Wow, it has been so long!!!

Well, let me start out by saying we have had our baby! Allie Makel Palmer :D

Anyway, I have been updating, not that well, but our computer would not let me post them. I think it was because of explorer. So now I am on Fire fox. We will give this a try!

We are moving from Logan!!!!! HAPPY DAY!!!! We are moving this Saturday (the 17th). We are moving into Nick's grandparents home. We are so excited about this! This will let us save up some money.

As for school, Nick is changing his major and going to University of Utah. And I am starting school in a couple of weeks. I will be doing online school. I will be dual majoring in Special Education and Early Childhood Education.

Allie is doing fantastic! She is already crawling. She turned 6 months on the 8th of this month. She loves to eat any kind of fruit, sweet potatoes, and sweet peas, and her favorite APPLE SAUCE. She loves to eat bananas but we found out she is allergic, so we are not letting her.

I will try to be better at posting. I just want this to work!

See you all next week right here!

Time for an update!

Wow! I know that it has been a while, so while Allie is sleeping I will try to update!

Allie was born June 8, 2011. I went into the doctors office for my 36 week appointment with Nick. The doctor looked at my blood pressure and said I needed to have my baby that day. WOW! We were shocked. But I was so ready to have her! The baby was breach so I had a cesarian delivery! SO EASY!

I loved seeing Nick holding our little girl! It is very special. When it happens to you, you will understand what is going on.

Lets see... Allie is now 11 weeks old! WOW! Time just flies bye when you are sleep deprived. Allie is starting to get on a schedule, but right when she is getting a hold of it we have some family outing that throws off the schedule. But we will keep trying. I am breast feeding Allie but not exclusivly. When we are in public or have guests over we will bottle feed her especially since our niece loves to feed her, hold her, play with her, etc.

Right now, I am in Colorado with my family on our family vacation. It is so fun but not where I want to be. Why is this? I have my family here who loves me and loves my baby! They love holding her and having adult conversations during the day is great! But there is one HUGE problem. My husband is not here with me! I have no idea how I can do this for a week! I said goodbye to him on Saturday and I am missing him so much. I want to cuddle with him and I want him to be with his baby.

Allie is now socially smiling! And that is so much fun! If you smile at her she will smile at you. it is great. She is way alert and loves to be awake. Especially at night. :(

I think that is all we have got. Oh Nick and I got to celebrate our anniversary! It was so incredible! We started celebrating on Saturday night. We went to the TIM MCGRAW concert! Yes!!!! It was so great! I loved listening to the music and just being with my husband. Then, on Sunday our actual day we got to bless our baby. This was such a great experience.

Okay, now my goals:

1- make some kind of recipe 2 times a week

2- Update my blog, twitter, tout, and vlog every Thursday.

Welp, I hope this all works! If you do not know that I have a twitter, tout and vlog now you do! Look me up and be apart of my life!!!!a

Life as of April 19, 2011

Well, all of us our doing great! Nick and I have started planning for Allie's room! We cannot wait! We unfortunately have to wait for a few more weeks. Nick has a bunch of office stuff (it ended up being a junk room) in Allie's room. Once school is over (first week of May) We will be getting everything organised. I am starting to go into Nesting which is not good... I have ten weeks left, I was hoping this would not happen yet. To those who do not know what nesting is, once you have a baby you will see what I mean. But it is basically when you try to make your home and surroundings baby safe and nice and clean.

Changes in me:

The biggest change that has happened is my tummy of course. I have started getting a whole lot bigger. It is fun because now strangers are asking when I am due, so that means I am looking pregnant. :D Another change that is not fun is my feet. I have swollen up so much! My brother says that it looks like I have elephant-titus. or how ever you spell that. Another thing that is not too fun is Heart burn. The tums that I have do not even help all that much. the heart burn is just getting worse. This makes it hard to sleep. My doctor has given me sleeping medicine because it takes about four hours each night to fall asleep. Now, for the positive. Allie kicks so much stronger than usual. I love it! She will wake me up by kicking. I kinda play games with her pushing he buttons. Allie hates having anything pressed on my tummy. So what I will do is press my tummy a little and she will kick my hand like crazy! I love her so much! It is fun to have that time with her.

Changes in our living:

We are trying to put pictures up on our walls so they are less bare. It is kinda tricky not being able to put holes in the walls. But we will get it eventually. We also have a guest that is staying with us for about a month or so. She is really nice, it is just a little crowded, but she does good at keeping her stuff well organised. Which is all we really ask for. Nick is being a champ having another girl in our home.

