"Trunk or Treat"

Yesterday we went to our ward Trunk or treat.

Here's Alaura in her Halloween Costume

Look how cute we are!!!!

Trick or treat!!!!

"I love Ice cream!!!"

Here's the set up in Eric's truck...He scared some kids with his spider

Scary!!!

Aren't we cute?

Here are all of us!!!

Meow!!

Alaura loves her Sydney!!!!

She loves her Mommy too!!!

What a way to kick off my third trimester!!!!

Kidney Stones!!!!!!

Seriously, on Tuesday night I had the worst night of my life! Now this might be a little too much information for some of you out there, so stop reading if you don't like hearing about puking...and needles.

OK, like I said Tuesday was by far the worst night of my life. We went to Eric's parents house for a couple of hours to hang out while Eric and his "Exclusive archery club" shot at targets in their backyard. That wasn't the bad part :)

(Here's some pics of the trophy that he made for the weekly winner to take home.)

I started feeling pretty cruddy while we were there and drug Eric home at 8:00. While he was putting Alaura to bed I fell asleep on the couch. He woke me up at 9:30 and I stumbled into bed, but I started to realize that what I thought was a UTI was starting to hurt pretty bad and I was starting to get a pain in the right side of my back. I thought that it might be gas or constipation or something like that. But gradually it got worse and worse! I couldn't sit still because it was starting to hurt so bad. I was spending a ton of time on the toilet because I felt like I needed to pee all the time, then I got horrible diarrhea (Too much info I Know) Then at 3:00 am I rushed to the sink to throw up...I was heaving so hard!!! It was painful. On top of all that I was getting so bloated my stomach was huge!!!

I woke Eric up at 4:00 and had him give me a blessing (which I could hardly sit still for) and sent him to Walgreen's to get some gas x. I still thought that I had food poisoning or something. I took the gas x and about 5 min later threw it up. Needless to say I had nothing in my stomach by now. I couldn't keep anything down I was dry heaving and spent my time on the toilet with a bowl. By 7:00 I was in tears because the pain was getting so bad and I was getting scared that something was really wrong.

My OB's office opened at 8:00, Eric called and got me an apt for 8:50. We dropped Alaura off at my friend Heather's house (Alaura's preschool teacher) and headed off to the Dr office. Unluckily my Dr was out of the office that day and I had to see the nurse practitioner...She checked Sydney out and after she was convinced she was OK moved on to my pain. She asked me where the pain was, so I showed her...and she hit it!!!! Yeah, that's right she bopped me right on the back and almost sent me to the ground in tears. She told us that everything looked good with Sydney so they were going to send me to Urgent care to see if they could get my blood and urine work done quickly.

We made our way across the building to the urgent care and waited for an hour to be seen. While we were talking in admitting I had to run to the bathroom and go pee, now this was the most painful thing I'd done the whole 12 hours I'd been in pain. When they had me in triage (like 2 min after I went to the restroom) My pain was starting to subside. Instead of it being a 10 out of 10 it was like 8. They got me into a wheelchair and wheeled me into a room, I got changed into a hospital gown and hooked up to an IV. (the first one broke the vein while he was drawing blood, so he redid it in my other arm) They got fluids into me really quick because I'd been throwing up...and I hadn't had anything to drink in 14 hours.

The Dr came into see me and told me that once I went to the restroom to give a urine sample they'd give me something for the pain...After I gave them their sample they gave me drugs through my IV. I fell asleep for a couple hours. When I woke up it was 3:00, the Dr came in and told us that we'd be going to get an ultrasound to see if there was anything wrong with my kidneys or gallbladder...because my blood and urine tests came back great and they didn't know what was wrong with me. Eric ran out to take Alaura to his parents house and about 10 minutes after he left they took me over to get my ultrasound. They found out that my kidney and the tube from kidney to bladder were enlarged, but they couldn't find any kidney stones so they thought that maybe I had a kidney infection.

Then they admitted me into labor and delivery for the night so I could be observed and given antibiotics and to control my pain. They admitted me around 6:00 and got me started on antibiotics through my IV. They monitored my contractions and Sydney's Heartbeat to make sure I wasn't going into labor. Eric left around 9:00 to get Alaura and I finally got something to eat at 9:30!!! At 10 the nurse gave me some pain medicine...It knocked me out!!!! But it was great not to have any pain. After that my pain was manageable with out much pain medicine. I still hurt a bit but compared to the night before it was nothing.

Eric took Alaura to preschool the next morning then came to see how I was doing. No one seemed to know what I was being treated for so we were still unsure how much longer I'd be there. Eric brought Alaura to see me around 1:30. Here are some pictures of us trying to kill some time until my Dr came into see me and let me know what was going on.

