Sunday, April 24, 2011
Houston, TX!
Last tuesday Sophie and I flew to Houston to visit my parents and attend a cousin's wedding. I was hesitant to go at first only because Sophie is older and she is more active i didn't know what her reaction to flying would be. I always get nervous when i fly and specially when i have Sophie with me. I decided to take the stroller so i wouldn't have to hold her all the time. Our flight left SLC at 8:25am and i always like to be there an hour and a half before so we woke up early and got Sophie ready, i packed the day before and everything was ready to go! I was rushing and running through security and the check in kiosks, thinking i was late for boarding, and suddenly i get to our gate and there's a sign " FLIGHT DL3192 TO HOUSTON, TX DELAYED FOR AN HOUR until 9:25am" I thought "Oh i guess we have time to eat some breakfast"!. Sophie and i went to get some egg bagels and we walked around the airport stores till it was time to board again. To make the long story short, Sophie was great! She looked through the sky mall magazine MANY times! She ate her snacks, she wanted to get down and walk around the plane, luckily we had an empty seat next to us so about an hour into the flight she fell asleep on the seat next to me. She woke up when we landed in TX so that worked out great! I was so relieved and happy that we arrived. Another thing about Houston is the weather is very humid and hot. Sophie is not used to it so she sweats as soon as we go outside and it's uncomfortable so she cries and gets all fuzzy. Hope she gets used to it because it won't be the last trip to TX.
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
My Pregnant photoshoot
I seem to be going backwards here with all this posts and writing about the past rather than the present, but i just forgot to do this when i started my blog. So i just wanted to put some pictures up that one of my hubby's friend took when i was 39 weeks along. It was cold, snowy and a february thursday morning.
It's Pink!
When David and I got married we moved to Fresno, California for the summer. He was selling alarm systems and we'd been married for about two weeks, so we were still adjusting to the whole "living with someone" situation. We drove our little Honda from Utah to central California and started our new life together as a newlywed couple. Well, i thought, this is going to be so much fun living in California ,going to the beach often and meeting new people. It was hard, let me tell you. I'd never lived away from home and from my family (we are very close), alone, and in some place i didn't know.Dave was gone most of the day, you see this alarm systems business is pretty exhausting, he would wake up around 9am and go to the gym, come back eat breakfast, spend time with me ;), and get ready to leave. They had their meetings at noon and from there they would go off to their areas to knock doors all day! he would come home around 9:30 or 10pm every night. Well my days went by so slow, i felt alone and very sad, kind of like depressed, i just didn't know how depression felt. The girls( salesmen wives) were very nice though and super fun so that helped me get out a little bit while David was gone. We'd go swimming, or laying out, shopping to the mall or target, eating out, craft making, we'd take turns to cook in each other's apartment every monday and have our own girls FHE dinner. That was so fun. They had no idea how that helped me look forward to mondays!
After living there for a month and still feeling lonely, i found out i was PREGNANT! I remember i went to the nearest pharmacy after dropping David off at his meeting, and i bought 3 boxes of those pregnancy tests. I went back home and i took the first one, after a few minutes passed i waited and ....(one pink line= not pregnant two pink lines= pregnant) i saw one pink line. YES! i thought, not pregnant. Then the second test, showed two pink lines, WHAT??? can't be. Third test, one pink line and another pink line fading out, HALF PREGNANT? I stared at the tests for a while and i decided i was not pregnant. I called my mom and i told her about my tests and she said i should probably go see a doctor. "No, I'm fine" i said, I'm not pregnant the majority of the tests seem to be right so I'm gonna go with the non-pregnant one.
to make long story short, i called David and told him i needed to see a doctor, i wasn't sure if i was pregnant or not. Three weeks passed by and i went to my doctor's appointment. First of all i didn't even want to go to a doctor i didn't know, or anybody knew for that matter, but i did. I went in for my ultrasound and "you're 7 weeks" he said. Ooh My Goodness! My world changed that instant. I was so scared and nervous.
