Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Weirdest pregnancy craving so far in Tennessee


Don't laugh this is kind of embarrassing! Here in the south everyone drinks sweet tea, and I am not talking about one or two glasses here or there, I am talking about gallons of tea. If you go out to eat, you will see pitchers and pitchers lined up of sweet tea.It's readily available everywhere you go here, and I am not exaggerating. (Even the kids here drink it with pretty much every meal.) Anyway, sweet tea here is the word. Well, I have had sweet tea on the brain for many weeks now and I have just been craving it. I envisioned this gourmet tasting drink that I wouldn't be able to stop drinking. I was even dreaming out the stuff. Well, I must confess that I tried some the other day just to see what all the hype was about sweet tea. (Meredith if you are reading this, please don't tell the bishop shhhhh) For the record, sweet tea is absolutely nasty. It literally tastes like drinking pure sugar with a slight bitter taste. I don't even know how to explain it but the stuff is horrible. I here it's an acquired taste, but it's a taste that I will never acquire which is probably a good thing. I found the following article about sweet tea that I found kind of funny.

There are two traditional iced teas in the United States. The only variation between them is sugar.

Southerners swear by their traditional sweet ice tea and drink it by the gallons. In the South, ice tea is not just a summertime drink, it is served year round with most meals. When people order tea in a Southern restaurant, chances are they will get sweet ice tea.

Outside of the southern states, iced tea is served unsweetened or “black,” and most people have never even heard of sweet tea.

Saturday, July 26, 2008

My expensive week with sick girls!



This week my girls decided that they both needed to be sick. On Wednesday, Alyssa came down with her usual sinus infection so we took her to the doctor and got her some medicine. Later that night Kelsie came down with pink eye. I took her to the doctor yesterday and they gave her some eye drops. This morning Kelsie decided that the pink eye wasn't enough and that she still needed to have something else. She has been coughing pretty bad, and just hasn't been feeling well. I decided that I probably should take her back to the doctor today and they said that she now has croup and an ear infection to go along with the pink eye. Sick kids are no fun, and I just hope that they both get feeling better. Here is what our expensive week has added up to:

Wednesday: Co-pay for Alyssa $15

antibiotic medicine for Alyssa $15

Friday: Co-pay for Kelsie $15

eye drops for Kelsie $4

Saturday: Co-pay for Kelsie $15

Amoxicillin for Kelsie $4

Prednisone (steroid) for Kelsie $15


Total for the week $83.00 (OUCH, that's going to hurt the checkbook a lot)


Saturday, July 19, 2008

The perfect ending to a perfect day!






I love those days when everything just turns out perfectly. Your kids are good all day long, everything just is smooth sailing all day, and you have a permanent grin that stays all day long. That was my day today! It started out with Kevin having the day off which this month has been few and far between. (he has literally been working 80 hour work weeks, every third night he works about a 30 hour shift with no sleep) Anyway, it was so nice having him home today. He took the girls this morning to an inflatable bouncy play place while I had some girls over for a candle party. The party turned out really well, and I just love the women of my ward. I was even showered with gifts. I was given a basket full of perfect tomatoes, flowers, jam, and cute maternity clothes. Kevin returned with the girls and they of course had more fun then they could handle. We hung out at home for a couple of hours and then headed off on a drive to Nashville. We ate dinner at a place called Loveless Cafe, and the food was incredible (especially the biscuits!) Both Alyssa and Kelsie were perfect at the restaurant which in itself is a special occasion. They ate all of their food and couldn't get enough of the chicken. Alyssa ate three pieces of chicken just by herself. We came home and Alyssa played basketball with her Dad for a while. She was helping him fix our basketball hoop, and made the comment that when our babies come she will be his boy because she likes helping him fix things. I thought that was so cute! Her and Kevin have the best relationship.I am just grateful today for the many blessings that I have. I never in a million years dreamt of coming to Tennessee. I was so against coming here that I made Kevin lower it on his list of choices of programs for residencies. I knew that all odds were against us though because Vanderbilt really had their eyes set on him coming here. Now I just honestly love Tennessee, and it has really grown on me. It's funny how things work out sometimes! So now my girls are in bed and I am going to sit down and enjoy the rest of my perfect day!

