October Recap

I figured I better give a little recap to the month of October since we have had some crazy stuff during the month. The beginning of the month started with a full outbreak of hives for me. Jaron was on a scout campout, he is the scout master in our ward, and of course it was late at night that I began itching like crazy. I started taking Benadryl and using lots of Calamine lotion. Nothing really helped so after a week of insanity, my doctor put me on a steroid, which also didn’t help. I was clearly about to go crazy at this point since they were so bad, especially at night, and were everywhere. The hives covered my entire body and I even had them on my eyelids and on my lips, which made me have swollen fat lips. Jaron painted me with Calamine lotion and it helped relieve some of the itching but it was very uncomfortable to say the least. A lady in my ward recommended taking Allegra because she took it for hives during one of her pregnancies. So now about 6 weeks later, I still have hives but only at night or in the morning and they aren’t even a fraction of what they were a few weeks ago.

A little sample of my hives

During the middle of the month, we were able to go to a pumpkin patch in South Jordan with Stacy, Jaden and Kysa. The girls all had a lot of fun picking out their own pumpkins and riding on a little hayride around the farm. Afterward we all went to dinner at Chili’s and then got some frozen yogurt.

In September we went down to Vegas for a week so my mom could make Lexi's costume this year since she wanted to be a princess. She did such an amazing job and she really did look like a princess. Luckily Kaylee wore the flapper costume that my mom made a couple of years ago and we were excited Kaylee wore all of her costume including the headband since ususally she wont keep stuff on her head. A week and a half before Halloween we went to Stacy’s ward Trunk or Treat. The girls loved dressing up and going around to the cars and getting candy. Kaylee was a little unsure at first but eventually she was all about picking her own candy and wanted to eat every piece.

The week before Halloween I got really sick and threw up a couple of times. I guess because I am very pregnant the pressure went all to my head. I broke lots of blood vessels in my eyes so I had bloody eyes for about a week. A couple days after being sick, my parents, my brother Thomas and my nephew Austin came up for a visit. We had a lot of fun shopping, making turkeys treats, and carving pumpkins. My dad also helped Jaron with some projects around the house, which we were very grateful for. They all left Sunday morning before Halloween and Saturday night Austin got very sick and threw up all over our guest room. Luckily they made it home without any casualties. Sunday Kaylee threw up about 4 times but after the last time she started acting herself and eating and drinking. We kept her on the BRAT diet and watched her closely on Halloween to see if she would be alright. That night she was still fine and Stacy, Jaden and Kysa came over to go around our neighborhood to Trick or Treat. Luckily it wasn’t too cold so we went around for about two hours. Unfortunately in the middle of the night Alexis started crying saying she was hungry and Jaron went downstairs to check on her. She has been sleeping on the top bunk bed in her room since Austin came so Jaron reached up to get her down and Alexis threw up all over him. I knew something was wrong when I heard Jaron yell through the monitor and I came down to the bathroom to find Jaron’s head and chest completely covered in throw up. Luckily, to his dismay, he saved a lot of the floor from majority of the mess. Her bed pillows and some of the wall weren’t so lucky, but it was still a yucky mess. Needless to say we got very little sleep that night especially because I was doing laundry and cleaning for quite a while. Over the next few days, we all were sick throwing up again except Jaron. He avoided the flu but caught a terrible cold when we were finally all better. He is still recovering from that.

My dad's pumpkin of Mickey Mouse

Thomas's pumpkin of Spider Man

Stacy's pumpkin of Tinkerbell

My pumpkin of the Headless Horseman

The month of November started a little rough but I just hope the sickness is gone for a while with our new baby coming in only 5 weeks!

Baby #3 is a . . .

Girl! Yikes, three girls means lots of drama, but we are very excited! Luckily we have lots of stuff so it means it should be a lot cheaper, right!? Since I am 20 weeks now I am finally over morning sickness which lasted until 19 weeks with this baby. So basically I have been feeling really good for about week now, hence the lack of blogging!

I have missed some important events that I have been meaning to blog about so I will just touch on a few big ones.

In April my twin brothers returned home from their missions so I figured I should post a few pictures from the event. It took my girls a little while to warm up to them but now they both love them since we have seen them quite a few times since then.

In June Jaron and I celebrated our 5th year anniversary and my baby turned 1. I feel like such a slacker mom since the last post I did was about Alexis turning 3 with lots of pictures so I figured even though it is late I will post some pictures of my baby who is now running around and growing up super fast.

Kaylee started walking at 10 months so needless to say I have had a very hard pregnancy so far having to chase a very curious toddler. She is such a sweetheart though and is usually very easy going and calm compared to her dramatic older sister. Alexis has been pretty good to play with Kaylee now that she is able to do more, but she has struggled sharing "her" toys as well. Kaylee jabbers all day long and just recently started saying "uh oh", but other than "momma" and "dadda" she doesn't say a whole lot. She loves to be outside and go anywhere her daddy goes. Kaylee is so much fun and we love having such a sweet little girl!

For her 1st birthday we had a big party with lots of family and a few friends. We had a big dinner with lots of ice cream cake and it was great to have such a fun time. We were especially lucky since Jaron's parents and my mom were able to be up here for the party too.

After her birthday we were able to go camping with Stacy's family, my mom, Thomas and Tyler, and Tyler's girlfriend Beatrice for 4th of July weekend. We had a great time even though we were only able to stay one night and a day. That following week Stacy went to girls camp so my mom stayed at my house for a week to watch Kysa. When Stacy got back we took the girls to Hogle Zoo and had fun seeing all of the animals since it has been at least a year and a half since we were there. A week later I took the girls and went to Vegas for a week while Jaron went to Scout Camp. Since coming back I have gone to the pool with Jaron and my girls a couple of times and now I'm just enjoying the fact that I don't feel sick all the time! Now here is an overload of pictures from the last few months.