Our wild week

This has been quite the crazy week for us full of unexpected things. This will probably be a bit of a long post because I am using this to journal what happened. On Sunday we had stake conference. We went and had the privilege of sitting on those hard metal chairs that we all just love. I had been getting pretty uncomfortable lately being pregnant and sitting on those chairs just about did me in. I found myself leaning from side to side and Chad had to massage my back. Even though the speakers were great I had a rough time being there because I was so uncomfortable. Monday morning came and I woke up and I was bleeding. I felt fine and so I went to work and went about my usual morning routine. By 10am I was having lots of low back pain and pelvic pressure and I could barely walk. I finally decided to give in and call my doctor to see what they recommended. They told me to go home, lay down, and drink some water. I left work and told my supervisor what was happening and I told her I'd probably be back in a couple hours. By the time I walked out to my car I was in quite a bit of pain. I called Chad and told him what was going on and since his afternoon class was cancelled he came home with me. After 2 hours of being at home laying down the pain didn't stop. I was content to wait it out another hour since I was convinced it would just go away, but luckily Chad forced me to go. We went to the doctor's office and they hooked me up to a machine to monitor my contractions. I was having contractions about every 4 minutes and I was dilated and effaced to about 70%. They gave me a shot of terbutaline to stop my contractions. -That stuff is crazy! It makes your heart race and makes you super jittery. It's probably like drinking 30 cups of coffee right in a row. I was shaking like crazy. After they checked me they told me that they were going to admit me to the hospital. So much for going back to work huh. We went to the hospital and after being monitored and checked again they put me into a delivery room. They had me all hooked up to an IV and monitors and keep giving me the terbutaline to stop labor. My contractions would slow down for a little bit after the shot of terbutaline, but then they would go right back to where they were before and so they made me stay overnight. That first night I slept in a labor and deliver bed, which is completely uncomfortable and obviously not meant for a long term stay. Luckily the next day they switched it out for a real hospital bed and that was much better. The next morning they decided to do an ultrasound to check on the baby to make sure everything was ok since I was still bleeding and contracting. The baby was sitting extremely low..hence the intense pelvic pressure. The ultrasound didn't show any problems with me or the baby, however, the baby only measured 5lbs 7oz. Just a small little guy. After getting the results of the ultrasounds the doctors decided that I would stay overnight and then on Wednesday they would stop the terbutaline and see if I went into labor or not since I would officially be 36 weeks. I tried to mentally prepare myself that night for what that next day could bring but there was guarantee what would actually happen. Wednesday came and I was allowed to shower and walk around and be off terbutaline finally (after about 7 or 8 doses of that nasty stuff). It felt so great to be able to get out of my hospital room finally! I walked around quite a bit the whole day and that night they came and checked me again and nothing had happened. In fact the contractions completely stopped all together! I was blown away that now that I was finally off that medicine everything was actually stopping now that they were ok with me going into labor. Talk about emotional ups and downs. My sweet mom flew in on Wednesday night to be with us and help Chad take care of me so he could focus on school. Chad was such a trooper this whole week and spent most of his time in the hospital with me and supporting me through everything. Finally on Thursday morning I was able to see my actual doctor (he was out of town earlier in the week). He checked me and said I was only dilated to a 2. Which throughout this whole process I'd been told different things every time because I had been checked by so many different people. One doctor told me I was at a 4, so being told I was only at a 2 was a bit of a shock. Since I wasn't progressing he said I could go home finally. Wahoo! Freedom at last! He told me I could go home and listen to my body and whenever this baby decides to come he will come. So for now I've been at home relaxing and taking it easy while my wonderful mother takes care of me. She's the best! I have another doctor's appointment today so I guess we'll find out if anything else has changed or if our little man decided he wants to stay inside of me and cook a little longer. Thanks to all of you for your many prayers in our behalf and for all your love and support.

Halloween continued

I know this is really late in posting the rest of the Halloween festivities, but I thought I would do it any way just to document it. This pictures are way out of order so I apologize, but I guess you will get the gist of it.

We started off our Halloween night by going to dinner at Chipotle. Our friends tipped us off that Chipotle gives you a free burrito if you go there with foil anywhere on your body. So of course we jumped on that cause we're all about free food! We made our little foil headbands and crowns and got our free meal. It was great! Later that night the Mellors came over and we attempted to carve pumpkins. I was a slacker about getting pumpkins and so I didn't actually buy one until Halloween. All they had was little baby pumpkins. I bought one and called it good. The Mellors didn't have any luck finding a pumpkin and instead bought a watermelon. We had some good laughs attempting to carve the watermelon and pumpkin. Here's the Mellor's watermelon carving job.

Matt & Traci with their drooling watermelon.

Our pumpkin was "incarvable" and so Chad just drew some techy sign on it to geek up his pumpkin

Sorry about this picture...it got stuck on here and I couldn't get it off.

Chad excited to get his free burrito.

Me and my tinfoil crown.

I had to post this picture of my cinnamon rolls. It was my first time making homemade cinnamon rolls completely unsupervised and they turned out pretty darn good!

