Baby Shower and a BIG surprise!

My awesome weekend started when I found out Friday morning that the girls I work with are throwing me a baby shower on the 15th of next month. I had no idea they were going to do anything like that, I'm so excited and touched that they want to do that!

Then, after work, I was waiting at home for my sister-in-law to arrive with my 2 nephews. She was coming up to stay the weekend with us so she could come to the baby shower on Saturday. Around 9pm, I finally hear the knock on my door. I open it up and... It's MY MOM!!! My MOM!! Holy crap!! I took a step back and stared at her for a few minutes (I totally thought I was hallucinating) and then hugged her and started crying. I hadn't seen her since our wedding last September, so almost a year ago. Sis-in-law, mom, dad, and Matt had all been lying to me for weeks!! And Matt is NOT a good secret keeper either! I have no idea how he managed to keep this a secret from me for 2 weeks.

So on Saturday, Matt took the boys over to Dave and Kelli's house to play with their 2 boys while us girls went to the baby shower. The shower was sooo much fun! It was so nice to see my friends. Most of them I hadn't seen in at least a month, so it was extra special. Not everyone came that told me they were going to, but I still had a blast with everyone and can't thank them enough for throwing me a shower. Thanks guys!

Me posing at the shower. Yes, we were outside, and yes, it was very hot! But fun. Totally worth the swelling I suffered later as a result, lol!

The freaking awesome cake my sister-in-law made for the shower. So cute!


the blocks that my sis-in-law knit for baby victor. I don't know how well you can see it, but they spell out "Victor Meyers" They are so freaking awesome!

My favorite onsie "Worlds Cutest Alarm Clock"

Opening presents :)

Super soft blanket that said "Daddy's Champ" it's so cute!

Is it just me or do I look huge? BTW, totally off topic, but 3 people, yes 3, people today asked me when I was going to have my baby and when I told them in October they about fell over. Then proceeded to tell me I'm huge and I'll never make it. Thanks....

Me and my sister-in-law Kristy. She is 20 weeks preggo with her 3rd baby. She finds out on friday if it's a boy or girl, we are so excited!!

So saturday was a ton of fun. Then sunday we just played at home for awhile, everyone napped, we were all exhausted. Then we went and watched Matt's baseball game. The boys thought that was pretty cool! They kept yelling "Go Uncle Matt!!" every time they saw him, whether he was actually playing at the time or not. Matt did score the winning run during the first game though, I'm so proud of my husband! The boys thought that was pretty cool too, they couldn't talk about anything else the next morning, they wanted to watch uncle matt play more baseball. That's Josef (5yo) on Matt's shoulders and Kristofer (2 1/2 yo) cheesin real big in the orange shirt. They loved climbing all over him. and Matt is so good with them, it makes me even more anxious to meet our little guy so I can see them together.

This is Kristopher not wanting his diaper put back on. Haha!! How cute is he?!?!

Totaled.

The car insurance assessor called me today. That's right. My car is totaled. TOTALED! As in, never coming back, I never get to drive her, ever again. I LOVE my car! I'm sooo upset that they can't fix it. Apparently there is too much damage done to the frame and it's just not feasible to fix it. I guess that just makes me even more glad that baby and me are ok. So they are going to send us a check for the value of the car, minus our deductible.

Good thing #1: we won't have to pay our deductible out of pocket, which leaves our savings intact. #2: we can get a new car that is more family friendly than my 2-door honda civic. #3: the check from Geico will cover MOST of what we still owe on my car.

Bad thing #1: the check won't cover ALL of what we owe. It'll still leave a lil bit that we'll have to pay off. #2: since we just refinanced my car through Chase when I started working there a couple of months ago, we will get charged a small penalty for paying it off within 12 months.

Options: #1: we can use our savings, that we had been thinking would have been gone, to help pay off the rest of the car and make it easier to buy another car. #2: Matt's mom offered to let us use her car for a while until we figure out what the best option is, so we can use her car for awhile and save up more money and not have to use our savings right away.

I'm sure there are other options too...I just can't think of them at the moment. I am going to talk to my boss at the bank tomorrow, I'm sure he'll have some ideas and we can figure out what to do. Ideally, I'd like to be able to finance a new (not necesarily NEW new, but new to us) car and just add the remaining balance of my civic to the new (old) car. That way we will just be making one car payment that is reasonable and then we both have cars and we don't have to worry about it anymore. I guess we'll just have to wait and see!

