More About Baby

I have been incredibly sick this whole pregnancy, I'm almost over my first trimester and my morning sickness has been mostly just mornings lately which is so much better than all day, throwing up for no reason is never a fun thing though =[ I cant wait to start my second trimester, hopefully I will feel 100% the rest of the pregnancy! Since I was little I have always loved tea, raspberry was definitely a favorite. So I was very excited to go buy my first box of tea and hopefully it would make me feel better =] well it didn't... so I was chatting with my pregnant sister and she offered me hers I said No thanks it doesn't help. So we compared boxes and mine is black tea flavored raspberry HA! thats not good for my baby. Thats why it doesn't help...now i don't really need it...but i'm not complaining!!

My lower belly has been hurting a lot lately, I always say "Oh, my baby is mad!" or "Oh, my baby hurts today!". My baby is the size of a lime I shouldn't be able to feel it and be bothered!

When I cough, sneeze, roll over in bed, stretch, stand up, sex, walk, run, raise my arms, hic-up, really truly anything makes me hurt!!

I'm grateful to be feeling better and can't wait for my lime sized baby to be a grapefruit!!

thats all for now =]

My Baby

Last Wednesday I had my first official OB appt. It was exciting only because it had to do with the baby, but honestly, it was quite boring.. They gave me magazines, told me about future appt, told me about Lamaze, made me pee in a cup, and stressed that every appt I would have to do that, and took my blood....a lot of it! They also scheduled my first ultrasound... They just wanted my ultrasound done before my next appt on April 6th, so I was not expecting to get in for a week or so. But I was scheduled for the very next morning at 8:15!! Ughhh! Im soooo lucky! So that morning we had the early OB ultrasound... I was hoping they would squeeze jelly on my belly and rub it with the machine but nope, thats for later I guess ;] I'm sure you all can guess how they checked me out. First pregnancy ultrasound but, the 3rd time I have had that kind of ultrasound... oh I'm too young for this ;] anyway..
We got to see our baby, I cried. I couldn't see Davids face, the blanket was in the way, he said he was smiling though and didn't cry hahah. It feels a lot more real now that I have seen him/her, but its still so crazy!

 The top one isn't as clear but the bottom on you can see the head and face (facing to the left), you can see the little arms, and perfectly fat body, and you can sort of see the little feet =]
My baby is perfect already!!!

They moved our due date up a few days so it is now October 24th. I can't wait!!!

Well That's Interesting

Dave and I sleep with 6 pillows on the bed, yes we use them all every night.

When I lived at home I had probably 13 pillows on my bed all to myself, and I would just kinda make a nest in them :) it was great, now besides the 6 we have now I also have a body sized pillow, who doesn't work with me that well, his name is David.

I love airports, I love waiting for people, seeing all the people, trying to find my way around, meeting new people, seeing where people are going, PEOPLE WATCHING- I cry probably every time I'm at the airport e.i.- Someone I love is leaving (sad tears), I'm leaving someone I love (sad tears), Someone I love just came to me (happy tears), I just got to someone I love (happy tears), Watching 2+ random people reunite, just seeing the enthusiasm and tears and joys, makes me smile. ect, ect.

I love hospitals (minus the someone you love is deathly ill part), I love being a patient, no matter how much pain your in they always give you just the right stuff to take away the pain =] you get to control the TV remote, you get to be waited on hand and foot ahahahahha. Summer 2010 I was in the hospital and I was in the most pain I have ever been in in my whole life, and let me tell ya, thats a lot! anyway! I had more morphine in my body than I had blood so I only remember parts, I remember how good looking my 30 year old doctor was (DR Butterhall), I remember a man taking me away from my room and telling David I had to go with him alone, When he was wheeling my down the hall in my bed to take me to the CAT-SCAN room, there was a lady sitting outside my test room door, who looked like she had 3rd degree burns all over her (obviously she didn't or she would not be up and about), and she looked at me and gave me the greatest smile I have ever seen, and I smiled back. She, who looked like she had been through hell was worried about me, me, me in my gown, in my hospital bed, and she didn't even know me, I'm grateful for wonderful people like that. (This could make me sound like I love attention...).

