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Tuesday, May 17, 2011

2 Years and 99 days

Today is a very special day in the Allred household for two special reasons.

First off, Steve and I met two years ago today.

And second, we have 99 days left as a family of 2.

Isn't life grand?

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

The results are in...

... and it's a BOY!!!!

Face

Little boy parts

Arm and Phalanges

Profile

Profile #2

Creepy Looking 3D

We are excited (and a little bit nervous)!

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Our Active Little Parasite

On Tuesday, we had our second doctor's appt and we were able to have the first little glimpses of our little parasite:

Doctor says everything looks great and we have a very active little baby... to which he added "Good Luck" for my benefit. I think Steve was way too excited to even realize what was going on... he just kept saying, "Wow! That's our BABY!"

This is our "Hi Daddy!" picture.

12 weeks down... 28 more to go!

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

My Three New Loves.

Zofran.

Phenergran.

Pepcid AC.

With these three I'm more than like to remain mostly human throught the whole day. However, while we have tried to manage our relationship, I have learned three things...

1) Maximum Strength Pepcid AC.... Otherwise after three hours you are wishing you can pop another when in fact you can only take 2 in a 24 hour period.

2) Phenegran makes me a little loopey. The first night Steve couldn't stop laughing at me, nor could I. (I think he really appreciated the change in pace).

3) Dont ever get the bottles for Zofran and Phenergran mixed up. Otherwise you will spend all day wishing you were in bed asleep and all night in bed wondering why you can't sleep.

I think that the four of us (six if you count Steve and Parasite) are going to make a great team for the next 2-4 (or more?!?!) weeks!

Monday, January 3, 2011

Parasite

So as some of you may know, a couple of weeks ago I went to the ER with severe abdominal pains. Several tests were done, including ultrasounds, blood tests, and xrays. Results were inconclusive and I was sent home with pain killers and was told to call if it got any worse. Luckily it did get better.

However, in some of the blood tests, they did find that I have a parasite. This type is quite common among women between the ages of 20 and 40 although, cases have been found outside of that age range. This isn't something to worry about and in a few months, the parasite will be big enough that my body will pass it on it's own. At that point, we'll dress it up all cute and bring it home.

In the meantime, I taking lots of naps and enduring heartburn.

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Christmas at the Allreds

I love Christmas. I love everything about Christmas. It's so magical and wonderful! And I love decorating for Christmas! Here's some of the decorations that we enjoyed this year....

Our real live Christmas tree, hand picked at the corner Christmas Tree Park and carried home. (I helped carry it the entire way home this year!)
And don't worry, I got to decorate it twice this year because it fell over a couple weeks ago...

We have decided that we are going to collect ornaments as a family tradition. This year's ornaments were made from a nut and shell lei from Hawaii.

The Christmas pillow from Steve's mom and the hand-me-down garland from my mother (which I love however we will need to find another place for it next year. Steve does not like the fact that he cannot put his arm around me while sitting on the couch and I did not like the night that it fell on me while we camping out on the couch all night.)

Our beloved Willow Tree Nativity.

Not really a Christmas decoration, but we are excited to have this picture of President Monson.

Our keyboard adorned with a simple nativity and polar bear and, yes of course, Christmas music.

Our stockings (which were hung with care)
BTW, I think Santa forgot to bring oranges to our house because we each had a can of mandarin oranges in the toe of our stockings....