A near miss and a very thankful prayer...

Tonight as I was heading into work I realized that West End Ave was not a good place to be. The Vandy/Kentucky Wildcats game was tonight and traffic was terrible. I could see ahead that a cop had someone pulled over in the right lane. Ahead of me a bus was turning left onto a street followed by another car who really should've waited because of how close I was to them in oncoming traffic. Then I notice to my right a car turning right into MY LANE when they shouldn't have because of how close I was. They should've stopped because the cop had pulled someone over immediately after the street he was turning off of. So when he pulled out into traffic he had no where to go but in front of me or stop behind the cop. Well the idiot did the dumb thing and sped up to get in front of me instead of being patient and I had to slam on my brakes and ended up locking them up. My heart was racing and I was so MAD! The cop (who saw it all) just shut his car door and continued to go about giving someone a ticket and didn't bother to make sure I was ok or even look towards the guy who about wrecked my car! Anyway I drove on to the garage to park my car at work and offered a prayer of thanks for NOT getting in a wreck. It took me a while to get over it.

Anyway...so far from the last post here are the predictions for baby gender:

Boy:2
Girl:1
Don't Know:1

Anyone else want to guess?

Pioneer Trek

Ben went Sunday night to the monthly youth discussion fireside. The Bishop announced that this summer the stake youth are going to all participate in a 3 day pioneer trek. They will make their own authentic clothes, sleep in authentic tents, eat food that the leaders provide (probably close to what they had during the trek west), forge through streams, woods, and hills and of course push a handcart. Ben is extremely excited about this event. He thinks that they will have a lot of fun. This is scheduled to happen in June so I definitely won't be going 8 months pregnant. HAH no way. I believe they are going to Sparta, TN for this, but I really don't remember all the details Ben told me. The Bishop asked if Ben would be able to make it because they would love to have someone medically trained there. I don't think Ben would miss this for the world. He has been researching authentic clothing ever since he found out Sunday night. I'm curious to see how the girls do with making their own dresses...haha yeah the girls weren't tickled about having to wear dresses for three days straight. We'll see how that goes.

The 25th is coming up soon. Just a few more days and we'll finally (provided the baby cooperates) know the sex of the baby. I want to know what everyone's bets are on what the sex will be. Leave me a comment and let me know. :)

Strep x2

Well I'm sitting here at home bored and tired and sick. It's valentines day and I can't spend it with Ben because he's working. I also have strep throat again. We thought it might be another sinus infection but alas we were wrong. So word to the wise...if you ever get strep throat...make sure you change out your toothbrush and anything used while you had strep like towels etc.... Anyway. I hope everyone enjoys their weekend...as for me...I'm going to veg.. ;)

Boy = 3 vs Girl = 0

So far keeping score is is 3 to 0 in favor of having a boy. I had a dream I was having a boy. Christina at work had a dream I was having a boy, and now tonight I had a patient that told me I was having a boy. Once my patient found out that I was pregnant, she looked at "how I was carrying." She says that based on how I'm carrying that I'm having a boy. I think I'm carrying low right now. So who knows...old wives tales I guess. Ashley wants me to have a girl. She says that she and Don will have the first boy in the family. I said she will know in two weeks. haha. We'll see.

Step 1 Complete

The furniture is in and put together!!



The furniture makes us realize just how small our rooms are. We are so glad that everything came in without any nicks or missing parts!! Now we just need to decide what to paint the walls.

Crib furniture is in!

So the crib furniture came in last night. Ben wasn't feeling well yesterday so we are going to get it sometime Friday. I can't wait to see it all put together in the room. Soon we will be able to paint the room and get the bedding. Woo hoo. Hopefully the furniture came without any flaws or missing parts to the cribs. Ben is just happy the chifferobe and the dresser/changer combo units are already put together! I'll post pictures soon...hopefully

The downside of pregnancy

Ok...so as joyous as pregnancy is...there are some downsides to be sure.

Heather's list of grievances towards pregnancy: haha (trust me as annoying as they are, I gladly deal with them for the better sides of pregnancy)

1. My back pops out of alignment frequently due to my job and leaning over people. I have had a pinched nerve in my left lower back/hip area for a month now and keep forgetting to ask dad in law to adjust back...I assume you have to be careful with pregnant women when it comes to back manipulation. Tonight at work I was leaning over a patient in the bed to fix a wire and now I have terrible back pain (separate from the pinched nerve).

2. RLS!!! (not to be confused with ROUS - a funny for people who know Princess Bride) In the sleep world RLS is Restless Leg Syndrome. For whatever reason, pregnancy can cause you to have RLS. Sometimes it is related to anemia but my recent bloodwork showed no anemia. So...other causes...hmm...I just read a website that said it could be related to not getting enough exercise during the day or having to much caffiene or other stimulants. Duely noted...I had some Dr. Pepper tonight to stay awake. That could be why my legs are driving me CRAZY sitting here in my chair and involuntarily kicking my legs every few minutes.

3. Constant sinus problems without my routine medication...oh well. such is life.

Those are my biggest complaints...Overall none are truly bad...uncomfortable to be sure...but I cannot complain. Atleast I'm not throwing up all the time. That is a tremendous blessing!

FYI - we registered saturday at babies r us. I've decided not to register anywhere else. I love everything being in one place. I don't want to deal with return policies at Target and Walmart just doesn't have many ailes of baby items to seem worth registering there.

Well time to get patients up so I will get off here. Goodnight.