Oh and I found plane tickets into jackson hole for $336 a person. That's so cheap! If I book them soon, Matt and I can go home to visit my parents for Christmas!! Jackson Hole is only about 2 hours from Shelley (where I grew up) and is actually cheaper than flying into Salt Lake City. Crazy!

My first car accident

So yesterday (Friday) was a REALLY crappy day. I didn't sleep well the night before and then had to be at work at 9am. Of course, it's friday, so we were super busy at work. I finally got to take my break around 2:40 and headed home to take a rest. I'd already eaten so I was just taking some time away from work to chill out before I had to go back until 6:30pm. I was headed back to work around 3:30pm and decided to stop at McDonalds for a drink on my way. As I was getting ready to pull out of the parking lot, there was quite a bit of traffic on the road. It's a 4 lane road that I was turning left across. A truck had stopped on my left, he was holding up traffic for me so that I could pull out and there was a break in the traffic coming the other way. The trucker waved me out so I pulled out just as another car cut around the truck to go around him and plowed into me. But since I was pulling out the accident is my fault. Whatever. It knocked off my front bumper, crinkled the hood up and broke the headlight casings. I start crying again just thinking about my poor car....

Anyone who has ever been in an accident kind of knows how those first few seconds are. It takes you a few seconds to figure out what the heck just happened. I had been so worried about the traffic coming the other way that I never even thought to look that way and was just so confused. Then it kind of hit me and I started crying and couldn't stop. I tried calling the police, then my boss to let her know what happened and then Matt. Matt left work immediately so he could come be with me. I'm sooo glad he did because I don't think I could have dealt with everything without him there. He called the doctor and the insurance company and dealt with the tow truck guys. I can't thank him enough for helping me the entire time. I love him so much and every little thing just makes me even more glad that I married him and how lucky I am that I get to spend the rest of my life with him.

I was a mess. I couldn't stop crying and I felt awful. It was so hot outside and I was swelling up, plus I was kind of cramping and all nauseous and my back was killing me. All of which could be attributed to the stress of having just been in a car accident. They called the paramedics to check me out since I'm pregnant and my BP was great, my heart rate was elevated (stress). Matt was on the phone with Chuck (my OB) and he said to go ahead to the Women and Children's Hospital and he would call them and make sure they were ready to monitor us to make sure everything was ok. I hadn't felt Victor move at all, but I don't always feel alot of movement all the time, so I was trying not to freak out about that too much.

We got to the ER and they checked me in, the first thing they did was try to find Vic's heartbeat, which she found immediately, Thank You God! I was so relieved I started crying again and Matt was squeezing my hand so hard, we were both just so relieved. They sent me up to maternity triage to monitor his movements and heartrate. He was being pretty rowdy, everytime the nurse would find his heartbeat he'd move and she'd have to try to find it again. Once we got the monitors settled my doc got there to check me out. Turns out I was having some mild contractions, so they gave me a shot of terbutaline (sp?) to stop them. After a bit they saw that it evened out and my urinalysis came back clean so we were all set to go! Chuck (my OB) did tell me to take it easy this weekend, so I was not allowed to go to work today and I'm home laying on my couch.

There was one funny moment though, while we were waiting for results we were watching TV. Well, everytime Vic would move or kick me we could hear it on the monitor. At one point he actually started to kick the monitor and it made this really loud sound. Matt and I both kind of jumped and started laughing, well when I started laughing it made even more noise on the monitors, which mademe laugh even harder! Then I guess because I was laughing it wasn't picking up the baby's heartrate so the alarm started going off, and I really lost it then! I just couldn't stop! Matt was sitting right next to me laughing just as hard, which wasn't helping. I finally got myself under control and it started picking his HR back up and the alarm quit. I still giggle just thinking about it.

So I'm OK, and the baby's OK, which is really the only important thing. I'm trying not to stress about the fact that I can't drive my car for awhile. And that since the accident is my fault our insurance is going to cover it, but paying the deductible for the car and the hospital will wipe out everything we've managed to save for the baby. I'm thankful that we had that money saved up so that we could deal with something like this, but I'm so MAD that it had to happen and now we're right back at square one with nothing. We have so many other things that we need to worry about right now and the car wasn't one of them! So while I'm here at home I'm just focusing on the fact that we are both ok and that's the only thing that matters. We'll figure out a way to get the things we need for Victor, we still have a couple of months before he's due to arrive, so we'll figure it out.

