I have an online journal so I thought I'd share some of the craziness that went on this past week... I don't have pics to post yet but I wanted this week to be part of our blog-life history....for those of you that want to read it all.. enjoy :)
Dear Journal,
Where do I even start?! I've had the most amazing and the worst experiences over the past week and a half! How can I go from so happy to so miserable you ask?! Well it's a little thing called pregnancy. haha. So.. last week was amazing! On Thursday Danny and I took a flight and went to the Bahamas for a much needed get away. We had a great time! There were some minor annoyances, like spring breakers and our room not being ready until 6pm! But all in all we got to snorkel some awesome reefs everyday. Here's how it went:
Thursday 3/17: Danny's sweet friend Andrew drove us to the airport at 7am, found out that Danny's name said R Dan Wilcoxson instead of Robert Daniel on his airplane ticket and since it didn't match his passport it took about 30 min for them to change it in the system meanwhile I was getting more and more nervous that we were going to miss our flight as we hadn't even gotten through security yet! Luckily we were at Regan airport, which is awesome, so we made it. After a quick 2 hr flight to Miami, me prepared with zofran and preggie pops and a whole BAG of food + barf bag just in case, we then boarded a small prop plane that held like 50 people and headed off to Grand Bahama! They totally robbed us with a Taxi price of $25.. insane! haha oh well. We had a great time lounging around on the beach and eating to our hearts content. It was just so nice to un-wind. I'm grateful for a calm sweet husband. He really helped cool me down when after waiting for 2 hrs they still didn't have our room ready I was about to burst.. but luckily I married the right person that is the calm to my storm :)
Friday 3/18: We decided to take it easy and explore the beach on the resort. We ended up taking a walk half a mile down the beach and found a sweet coal reef! It was awesome snorkeling, I even spotted one of the largest star fishes I have ever seen. Also it was perfect because the water was only chest deep! So when I was feeling sick I could just stand up and take a breather. Seriously perfect pregnant girl snorkeling haha .. later that night we had dinner and relaxed by finishing the night at the lounge watching the BYU game and having some icey drinks :)
Saturday 3/19: Our day to explore! We rented a car around 11am and were off! We went to the "national park" and were charged a huge $5 to explore some underground caves. They were pretty cool to see. They had deep water in all of them with some interesting fish. Kinda sketchy on how they built the boardwalks down in the cave but we had fun exploring on our own and taking a walk through the scenic trail. Then we went to the other side of the national park which was the beach side!! Danny said it was the best national park he had ever been too since we got to go play at a beach and it was actually fun :) haha.. I guess all the pine tree parks in the US just don't cut it for him. Anyway it was the most BEAUTIFUL beach I've ever seen in my whole life. I could have stayed there for days! The beach was so wide and had current ripples it was amazing. Of course we brought the snorkel gear and headed out. I had a minor panic attack for some reason so my snorkeling was short lived but we did get to see some interesting fish. Then we decided to take a walk down the beach and Danny found a cool sand bar that he was literally able to walk a quarter of a mile out to sea and was only knee deep!! I can't believe how awesome the Bahama beaches are. Seriously I was amazed. Then on our walk back we saw some white crabs that once Danny tried to grab he put his pinchers up and then ran off.. haha. Then I looked over to see a star shape in the sand and found a dying star fish. I tried to revive him but upon seeing that it wasn't going to work we decided he was mine to bring home. So we cooked him on our balcony from our hotel room and now he's in our house :) Sorry Mr StarFish.. but you're pretty cool!! After some fun in the sun we drove into "town" to see the port market. It was very tiny to say the least and didn't really offer much as far as souvenirs more than any Mexican hut so I settled on some postcards for the family and a frame that says "Bahamas" for us. Then we headed back to the resort happy to see that the last of the Spring Breaker crews were headed home! Yippiee!! We enjoyed a nice dinner and spent some time relaxing the night away on the beach.
