Baby Boyce

My sister and I have always been very close, maybe not really in age but still the best of friends. I was so excited to find out that she was going to be having a baby at the same time as me! We have had fun going back and forth saying what we have learned or about or babies development. So when she texted me yesterday and told me her water broke I was in shock! I knew about how big the baby must be considering she is only 1 week ahead of me. I knew that he would be in the NICU for a long time if she delivers him today. And that it would break everyone’s hearts. Oh how I wish we lived closer so that I could race down to the hospital and see her.

I had to busy myself doing things because I knew it would be awhile before I knew what was going on. Finally I get a call from my mom saying that she was not in Labor and that he was still in her tummy. They where trying to do an ultrasound but she didn’t know much more. I knew that it would be a lot for them to tell everyone what was going on so I just left it as good news and waited. Michael was at school when it happened. I texted him and his reaction was about the same.

After she got settled she got to text me a couple of time and let me know they were ok, his heart rate was good and that even though he was really low she was only dilated to a 2 and she hadn’t had any contractions. They gave the baby steroids to speed up development, and she was on antibiotics. They needed her to hold of on labor for at least 48 hours so they could give him all the steroids to speed up his development as much as possible. And so far so good. :)

She started a blog so that anyone who wanted to could read thier story, and how they were doing.

Instead of writing her story down I thought you could all just read it in her words (she is so much better at writing then I am anyways)

http://mybabyboystory.blogspot.com/

And Please pray for them!

Spring and Baby stuff

Spring has come to Memphis, I couldnt pass up taking pictures of the trees! They are so pretty

Spring and Babys go together well I think. Of course we don't have a baby yet but today we put together the Crib :) Also a 24 week baby bump.... Getting BIG!

Pregnancy Survey (Just for fun)
How far along are you?: 23 weeks and 4 days weeks
Maternity Clothes?:  Yes for sure.

How are you sleeping? lol sleep... its only going to get worse isnt it. :)
Missing anything?: Some clothes, no big deal

Any Movement?: Oh yes, I love it

Anything making you sick?: nope we are doing good.
Starting to show yet? yes yes yes
Gender? All boy

Cravings? Fruit, chocolate, fruit dipped in chocolate..... and Cheesy Breadsticks.

Labor? No
Happy or Moody?: Happy
What are you looking forward to? Having a baby.  

Flordia Vaction!

For Michaels Spring break we made it down to see Adam, Christie and Trace in Flodia! We had a blast playing with Trace. We loved their house and the yard it made us intching to get one for ourselves. Thank you guys for letting us come visit!

Playing on the tramp

We caught Trace red handed or white I guess with all the frosting.

The Cake was so dang good! Christie is an amazing cook!

Michael amazing picture he took of the Beach.

The Naval Air Museum was so neat!

A Older gentelman made a joke of how the jet was a "single passanger jet" 

 Saying goodbye at the hospital, glad to see Adam was doing better.

Baby Cole!

We went to the Doctor today....

With this question on our minds?

 And to see our little one!

We are so EXCITED!!! Its a boy!!

What happens when you are in Optomentry School.

Michaels bathroom:
 1,2,3,4,5, no 6 contact cases... at least 3 with different contacts in them. Not to mention the eye drops, solutions and all the other fun stuff.

Big Storms!

For a few days it was a lot hotter then it usually is. then we had a cold front come in and that is a recipe for TORNADOS. All Night on Sunday we listened to the TV say over and over again that this huge storm was coming. There was sevre thunder and lightning storms warnings, as well as Tornados. About 40 percent of Memphis was out of power after it passed through. 

So what did we do..... We sat on the porch to witness it.

 So that is not water on the camera that is the flash reflecting off the rain coming down because there was so much of it. Notice that the lights where still on in the parking lot in this picture. All of a sudden we heard a BOOM and all the parking lot lights went out:

 I caught a picture of lightning in this picture but you cant even see it with all the rain. I have never seen it rain so hard.

This is what it looked liked without the lightning. We could barely see our car in the parking lot.
There ended up being a tornado in Mississippi, and it continued to Alabama. But we just got to witness the storm. sad

The Eye Ball

The Eye ball is a dance that they do for optometry students. Get the pun? All of Michaels friends from school decided to all go together, and Michael was dragged along with them... he had fun, but dances aren’t his thing. So first we went to Boscos. It was a really neat restaurant. We had a salad and a pizza; it was the pollo diablo pizza. (As good and as spicy as it sounds.)

The party... I think there is 20 of us....

 I really like this picture of us. I will have to thank Kelsie for taking it.

The Dance was at the Cadre:

It was a really pretty building I thought. We had fun hanging out with friends and we even dance a couple of times

I am defiantly not used to seeing me pregnant... the other 2 girls in the picture are pregnant too. Kelsie and Sam are both having boys

The group!

It was a fun night.

Baby Cole making an appearance

Pregnancy Survey
How far along are you?: 15 weeks
Maternity Cloths?:  Not quite... but I got some cute ones ready to go.
How are you sleeping? Its getting harder for me to comfortable lately.. but once I do I sleep really well
Missing anything?: Sandwiches...
Any Movement?: Not yet but the doctor said I should start feeling flutters
Anything making you sick?: greasy foods
Starting to show yet? Just starting to get noticed. I've had a couple funny reactions lately.
Gender? We should find out in about 3 weeks!
Labor? No
Happy or Moody?: Doing better so more happy, and excited and than moody.... but still have days
What are you looking forward to? Finding out the gender, seeing the baby, and going shopping for Baby's room.

Go Grizziles! and Jimmer!

The night we came home from our trip we made a stop and watched the Grizzlies play....

.... WAY at the TOP! Michael Friends at school got group tickets so that we could all go. They played the Sacramento Kings. Which Jimmer plays for. We cheered for him too!

(He is the closest player to the Grizzly)

On our Chirstmas trip we.......

In Brigham: We visited with my brother who came home from his mission in November.

Saw his cool Russian stuff, Watched Russian Cartoons, and saw some neat pictures!

We got new Family Pictures with everyone.

Got to go to dinner with Rich, Olivia, Rob, Sarah, and we got to meet Baby Seth! We had fun visiting with all of our friends in Logan and Idaho for a day.

In Idaho we played Doctor, had New Year Party (with lots of yummy food Thanks everyone). And visited with everyone.

Playing at FATCATS

Thanks everyone for the very nice visit! We sure miss and love all of you. See you again real soon!

Christmas Announcement!

This was a special Christmas for us because we had some exciting news to tell our famlies. We had everything planned for our big announcement before we left. And the Wait nearly killed us.

We had my Dad for Chirstmas. This was how we told them.

They were some happy GRANDPARENTS!

I let Michael decide how to tell his family. He wanted me to make his mom card (whenever I have made a card in the past he always signs it something like "look at this cute card I made you" or "I spent a lot of time on this card for you mom" So I made a Card and he wrote " I made this card and this BABY!"

Another very happy Grandma!

Zoo Lights

We got to go with our friends from SCO to the zoo for Zoo Lights!