Happiest Place on Earth

This last weekend Josh and I got to go to Disneyland with Maddie, Bridger, and my Mom. We were so excited to get away from life for a few days. The drive down was such a blast, and the trip was even more fun. I don't know when I have laughed that hard in a long time! My brother and sister are seriously hilarious and they just kept us going the entire time. We had some rough moments every now and again, which was only expected because after all we are family. The trip as a whole though was wonderful.

On this trip there were some firsts that were quite monumental:
Mom-first time to Disneyland without Dad (hard, but still a first and triumph none the less) Maddie and Bridger-first time on Tower of Terror and 2nd and 3rd time too
Josh-first full day at Disneyland on Sunday
Libby-first time doing Disneyland pregnant

I had no idea how hard it would be to make it through 40 hours of Disneyland walking and pregnant. Oh man, after like 3 hours on the first day I was pretty worn out. I also had a TON of pain in my feet and ankles. Luckily my mom decided to stay and visit with me while the other 3 did the big rides so I got lots of down time to put my feet up. At the end of the second day though I was in bad shape. My feet were so swollen and I didn't know if I could even walk out to the car to go home. I made it through the day though and still had one day ahead of me. So I did the unthinkable....

I actually wore my flip flops to Disneyland! I always made fun of people that did that. I couldn't imagine being comfortable in flip flops for more than 4 hours of walking. But miraculously I found out that flip flops were a BILLION times more comfortable than my regular shoes. I just wish I had discovered that on the first day instead of the last.

Anyway, sorry to ramble on about stupid things like wearing flip flops to Disneyland, but it really was a big Disneyland milestone in my life, ha ha. I am so grateful I had this time with my family to bond and become stronger than we are. I can't wait for the next vacation!

Really?!?

So I got on Motherhood.com today to see if I could find some cute new things to spice up my wardrobe. 

As I got online I was greeted by models that look like this

Really? Does any pregnant girl really look like this because I sure don't.

I got depressed really fast and decided to abort looking for anything new.

Ugh, maybe I will try again tomorrow when my self-esteem is better

Four?

Tonight at the mall we saw a cute lady walking with four little kids. After a minute of admiring I realized they were all the same size, two girls with matching shirts and two boys with matching shirts. And then it dawned on me....they were quadruplets! I have never seen a set of quads and they were so darling probably 4 years old. And although they were cute I was so grateful at that moment to only have one on the way. Becoming a mom was a pretty scary thought this morning, and still is, but it got a lot less scary when I realized I don't have to do what that lady did!

Put us on team....

green! I have been so excited and have anticipated finding out the gender of our little baby for so long now. And today was supposed to be the day...

I had a Dr. Pepper so our little one would be totally active and ready to show us their stuff. Apparently caffeine has no affect on ours though :( The doctor tried everything to wake the baby up but it wouldn't at all (takes after me already!) and although baby was asleep it was quite amazing none-the-less. The doctor showed us every part of baby and it was so crazy!

The thing I loved most was that baby had hands folded and tucked up under their chin with legs crossed sound asleep. It was so cute! I was so amazed that we could see every little bone-fingers, toes, arms, legs, spine even. We could also see the heart beating inside it's chest! I was so amazed that a little person was inside of me.

Even though we couldn't find out the gender today and I was really bummed about it, I'm so grateful we have a healthy baby. I haven't been able to feel baby yet and was very worried that something was wrong. We measured tiny though (4 days behind) so luckily I won't have a giant baby and all of the fluid is sitting on top of baby like a pillow. With the combination of those two he said I may not feel baby for another week or two especially if baby continues to sleep as deeply as it was today.

I think Heavenly Father was like "I am giving you the reassurance that everything is fine with your little sweetheart. But you will learn the lesson of patience and what it's like to wait." I also realized that if we don't find out gender until the end of March I will only have 2 weeks of school left and no time to be distracted. If I found out gender today I would never get any homework done-I would be thinking about names, nursery design, and all of the fun things. So our little stubborn one could have really been a blessing in disguise.

So we will patiently await March 24 and hope that our little one decides to come out and show us the goods, ha ha!