Morning sickness started, I couldn't keep anything in, brushing my teeth was a hassle, i hated the smell of beans, tuna, or fish, i had to take deep breaths after every bite and walk it off so i wouldn't throw up. I stopped cooking because it made me sick seeing and smelling raw meat or anything else. I hated feeling hungry because i knew i had to start all over again and eat just to be full not because i wanted to. My clothes fitted me tight and my jeans were getting smaller. I had no one but me. My mom, was some 2000 miles away and here i was, sick and laying in bed alone most days. I cried, and cried. When David came home he took care of me and he would make me food while i rested. He probably thought, who did i just marry? i was a totally different person. So fast forwarding 2 months, i went in for one of my final visits in California, since we were moving back to Utah, and i wanted to know what i was having. I had an ultrasound and Surprise!! we couldn't see anything, the baby was face down so all we saw was her bum. The doctor said he was pretty sure it was a girl, but he couldn't tell. So we waited , we moved back to Utah and after a few weeks i went in for my next check up and i was told i was having a girl. The whole time i thought i was having a boy, so that was news to me. I was very excited and anxious to see her. What would she look like? how dark will she be? or tall? I hoped she wouldn't be as tall as me though.
After living there for a month and still feeling lonely, i found out i was PREGNANT! I remember i went to the nearest pharmacy after dropping David off at his meeting, and i bought 3 boxes of those pregnancy tests. I went back home and i took the first one, after a few minutes passed i waited and ....(one pink line= not pregnant two pink lines= pregnant) i saw one pink line. YES! i thought, not pregnant. Then the second test, showed two pink lines, WHAT??? can't be. Third test, one pink line and another pink line fading out, HALF PREGNANT? I stared at the tests for a while and i decided i was not pregnant. I called my mom and i told her about my tests and she said i should probably go see a doctor. "No, I'm fine" i said, I'm not pregnant the majority of the tests seem to be right so I'm gonna go with the non-pregnant one.
to make long story short, i called David and told him i needed to see a doctor, i wasn't sure if i was pregnant or not. Three weeks passed by and i went to my doctor's appointment. First of all i didn't even want to go to a doctor i didn't know, or anybody knew for that matter, but i did. I went in for my ultrasound and "you're 7 weeks" he said. Ooh My Goodness! My world changed that instant. I was so scared and nervous.
Morning sickness started, I couldn't keep anything in, brushing my teeth was a hassle, i hated the smell of beans, tuna, or fish, i had to take deep breaths after every bite and walk it off so i wouldn't throw up. I stopped cooking because it made me sick seeing and smelling raw meat or anything else. I hated feeling hungry because i knew i had to start all over again and eat just to be full not because i wanted to. My clothes fitted me tight and my jeans were getting smaller. I had no one but me. My mom, was some 2000 miles away and here i was, sick and laying in bed alone most days. I cried, and cried. When David came home he took care of me and he would make me food while i rested. He probably thought, who did i just marry? i was a totally different person. So fast forwarding 2 months, i went in for one of my final visits in California, since we were moving back to Utah, and i wanted to know what i was having. I had an ultrasound and Surprise!! we couldn't see anything, the baby was face down so all we saw was her bum. The doctor said he was pretty sure it was a girl, but he couldn't tell. So we waited , we moved back to Utah and after a few weeks i went in for my next check up and i was told i was having a girl. The whole time i thought i was having a boy, so that was news to me. I was very excited and anxious to see her. What would she look like? how dark will she be? or tall? I hoped she wouldn't be as tall as me though.
This is what she looked like and i thought she was the most beautiful baby. This is My Sophie.She is my Joy.
She is always so happy and smiling.
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
General Conference Weekend!
