When Logan was in my belly

So continuing on with Logans stories i just wanted to put down a couple things about my pregnancy that i wanted to remember. As pregnancies go I think i had a pretty good one. However, literally as soon as i found out i was pregnant the nausea hit me. Lucky for me we were out for the summer doing security and i wasn't working. I find this to be a true blessing cause i spent alot of time on the couch. Even though i was nauseous i was thankful that i wasn't constantly throwing up like everyone says is suppose to happen. One thing that was helping me a lot was the fact that i was working out everyday. Lots of walking,(including walking Copper), the elliptical and Zumba. During my entire pregnancy i only got sick on two different occasions and both of them happened after driving ten hours in the car. So i don't blame Logan for that just the car trip.

Some other pregnancy experiences the cravings. Now my cravings weren't as crazy as some people get but i would go through spurts. Like for a whole week all i wanted was Sonic hot dogs. Weird I know. But for pretty much the entire time two things I couldn't get enough of was fruit and slushies. I constantly had to have fruit. Ryan was like really how much fruit do you need haha. I ate a whole watermelon by myself in about three day. Plus the fruit really helped with my nausea so i wasn't complaining.
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While we were in Alabama Ryan and I finally decided on names. I've always had the name Alana picked out for a girl but i had absolutely no clue for a boy name. Every time I would pick one, Ryan didn't like it. So I had my sister Taylor write me up a list of names that she liked and of course you know all names have to be Aunt Taylor approved :). It just so happened that Logan was on her list. It was the only name that Ryan and I could both agree on. I don't know how the name Isaiah came to my head for his middle name but it sounded good so we went with it.

Another thing that through me for a loop was when the doctor told me that I had gestational diabetes. First of all that sugar crap sucks. After failing the first test i dreaded going the second time. Then I had to go take the three hour test which i didn't even make it through cause i threw up. So then i had to go back and do it again. I kept the sugar stuff down but had to endure getting stuck 7 times cause i have such bad veins that the lab person had to keep sticking me in multiple places. After hear that I failed the 3 hour test I was devastated. I felt like a failure cause my body wasn't working properly. I was worried and scared that because of me something could be wrong with Logan. I thought I had done something wrong. Of course later I realized that it wasn't my fault. Doctors don't know why perfectly healthy women develop this while they are pregnant it is just something that happens. I was also relieved to learn that it wasn't really serious, I didn't have to take medicine. I just had to monitor my blood sugar since my levels were just elevated. So after making some slight changes to what I ate, one cookie instead of 5, less carbs, and alot of water, I was able to deal with it.

Looking back on everything, I loved being pregnant, I loved feeling my lil man kick inside me. I loved knowing that this wonderful person was growing inside me. I'm so grateful that Heavenly Father has trusted me with one of his choice spirits and I feel so lucky to be Logan's Mommy.

32 week Ultrasound, I love looking back at these pics cause look at his cheeks he came out with those chub chub cheeks i just love it.Me at 15 weeks this was about the time that a bump started showing not just extra fat haha

23 weeks, needless to say Logan started getting big fast

29 weeks with my big belly

Last night being pregnant before heading to the hospital in the morning 39 weeks and 6 days made it to the end.

yup he's definitely a boy

Logans Stories

So i haven't had a new post in a very long time and I've been wanting to get back in the game but didn't know where to start so I thought i'd start with how I found out i was pregnant. To begin, Ryan and I had just moved to Little Rock for his security job. It felt nice to be on our own as a new married couple. We had only been married for three months so of course we were still in our honeymoon stage, babies was a far off thought. Then one night, in the middle of the night I threw up it was so strange cause i wasn't sick, but we had tacos for dinner that night so i though maybe the tacos just made me sick no big deal. Then the next morning I made french toast for breakfast. Ryan like to put a tone of syrup oh his french toast and we he did the smell completely overwhelmed me and it almost made me sick. I was like" Hunny oh that stinks". Of course Ryan joked,"hunny its syrup how can it stink, maybe your pregnant". "Ha Ha very funny", I replied there was no way I could be pregnant, I was on birth control. Little did I know there was a little Logan already in the making.

So all day i kept thinking, could i really be pregnant. So i got up went to walmart and got a test. Well I didn't do the test right so it came up as an error. Completely freaking i went back to walmart and got another test. I went home took the test and sure enough it came up positive. I couldn't believe it. So Ryan came home and I gave him the stick and he just laughed. I was still in denial over the stupid stick the plus was starting to fade, so we made another trip back to walmart to get yet another test. This time I got the Clear Blue test there are no plus signs or line just plain words that say pregnant, not pregnant, my kind of test. So we went home and took the test and it said pregnant. I didn't know what to think, by this time i was really freaking out, I mean we just got married, I was ready to have a baby yet, what would people say getting pregnant so fast. Ryan on the other hand was just fine with it, he was excited.

The next morning we decided to take one last test since the box had two tests in it. Also, its better to take the tests in the morning since the pregnancy hormones are more prominent. By this 4th test i was finally convinced, yup I'm pregnant and that morning just so happened to be Mothers Day. So I had my first Mothers Day and i didn't even plan on it. Logan has been the best surprise that has ever happened to me. I've now come to realize that things happen for a reason and obviously the little boy was just meant to come even if mom and dad weren't quite ready for him yet.