5th Anni!

5th Anni!

Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Well I'm seriously ridiculously behind in blogging.

FYI our computer still isn't working because we can't find the disk to reformat it.

So I can only blog on T's laptop when he gets home from work.

By the time dinner is done, Jack is down, etc, etc I'm too pooped to even think about blogging.

So...I just don't. Clearly.

So anyway, forgive that I'm posting about our anniversary like 3 weeks late.

First of all. I cannot believe it has been 5 years!

That makes me feel sort of old 

even though I was only 19 when we got married so I'm still young :]

And then sometimes it seems like how has it only been 5 years?

I feel like we have been together a lifetime!

I can't even imagine my life without this man by my side.

 Last year our anniversary was spent with me suffering from PUPPP rash.

So un-fun.

This year I definitely wanted to spent our anniversary doing something a little more fun than hanging out in labor & delivery bawling over the decision whether to be induced or not.

And the hubby definitely came through :]

I got this invitation on my phone two days pre-anniversary:

Eeeek! A night away!

My first time ever leaving Jack Jack overnight and I admit I was a little bit terrified.

Not because he would miss me

[he seriously didn't]

but because I knew I would miss him a ridiculous amount.

I almost cried like five times but we kept ourselves busy and I just kept remembering how grand of a time Jack was having at Grandma & Grandpa Wallace's.

We started our night with dinner at Texas Roadhouse...so yum!

My only complaint?

It took forever for my cup of chili to come out.

T told me I was probably the only person in the restaurant ordering chili in the middle of July so they had to make it especially for me. Ha.

I can't help it...I always want soupy type foods!

After our delish dinner we checked into our cute little Marriott hotel

and spent the evening relaxing and laughing

[especially over the prices of breakfast room service...$5 for one egg? Come on.]

Oh...and at the lady who was screaming at the top of her lungs "how dare you!" and for someone to "get out!" because "I don't even care if you don't have underwear on!"

We still can't decide what we think happened but we have lots of speculations haha.

T was patient with me and endured a mini photo session.

He probably hears "I have to blog about it!" a million times a week.

Or just every time he protests picture-taking.

Saturday morning we hit the hotel gym

[we never get to go to the gym!...we're poor.]

....aaand there's a baby bump!

So Friday night we endured an hour+ of a false fire alarm.

First the alarm sounded for awhile.

Then an automated voice came over the speakers:

"A fire has been reported on your floor."

Over and over and over again.

T checked out the peep hole and we saw nothing to be concerned about so we didn't bother leaving our room.

Eventually the firemen came on the loud speaker and told us they were having issues with the alarm system but there was no fire.

Then the auto voice told us we should evacuate.

We still weren't planning on leaving haha.

Then the firemen came back on and strictly told us to not evacuate!

They probably had lots of people coming downstairs and were sick of them haha.

He must have repeated like five times, "I repeat, do NOT evacuate. Stay in your rooms."

This happened from 3am-4:30am.

Super fun.

So much for a night of guaranteed uninterrupted sleep.

In the end we agreed it was totally worth our loss of sleep

since we got FREE BREAKFAST

[and it was even french toast, which I was craving. How lucky is that?!]

AND they waived our valet fee (which was $28).

Basically our entire getaway was FREE since T used points to book the hotel room.

Oh. Except that he took me shopping in the afternoon and we spent $70 at H&M.

But hey, I shopped their 50% sale sale and got 11 items for $70.

We got back home to Sacramento around 2pm to find a very happy Jack Jack who seriously didn't even notice we were gone.

He had way too much fun at Grandma & Grandpa's.

Maybe we should do this more often...

:]

Thanks for the much-needed couple's getaway, babe!

Love you forever <3

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PUPPP: Part II

PUPPP: Part II

Friday, July 20, 2012

Let me tell you: PUPPP is seriously the most miserable thing I have ever experienced in my life.  I told T I would rather tear my ACL 10 more times than suffer through this ever again.  It is so horribly horrible.

Warning:  There are pictures of the PUPPP rash in this post.  They are pretty gross.  Plus they include my gigantic pregnant belly.  You've been warned.

