Spring brings Camping and Climbing

 Spring has come and I am oh so excited! The warm weather has been so nice and with spring comes spring activities. Although at this time I am slightly limited with the activities I can do... I try not to let it stop me from doing the things I can do. Even if it's a little bit more trouble or uncomfortable. One thing I'm excited for is to get back to running! I see everyone out running these days and it just gives me that itch.

Rock climbing seems to be activity of choice this spring. Scott and I are really excited to have so many of our family members into rock climbing this year so that we have more people to go with.

Scott was able to take a weekend rock climbing trip down to City of Rocks with a few of his friends! He had a lot of fun and was able to get a lot of good climbing in. 

In early spring we got together with Venny and Scott D, Clarissa and Justin and got Scott and Crystal to go climbing at Hysie. I think we have hooked Scott and Crystal, and I'm really excited that they are getting so into it. Once you get the gear it's a nice cheap activity you can do all summer. We have also been able to get Derek, Shelyn and Ondrea into it!

 I even got on the rock for a climb! See... You can still go climbing at 7 in a half month pregnant. :) It was a very easy climb and I stopped before it got to any of the technical stuff.

Everyone also convinced me to go camping :) I told them I would go anywhere they wanted as long as they brought my bean bag... So what did they do... They stuffed that bean bag in the back of Scott's subaru (it took up 3/4 of the whole back seat with the front seats scooted forward) and we went camping with Scott and Crystal! It was a lot of fun! We went rock climbing again and I was surprised by how different I felt from going just 3 weeks before... It was night and day. There was no way I was going to get on any rock. So alas... The rock climbing will have to wait until this baby is out of me!

  Geocaching

It's not rock climbing if you don't go get frozen yogurt afterwards. :)

I am looking forward to a really fun summer filled with rock climbing and camping :)

Clarissa and Justin's Wedding

I know these are a little bit out of order.... my focus has been staying up to date with baby updates as much as possible. Everything else has kind of been neglected.... But in April we were able to celebrate Clarissa and Justin's wedding. It was a beautiful ceremony and I have to say that all the decorations at the reception turned out perfect! Just what she wanted. I thought everything looked so great! And she was beautiful!

I had a really hard time finding a maternity dress so I decided to make my own. Maybe just a little ambitious 2 weeks away from the wedding! I had never made clothing of any kind by myself... But I found a pattern I liked and just figured it out. For how many times I had to take out stitches and redo things I probably ended up making the dress 8 times! But it finally all came together and I am proud of my work. As long as nobody looks to closely. :) I do think it made me look a little bigger then I was.... But oh well. :)

I am so proud of Clarissa for making the decision to get sealed in the temple. It will only bring joy and happiness to her life. It was also fun to be able to help with the wedding as much as a 7 month prego women could help. I'm glad I was able to be apart of it all!

Congrats to Clarissa and Justin!

3/4 Down 1/4 to go!

 March 23, 2013

Yup! I made it to 30 weeks! Only 10 weeks to go! Baby Bergy is growing nicely and my belly is measuring in at 31 cm. What's new with pregnancy these days you ask? Sleeping!!! And when I say sleeping, I actually mean actual sleep! What is the cause of this new found awesome sleepingness? A present Scott made me 3 Christmas's ago! Who would have thought something Scott made me so long ago would be such a lifesaver now.... And the answer is!... (drum roll please)... A giant bean bag!!! 

 Yes, this has been my bed for the past 2 or 3 weeks now and I can say that I am in love. I was sleeping so horridly, so I decided to try sleeping on the bean bag one night to see if I would sleep better and one night was all it took to make me hooked. We moved it up to the bedroom and I've been using it ever since! So thank you, thank you to Scott for making me my pregnancy life saver!

Getting sleep has also changed every aspect of pregnancy. I have been enjoying it much more these days. Sure I still have my symptoms, but I have been much happier! I am also loving the warm weather we have been having! It has made it much nicer to go out and do my walks in.

What is better then being pregnant alone? Having your best friend pregnant with you! Melanie told me she was pregnant when she was 7 weeks. Little did I know that I was actually 2 weeks pregnant at the time! No it was not planned... Neither one of us even knew the other was trying. But it has been so fun to be 5 weeks apart and get to share in all our pregnancies joys and pains. I always know what to expect because she is doing everything just ahead of me. So it's been so much fun! And we are both having boys! So I'm excited to have boys the same age as well :) Since we are only 5 weeks apart, and other conflicts we weren't able to make it to each others baby showers. So we threw ourselves our own personal one. :)

 Since we are both prego at the same time we decided we HAD to take prego pics together! So here are some of our pics that we took together. Enjoy! :)

 Melanie 35 Weeks, Jacquelyn 30 Weeks

 Just a little hard hugging a bear with a big belly....

