The Doctor Apptointment From Heck

I had a doctor appointment today and it was quite long and eventful. I was stuck in the waiting room for 45 minutes before they called me back. In that time I saw several people that I knew walk by, but I was really bored just waiting. They finally called me back and did the routine things before I went to settle into the room the doctor would see me in. The nurse came in and told me there was some bad news and that the doctor had been called to do an emergency cesarian section and that given the nature of my visit that week I would have to wait for him to come back (possibly 45 min.). She then came back in and told me he had 10 minutes and to hurry and get undressed to do the group b strep test. I sat on the thing feeling very uncomfortably waiting when the nurse came back in and said his 10 minutes turned into 5 and he had already left for the OB to do the c-section. I opted to put my clothes back on because I didn't like sitting there vulnerable. Well, the fire alarm went off and I was ever grateful that I had put my pants back on. Everyone was taken outside and we had to wait for the "all clear" before they would let us back in. A few minutes after I got back into my room the nurse came back in and said the doctor would be back in 10 minutes and to get ready for the test. I readied myself and the doctor finally came in. He checked the measurment of my belly and the fetal heart rate, did the strep test, and then did the test to see if things were moving towards labor. The best news I recieved during this appointment is that I am not closed, thick, and high... The baby is in the vertex position (head down), and my contractions haven't been in vain so far. At 36 weeks 4 days I am dialated 2 cm. and effaced 60%. I was amazed to hear that, but it was awesome news. There is a possibility this baby will be coming earlier than expected, but where everyone is different, I could still end up being late. I just thought today's appointment was worth noting because of all the exciting things that happened to keep me at the hospital for 2 hours. My favorite part was the fire alarm. The sad thing was there really was a fire at the hospital. Good news was they got it out before the fire department got there. My doctor and the nurse were talking about it during my check up and the doctor said he could smell smoke in the operating room.

Sniffing Poopy Diapers

Saturday the 28th my visiting teacher Tonya threw me a baby shower. She moved into our ward shortly after we did and before I even knew her name she was offering to throw me a shower and saying, "Everyone needs at least one baby shower." I really appreciated all the hard work she did in organizing everything. As word got out on this shower other members of the ward/neighborhood jumped in and wanted to help. By the time the shower took place 3 more people (Tamara, Deborah, and Latonya) had jumped on board and teamed up to throw a really nice shower. The food was awesome, we played games, and Shane and I were spoiled with many gifts for the baby. The one pictured below, you can't tell what it is in my lap, but Phyllis made this really cute hooded towel had green fabric on a blue towel and penguins applied to it. Another gift I want to note is the one Aunt Marilyn gave me that consisted of 2 really neat blankets that she had made herself. You can see them on the back of the chair on my right.

Here is a picture of some of our lovely guests including my mom, Marilyn, Kristine, Tara, Melissa, Evelyn, and Tara's new baby daughter Tanya.

Also Shane's mom and his sister Camille were there. There were many others that came, but for the blogs sake (keeping it short), I only mentioned a few.

They had me decorate myself with the bows and ribbons as I pulled them off the presents. Here I have a ribbon necklace and 2 bows on my stomach. You can also see the penguin on the hooded towel that is draped on the chair to my right.

Now for the explanation for the title of this post. Many girls have probably played this game and no it doesn't include actual poopy diapers. They melted a different candy bar in 6 different diapers. This way they all looked like poop. The goal was to try and guess as many candy bars as you could out of the 6 diapers. Here you can see me as I am attempting to smell the chocolate to see what the candy bar is. I think that particular diaper was a Hershey's bar. I was one of the 5 winners in this game. I ended up guessing 4 out of 6 diapers right. I would have gotten 5 because one of them smelled so familiar, but I couldn't recall Caramello. I was kicking myself when I found out what the answer was. In the picture below, to my right is one of my mom's co-workers, Jamie, and to my left is my friend Dixie who is married to Shane's good friend Zac that you can see half of. Shane and Zac decided to come hang out and bust into the goodies that were there. They didn't stick around for very long.

