So freaken hot in here!

So I am sitting in bed, editing my life away, and burning up! It feels like a million degrees in here! Rory is fast asleep, lucky boy. My throat is on fire! So this week was tough, but I have seen the light at the end of the tunnel. It all falls in to place. I know Austin will be fine, and I know everything else will be as well. I was talking to Rory's little sisters the other day who are both in highschool. They were going on about the fights they are having with their friends, boyfriend problems and the typical girl stuff. Totally makes me incredibly happy I am past that. I remember middle school was tough for me. I could not fit in where I wanted, and I think a lot of that was because of my self. I didn't try enough. I am so glad that stage in life is OVER! I am so glad I am where I am today. Rory has made my life perfect. I am so glad I can move on with things that need to be put away and I can look to the future instead of repeatedly looking back and bringing it up. Rory and I went and did the registry this week. My baby shower is soon, and I am getting to the point I just don't want to walk around any more, so it was best we did it now. We are doing the shower at my moms house this time, because when I had my bridal shower at Rorys mom's house last year, their was so many people! With all the friends and family I invited combined with Rorys family, I was being smothered! It was a lof of fun though. We also registered our car and paid a few more car payments. That felt awesome, and it is great because we are not due for another til after Logan is here. Hopefully we can keep this up and get it paid off. I am so over that car! This weekend is David and Aftons birthday party, and we will be getting all of everyones family together. This should be lots of fun. Thousands of people rubbing my belly, oh yay. Tiffany and I were sitting on the couch talking the other night about things to tell people when they touch your belly. We came up with some good ones! I wish I was mean enough to say it to people. Gosh, Rory and I were selling a dog the other day and this lady was just rubbing away at my tummy like I was Buddha or something! She didn't even ask if I was pregnant til after her rub fest was over. I just though to myself, what a weirdo! This month, I am doing an old friend of mines senior pictures. Her name is Racheal, and I am also doing an old friend of ours named Megan. It is weird, I use to hang out with these girls in kindergarten! It will be good to see them again! I am also doing a family shoot, and sibling shoot for another family. I love doing shoots! I have been nesting like CRAZY lately. I clean the toilet every flippen day. Rory is always flipping out on me saying I shouldn't be working so hard because I am pregnant. PSHHH! Dr. Oneida is always telling me to rest when I can, but it is hard for me to do. She got upset when I mentioned that I swept, mopped and vacumed. She said that was to much strain. What? Are you kidding me? I am pregnant, not parapolegic! Haha! This Tuesday is my glucose test, so fun! Not! Also, not looking forward to that scale. I for some reason lost another two pounds, Dr. Oneida won't be happy. She says although Logan is healthy and safe, I am not healthy weight wise. What can I do though? If the puking won't stop, neither will the weight loss! I eat like a cow all day long! Hopefully this pregnancy is only hard because its a boy, or its my first, because Rory wants more babies and I don't know if I can handle another nine months of puking! :). Joking of coarse. I can handle anything! Ha ha! I know I write to my self all the time, no one reads this, but it is so good to be able to look back and read all about what happened this week or last. Rory loves reading it too! It is like my online diary for the world to see, if they wanted to of coarse! :). Well, better get back to editing!

Tough day.

Today Austin left. It was extremely hard for us all to say goodbye, so instead we told him see you soon! Because we will. It is sad how much he is going to miss out on, but we will make sure that he gets double the fun when he gets home. Luke knew something was up. He was not like him self at all today. Very fussy. It made me sad. Austin cried, and thats when the tear fest began. I knew we all would. It was so hard, but I know his safe returning will be here soon, and he will have lots of love and people waiting for him. Rory said he wouldn't cry. I knew that was a lie. As soon as they hugged good bye Rory turned to me teary eyed. I can not blame him. It was so hard. I am really going to miss his twisted sense of humor and the laughs he gave everyone who was in the room with him, but I know he will be making the troops and people of Afghanistan laugh, and they need it most. Austin is a brave, couragous, strong, hardworking, confident Marine, and I know he is going to be okay. I can not wait for baby Logan to meet him. This seven months will be long, but his safe return will be here. God bless our Troops and every thing that they do for us.