34 Weeks

And since I'm so far behind... And was supposed to post this 5 weeks ago... I'm now 35 weeks pregnant! How the time has flown.... Even though I feel like these last 5 weeks are going to go soooo slow! But everything is still looking great! I think for the most part the nausea has decided to leave me! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY! I'm only sick every once in a while and not everyday! I'm still sleeping great! I have occasional heartburn... As long as I don't eat to much at one sitting. My ankles have turned into kankles and my feet a puffy ball. Excited for THAT to be over, and enjoying many many braxton hicks. I swear with the amount of braxton hicks that I have this baby is prob just going to fall out of me! (That's my hope anyways) I've also started using the bathroom a lot more. But enjoying pregnancy for the most part. Still very excited to NOT be prego anymore. But I can do it! At my last 34 Week appointment my belly was measuring at 35 cm and everything was still looking great!

28 Weeks!

Well I'm almost to the 3 quarter mark and now into my last and final trimester! YAY! Time to start really prepping for that labor and delivery.... This week at my appointment I got to take the good old sugar test. I think that I had heard so many bad things about how bad it was and how bad the sugar drink tasted that I expected it to be a lot worse then it actually was. I didn't think the drink was all that bad. Nice and orange flavored. And I was very excited to find out I didn't have gestational diabetes! (Because then I'd have to give up my sour patch kids, and I really didn't want to do that) I did however discover that I am slightly anemic. Your red cell blood count is supposed to be between 11-16 and mine was a 9.9. I'll take it, I am now going to start taking iron supplements. We also got to hear Baby Bergy's heartbeat! The first time Scott has got to hear it, and my belly is measuring in at 29 cm. So everything is looking great and I have now started having Prenatal Visits every two weeks. Scott and I took a tour of the hospital we'll be delivering at and I think that was really fun! I think it made us both feel a little better about everything. It even made me feel excited to have a baby!

 March 9, 2013, 28 Weeks

Mommy Update:                                                           

• heartburn - check
• swollen ankles - check
• uncomfortable - check
• nauseous - check



27 weeks

• No sleep - check

  

  28 weeks

How have I enjoyed pregnancy you ask? Well about 3 weeks ago me and pregnancy started not being very good friends. I was tired of it! I think a big part of it had to do with my bad attitude and being selfish. I felt like everyone around me was doing things that I couldn't and I was starting to feel really left out. I felt like I couldn't do any of the activities that I enjoy doing. Everyone was planning trips, going rock climbing, starting training programs for races they'll be doing the summer. I was walking, and I thought to myself, is this my new life? While everyone is going out having fun I'll be stuck at home? Not only that but I was tired of pregnancy symptoms. Never feeling normal. Always something, heartburn, uncomfortable, nausea or all three. Yes, I was in a dark place and cried A LOT! I didn't feel life was fair and I didn't want to be the only one sacrificing. Luckily... After a couple weeks of this, I was able to change my attitude around with the help of some good friends and general conference talks. I started exercising more and eating healthier. I can now say that for the past weeks or so I have been enjoyed life much much more! Ya maybe I can't do all the things I'd like to right now. But it will end and then I will be able to go back to doing the things I love. And not only that I'll have a cute little bundle of joy to do them with! My life doesn't have to change completely because we are adding another addition to the family. We have a ton of fun things planned for this summer that include all three of us and I'm really excited for it! I have also starting going to Prenatal Yoga and Water Aerobics classes! I think they are a blast! It's so fun to be with the other ladies and get to complain about everything and have people who understand! Not only that.. But I'd have to say that I'm looking pretty dang cute with my baby belly! ;)

Daddy Update:

Scott is also preparing for Baby Bergy to come. :) He has taken it upon himself to make sure we have ALL the OUTDOOR gear we'll need to keep up with our outdoor lifestyle! Including a new 6 man tent!

Now this thing is huge! we will easily be able to fit our air mattress, pack-n-play and all of babies supplies in it. It will definitely be nice. Also included in future outdoor gear Scott wants to get, a backpack baby carrier and a small rock climbing harness. :) Yes... Our children will know how to have adventures! Scott is so cute with Baby Bergy. Sometimes he will bend over my stomach so his mouth is really close and talk to him. I think it is the cutest thing and I love it! I don't think it has really set in yet for him that we will be having a baby. But I guess when everything feels so surreal that's pretty normal.

Family Fun Time!

