Today was an awesome day! December 5th 2009 the girls through Nell and I a wonderful Baby Shower! It took place at Katie Readers (also know has the Lappy Bat Cave: long story). Katie made Sloppy Joe's accompanied by a delicious spread with cookies, shrimp spread, deviled eggs (fantastic job Kristin), cake, brownies and veggies. The pictures are of the wonderful gifts the girls made/got for our little girl:

It is kind of hard to see but these are homemade booties. Made by Marianna Bartolone, she is one of those amazing women who can made anything and knit amazing sweaters. She also made a little hair tie. It is clipped to the white envelope.

The Monkey onesie and the Calvin Klein 3 piece outfit was a gift from The Pietroniro's. Caroline and three younger boys came.

This beautiful blanket was a gift from Linda Fagemo.

This gift was from Laura and Chris Markey. If you are trying to guess what the green card with a picture of a pregnant women on it. They are skin colored sticky' the prevent the belly button from sticking out!

This cute pink bunny outfit with H&M onesies! Which I did not know they had a baby section!! Was a gift from Nada Potvin.

Now this beautiful running Nike suit and rattle was from the Hostess herself Katie Reeder. Who I might add is pregnant with her second child!! We have our finger's crossed for a little girl!

Now here we have an amazing diaper cake!!! This cake was a gift from Kristin Slahor, Erin Nevius, Sanne Fald and Nicki Orona. This gift is complete with diapers, bottles, nookies, blankets and car seat toy!

Thank you to all the girls it truly was a special day!!!

I'm going to start this one by saying we are OK!!! I was going to wait until tomorrow to update since the girls are throwing Nell and I a baby shower but a rough morning changed that. I woke up with a bad leg crap. In one of my books it tells you place your foot on a cold surface to help flatten the foot to relieve the crap. Our bathroom is about 3 feet from my side of the bed. I made it to the cold surface and started to push the foot down. (This next part happened really fast so if it reads jumbled well it is because it was.) All of a sudden I got an increase of pain in the crap and it through me back. I grabbed the jam of the door to stop the fall and swung backwards. I tried to hit the top of my back to protect my lower back. I started falling tried to grab anything on the way down to help me. Ended up taking out my night stand and by lower back took out the plugs in the outlet breaking the outlet slamming hard onto my butt.

Called the Doctors to see what to do. I had pressure in my lower abdomen and she wasn't moving. So they wanted me come in and put me on a fetal monitoring machine. I was out the door in 5 minutes and on my way. The hospital is about a 20 minute drive and was not a stress free ride. After finding the Labor and Delivery (didn't really know where to go, never been there before) the nurse hooked me up to the monitor. It took a little bit to find the heartbeat. She started to tell me that since I am only 25 weeks the monitor might not be able to pick the heartbeat up. At first I thought she was just saying that to keep me calm but then we heard the heartbeat. At first the monitor said the baby was in distress and heartbeat was really fast but after awhile we both calmed down.

I was there for 2o minutes when I hear a familiar voice saying I'm here for my friend, she fell. I was so overwhelmed I started to tear up again. Nell came to keep me company and to see if I was okay. It was awesome to have her there. I can't even begin to express how grateful I am and how to say Thank You to Nell for being there. After another 15 to 20 minutes I was release with instructions to come back if and gave me list of number of things. So now I have planned to lay on the couch drink lots of liquids and wait for her to move for me!

Well as of today I am 24 weeks and 4 days so a little over 6 months. Only 15 more weeks!!! I have been wait to blog after my doctors appointment that way I would have more to tell you about. Before I get into the appointment 2 days ago the little one had the hiccups. It was the strangest feel so far. It lasted about 10 minutes and by the end of it I started feeling sick! Rob also got to feel her for the second time the night before the team departed for a 7 day road trip. We are coming along on names nothing is set in stone and won't be until we meet her but the contenting names are Kiera and Mela. Still holding out for Scarlett but I'm starting to think it is just going to be a pipe dream of mine!

As far as the appointment went a lot of information was covered. We have only gained 1 lbs since my last appointment putting the total gain to 8.5 lbs but I guess we are not worried. Or I'm total not to worry. Apparently I could be one of those people who gain everything in the last month. The Doctor told me I have to give a genetics Thank You to my parents. Since I do not have any stretch marks yet and apparently won't be getting any due to genetics. We have planned on doing another ultrasound at 32 weeks to see if everything has worked itself out. Desi is more than likely going to kill me for saying this but my Doctor today said that if everything is going good and she has not come natural before week 39. He will induce the Monday of week 39. That way we know for a fact Rob is in town!

Up coming events are the glucose test Dec. 21st and next appointment is Dec. 30th at the Prescott office. Which Nell tells me is a lot nicer than the Prescott Valley office. As requested by Desi and I promised Kim awhile ago and sorry for not delivering earlier. A reluctant Angela is posting a belly picture! It was taking not even 40 minutes ago by Nell. This is me at 6 months!