Halloween locks

Since Chad just LOVES redheads he finally got his chance to be one the other night at our ward Halloween party (Thanks to Brad for sharing and Jana for documenting this!) Don't you just love his long flowing locks?! Pretty hot stuff!

More Halloween pictures to come!

Pregnancy Moments

Since I got pregnant I have gotten much more forgetful than I normally am. I seem to have more blonde moments than ever now.-Not that they didn't happen before, just that it happens more frequently now. For example, last night I loaded up the dishwasher and reached under the sink to grab the dishwasher detergent. I pulled out a bottle, looked at it quickly and started pouring it in. After I started pouring I realized that instead of the usual white liquid that comes out it was orange and runny. What the heck was I doing?! I had grabbed the dish soap and just started to pour it on into the dishwasher instead! I'm pretty sure I'm losing it! Chad got a good laugh out of that one. I had another pregnancy moment when I was at the grocery store last week. I was in the produce section at Hyvee picking out a green pepper. I must have been standing a little too close to the display of perfectly stacked peppers because as I turned to put the green pepper into my cart my belly knocked over a couple big red peppers and sent them rolling on the floor! Yep that's embarrassing to knock something over with your mongo pregnant belly! Right away a sweet little produce worker came over and picked them both up before I had a chance to attempt to akwardly bend over to pick them up and told me that it happens all the time and not to worry about it. Another thing that I've noticed is that I've become clumsier than ever. I was at the gym the other night and I had brought three things with me: keys, my phone, and my ipod. I got on the eliptical and was on my way. Within 10 minutes of being in the gym I managed to drop everyone of those things at least once! You can just call me butterfingers! I know I've had many, many more moments like these since I got pregnant, but I just can't remember them. So maybe some of you can relate to these pregnancy moments, and if not, maybe it'll give you a good laugh for the day.

Tractor Museum

This weekend we got a visit from this cute girl

Chad's sister Erica came to visit us for the weekend. We don't get to see Erica very often so it was so much fun to have her here! Since we didn't get her back from the airport until late Friday night we didn't start our activites until Saturday. We got the day started off right with Chad making us a big breakfast. Then we headed out to Target where Erica helped us finish up the last of our big baby purchases. Afterwards we took Erica over to the East Campus where the law school is. Since we were over there we decided to see the Tractor Museum. Yes there is actually a Tractor Museum here...pretty funny!

There were rows of all sorts of different tractors to be seen.

Basically Erica and I spent our time there taking random pictures to entertain ourselves during the tour. I look like I swallowed a basketball in this picture.

Our tour was given by this little old man. Come to find out he used to teach mechanical engineering. As you can tell by this picture, once he found out that Chad has his undergrad degree in engineering he ignored us for the rest of the tour and gave Chad his own personal tour with all the engineering extras in it. Chad loved every second of it! Although the musuem is probably not my favorite place in the world it was defininetly worth it to take Chad there because I know it made his day. Thanks Erica for making the trip out here! We loved having you here!

Hot and Cold

It is no surprise that our home is full of extremes...

These pictures were from last night...

My Hottie! (The Hot)

And this morning....

(The Cold)

Michelle is such a trooper and handling this pregnancy like a champ! She is amazing and I love her. Isn't she so cute!!!!

Winter beginning and visitors

The past couple of weeks it has started to get a bit cool here and feel like winter is settling in. With the coolness has come my least favorite part of Nebraska....the frigid wind. I can handle the cold temperatures and humidity, but the wind just about does me in. It may be 40 or 50 degrees outside one day, but with the wind chill it feels much, much colder. So we are back to the windy days with bad wind blown hair and broken umbrellas. However, on the plus side the cooler temps have made it so we can sleep with our window open at night and it's been absolutely fabulous. Since I have my little heater inside of me I am constantly getting overheated at night which makes me even more uncomfortable than I already am. But with the window open and the cool air flowing in I sleep much better. It's so great! Then there is poor Chad. Before we go to bed Chad turns on the fan and opens the window for me. Then he crawls under all the covers and throws the heaviest quilt we have on top of him hoping that he won't freeze to death. He deserves a gold medal for putting up with that alone. But that's not all he does for me. He will do just about anything to make me comfortable and goes out of his way to please me. Pretty much he is the BEST! I just love this boy!
This week has been crazy busy and so I'm a little late in getting around to posting this one. Last week we had Grandma and Grandpa Price come visit us. They were on their way down to Missouri to see the rest of the Burgin clan. We were lucky enough that we were able to spend the day with them and have them stay at our apartment. I left work a little early on Thursday and went home and we all chatted for a while before we went to dinner at the Olive Garden. We had a great time and the food was delicious! Then we came back to our apartment and played Mormon Bridge and "No Peekie". I had never won at Mormon Bridge until last night. It was great to have my moment of glory for just a minute before the next game when I came in dead last. haha Same thing happens when I bowl...one game I do really good and then next game I score like a 50. We had a great time playing games and chatting with them. Grandma and Grandpa were so funny! We just love them and feel so grateful that they came and visited us.