Here I am showing off the second of three IV's!!!! That bed was so uncomfortable!!! I was so glad when I was finally able to get out of it. For 36 hours I didn't get any further from that bed than the bathroom!!!!

Look at those Sausages!!! Seriously my fingers were so swollen from all the fluids they were pumping into me.

Mmmm food!!! After 26 hours of no food while being pregnant...food is great!!!


Trying to kill time while waiting for them to release me.
Here's alaura with her friend Balloon Man...

Do you see the resemblance?

She's got a new bad habit of biting our clothes!!!

My IV started to really hurt and the area around it was getting swollen so I asked them to replace it because something was wrong. BIG MISTAKE!!! The new one hurt and bled sooooooo BAD!!!!

Finally my OB showed up at 4:00 and after going over everything I'd experienced in the past 48 hours he was very upset when he found out I hadn't been treated for kidney stones from the beginning. I guess I should have had a catheter to watch for any stones. ( I'm glad I didn't though, I hate those!!! So after talking to him (He'd been out of the office until this point) he told me that I'd had blood in my urine and that he was pretty sure that I had already passed the stones. That was what was killing me Tuesday night!!!! He gave me a prescription for antibiotics and pain killer and I finally got to go home!

I'm still a little sore, but I'm definitely doing better. I hope that I NEVER have to go through that again!!!! IT WAS HORRIBLE!!!!!

Lots of writing

So, I went to the Dr today and everything is still looking good. Sydney kicks like crazy, in fact she's been kicking me in the ribs for a while now. At our last appt 4 weeks ago she was 22 weeks and measured a little under that around her head (Yay) and 23 1/2 weeks in length on her limbs (she's long and already running out of room in there) Overall, I'm really enjoying this pregnancy, the main complaints I have are my sore tailbone (Ouch!!!) and being tired...but I think a lot of that has to do with my sweet little Alaura not sleeping very well.

It all started a few months ago when Jami was living us, Alaura decided that 6:00 was the best time to wake up because that's when Aunt Jami did (and Alaura didn't want to miss out on anything while Jami was here) Then, about a month after that she decided that she also didn't want to go to sleep when we put her in bed...then naps became a pain too!!! So, Alaura goes to bed around 8:30 but falls asleep around 9:30 or 10:00 and wakes up at 6:00! so, that's like 81/2 hours of sleep...then she may or may not take a nap...Now if she was enjoyable I'd say "I guess she doesn't need the recommended 12 hours of sleep, but that is so not the story!!!!! Then, to make it that much better, about a month ago she started waking up during the night and wondering into my room stating "I took a good nap! I want to watch TV!!!" At 2:30 in the morning. So I walk her into her room kiss her good night and walk out. On a good night she'll go back to sleep, but on the other nights she'll repeat this 3 or 4 more times! Needless to say, I'm exhausted the next day and so is she!!!

I'm not sure what I'm going to do about it, but she's taking a nap right now and she slept for 9 1/2 hours last night, so Maybe my life will get a little bit more normal. Other than that we're staying busy with preschool ( alaura) work (eric) and photography (me).

Alaura LOVES preschool! She asks me all the time if it's Tuesday or Thursday yet so she can go to preschool. We're doing class pictures next Tuesday, which is going to be so fun and cute! I don't have time to post a bunch of pics right now, but I'll try and catch up with some of the things we've been up to.

I'm so excited for this time of year!!! We're going to our ward Trunk or treat party on Saturday and Trick or treating on Halloween and a party or two somewhere in there! Then, I get to start getting ready for our big craft night at church, Amberly, John and Daphne are coming into town in mid November and right after that we're going to Utah for Thanksgiving!!!! Then Christmas and then a baby!!! Life's so busy and great!

Sneak Peek

Eric and I shot a wedding last night...here are a few pics of the bride

Sneak peak

I realized that with all the pictures I've been taking lately I've neglected to take pictures of Alaura recently so here a couple pictures from her recent photo shoot. I'll post more soon. As you can see, the camera LOVES her!!!

"A-L-A-U-R-A"

Here are a few pictures of Alaura doing her homework on Tuesday before preschool...She can trace her name pretty well as you can see from the pictures below. Not half bad for a two year old huh? (Proud mom moment...hehe)

She can also spell her name out loud if you ask her too. The best one though is when we're in the car and she sees a stop sign. "S-T-O-P Stop...no cars...G-O Go!!!!" She's so funny. She can recognize every letter in the alphabet too! When she spell things she'll say "Big M, little o, little m, little m, little y" another one she does that cracks me up is if she's spelling a word with two of the same letters in a row she says "T-H-R-E's...Three" it cracks me up when she says stuff like that.
If we could just solve her not sleeping in issues we'd be great!!!

In other news Eric and I are taking pictures at a reception on Saturday, we went and scouted out the area on Tuesday and it's going to be really pretty!!! I'm so excited!