34 SEMANAS! 34 WEEKS!

34 SEMANAS!   34 WEEKS!

Today I am now 34 weeks and only around 6 or so to go!
You never really know, it could be less, could be more, oh boy that is kind of scary! haha Guess I better pack that hospital bag!!

:) This year is flying by! Our little girl will be here before we know it!

Is it normal to not feel at all mentally prepared?!?!?!? :)

It's kind of strange to think one day life is the way it is, and still pregnant of course, but then the next day, you actually have the baby there, needing to be held and cared for and watched over and .....

guess it's time for more relaxation techniques!! Here's to First Time Parents!!

Happy Halloween and Stake Conference Feliz Halloween y Conferencia de Estaca

Stopped Working
Halloween Shots
The First Snowfall Nooo!
New Presidency - Stake Conference

Dejar de Trabajar
Las Vacunas de Halloween
La Primera Nevada Noooo!
Nueva Presidencia - Conferencia de Estaca


That is correct! I, Heidi, had my last day of work, on Halloween actually. It was funny too because our systems were being updated, so we really didn't do much but tell people they could call back on another day, etc. Some of my coworkers came by my desk, when they found out I was leaving. Lori was one of them, she is a very generous lady who loves to quilt. When Flavio and I got married, she gave us a gift of a big plastic tote with food inside. When she found out we are having a baby, she made baby blankets, and since she didn't know if we were having a girl or boy she had both, and one coworker had a boy I believe, so we got the one for the girl since we're having a girl!
Lois, she is another who came by my desk. She recently retired, and stopped by to offer me some of her Wassail that she makes this time of year. :) Joe also came by, he is one of the Team leads. He recently had some health issues and thankfully recovered. Damaris, Elena and Grace gave me hugs, and my Team lead handed me a card, that many coworkers had signed. Some coworkers like Heidi, (same name as me :) ) chatted with me on the computer, said she'd miss me. As I left work for the last time that day, I was leaving the building realizing that everywhere I was going was going to be the last time, the last time I got in the elevator, the last time I saw my desk, the last time etc. And then I started to just get a bit emotional, but was fine and left the building, and headed to the car to go get my husband from work. It was a hard job, at times I was very bored, at times I got too used to what I was doing and lost that "customer service attitude".
At times I was giving excellent customer service, I remember when I first started, I got a few compliments from customers I guess for how I spoke, or they said I had a nice voice or something. Well this was the longest time I had been at any job, and I've had quite a few! Although there were times I hated it, there were times I didn't hate it :) I met a lot of people there which is cool.
I also learned a good lesson for life, that it is important that we be obedient and always give our best, something that I need to work on, and will probably work on for a long time, but we can do it!

So next up, Halloween Shots! That's right!! Flu and Pertussis! My dear husband accepted my invitation to get those shots to prepare for our baby girl. The Whooping Cough is very contagious and can be deadly for infants, and the flu, well most of us know that the Flu is also not good and can be very harmful. So we went to a nearby store pharmacy to get the shots for Flavio. I had already had the Flu shot, and will get the Pertussis shot later on most likely. When we got to the pharmacy, they said we needed to stay 30 minutes after for observation, but by that time they would be closed, so thankfully (and  I love when people provide solutions and other alternatives) they referred us to another pharmacy that was open later. So Halloween night we went to the other pharmacy where a Bavarian beer maid gave Flavio his shots. She was a lady dressed up as the maid of course. And there was no beer involved. Haha! She said the Pertussis hurts more, after, than the Flu :( great...something for me to look forward to.

This morning I looked out the window and things seemed pretty white. I can see the sky and some tree branches, and yes things were white...then Flavio said, it was snowing! Nooooo! I do not want snow this early!! I enjoy the sunshine and I don't like when this part of UT gets all dreary looking. Thankfully it stopped snowing and the sunshine came out.

Off we went to Stake Conference today.  A new Presidency was called. I enjoyed the talks by the Elders who are Seventies.

Tonight we got a visit also from our neighbors, and it looks like both Flavio and I are a part of Scouts now! :)

Here's to a Wonderful Week ahead!!

Something REALLY BIG AND IMPORTANT is happening this week, so STAY TUNED!!

