Ultrasound Update

So some people have asked to hear about the ultrasound we had this past Monday. Well, after me drinking over 2 gallons of water every day last week, the ultrasound showed that the amniotic fluid had increased a little, but not enough for me to stop forcing the liquids. I was a 7 last Monday now I'm a 9 - she said I should be somewhere around 12 to 15 (centimeters I think). So I'm back to drinking drinking drinking!!! My Dr. said she's not worried and was glad to see the levels had gone up, but she just wants to keep a close eye on things, so we scheduled another ultrasound for next Monday. She also said, "if I had so choose, I'd have to say I'm about 80% sure you have a little girl, but don't go out and buy pink yet!!" We hope that % goes up as well during the next ultrasound!! :)

Memories game

Here are the directions:
1. As a comment on my blog, leave one memory that you and I had together. It doesn't matter if you knew me a little or a lot, anything you remember!
2. Next, re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you.It's actually pretty funny to see the responses. If you leave a memory about me, I'll assume you're playing the game and I'll come to your blog and leave one about you. If you don't want to play on your blog, or if you don't have a blog, I'll leave my memory of you in my blog's comments.

Ultrasound

So Tyson and I went in to get another ultrasound today. After waiting for an hour after the scheduled appointment we finally got to see our baby again. We were hoping to find out the gender of the baby, but the stinker was all curled up and we couldn't get a good shot - must be shy;) We did get to see the baby yawn though and see it kick from the outside of my belly through my shirt for the first time as well. Also, Dr. Fillerup said I had a low amount of amniotic fluid and that I needed to at least triple my liquid intake! She said to to that for a week and then she would do another ultrasound - we made another appointment for next Monday morning - keep your fingers crossed! Talk about unsettling - sorry baby for not drinking as much water as I should have. I've always had a hard time getting enough water everyday, but I thought I was doing better than I was. So far today, I've had about 160+ oz. of water and the day's not even over - I seriously think I might blow up!!! Any suggestions on how to get way more liquid without feeling miserable???

Our move - we're out of here!!!

We are done with apartment life!!! Thank you SO much to all of you who helped us move!!! Tyson's brother in law Brien and his family came out on Friday and helped us with all the boxes and little stuff and "the Crew" came Saturday morning to move the big stuff. We were done by around 1:30 so not too bad!! Tyson and I spent the rest of the day unpacking some stuff and Tyson even planted our garden - that night!! We were exhausted!! I wish I would have gotten pictures of everyone on Saturday, but I was a little distracted with all the last minute random packing and cleaning. Thanks anyway everyone - we REALLY appreciate your help!!! So far, we love the house and the neighbors are - ok. We went to church Sunday and everyone seemed really nice. I'll post pictures of the house once we have everything situated. AHHHH! I can't tell which I hate worse - packing or unpacking!!!

See ya North Street Apartments!! We're out of here!!

Hawaii Reunion - June 28, 2008

I went to Maui, Hawaii in May of 2006 with my friends Tammy, Marcy, Amy Tenney and Cindy. We decided to have a Hawaii reunion in June (basically it was an excuse to get together and hang out) at Tammy's house. Sorry you couldn't make it Amy!

us at the Blue Pool waterfall

this was our sweet condo celebrating Cindy's birthday

Us now - Alycia, Tammy, Marcy and Cindy

Our new house!

Well - we own the house, well the bank ownes it:) We get the keys tonight!

Sign your life away here...

We close on our house today at 4:00!!!!!! Finally:)

North Dakota trip - Good bye Tuttle School!! (longest post ever!!)

Me and some of my class members - Morgan Almer, Leesa Jones, Stephanie Johnson, Tanna Richard.

Tyson and I drove to North Dakota this past weekend for my All School Class Reunion. For those of you who don't know - I'm from Tuttle North Dakota - population 106 (in 2000 so it's smaller now). Anyway the Tuttle School officially closed after the 2007 school year because it was getting SO small. The town decided to auction off all the school supplies and have a huge celebration for everyone who graduated from there. There were 14 people in my graduating class and we had a pretty good turn out for our class at the reunion - about 6 of us came! Anyway, it was So much fun to be back (well, I had fun, Tyson tolerated it!! Hey, he got to laugh silently in his head every time he met someone new and heard their North Dakota accent!) I didn't take very many pictures of my class mates and I wish I had, but Dad and Tyson were already teasing me for all the the other pictures I took! Anyway, it was good to be back in Tuttle, visit the farm and hang out with Dad's family - sorry for all of you who I didn't get to see, but we were only in ND for Friday and Saturday. Yep, we are totally crazy for driving that far for such a short time, but it was fun - Thanks Tyson for trying to understand the small town connection!

