Suggestions?

So does anyone have any suggestions on how to get an over due baby to come? My due date was the 10th and still no baby. I know I'm only a couple of days over. I really shouldn't complain. In reality I'd much rather him be over due than premature - but now that the due date has come and gone I think I'm ready to have this baby! My doctor has scheduled an induction date of the 20th (which I really am ok with- I'd rather him come on his own) but that's still a week away! Suggestions?

Still alive and Still Pregnant

I just wanted to write a quick post to let you all know that we are still alive. The holidays this year were busy but nice. It is a busy time for Nate's work and the week leading up to Christmas I was basically a widow. :) He worked about 70 hours the week before Christmas and just about got his 40 hours in on the 3 days of Christmas week. It's good though - job security. I guess people just can't get enough BBQ around the holidays and we're ok with that!

Yes I am still pregnant, which is kind of a miracle in all that we have done in the past two weeks; I'm surprised I didn't go into labor! We have moved. It's official. We packed up the A.P.T. and we are all done. Thanks to all of our friends and family who helped us in the move. We tried to be good people who ask for help in moving in that we tried to have everything boxed up so all we had to have help with was actually moving boxes and furniture. Our biggest pet peeve is going to help people move and they haven't even taken things off the walls! We still had a few things that I was throwing in boxes and things were flying out of the apartment. We had everything loaded and ready to go within about 45 minutes. Unpacking didn't go as quickly - but thanks to my mother-in-law and sister-in-laws for putting away my kitchen and my mom and aunt Cindy for putting away our bedroom and bathroom stuff so we could feel somewhat comfortable in our new house. We still have a lot to do as far as getting things the way we want but we just keep the spare room door closed and try not to think about it. Now Baby Morley can come anytime. His due date is Saturday the 10th, so we'll see. I'm still working because I want as much time as I can after he comes before I go back to work. Yep that's the plan, I'm going back (probably part time but we'll see).

We are getting settled and getting antsy for this little guy to come. We will definitely keep you posted. We'll have more pics of our house once it's more organized and once I'm not embarrassed to show it off! And definitely pics of the baby. I'm not feeling the belly pics so I don't think you get to see those. Believe me I don't think you want to - Just imagine my face on a hippo or elephant and well, you get the idea!

All aboard!

All aboard the Polar Express!

Every year my family likes to go to a Christmas concert or play to celebrate the season. This year we decided to take a ride to the North Pole on the Polar Express. Ok - so it was actually the Heber Creeper and we rode to Soldier Hollow, where they had some houses with lights in the distance and Santa was standing in the middle of sage brush waving and waiting to board the train. It was actually a lot of fun. The kids all wore their PJ's. The elves and chefs serve cookies and hot chocolate and we read the story of the Polar Express. Then we picked up Santa at the North Pole and he came on the train and gave all of the kids a bell and asked them what they wanted for Christmas. The whole thing was magical for all of the kids. We just wish that our new little one would have been there to enjoy it with us. Maybe it's something we'll have to do again in a couple of years! It was a fun way to get into the Christmas spirit.

Pregnancy Update

I thought I'd give a little update on how this whole pregnancy thing is going. Up until these past couple of weeks it really has been somewhat uneventful. It really just started out as me being really tired and getting stomach aches. Everything really has been smooth, a fairly normal pregnancy - except for one small, well I guess it's not so small, exception.