So I have a couple of bruises, and I'm a lil sore (neck, shoulders and back) but I guess for my first car accident EVER in my entire life, this was a good one to have since no one was hurt and the damage wasnt as bad as it could have been. So I hope everyone has a better weekend than me!!

Randomness

27 weeks according to the Oct. 8th due date (by my LMP) and 28 weeks and 1 day according to the Sept. 30 due date (by our ultrasounds). Either way, I'm in the 3rd trimester and just counting down the days baby! 91 to go! till 40 weeks anyway, I'm hoping for 37, but I don't really get much say in the matter, haha! 2 customers today at work asked me my due date and then proceeded to say "Oh my goodness!! You look like you're ready to pop already!" I just laugh and say, "Well I kind of wish I would already, I'm done!" But in my head I'm thinking, geez, thanks for telling me I'm huge. Whatever, I'm still glad that people don't just think I'm fat!

Baby has been much more active lately, it's so wonderful to feel him kicking so much. Matt and I laid on the couch together for about an hour the other night so he could feel the baby kick. Because before that every time I'd tell him Vic was kicking he'd come over and by the time he got his hands on my belly Vic would quit, lol, it was quite funny! So he laid on the couch with me with his hand on my tummy and got sooo excited every time he felt Vic kicking, he go "OOh Baby!" it was so cute! There was one really wierd moment, Matt was kind of pushing a bit on my belly in different spots trying to get him to kick more and just as he pushed down in one spot Vic kicked up right in the same spot so it was like they were touching thru my belly! It was SOOO wierd!! Matt flipped out because he thought it was so cool and I was flipping out because it felt soooo bizarre. But other than that it was fun :)

The other day (Tuesday) I woke up at 8am having braxton-hicks contractions. Nothing major just mild/moderate menstral crampy feelings through my lower abdomen and my back. I had 4 of them just while I was in the shower so when I got out I laid on the couch with a big glass of water while i ate my breakfast. They quit, until I got back up and headed off to work. I was having them about 3 times an hour and everything I've read says that unless they are 5-6 times an hour it's nothing to worry about. So I didn't. Until my co-worker started bugging me about calling my doc just to be safe. It was about 2pm by this time and I'd been having them since 8am. So I finally called and told the nurse what was going on and she freaked me out cause she's all, "Oh my gosh, Heidi why didn't you call me earlier? Can you come in if he needs to see you?" So then I started to worry cause I really hadn't thought it was a big deal. I told her I could come in if he needed me to becasue I hadn't taken my lunch break yet. So then I wait for her to talk to my doc and call me back.

An hour goes by and I still hadn't heard anything so I called them back and waited on hold for a bit (apparently he'd been in with a patient the entire time) and then he reacted just like I thought he would. Told me it wasn't a big deal, but just to go home, lay down with my feet up to get the weight off my hips and take it easy for the night. I told him I would do that in 4 hours when I got off work. He asked my why I was going to be there so late, I told him I was closing the drive-thru at the bank, he then asked me what time I had gotten to work, I told him 10am. (i worked 10-7 that day, without a break I might add, because of the nurse and me waiting for them to call me back) and then he told me that when I got a bit further along he didn't want me working more than 6 hours at a time. I'm like, woohoo! I'm so tired of working 9 hour shifts and tomorrow I'm actually working 10 hours and I'm sooo tired when I get home...

Anyways,
Fourth of July was a little boring. I can't travel so Matt went to his parents house for the big party by himself. He had a good time, not great cause it rained all weekend, but still had fun seeing all his family and everything. I just stayed home and cleaned, organized, grocery shopped and slept to my heart's content. It was really kind of boring. I did find a inflatable bathtub pillow so I took a great bubble bath, that was probably the highlight of my weekend.


Matt will be getting promoted here pretty soon (unless the owner goes back on her agreement....) it's hard to say exactly whats going on with her (the owner) but he is supposed to be getting the store manager job, like, NOW, but we just haven't head anything more about it. So, hopefully more positive news on that next time.

So things are good! Just living life and working and waiting on baby!