Round 3

Around the beginning of October we found out we were expecting our 3rd little one! I did not think that I was going to be pregnant because I was not having any signs that I was like I had in the past! In fact I thought for sure I wasn't. Still I was curious and took a test and it was positive! I told Brandon by putting a roll (supposed to be a bun but I didnt have one!) in the oven and as I left to go upstairs I told Brandon that I left something in the oven and wanted him to check on it for me. He then came upstairs and was all, "was that supposed to be a bun in the oven?" I told him yes and he was excited too. The third time around it did not really set in for a while that we were going to have another baby, but, we were still excited! A couple weeks after finding out I was pregnant I started to feel a little sick to my stomach. Nothing too crazy just mostly annoying and sometimes for gross to my stomach than others. This lastest a lot longer this pregnancy than my past pregnancy's. I started to think for sure we were going to have a girl. I also have had a lot more pains this pregnancy. Almost uterus and pelvic floor pains from even before my second trimester! It has been pretty annoying. I can't run or it hurts me and if I am up and doing too much I end up needing to sit down for a while so I stop hurting! Not very fun if you ask me! Brandon's Dad told us that we were having another boy! However, I did not want to believe him! I thought for sure we were going to have a girl this time! 

Our little peanut at our early ultrasound  I believe it was at 9 weeks that we got this done. 

We were planning on going to California in January to go to Disneyland. So we were really hoping to get the ultrasound done before heading to Cali so we could tell my family what we were having in person. That didnt happen though. Then I heard about this DNA test that I could get done and they said it was only 25 dollars. So I thought why not! I would be able to find out what we were having before going to Cali. So I decided to get it done. Right after getting it done I was talking to a friend of mine who said that I better check and make sure that the test was only 25 bucks because she had a friend that ended up doing the test and had to pay 3 grand!! AHH!! I freaked out!! Luckily I was able to call the lady from the lab and she reassured me that it would only be 25 bucks. So we will see! We still have not gotten the bill yet! haha I couldn't believe it though. I just kept thinking, "did I just make a 3 thousand dollar mistake?" I was sick to my stomach thinking about it! So we are just counting on the lady's word that it will only cost us 25 bucks and not somewhere around or above 3 grand! So crazy!! Anyways, we got our results and.... we are having our 3rd boy!! To tell you the truth I shed some tears that day! I didn't think I would but I was so sure that we were having a girl that when I was told we were having another boy I was shocked!! Then once the tears started coming they just wouldn't stop (stinking pregnancy hormones). I was really happy and excited to find out that we were having a boy I just was not prepared for it. I LOVE my boys and I know how to handle boys so I was just shocked! Not sad that we were having another boy just shocked since I thought for sure we were having a girl! Plus I want a girl someday so my chances are dwindling! haha But we are super stoked to have this little boy join our family! Plus the more I think about it the more I realize how excited I am to have another crazy little boy around here! Now Brandon has all the boys he needs to go golfing as a foursome when the boys are older. 

Definitely a boy! haha He was not shy at all! It was like he was wanting to let us know that there was no way he was a girl! haha 

He looks so cute!! Everything looked great in his ultrasound and the boys thought it was the coolest thing to hear the little guys heart beat! 

We told my parents and a couple of my siblings that we were having another boy by taking a picture with mickey hats on the three boys and my tummy and me with a minnie hat! No one got it until Brandon said that the hat was stuck and then it kind of started to set in. I didn't get the reaction I was hoping to but everyone thought and hoped we were having a girl! But, everyone was excited for us. Who wouldn't be! We have the cutest little boys ever! :-) So we bought this little onesie for our new little guy and posted this later on to let friends know that we were having a boy! 

16 weeks 

21 weeks 

25 weeks

28 weeks

As time goes on I am getting more and more ready to be done being pregnant and have this little guy join our family! I have had a bad back with this pregnancy since 18 weeks that I am almost just getting used to it. I have collapsed once because of my back this pregnancy. It was in the middle of the night. I woke up on my back and then had to get up to help Wyatt. I barely made it back into my room and asked Brandon to get some tylenol for Wyatt. I then started for the bathroom and after getting done in the bathroom started to head back to bed. I took 2 steps out of the bathroom and collapsed! I couldn't even crawl back to my bed. I could move. I just had to sit there on my knees on the bathroom floor and wait till Brandon got back from helping Wyatt. As soon as I heard Brandon come back into our room I quietly called for him. I asked if he could help me. He thought I was in bed and when he got to my side of the bed and noticed I wasn't there I told him that I was on the bathroom floor. He turned the light on and asked what happened. He had to practically carry me back to the bed. I couldn't put an pressure on my feet because it hurt my back so bad!! It was the first time that I had wanted to cry because my back hurt so bad! Brandon then said that I needed to figure something out and stop sleeping on my back. Its not like I try to sleep on my back, I just end up there every once in a while! It was a bad night for my back! The rest of the night it hurt anytime I had to flip over to my other side to sleep. I was not very happy! Luckily that has not happened again. I have found that if it is hurting that bad that I have to ball my hands into fists and apply pressure to my lower back so that I can make it back to my bed at night! Needless to say I will be happy when this baby is here and my back can get back to normal! haha 

