Busy Month

November went by wayyyyyyy tooo fast. Time just flew by. It all started with a really cool play group. For this month we went to the Please Touch Museum. It is a pricey museum but thanks to the public libraries you can get 4 passes the first few days of the month for free. Blake was in his own little world and couldn't get enough of the place. He wanted to touch it all and experience everything...He just loved it!











The same night we helped with a double baby shower for a couple of our friends that are having "GIRLS" YAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!! I wish I could say I decorated this but NOPE! I helped with games and their tiaras :) We have some serious talent in our group and the girls did amazing!




Three days later we had a very special visitor in our home. Dallin's mom came and stayed with us for 4 days and we really enjoyed her company. Blake got extremely spoiled and is missing all of the attention, we are trying to get him back to his normal routine. It's hard to be back to the real, busy world. He misses grandma so much but we are hoping to see her again soon.



And lastly, the first year dental students in our ward decided to get together for Thanksgiving. I volunteered to make the turkey and gravy, I don't know why. I've never made a turkey in my life but it is one of my fave american meals. So I decided to give it a try. Haaaaaaaaa Dall ended up doing most of the work cause it was heavy, the giblets totally grossed me out; since Dall decided to have an anatomy lab in the house with all the organs and I trust his cooking skills a lot more than mine when it comes to an american meal that big :) Well we spent half the morning talking to ReNee (Dallin's mom)over the phone to get some instructions. The turkey turned out good I thought. We struggled with the gravy it wouldn't thicken but in the end, it was tasty and it all worked out. We had a great time with our friends and we are so grateful for them. They are our family here and I couldn't survive this dental experience without them..... Oh and again I had nothing to do with the decorations, this is my friend's place and she did awesome! Happy belated turkey day!!

And here is my thanksgiving belly at 21 weeks!!

Hey Guess what?

DC with Uncle Brett

We finally got out of the house and went on an adventure to the DC area. I sooooo needed it. Dallin's brother was in DC for a conference and we met him there. It was just sooo fun to see family!!!! Blake totally clicked with uncle Brett right away. I thought he would have a hard time warming up to him. Boy was I wrong...he only wanted uncle Brett the whole day. The drive there was pretty smooth except the tolls are ridiculous....! We parked on the road and hit the train to the city. We only had time to do one museum (air and space museum) We figured since Blake is obsessed with airplanes that would be the one. We also visited the Capitol and just drove around and took a peek at the white house from far away. Our time there was very limited cause my bro in law had to be back by 3:00 for his conference. Blake's favorite thing was to ride the choo-choo that's all he wanted to do. Once we hit the museum he was in heaven.!!!!!! He loved it soooo much. On the way back we hit horrible traffic. We learned that you don't get on the freeway between 4-7 pm. We had to exit and wait @ a McDonald's. That was the not so fun part. Even though we waited we hit traffic any ways...Blake finally fell asleep after a long day of adventure. My feet were killing me. I started cramping towards the end of the day but I managed to forget the pain and just enjoy my time there. We are hopefully heading back to do the other 18 museums sometime in the future. Good thing we will be here for 4 years, I'm sure we'll have time to visit them all. We love visitors...come see us :)

Happy Halloween

Blake is obsessed with Star Wars, he thinks he is a jedi. It's funny how he tries to make lightsaber noises and just loves to pretend he is fighting the bad guys. Because of his obssesion, this year we decided to dress him up as a Jedi. I have realized that being poor makes you develop new talents :) I actually made his costume out of pillow cases and got his lightsaber for $1 so I was really happy about spending $6 instead of $20. I was really nervous about making him a costume because I have no sewing skills whatsoever but thank goodness his daddy is a very handy man and helped with the hardest part (attaching the hood). Blake loves his costume he is Jedi Blake and the force is with him hahahaha. He got a lot of attention from the older ladies in our complex and of course lots of candy. We love halloween. We dressed up for the church party as smarty pants, Bob Marley and Jedi Blake. We all had a blast and a very happy halloween...Yay for candy!

Carving with Friends

We have made really good friends here in Philly. Our friends had us over to carve some pumpkins and we had a great time. I was telling my girlfriend I wish they sold pumpkins seedless hahaha that's my least favorite part. I am prego and it grosses me out a bit. Regardless we all enjoyed our pumpking carving experience and Dall decided to carve the Phillies P and I carved a face on the other side so our pumpkin is really freaky looking but it is halloween right? Happy Halloween Everyone!