Scott has wanted to take his nephew Riley skiing for a few years. Now that he has turned 4 he thought that was the perfect age to start him! So we started out by getting him used to the idea (because he isn't one for spontaneity) by showing him Scott skies and then getting a small pair of skies for him. He had watched an episode of Curious George where George went skiing and that really got him excited! So we were finally ready to take him up and it turned into a family event! We got Scott's dad to go up and hit the slopes after 9 years of not skiing! I think he loved it! Will and Keri also came up to join in the fun. I would say Riley is a natural! He picked up on everything really quick and did really well

Going up the tow rope for the first time!

 On the Bunny Hill!

 First crash

 Go Riley Go!

 .... That is.... Until Janette got there with Jersey and Grandma about 45 mins after we started... After that is was to hard or to slippery. Funny how kids are like that. But we did get him to go down a couple more times with mom there to watch! Uncle Scott was suck a great teacher! I love watching him teach cuz he's just so good at it and patient. I'm excited for him to start teaching our own kids someday!

Grandpa going up the lift for the first time in 9 years with Will!! YAY!!!

 It ended up being a lot of fun! I even got on a pair of skies and did a few runs on the beginner hill!

For Valentines this year we decided to keep it simple and cheap. So I decided to make Scott an awesome candy bar poster and surprised him with it after he got home from work!\

 Then we went out to eat at Canton! (Because I seem to be craving Chinese every once in awhile with this baby and all) It was very good! After Chinese Scott surprised me with a chocolate fondue fountain by candle light!

 Yum!!!

With marshmallows and strawberries to dip in the freshly melted yummy chocolate! (Strawberries... another thing I think is especially good at the moment) It was so good and I was very surprised! It was a lot of fun and we had a good simple Valentines :)

Ultrasound #2

Can I just say WOW... To technology.... I am so completely impressed with how it has advanced in such a short period of time.

We went in for our followup ultrasound at 24 weeks to check little Baby Bergy's growth. I was a little disappointed at first because they didn't take me to do the ultrasound right away like they did last time so I thought they had decided not to do it or something. But later on they came and got me and said sorry for forgetting about it! Well my little guy is just as cute as ever! The ultrasound technician said that it was a really slow day and I think they were kind of bored because right off the bat they just started messing around and taking photo after photo after photo. Then she decides to do 3D just because she could. And wow...

I still can't even explain it. I don't know what it was about seeing my little guy in 3D but my heart melted. I fell instantly in love with him right on the spot! It was so amazing to see him. Just like a picture! And I must say.... At 24 weeks 3 days he is already looking pretty handsome! So the tech proceeded to take pictures of him in 3D.... Then back to 2D for more pictures. The ultrasound technician said that my midwife was probably starting to wonder why we were taking so long! haha It was so fun though. She said I'll have to come back on another slow day so we can play around some more! If it wasn't so expensive to do I'd do it everyday! I'm just so happy!

And more pics just cuz he is sooooo cute!

Baby Bergy is doing perfect! He is still measuring 2 weeks big but he is growing at a normal rate. He has moved down into a normal percentile range. He is now in the 82nd percentile instead of the 90th percentile. But they told me he has a big head! (Dang that Bergendorf side) Which is completely normal for Bergendorf babies unfortunately for me... He is weighing in at 1 lb 14 oz! They aren't going to move my due date up but they are going to keep an eye on his size. If I'm still measuring big around 36 weeks then they will do another ultrasound to check on everything. I'm just hoping he either comes 2 weeks early, or stops growing so fast so that I don't have a 10 lbs baby! I'll take him either way though. :) One of Baby Bergy's favorite things to do right now is use my bladder as a trampoline! He thinks its great fun! I on the other hand... Not so much.

It's getting harder and harder to stay focused at work. I just want to be looking, doing or making baby stuff all day. I have a list of baby items I want to make. Receiving blanket, burp cloths, nursing covers.... As soon as we are all finished with our unpacking and organizing in our new place I hope to be able to have time to do these things. I feel like Baby Bergy will be here before we know it and we still have so much to do to prep for him. I have made a list of things we need to buy still and the number of items is a lot higher for the items that still need purchased vs the items that have been purchased. It can be overwhelming at times. But one step at a time I hope to be able to get everything accomplished.

February 9, 2013, 24 Weeks

Mommy-to-be update:

                                                                                                        24 Weeks

I'm still sick almost everyday. Just a continuous nauseous feeling mostly in the mornings and evenings, nothing unbearable, but can get annoying. I also tend to wake up with very achy hips and back in the middle of the night on a more regular basis. I think it's mostly because we have a bad mattress. We have bought a little mattress pad to put on top and I think that has been helping. Other then that I feel pretty good most days! It's weird having my belly getting so big! It's getting harder to bend over especially when I'm wearing lots of layers! It's hard to believe this is only the beginning to a very large belly in the near future!