27 weeks

So I am now 27 weeks. Time is flying by. I am so excited for him to be here for us to hold, cuddle, love and cherish. Rory and I set up our room for the crib and all the baby stuff. It just makes it that much more surreal. He is now finding ways to get to my ribs, and I am pretty sure he loves them! He pokes and jabs and pulls at them. I must say, it is painful and annoying, but I can't help but love every one of his kicks. Right now, Austin, Karlee, and baby Luke are down. Austin is here on is two week leave before he is deployed to Afghanistan. Karlee and Luke will be staying here for now, until Austin returns home. This is going to be a tough week, I will admit. I am already dreading Sunday when Austin has to leave. He will be leaving for seven months, which is not to long, but the thought of him gone with out his family by his side, hurts. I am very confident in Austin, though. He is a very brave man with lots of courage, dignity, and self respect and I confide in him for all that he is doing for his country and our freedom. I know he will always return home safely to all of his family here. It will be so incredibly hard to say good bye, but I know he will return with arms wide open from all of us who love him. In the mean time, Austin took Karlee up to Park City for the night, and Rory and I offered to baby set Luke. He is such a good baby! Rory loves him so much, and it is so great to watch these two play and laugh at eachother. Right now, Luke is fast asleep on one side of me while Rory is on the other side sleeping as well. Rory is going to be a great dad. He has opened up so much with all of the kids around here and loves them so much. I love watching the laughs he can get from them. My photography business has been doing great, and I have been packed with shoots and editing. I decided to take this week and weekend off so I could spend time with Austin before he leaves. Austin, Rory, Dj, and Marcus are going paintballing tomorrow, and I know Rory is way excited for that. Rory and I have done some researching on the business we will be starting in the early months of 2011. Hopefully fully opened by feb. of '11. We are not going into to much detail, but we have applied for the loans, and bussiness license. My mom has been helping us a great deal with that. We have been doing so great with money (knock on wood!) and plan on paying off our car in the next five months. That will be a huge relief. Well, better get going to bed! Love you all, night!

Nervous and bad heart burn

So It is one in the morning, seems late to you, but to me the night is just beginning! For those of you who don't know, I have insomnia. I can now go a whole day and night with no sleep. IN fact, some nights Rory has to force me to sleep. I hate sleeping pills, or any pills for that matter since I have been pregnant. I have heart burn up the ying yang. Logan is moving like crazy. I can watch my belly shift from side to side and see his little feet kicking me galor. I am so nervous for my U/S tomorrow. I will find out the results to see if I end up needing the surgery and how bad my kidneys are. Oh boy, the thought wrecks me. Cross your fingers for me every one!

Valentines day and 25 weeks!

So today is Valentines day, and a great day! I have so much to love in my life, especially the love OF my life. He is the most perfect man alive. He could never be compared to, and I am so thankful to have been blessed with such a perfect angel to stand by my side in life. He truly has been the most loving, caring, perfect, smart, handsome, amazing man I could ask for. Today, we are gong to see Wolf Man, and than going to Lunch. It should be great! Rory got me the camera of my dreams for Valentines. It is a Canon EOS XSI 450d. It is amazing. I have a photo shoot booked monday morning and I am way excited to use it! The picture quality is great! I got Rory this paintball gun he has been wanting. He has decided to find a hobby, and paintball gunning sounded great for him. He definetly needs a hobby so he can enjoy him self instead of being the hardworker he is. So Logan is getting bigger, I say that instead of me getting bigger because it just sounds so much better! Lol! But really, I can not even believe how tight my pants are on me now lol. I am still way underweight, but I have gained which is good. Dr. Oneida doesn't seem to worried so I won't be either. I am not sure if I told you guys, but I am having some serious problems with my kidneys. I told you about the hospital trip, well it turns out that water that is surrounding my kidneys is actually urine. The valves to my kidneys have been blocked off my Logan and my uterus laying on it, so they ruptured which explains all of my pain. I go in tuesday for an ultrasound, than she will determine if I need the surgery, which they will go through my back and put a stint into my valves and than give me a colostrum because I won't be able to use the bathroom. I am really hoping I can avoid this at all costs. She also said that if it isn't healed by the time of my labor, I will most likely have to get a C-section because of the pressure it will put on it by pushing. Well, as long as Logan is alive and kicking I am fine. Reece turns 7 years old tommorrow! It is so sad yet so great that he is growing up so fast. I remember visiting him while he was in NICU those two weeks as a new born. He was so little and precious. Now he is still so cute, but he can actually talk which means he talks just like a boy! Austin comes home next saturday for two weeks, and than will be deployed to Afghanistan. Karlee will be staying in Utah and living here for the next seven months. As nervous as I am for him, I know and I am confident he is going to do great. He is a strong, brave man, and all the training he has had has prepared him for whats coming. I just look forward to the last of the seven months when we can all see him again! Well, better go get ready!

24 weeks, 6 months!

