May & June!

Since finding out about my second pregnancy I have been sick sick sick! I do, however, feel like I have been able to manage it better this time around! I am now 17 weeks pregnant, due November 27th! And I am finally feeling good!!! I started feeling better around 15-16 weeks (YAY!) and it has been awesome!

In the beginning I was so exhausted. I'd fall asleep so fast when I sat down and although I am still incredibly tired all the time, it's doable.

I (tried to) control the nausea in the very beginning by eating a handful of almonds every night before bed. Now I can't stand to eat almonds, darn it!! But the small bit of protein definitely did help. As did protein/breakfast drinks, peanut butter, and lunch meat rolled up + pickles!

I have loved all sour things! The more sour the better!!! Lemons, limes, sour gummies, etc. I've also absolutely loved protein-- such as steak or hamburgers! ha!!

My beginning pregnancy weight was the exact same weight as right before I delivered Lila. UGH!! And I don't even have an almost 9 lb baby in my belly yet!! haha man!!! Drew insisted it is just the "muscle weight" I've gained since having Lila. (Thanks Drew ha!) We'll just say that I guess.

May flew by. Drew's buddy Dallas got married over Mother's Day weekend so we attended those festivities. It was a lot of fun but I was so tired by the end of the day! We spent Mother's Day in Cedar that Sunday. Drew got me some fun things to treat myself such as lotion, and face masks. It was sweet!

I went to Richfield for a week with Lila during the week of my mom's birthday. That was so fun!!! We had a blast celebrating her birthday! We had donuts for brunch, enjoyed dinner at South China, and spoiled her with some presents. It was a blast! The week was so good. I just can't get enough of Richfield or of my family! It was the best week! But Lila and I definitely missed Drew and it was nice to be back with him again over the weekend :)

June came faster than I realized. Before we knew it Drew and I were sitting at dinner celebrating our 4th year anniversary! Bill and Linda came down to tend Lila for us so we could go see a movie (Wonder Woman), and then we had dinner at Anasazi Steakhouse! We cooked our steak on the hot rock and enjoyed chocolate fondue for dessert and it was awesome! Delicious food and a great time spending some one on one time together. We reminisced over  the last 4 years and couldn't believe how fast time has flown by and that now we have a beautiful little girl and another one on the way!!

Girls camp was next. It was absolutely incredible! But getting there was definitely stressful. Monday and Tuesday before camp I had to go into the museum to cover for the Makers Gonna Make class. And although I had done that class for the past two years and was confident in my ability to teach and connect with the students, the curriculum was not my own this time and the teacher did not leave anything prepped for me! I didn't know where any materials were and the lesson plans were very vague. Luckily I pulled it together and the class turned out great. But man the stress was real! ha. I was glad to have that responsibility over because then I had to worry about packing not only for myself for girls camp, but also for Lila to stay at Gma Linda's for the week! Needless to say, it was all a LOT of work.

Wednesday morning came and I was very emotional. It was so hard to leave my little Lila!!! I knew I wouldn't have any service or any way of communication with her or Drew so I think that is what was the hardest for me. But I survived and they survived!!! Camp was absolutely beautiful. The weather was great and at this point I was 16 weeks pregnant and feeling good!! (YAY!) So that was a major blessing. It was also nice to unplug from the world for 4 days. No service, no phone, no distractions. The spirit was so strong and I literally loved every minute up there! I am so happy I went! Even though I got scared to death from a skunk that walked right behind me during testimony meeting and I was the only one to jump up and run away -- made for a good story-- I am glad it happened! The bishop ended up saying some closing remarks/bearing his testimony and he used the skunk experience as a way to relate it to temptation. How we should run away from temptation but if we get too close sometimes we get stinky. So it was funny experience and a memorable lesson! :) Going back home to Drew and Lila was priceless though. I cried and cried tears of joy and happiness! I missed them both so much!

Fathers Day was that next day (Sunday after coming back from camp). However we mainly celebrated it on Saturday with Drew's entire family. We ate yummy food all day long and enjoyed each others company. Later that evening we got snow cones with Drew's buddies and then came back to the house and had a spikeball tournament with everyone! It was soooo fun! And Drew and I ended up winning everybody ha! I got a kick out of that because for one, I'm PREGNANT and had to take it easy, and for two, all his buddies are super competitive!! Ha I guess we just make a good team ;) ha.. it was a blast though!

The next weekend was Gpa June's 93rd Birthday weekend. We were planning on going up but we had problems with our Saturn Vue :( It was CRAZY because I met up with my friend Suzanna for brunch on Thursday. On my drive home I noticed the gears didn't seem right. I felt like I was driving at the top of a gear that wouldn't shift. I was so nervous I drove slow the entire way home and called Drew. He told me to pull over and turn the car off and turn it back on again so I did just that. It seemed fine, but once I began accelarating again it did the same thing with the gears shifting. Also, when I'd go down hill it would bump me into a lower gear and it would slow me down a ton! Something definitely wasn't right. (Also side note-- we had just paid about $800 towards our little geo prizm car for new tires and a tune up so we were already stressing over that...) Well I made it home, Lila fell asleep on the way, and it was blazing hot outside. We're talking like 110. Bleh! I took her in and laid her down and Drew went out to see what was going on. The car wouldn't even budge! He put it into reverse and it wouldn't move! It was a miracle we got home that day. Such a blessing! Because now after getting the car to a transmission service place, we just found out that it is going to be an almost $5,000 fix :( So we are pretty upset. We chose not to go home for the weekend and we missed out on Gpa June's birthday and I was really sad about it, but it will be okay because we will see everyone next weekend for the 4th of July. Car problems just stink. Period. And we swear that whenever our prizm has a problem the Vue does too!? It's ridiculous. But that is our latest news and now we are going to see if we can find anything a little cheaper than $5,000 to fix it. Then we're going to sell it. Wish us luck!

*Kambry had emergency surgery just a few days before girls camp and that was also nerve racking for me because I couldn't hear how she was recovering. Turns out she did just fine and has recovered well! She had appendicitis! Glad that is over with :)

Love,

Kate