I'm Pregnant!?!

Well I am Pregnant!! While we were in Idaho, I had my mom and sister help us take some pictures to announce our pregnancy. It was windy, rainy and freezing but we got a picture haha.

I'm due between May 10 and 18. It still seems so unreal to me, that I actually have a baby growing inside of me, that I am going to be a mom.

The week (September 4th ish) I found out I was pregnant I wrote this:

'Well Thursday night I found out I was pregnant.  I can't even explain all the emotions that I experienced.  

In August my period was a week late,  so I took a pregnancy test.  Kev and I were pretty disappointed. 

This month it had been four days and no period.  I didn't want to get my hopes up,  neither of us wanted to.  But it was driving me crazy not knowing.  So thursday night I finally peed on the stick. I was so nervous; I was  shaking.  After a couple minutes I went back to look at the stick. I couldn't believe.  Kev was on the couch,  I yelled for him.  He came to the bathroom asking if I was OK.  I pointed to the stick. He was so excited; we were so excited. We hugged and laughed. 

I am still so excited and yet so nervous.  I am nervous about the changes of my body.  I'm extremely nervous about labor; what if I can't handle the pain. Can I really be a mom; am I ready to be a mom; will I be a good mom? 

But I can not wait to hold this baby in my arms; this spirit who would have just come from heaven. I can't wait to see our baby,  see what he or she looks like.  I can't wait see and have Kevin be a dad.  He is going to be such a good one.  I truly am so excited to be a mom  and be part of God's plan.

Hopefully this baby will be here around May 10th. We have already started making plans.  We honestly can't wait!'

When I went to my first doctor's appointment they did an ultrasound. I was only around 6 or 7 weeks and the baby was a tiny bean. But I could see the heart racing, which was pretty weird to me. But the doctor confirmed that I actually was pregnant!

At my next appointment they tried to hear the heart beat but couldn't find it. This really scared me. (For some reason I am really scared that I will have a miscarriage. None of the women in my family have struggled with this, but I am very scared about it. I don't think I could handle it very well.) But lucky enough for us we got another ultrasound. I was shocked when we saw an actual baby. It looked like a baby. I so wish we would have thought to record the ultrasound or at least get a picture. I think we were both kind of awestruck haha. They baby even had like a little hiccup. It hit me a little more that I am actually pregnant. But it only lasted for about a day :)

I am about 18 weeks now. I have a little bump, I feel uncomfortable, and I can't sleep very good. And yet, I still don't believe I am pregnant. It just hasn't really hit me. I know something is happening to my body but it is hard for me to believe that I actually have a baby inside of me.

So far I have been so lucky! So blessed! One Saturday I started feeling really sick, the next Monday morning I tried to throw up. Then I figured it out, as long as I have food in my stomach, at ALL times, I felt fine. So I was never really sick. I tried to throw up like 3 times in total but I never had anything in my stomach to throw up. I was really worried about Morning Sickness, especially because I had to drive to Sandy every morning and I wasn't really sure how that sickness would effect my drive. I don't know if the Lord has just blessed me a lot right now since I am working or if I am just lucky and don't really have the full on morning sickness. Whatever it is, I am VERY grateful. While I haven't been sick, I have been extremely tired. I thought it would get better after the first trimester. But the last couple weeks I have slept terrible. Every time I move there is pain in my stomach, which wakes me up. It is making me a little nervous since I am not that far along. I still don't think I have felt my baby move. Maybe I have, but I just can't tell if my stomach is doing weird things or if it is actually the baby. I am really excited to be able to feel it move. Even more excited for when Kev will be able to feel the baby.

On the 31st we will hopefully find out if we are having a boy or a girl. Kev is convinced we are having a boy...since he "told the Lord"...silly guy. I am so curious to see what it is, I go through phases where I think I am having a boy, then phases where I think it is girl. So we shall see!

Thanksgiving

For this Thanksgiving we got to spend it with Kev's family. It was nice to be with family again. I'm so grateful that I have the in-laws that I do. I hear horror stories about in-laws and all I have to say is I am SO grateful and SO blessed to have all the Albaughs.

