31 Weeks

Okay here is a picture of my belly. The doctor says my weight is perfect. Even though they say that is still frustrating getting dressed in the morning and I can't wait to fit in my old clothes again. I am trying to avoid buying a ton of maternity clothes so I am trying to make due with what I have. I probably try on 10 things every morning before I leave the house. I feel very lucky and blessed to be pregnant but I hoping the next 2 months go by quickly so Kobe can finally be here.

9 more weeks

Well not much has been going on in the Eyerly home. I have about 9 weeks left until Kobe gets here. Gabe and I are really excited. I really haven't got a lot of baby stuff done or any decorating because we are moving right after he is born. Gabe has been working in Portland for the last 3 months. He usually gets to fly home on the weekends for a couple days. Things have been kind of boring with out him. I pretty much just go to work and then try to keep my self from being too bored in the evenings. It has been pretty hard but I have great friends around who keep me company.
My pregnancy is going good. I feel huge though and hate the fact that I am going to just keep getting bigger in the last few weeks. I have been teaching water aerobics so that is good and I try to take zumba a couple times a week. I can't wait until I can exercise like I use too.. I miss it and I miss teaching classes.
I am kind of against taking pictures of my belly, so I doubt I will put one up for people to see.. Just picture a basketball under my shirt, that's about what it looks like. I am going to visit Gabe in Portland over the fourth of July so I will post some picture from that trip. Besides that I am just trying to survive the heat of the West Texas summer and keep myself busy while Gabe and I are apart. Gabe is doing great at his new job and We can't wait until our family can all be together including Kobe!

We are Having a BOY!!!

We found out last week that we are having a baby boy!! We are both thrilled. I was nervous because the little guy was hiding the whole time and the lady had to keep shaking my belly to get him to move. Gabe had been saying it was a boy all along but I wasn't sure either way.. I would of loved a girl to dress her up in all the cute little girl things, but I am equally excited that it is a boy. It makes it even more exciting to see Gabe so thrilled. I have been saying that I am going to be the one and not him limiting the baby purchases. If Gabe could have his way everything our little guy wears would be Lakers gear or sports related. We have already picked out his name. Gabe got to chose the name for his first son and of course he chose Kobe. I think it is cute too. His name will be Kobe Oliver Benjamin Eyerly. So if you notice his intials spell his name just like Gabe's ititals spell his name and they will share the middle name Benjamin. 21 weeks down 19 weeks to go hopefully!

Hawaii

The last couple of weeks have been crazy. I was home for about 3 days out of the last 17.. Our first big adventure was Hawaii. Gabe and I flew down there on Sat the 3rd and stayed until thursday evening. It was amazing. Neither of us had ever been and we can't wait to go back either. We stayed in Maui with some friends of ours that use to live in lubbock. We had the best time. We went to the beach, hiked up to waterfalls and enjoyed all the small shopping towns. One day we took a 6 hour boat ride, where we saw dolphins, whales and sea turtles and stopped in two locations to snorkle. Snorkling was one of my favorite things we did. We also drove up to the top of the tallest mountain on Maui and watched the sunset. Here are a few pictures...I am still waiting on our underwater pictures so we will see how those turned out. It was such a beautiful place!

15 weeks down too many to go

I am so grateful to be having a baby but I am not enjoying being pregnant at all. I have a book about expecting and it goes through the pregnancy. Every negative syptom one could possibly get while pregnant I have. The first trimester is over so I am just hoping I am one of those who starts to feel better soon and not one of the ones who is sick the whole time. Lucky my worst days seem to be on saturday and sundays. Its like my body knows I don't have to work so it can just all hit me really hard. I know it will be worth it in the end, I just hope the next six months fly by.

Last weekend I drove down to College Station Tx in a 15 passenger van with 13 of my instructors for fitness weekend. I was really nervous about riding in a big van for 8 hours with the way my stomach as been lately but luckily nothing hit me until we had reached the hotel with a nice bathroom. It was fun weekend and I finally have been able to work out lately so it was fun to do a few classes. I really do have the best job ever! 4 more weeks and we get to find out if it is a boy or girl!!

Our Little Miracle Story

Gabe and I are excited to annouce that we will be adding to our family in August. We are very excited to be pregnant. It is such a great blessing and an answer to so many prayers. Even though there have been many struggles on the road to this pregnancy, I am so grateful for our blessings and I think the Lord as really prepared us to be parents. I thought I would write out the quick story so I don't forget how blessed I really am.

We decided a little over 2 years ago that we wanted to start our family and about 2 years ago I was diagnosed with PCOS so we knew it would be a little difficult. We tried on our own for a while and then were referred to our Fertility Specialist. Things looked promising so we again decided to just try on our own. After the year mark we decided to start looking into the fertility treatments. There were a lot of tests that needed to be done and they all had to be done around my cycle which was so irregular that it was very hard to coordinate them. Also money became an issue. Our insurance only covered diagnoses so everything else we had to pay for. It always seemed like we would save up the money for a test or something, and then something else would happen that we would have to put that money towards. It was really frustrating for a while, and it seemed like everyone I knew was having babies.

I am so grateful for my family and friends who helped me so much through all these trials and for all the prayers that were offered in our behalf. We have so many great people in our lives that gave us so much support and help. In November we finally had finished all the necessary pretests and visits and were ready to start the fertility drugs. We also decided to do insemination to increase our chances of conceiving. On Dec 6Th we had the procedure and everything went well. And then we had to wait 2 weeks to find out if it worked. Only about 1 in 3 who do it have it work the first time. So I was prepared and pretty sure that we would have to try again and that it more than likely wouldn't work. Gabe was so sure that it worked the whole ...what an optimist. I guess I was just preparing myself for the negative so that it wouldn't hurt so bad if it didn't happen.

On the 20Th of December we went in for the blood test. I didn't take any pregnancy test before; I didn't want to get a negative and then still have to go into the doctors. I thought we would find out pretty quickly but they sent us on our way and told us they would call us by lunch. We both went to work and I definitely didn't get any work done. I didn't want to miss the call. At 12:30 I called Gabe and told him it was almost past lunch time and so he called over to the office. He called me while the nurse went to get the results and we were all on the line. I think that is when it all hit. I started crying mostly out of fear that I would have to go through this all over again. When the nurse came back to the phone all she said was positive and I was crying and Gabe thanked her and I couldn't even say anything. Gabe came later that day to my work and by then I think the tears had dried out. There was a chance for twins (which Gabe was hoping for; he is wasn't thinking of all the work just the fun factor; I was a little more realistic that one would be best for us). We found out at week 7 that there was just one heart beat. Thank goodness!

We truly feel like this child is answer to so many prayers. I am so thankful for a Heavenly Father who listens to my prayers and the prayers of others. We had our last visit with our fertility doctor today and she said everything looks great. We got to see the little "it" moving around and everything. They said I could graduate from their office and now I will see a regular OB. We are excited for the months to come to see our baby grow!!
Once the baby looks more like a baby instead of an alien I will put up some of the ultrasound pictures!

Christmas Time!

Last year we didn't get a tree or even put up any christmas decorations because I went out to Utah the whole time. But this year Gabe will be here the whole time and I am only going to leave over new years so we will get to spend Christmas at home. Gabe has to work a lot but oh well, I will enjoy my time off with a lot of sleeping in and christmas movies!! We got our tree last night and got it all decorate. We went with a lot smaller tree this time, last time we got a tree that filled up the whole corner. But now we have room to put this little elelctric fireplace next to the tree and I even hung our stockings above it!! My goal is to now get the house cleaned this weekend so then I can really just sit, relax and enjoy the tree.