Six months down, three to go! Although these six months went by super fast, I know they are going to start slowing down soon. That might be an okay thing though, because I want to prepare EVERYTHING for him. I want his welcoming to be perfect, although I know just having him here with my perfect husband will be incredible. So I should probably write in here about my recent hospital visit. Can I just say, Not Fun! I woke up Thursday with an incedible right side pain, it hurt very bad but I put it off as ligament pains. Every one kept telling me that the pain should not be that bad, but I kept putting it off, silly me. Friday I woke up feeling great! Than, Saturday, I woke up practically paralyzed in pain. I could barely stand. I called the doctors to get a sooner check up, when I got there they sent me to Labor and Delivery. I got to Labor and Delivery and couldn't bare the pain any more and just broke down in tears. It was quite embarassing but the nurses and of coarse, Rory, were very helpful. They monitored me and baby Logan for five hours, took a ton of blood (during the process I was literally holding on so I didn't pass out or puke!) and took a urine culture. They came down to the conclusion that I had a pretty bad UTI, and a bad infection. They gave me some pain meds and told me if it didn't feel better later tonight, to go to the ER. Well I got home and two hours later the pain was back. I went into the ER, got some more IV's and blood drawn and found out I really did not have any trace of an UTI, just my white blood cell count was very high which indicated the infection I have was pretty bad. They had me drink some nasty contrast drink, a cup every half hour for two hours, and did a cat scan. They were convinced it was my appendix. The cat scan concluded I had water surrounding my kidneys but they could not pin point my infection. After spending all day and night in the hospital, I was prescribed some anti biotics and sent home at two in the morning. I am very worried about the infection, because I just know it is some where near my kindeys, and Rory and I are crossing our fingers that this medicine works. Although I still am having the pain, I can tell it is clearing up. Rory has been learning all about building websites. I am so proud of what he is doing. He has learned a lot, and is still going. He has such a creative and smart mind. He can really take him self any where. I love him so truly much! My photography business has taken off and I am so happy. I have lots of dates booked and more coming. Next Monday is Reecy boys birthday! I am so happy to have him as a little brother. Him and his humerous self can make any one laugh. We are all going bowling Saturday for his party. Rory and I are doing wonderful. He is such a great friend and husband and my life is so complete with him. I can't wait to take our life to the next chapter with Logan in it. I love it the kicks and turns Logan does when Rory is around or talking or kissing my belly. Rory is the most honerable, lovable, and amazing man alive and I love him more than words can say. Well off to watch some TV!

23 weeks and flying!

I am now at the 23 week mark. So crazy! 17 or less weeks to go! Rory and I have been doing wonderfully! We went to the circus tonight with all of my family and had a blast, although the animals really got my allergies going, but all in all it was a very fun time! I haven't really mentioned much about how my photography business is doing, not on this blog of mine at least, but I will fill you in. I decided to take my photography to the next level, where I have always wanted it to be. I now officially own Shory Photography. What is nice about what I am doing is that I do not need a business license. That saved me a lot of time and money. I have done five shots these last two weeks, and three more coming the next three weeks. Great start! I started advertising on KSL.com, and had word of mouth clients as well. The process was a little difficult, but now that I have all the legal stuff down, I am set to go! I have been doing a lot of senior shots. I offered a package and have been charging $50.00 for them. I also have a family shot coming up this next week, and two girls that are friends with eachother are having me do their seniors, singles, and friend shots. I have been doing so great, and I am so proud of my self! I have signed up for the next online photography course, and been reading my life away. I know most of what I need to, but I also know that every little thing counts. My accomplishment has been fulfilled, and I have no one to thank but my self, my wonderful husband for his support, and my family for being there. Rory and I will be getting our tax return next friday. We are getting a lot more than I expected, but with the tax return, the money we have been getting off of puppies, and my photography shoot money, we have been doing wonderful. For my Valentines present, Rory bought me my DREAM camera. Canon XSI 450D. It is incredible. I want to say what I got him, but I know he will read this, sneaky boy! I know he will love it though! We are also putting money aside for baby Logans circumsition since the insurance no longer covers that, and we both decided it is what we want for him. We have our crib, and every thing else. Now the baby shower comes, and I know with how many people are coming, we will be getting more than enough. I recently stumbled upon some of Rory and I's pictures that are on some bodies public blog. I really don't mind that she has them on there, but what I do mind is that when I took her and her daughters pictures, and after our recent dropping of our friendship, I respected her wishes to take them off of my FB. I am just clueless as to why it was such a deal that hers must be taken down, but mine our up there for the world to see. I started building my portfolio, and really want to add some of the pictures I took of her and her daughter in it, but I know a big bussle will be the out come of it. Although, I do own the pictures and copyright to them, and I can not get into any legal trouble, the trouble she will cause me will not be worth it in the end. Plus, I know I have many clients to come that can be added into my portfolio. Logan weighs just over a pound now, and is really growing more and more each day. I am a little worried, as my weight is very slowly growing, but my doctor says I don't have much to worry about, because Logan is healthy as can be. My starting weight when I got pregnant was 142, when I hit 15 weeks, I was down to 127, now I am not 135, but should be at 158. Scary right? Well according to the docs, it is fine for now, that is. I am so excited to be a mom, and Rory is extatic to be a dad. He is going to be amazing, and I am so happy to have him be my support system. I watch these shows about single moms, and I can never understand how they do it. It has to be tough on a person physically, but emotionally as well. I think any one who has there companion with them through the pregnancy and parenting, should be charishing life because they were blessed with some one that loves them enough to stick by and do what ever they can for you. Life is such a silly thing, and can really boggle my brain thinking about it. How did I end up with such an amazing husband, and family? I am not sure, but I know that I have seriously been blessed. Countless times in my life, I have had people tell me horrible things about my self, things I have never found true, but I now realize the meaning behind it. These same people have been looking up to me and everything I do, and it is in plain sight. It truly flatters me that I can be such an inspiration to someone. My life has had its up's and downs, but in reality, the only thing you can do during the tough times is keep looking ahead. The road always continues, and I believe that this is the reason my life has turned out so perfectly. Talk to you all soon!