Peterson Family

For Valentine's Day Loni volunteered to watch Crue so Jared and I could have a night to ourselves. We went to Pizza Factory for dinner (I LOVE their breadsticks dipped in honey butter) and then Jared surprised me and took me to Maggie Moos for dessert (they just opened two days before). It was SO good! Then we went to our house to hang out with just the two of us for a while. It was nice to be able to just be with Jared for a night and not have to chase around a little boy. (Thank you Loni and Mom!)

After a wonderful night our crazy week began. The Saturday before Valentine's Day Jared kept saying his gut hurt but it wasn't like an upset stomach or anything. He couldn't describe it. It went on for a few days and then it was gone. Saturday it came back but in a more specific location. Sunday he looked online to try to figure out what he might have and said it might be appendicitis from the location of the pain. Sunday night he was in so much pain. He asked me if I remembered when they asked me at the hospital when I had Crue to rate my pain a 1-10 (10 being the worst). He said it was a 10. Rather than going to the ER and having the added expense, he decided to wait until Monday morning to go to the doctor. His doctor was on call so he wasn't in the office that day. The office told him to go to the emergency room. He called the InstaCare but they were closed so we finally went to the emergency room around 9:30 on Monday morning (the biggest thing that made him go - he didn't want another night like Sunday night). I took Crue to our friends' house because they wouldn't let him in the room in the ER area with all the sickness. After blood tests and a CT scan they said he had appendicitis. They took him to another part of the hospital where we waited for a while and then they finally got him ready for surgery. They took him in at 2:15 pm. I went home to eat something because the last thing I ate was breakfast before we went to the hospital. I came back an hour and a half later (surgery was supposed to take an hour) and he was in the recovery room but they hadn't brought him back to the room he had been in before yet. While I was sitting there one of the nurses said he was in the operating recovery room and when they brought him out I could walk with them to another room. We ended up going from the er at one end of the hospital, to surgery in the middle, to patient rooms at the other end. The doctor stopped and talked to me before they brought Jared out and said the appendix had perforated (luckily it didn't rupture) and had leaked some fluid into him. He said he can't lift more than 30 lbs for two weeks and he can't go back to work for 2 weeks. He said if he was feeling really energetic and wanted to go back to work he could on Monday but only part time (and of course he'd only be able to lift 30 lbs). He also said his appendix was really sick so it's a good thing he came in. So then they brought him by and he was still waking up. I followed them to his room. Because of the perforation he had a drainage cord coming out of him that led to a bottle thing (the shape of a grenade). It was to pull out any of the fluid that had leaked. Also because of the perforation he had to stay in the hospital overnight so we didn't get home until Tuesday night around 7 pm. I ended up not watching kids Tuesday or Wednesday (luckily Monday was a holiday). Thanks to Tyson and Rachael for taking Crue all day (literally) Monday and Tuesday night and to Jenny for watching him Tuesday! I did take Crue to see Jared but he just wanted to go run around in the hall and not sit there in the room with Jared so it was nice to have friends that took him so I could be there with Jared. Then my awesome cousin Tamara brought us dinner on Wednesday night. Tyson's parents had taken Tyson, Rachael, and Crue to dinner Tuesday night so they got some for us and brought it home (it was Jared's first solid food since Sunday night). Thank you to everyone for your help and support.

6 Things Tag
1- Post the rules on your blog.
2- List 6 random things about yourself.
3- Tag 6 people at the end of your post.
4- Let each person know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

Shanna (my sister-in-law) tagged me so here goes.

1. I LOVE camping and four-wheeling!
2. I like learning about/working on cars (good thing Jared is so patient with all my questions!)
3. I taught myself how to play piano
4. I have always wanted 3-4 boys followed by 1 girl and so far am two for two! (of course I would be happy with a girl too - I just want healthy kids)
5. I like seaweed (the stuff in California Rolls but straight out of the package - Jared thinks I'm crazy)
6. I love peanut butter and chocolate (together)

Since I just recently tagged some people I tag whoever wants to do it.

I got tagged by my cousin-in-law Rachel so here you go (my first tag ever Rachel - don't you feel special!:))
Here's the rules:
1. Go to "my pictures"
2. Click on the 6th folder
3. Upload the 6th picture
4. Blog about it
5. Tag 6 people

*This is a picture of Jared's best friend, Max, and Max's nephew. Jared went four-wheeling/rock crawling with a bunch of people one Saturday in March 2006 the first year we were married (I think that was the day I was stuck at home doing homework). It's kind of hard to tell but the rock Max is sitting on is actually sticking out - there's nothing underneath it.

*I tag Desiree, Kristi, Heidi P., Jessica, Caitlin, and Tiffany.

For a while we didn't know if I was pregnant or not. Every once in a while I would wonder, like when I would get a little morning sickness at night (it was only bad enough that I couldn't eat some things - not like Crue when I wanted to throw up and couldn't even think about food until the afternoon). But all those things I noticed weren't to the extreme like when I was pregnant with Crue and they only lasted for a little while, not long enough to make me know I was pregnant. Then in January I started getting fat and wondered if maybe I ate too much at Christmas (I really ate a lot). Then I finally figured out I was pregnant (my belly button started looking like it did when I was starting to show with Crue ) and about that same time my family started teasing me about it because they noticed my belly too. A week or two later we took a test and sure enough, it was positive. We finally went to the doctor last Friday (Jan. 30) and he did an ultrasound to try and figure out when I was due and to see what we were having. Because of some random/weird bleeding before now (including once thinking I might have miscarried but didn't) we had no clue how long I had been pregnant or when I would be due. He gave me an approximate date. I thought I would be about 3-4 months along but he said about 20-21 weeks. The cord was sitting in the baby's lap so it was hard to tell what we were having but he guessed a boy. Today I had the official ultrasound. She put my due date as June 2 and this time the cord was in the face so we were able to clearly see it is a boy!! We would have been excited either way but now we won't have to buy clothes since we already have a bunch of boy clothes. Plus it'll be fun for Crue to have a brother to get in trouble with:) We're excited he's healthy and things are going good. I'm about 23 weeks along. That's pretty good to not know I was pregnant the first half and now only have half a pregnancy to go! Here's the ultrasound pictures from today.