Walking Around the Neighborhood

Our Neighborhood is so cute! It has awesome houses and we have enjoyed going for walks outside at night. We had to take pictures!!

The ZOO is in our Neighborhood too!

Pretty cute Neighbors huh :)

New Place

As you may know we moved into a new place. We are so excited to be out of our other apartment! This new place is so neat. Its right by the zoo, Michaels school, and a really cool park. The neighborhood is really nice and its so much more comfortable here.
We finally have everything unpacked and put away, and we wanted to share a few pictures of it with you, so you can see what its like.

The living room/ dinning room.

(We love the big window. You can watch squirrels and birds outside)

Babys room/ spare bedroom (bug Michael about putting the bed skirt on for me)

The front

Stepping out of the back door (We have a YARD!! and a carport)

 Our garden: Basil, Thai peppers and flowers (there is a pot with Tomatoes on the other side.)

The only thing I dont love about this place is that the kitchen is TINY and it is right as you walk in the back door. I am pretty sure it was a mud room. If I started a food blog it would have to be called "In the Mudroom kitchen"

34 weeks

Pregnancy Survey
How far along are you?: 34 weeks
Maternity Cloths?:  I can still fit into some pants! lol
How are you sleeping? I get up a lot.... but I am doing pretty good and falling right back to sleep.
Missing anything?: not feeling so SQUISHED! and getting overheated so fast.
Any Movement?: My whole belly rolls back and forth.:)  Michael thinks its so cool. I love it too
Anything making you sick?: If I end up busy and not able to eat. I keep snacks now.
Starting to show yet? I feel HUGE
Gender? All Boy
Labor? Nope He is head down though
Belly button in or out? Its almost flat!
Happy or Moody?: With everything thats been going on I think I have been in a good mood! :) I am getting really excited.
What are you looking forward to? Moving! so I can nest. And having this baby (time go by faster)! :)

Finals

Michael and his friends decided to "Suit up" for their last day of finals on the last day of their first year.

(He is so cute in a bow tie)

                                          Class of 2015

Michael did SO well this year in school, even better this semester than the last semester! I am really proud of him.

A lot has happened in the last few weeks....

I feel like the whole month of April was a crazy month, but its even gotten into May now too! So here is an update of our craziness.

Michael was playing soccer with intramurals at his school. They were really good; they really played so well together and made a really good team. I tried to get a good video of Michael but he was mostly the Goalie so I got a couple videos of scores against him. None of the videos will load though sorry. (its really hard to try and video indoor soccer I decided)

This is the team, the won 2nd place (that’s why some of them have "2" they aren’t peace signs)

We decided to get a Memphis Zoo pass (which means lots of pictures of animals on our blog) it will be fun when people come to visit us ...hint hint.

Because we have a pass we got to go see the Pandas, which was awesome! (They cost extra on free days)

We went with some friends from School it was a nice day out.

Next was our Anniversary! Michael had school in the morning but when he got home we had to get out of the house, because we had pest control come (they come every 3 months)  We went out to lunch and then to Michaels’ school so he could practice an eye exam on me for upcoming test. Next we went to the ZOO! This time we went and saw a Sea Lion show that they do there.

They are so smart!

We were taking a break in a Lodge in the Teton Trek, when Michael looked up and noticed that the grizzly bears where wrestling. So we had to go see!

and a 30 week baby bump

We went out to eat for dinner and than to a Cheap Movie! It was a fun but long day, and I was so tired when I got home.

They day after our Anniversary was not as fun.... I ended up getting food poisoning from the Dinner the night before. At first it wasn’t so bad, I just felt crummy and just had one of the symptoms of food poisoning but as the day went on everything got worse. I stopped being able to keep even water in my body and threw up everything I tried to eat. At 2:30ish Michael got home and got me some crackers and Gatorade. I ate them and instantly felt better. The doctors called back and they told me if I can keep everything down then I should be ok to not go to the hospital. I thought I was in the clear until about 5:30 and I lost everything. So we headed to the hospital. It was the first time I have ever had an IV (that I remember) and it wasn't fun. They monitored Brock and his heart rate was way to fast, I have never seen my belly move so much when they put the monitors on him. I was a lot sicker then anyone thought. This made me cry, it wasn’t just me dealing with this but my poor baby!

After they gave me a few bags of fluids and some medicine, they sent us up to Labor and Delivery. Luckily after the fluids is heart beat gone down and I was only having Braxton Hick contractions.

It was about Midnight before they decided to let us go, I felt a ton better. Poor Michael had his first final at 8 the next morning. It wasn't easy to try and study at the hospital or be up so late. Luckily he was able to not only pass but do really good!

 On Monday we had another Doctors appointment she described Brocks heart rate as Perfect! Music to my ears. I was still dehydrated but doing much better and just needed to “focus focus focus” on fluids.

Our Prayers were answered.

 

Baby Boyce

Among the list of people I got to visit with (when I made my trip to Utah) one of which, was my nephew Maximus. I was really excited to see him, and was so sad when we had to go. He really is a beautiful tiny baby and I am pleased to say he is doing much better. He even opened his eyes for me! Which made me gasp and scare everyone around us. (sorry about that)

I had a great visit with everyone, I got to see lots of family! I had a lot of fun visiting with my in laws as well.

I am sad I couldn't stay longer to visit but hopefully we will get to see some of you guys soon But next time with Michael and our new baby. :)

Thank you to everyone for taking care me and my pregnant self. We  miss and love everyone!

Mr. and Mrs. Keith Olsen

On April 12, 2012 my little brother got married to his beautiful bride! It was a very nice ceremony and I feel so blessed that I was able to come and see it.

Husband and Wife

                                                                           They look so happy

Reception

Kneaders!

I loved the cake she picked out.

I am so Excited to have a new sister in law! Its sad I will live so far away at first but maybe they can come here ;)

Exciting weekend

So it was really only exciting for Saturday night and into Sunday morning. We where driving down a road near our house to the Asian Market :) and we saw that the Drive in theater was open every night of the week now. So we came home and looked it up. We wanted to see the Hunger Games anyways (well I did, Michael enjoyed it too) So we thought lets GO!!

So we packed up our car and headed down.

I decided to take a picture outside of the car since most likely I would get stuck... lol

It was a very fun night!

Before the movie was over I got a text from my sisters boyfriend Solomon saying that Britney was having contractions and was most likely going to have the baby that night. So the rest of the night  we held on to the phone until we recieved word of any changes or news

At about 4:30 our time, 3:30 there time we get a text that she did infact have her baby. at 1:58 am, he was 2lbs 1 oz and 14 1/4 inches long.

He is doing much better then anyone expected, and is simply an amazing little boy. :)

Maximus Orion Boyce

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.