Wednesday, December 24, 2014
Thursday, December 11, 2014
Pregnancy photos
Since I did so bad at blogging while pregnant I'm
just going to post the pictures that we took.
1st month
(Hate my hair color on the bottom! Trying to
grow it out to my natural hair)
Its a boy!
Maternity pictures
7th month
Me 33 weeks my sister in law 38 weeks
34 weeks
1st month
(Hate my hair color on the bottom! Trying to
grow it out to my natural hair)
2nd month
3rd month
4th month
5 months
6th month
my sister in law and I
are 5 weeks apart.
7th month
baby shower
Banana baby shower
This was the last picture we took
while I was pregnant.
Wednesday, December 10, 2014
Here comes baby Analyn
My sister in law had her baby! Baby Analyn 10 lbs 10 oz and 22 inches long! She had to get life flighted 3 hrs away to another hospital and had to be in the NICU for one week. She was such a trouper and is doing great! Nick and I drove 5 hrs to go and see them so they had family there. She is the sweetest thing! Courtney you did great and you and Garrett sure make a cute baby! Can't wait for our little ones to meet!
Sunday, May 11, 2014
HCG leavles
Went in and got my blood drawn to see what my HCG levels were
and a couple of hours later Doctor Goff texted me
and said, "HCG level is 122 that's great!"
He also wanted me to come in and do a gestational sac
and then a week after that do a fetal pole
He said once the HCG level is 1000-2000 you start to see a dime size circle.
So on May 10th we went and saw our doctor
and he did an ultra sound to see if there really
was a baby there. When we saw it it was just a little black dot on
the screen. He said well there it is you two your future baby.
Then he said with a smile, this never gets old!
(He really loves his job and Nick and I really love him!)
So on May 10th we went and saw our doctor
and he did an ultra sound to see if there really
was a baby there. When we saw it it was just a little black dot on
the screen. He said well there it is you two your future baby.
Then he said with a smile, this never gets old!
(He really loves his job and Nick and I really love him!)
Saturday, May 10, 2014
Why I think we came to Oklahoma
Nick and I have been married for 4.5 years. Before we were even married I would sit in class and day dream about my life. Get married at age 20, have kids at age 22, have our 2nd kid at age 24, you know every two years till we have 4 kids kind a deal.
Well that didn't really go as planned. I got married at age 22. Which was totally fine because I wasn't ready to get married at age 20, I was super immature and didn't know what I wanted to do and didn't know who I was. After Nick and I got married I told Nick my plan for kids. Nick wasn't all on board with having kids right away and said lets at least wait a year. I finally agreed after a while of begging. When we decided to start trying I would get my hopes up every month. Then I'd pee on the stupid stick and it would be negative.
One of my friends said maybe your not ovulating.. So I bought an ovulation stick and it never said I was ovulating. So after we tried for a year I went to the doctor to see what was going on. He didn't test me for anything, he just said lets put you on clomid most of my patients get pregnant with in the first 6 months. So I started taking them and it was the first time showing that I was ovulating. I got so excited when I saw that and thought that this was it, this is what I needed. Well it didn't work. The pills were making me crazy. I was so emotional all the time. I felt like I was alone (Which I was because I didn't want to talk to anyone especially if they had kids, because it would make me sad.) But I really was just in a funk.
I would be coaching vball and would just get a surge of hate and I would just start yelling at my team for the littlest things. I felt so bad after because I didn't know how to control all the hormons that were going through me. I wanted to yell at everyone all the time, I wanted to cry, I never wanted to hang out with friends. I wanted to just sleep all day and not talk to anyone. It was a long 6 months of getting my hopes up every month and the test coming back negative every time.
I started to become depressed. I use to be a very happy and hyper person that loved to laugh, make people laugh, and had to be doing something all the time. I started to see myself change and so could Nick.
It was a huge toll on our marrage. I became paranoid about everything. I would look through his phone thinking that I wasn't good enough for him and that he was getting sick of me. I really did turn sicko. I even hated me and couldn't stand myself. I would get mad at Nick for the stupidest things like leaving his socks out, or his backpack, or being 15 minutes late for dinner.