I have never really experienced Black Friday before....and I guess I still haven't. Kev and I participated in 'Grey Thursday'. I hate that they do it on Thursday now, and yet there I was standing in line. We went to Target to go get Kev's mom and Ipad for her mission. We got lucky enough to stand to a drunk couple. They thought they were hilarious and loved talking. I guess it could have been worse but definitely not my favorite two hours. Once Target finally opened their doors, it was crazy. We walked in and they were only letting you walk a certain way. We found a gap in the cart blocks and started speed walking towards the electronics. We were lucky enough to be the third person to buy an IPad, but really we were the first ones to ask about the Ipad. I always heard the crazy stories about Black Friday. I didn't really believe it. I do now. Someone cut up the front of the line to buy the IPad and got away with it. I was so mad! It was pretty ridicules. But I had just stood in the cold for two hours, then rushed to the electronics and I was going to get my IPad! To say the least, I somewhat understand why fights break out, as sad as that is.

Anyways, that was the most exciting thing that happened over our Thanksgiving break, I just had to share my 'Grey Thursday' story.

BYU Football

This BYU football season has been quite a disappointment. Kev got to a point were he was was just so mad about it. Thursday my Uncle asked if we wanted his tickets to the game this weekend. Since it could be our last chance ever to go to a BYU football game we said yes. The game was freezing! We only made it till half time. But hey, at least we got experience BYU football this year :)

Halloween

This Halloween we dressed up as Jack and Jill... you know the nursery rhyme "Jack and Jill went up the hill, to fetch a pail of water. Jack fell down and broke his crown and Jill came tumbling after." Well Kev took that rhyme and decided he wanted to be a dead Jack. He loved playing with all the blood.

We had a ward Halloween party and got to carve pumpkins. Unfortunately you can't really tell what we carved, but it was a ghost knocking on a door. I just had to document it.

Intramural Champions!

Well after 5 years I finally got the coveted Intramural Championship shirt! It was in volleyball. Honestly, we all felt pretty bad about our last game. The other team was not very good. We somehow got put in the lower division and we shouldn't have been there. So I didn't really feel like I deserved the shirt....but still happy to finally say I got one. Wish the shirt looked a little bit cooler though. But beggars can't be choosers :)

Goblin Valley

The beginning of October my Aunt invited us to meet them and my grandparents at Goblin Valley. I have wanted to go there forever! So I was pretty excited. We first did a hike called White Horse, or something like that. It was a neat hike! The hike would go through very narrow parts, which was so cool! ...except when other people were coming the other way. We had a group of boy scouts come by, oh my gosh. We had to get close and they did not smell good! haha but it was a lot of fun.

After our hike, we went and played with the goblins. My little cousin was pretty disappointed that there weren't any real goblins. It seriously looked like we were on another planet. (As a side note, we watched Galaxy Quest two weeks ago. They actually use goblin valley as another planet) It is such a neat place. I wish I had more energy to play around.

Bountiful Temple and Work

Last Saturday night we went up to Bountiful to meet up with Kev's old mission president and some other mission companions.  We were able to attend a temple session up there. I have always wanted to go to that temple, so I'm glad we finally had a reason to go up there.  It's a pretty temple,  it's looks almost exactly like the Timpanogos temple. After the temple we all got together and ate dinner then had a testimony meeting.

This last week I had the chance to go help with a golf tournament for work. It was nice to do something different. It was up in Heber. We got there at 7 in the morning and I was FREEZING! Then in the afternoon I had sweat dripping down my back haha. I didn't realize how pretty Heber was!

 Shawn Bradly helped put on the golf tournament. He took a picture with everyone there. Can you believe how tall he is?! He is around 7' 6". His wife is about my height. I can't even imagine being married to someone that tall haha. There was also an old Jazz Basketball player who came, his nickmane was Memo. He is pretty tall too, but not even close to Shawn. When I first saw him, the first think I thought of was the story of Goliath. I think I heard Goliath was about 9 feet. I can understand why you would be scared of someone like that, especially if they were "thick" too.


Besides working at the golf tournament, I went down every day to do an audit in Mt Pleasant. I don't know how there came to be a town there haha. On the drive there, the other day there were rainbows the entire way. They were really pretty, I tried to catch on camera but it just doesn't do it justice.

Squaw Peak

A couple of Saturdays ago (September 6) we attempted to hike Squaw Peak... Again.  It was honestly not very fun.  Half way up there Kev said,  'this is the worst idea we have ever had.'  To say the least,  he hated it haha.  It was a rough hike;  it felt like it was straight up.. the entire time. I'm way out of shape too so that didn't help.  But the view was pretty cool.

 This picture is what I imagine when I think of Christ coming to Earth.