So.  The latest on the PUPPP.  Yesterday T & I celebrated our 4th anniversary (yay! - another post on that part of the day later).  Before beginning our celebrations I called the doctor's office to ask if they had any suggestions for my crazy itchiness since nothing seemed to be working.  I also asked if I could maybe get in to see a doctor to have my membranes stripped since the only cure for PUPPP is delivery (Dr. Harward is out of town).  Unfortunately the only doctor who was working yesterday was totally booked so they told me they would call me back and let me know what to do.

After breakfast, T & I headed to the store to get a soap I read about online that is supposedly a "miracle soap" for PUPPP.  It's called Grandpa's Pine Tar Soap and you can buy it at health stores.  So we went to the nearest one and picked up a bar for $4.  I showered with it and my itchiness seemed to fade some.

While T & I were out celebrating the doctor's office called me back and told me they wanted me to go to Labor & Delivery to have my rash assessed and see if they would strip my membranes.  So we headed over to the hospital.  They looked at my rash and could tell I was totally miserable.  The on-call doctor wanted the nurse to check my cervix (even though it was just checked on Monday) and I was dilated to a 3 and 80% effaced.  Because I was already at a 3 and everything seemed to be in good position for delivering they offered to just induce me.  This whole pregnancy I've been not wanting to be induced so I was really torn about what to do.  Either deliver the baby (on our anniversary) via induction or live with the rash for possibly 4 more days (until I see Dr Harward which would be my next opportunity to be induced) hoping that the baby comes on his own soon.

After lots of tears (I had like no sleep the night before - 3 hours max, not consecutive) I decided (with T's help) to not be induced.  I asked the doctor if he could just strip my membranes and prescribe an anti-itch cream and I would wait it out over the weekend hoping for labor to begin on its own.  The nurse thought I was crazy for denying the induction and tried to talk me into it.  She explained that the on-call doctors almost never offer induction if it's not an emergency and how it was so nice of him.  I agree that it was really nice of him to offer that to me since I'm clearly miserable but I still just really did not want to be induced.  So I stuck my ground and said I wanted to wait it out over the weekend.  And even though I'm terribly itchy, I still feel really good about my decision.  I really feel like the baby is going to come on his own this weekend.  And if I'm wrong and he doesn't then I will ask to be induced on Monday.  I might be crazy but I'm not stupid enough to live with this rash an extra week until my currently scheduled induction date of Monday, July 30.  By this Monday he will be a day overdue anyway and I don't think I could stand the horrific itching any longer.  I'm already almost completely out of my mind.

The cream the on-call doctor prescribed me only kind of works.  It's hit & miss and when it does work it lasts for like 30 minutes.  And it never completely takes the itch away.  I'm finding that the best things to do are shower 4-5 times a day (with the tar soap which stinks by the way), put the anti-itch cream on in between showers, and ice the itch away with an ice pack.  Last night I was actually able to get some sleep by laying a super cold washcloth over my bare belly.  I only worked a half-day today (just in the afternoon) because I knew I couldn't be away from home for 8+ hours.  I need to take a shower 4-5 times a day so that wouldn't work if I was gone all day.

I had a second emotional breakdown yesterday (after my breakdown at the hospital) because I was just so miserable and miserably itchy.  Sometimes it stings or burns because some of the wheals are open from scratching.  I've never had hives before but I think that's what this is like.  Hives everywhere all over my belly.  See for yourself:

It looks even more red & grumpy in person.  Gross, right?  And my skin feels so nasty.  It is all bumpy over the whole rash.

Hoping this baby decides to come really soon so I can be on the road to recovery!

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Happy Anniversary to us!

Happy Anniversary to us!

Sunday, July 19, 2009

Today is our one year wedding anniversary! :] We celebrated by going to church and then a ward potluck to greet our new bishop. Hahah. Next weekend we are really celebrating...we are going on a little getaway to Park City. Tom got us a really nice hotel with a fireplace and wood floors! We are going Thursday night and just staying the one night (Friday is a holiday in Utah--Pioneer Day). 

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