townhome in Logan, not moving back here ha thank goodness.  It wasn't bad but our neighbors were winners, let me tell ya. Constantly outside smoking and laying out (they were in their 50's, didn't have jobs, and weren't super fit, so the laying out thing was not the cutest sight we've ever seen), and asking us to come over and drink with them cause, "they have the best beer" ha. We actually really liked this apartment overall but we will find something else when we move back up this fall.

 This is before we have everything in our storage unit but this is actually most of it! We fit everything pretty easy in a 10x15 storage unit, so we really don't have that much stuff which is nice.  Guess it pays to marry someone that is a clean/organization freak like Dal:)

 In other news, I haven't even put on here that we are expecting! Life has just been a little crazy to be blogging lately, but I should have plenty more time this summer.  We found out when I was only 3 1/2 weeks along, so let me tell ya, keeping that secret was not easy, especially when I was working and having to go throw up and pretend like I was just fine everyday ha.  I actually felt really good (other than being exhausted) up until 7 weeks and then it hit me like a ton of bricks.  I would throw up througout the day and then wake up in the middle of the night sick too, but it's completely worth it!
Once I hit second trimester I have felt so much better.  I don't get nauseous unless I get hungry, so I try to eat every couple hours, which I love ha, and I haven't been nearly as tired.  I actually feel like a normal person again!
When we moved to Delta my sis in law that works at the hospital said that the ultra-sound tech that she works with would do an early gender check for us, so we got to go in at just under 16 weeks and find out that we were having a boy! We knew the entire time it would be a boy, everyone has always said they thought I would only have boys, and my family just knew it was a boy too, so when I told them no one was surprised ha, and they have taken the liberty of naming him Delbert, sick I know. It was fun cause we got to go in the same time as Cory and Jamie (who are due on the same day, how crazy is that?) and find out that we were both having boys! It will be so fun to have two boy cousins so close in age, we're way excited. 

I have been beyond sucky at taking belly pics, so this is my first one and it is at 17 weeks.  I feel like I just woke up one day and I had a belly, but it still kinda just looks like I've been hanging out eating Krispy Kremes all day, so it's not the cutest thing in the world right now. 

3 Year Anniversary

So today is our 3 year anniversary and Dal is doing some intense homework and I'm bored so I decided to throw up a few engagements and wedding pics since I never do crap like this, but it was fun to look back and see how young we look even 3 years ago! I'm kinda missing my dark hair now...

 

In these 3 years we have:
Lived in 2 towns
Lived in 5 apartments
Had 3 fish (all dead now)
Paid billions of dollars in tuition it seems like
Played lots of softball and Mario Kart
Ate way too much crap that we both love
and countless other things

It's been a good 3 years!!!!

Salt Lake With the Fam

Last weekend my family was in Salt Lake for Peyton and Megan's wedding.  Dal came later, but I got to go to their sealing and to their luncheon. They are so cute their wedding was perfect! I hadnt seen Bryir since Christmas so I was way excited that they came up too.  We all stayed at a hotel at Thanksgiving Point and went and ate, went to Cabelas and Scheels and had some awesome chicken alfredo samples at Costco.  I'm seriously obsessed with it now and need to go buy it there. It was freakin good!

                                                  Bry in her finding nemo lifejacket, so cute

                         Dal always tries to talk to her and she completely ignores him, so funny

   I put this hat on her and she wanted it off until I said lets go show Papa and Mimi and then she was so stoked to leave it on

 In all 3 of the hotel rooms Bry found the tissues and took every one out, one by one and had to hoard them all, she thought it was so funny

                                                     Lookin at the fish at Cabelas

                                                       Could not get Bry to look for this pic


So I know I'm not her mom or anything but I'm so obsessed with all my nieces and nephew I feel like I'm all of their moms in some way haha. Such a fun weekend, sad it had to end but now we've got spring break so it's not too bad!

President's Day Weekend

This weekend we went down to Delta since we had Monday off for President's Day.  Dal had taken 4 tests that week and needed a little get away after being so dang busy.  We ate lots of good foot, played with the kids, saw the snow geese, went shooting and just chilled. So nice to get away for awhile!