I had asked my parents a few weeks ago, who live in Texas, to ask for tickets for conference and send them to me. My mom sent me 4 tickets for the saturday afternoon session, so i invited my cousin and his wife to go with us since he's never been to conference. My other cousin, Gisel, was going to be singing with the BYUI choir and it happened to be on saturday afternoon. I was so excited i was gonna get to see her. We agreed on meeting somewhere with my cousin Sergio and his wife and driving together since we only had one parking ticket. So the night before, friday, my husband's family came into town from Arizona and his cousins stayed with us for the night. We stayed up late talking and catching up that the next morning i couldn't wake up, but i did and it was too early. i thought ok so I'll shower early so they can have time to shower since i know it takes me like two hours to get ready. I got ready and by the time i finished the first morning session had started, so I went downstairs had some breakfast and watched the conference. Before we knew it was time to leave to meet my cousin at 12 to drive to salt lake and of course we were late! David just showered it was 11:30 and then decided to iron his shirt and pants so on our way there we were speeding of course and utah drivers are not the smartest people on earth! at all..so driving south to salt lake we crossed the double white lines and got on the HOV lane and passed a car and got off again on a double white line, and i thought oh man i don't see any cops, i think we are safe now! and two seconds later ......we hear the cops siren!!!!! man, so we pulled over and he asked what the rush was, i said "we're going to conference and we're late" so he said ok, he came back with a ticket and said "please drive safely" so at least he was fast since we were late!
so around 1:30 we had to be sitting in our seats, well ...we were parking the car at that time and going down the elevator from the 8th floor of the parking lot to the first floor and then walking two blocks north to the conference center. I was running in 4 inch heels! .. we get there and there's this massive line all around the building and we're like no maybe it's for stand by people, well it wasn't. it was for all gates and all sections, they were letting everyone in through two doors only. It was chaos, everyone was running and the line was long and we waited for like 30 mins, so this whole time we're just talking and joking about how stupid it would be if they closed the doors right in our faces, and i said that would be so funny. Fast forward 30 mins later we're like 20 steps from the doors and they close them!!!! and i said what?? lets ask, this cannot happen to us! they said the bulding was full and no one else was going in, i said but we have tickets and they're numbered right?, "well...." they said "no one was here at 12 or 12:30 and everyone showed up at the same time, and we overbook all the time because not everyone comes", ugh i said great what now?!! so we walked off and i had blisters on my feet from running and trying to keep my heels on, and we went to the tabernacle and watched it there, i was mad! i wanted them to explain to me why if i had tickets i couldn't be in there, i mean what if i had traveled from far away?? on the other hand yeah maybe we were a little late, but it wasn't my fault. There's always next time i guess.
I Loved Conference though, all the talks and the sunday sessions were great, specially watching them from my comfy couch at home!! I loved Dallin H. Oaks's talk, and Ballard's, well everyone's pretty much. It was a good one this time since i really paid attention because Sophie was sleeping.
so around 1:30 we had to be sitting in our seats, well ...we were parking the car at that time and going down the elevator from the 8th floor of the parking lot to the first floor and then walking two blocks north to the conference center. I was running in 4 inch heels! .. we get there and there's this massive line all around the building and we're like no maybe it's for stand by people, well it wasn't. it was for all gates and all sections, they were letting everyone in through two doors only. It was chaos, everyone was running and the line was long and we waited for like 30 mins, so this whole time we're just talking and joking about how stupid it would be if they closed the doors right in our faces, and i said that would be so funny. Fast forward 30 mins later we're like 20 steps from the doors and they close them!!!! and i said what?? lets ask, this cannot happen to us! they said the bulding was full and no one else was going in, i said but we have tickets and they're numbered right?, "well...." they said "no one was here at 12 or 12:30 and everyone showed up at the same time, and we overbook all the time because not everyone comes", ugh i said great what now?!! so we walked off and i had blisters on my feet from running and trying to keep my heels on, and we went to the tabernacle and watched it there, i was mad! i wanted them to explain to me why if i had tickets i couldn't be in there, i mean what if i had traveled from far away?? on the other hand yeah maybe we were a little late, but it wasn't my fault. There's always next time i guess.
I Loved Conference though, all the talks and the sunday sessions were great, specially watching them from my comfy couch at home!! I loved Dallin H. Oaks's talk, and Ballard's, well everyone's pretty much. It was a good one this time since i really paid attention because Sophie was sleeping.
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