Thursday, July 17, 2008

Look at this big belly




Okay, so I have to start by saying that I don't like pregnancy pictures of myself therefore I have no pictures of my former pregnancies which in a way I really regret. With this pregnancy I wanted to make sure that I had some pictures of my big belly especially where we are living out of state and no-one gets to see me. These are the first pictures that I have taken so far. This is what a pregnant lady looks like carrying twin girls at 22 weeks along! I am feeling great and still can't believe sometimes that I have two babies growing inside of me. I am actually not swollen up yet so that's a plus. People still comment to this day about how swollen I was with my other pregnancies. I can honestly say that through my pregnancies, I have learned what NOT to say to a pregnant woman. Here are some of the funny and dumb comments people have made to me.
1-Are you sure that you are having twins?
(after you tell them you are sure then they go on to tell you about how their cousin's friend's aunt just had twins and she had the worst delivery ever) Tell someone who cares because frankly I don't give a darn!
2-You mean to tell me that you will have four girls in your house?
(that's right 2+2=4 at least the time I checked)
3-When you were pregnant the last time, I still remember how swollen you were, your feet looked like sausages.
( to this I wish that I dared to say something like, "well you still look swollen all over, what's your excuse?)
4-My favorite comment of all times was when I returned to work after giving birth to Alyssa. My co-worker out loud said "you look so good, and at least your nose is not swollen anymore."
(what do you say to that?)

Friday, July 11, 2008

Thursday, July 10, 2008

Happy Anniversary



Today is our nine year anniversary. I can't believe that nine years have already come and gone. I am grateful to be married to Kevin, he is the most incredible human being that I know. As poor newlyweds to poor students to poor residents we have survived through thick and thin. I am thankful for his love and continuous support! I thought that it would be fun to post some pictures of us as newlyweds. We look so young, what happened? So here is some little trivia about Kevin and I. Some of the details you may already know, some may surprise you!


Facts about Trisha and Kevin
How long have you been married? 9 beautiful years today, we were married July 10, 1999
How long did you date? 2 months, and yes I will make all four of my daughters date their spouses for longer than that.
How long were you engaged? 2 months
How old is he? 30
Who eats more? Who do you think? Of course the pregnant lady carrying twins!
Who said I love you first? I am pretty sure that he did
Who's family sees you more?Well since we no longer live in Utah we don't see either of our families right now. We are hoping to see them soon!
Who is taller?I am taller, I am 5"10 which Kevin always claims to be but I really think that he's 5"9. (don't tell him that I told you that.)
Who sings better? definitely Kevin
Who is smarter? Kevin for sure, he has the brains in the family!
Who does the laundry? All me, and I prefer it this way. He can put it away but I like to wash the clothes.
Who does the dishes? We both do!
Who pays the bills?We both do. I try to keep a budget but do the majority of the spending.
Who mows the lawn? He does, only because our lawn is huge. I tried to do it and it just about killed me over.
Who cooks dinner? I do
Who drives when you are together? Kevin does, he can't stand the way I drive for some reason! Who is more stubborn? Both of us are stubborn which makes for some difficult times!
Who kissed who first? I kissed him first while a cat was crawling up his leg!
Who wears the pants in the family? I think we share them equally... we each have a leg!

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

The results are in!



We went in today for our full 20 week ultrasound and the results are in. Drum roll please............
Maybe I should let you all guess the sex of our babies from the ultrasound pictures, or should I give you some clues? I will be nice and spill the beans I guess. In our ultrasound they found 20 little fingers, and 20 little toes, 4 little feet, and 4 little hands, 2 little GIRLS who are going to love pink, and one little dad who will have to deal with too much estrogen that he will hardly be able to think!!! That's right we are having two more little girls if you can believe it. Everything looked really good with the babies. I guess now the hard part will be coming up with names. I really love the names Macy, Leah, Makell, Lucy, and several others. Coming up with one name is hard enough but how do you come up with two names?