When I had my first ultrasound they found that I have an ovarian cyst (I'm convinced it's been there for several years). It's a fairly common thing, not a huge worry it happens to a lot of women. Usually the are 5-6 cm and will often take care of themselves. Mine happens to be about 20 cm (for you Americans out there it's about 8 1/2 inches). When they found it they gave me a couple of options. First option was to have surgery right away and get it taken care of. It would have been a fairly major surgery with a lot of risks to both the baby and me. I would have had to stay in the hospital for a couple of days. Second option was to just let it be, for now. There is a chance it could rupture and cause me a lot of pain, but will not harm the baby. If it doesn't rupture then they will do surgery about 6 weeks after I deliver. So that's the choice we made -wait it out and see what happens. The one good thing about it all is that we have had an ultrasound every 4 weeks. They have been watching the cyst to make sure it's not getting bigger and to make sure it's not affecting the baby. It's been fun to see the baby a little bit more than we normally would have and check up on his growth. He has been on schedule and has been developing wonderfully. The cyst has not changed, which is good. I asked one of the technicians if she knew how much it weighed and she guessed it's probably somewhere between 6-8 lbs. It's bigger than the baby! The doctor is confident that we made the right choice in waiting to take care of it. My stomach is lopsided, but other than that the cyst has not caused any problems thus far. There was a small concern that the baby wouldn't have enough room to turn, but he's done his job and turned on his own.

I've been really lucky and not been sick up until last week. I caught a stupid cold that was going around. It started out as a chest cold and moved to my head. I'm afraid now it's a sinus infection. To top that off on Saturday I think I overdid things a bit and strained a muscle in my lower back. It didn't hit me until church on Sunday I could not get comfortable on the bench - so I snuck out a little early. My back would not stop hurting. I tried getting in different positions and nothing would help. I started worrying that I was going into labor because I started having some contractions, and I think that made things worse and I couldn't get comfortable. To make things worse I either worked myself up so much or ate something that didn't settle so well and ended up throwing up all day. It was really bad. Tylenol wouldn't touch the pain. I asked Nate to give me a blessing and when it was time for me to go to bed - after building me a fort of pillows and hot pads I was able to relax and sleep and the pain is somewhat gone. After the blessing I knew that I indeed was not in labor and was able to relax which is what my body needed. After such a horrible day/evening I was exhausted and called in sick for work today. The first time in three years that I've been working that I called in sick. I've always just bucked it up and dealt with it, but I think that yesterday was my body's way of telling me to slow down.

So anyway - I really have been lucky. I know a lot of people out there have it much worse than I. I'm just so grateful for the modern technology and doctors that keep us safe and healthy. I'm also grateful for a worthy husband to give me a blessing when I ask for it. I'm now heading into my 36th week and time is flying by. Before we know it our little guy (still nameless, suggestions anyone?) will be here!

4th of 4th Tag

I was tagged to post my fourth picture in my fourth picture folder. This is a picture of Nate and their family dog Belle about a week before they had to put her down. It was a very sad day for the Morley's. It was about a year ago. Nate's sister Maegan recently got a new dog and their dad can't call him by his right name. He is always referring to the dog as Belle. They all still miss her.

Explanation

Ok so here's my explanation for my last blog entry. I didn't want to say much until it was official. I've been pretty stressed lately and here's why: not only am I 34 weeks pregnant, but we've decided that it's time to leave our cute little apartment and move into a house. That's right. Today we bought a house! Can you believe it? We're growing up all at once. It's a little bit farther north than we are now which I don't mind. It puts us in the middle of my family and Nate's. But that means Nate will have to commute to work now. The nice thing is that it has good freeway access. We figure on a good day with no traffic it will take him about 30 minutes. Luckily he seems to be ok with that. 

It's a new house that was built in 2007. We think there were renters in there for a little while but for the most part it is brand new. We are very excited to get in there and make it our home. First on the list is to change to paint color. It's yellowish and I just don't do yellow. My mom has graciously offered to help paint so we'll get going on that ASAP. Nate promised me that we would take it slowly in moving out because let's be honest I don't think I could move out of our apartment and into our new house in 5 days with all that needs to be done. We'll take our time and get things the way we want them. Plus we both have commitments in our ward that would not be fair to spring on people at the end of the year. Our plan is to be moved over before the end of the year and before the baby comes. Let's just say this little guy had better stay in because there's just too much going on for him to come early! Crap, I just jinxed myself, didn't I?

Time Keeps on Ticking

Sorry no posts lately - where is time going? We've got a lot on our plates right now and it's only going to get worse I'm afraid. My stress level has been through the roof these days and Nate is being amazing handling an emotional basket case for a wife. No time for details. I'll explain later.