Sunday 3/20: Since we had the rental car until 11am we decided to take advantage and go on a "Sunday drive" so we drove as far west as time permitted and got to really see Bahaman life. Their homes are much like the cement ones you would see in Mexico or Panama. It was nice to see everyone dressed in their sunday best going to church. Danny even found a back road that drove us right out onto the beach!! We found our new vacation home spot! haha.. maybe someday. It was a fun drive and we were worried we were going to be charged for bringing the car back late because getting gas took forever and the gave Danny Bahama money for change. Haha. Luckily the Hotel exchanged it for us later. So we came back and decided to explore a little more and went snorkeling off of the coral reef right in front of our resort's beach. Since there weren't a ton of people it was a little more accessible. While we were snorkeling the craziest thing happened!! So I was about to start snorkeling when I looked down to see all these yellow and black striped fish around us.. odd.. So when I looked in the water we were in a cloud of a ton of them!! They had surrounded us and weren't afraid to get super close... it really freaked me out but Danny of course thought it was pretty cool! Well this little cloud of fish followed us around the entire reef! I think they were looking for food as one nibbled on Danny’s finger when he stuck it out.. crazy friendly fish really freaked me out! Haha. Anyway we saw a few other reef areas and even got to see a cute little puffer fish! It was really fun to just spend the rest of the day relaxing on the beach. We even stayed out late that night and watched the tide come in and the moon was brilliant and amazing. I love my husband and am so glad that we’ve been married for 4 great years! We’ve had our trials but have really grown closer despite difficulty at times.
Monday 3/21: Going home… we ate a quick breakfast then I went back to the hotel and puked my guts out! I guess the baby was done with behaving for the vacation. Then Danny was a stud and helped pack us both up as I slowly got some things together. We hung out at the beach for one last hour, took a cab to the airport and headed home. It was a VERY bumpy ride on the airplane and I was eating preggie pops and any cracker I could just to keep my mind off of throwing up. Luckily I made it through the traveling just fine and Sarah was a sweetheart and picked us up at the airport. It was a wonderful trip!
TUESDAY 3/22: Today I went back to work… blah… after days in the sun who wants to work!? Anyway it was a short day because I took off at 1:30 and Danny & I headed over to our first official OB appointment. Dr Shaw was amazingly sweet and very informative. I’m really going to like this clinic. She was careful to go through every little question and detail with us and I really appreciated it. Then she said since I was so far along if we could wait then she would do an ultrasound! So we waited about 30 min and got to do an ultrasound.
Thursday 3/17: Danny's sweet friend Andrew drove us to the airport at 7am, found out that Danny's name said R Dan Wilcoxson instead of Robert Daniel on his airplane ticket and since it didn't match his passport it took about 30 min for them to change it in the system meanwhile I was getting more and more nervous that we were going to miss our flight as we hadn't even gotten through security yet! Luckily we were at Regan airport, which is awesome, so we made it. After a quick 2 hr flight to Miami, me prepared with zofran and preggie pops and a whole BAG of food + barf bag just in case, we then boarded a small prop plane that held like 50 people and headed off to Grand Bahama! They totally robbed us with a Taxi price of $25.. insane! haha oh well. We had a great time lounging around on the beach and eating to our hearts content. It was just so nice to un-wind. I'm grateful for a calm sweet husband. He really helped cool me down when after waiting for 2 hrs they still didn't have our room ready I was about to burst.. but luckily I married the right person that is the calm to my storm :)
Friday 3/18: We decided to take it easy and explore the beach on the resort. We ended up taking a walk half a mile down the beach and found a sweet coal reef! It was awesome snorkeling, I even spotted one of the largest star fishes I have ever seen. Also it was perfect because the water was only chest deep! So when I was feeling sick I could just stand up and take a breather. Seriously perfect pregnant girl snorkeling haha .. later that night we had dinner and relaxed by finishing the night at the lounge watching the BYU game and having some icey drinks :)