I think that is all of the update I have for today!!!! :D Have a great day!

Our little scare

So every pregnancy has its ups and its downs. When you are pregnant it is not all just bells and whistles. You are treated like a queen for the most part. However, you have to go to the doctors office to be looked at and such. There is a test called the glucose test. This so far has been the worst thing about being pregnant, even worse than being so sick and losing 25 pounds. The glucose test I had never heard of until I became pregnant. So, let me enlighten you in what it is, just in case you don't know. This is a test where you cannot eat anything an hour before your appointment and you also have to drink a sugar drink. Not a bad idea eh? I mean every one loves sugar and would love drinking it... DO NOT BE FOOLED! I am pretty sure that this drink was the worst think I had ever tasted. We are only allowed five min to drink this drink. I finished it in about 30 seconds because I was not going to stop till it was done because I did not want to stop and think about the taste. Immediately after drinking this, I started shaking pretty bad and I did not feel good. When I got to the doctors office the nurses were a little nervous for me because I was shaking so bad. They made sure some one was around me at all times. They have to take your blood to test to see if you have gestational diabetes (the whole point of the test). After that, they took me into a room and tried to listen to Allie's heart beat. She was going just as crazy as I was it turned out. She could not stop moving so it was hard for the doctor to find her heart beat long enough. We eventually found it and it was 153 which is very healthy! The next day I get a call saying that I did not pass the glucose test and that I most likely have gestational diabetes. This made me cry the whole day. There could be so many things wrong with Allie or I because of this. She could end up with diabetes or even being a still born. I was terrified for her. Nick gave me a blessing that night, and from then on I knew everything would be okay. We had asked his family and mine to do a family fast, so that Allie and I would be okay. Tuesday morning I went in for yet another test. This time it would be a three hour test where you had to drink double the amount of glucose and you have to get your blood drawn four times. I was so scared. This time when I drank it, I took a little longer, I thought that maybe me drinking it so fast was a bad thing. After I drank the drink I felt fine. During the whole test I was fine. I was not shaky or anything! After the test was a different story. Nick came after his class and met me for lunch. I was not allowed to eat till 1:30. While we were waiting for our lunch to come I started feeling super hot and way dizzy. I had to sit down and try to make my world stop spinning. I was so dizzy and everything kept flashing black. This happened for the rest of the day. I tried to go to work, but I was just so scared that I could not talk or anything. I have never blacked out and it was happening so often. My boss sent me home and I went and fell asleep so fast. When I woke up I was fine. A few days later, the doctor called and told me that I had passed the test and that Allie and I are both fine. I am so grateful for family and the willingness they had to fast and pray for my little girl and I!

Spring Break!

For the longest time Nick wanted to go back and visit his mission. He served in the San Jose, California Spanish Speaking mission. Anyway, we decided that no matter what, we would go to San Jose for Spring break. We started saving money for this trip in December. Unfortunately, we had a lot of bills coming, so our money went to the bills. I was starting to get nervous about the trip due to the fact we did not have money, but we had already made the arrangements to go.
We had a miracle/ blessing when we did our taxes and found out that we would be getting more than enough money back and just in time for Spring Break! We were so happy! We were able to get a bunch of treats for the car ride down and back so we would not have to stop at a restaurant.
I decided that traveling while pregnant is miserable. I figured this out when we went to Hawaii with my family during Christmas. Nick had a blast on the trip, but I was in my first trimester, which meant I was sick the WHOLE time. I said that I would never travel while pregnant. And now we were looking at a 14 hour drive. I was not excited for that!
We ended up leaving Saturday around four pm and we had to make a stop in Woods Cross, his parents house. We were in and out and by five thirty we were on the road again. I was so tired already!!! By seven I made us pull over because I had to pee.... We decided to have our "dinner" there at the rest stop. We made a loaf of bread into sandwiches. They tasted so good, but maybe we were just very hungry!!!!
The roads were awesome the whole way to California! However, once we got into California we hit a Snow Blizzard. NOT FUN! We were forced to pay $80.00 to get chains installed and bought. We were pushed back about two hours because we had to go so slow and had to wait for them to install them and such.
When we finally got to Fremont (the place where our hotel was) it was 8:45 in the morning. We just wanted to check in and go to bed! We were both exhausted! We got into the hotel just to find out that the front desk person ( who was NOT nice) would not let us check in till 11:00. This was bad because we had to still get ready for church. We ended up driving around... even more, we looked at places where Nick went. We then got to a parking lot and had to get ready there in our car. We had Wet Ones and we gave ourselves a sponge bath to feel a little cleaner.
We went to the church and since it was Spanish and I don't speak Spanish I stayed awake for just one of the lessons. I am pretty sure there was some snoring going on during Relief Society. I know real cute right?
Anyway, I know that I am writing way too much, so I will break the rest of the week down fast. But just so you know, this was my favorite trip because we did not have to worry about money, and it was just Nick and I. I felt like we were on our honey moon again! I loved this trip!

