The WHOLE fam damly

Well, my whole family is up at the cabin for a reunion type thing with the Gardener's. I was so sad when I heard that Tara and Tyson were going too. I miss MY family like crazy. Anyway, my dad sent me a random email and after my FB account was hacked and his random email, I was concerned and called the cabin. They just wanted to Skype, but after talking with him and hearing how happy he was and obviously how happy everyone was there, I thought that was the perfect time to make the announcement to them. They were all SO excited! haha! Dad yelled, "BECCA'S PREGNANT!!" to the whole cabin and everyone just started yelling and hollering. It made me feel so happy and loved. Tara immediately started crying (hormonal and pregnant also) so I got on the phone with her. She's so sweet. She knew we were concerned and worried that it was taking longer to get pregnant, so she was just really relieved that I am pregnant now. That also made me feel good, that she was so worried about me. Logan is super excited. He already is hoping it's another girl. He said it's way more fun being an uncle to a girl! Because they're so much cuter than boys :) I talked to my mom as well and she's super happy and excited too. She asked how I was feeling and made sure I was OK. It was nice. I'm glad I timed this well and told them while they were all together and happy. I am so excited to be pregnant at the same time as Tara too. It'll be fun to have babies the same age :)
Pregnancy stuff: This morning was really rough. Because I ate so much yesterday at Olive Garden, I was sick all morning. While I was out driving later, it came back and I had to basically hypnotize myself into NOT getting sick. I'm learning how to talk myself through it and most times I can do it. That's about it. Tomorrow we'll tell the rest of George's family. But we'll wait to tell everyone else until next month.

sick

Blah. Yesterday we went to Olive Garden for lunch and I ate way too much. So I'm sick. Blah.
My appointment went pretty well. I had an ultrasound and that was so fun to see our little bean :) He's got a good little heartbeat and was movin' around a lot! (And yes, I called it a "he", that's the gender today) I really REALLY like my dr. She is bubbly and friendly, just a really sweet woman. She has 4 kids but she looks so young! I thought maybe mid 30's... but who knows? Well, that's about it for now.

BAH!

Today is going to be a long day. My annoying neighbor is pregnant and eating it up. She totally takes advantage of me and my time. And I don't know how to say no. So I guess I do it to myself. She is going to the hospital yet again. She gets sick and doesn't take care of herself and goes days without eating or drinking and then ends up in the hospital. Funny thing about this time around is that her husband is just dropping her off at the hospital this time. Not even staying with her, kind of like he's just as annoyed as everyone. I secretly hope she gets there and they're like, "Sorry, you're fine. Here's some drugs, go home and eat a sandwich." Would they do that if she wasn't sick enough? I would guess so, they can't keep their hospital rooms booked with non-dying patients, right. GRR. Anyway, the reason I am so annoyed is I am stuck with her daughter ALL. DAY. AGAIN. Luckily I have her carseat so I can still run my errands and such, but it just throws off my whole day. I've decided I officially hate babysitting. I do not do well with other people's kids. The neighbors are moving out of state at the end of the month, so hopefully this will be the last time. I honestly can't wait for them to move. I'm rude. I know. 

Pregnancy stuff: I haven't felt sick at all for the past 2 days. It's awesome. I love it. But the worrier in me is also concerned that I haven't felt sick. I'm going to be done with prenatals for a while. Today I'm going to buy some gummy vitamins. Actually, I'm going to go now. I need a diet coke and pizza from Sam's. SEE YA!

Good Sunday

Yesterday was an amazing day. It really was the spiritual rejuvenation that I needed. We had Stake Conference and it was so nice to listen to a bunch of talks focused on US. One thing that really stuck out to me that I found weird was that there were at least 2 or 3 talks focused solely on telling members it is NOT ok to NOT go to stake conference and listen to general conference. Apparently there are a LOT of members in our stake that look at those weekends as a day off from church. WOW. George and I are totally on the same page with this issue. No matter what, every Sunday we will be at church. Even if we're on vacation or on of us is sick. At least one of us will be there every week no matter what. After church we had the missionaries over for dinner. They brought this awesome video called "Journey of Faith" where archaeologists and scholars have gone and studied out and found actual proof of where Lehi and his family traveled through Arabia. There is this one point in the video where they show a satellite shot of Arabia and all you see is brown and flat. Desert, blech. Then on the southeast coast there is this tiny spot of green. They shift over to actual video footage of this place and it's so beautiful. This place is "Bountiful" in the Book of Mormon. I can't imagine traveling for 8 YEARS through nothing but desert and bearing and raising children. It must have been horrible. I have so much more respect after seeing how awful that journey must have been. It makes me also have sympathy for Laman and Lemuel. They are looked at as such bad guys, but I think any husband would be frustrated seeing their poor wives struggling through the intense heat while 8 months pregnant. I also think any father would be frustrated when their tiny children are living through this desert lifestyle for years. I think they were definitely silly sometimes ( I mean, they saw an angel for heaven's sake) but I think the murmuring is a little more understandable now.
Pregnancy stuff now: I haven't taken my prenatal vitamins for almost 3 days now. They make me so sick! I am calling my dr in the morning to see if I have any other options. I still am nauseous throughout the day on and off, but I am able to talk myself out of actually throwing up. It's kind of weird, but I just tell myself over and over, "you're not going to throw up, you're fine, just breathe" and drink some ice water and I'm able to move past it for awhile. I'm pretty gaggy in the morning, so I think I'm going to stop taking calls until later in the morning. I talked to Meghan this morning and was gagging like crazy in between talking, but luckily she didn't hear :) When I stand up I can feel that my uterus is getting harder. Kind of fun. Looking forward to my appointment on Friday! 7 weeks tomorrow!