28 Week Ultrasound at LCCC/ Faith Joseph's Wedding

Both of these are uterine blood flow, both a perfect average of 3.1. Yay!

 And the reason we decided to let the students at LCCC practice their sonography skills on us again...3D!

 Her beautiful fingers...

 Her fingers covering her face. They had a really hard time getting a picture of her this time because she had so in the way, her hands, feet, etc. But we got a few glimpses.

 Look at those luscious lips! She got those from Greg for sure!

 This one defines fetal position, her foot is cradling her head in this one.

 Ahhh...I love that face.

 

Heart rate 149 bpm

 Besides getting to see her face, the best part of the appointment was the position she had her legs in. Greg stands with his ankles crossed, it's hard to replicate because you feel like you are going to fall over! We saw this at the very beginning of the appointment. Her legs were cross, at her ankles, just like Greg does. We laughed so hard! At the end of the appointment, when we were waiting for them to make our disc, Greg was standing with his ankles crossed and all of us had to have another laugh.  In this one, you just see one leg but in the ones below it you can see the ankles crossed.

 

 Her skull, brain, looking from the top.

 The four chambers of her heart, working perfect like always. Makes me one happy mama!

Blood flow through the umbilical cord.

 

Always fun to see her face, next time I will get to see her face to face!

 

 

The first weekend in May, we traveled to Utah so we could see friends, family, play, and most important get to see a wedding! Faith Joseph and Jason Witt's wedding! She was my second to the last companion during my mission on temple square. She is from Kenya and the biggest hoot! We had so much fun when we were companions. I got to meet up with another companion while there, she was my MTC companion and my very last companion. So, I ended and started my mission with the best companions! I was really lucky to not have a single companion I didn't love. Both Faith and Sandra (MTC companion) are beautiful on the inside and on the outside. We had a really nice time in Utah celebrating their wedding and seeing other family and friends.

 29 1/2 weeks along. Only about two more months to go!

Kind of funny, I wore this dress like a week or so before this wedding. I brought the dress because it is comfortable and it actually fits! I put it on this fine morning and it was a little too small, it worked but, it was definitely tight. Wow! What a difference ten or so days made.

Greg, the photographer! The flowers on Temple Square were breath taking. By far the prettiest time of year and prettiest day to have a wedding.

 

 How neat! This is her father, she doesn't see him often and this is the first time he ever made it to America to visit. In the sealing room, their embrace was touching. He proceeded to hug her for her entire immediate family. She started to cry, I am sure it was hard to get married without her family there. He is a neat individual and currently serves as the branch president in Kenya.

 Tanner and Sandra

Whoops! Clumsy prego girl knocked the veil off.

All of us were companions with Sister Joseph. The girl on the left was from her "outbound" portion of the TMSQ mission. They served in Pennsylvania together.

The couple that sponsored Faith coming from Kenya and pursuing her education at BYU.

 



27-28 Baby Bump & Photo Dump

I cannot find these pictures on our blog anywhere! Hopefully I didn't just miss them and now I am posting them twice. This is at the temple for Ben and Amanda's wedding, it was a really wonderful day! I already put up the pictures of their reception and a couple of them coming out, but some how I missed these.

Carolyn and Greg, she is such a great mom and sister. She got a weekend all to herself for Ben and Amanda's wedding! Ryan took care of the kids and held down the fort back in Ohio. This was the 2nd time I really got to be around her, so it was fun not to be the wedding planner and to enjoy all the family that was in town. We had a lot of fun at the wedding festivities and at Aunt Sandy's house.

Greg and I, we had only been married 6 months right here.

Oh Happy Day!

And of course the car decorations! I thought it turned out classy!

Leaving the luncheon.....

Newly married for maybe 3 hours or even less! Introducing, Mr. & Mrs. Ben Sloat. 

I want to write a little bit about my experience being pregnant. I wonder if this will even be interesting to this little girl we can't wait to meet. But, I want to journal about it anyway. Right now, I feel really good. My belly isn't big enough to make me too uncomfortable. I can still tie my shoes on the side, I can still sleep on my back without any discomfort, and although clothes aren't fitting and I have to wear all maternity clothes now I don't feel huge yet. My energy has been up to almost normal the last month, and I am having no sickness, light headedness, and no other aches and pains. I get winded a lot easier, I get sore a lot faster, and my nose is stuffy a lot. Sleep is slightly more difficult but not bad, I have mostly comfortable nights and only have an irritated back ache once in a while. I haven't had any round ligament pain and no other pains in my belly area from all the growing. Cross my fingers!  I still have to pee a lot, and I always pee at least once a night. A BIG improvement from the 2-3 times a night that went on for months. I can handle getting up just once! I am really emotional, I can cry on a dime and it makes movies more entertaining for those around me to see me bawl at all the silly stuff. I can't help it! Even the cheesy movies that don't have believable plots make me tear up and bawl. Greg and I have started some P90X and I do some aerobics that I started a few days ago. I am almost to my 3rd trimester and I finally start exercising, go figure! I have way more energy now, I guess I better start using all that nap time. As far as nesting goes, I do have a lot I still want to get done but I have also done quite a bit. As far as cleaning and rearranging I am half way done. I have rearranged the apartment in every area I wanted to, dejunked, reorganized, and have done about half the cleaning. I like this nesting stuff! It makes me feel productive. So, that is me at the 27.5 week mark. We are so excited. I am enjoying the 2nd trimester comfort! The first 4 months were dulled with a lot of cramping, nausea, fatigue, and frequent urination which interrupted my sleep significantly. Lets just say the improvement for the last 2 months has been great, I even came to the conclusion that I would be willing to do this again...several times! I can remember thinking for the first few months...HOW DO WOMEN DO THIS!!??? I am not even the worse off, but this is difficult. Thank goodness for the 2nd trimester!

I am still not very natural at these "belly" pics...but at least it's fun to document what I looked like at each stage. I am excited to compare belly growth with subsequent pregnancies, that will be interesting! 

 

Awe, Greg wanted to take a picture of his belly too!