My Jaw literally dropped.

Today was my Final, Final exam.

There is no class the week of finals.

It is a week set aside for personal study, and of course, taking finals!

I had my last final at 8am this morning.

Keep in mind, this is THURSDAY.

We haven't had class ALL Week.

And today was the FINAL.

So, with these finals, you are allowed to leave, and go home as soon as you are done and turn in the exam.

Well, it came that time where people were starting to finish up, place their exam in the folder and leave, because again, this is Finals, and that's what you do.

I was giving my brain a very brief break while the second girl completed her exam and took it to the front of the room to place in the folder..

After completing her exam and placing it in the folder, she walked over to the teacher, said "umm, yah, I just have a question.?" ....wait for it.... wait for it....

"Do we have class tomorrow? Or, was this final, it?" ( "It" meaning -- the end)

Well, I will let you go now and give you a moment to gather your thoughts and pick up your jaw.

I'm finally done and can now think about Christmas!! and relax.. and Go to the Doc. tomorrow!

My Sweet Boy

Hyrum appears to be somewhat of a Monster at times. All kids this age have their moments.

I assure you, he has his very sweet moments.

The other day, I layed down to take a nap with Hyrum.

While we were laying down, he turned, wrapped his arms around me, and kissed me on the nose!

He called me his mommy teddy bear, and in a giggly sweet happy voice said "hehe, I kissed your nose!"

I have a stethascope from when I went through schooling to get a CNA. Hyrum loves to be a doctor with it.

He will put the ear pieces in his ear and come walking down the hall and state "mommy, I need to hear the baby."

He LOVES talking about this baby.

One day he came to me and asked "mommom, can we go to Doctor and see the baby?"

He has talked more about the baby than I have, and he has definitley talked about the baby more than Ricky has probably even thought about it.

It's cute. Hopefully he will be a great big brother.

He calls the baby in my belly his brother, though we do not yet know if it is in fact a brother, or a sister.

We will see on the 16th at 11am!!



THE Tree

Hyrum has been really excited about Christmas this year.

Well, I don't think he really gets the whole Christmas part.

He's been more excited about the Tree!

He walked in on me one day wrapping some gifts. I told him that he has to wait until we get a Christmas Tree and Christmas comes before he can open and have the gifts.

The morning after that little chat, he woke up, poked me in the shoulder and asked "mommom, did the Christmas Tree come?"

He kept asking this every morning for a week or so, then one day he went to his baby-sitter's home and they had their tree up.

When I arrived to pick him up, he came running around the corner and screemed with joy, "Mommom, THE CHRISTMAS TREE CAME! I need to take it to Hyrum's house!"

Things were crazy Thanksgiving weekend due to how sick I was and my ER trip, So we weren't able to get our tree that weekend.

Ricky likes to go to a tree farm and cut it down.

We finally had a chance to run to our usual tree farm and select and chop down our tree.

It took us a while to choose the one we wanted. All of the ones I wanted were Nobles, and I didn't want to pay $80 for a tree.. So, we got our usual, Douglas.

Hyrum was so excited the entire time. He was so excited to be bringing home HIS Christmas Tree.

 



Cherish Those Moments

Wow, another blog so soon.

This is seriously the worst time possible for me to be blogging.

Oh well.

Last night I layed down with Hyrum to put him to bed.

The plan was to sing a couple fun songs with him, say his prayers, and let him fall asleep.

Hyrum and I ended up singing songs, playing 'finger pupets', and chatting about spiders, bugs, movie characters he likes....

We did this for a good solid hour until Ricky decided he was going to bed also, and made us be quiet.

:(

Hyrum went right to sleep.

I had a good time playing and chatting with him. We don't spend time like that together extremely often.

Oh, and we went and chopped down our Christmas tree last night and Hyrum was soo happy to FINALLY have a Christmas Tree in HIS house.

While we chatted last night in bed, I learned that Hoba, an ant from the movie Ant Bully, lives in our Christmas Tree. :)

..Title?

This post isn't about too much in particular. Just updates I suppose.

I haven't been taking pictures tately, so I don't have anything to post from Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving was pretty good. We had lots of good food, and friends came in and out all day to eat.