I am hoping to do a V-bac this time around and as long as this baby is heads down and my body does what it is supposed to I will be able to. So we are really hoping that I can do a V-bac this time. I do not want to have a c-section. Plus my sister Ashley is getting married the week after my due date. So if I want to have a chance to make it I have to have this baby the normal way. I will not make it if I have a c-section. So I will be having lots of talks with this baby as time gets closer! 

The boys are also very excited to meet this little guy. Especially Ethan. There have been many times where Ethan will tell me that he is so excited for me to have this baby. He has been so funny about this pregnancy. He is so much more curious and excited, I love it. He thinks it is fun to feel the baby move and he will tell me to be careful so I dont hurt my tummy and the baby. He asked me once, "mom, are you going to die when the baby comes out of your tummy?" I told him no and he asked if they were going to cut me open to get the baby out. I told him that they had to with Wyatt but I am hoping they dont have to this time around. I reassured him that I would not die and he didnt ask any more questions! He seemed so concerned about how this baby was going to come out of my tummy! It has been hard to have the energy to play with my boys this time around. I can't do as much as I normally do because of my back which has been hard. The boys handle it well though and I am so grateful to have such good boys. Sure they can be frustrating at times, but for the most part they are really good boys! 

Oh ya, one last thing about this pregnancy. I had a couple weeks in the beginning of my second trimester where I was getting what looked like little bug bites on my legs. They itched like crazy!!! They always showed up at night and I would have to scratch them and sometimes I would break them open and then they would stop itching. I thought maybe we had bed bugs because it only seemed to happen at night. However, I was the only one getting them. So one night as I was woken up by the itching I decided to look it up online. I read something that said it could be pregnancy related and normally happened to girl expecting a boy. For some reason the testosterone boost in the system can cause these little bug bite looking bumps. I ended up using some Cortizone cream and that helped a lot. Then after a couple of weeks of this misery it stopped! I was SO glad when it went away. I mentioned it to my doctor and she had never heard of something like that happening before. Thankfully it just went away by itself. I was worried I was going to have to deal with it for the rest of my pregnancy which would have been HORRIBLE! haha 

Anyways, I think that is about it for updates! We are super excited to me our little Emet in a few short months! :-) 

Minnesota

On February 20th we headed to the airport to fly to Minnesota to visit Tyrel and Vandy and their little munchkins. We got to the airport thinking that we were getting there right on time but soon found out that our flight had been delayed an hour. So we had to hang out with tired boys in the airport until our flight was finally ready to board. After that everything went smoothly. The boys did a great job on the flight like they always do. 

Being weirdos while we were bored at the airport! :-) 

Enjoying a smoothy while we waited. Wyatt was pretending to hold his tiny puppy. He likes to do this a lot and always holds his cupped hands up to his face and says, "aww.. nice puppy!" haha so funny 

Wyatt's face in this one just cracks me up! I wouldn't want to be stuck in an airport for an extra hour with any one else besides these 3! :-) 

After arriving in Minnesota we had to pick up our rental car and then drive to Tyrel and Vandy's place. Luckily it was only about 10 minutes from the airport. By the time we got to their house though it was past dinner time and we were all starving. However, once we got to their house all the boys wanted to do was play with their cousins. They were so excited to play with someone elses toys and their friends after traveling what seemed like all day! So we chowed down some dinner and let the kids play for a little bit and then got them ready for bed. 

The boys got to share a room with Kemry. They were so excited!! 

A little too excited! They ended up staying up till about 11 every night playing and laughing in the rooms! Crazy little kiddos! 

Walking around Mall of America hand in hand!! We were so glad that the cousins got along so well! It was like they had been best friends for years! 

The crew! 

Pretending to play an arcade game before going into the Water Park of America! 