We went shooting with Mom, Dad and my brother Stuart Friday night

I guess this was my mom's first time Ever shooting a gun! After a few kind of scary tries she actually hit a pop bottle!! Way to go Mom!!

This is me with Mrs. Morrison (the band and Choir teacher) and two of my class members Leesa Jones and Tanna Richard.
The Tuttle Post Office burned down a few months ago - it's really sad to see the school closing and some of the buildings dying - but hey, we do have a new grocery store!
Inside the Post Office
The famous BSer bar in Tuttle - get it?? Tyson had to take this picture:)
Dad and Tyson in one of the elementary rooms looking at maps from the early 1400's :) j/k

The library - they didn't sell the books because they're donating them to another school that was destroyed by a tornado.

Dad and Tyson in the 5th and 6th grade room - the smell brought back so many memories!
This is the view of practically the whole town from the high school office window - yeah, there was no escaping or cutting class here - they knew you were gone 3.5 minutes after school started!
The one hall way in the high school side is lined with each year's graduating class - here's mine - I told you there were only 14 of us and 4 were from another town!!
Our school song - this bad boy has had it's words changed so many times it's not even funny. (the school was combined with like six other schools for sports and music!)

They decorated the gym for one last prom - yeah right - lets just say, we did not go to this thing!

the "huge" playground - yeah if you click on this picture to enlarge it, you will see the yellow slide at the end of the jungle gym - when I was in elementary school I suddenly got this really bright idea in my head at recess that it would be really cool if I did a bunch of somersaults down the slide - yeah - that didn't go so well - it was probably the first really stupid career move I ever made!!
The Tuttle School - the taller part was the elementary side (K-6) and the longer side is the high school side (7-12th). :)
This is for our exchange student Kanako - yep, the barn finally fell down!!

Our mailbox for the farm - they didn't get street addresses until about 10 years ago and the street signs just came a little while ago - note the Huge address - in the middle of no where!!! looking at our farm 1 1/2 miles in the distance - yes, our mail box is that far away.
our street sign
Tyson with a horse my uncle Roger brought out to the farm

The barn - poor thing has been through several tornadoes and prairie hurricanes
looking at the house and the quanset
My 20 week pregnancy picture - AND this is the exact spot I was born 30 years ago in my parents pick up truck on the way to the hospital in - they made it 8 miles from the farm!!!


These videos are of the school auction in the gym and the Elementary and High School sides of the school - sorry I missed some rooms and the cafeteria - you're not missing much - Tyson was actually Shocked when he went into the cafeteria - it's not much bigger than some of the class rooms!!! Well, that was our trip - hope you enjoyed your tour of Tuttle!!!

Happy Birthday to me

Yep - I'm now 30 - Yikes!! We went out to dinner with the Hillers and Serena - thanks for coming guys!!



Hmm - this lemon looks good!! Wow!!

We're buying a house!!

So we have been looking off and on for houses for over a year now and we finally found the one that felt right. We found this house along with several others online and went out with our realtor to look at them. We actually looked at this one twice in one night and surprised ourselves when we told her we wanted to put an offer on it. So we went back to her office and finished the paperwork around 10:30 that night. After a few days of playing the counter offer game, we finally got the sellers to agree on what we wanted and they accepted our offer at a pretty good price! If everything goes as planned, we will close on July 9th and have the keys on the 10th! The house is in Clearfield, but it's closer to what most people consider Layton - the city boundaries are funny in the area. It's also really close to Heidi and Josh's house. We want to put in a fence and Tyson is excited to be able to finish the basement. These pictures are what the sellers had online, but it's not on anymore because it's under contract - so the stuff in the house isn't ours - but I think she decorated really cute - to bad the decorations can't stay!! Not every room is pictured, but we'll add more once we get in. Is there a word that can combine exciting and nervous together?!!