Our Busy, Crazy (Scary) Weekend

On Thursday, Justin reffed a couple basketball games in the afternoon, which I watched, and we had "Grad Night" on campus. When we got home from that, we went to bed (around 9:30) so we could get up at 11:00 to go see Twilight at midnight. By the time we got home from that and went to sleep, it was 3 in the morning. I got up at 5 to go to work... Needless to say, I was very tired on Friday.

I worked all day and was having a ton of Braxton Hicks. I started counting and timing around 3:00 and they were every five minutes like clockwork for a couple hours. Because I work in NICU/Postpartum, I have the luxury of having my OB doc close at hand. He told me to take 2 Advil, go home, drink tons of water and rest. If they weren't gone or at least slowing down significantly in a couple more hours, I was supposed to come back. Well, I followed "orders" and after three hours they were still about every 6 or 7 minutes, so I took myself back to the hospital (Justin was an hour out of town reffing basketball games). They hooked me up to monitors and had me do a urinalysis. Aparently, I was ridiculously dehydrated so they started an IV and ran in a bag of fluid. 10 or 15 minutes after the IV started, the contractions were all but gone. Justin got to the hospital for about the last 10 minutes before they sent me home. All is well now, (Carrie is moving and growing like crazy) and I've been drinking a lot more water this weekend.


On Saturday morning, I drove to Orem for my baby shower there. I had a lot of friends from high school come and some of the local relatives. I (we) got a lot of great stuff and it was so exciting to pack 2 more boxes yesterday and write "Carrie" on them. Thanks Marissa (and friends) for putting it together!

One Month and Counting...

That's right, one month from today we will be on our way to Arizona!! Yeah!! Graduation is 4 weeks from tomorrow and we are getting really excited! I've started deep cleaning the apartment - like scrubbing (literally) the bathroom floor. It took me two days to do cuz I make sure I take plenty of breaks. It hurts my legs to sit on the floor for so long!

Today I had my first day as a substitute teacher. I majorly lucked out because the teacher I subbed for has a student teacher who does everything. So I got paid to sit in the back of the classroom and "supervise". I did walk around and help kids with their worksheets, so I earned my meager pay for the day. :)

Justin has had a mini-phone interview with sales people from the Arizona Diamondbacks, so we're really hoping a bigger more formal interview (and eventually a job) will come. Everybody pray. The guy he talked to today complimented Justin on his ability to use several contacts to get his resume into the right hands and his name known a little bit in their department, so that's huge. Hopefully they are impressed enough to hire him :)

Growing Girl(s)

Don't worry, there is only one baby, but I went to type "growing girl" in the title and realized, duh, we're both growing, hence the plural. Anyways...

We had a doctor's appointment today and she is still measuring a week ahead. By dates I'm 28 weeks, but she measured 29 today. As far as the doctor could tell by squishing my belly around, she is straight up and down, head down. Whew! That makes for a very happy mommy. (Except for when it comes to kicking my ribs) That is her new favorite activity by the way - when I slouch a little in my chair she gives me a nice jab in the ribs, her polite way of saying "Excuse me mom, but you're squishing me, could you sit up a little straighter?" I guess I'll try. :)

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

In case you couldn't tell, we were the Phantom and Christine!



As you can see, the Phantom is
impressively handsome and seductive. He was definitely the best dressed in the ward halloween party last week and at a party we went to tonight. Insanely charming, no doubt...



I'll bet you didn't know the rest of the story though. Christine realized she didn't really want to be with Raoul and left him to run back to the Phantom. He was just plain too irresistable. They led a secret life together and ended up having a baby... Scandal... :)

A few other things happening with us lately, our ward was split last week and we are in the new ward (for our last 6 weeks here), so we're on to our third Bishop in a year. Justin's home teaching companion got called as the 1st counselor so he'll definitely be getting it done now. (He did before anyways) Technically neither one of us has callings anymore because they were in the old ward. I'm still going to guess that I'll be playing the organ until we move.



Also, yesterday was my birthday! I'm completely legal now. I got my new sideways drivers license and we went to Applebees (thanks to my parents). That's about all, but it was great anyways! For my birthday, Justin got me a very funny present. It's a baby bib. I'm sure Carrie will love it. I know I do :)


She is wiggling and growing like crazy--straight up! My belly pretty much looks the same size as it has the last few weeks, but I feel like she's trying to expand my ribcage. She doesn't really kick my ribs, I think she's just starting to be tucked up underneath them... and there's not really room. We've decided that she is definitely part of our family and doesn't like the cold, so instead of sticking out, she's trying to tuck up inside of me as much as possible. :) Silly girl.

A quick note

I just noticed something. The little spinning baby on the right side of our page that shows how far along I am, (today) looks like she's plugging her nose and cannonballing into a pool or something. I thought it was funny :) I'll post with more pics tomorrow!

Getting closer...

Justin is now officially done with his internship, his last day was yesterday. He only has 7 weeks left of school and then we're off to Arizona! We decided since we don 't have a job yet, we'd just pick a place to go and Arizona it is. :) Yeah for warmer weather! Justin has had some luck finding contacts in Arizona who know "everyone" so we're hopeful that he'll be able to pin down a job soon.

I (Rebecca) just got hired as a substitute teacher for the school district in Rexburg to try to fill in some empty spots since I'm not working very much at the hospital. I only get called in when they're really full and need extra nurses. I did get a 42 cent raise this week so that will help out. Hopefully with sub teaching and Justin starting to Ref basketball this week we'll be pulling in some more money.

We've started packing up some things around the house and turned our second bedroom into the packing room. I sometimes get anxious and just want to pack everything. I have to remind myself that we still have a month and a half left. :)

We had a ward halloween party tonight and went as the Phantom and Christine. We'll take a picture actually on halloween and post it then. I competed in the women's pie-eating contest (after much coaxing from Justin) and almost made myself sick. Nobody really won, we all gave up before we finished, but we called the girl that was closest the winner. I was only a couple people behind. We didn't have a camera with us, but I know some people in the ward got a few pictures so I'll try to get them and post them later.

Hyper Baby Girl and Freeeezing Weather!

We (Rebecca and Carrie) had a doctor's appointment a couple days ago at exactly 24 weeks. She measured a week ahead however, so maybe, possibly, (probably not) that means I won't go over my due date. We've still got 16 weeks to go, a lot can change.

Out of random curiosity yesterday I kept a tally of each time I felt her move. By dinnertime I had felt her over 50 times! I never realized it was that much! Crazy! Anyways, she's getting a little better at letting Justin feel her move so that makes us happy. : )

Today is Justin's last baseball game of the season and at the moment we're not sure he'll be playing. It's supposed to start in a couple hours, but since about noon, it's been snowing on and off here. Woop-de-doo... We're freezing! Wherever we move in a couple months better be warm! This picture is of Justin dressed for his baseball game just in case they decide to play.