I didn't feel good. Had an awful headache all day, that lasted until early Friday morning, and no amount of tylenol or attempt in fluid intake helped it.

I managed to survive the day though and enjoyed the company.

I had planned to do some Black Friday shopping at some point, but knew I wasn't going to head out right away and wait in any crazy lines outside anywhere. Plus, I had that awesome headache that I mentioned.

I decided I'd sleep, and nap, until I woke up and then go do some shopping. I woke up at 2am, but did not leave.

The headache was still there, and I get paranoid about going out in the dark, late at night, alone..

I have a phobia of being 'kid napped' and hurt.

Any way, I decided that I didn't feel comfortable leaving the house, feeling crummy and not being 100% on my game at that time of night. So, I sent Ricky to sleep in my bed with Hyrum and I took over sleeping on the couch for a little while longer..

I woke up again at 6am, got dressed and headed out. First stop was Target. When I got there, the parking lot was nearly empty, so I got front row parking. I didn't have to wait around for a cart, and cashiers were literaly standing at their stations waiting for people to come check out.

The other awesome part of this was that I got everything I intended on getting! and I didn't have to fight a crowd to get it!

I had the SAME LUCK with Old Navy, and Home Depot after that.

Once going to those three stores, I decided I'd just get back in bed because I was feeling crummy, but Ricky, Scott and Hyrum decided to wake up and get dressed to head out for some shopping also.

I was going to stay home and rest, but I was starting to have anxiety, after feeling so sick, and being tired, and having them leaving, I decided to put my shoes back on and go back out with the guys so I wouldn't sit around thinking about how I felt.

We went to, WalMart, Game Stop, Best Buy, Target.. I barffed at every store. While in the car driving from one place to the other, I'd have to roll the window down and hang my head out. I spent 30min in the bathroom at BestBuy barfing.

Fun stuff.

After we got in the car from Target, I emptied out the target bag by me and started throwing up in the bag.

Luckily we were right by the apartment.. I was able to go home, jump in the shower, and rest. Though I was EXTREMELY concerned and somewhat freaking out..

At that time I was 17wks pregnant, I had had a Dr. apointment 1 week prior to this.

I decided to weigh myself, and when I did, I was 8lbs DOWN from my Dr. Apointment just a week before.

I called around and got ahold of some on call nurses and they instructed me to go to the ER, due to the rapid weight loss.

I pretty much figured that I was dehydrated to some degree.

They hooked me up to IV's and started pumping me up with fluids, naseua meds, and an antibiotic to treat for UTI.

That day was the most I have ever felt my baby move this entire pregnancy. It was very happy from all the fluids, baby partied non stop for several hours. I wish it was like that more often. Give me constant reasurrance.

But any way.. That was my Thanksgiving adventure. And, I can now say that I have gone 1 full week without vomitting, for the first time in almost 5months..

Last week, I decided that at this point, no matter what, the baby in my belly will need a name. So, last week I started looking around at names.

I have a favorite name each day of the week. Nothing was really exciting me. I know that when we find out, boy or girl, on the 16th, things will be a lot easier. We will be able to focus on one sex of names, and crack down on our search.

I came across a name on Thursday I think, and I still loved it today. So, I MIGHT have a name ready if this baby is a boy! It starts with a D. and is Irish! it's fun, unique, and different like Hyrum's was/is, to most in the beginning.

I have a girl name that I have also been playing around with since the same day, and I have only divulged it to ONE person. Actually, this ONE person knows BOTH of the names I have picked out at the moment! lucky her.

Any way, there is one full week of class left to go. The following is just finals.. my last final is the morning of the 15th. yuck. but I can't wait to take it, because the NEXT morning, school will be OVER, and I will be getting the big Ultrasound!

On another note.. I am ready for Christmas.. this is the latest we have gone without setting up Christmas. We will be going out and chopping down our tree some time today.

I'm excited to finally be surrounded by Christmas decor. It's the best, and my favorite part of the entire year!

Well, I suppose I should stop being lazy and get my shower so that I am ready to leave when Ricky finishes up the work he is doing around the complex.

I hope you had fun reading my randomness. :)