I went back to the doctor and said it wasn't working so he sent me to a specialist and they wanted to see if my tubes were open. When they did the test they were really struggling at doing the procedure. Which I started to cry thinking well I can't have kids my tubes are closed theres that. Then the guy finally got it threw and said your uterouse is crooked that's why they couldn't get in, but they told me my tubes are open. He squirt orange dye in and I could see that I had eggs and he said that my tubes are open and I have eggs. That's all he said. So the next step was for Nick to get tested. Which he was also fine.
I stopped taking clomid (Because I couldn't stand being so emotional all the time.) and stopped going to that doctor that was absulutly no help what so ever! I kept peeing on the ovulation sticks which kept saying I was ovulation so that was a step in the right direction.
Nick and I always had this feeling that we were supposed to move and leave Vegas after he was done with Dental School. He asked me one day, where do you think we're supposed to move to and go to school? I told him Oklahoma. (Which was so weird. Never would have thought I would have said that) He started laughing and said he has a feeling we are supposed to go there too. So when Nick was doing the whole interview thing for orthodontics he loved the program in Oklahoma when he came here for his interview. And when we found out we got in to the OU program we were so excited.
When we arrived here I decided I'm going to start over clean. Find new friends, new job, new ward, and new school and to stop being depressed and get out of this funk I was in. We met some really great friends within the first 2 weeks and our ward was really young and they were also students. For the first time we weren't the only one in a ward that didn't have kids and could actually hang out late and no one had to find a babysitter.
Nick and I kept trying, but still no baby. I was trying really really hard not to drop back into the funk I was in before. Then one Sunday Nick and I had to speak in church and after we were done speaking an OBGYN came up to me and said great job on our talks. I have heard a couple of the other girls in the ward went to Doctor Goff and loved him, but he is very busy and has a ton of clients
He called me that night and came over to our place. He got our whole background of what has been going on. He told us that he could relate and said that he was going to try and help us. He wrote me 3 different proscriptions that night and told me to start taking them. (Letrozole, Estradiol, and Progesterone.)
After two months of it not working I asked him if we could do something else. He had me come in and did an examination. He told me the same thing as the other specials about my utours being crooked and said that the only way we might be able to get pregnant was doing artifisial insemination.
Which is taking Nicks sperm and basically putting it in a serenge and putting it in me.
Getting my hopes up again the first month of trying it but it didn't work.
I cryed when it didn't work. I wanted to crawl into a hole and just not come out. Going to church wasn't fun because everyone and their dog has kids or is pregnant or someone else is announcing they are pregnant. I created a Bunco group back in July and all people would talk about is kids or announcing they were pregnant. I really was so happy for all of them that could have kids or were becoming new mommys, but a part of me, well maybe not a part, I was really jealous! I would go home after Bunco and just cry. Nick would tell me to stop going if I didn't enjoy it, But I did enjoy getting to know the girls. Sometimes I would think just don't go... But I felt like I had to because I had the table, chairs, and dice I had to bring.
Anyways we tried again it didn't work. It was just like deja vu all over again. Then of course we had Bunco again and one of my friends was due with her first baby soon and my other friend just announced that she was pregnant so you can imagine how it went. At one point during Bunco I had to go to the bathroom and I just started crying. I had to really try super hard to stop crying so no one knew.
That was the longest 2 hrs of my life. Nick and I had plans to do something with friends that night, but when I walked in the door I just broke down and started to cry so hard that I told Nick I couldn't do it. (Yes I know I'm a big baby and I need to just get over it and not be jealous of others!)
Anyways We tried it for the third time and Doctor Goff said 3rd time will be the charm. And I just cut my hair that week and Doctor Goff said it has to work, you have the mommy hair cut now! haha
In my head thinking ya right nothing ever works out the way I plan. so I was starting to fall right back into my depressed mode I was in in Vegas. I was trying so hard to be happy. I wasn't the most pleasant person to be around at work and one day I just broke down to one of my managers and told her what was going on in my life and told her sorry If I'm moody sometimes I'm trying really hard not to be. She understood and was very understanding. I also broke down to two of my friends at seprate times and unleashed the cannon. (Sorry about that girls! Thanks for listening to me complain)
Anyways Doctor Goff gave me a pregnancy test to take at home and told me what day I could try. I told Nick the day before that day and said tomorrow is the day. And Nick told me not to take it. That he didn't want me to get my hopes up and his and to wait a couple of days. So like a good wife I waited 5 days. I got home from a long day at work and decided I was just going to do it. Even if it said negative I could move on and stop thinking about it. So I had the one from the Doctor and another one which was my last clearblue stick. So I did both. After peeing on the stick I decided to get out of my work clothes and put on my workout clothes even though I was so tired from work I wasn't really planning of working out. So I went back to the sticks and I looked at the one doctor Goff gave me and it only had one line. Which I didn't really know what that ment there was no derections on the thing he gave me. Then I looked at the other one and it said 2 weeks pregnant on it. I started freaking out. Pacing back in forth in my room just saying please be real please be real.
