That time I was pregnant.

It has been a long time since I have posted. Life has been crazy crazy! I woke up this morning and thought to myself how grateful I am to be Brooks' mom. My sister is the best journaler (is that a word??) and I want to be able to look back at this time when Brooks is so small, so I am back blogging about our happy healthy life with a new addition.

To start out from the beginning, last November everything was seeming perfect. I was running well, school was great, I had the best jobs. All the sudden my body was feeling weird. I kept telling Bryce that something was off... finally after a couple weeks I decided to take a test... at work. Dumb idea. There I sat in the restroom of my work starting at that test. I called Bryce and told him. Of course his class was about to start (last class before finals week) so he said, "well my class is going to start, we will figure this out later." I was so overwhelmed! I left work and had to give a presentation for a class on multiple sclerosis, needless to say I was not completely focused during that presentation. Looking back now I probably did not handle that situation the best. Haha... I was so mad at Bryce, I didn't talk to him for 2ish weeks.

Christmas Eve was when we decided to tell our families. Before that point my sister knew, and Bryce's brother knew. In my family it is a Christmas Eve we all open pajamas. I made this little plaque for my dad and put in a little sleeper to announce to my dad, his then fiance, and my sister. This video is priceless.

January 3 was our 10 week ultrasound. We got to see the little guy! (after I got a full on exam with Bryce in the room, the best way to get you ready for pregnancy. You lose all your modesty). I didn't cry... I just stared at the monitor. It was finally real. The best was when the doctor looked around to see if there was twins. And luckily there was just one! That was a relief.

We asked our families to not tell anyone until we were in the second trimester. I did not want to be the lady who was pregnant for an eternity. I honestly I was embarrassed. My dad was so excited he asked that at his wedding (January 26th....I think) he could announce it.  Bryce was also very excited to start telling everyone. At the wedding Bryce blabbed to my cousin (who is a loud mouth hahaha) and he told his mom. My dad's sisters are very vocal and before I knew it. I was not sure I was ready for all the attention. My favorite is how everyone all the sudden "knew I was pregnant", or "I though you had gained weight" (btw don't ever say that to a pregnant woman). To add to it during the wedding lunch he announced it over lunch to everyone. Talk about everyone staring at you.

I stayed pretty active through my pregnancy, I ran the Moab 1/2 marathon with my sister, and cousin Ray-ray! I finished in 2.00:07. It was a bummer that for my first 1/2 to not come in under 2 hours. But considering the circumstances and it was my first ever half., I can't complain. That was a great weekend with friends and family. It was also the week before we found out the gender of our baby!

The ultrasound was so fun! I realized then that I really did love this little guy. And I was starting to get excited for our future family. When the ultrasound tech said he was a boy, Bryce exclaimed I knew it, and gave me a high five. He was already bashful during the ultrasound and was hiding his face from us!

May 3rd Bryce graduated from USU! I am still so proud! :) I didn't announce anywhere publicly that I was pregnant, and I didn't want any pictures.So I used his diploma to hide the baby bump. We started new adventures, I worked in Ogden at a Cardiac Rehab Center. It was an amazing experience and made time fly by that last trimester! We found a great schedule: wake up, go to work, come home, have a healthy dinner, and go to the gym. I ran up until 36 weeks, and then I walked on a super high incline. Hours and hours on that incline, luckily Gold's has a cardio room to watch movies while I walked.

In June, Bryce took my spot in Ragnar. That was his punishment for me being pregnant (I know realize that living with a pregnant lady would be enough of a punishment). He ran so well! Our van fell apart...It was very stressful to not be able to help and run. Needless to say we are signed up next year! (Bryce won't admit it, but he secretly loves to run, and I love it!)

At 35 weeks I was measuring small so the doctor decided to do a size check (I didn't mind though.... I got to see him again!) After seeing this picture I was worried that he was going to have unproportional lips! But he was measuring great. I just am tall and didn't gain a ton of weight. As August ticked closer I was really getting sick of being pregnant. I was so ready to get back to working out and to meet our little guy. I kept going to the doctor and he would say... it could be anytime now. I got to the appointment three days before my due date and we finally started talking about inducing. We made another appointment for the next Wednesday to check up, and if he had not come yet we would then schedule to induce labor.

Of course the appointment came, and we didn't have the baby. So Bryce and I decided that we would go have a great weekend with my sister and her boyfriend. We hiked to the top of the wind-caves, and had an awesome fire with tinfoil dinners. They got to hang out in the hammock and I sat there very very pregnant. I will tell the birth story in another post!

Overall I was really lucky, the pregnancy was so easy. I was able to teach spin, run, lift, hike and basically do whatever I wanted. I wasn't ever sick really (except the food poisoning episode). And I gained the appropriate amount of weight. It couldn't have been an easier pregnancy. :)