Tag your IT!!!

 Ok.... SOOOOOOOO I got tagged to do this, so i hope who i tag will do it as well!!! I answer these 8 questions, make up 8 new questions... tag 8 people and they HOPEFULLY will answer the 8 new ones!

Questions:
1~What would your perfect day be like?
it would be having no work, relaxing at a campsite with my husband..... and my new son :)
2~What is your favorite reality tv show?
i love {love} bachelor and bachelorette... i know i'm weird :)
3~If you could go back and give advice to your 16 year old self what would it be?
stay true to your heart and dont give in to peer pressure..... and dont be afraid of change
4~Post one of your favorite pictures and WHY is it your favorite?

this would be one of my favorite pictures because it is of me and mu husband {of course} and I just remember it being a way fun date, and it shows a lot of the type of guy he is {making a face} and because it shows that we can have silly sides, serious sides, happy sides, and all the while we are together making memories.
5~What is one thing that always makes you smile?
i would have to say my family........ and now, i add in the newest member.. the baby. when i feel him kick i get a perma-grin :)
6~What has been the happiest moment of your life so far?
The happiest moment in my life 5 months ago would have been my wedding..... since then the happiest moment would be starting a family with my husband......
7~What is one of the saddest or most heartbreaking moment of your life so far?
losing my grandpa. i had never lost a family member, never been so close to someone that has passed away before. I am just glad i got to spend the last few seconds with him.
8~Whats your wish list for Santa this year?
this list could go on and on... but for the sake of this post i'll make it short....... 
- a glider chair
- some new shoes
- the new taylor swift cd
- the Eclipse movie
- stuff for camping,
- stuff for baby
- and anything someone would think i'd like! :) 

I tag these 8 people...............
1. stacey moss
2. beth riggs
3. misty dumas
4. jess checketts
5. cass bradshaw
6. natali stevenson
7. tara callaway
8. whoever else reads this!!!!!!!!!

my new questions are 
1. Post your favorite picture and explain way
2. your Dream Vacation
3. favorite thing about your pet
4. one of your biggest pet peeves
5. favorite nursery rhyme and why
6. Biggest accomplishment
7. one goal for the next year
8. wish list for santa this christmas

Brady is going to have a new fishing partner.......

We are having a  BOY!!!!! I am so excited and i can't even tell you how these last few days have been for me!!!! yesterday was INCREDIBLE.... you'd think ok we found out.. cool.. now what? thats not it! i have like a perma-grin, and i can't wait until i get to talk to someone about it!!! 

Our ultra sound went VERY good... I was nervous when i walked in there that something would be wrong.. but it wasn't he was PERFECT.... we got to see his brain, and his little heart.. and the chambers and that it was beating.. we got to see his kidneys, and other parts of his body that were working just great! 

Though, it was a  good thing he acted the way he did because he had his hands down (there) the UNTIRE time!! i kept saying.. welp, i know its a boy! haha!! it was cute, we got some 3-d pictures, and they put the whole ultrasound on a slide show for us!!! 

it was fun not to see what it was, so they had us look away and the ultrasound tech said he still wouldnt show what he was.. so she had to jiggle my stomach a lot and finally he spread his legs so we could see... It was funny cause we watched the video again when we got home (we didn't get to see that part in the room cause we didnt wanna know) and the little guy actually Took his hands off from down there, showed us what he was and then did a clear as day THUMBS UP!  what a cute little guy. i couldnt be more excited!!!! i'm half way! i'll try and get some pics on here in the next few days......

The anticipation from 12 (when we got done at the dr.) and 4:30 when we went to dinner with our parents was the worst! i kept asking brady if we could just open it.. we didnt though!!! it was fun to sit down with our parents and have them guess, and then we opened it up!! :) it was a great little suprise!

Sunday Afternoon..... & what do U think i'm having?

So this Sunday, our friends Jordan & Eric called and wanted to know if we would like to go up and see the Salmon Run up past porcupine... and it was a great day, a sunday afternoon and so we said. Yes, of course! We didnt get to see as many salmon as we could have if we would have went earlier this month, or last month.... but it was still fun (i forgot to take pictures of the fish... sorry) but it was cool to see so many! it was a great sunday outting for sure! We took our dog up there as well and she loved it!!! i wish i could have gotten a picture of her, she ran right next to the riverbank up and down trying to chase the fish... she's cute!

This is me and brady up the river from porcupine dam.... (he's ALWAYS pulling a face)

 This is us again.. i MADE him smile... This one will count for my 19 week picture :)

 me and jordan! love her

 what we hiked through

brady fishing, just for fun to see if the salmon would bite

WHAT DO YOU THINK I'M HAVING?