Heavenly father please don't be playing a joke on me I just cant bare it! So I sent a pic to doctor Goff of the one line and asked him what it ment. He said not pregnant. I was about to cry, but was so confused why one say no.. but the other one said yes.. So I sent the other picture of the one saying pregnant and he called me right away and said go by the pregnant one. Sometimes the ones he gives out don't work. Then I looked at the one he gave me and there was a very fant 2nd line in it. So I told him that too. He started freaking out on the phone with me as I was crying. haha it was very sweet of him. and then sechdule an appointment for me the very next day.
I was freaking out when I got off the phone with him and was like, ok now how do I tell Nick! We had been trying for 3 yrs you would think I would have thought of a good way to tell him we were having a baby! But when the time actually came I had no clue how to do it! So I ran to the store and bought a balloon that said "Welcome little one!" I blew up the balloon and put it in one of my lulu lemon bags with the pregnancy sticks and a book that said, "What to expect when you're expecting."
So when Nick got home from work I told him I put t he mail in the bag. He looked in the bag and sat there for a second as he's reading the balloon, title of the book, and looked at the pee stick. He looked at me with tears in his eyes and said, "Are you serous? That's awesome!" You'd have to watch the video of him saying it. Its a real tear jerker! I cry every time I watch it.
I know we came to Oklahoma for the great Orthodontics program here because they only take 4-5 students. But I think one of the main reasons we came to Oklahoma was to meet Doctor Goff and for him to help us get pregnant! He helped us so much! And we will always be grateful for this wonderful man! Thank you Doctor Goff!
Well that didn't really go as planned. I got married at age 22. Which was totally fine because I wasn't ready to get married at age 20, I was super immature and didn't know what I wanted to do and didn't know who I was. After Nick and I got married I told Nick my plan for kids. Nick wasn't all on board with having kids right away and said lets at least wait a year. I finally agreed after a while of begging. When we decided to start trying I would get my hopes up every month. Then I'd pee on the stupid stick and it would be negative.
One of my friends said maybe your not ovulating.. So I bought an ovulation stick and it never said I was ovulating. So after we tried for a year I went to the doctor to see what was going on. He didn't test me for anything, he just said lets put you on clomid most of my patients get pregnant with in the first 6 months. So I started taking them and it was the first time showing that I was ovulating. I got so excited when I saw that and thought that this was it, this is what I needed. Well it didn't work. The pills were making me crazy. I was so emotional all the time. I felt like I was alone (Which I was because I didn't want to talk to anyone especially if they had kids, because it would make me sad.) But I really was just in a funk.
I would be coaching vball and would just get a surge of hate and I would just start yelling at my team for the littlest things. I felt so bad after because I didn't know how to control all the hormons that were going through me. I wanted to yell at everyone all the time, I wanted to cry, I never wanted to hang out with friends. I wanted to just sleep all day and not talk to anyone. It was a long 6 months of getting my hopes up every month and the test coming back negative every time.
I started to become depressed. I use to be a very happy and hyper person that loved to laugh, make people laugh, and had to be doing something all the time. I started to see myself change and so could Nick.
It was a huge toll on our marrage. I became paranoid about everything. I would look through his phone thinking that I wasn't good enough for him and that he was getting sick of me. I really did turn sicko. I even hated me and couldn't stand myself. I would get mad at Nick for the stupidest things like leaving his socks out, or his backpack, or being 15 minutes late for dinner.
I went back to the doctor and said it wasn't working so he sent me to a specialist and they wanted to see if my tubes were open. When they did the test they were really struggling at doing the procedure. Which I started to cry thinking well I can't have kids my tubes are closed theres that. Then the guy finally got it threw and said your uterouse is crooked that's why they couldn't get in, but they told me my tubes are open. He squirt orange dye in and I could see that I had eggs and he said that my tubes are open and I have eggs. That's all he said. So the next step was for Nick to get tested. Which he was also fine.