Saturday 3/19: Our day to explore! We rented a car around 11am and were off! We went to the "national park" and were charged a huge $5 to explore some underground caves. They were pretty cool to see. They had deep water in all of them with some interesting fish. Kinda sketchy on how they built the boardwalks down in the cave but we had fun exploring on our own and taking a walk through the scenic trail. Then we went to the other side of the national park which was the beach side!! Danny said it was the best national park he had ever been too since we got to go play at a beach and it was actually fun :) haha.. I guess all the pine tree parks in the US just don't cut it for him. Anyway it was the most BEAUTIFUL beach I've ever seen in my whole life. I could have stayed there for days! The beach was so wide and had current ripples it was amazing. Of course we brought the snorkel gear and headed out. I had a minor panic attack for some reason so my snorkeling was short lived but we did get to see some interesting fish. Then we decided to take a walk down the beach and Danny found a cool sand bar that he was literally able to walk a quarter of a mile out to sea and was only knee deep!! I can't believe how awesome the Bahama beaches are. Seriously I was amazed. Then on our walk back we saw some white crabs that once Danny tried to grab he put his pinchers up and then ran off.. haha. Then I looked over to see a star shape in the sand and found a dying star fish. I tried to revive him but upon seeing that it wasn't going to work we decided he was mine to bring home. So we cooked him on our balcony from our hotel room and now he's in our house :) Sorry Mr StarFish.. but you're pretty cool!! After some fun in the sun we drove into "town" to see the port market. It was very tiny to say the least and didn't really offer much as far as souvenirs more than any Mexican hut so I settled on some postcards for the family and a frame that says "Bahamas" for us. Then we headed back to the resort happy to see that the last of the Spring Breaker crews were headed home! Yippiee!! We enjoyed a nice dinner and spent some time relaxing the night away on the beach.
Sunday 3/20: Since we had the rental car until 11am we decided to take advantage and go on a "Sunday drive" so we drove as far west as time permitted and got to really see Bahaman life. Their homes are much like the cement ones you would see in Mexico or Panama. It was nice to see everyone dressed in their sunday best going to church. Danny even found a back road that drove us right out onto the beach!! We found our new vacation home spot! haha.. maybe someday. It was a fun drive and we were worried we were going to be charged for bringing the car back late because getting gas took forever and the gave Danny Bahama money for change. Haha. Luckily the Hotel exchanged it for us later. So we came back and decided to explore a little more and went snorkeling off of the coral reef right in front of our resort's beach. Since there weren't a ton of people it was a little more accessible. While we were snorkeling the craziest thing happened!! So I was about to start snorkeling when I looked down to see all these yellow and black striped fish around us.. odd.. So when I looked in the water we were in a cloud of a ton of them!! They had surrounded us and weren't afraid to get super close... it really freaked me out but Danny of course thought it was pretty cool! Well this little cloud of fish followed us around the entire reef! I think they were looking for food as one nibbled on Danny’s finger when he stuck it out.. crazy friendly fish really freaked me out! Haha. Anyway we saw a few other reef areas and even got to see a cute little puffer fish! It was really fun to just spend the rest of the day relaxing on the beach. We even stayed out late that night and watched the tide come in and the moon was brilliant and amazing. I love my husband and am so glad that we’ve been married for 4 great years! We’ve had our trials but have really grown closer despite difficulty at times.
Monday 3/21: Going home… we ate a quick breakfast then I went back to the hotel and puked my guts out! I guess the baby was done with behaving for the vacation. Then Danny was a stud and helped pack us both up as I slowly got some things together. We hung out at the beach for one last hour, took a cab to the airport and headed home. It was a VERY bumpy ride on the airplane and I was eating preggie pops and any cracker I could just to keep my mind off of throwing up. Luckily I made it through the traveling just fine and Sarah was a sweetheart and picked us up at the airport. It was a wonderful trip!
TUESDAY 3/22: Today I went back to work… blah… after days in the sun who wants to work!? Anyway it was a short day because I took off at 1:30 and Danny & I headed over to our first official OB appointment. Dr Shaw was amazingly sweet and very informative. I’m really going to like this clinic. She was careful to go through every little question and detail with us and I really appreciated it. Then she said since I was so far along if we could wait then she would do an ultrasound! So we waited about 30 min and got to do an ultrasound.
