Hard to believe that January has already come and went! Time sure is flying with all the many adventures we have had :) Let's start back with the beginning of January to play catch up!
Ok let's start out with a pregnancy update :) Early in January we got a bit of a scare with our little girl. I woke up in the middle of the night with some pretty severe cramping and hadn't had that happen since the beginning of my pregnancy. It was a concern then, but eventually went away and has stayed away for quite a while so the return was a little scary! I contacted my doctor and he was very concerned about preterm labor or stress on the baby. We went in to make sure all was well and had an ultrasound and some tests done. Much to our relief, little princess was doing just fine and they couldn't find anything wrong after a long afternoon of measurements and pictures.
Here is her little profile shot from the beginning of January :)
And here is her token "piggy" shot! She is hesitant to show us much else, but when it comes to her feet, she flashes them proudly!
I think we might need a bigger fridge! Our wall of fame is taking over :)
I haven't had very many intense cravings lately, but not too long ago, Jordan got the wrath one night haha It was about 1 in the morning and I was craving a crunchy taco from Taco Bell sooooo bad!! It was intense! Him being the sweetheart of a husband that he is, went out in the freezing cold at 1 am and came back with crunchy tacos. What a guy! Good thing that has only happened once :) Other cravings that I have loved to eat throughout my pregnancy include salad, chicken strips, cutie oranges (like 4 at a time), pickles, and of course, Dr. Pepper. One thing I haven't been able to eat during the pregnancy is ICECREAM. Who knew??! It is so sad.. I LOVE icecream and it doesn't love me at all! It ends with a severe stomach ache and just feeling extremely sick. Good thing she is worth it!
Here is a belly shot at 24 weeks:)
Around that time, she was measuring about 12 inches long and about 1.5 pounds!
I have a goal to finish scrapbooking our wedding and honeymoon before our little girl arrives... We'll see how that exactly works out, but I am going for it! Was so excited to get out my "battle station" the other night and scrapbook for a few days :) Just had to take a picture!
Lewiston seemed to heat up a bit for a several days in January and it was heaven!! Nothing beats a sunny drive with the sunroof open. We even were able to spend a little time outside enjoying the sunshine! That quickly turned back to cold and fog, but we enjoyed it while we could!
The weekend before we left for California, Jordan was on call in Spokane and we had an appointment for a 3D ultrasound while we were there! I was so excited, I could hardly stand it! A few days before though, Jordan started getting really sick. We ended up starting the weekend off with a trip to the Dr., which if you know Jordan, him actually going to the Doctor is a BIG deal! He wanted to make sure it wasn't strep though or something serious that could be passed to me or baby. He had pretty severe coughing, congesting, sore throat, and mucus. The doctor told him it was a virus and that it had to run its course. Awesome! He sent us away with a nice big list of over the counter medicines. Gotta love Idaho Doctors and medical care!
The sick patient :(
Despite Jordan feeling awful, we got in the car for his on call weekend and headed for our ultrasound appointment! Hoping to get baby moving for pictures, we ate at Chili's (my favorite) before our appointment! Food was yummy but Jordan looked less than thrilled to be sick and in a different place other than his bed! Still just as cute though :)
Our ultrasound appointment was pretty short and sweet. Baby face was buried in the placenta and she was burrowed in there pretty tight! Due to being so curled up and burrowed in a hole, it was hard for the computer to distinguish the difference between tissues to get a good shot of her face since it was up against the placenta.... and she wasn't moving for nothing! We tried going turning all different ways, walking around, and going to the bathroom. None worked! We rescheduled to come back for another try and left a little bummed. Such a stubborn girl!!
Here are a few that we did get. Hard to see and distinguish parts thought. She was skin and bones at that point, but she will start packing on that baby fat soon!
The day before we left for California, Jordan woke up with goop spewing out of both eyes! I was about ready to blow my top by then. He had been miserably sick all weekend, and coughing up everything under the sun, AND we were supposed to be leaving for California in 24 hours. AWESOME! So back to the Doctor we went to confirm that the virus had spread and he now had DOUBLE PINK EYE. Awesome is an understatement. Never fails, anytime we go on vacation or have a trip and take time off, the world comes crashing down! So here is Doctor visit #2......
Keep in mind that he hasn't been to the Doctor since he was about 15, so two visits in a 4 day span is insane for him!! And after visit #1 that included some "not so fun" tests, he was less than thrilled to be back a few days later.....and with more over the counter meds that do absolutely nothing!
Even though he was 5 days into a seriously awful sickness, we headed for Spokane, got on the plane, and headed to California in hopes for getting better while enjoying the warm weather!
We had soooo many fun things waiting for us when we got there!! We stayed with long time family friends of Jordan's, Barbara and Jack, in Simi Valley,CA. Their daughter, Sherre, also lives in that area and has 2 little girls that are the cutest!
The first day there, the girls headed out to shop and get pedicures! HEAVEN!! Me and lex grabbed a pic when we got there after lunch :) How cute is she??!!