Dal was so excited to test out his new bipod he got from Sagan (or Nate?) for Christmas, so him and Brandon went out to the shooting range and took me and Aspen with.  We had had it with the cold after about 3 minutes so we sat in the car and watched after that.

Test

This is a test, can't figure this stupid app out

Journaling

Disclaimer: This post will be boring, no pictures, nothing exciting, just information so that I can write down everything that has gone on the past year so that I will remember what happened when.  I should have been writing everything down while it was happening because I'm already forgetting what happened when, but this will just have to do.  Also, this post is not for ANYONE to feel bad for us or think that I'm writing this on the blog so that people will know about it or to get sympathy.  It is only so that I have everything written down to look back on someday.

A year ago we had decided to start trying to have a baby.  We had been married for 2 years and we knew it might take us a bit to actually get preg so we decided it was a good time.  All the time we were married we knew we wanted to wait until we were financially stable, had good insurance and would be able to have a kid without anyone's help financially.  We wanted to make sure Dal would be close to done with school so that it wouldn't be too rough on him trying to work and get an engineering degree.

Never in a million years did I think it would take this long, and honestly, compared to most people that struggle with infertiility we are still at the very beginning.  I feel bad because SO many people try for way longer than we have even thought about.  People in our own families have had this struggle and dealt with it for way longer and way better than I have.  I honestly look up to them so much and think about them so often.

So here's my timeline for myself:
After 2 months of trying, we actually got pregnant, but found out it was an ectopic pregnancy, which can be dangerous but mine turned out ok.  We were of course devastated but it was still early in the process and were glad to know that we could most likely get pregnant for real in the long run.  That was in May.

We decided to go to the doc to get everything checked out, I think that was beginning of November.  My initial tests all came back good which meant there could possibly be a deeper problem that I have or that it was Dallan. He couldn't get in to get tested for a few weeks, so in the mean time the doctors had me gain a few pounds, keep working out 4-5 days a week and eating small meals more often to see if that would help. Dal was tested the end of that month and everything came back good.

 Right after that we found out we were pregnant again. This was the beginning of December.  We were SO excited but at the same time, it didn't seem real.  I couldn't believe it because I had had a positive before and before I knew it it was gone.  The same thing happened with this.  We new for a few days and were so excited and planning everything, and then I took another test just to be sure and again, the positive had turned into a negative.  The day after that I dealt with all of the "passing" of everything and the doctors just told me to take it easy that day.  Since I was not far along at all I didn't have to get a D&C or anything like that, which was good.

As for now, we are just kind of playing a waiting game.  Are next 2 options are to get a laparascopy for possible endometriosis or do artificial insemination.  We are waiting until Dal is done with this rough semester and we kind of have the summer off to deal with any of that.  Who knows, it may happen on its own in the meantime and we wont have to have any of that done.  I probably won't ever get in Clomid because there are some studies say that it can lead to Ovarian cancer faster if you have a high risk of that, which I may because of my aunt who is dealing with it, so my doctor doesn't want me to do any of that.  My doc also said I just may have a hard time ever being able to sustain a pregnancy and carry normally, since I have been able to get pregnant twice, but this is all preliminary, we honestly don't really know.

We know this is still early and its only been a year, and that people try for WAY longer than we have and I am completely aware of it.  Everyone tells us to "quit worrying about it" or "it will happen when it's supposed to" and "atleast you know you can get pregnant" but sometimes nothing really helps to hear when EVERYONE around you is pregnant.

  I can honestly say that I am so happy when I hear that someone else is, and I don't want anyone to think that I'm not happy for people cause I really am.  I will not be happier when I hear I have more nieces or nephews coming, because I still always think that if for some reason we really can't have kids, I'll atleast have them, cause I pretty much feel like they're my own kids anyways.

So ya, this was my rant about everything and it is truly just for a journal for me and Dal.  We honestly feel so blessed and are lucky in so many ways and really have nothing to complain about. Sorry if this was a boring post but I really did need to get this written somewhere and this is my only place I journal anything.

Updated Pics

While we were in Delta for Christmas Dal's awesome sister Jenny took a few pics of us since we haven't had any done since our engagements.  She was a trooper cause she had a baby just a week ago! She did such a good job and I'm so glad to have a few new pics around!

Pics and and update from Christmas in Blanding and Delta to come, hope everyone had a good Christmas break!