I love my little family, I love David. We sometimes don't get along because we simply are so much alike and so we but heads but I cant imagine where I would be with out him and I never want to be with out him. I love Athena, She is the perfect dog ever!! I am excited to breed her and see all my cute little grand puppies! I am not excited to gain 40lbs over the summer.. if its more than that, then please shoot me :). All because David and I love each other too much ahhahah... He gave me the gift of gaining 40lbs this summer, thank you dear husband! Word of advice to everyone, do not take HGC hormone (also used for fertility treatments) for a weight loss drug if you do not plan on strapping up the soldier... 

There are so many things to be greatful for and to love endlessly. But there are only so many things I can talk about before I bore myself =]

-Mrs. Cole

I'm Thankful-

Recently their was a man killed in Meridian, just 20 min away from my home. He was shot once in the head and in the chest by a man in a Walgreens parking lot.Yeah thats sad, But my heart didn't break until I heard more details about him and his family. He was only about 30, leaving behind his beautiful 28 year old wife, his 5 year old twin girls, his 3 year old son, a 20 month old daughter, and a 2 month old baby girl. Last year he just finished law school and passed  the BAR exam just last summer. He was just starting to practice criminal law, and be successful. Words can not describe how this young family is feeling. They were in my sister-in-laws ward.
It made me think more and more about the things I have witnessed 'close to home'.
At the end of last summer a young man I know and his fiancée had their first baby, she was beautiful and life was great. The fiancée / and new mom died (unexpected) in her own home 3 weeks after her baby girl was born, leaving him to take care of a brand new baby all alone.
When I was in high school I was very close friends with a boy names Cole. I was very close to Cole and his family, especially his father. His father unexpectedly passed away in his home when Cole and I were Sophomores in High School, this was very hard on me, but I survived, I can not imagine how hard it was on Cole and his little sister Molly.
Just not even a year later, Ben, another close friend of mine passed away on December 23rd at his home. This was very very unexpected, Ben took his own life. This was very hard to deal with and it seemed so unreal.

We will never know (in this life) why these people had to die so young, and put so many other people through  hard ships. I'm just grateful this has not happened in my family, to my husband.
I think its human nature to question God sometimes, Why was that necessary, Why did I have to go through this, ect. But in the end I can only imagine all the great things we will see, we will see the big picture and understand how everything fell into place.

-Laura

It's a Beautiful Life..

Dave and I are preparing ourselves for some very big changes...
We're preparing for our move to Oklahoma City, searching for a safe, nice, affordable apartment might make me lose my hair, but I guess were just putting things in Gods hands.
Thanks goodness we wont be gone forever but only for about 3 months. My hormones are off the chart so I will probably cry every night we're gone because ill miss my one and only Athena. It bothers me to leave her cause i'm so in love with her and She just doesn't understand that i'm leaving and i'll be back. She has separation anxiety when I leave her for even a short while, She becomes depressed and I hope that I can find her a nice place to stay that she will be happy and not miss her 'mommy' and 'daddy' too much. On the other hand I thought about leaving her here at our home, I thought that might be good for her to stay in a familiar place, with familiar sounds, and familiar smells. But I know that if she is here she will not get all the potty breaks she needs and all the attention she thrives on.
But on a better note, I know making this short term move will be good for our little family. It will help us get the dependence we need to have each other, that we never really have had, with almost all the family from both sides being no more than an hour away. I believe that it will really strengthen our relationship as a couple and help us prepare for what the future has in store for us.. oh believe me its exciting!
I love the city
I love new things
I love the heat
I love the OKC family
I love the OKC zoo
I love Bricktown
I love the botanical gardens
I love that Dave and I get to do this together, and that the only memories I have of OKC are ones with Dave. What a beautiful thing!