Day #4...

Everything is still going well!  The baby is very active, I have been sleeping pretty well thru the night.  The nurses are so nice and very helpful!  All of them keep saying I am their easiest patient because I don't demand lots of things from them.  Yesterday afternoon I took my medicine that is stopping the contractions and for some reason I turned really red.  The nurses didn't know what to do because I wasn't itching or having a hard time breathing.  I just looked like I got back from St. George and laid out in the sun for 4 hours.  Pretty interesting, but after about an hour it finally went away.  Last night I got to take a wheel chair ride around hospital.  I was so excited to get out of my room and have fresh air.  My family is coming to visit today and they are bringing Sadie, aww I can't wait to see her.  She is going to freak out, she doesn't like new things so it will be fun to see what she does.  Some members from the church came this morning and they are bringing me the sacrament and also a lesson today.  It will be nice to have some familiar activity right now.  

Christmas with the Bates

Christmas is always interesting with the Bates family, there are so many of us and it just keeps growing and growing.

The boys were singing Christmas carols to all of us

Matt had a flash back moment of him having a mullet!!
Ethan loves his HULK hands, I am sure he beats up Trey (his brother)
Marcele and John looking at the scrapbook I made for Cynthia and John

All of the grandkids passing out gifts to everyone, it takes 20 mins just to pass them out..

Phil thinks he is HOT!!!

Christmas 2009

Randy and I spent Christmas Eve with my family again this year.  It's always so much fun to watch the kids in the morning open presents from Santa.  Holidays are always so busy for us, it's stressful sometimes.  My parents spoiled us again this year.  The car seat and stroller is so dang cute, thanks mom and Jared.  We saw Marley and Me, went and saw grandma and grandpa Falk, also my brothers, then the Oman family and after that we went to Michelle's house for Randy's family get together.  Busy, Busy, Busy!!

Kim's 40th Birthday

We decided to surprise Kim for her 40th birthday on January 9th!  It was so much fun, Kim had no idea.  But if you ask her husband Travis it was one of the hardest things because Kim has to know everything.  He lied so much just to keep it a secret from her.  Jordan and Travis had to text each other even when they were in the same room because Kim was trying to figure things out.  She was so startled when she came into the house it was the best!

Day #3...

I am in the hospital still and everything is going well.  I had contractions last night but they gave me some medicine and they stopped right away.  The doctor said everything looks great he just wants to come out really bad.  She talked to me today and said we have to make it to the 35 week mark and then we will see what happens.  If I stop having contractions and I am not dilated then I go home when I reach 35 weeks.  Julia (my doctor) doesn't think I will make it that long but we will see.  She is a very honest person which I respect and like that a lot, she isn't sugar coating anything!  Randy is working right now, he isn't to excited to be there but I don't want him to waste all of his time entertaining me!!  I have been watching friends and playing my ds today, I wish I could have had time to get all of my scrap booking stuff together.  I could do a couple of albums for the time I have.  My grandma and grandpa Oman came to see me this morning.  It was nice to talk to them and get caught up because I hardly ever see them.  We got some beautiful flowers from my work, they are gerber daisies!!  My favorite!!  Well I'll keep you updated on what's going on.  I am going to try to write everyday so we have a journal of what's going on!

Something really funny that my mom told me..  Wednesday night my mom told Caden and Abby that I was going into labor and Luke might be coming soon.  They of course got sooo excited.  Caden started jumping up and down saying "I am going to be an Aunt, I am going to be an Aunt."  Then he stopped and had a funny look on his face and then said "Oops, I meant Uncle."  I think that is so funny!

Then Abby told my mom that she is glad he is coming January or February because she doesn't want him born in March.  My asked why, she just said she didn't like it.  Also a few months ago when I told her we were naming him Luke, she cried.  She didn't like the name because that was her first boyfriend in kindergarten.  But now she is finally over it!  

The kids are so cute, I love them so much.  They are watching Sadie right now.  I miss her so much, I don't get to see her for over 2 weeks.  It's like I am away from my one of my kids.  But she is with my family and she loves them so much!!

All hooked up at the hospital...

Randy and I are in the delivery room waiting to see what will happen with Luke... (Thursday morning)

Thursday afternoon...  My contractions are under control and I got to move rooms.  I am now in the rooms where you stay after you have the baby.  It's much nicer and more comfortable then the the delivery room.  I only have the nurses coming in every few hours verses every hour.  Luke wouldn't cooperate with one of the nurses, she was trying to hook him up to the monitor to make sure his heart beat was okay.  She had to call in another nurse to have her try and he liked her and did much better.  It was kinda funny.  The new nurse found his heart beat and everything was great.  I actually slept for more than 2 hours last night.  

Thanks for all of your calls and prayers, Randy and I appreciate it so much.

In the hospital...

On Wednesday, January 14th I was having lots of pain at work, I called my mom and she said that we probably should go to the hospital just to make sure everything was okay.  I had another manager cover for me so I could leave.  I started thinking that these pains were contractions, so I timed them while I drove home to meet my mom.  I called  Randy to let him know what was happening, he also was at work but I told him to stay just in case it wasn't anything.  The contractions were 5 minutes apart and very strong to where I don't remember making it home.  My mom then came to my house about 10 minutes after I got home and took me to McKay Dee.  I went into their clinic on the Labor and Delivery floor, the nurses were amazing and so kind.  I filled out the proper paperwork while hooked up to the monitors...I was still having contractions about every 4 minutes at that point.  One of the nurses knew that something was wrong so she called my doctor to see if she could check everything.  Sure enough I was dilated to a 4...well I was freaking out because I still have about 7 weeks until my due date.  They immediately called my doctor and she said to admit me to the hospital until I have the baby.  The nurses got me lots of drugs to stop the contractions and then I was hooked back up to monitors.  I called Randy again and told him he probably should come just in case the drugs wouldn't stop Luke from coming out.  Randy was so nervous, you could just hear it in his voice.  It was so sad because he had no clue what to do, say or expect.  He asked my mom and I 4 different times what room I was in...it was really cute.

The baby is doing great at this point and has a very strong heart beat and he weighs 4 lbs as of last Friday.  I talked to the NICU nurse about what can happen to baby Luke when he arrives.  She was very honest in telling me what we are facing.  I know that everything will be okay, Jared and Randy gave Luke and I a blessing that night and I have felt so much better.  There is so much going thru my head right now about what can happen.  All of the nurses are being positive and telling me that since I am passed 33 weeks everything will be fine, I guess it's really scary when it's before that.  So that's good!!!  My doctor said that I have to stay in the hospital for 2 weeks and if nothing is happening then I will go home and wait to see what happens.  If my water breaks and everything starts progressing then I will deliver but they are wanting to push me for the full 2 weeks.  So now I am on bed rest until Luke comes!  My doctor said that she doesn't think that I will be able to go the full 2 weeks, so we will see what happens.  

I'll keep you updated on what is going on since I have a lot time now.  I'll be posting lots of stuff from Christmas and other fun things we have done.  Also I finally have some belly pictures to show you all.