I stopped taking clomid (Because I couldn't stand being so emotional all the time.) and stopped going to that doctor that was absulutly no help what so ever! I kept peeing on the ovulation sticks which kept saying I was ovulation so that was a step in the right direction.
Nick and I always had this feeling that we were supposed to move and leave Vegas after he was done with Dental School. He asked me one day, where do you think we're supposed to move to and go to school? I told him Oklahoma. (Which was so weird. Never would have thought I would have said that) He started laughing and said he has a feeling we are supposed to go there too. So when Nick was doing the whole interview thing for orthodontics he loved the program in Oklahoma when he came here for his interview. And when we found out we got in to the OU program we were so excited.
When we arrived here I decided I'm going to start over clean. Find new friends, new job, new ward, and new school and to stop being depressed and get out of this funk I was in. We met some really great friends within the first 2 weeks and our ward was really young and they were also students. For the first time we weren't the only one in a ward that didn't have kids and could actually hang out late and no one had to find a babysitter.
Nick and I kept trying, but still no baby. I was trying really really hard not to drop back into the funk I was in before. Then one Sunday Nick and I had to speak in church and after we were done speaking an OBGYN came up to me and said great job on our talks. I have heard a couple of the other girls in the ward went to Doctor Goff and loved him, but he is very busy and has a ton of clients
He called me that night and came over to our place. He got our whole background of what has been going on. He told us that he could relate and said that he was going to try and help us. He wrote me 3 different proscriptions that night and told me to start taking them. (Letrozole, Estradiol, and Progesterone.)
After two months of it not working I asked him if we could do something else. He had me come in and did an examination. He told me the same thing as the other specials about my utours being crooked and said that the only way we might be able to get pregnant was doing artifisial insemination.
Which is taking Nicks sperm and basically putting it in a serenge and putting it in me.
Getting my hopes up again the first month of trying it but it didn't work.
I cryed when it didn't work. I wanted to crawl into a hole and just not come out. Going to church wasn't fun because everyone and their dog has kids or is pregnant or someone else is announcing they are pregnant. I created a Bunco group back in July and all people would talk about is kids or announcing they were pregnant. I really was so happy for all of them that could have kids or were becoming new mommys, but a part of me, well maybe not a part, I was really jealous! I would go home after Bunco and just cry. Nick would tell me to stop going if I didn't enjoy it, But I did enjoy getting to know the girls. Sometimes I would think just don't go... But I felt like I had to because I had the table, chairs, and dice I had to bring.
Anyways we tried again it didn't work. It was just like deja vu all over again. Then of course we had Bunco again and one of my friends was due with her first baby soon and my other friend just announced that she was pregnant so you can imagine how it went. At one point during Bunco I had to go to the bathroom and I just started crying. I had to really try super hard to stop crying so no one knew.
That was the longest 2 hrs of my life. Nick and I had plans to do something with friends that night, but when I walked in the door I just broke down and started to cry so hard that I told Nick I couldn't do it. (Yes I know I'm a big baby and I need to just get over it and not be jealous of others!)
Anyways We tried it for the third time and Doctor Goff said 3rd time will be the charm. And I just cut my hair that week and Doctor Goff said it has to work, you have the mommy hair cut now! haha
In my head thinking ya right nothing ever works out the way I plan. so I was starting to fall right back into my depressed mode I was in in Vegas. I was trying so hard to be happy. I wasn't the most pleasant person to be around at work and one day I just broke down to one of my managers and told her what was going on in my life and told her sorry If I'm moody sometimes I'm trying really hard not to be. She understood and was very understanding. I also broke down to two of my friends at seprate times and unleashed the cannon. (Sorry about that girls! Thanks for listening to me complain)
Anyways Doctor Goff gave me a pregnancy test to take at home and told me what day I could try. I told Nick the day before that day and said tomorrow is the day. And Nick told me not to take it. That he didn't want me to get my hopes up and his and to wait a couple of days. So like a good wife I waited 5 days. I got home from a long day at work and decided I was just going to do it. Even if it said negative I could move on and stop thinking about it. So I had the one from the Doctor and another one which was my last clearblue stick. So I did both. After peeing on the stick I decided to get out of my work clothes and put on my workout clothes even though I was so tired from work I wasn't really planning of working out. So I went back to the sticks and I looked at the one doctor Goff gave me and it only had one line. Which I didn't really know what that ment there was no derections on the thing he gave me. Then I looked at the other one and it said 2 weeks pregnant on it. I started freaking out. Pacing back in forth in my room just saying please be real please be real.