This was the most amazing experience of my life!
I’ve already had 3 ultrasounds done but because it was just a dot and I couldn’t see much this time was so different. There our baby was… little arms, legs, a steady quick heartbeat and we even saw tiny fingers!! Since we were her last appointment for the day Dr Shaw said let’s just watch the baby for a little bit so she found a good spot and held extra still and we got to see this tiny little person jumping around & moving it’s arms all over the place. AMAZING! She let us sit and watch it for a good 10 min in one spot.. then she took some measurements, got some pics of the hands & feet, it was incredible! I feel like words can’t describe the moment. Danny and I were beaming and I of course couldn’t stop the tears of excitement, joy, and happiness I felt in that moment. It’s been 3 LONG years.. many trials, two miscarriages, and a lot of sadness for this most amazing opportunity to be parents. It almost feels surreal…like we can’t possibly be getting the exact blessing we’ve been praying for years to come. But our little one is growing strong, making me sick, and has taken over and I can’t wait to meet the little guy or girl that will be a new part of our home + family. That appointment will not be a day I will ever forget!
We ended the fun with dinner out at a little YUMMY Mexican restaurant and headed home.
Wednesday 3/23: Research Day! Danny presented the poster he had made from his past summer research project. I went to be the proud wife and took some pics J I think he did a stellar job on his poster and he just looked so hot! The rest of the day was pretty normal.. I was able to get the majority of the cupcakes baked so hopefully I can make progress little by little.
Thursday 3/24: Worst Sick Day EVER!! Today wins as the most brutal day in my entire pregnancy.. I began the morning with throwing up while I was blow drying my hair, then I went to work and about an hour later threw up again which was horrible as I am a very violent puker.. it is super loud and I’m sure echoed through the halls.. gross!! Luckily no one came into the bathroom. Anyway then I came back to my desk stared at the wall for a while, tried to pull myself together and ate a few pieces of cheese.. well that didn’t work, back to the bathroom I went puking again!! Then later that day Danny & I went to lunch, he was sweet enough to let me sit at a table while he grabbed me a salad and some baked chips. I managed to keep the little bit of salad I could stomach down and got some work done. Then we came home and Danny had to study for a big test coming up and so I decided to take a little nap on the couch next to him well 15 min into my nap I was rudely woken up by the WORST cramp in my calf. It immediately brought me to tears and took a good few min to get it to stop thanks to Danny’s help. HORRIBLE!! Well then that made me sick and I quickly limped to the bathroom to throw up anything I had left in my stomach… seriously!? Don’t I get a break!? Then I was crazy hungry and had to eat anything quick so I managed to eat some multigrain chips (my current staple right now) and about an hour later threw those up too.. geeze baby don’t you want anything to eat?! Needless to say I gladly went to bed early so I could get that day over with. Kinda funny that during all that I kept thinking of the bouncing baby in the ultrasound and just praying that even with all this that my baby would be healthy.
Friday 3/25 .... Friday!! FINALLY!! Wahoo!! What a crazy chain of events over a week! Bahamas, Ultrasound, Sick & now it’s cake time! Tonight I worked on making all the little gumpaste flowers for Catherine’s cake. I think they turned out super adorable!! It was good to have something to do while Danny studied J
Wednesday 3/23: Research Day! Danny presented the poster he had made from his past summer research project. I went to be the proud wife and took some pics J I think he did a stellar job on his poster and he just looked so hot! The rest of the day was pretty normal.. I was able to get the majority of the cupcakes baked so hopefully I can make progress little by little.