Scared

Well today will be my first actual prenatal appointment at 17 weeks. A lot of thoughts have been going through my head lately about this baby, is the baby doing ok? the options I have, the possibility of a resident delivering this baby and cutting me open and performing his possible first c-section. I am totally freaking out to be honest. I don't like the fact that every time I am to go into the dr. I have to see a new face and tell them my story all over again, and again, and again! I really am struggling with deciding what to do with this delivery: 1- I can attempt a VBAC (vaginal birth after cesarean) I have read a lot of material on this and I don't know if I want to do this because of the risks involved. Uterine rupture, bleeding to death, opening of the scar, the child developing brain damage and possible death if things go wrong. 2- Another cesarean. There's always risk in surgery, infection, anesthesia, and it makes each pregnancy a greater risk for me the more c-sections I have. What to do? I know I should just have faith that everything will work out for the best but at this point I am really, REALLY confused. I would have more peace of mind if my dr. Macy was the one in charge of this birth. If anyone has had a similar experience would you be willing to share what you did? Any advice, theories? I'll take it! Um that's my belly at 17 weeks :)

Pumpkin Patch Philly Style

No way!

It has been a tradition in the Palmer family to go to the Tabernacle Choir Christmas Concert every year. And of course the year that I may not be able to go who gets to sing with them?

The one and only....David Archuleta.....I am a big fan of little David and I really, really want to go to this concert. I will walk if I have to, I will stand in line if I need to but I really want to be part of this event.....hahaha ok I'm a little dramatic but I do want to go so if anyone has any tickets that they might want to give up I will fly standby to Utah during the craziest, busiest time of the year :)

E.R Visit

I feel like I'm destined to visit the E.R at least once with each pregnancy. It happened with the miscarriage before Blake, it happened with Blake when I had the big fall..they had to monitor me for hours. And lo it happened again......it all started with a big cramp on my right lower pelvic area which I ignored cause I thought oh well it's probably nothing. I went to pee and I was in teaaaaaaaaars. I can't explain the pain. I got the chills, feverish, cramping, I couldn't walk. Dallin looked at me like mmm maybe we should go somewhere. Ok as I have mentioned before getting into the dr. is a joke here so I still haven't been seen for this pregnancy. My first appointment is in October. I went to urgent care. I explained all the symptoms to the PA. They did a urine test and she told me: We found blood in the urine, I don't think it's an infection because usually when it is, white cells appear and there were none. I'm like it's gotta be something I'm dying!!! Well she was hesitant about treating me cause it could have been pregnancy related. She goes well it could be a possible miscarriage or kidney stones. Lots of rest and lots of fluids get to an OB ASAP. I called my PA friend and told him the situation he was like do not hesitate go to the ER don't even think about it. Went to the E.R I was there for 4 hours with Dallin and Blake. They did labs, ultrasound, vitals, great care I loved it. The doc was super nice hearing me out and after all that he comes in and tells me the baby is fine. You have a Bad UTI. I'm like whaaaaaaaaaat? really? they hurt that bad. He said we do not hesitate to treat you because you are pregnant. Let's kill this asap. Well I went home after midnight my poor Blake was over tired and didn't really know what was going on but I'm glad my two boys were there for me and I'm getting the care I need to get rid of this thing :)

Fist Fight

Ok So much has happened lately that I didn't know where to start but I think this event tops it all. A couple of Sundays ago we were at church in the middle of taking the sacrament when suddenly a fist fight broke. I seriously didn't know what to do as I was watching in horror. The funny part of this is that the brother that actually blessed the sacrament grabbed one of the boys and with all his strength took him outside. Ok I apparently was the only one surprised about this event I guess it has happened before but of course I'm new and I don't really know what normal is here. I've seriously seen it all and I'm just soooooo thankful that I have the gospel in my life and the spirit of the Lord to protect me :) It is crazy here from the narrow streets, one way streets, the stop lights hidden under trees and suddenly you have to slam on your brakes cause oh yeaaaaaah there's a red light under the tree on my left oops. Our hood is ok we are getting used to it. It will be a slow process for sure but it will happen eventually. I am making wonderful friends that are totally supporting me during this horrible pregnancy. I've been so sick it's not even funny. Getting into the dr here is a total joke. There is a lot of crime in center Philly and our first week here some murderer escaped from a car on the way to prison and of course I was totally freaking out. I could spend pages after pages filled with drama but I have decided to keep a positive attitude and maybe things will be better :). We have toured the city a little and it has been fun. we had our first visitor Lance Palmer, Dallin's brother and it was just sooooo fun to spend time with family. We miss everyone lots and we totally miss Utah but we are here for 4 years not forever. I'll try to keep my blog more updated. Enjoy the pics!!