We get to find out WEDNESDAY what we are having! i can hardly even wait..... its killing me! haha! but i want to know what you guys think.. some of you have seen me, some have not? but i honestly dont have a feeling one way or another??????

 

18 Weeks.. the Dreaded picture

Ok! this is me at 18 weeks. I woke up, hadn't ate anything, and hadn't gotten ready. This is the first picture i had taken of my belly... and i guess it turned out ok...... I am 19 weeks 2 days now.. so i think i've grown a little.. but  you guys might not.. i'll try and take more pictures.. maybe every 2 weeks..... or if i remember every week.... i am not comfortable posing for a picture of my belly.. so maybe i'll just post some i've taken during the week? haha jk, i know in the end i'll want these pictures

Baby Flutters & finding out

BABY FLUTTERS: Ok, so for the last few weeks i have thought i was crazy.... I knew i felt the baby, but everyone thought it was too early and as brady put it "your high" i know nice of him right? actually it just came down to the fact that he didnt really want to be the last one to feel the baby.... which i guess out of me and him its fate he'll be last... but i understand he just wants to be a part of it as well.

I was sitting there a few weeks ago the 9th to be exact... and i thought i felt something. then after he said it was probably too early, and a couple other people did too i just pushed it to the side as gas.... well i felt it again the last two days.... SIGNIFICANTLY the baby not gas.... so now that i had felt it bigger this time i know i wasn't crazy then :) what an exciting thing..... {whats your opinion on the matter}

FINDING OUT: as far as finding out what we are having, we get to in 3 LONG weeks... its going to seem like it is never going to come!!! our appointment is on Wed. Oct. 13th in the morning... but me and brady have decided that we want to go to the dr and have him tell us everything he can about the baby EXCEPT for the sex. WE will have him put the pictures and the Gender in an envelope and take it home. At first we were going to see who could go the longest without wanting to know.. but i know i'd lose, so we are going to keep it in the envelope until that night and then go out to dinner, with both sets of parents.. I think that will be so exciting and fun! brady knows i'm a peeker.... so he's already decided he gets to hold onto the envelope until we to dinner. (i didnt think it was fair but i guess its true :) and then I get to OPEN it :) i guess its a good deal....

i'll keep you all updated!

Lake to the Powell

So the title kind of explains itself.. we went to LAKE POWELL!!! i had a blast. We all did! i dont have all the best pictures because Duane (the owner of the houseboat- aka our friends dad) took most of them.. cliff jumping, swimming, ect. cause he wanted to put a cd together.. so i took random ones here and there but that was it....... here are some of the ones i had on my camera..... oh and quick note.. lake powell is ALOT different being preggo than i thought it would be.
1. i couldnt cliff jump- my dr. had told me that i couldn't
2. I had to sit at the back of the ski boat where it was less bumpy.. instead of up in the front in the sun
3. i had to wear ALOT of sunscreen- everyone told me i would get fried being pregnant, so i kept putting sunscreen 30 on and well i came back with a load of NOTHING, i guess its good i'm not miserable though.. so it could be worse
4. the 8 hour dr. and having to make people stop so i could go to the bathroom, or holding it until i almost died was difficult
5. sleeping was kind of different cause i couldnt get comfy and i always ended up falling asleep before most of the people

but all in all i had a ton of fun! and i wish i didnt have to come home yet. we went up a lot of canyons, swam alot, played a lot of card games, ate ALOT and sat in the sun and soked it up!! what a blast..... we're already thinking about going again next year!

oh ya.... our trip was going great until about an hour away from our destination one of the drivers hit a deer... :( it sucked! but we got back on the road and got to antelope point and headed out.......

me and heather hanging out on the top of the houseboat

jackie-heather-me (and brady) cruisin in the ski boat

all the girls tanning away :)

this is where colby (brady's friend and my friends' husband) tried slide off the slide on top of me as i was floating around.... well he didnt quite make it... he he

brady's bass

one of the caves we went through

me and my hubby on the boat

brady being brady... hiking all around and then jumpin in

This was a Tree that was just sticking out of the water.... all our friend climbed on it to take a pic and jump off...... as you can see i didnt want to try and climb cause i  couldnt jump anyways...

