Baby #3

I'm such a slacker blogger but I thought I'd better document this a little since it's been such an eventful  past few months. I have been so blessed these past few months, and feel extremely grateful for the power of the priesthood. I started out this pregnancy as I have a couple others and thought for sure I was having another miscarriage. After several roller coaster weeks I was finally diagnosed with having a subchronic hemmorage which is pretty much a small tear between the baby and the placenta. Apparently they're fairly common and many women have them with no symptoms, I unfortunately was not one of those women. I spent the next few weeks in an emotional roller coaster, filled with lots of prayers and learning many lessons all over again. In the midst of this we were called to be in nursery. My dr. told me to take it easy and no heavy lifting which is pretty much impossible in nursery.  After about a month I started having complications again and decided it was time to be released from nursery. The following week I asked Frank and my dad to give me a blessing.  The day of my blessing I was probably at my worst physically. We had stake conference and just from the short walk to the stake center (literally like a block away from where we parked) I felt like I was overdone and didn't dare move much the rest of the day. The next days following I had a major turn around. I definitely took it easy thanks to my amazing mom who came and helped with the house and kids, but I couldn't believe how much better I started feeling, and now at 20 weeks pregnant besides feeling easily exhausted which I think is just normal pregnancy with 2 kids, I am hopefully all better.
Now for the fun part..we're having a girl! I kind of knew earlier because I've had so many ultrasounds, but she never got a good shot and she only made an educated guess based on a theory so I wasn't holding my breath. I know most women are almost obsessed with having a little girl, but after everything I was truly just grateful for healthy. I've had to learn this same lesson over and over that it's all in God's hands and that his plan for me is way better than any that I could plan for myself, even though sometimes that means we have to go through hard things, I know I have been blessed and have grown and matured in ways I never would have if I hadn't experienced these trials.
It has been so fun to see Parker's reaction to all of this. He didn't really get it all until we went to the ultrasound. His first reaction was that we needed to sell Bridger because we can't have two of them, lol, but he is really excited to have a baby sister. He is convinced that the ultrasound video is real time and that if we don't watch her she's going to die, so this is the only ultrasound video we've ever watched again..and again..and again. He really is a good big brother. He has a hard time sharing sometimes, but that's partly because he is anal like his father and wants his stuff just right, I'm sure we'll be grateful for that later:) Anyway this is where the fun part begins, choosing a name. It should be at least except that me and Frank always seem to have such different opinions. I've decided that I want it to end in ee like my name so I really like Sydnee or Audree and I'm totally holding strong this time since he pretty much picked both the boys names so it's gotta be a name that I really like and not that I just give up in the end..don't get me wrong I've always loved Parker but I wasn't sure about the name Bridger although I of course love it now and it's very fitting for him. Anyway I love both my boys and I'm super excited for the new world of a little girl:)
fyi we have since been called as ward missionaries which I'm super excited for!