Baby Yet?

So yesterday I took Castor Oil and waited to see what happens, hoping that it would put me into labor early. Last night at one point I had some very painful contractions but then stopped after about an hour or so. Then this morning my pants were soaked when I got up and so we decided to go in to Labor and Deliver to get checked. They took a swab test, (that came back negative) and did a scope to look at my cervix and see if there is extra fluid. There was extra fluid, and they took a sample of it to look under a microscope and it came back positive for "ferning". (Which I guess is what amniotic fluid looks like when it dries.) So because one test was positive and the other negative they wanted to do another swab test that was a little more sensitive. Because that came back negative, they did an ultrasound to check the amount of fluid left. Seems that I have a lot of fluid left cause they said before they sent me home, that if I get a gush of water-and I should have water running down my leg and puddling on the floor- to come back in.

So, unfortunately, we don't have a baby yet, but it is getting closer to my inducement date, Tuesday. They will be starting me at about 6am so it will be a LONG day!

Camping at Leadore

Last week we spent the whole week up at Big 8 Mile Campground in Leadore. It was nice an cool with a few warm days and lots of rain! We had a good week spending it with family.

Logan and I stayed in a tent but we slept well thanks to the gift Cindy and John gave us that is a double high queen air bed. It was super nice to be able to get up out of bed without too much effort!
Logan enjoyed going on rides with his brothers. He rode so much his bottom got sore. :) He even enjoyed teaching me how to ride a dirt bike!
Logan also went to many of the lakes that surround our campground to go fishing. He didn't get to catch anything but loved spending the time visiting with his brothers.
On Friday, the last day, Logan, Cory, and Greg went on a hard ride up to the Patterson Lodge.

Greg came up the last few days of the week and I got to watch sweet little Vella! :) She loved being outside and was really good about taking naps and playing in her play pen!
She even was good about letting me know when she was cold by grabbing her blanket and holding it up so I could wrap her up!

The Next Step in Life

It has been a long while since I have blogged. We have had a lot go on the last month or so and it's time to update! So I am now at 30 Weeks and am SSSSOOOOOO excited to be in the last weeks! I can definitely feel the baby growing due to the muscle cramping and stretching soreness, and he seems to be sitting lower or more on my bladder because I am going to the bathroom WAY too many times in one day.

So, lately, Logan and I have moved in to a new apartment in Pocatello, and we are finally unpacked. On the weekends, Logan likes to either go dirt biking or fishing. So one weekend we went to American Falls Reservoir. Where we stopped, there was an older gentleman who had been there hours before us, and hadn't caught anything. So Logan decided to try anyway just for fun. We had been there for about and hour or so, and then suddenly, Logan realized he caught a fish! It was quite a fight getting that fish on shore, and this is what we found.

It was a Carp fish, which make Logan a little sad, but he loved his big fish story anyway.

He was so happy to have caught a big fish, what a cute guy!

So, I have neglected putting pictures up of my belly, so here are a few...

This was taken today, so 30 weeks and 3 days!

This was taken at 30 weeks!

This is at 27 weeks!

We are loving being in our own place and are so excited to welcome our new baby in the world! We hope everyone is doing well and love our family so much!

24 Weeks!!!!

Wow! Time is flying but still going so slow! Here is a picture of my belly at 24 weeks, sorry my head is not in it, I took it with my phone. Jake is growing so big and strong! Anytime I am sitting, he is moving! I love the mornings because that is when he moves the most, and kicks the hardest! Logan like to put his hand on my belly in the morning to feel him, he only has to set his hand gently on my tummy and he can feel every move! He is going to be a strong little guy!

At my doctor's appointment on Tuesday, they gave us the results on the ultrasound we had. He said the baby looks great, I'm doing great, and everything seems to be going great! Oh, but I have to go back in for a routine ultrasound because my kidney seemed to be swollen. He said not to worry, but they will just do another one to check it and make sure it's not getting bigger. I am so glad that everything is going well!

Logan and I are still thinking of middle names but I think we have found one that we both kinda like. We are thinking Jake Christian Thompson. But still up in the air.

Anyway, I hope everyone is enjoying the beautiful weather we have had the last day or two and we love you all!

Belly Pictures

Here is my belly at 21 weeks and 5 days! I'm so excited to see my belly grow along with my anxiousness for the days to pass by faster, however, it makes it harder to pick things up, and breath! :) But I'm loving it all the same!

**On a different note, Logan, Cory, and Greg have been all about riding! There conversations consist of camping, dirt bike riding, fixing or adding accessories to their dirt bikes, and anything else that might fit under those categories! He is so excited to go anytime he can and can't wait for the weather to warm up!

Name that Baby!

So, Logan and I have been thinking of names for this little boy ever since we found out what gender he was. When we first decided to have a baby, we had a girl name picked out and had kinda discussed a boy name. The boy name we had was Landon, but once we knew for sure that it was a boy, that name just didn't seem to fit. So we went on websites for names and must I say, there are some VERY interesting names. I came up with a list a few names that I really liked and told Logan, but none of them really seemed right.

One night, I was having a really hard time sleeping. The baby kept moving and I couldn't get comfortable and I kept trying to talk to the baby and tell him to go to sleep. For some reason the letter "J" just kept coming to my mind. So, I started going through all the "J" names that I know and weeding out the ones I didn't really care for. Finally I came to the name Jake, and I really liked it, it just seemed to fit. So the next morning when we woke up, I told Logan what I thought and it took him only a few seconds to say,"Yeah, I really like that name. That works." So there you have it, our little guy's name is going to be Jake. The middle name is still up in the air but it's nice to have a name to call our little guy when we talk to him.

It's a BOY!

Logan and I went to the doctor on Tuesday (for the first time in 10 weeks) and had all the normal things checked, and we also thought they would do an ultrasound since it had been such a long time and I was 18 weeks and 6 days along. But the doctor informed us that they don't do anatomy ultrasounds until you are 19 weeks and we would have to set up a time to come back next week for that. We were really kinda upset that Logan had taken work off to come and we weren't going to be able to see the baby. So, when I went to schedule my appointment, the lady told us that they couldn't fit us in for an ultrasound for another week! We weren't very happy and she could tell, so she called the office where they will be doing it to see if they had anything sooner. Luckily, they had one the next day! So we took it!

We had been so excited the night before and the morning of. We left for the ultrasound and were so excited. The first thing the tech did, was tell us what sex the baby was and this is what we found:

IT'S A BOY!

Here's his little foot!

The tech was trying to get a picture of both his arms but he kept wiggling around.

The tech said it looked good so far, but we would get more results later. He did move my due date up to August 30th!

We are so excited to be having a little one come into our lives. Now I feel like I can actually work on getting things ready. Although, I have to say that it is a little stress relieving that it is not a girl because it seems there is so much more items to purchase with a girl. So, now Logan and I have been looking at names and I have a few that I like but we just haven't had any jump out at us yet.