The baby shower was a huge success. It was mainly a ward thing, but I did end up inviting a few extra people. Anyone who reads this and was a part of it I just want to say, "Thanks for your love and support. It was a really special thing to have you there. If I could have invited more people I would have."

Creepy Crawly Things

This one just happened to be available for posing when I did this post. It died a raid filled death shortly afterwards.

Since the construction began around the house, we have seen an increase in my least favorite of the creepy crawly type. I swear I see at least one spider a day in the house and they even attack me when I get up in the middle of the night. I just wanted to touch on a couple of encounters that have stuck out to me. First of all I will start off with our bedroom.

One day I was in our room and I found 2 spiders in a web behind the door. I inspected it and it looked like they were both dead so I didn't hurry in getting rid of them. Well, later I went back because I got thinking and had some concerns so I got a little closer and noticed that one of them had fallen out of the web and was shriveled on the floor. The other one wasn't dead, but with getting just close enough to see I discovered it wasn't just another house spider. Yes there was a red mark on the belly of a black body. That was the female black widow and the one on the floor was it's mate. We took care of the problem and after a few nights of paranoid scratching every itch and trying to sleep I was finally able to start sleeping again.

Another night Shane had gone to bed early because he wasn't feeling well. I came in later and he still had the lamp on by the bed. I noticed a little black thing on the side of the bed right by Shane. After a closer inspection I realized it was a spider so I grabbed one of Shane's shoes and knocked it off the bed and it fell apart before it even hit the ground. I cleaned it up and told Shane about it the next day.

This next one is still in our bedroom, but it doesn't deal with a spider. I was rubbing lotion onto my hands and I just happened to look at the window and see something moving up there. I squealed to Shane who was on the bed next to the window and we discovered it wasn't a spider. it was about 1 1/4 inches long and resembled a centipede. It was brown and I didn't like it in our bedroom one bit. I'm pretty sure it wasn't a centipede, but it still was creepy. I've seen them before, but usually only when we'd move a railroad tie in the backyard. They are a lot more intimidating when they're by your bed. I had a hard time sleeping after this one too. Well, I guess I should say that I couldn't really sleep after any of these encounters.

This last story I don't think has anything to do with the construction, but I think it's creepy and don't like the idea one bit. On Sunday at church a family that lives a couple of houses down from us decided to report to my mom about their neighborhood findings in the last month. It turns out that they have found 3 different snakes. One was a big garden snake, another was identified as I think a bullhead snake, and they don't know what the other one was. Well, one of them has become their new pet. I get paranoid when we go to Lake Powell because I have been the finder of 2 out of 2 snakes we've encountered there. I guess I won't worry about our neighborhood and just hope that I never have to encounter any snakes there. I spend a lot of time inside, but that doesn't calm my nerves since we still have a door shaped hole in the side of our house.

Sorry I'm Such A Slowpoke

I realize I've probably been driving you all nuts with my lack of posting lately, but I hope these pictures make up for all that.

They poured cement into the basement hole and they were spreading it out when this was taken. The guy said, "please don't get us... get the cement." He was joking around with us earlier and I didn't know if he was serious or not so I didn't take any pictures of the workers.

This is the cement pumper truck.

The cement is pumped through this thing that goes over the house and there is a guy in the back controlling it by a remote control. They poured the patio and part of the retaining wall with it. They ran out of concrete so they had to go get another truck to finish the job.

This is the retaining wall. This has looked the same since Tuesday. So has the Patio. They haven't been back to do anything for several days now.

This is our patio and sidewalk. You can also see that we are lacking a back porch at the moment. It is great fun jumping out of the house and climbing back in. Don't worry nobody around here allows me to do anything that will cause me to hurt myself. Usually someone is around to help me when I go out the back door or I use the front door and go around if I feel it's too dangerous. In th is picture you can also see the remnants of the lawn. It is slowly growing back in, but they still have to dig a trench up to the shed so they can add electricity to it. Even though I've been really slow at posting, this is all that has been done so you can see the project is moving very slowly.