Celebrating Grandpa Shaffer Celebrando el Abuelo Shaffer

What a beautiful and uplifting funeral! Today we attended Grandpa Shaffer's funeral and it was very spiritual. What a wonderful person Grandpa is! What great lessons he has taught with his life's example. I'm grateful for all the nice memories of Grandpa. His casket was lovely and the flowers were too. The weather was beautiful.  Here are some pictures from today:

Que hermosa y edificante funeral! Hoy asistimos al funeral del abuelo Shaffer y fue muy espiritual. Que maravillosa persona que es el abuelo! Que grandes lecciones ha enseñado con el ejemplo de su vida. Estoy agradecida por todos los lindos recuerdos del abuelo. Su cajon fue bonito y las fores tambien. El clima fue hermoso. Aqui estan unas fotos de hoy:

Tios (Aunt and Uncle)

Last night, Flavio and I went to visit the Tios.
Aunt Chris and Uncle David, and Papa is currently there too. Poor guy wasn't doing too well. He recently fell and was in pain so was on medication that probably made him feel not all there. We ate dinner together. We brought some items Papa had requested, one of which was his wedding ring, It's so lovely. He is going to have David get it resized. I thought it was sweet to see the ring in a nice container with a heart :)
It was fun to chat with Aunt Chris, we laughed a lot, and Flavio was helping Uncle David outside on the new shed he has been making. It looked great! Snickers came out to say goodbye before we left, Snickers is the cat :) They have a new motoscooter that gets Great Mileage!!
We made a kind of morbid joke and said, thanks to the dear person who passed away, we were enjoying dinner (we had the left over funeral food) haha. Hope you have an open minded sense of humor for that one.
I liked the strawberry rhubarb jam that Aunt Chris had. And she had green beans from her own garden!
It was neat to see their soda making machine!! It would be cool to have one of those!!
I'd also love a chocolate making machine! :)
They are going to go kayaking maybe Friday, which sounds fun! Aunt Chris said she likes to go to a place called Vivian Park by Provo Canyon! We'll have to check that out! She also said that one day, when I'm not pregnant, we can go kayaking! I like their adventurousness!

Tour

We finished our birth class a while ago. We finished it with a tour of the U of U hospital, which was interesting, even though we are birthing at the LDS Hospital. We learned how to utilize the bed in the room, there are various things you can do to position the bed and use it to help you. We also were fortunate to see a tiny little baby, weighing around 5 lbs.
Soon we will take a tour of the LDS Hospital which I think is a lot nicer haha :)

GESTATIONAL DIABETES....................????

NOPE! I don't have it, and I'm very glad I don't! However, I will tell you what it was like to get the Tolerance Test done. The previous post was about the screening, which I didn't pass, but this tolerance test would be the deciding test.

I woke up on Friday morning, and Flavio and I went to the lab, and they took my blood. Then 20 min later we saw the results of this, and since the results weren't too high, (they have a certain limit) I was then to proceed and drink 100 grams of glucose. !!! This stuff, doesn't taste near as bad as what you have to drink for a colonoscopy. However, it sure made me feel not well. I started wishing I had a blanket, because I became cold, and the light started bothering me, so I wished I could turn off the lights haha, and then I got yucky feeling, and was just trying to hold the drink down :) Then an hour after finishing that drink, I had to get more blood drawn. And then an hour later, more blood drawn. And then an hour later, more blood drawn. All the while, I wasn't to be up and moving around, just waiting...
This makes a total of 4 blood draws, and the last one really hurt because she had to go in the same vain as a previous draw ouch!! But I did it!! :)
And Flavio was so sweet to wait with me the whole time! :)

Then I needed to eat!! So I had some string cheese and peanuts, and then we went home. Hooray! I checked online to see my lab results later on that day, and everything came back normal!! :)
No Gestational Diabetes!! What a relief!!

Perfect

I am so happy!!!!!!!!

This morning we got up early and at 7:39am I finished drinking the glucose mixture to prep for my test.
We went up to the midwife clinic, and got the paperwork and headed down to the lab where my blood was drawn. Then back up the stairs to our midwife appointment with Dianne. She was so upbeat and helpful!  She said my weight control is awesome!! My blood pressure was great! Baby girl is growing just right! And she gave us great info! :)
We listened to the little one's heartbeat, and it was 156 :) just great!! She even moved haha when Dianne had the doppler on my belly and Dianne said she felt her move.
I'm so pleased!!