Heavenly father please don't be playing a joke on me I just cant bare it! So I sent a pic to doctor Goff of the one line and asked him what it ment. He said not pregnant. I was about to cry, but was so confused why one say no.. but the other one said yes.. So I sent the other picture of the one saying pregnant and he called me right away and said go by the pregnant one. Sometimes the ones he gives out don't work. Then I looked at the one he gave me and there was a very fant 2nd line in it. So I told him that too. He started freaking out on the phone with me as I was crying. haha it was very sweet of him. and then sechdule an appointment for me the very next day.
I was freaking out when I got off the phone with him and was like, ok now how do I tell Nick! We had been trying for 3 yrs you would think I would have thought of a good way to tell him we were having a baby! But when the time actually came I had no clue how to do it! So I ran to the store and bought a balloon that said "Welcome little one!" I blew up the balloon and put it in one of my lulu lemon bags with the pregnancy sticks and a book that said, "What to expect when you're expecting."
So when Nick got home from work I told him I put t he mail in the bag. He looked in the bag and sat there for a second as he's reading the balloon, title of the book, and looked at the pee stick. He looked at me with tears in his eyes and said, "Are you serous? That's awesome!" You'd have to watch the video of him saying it. Its a real tear jerker! I cry every time I watch it.
I know we came to Oklahoma for the great Orthodontics program here because they only take 4-5 students. But I think one of the main reasons we came to Oklahoma was to meet Doctor Goff and for him to help us get pregnant! He helped us so much! And we will always be grateful for this wonderful man! Thank you Doctor Goff!
Saturday, May 3, 2014
Game 7
Every home game Oklahoma has does a raffle ticket
drawing and picks only 50 people. So we decided to go
and enter and wish for the best.
And guess what.. We won! Nicks Ticket
was the winner. If you win you automatically win two!
So I was the lucky one he picked!
Thanks for that baby! haha
It was so much fun! Game 7 against the Grizzlies and
Thunder won! So happy we got to go to
game 7 for free!
We're for sure going to have to
try again for the next home game!
Nick really enjoying him self!
Even if we are on the 2nd row from the top
Still great seats in our book!
Thursday, April 17, 2014
Parents came to OKC
First off I cut my hair. I was having
a bad day so I just told them to cut it off.
Did it make me have a better day? No,
but it does take a shorter time getting
ready in the morning!
Ok the 2nd part about my blog is
My parents are both teachers and their spring
break was last week so they decided to come
and visit Nick and I.
We went to the Oklahoma Temple.
After the Temple we went to the
Botanical Gardens. I love that place
its so peaceful and beautiful!
My dad was getting tired from
all the walking and beautifulness!
This girl and her dad. Do you think her
dad did her hair?
The next day we went to the memorial.
It was the 19th anniversary from when
the bomb went off so it was free
to go inside the museum.
Nick and I have been there before,
Nick and I have been there before,
but never inside.
It was so sad to watch the footage of that
day. It is for sure a tear jerker!
We also went to Bricktown
and walked around.
We also we to Turner Falls! Nick and I have
been there before with friends, but that was in the fall.
It was a lot of fun. A lot of people were swimming in the
freezing cold water. Will have to go back and go camping one day.
It was so pretty and green. And I don't mean Nicks shirt!
After all the fun at turner falls we went to
Smoken or smokey Joe's can't
really remember the exact name of the place.
But dang the food is amazing!
Still speaking of food.. My mom makes the best dinners!
Since she was here for Easter we made ham, cheesy potato's,
monkey bread, asparagus, and fruit, and strawberry shortcake!
It was amazing!
On the last day my dad really really wanted to go
to the Cowboy Museum. It was actually really cool.
I love cow boy movies, so I knew I was going
to like it! The beginning was all Indian
stuff it was really cool!
Chiefs head dress.
This is what the women wear as their wedding dress.
This is for sure my man crush cowboy!
Love John Wayne.
This is a woman's saddle since they road side
saddle they had their special saddles.
How cute are these. There's a kid play place there
where they can dress up like Cowboys and Indians.
My dad was loving it!
Look at him acting all tough! haha
Well there you have it! That's all the fun we had!
Thanks for coming mom and dad!
We miss you already!
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