Monday: We went to the mission home and talked to some of the missionaries there. We also went to his mission presidents house and talked with the president and his wife. We then went to dinner with a person from the branch there. It was so yummy!

Tuesday: We went to Pizza my Heart. It was an amazing! Then we went to the board walk ( we were in Santa Cruz) We payed mini golf and it was so much fun! We then went to the pier and walked it! It was amazingly long! there were i think 50 stores on the pier. I was craving an ice cream Sunday and we got one!!! Oh it was SO yummy! Then on the other side of the pier there were probably 70 sea lions, or seals... I am not sure! But they were so much fun to watch! We then drove for a little bit and got to go to dinner with people that Nick taught. They took us out to a Jap. Grill. It was so cool because they made the food in front of you! I never thought that I would go to a place like that. :D

Wednesday: This was our last day to visit people so we made our rounds, and it seemed like we went every where for this. But in the morning we were able to go to the temple and it was so great! We were not in there very long because I was getting so many hot flashes I felt like I was about to pass out, so we left and walked around the temple instead.

Thursday was our trip back home :D

Little Allie

Allie has a great spine! That is what this picture is supposed to show, I think she just looks so cute all curled up and sleeping! I cannot believe how incredible being pregnant is. Just knowing that my husband and I created such a beautiful thing!

This picture makes me kinda sad, but at the same time happy. She looks like a holocaust survivor. You can see every bone and I am not sure that I like that, I know that she will get more fat eventually. So I will just keep my head up :D

She has the cutest face! She has Nick's upper lip right now. That is one of my favorite physical features of him! She is already smiling, even though she is asleep. I think she was kinda snickering at us because she was not cooperating at first!





On Thursday Feb, 10 we had our ultra-sound appointment to find out what we were having. Nick and I, along with lots of family and friends, were so excited to find out! For a few weeks before this date, I had so many dreams that our baby was a girl. I wanted a baby girl so bad, that I thought my dreams were just wishes.



Nick and I were talking about what would happen if our baby was a boy. I knew deep down that I would be happy no matter what, but it was DEEP down. I was heart broken just thinking that we were having a boy. My heart has been set on having a little girl for such a long time. I just wanted my little girl.



Anyway, that day seemed to be the longest day of my life! My wedding day went faster than this day! We got up and I had a chiropractor appointment that morning. I did my hair so cute and I got in a cute outfit, just because I knew I would be seeing my child today! My appointment was at 10:30 am for my back. My Ultrasound appointment was at 1:00 pm! Talk about killing me slowly! That whole day I felt so many kicks and wiggles! Our little one was hiccuping the whole day as well, or so it felt.



When we finally got to the hospital, our baby fell asleep! I was shocked! I mean, there were kicks and wiggles and hiccups the whole day. During the ultrasound, our baby was in a tight ball. At first I was afraid that we would not be able to find out the gender. However, after a lot of hitting my belly and talking to her, Allie cooperated. We were able to tell that she was a girl! We got one picture of her face that was super cute and then a couple of her whole body! Ah! I am already in love with her! I cannot wait till she is here.



We also found out that we were a week further than we thought. Allie is due to be here June 27. This is a good thing for us because originally she was due on a Sunday. This meant that we would not even have our doctor there. Now, she is due on a Monday. So he will be there :D

Start of the baby bump!

Well, I am now at fifteen weeks and I am loving being pregnant. I still can't feel our little baby, but I am starting to get the baby bump! I am hoping that the baby will start being able to kick and I will feel our little one. :D I am starting to feel like a whale and I know that it will only get bigger and bigger! So here we go!

New Place to live? I think so!

We decided that we were paying too much for what we were getting in rent. We are not too pleased with our housing, so we were on the search! We found an ad on KSL and We are pretty excited about it. The apartment is smaller (one room) but it has more storage space and counters! It has a room for storage, it is a bit smaller but it is a perfect baby room! We are super excited about that, and the fact that it is yellow! We will be moving in January 14 and could not be more excited!