14 weeks & finally feeling preggo

So i will be fourteen weeks on saturday. CRAZY!  time is just flying by. Well the other day i had my first back ache. (it was so bad i fell to my knees and thought it was dealing with my kidney's) so i haven't been able to sleep. (but the sleep being a pain would probably happen whether this back ache had happened or not).  So i decided since i was going to lake powell in a few weeks i should make sure if it is dealing with my kidney's that i get it taken care of before i go. Well i spent FOREVER in the Dr. office yesterday. They did routine things like the beginning of every appt, but today i felt so OFF.... my blood pressure was high- 140something over 90, i had lost a pound, and i needed to do a urine sample.. well i went in there and i couldnt pee. that was a FIRST... so they gave me a bottle of water, made me wait and try again... that was kinda embarrassing! haha but they finally got it and took me back into wait for the dr. while we were waiting we got to listen to the heart beat.. its high again but came down a smidge it was 150. When the dr. finally came in we talked he pushed on my back and he told me it had nothing to do with my kidney's. there was no tissue, leukocytes or anything in my urine so i was safe, he also ruled out kidney stones because there was no blood in my urine either... WELL FREAK.. is my body so out of shape, and in such a dramatic change that it is being wimpy? i guess so! i have my regular appt. next tuesday. so we'll see if i feel better by then :)

as far as other pregnancy symptoms and signs if thats what you want to call it.......... do you guys believe in food cravings? i know i didnt. i had heard that it was a myth from forever ago and never believed it.. well you'd be surprised.... people eat weird things and they say, What? your the pregnant one, this should sound good to you.... not really happeneing.. the only thing that is kinda weird that i enjoy eating is spagetteos. i LOVE them! :) i eat them at least every other day! and Milk.. haha.. weird i know! but i guess food cravings is a real thing.... who would have thought!

oh.. and i'm just waiting for my belly to pop out.. nothing yet. so we'll see. it will probably happen when i'm in a swim suit in lake powell.. great... for all of you preggo or, mommy's out there--- when did you start showing?

Oh the Joys of Pregnancy :)

Adding a Member to Team LARSON

No suspense or anything.. WE'RE EXPECTING!!! DUE MARCH 5TH sorry I couldnt keep it in... I just had to hurry and blurt it out! Haha! That is because I have been keeping it a huge secret since June 24 when I found out I was 4 weeks PREGO! Wow.... what a weight off my shoulder that was! Now 3 days shy of 12 weeks and I feel like I have already been Pregnant forever cause I haven't been able to tell anyone and I found out so early!!

More about being Prego..... NO MORNING SICKNESS!!!! I seriously feel bad for all those pregnant women out there that get sick. I have been a little nauseated when I dont eat for like 4 hours, and that sucks, so I can only imagine what it's like to actually throw up. I haven't done that yet, knock on wood! And i'm already 12 weeks, so lets hope I just missed that stage ALL TOGETHER! I do have headaches and I crave Spagetteos! Haha but other than that no heartburn, no nothing..........

I held it in for 8 weeks.. can you believe that? Want to hear the story behind why I held it in for so long? Long Story Short, after a past of 2 miscarriages I felt like I should wait until that period in the pregnancy was over. So i'm sorry for those of you who I haven't told yet... let's just hope i didnt spill the beans to fast this time

June came and I was late, but didn'y say anything. Though Brady noticed anyways. We were laying in bed one night and I rolled over and told him I was thinking about taking a test the next morning. He acted mildy surprised and said really? And got excited. He called his friend Jake and left a message that I had just told him something and he needed to call back asap! As though something was wrong. I hadn't even taken the test yet and he was already bouncing off the walls.. He wanted me to take it that night, but I explained that in the morning it would be so much better because the levels would be up.

I think we secretly both knew what was about to happen. Our lives were going to change forever. The next morning I took the test and forgot to look at it.. it said positive but I didnt know if that was the evaporation line or what, so I called the Dr. office and went for blood work it was only 105 hcg then 2 days later went in again and it was in the 600's so it more than doubled... YAY!! I had never went in for blood work where the number actually doubled.. what a relief! we then made an appointment for 8 weeks (thats what I thought I was), because with my history they wanted to see me early.. WELL when we got the ultra sound done they said we were only 6 weeks! ONLY 6 WEEKS!!!!!! that means that I found out early... the heartbeat was 110 and the baby was only like .5 cm or something crazy small like that.

Our next appointment was our 10 week. We had an abdominal ultrasound done this time and we saw the baby and how much it had grown! It was INCREDIBLE. We didnt get a print out of this ultrasound but we did the first one. We got to hear the heartbeat again and it was up to 154.. So far so good! Now I figured I could tell people!!!!

few exciting dates -
October: when he find out if we are having daddy's little princess, or mommy's little prince
DUE MARCH 5th




(i have my 6 week ultra sound i'll post later)