Taytum Rae Jones

We had our 16 week a week and a half check up and Dr said everything was looking great. He said he was leaning towards a girl. We had an 3d ultrasound right after that appt and they confirmed 100% girl. It was crazy. The lady had the probe on my tummy for like 2 seconds and was like all baby girl here. I guess when that's what you do all day you can pick that up that fast. It lasted about 30 minutes and was so fun to sit there and watch Taytum play and move around. My Mom and Dad went with us to this one and we will have another one when I'm farther along that all family is invited to. The next day was Saturday and when I had just gotten in to bed and laid down I felt her kick for the first time! It was the coolest thing. Since then I have felt her kicking a lot. Last night I was able to feel her with my hand on my tummy. Such an amazing feeling. Im starting to get a bump and most of my clothes don't fit. One day I will post bump pictures. I have only taken 2. One the day the embryos were placed in and one at 14 week. I was asked at work the other day if I was pregnant. That was weird. It took me a minute to answer. I was like humm yes I am. When you try to get pregnant for years and it finally happens you don't know how to answer those questions. It's like wow yes I am. Something I thought I'd never get to experience. Truly a miracle.

Baby jones update

Baby Jones is doing great! Dr says I'm officially out of the first trimester!! I will be 13 weeks on Tuesday. We had our first OB appointment on Friday which was different because we've been seeing the specialist for so many years trying to have a baby and now some other Dr is going to get the credit for delivering the baby. Just seems weird. At our appointment the Dr did a quick ultrasound taking measurements and was done. It was fast and not what I was used to. They asked if we wanted the NT blood and ultrasound to check for downs. I looked at Brandon and said I don't care what the results would be I want another ultrasound, so yes! We got a 45 minute ultrasound and it was so fun to sit there and watch our baby. Baby just wanted to sleep though so they had me go to the bathroom, drink water and lay on my sides. At the end they told us it looks like we are having a little GIRL! They will confirm in 4 weeks but were pretty confident its a GIRL. Little Taytum Rae!. Brandon and I still don't agree on the spelling but that the name. What do you all think (the 3 of you who still read our blog) Brandon likes Taetum and I like Taytum. It finally hit me Friday afternoon as I was shopping for girl clothes ( yes I couldn't wait) that I am going to have a baby. That all of this isn't just a dream. I knew one day it would happen and now that it is happening it just seem so crazy. We truly feel so blessed for everything we have gone through to get to this point. Now if November will just hurry and get here!

April adventures

April was a WAY busy month for us. Seemed like everything was crammed into one month. We Started off with the good old Clark County Fair and Rodeo which Brandon and I help out at. I'm in charge of one of the stages. Very stressful but fun. This year Brandon helped out in the cash office. Mixed in that week Brandon had a home track meet. Then we went back to work for a week, had another track meet then we hopped on a plane with our very good friends the Lewis' and headed for Hawaii for a week. They invited us to stay in their timeshare with them. We had a very good time but decided we don't take vacations, we take adventures. We had a good time exploring the island, searching for waterfalls (some we found, one we didn't after hiking down hill and then back up about 4 miles) and hanging out. We sure do have awesome friends to have invited us along and had a good time with. May is looking to be a busy month too. My sister Jordan is getting married next weekend and my little brother if receiving his eagle scout after all his hard work. Im so proud of both of them and when I get a chance to breath I'll blog about it.

Baby Jones @ 8wks 4days

Here's a video of the heartbeat. You cant hear it but its the little flicker in the middle.

6 Years and them some

6 years ago today I married my best friend! It has been an amazing 6 years and I'm so excited for the years to come. Brandon has a surprise date tonight and I cant wait to see what he has planned. But our real gift to each other was doing IVF again and our present will be here around Nov. 8 2011.

We feel so blessed that it worked this time. I did not want to go through all the shots and blood work all the time but I'm sure glad I did. Things just went perfect this time. Now keeping our fingers crossed they continue to keep it that way.

I love you Brandon. Thanks for all you do and have done for me.

February

February turned out to be a very exciting month. Moapa took State in 3A basketball!! I'm going to be honest, I was not excited for basketball and was a little happy when they would lose and would hope they wouldn't make it to play offs. But I am glad that they won and although it was a very bust season, it was worth it to see the boys and coaches so excited.
Everyone knows when a sports team out here takes state, the whole town celebrates. Fire trucks, lights, sirens and a whole parade through town. Brandon drove home with me but wanted to get on the bus at the top of the freeway for all the fun. Whit and Kenzie ( who only went to a few games but they were the important games and the team won, can we say good luck charms??) wanted to come out and see all the hoopla, were excited to see how a small town supports their teams. So we ( Brandon me whit and kenzie) follow the bus from Vegas and we got off the freeway and the bus stopped so Brandon could get on. We hurry switch around Brandon to the bus and me to drive our fancy new car. I get in the fancy new car and go to drive and the car wont go. By now the other buses and all the fire trucks and all the people are driving away and we are stuck in the middle of the rode and I realize my car key is in Brandon's pocket on the bus! In my new stupid fancy car you don't put a key in the ignition it just has to be in the car to make it go. It will stay running if you get out but will not go. All this happened within like 2 minutes and there was nothing I could do. It was to loud for Brandon to hear his phone when I was calling and its not like they would have stopped the whole parade to bring me back my key. Thank goodness our friends the Lewis' saw us and stopped to help push my car out of the middle of the road and we met the team at the high school. Poor whit and kenzie missed out on the whole parade. Oh well looks like they will have to take state next year.
February was a good month and March should be too. Brandon started track and we have our 6 year anniversary.

Out with the old in with the new

Dear Elantra,
I bought you with 24,000 miles on you in 2005 and we have had some Great adventures and some good accidents. You have been a good car and have saved my life 2 times. We felt it was time to put you to rest since we drove you into the ground putting 184,000 miles on you. Thanks for being such a great car but we had to replace you with.......................

THIS!!!!!

Dear Maxima,
You have big shoes to fill. You better live up to all your great reviews and we are excited to take you on MANY fun adventures. I hope all the pain and tears it took to get you was worth it because I NEVER want to buy a car again.