The water park was fun. It was hard to keep everyone together with 4 adults and 4 kids. We kind of just had to split up and keep track of where each of our kids were the whole time. Other than that it was fun and the kids had a blast. What was not fun was walking outside with wet hair and clothes to get to our car in the bitter cold. Minnesota is just a different kind of cold. It is like chill to your bones cold even when the sun is out. Ethan was crying on the way to the car saying that his ear hurt him. I could totally relate and I just had to tell him that the faster we got to the car the faster we could get warm! I don't know how the pioneers did what they did. It was hard enough for us to walk to our car in the cold weather and it always makes me appreciate their dedication even more when we have to walk in the bitter cold for a short distance. I am so glad that Colorado is not that cold. Sure it gets cold, but, if the sun is out it feels pretty good. Even when the sun in shining on your in Minnesota it is like you can't even feel the warmth from the sun with how cold it is!! Pretty crazy!! 

This is how the kids ate their meals! haha They thought it was fun and ended up playing more than eating! When does that not happen though! haha 

Wyatt has an obsession with glasses! Anytime he finds glasses he has to put them on. In this case it was Mr. Potato heads glasses. Wyatt calls them his "glass" He is a funny kid!

 movie time!

 Cousin love! :-)

We left our swim suits in the car after our water park fun. When I went to get them out on Sunday they were frozen solid!! Just goes to show how cold it was in Minnesota! Way too cold!!! 

Sunday we went to church and then hung out the rest of the day playing games. The next morning we had an early morning flight to take. We had planned to spend most of Monday in Minnesota until we realized that our flight was 5:45 am not pm. So we had to wake the boys up at 4:30 that morning (3:30) our time and head to the airport. It was SO cold that morning and the boys were so tired. While getting socks and shoes on Wyatt Brandon stood him up and we thought he was awake until he started falling backwards back onto Brandon. Poor kid was so tired! He then said, "I wanna go to sleep". It was sad having to wake them up so early especially since they were going to bed so late! So we headed to the airport and dropped off the car. It was FREEZING and we had to get both of the carseats out of the car and carry them and the suitcase to the entrance which was no where near where we had to park the car. We were all freezing and tired. It was a rough morning but the boys were yet again champs! 

All smiles!! We seriously have the best little travelers!! 

Wyatt fought going to sleep for quite some time on the flight but finally caved. Ethan was awake for just a little bit playing some games and when I took it away he curled up on the chair and fell asleep!

It is hard traveling while pregnant! I had a rough time with that flight! As soon as I am up for a little while I get hungry and even though it was super early I was thirsty and hungry but had no time to fill up my water or grab something to eat by the time we got to the airport. We got to our terminal and no one was there. So we walked right onto the plane thinking we were the ones holding it. Come to find out there were quite a few more people that were later than us. So we totally could have grabbed a breakfast sandwich from Burger King which was right outside our gate. So I was hungry and thirsty and exhausted from carrying a lot of stuff and being in a hurry. Then sitting in the airplane for another half hour with my chair as straight as it could be I started to not feel too hot. Then once we started taking off everything got worse. My neck and shoulders were aching and I could barely hold my head up. I felt like I was going to throw up and pass out at the same time. Then my hand went numb! Brandon got really worried and called one of the flight attendants over and got me some water. After I drank a little water I felt a little better but my body was still week. So as soon as they came around to take orders Brandon bought some beef jerky for me and we got some more water! It seriously took it out of me the rest of the day I just felt off! I have never had that happen before and if I ever fly again being pregnant I will make sure to eat and drink something before I board a plane! The rest of the plane ride went fine and by the time we got to our car we were ready to be done traveling. I was still hungry and so we stopped at the nearest McDonalds and got some breakfast for all of us and let the boys run around and play for a little bit. By the time we got home Brandon could barely keep his eyes open and fell asleep on the couch within minutes. So I put some cartoons on for the boys and gave them some cereal so I could go shower. After that I put the boys down for naps and I went to sleep. We got some good naps in that day! Ethan took about a 5 hour nap and Wyatt got probably 3. 

After that long day we decided to hit Texas Road House for dinner so we could eat something better than fast food. 

It was yummy as always and since it was Monday night it was kids night. So the boys were able to eat free and get ice cream after their meal for free. They also got to join in on an applesauce eating contest which they didnt really know what to think about! haha Then at the end our server told us that our bill had been taken care of by someone. She said she was not aloud to say by who but that it was taken care of. It was so nice of someone to do that. The rest of the evening we kept looking around guessing as to who might have done it. We have always planned on doing that for people when we are older and are in a situation where we can. So it was pretty cool having it happen to us! 

Overall the trip was quick but fun. We had never met Tate (their little boy) in person before so it was fun being able to see him for the first time. Plus we were able to see where Tyrel and Vandy lived and hangout with them again which was fun!