Thursday 3/24: Worst Sick Day EVER!! Today wins as the most brutal day in my entire pregnancy.. I began the morning with throwing up while I was blow drying my hair, then I went to work and about an hour later threw up again which was horrible as I am a very violent puker.. it is super loud and I’m sure echoed through the halls.. gross!! Luckily no one came into the bathroom. Anyway then I came back to my desk stared at the wall for a while, tried to pull myself together and ate a few pieces of cheese.. well that didn’t work, back to the bathroom I went puking again!! Then later that day Danny & I went to lunch, he was sweet enough to let me sit at a table while he grabbed me a salad and some baked chips. I managed to keep the little bit of salad I could stomach down and got some work done. Then we came home and Danny had to study for a big test coming up and so I decided to take a little nap on the couch next to him well 15 min into my nap I was rudely woken up by the WORST cramp in my calf. It immediately brought me to tears and took a good few min to get it to stop thanks to Danny’s help. HORRIBLE!! Well then that made me sick and I quickly limped to the bathroom to throw up anything I had left in my stomach… seriously!? Don’t I get a break!? Then I was crazy hungry and had to eat anything quick so I managed to eat some multigrain chips (my current staple right now) and about an hour later threw those up too.. geeze baby don’t you want anything to eat?! Needless to say I gladly went to bed early so I could get that day over with. Kinda funny that during all that I kept thinking of the bouncing baby in the ultrasound and just praying that even with all this that my baby would be healthy.
Friday 3/25 .... Friday!! FINALLY!! Wahoo!! What a crazy chain of events over a week! Bahamas, Ultrasound, Sick & now it’s cake time! Tonight I worked on making all the little gumpaste flowers for Catherine’s cake. I think they turned out super adorable!! It was good to have something to do while Danny studied J
Saturday 3/26… Crunch time.. since I had been so sick over the entire week this was my day to get everything done.. I was up at 7:30am and off baking cakes, making mousse filling, frosting cakes, running to the store for more supplies, making more frosting and by the end of the day I was just exhausted!! Not to mention cleaning the kitchen twice to keep all the ingredients separate. It was a full 7am-11pm day!
Sunday 3/27 Catherine’s Surprise party… I got up early to finish Icing the pink cakes and making sure all the details were ready to go. I made little gumpaste flowers for the cupcakes and barely made it to church in time for Sacrament! We had to do the late walk of shame up to the choir seats since our chapel was so full but I didn’t mind. There were some great speakers. Then halfway through Sunday school I started feeling sick.. so I took a little walk around the church and decided that I needed to go home a bit early. So we left after Sunday School.. ate some lunch, took a 5 min breather and was back to work, I made some more frosting for the cupcakes, frosted them and got them all ready as quickly as I could, packed up the car and headed over. While at the party I put the cake together and it turned out super cute. I think Sheldon did a great job with the decorations and party food and all in all his wife Catherine seemed surprised yet happy J I loved chatting with ward friends and really feel like I’ve finally started to mesh with my ward and the DC area. My poor hubby had to go home early to study for his big test.
Monday 3/28 Today.. just started my day, Danny’s in taking a big test right now and I’m hoping he rocks it! Hopefully this week will slow down a bit so I can get a handle on cleaning my house!
Ahhh I love my interesting life :)
xoxo
Morgan
xoxo
Morgan
4 comments:
I'm so jealous about your trip! I hope you start feeling better with your pregnancy! I hope all is going well with you!!!! xoxo
I had no ideas you guys got to go to the bahamas!! tough life! So the leg cramps, unfortunetly happened to me lots during my pregnancies. They are like really bad charlie horses! I always got them in the middle of the night and Thomas would have to massage my legs after being punched awake. I don't know why they happen, it's another weird pregnancy thing! So happy about your ultra sound! It's amazing how much is there after only 11 weeks eh! And have you ever thought about doing cupcake wars? Thats one of my new fav shows right now on food network! I tried calling you guys yesterday but my call was rejected! So we will talk to ya later! Much love!
I'm jealous about your trip as well...the Bahamas sounds so fun! Sorry to hear that you're so sick. You must be having a little girl! :) Unfortunately, with Alyssa I was sick for the full 9 months. Devin got so good at driving to the side of the road, even in heavy traffic, since I threw up almost any time we got in the car. No fun, but definitely worth the aggravation.
Sounds like you have a really cool OB. I'm so excited for you two to finally be able to go on this crazy pregnancy/parenthood journey :) I look forward to many play dates in the future!
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