While the girls played, the boys headed out go karting! These are some priceless shots :)
After an eventful first day of fun, we decided to go to the movies to see "Ride Along." Hilarious movie by the way! Anyways, right before we left, Jordan started complaining about his ear hurting really bad, adding to the already long list of sickness that he was battling. He looks normal in most of his pictures, but he was really just trying to screw on a smile and pretend everything was fine. While really in the background, he was coughing up a lung, taking tons of meds, and only sleeping 2 hours a night... The last thing he needed was an ear infection too! We got some ear drops and hoped that we wouldn't have to do another dr. visit while we were there.....Especially since the next day, Jordan had plans to go shooting with Jack, and he was soooo excited! He ended up going anyways and toughing it out. He had a blast and came home to showing off his "shooting stance"...... and maybe wanting a gun or 2 or 3 :)
The girls had some plans to do some fun photos at the park of Sherre and her super cute girls! Jordan needed some fresh air too from coughing too, so we headed to the park and captured these fun photos!!
We had to bribe them with playing on the toys afterwards with Jordan and I have to say, it worked pretty well! Jordan couldn't run quite as fast while coughing and choking, but he loved being able to play with them. Such a kids guy!
Kind of a spur of the moment decision, we took a few pregnancy pictures in between our little shoot. You can tell it was unplanned due to the unmatching of clothes and Jordan wearing basketball shorts, but you gotta take what you can get right?! It had been a rough week of sickness, so I was thrilled for him to screw on a smile and power through a few shots :) He is the best!
26 weeks and feeling HUGE after looking at this pic! My swollen face and hands didn't help these shots either.. oh well. Gotta love the joys of pregnancy!
We also found some time to sneak some fun in with Sherre and the girls at the local arcade and Lazertag place! So much fun watching them on the screen while shooting at each other!
By the time that we only had a few days left of vacation, Jordan was still seriously sick and hadn't gotten better at all! Each night he spent the whole night coughing at only slept from 5-7am after he had wore himself out from coughing and feeling miserable. His eyes were still spewing goopy stuff from pink eye and his ears were still hurting quite bad despite all the over the counter crap we were told to use. I literally had been playing nurse Elise every 4 hours for his round of meds. Sooo.... we headed BACK to the doctor in California for Doctor visit #3!!!! I was pretty furious by then and felt so bad at how sick Jordan was. In the almost 5 years we have been together, I had never seen him that sick before. We spent a couple hours in urgent care to find out that his sickness was actually bacterial NOT viral like both dumb Idaho doctors had originally, said which means that it should have been treated with PRESCRIPTION medicine NOT over the counter crap like they made us get all along. SOOOOOO mad!!! Due to not being treated with prescription antibiotics and eye drops in the first place for almost 7 days, it caused the infection to spread to a now double ear infection along with the STILL untreated chest infection and double pink eye. Furious is an understatement! If they would have given us the right meds in the first place, he could have been getting better waaaaayy before now and enjoying at least some of our vacation. Instead he just continued suffering while it spread elsewhere in his body. Needless to say he was given several prescription meds to start taking ASAP. Not fun!
Our last day in Simi Valley, we took a trip with everyone to a town a couple hours away called Solvang. It is a cute little Danish town that has tons of touristy shops and cute little restaurants. It was so fun! The food was super yummy and Jordan bought me a gorgeous necklace that I commented that I loved. What a great end to our trip!
Eating at the Greenhouse for lunch. YUM!!
Shopping around the town
The gorgeous beach sunset on the drive home!
After a long day of walking and shopping, we were all pooped on the drive home, Jordan included!
After a super fun week, we headed back home! Such a great trip!! We weren't too excited to go back to cold weather, but it was time to be home :)
After flying into Spokane after our trip, the very next day Jordan left for Seattle for an awards party for work! His district met a lot of goals for last year and won several awards, so the celebration was at a ritzy hotel in Seattle filled with good food, work colleagues, and fun events! SO proud of him! He earned it all! He was feeling a little better by then, but still a bit under the weather.
While he headed off to Seattle from Spokane, I stayed in Spokane for the day and tried again for some good 3D pics of baby girl. She was still super stubborn and wouldn't move, almost in the same position as last time! SO frustrating! If she only knew how much mommy and daddy love her already, we just wanted to see her sweet face! The best she gave us was her little side profile shot. She has a cute little button nose and is a thumb sucker! Again she wouldn't move for nothing and was burrowed in a little ball next to the placenta. We get one more try in a few weeks, so I am crossing my fingers that we get a few full face shots, otherwise, we will just have to wait to meet her!
In the meantime, we have been collecting so many baby things! Afterall, we are down to double digits till D day! We recently bought her carseat/stroller set, tons of clothes, and some other items too!
Baby girl's first pair of Nikes! Dad was thrilled and I can't get over how cute they are either!
Scored some serious deals and Macy's! Pretty sure she is set on clothes for a long while! Proud momma right here :)
Who knew that Hobby Lobby had super cute handmade things like chevron burp rags??!!! Um yes this was an exciting purchase :) Can't wait!!
Well that's about it... Things are crazy busy preparing for our little bundle of joy and now we are happy to get back into reality from vacation!
Hope all is well!
Love,
Jordan and Elise
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