30 weeks...

Well...I am still not any better about posting....but I am going to keep trying. I am 30 weeks pregnant now. Which means...10 week countdown until d-day! OMG!!!! That's all I have to say. So...much has been happening......let me see where to start.
1. It's a girl!!!
2. I went on a four day ACTS retreat and it renewed my faith. I was so blessed to meet such wonderful people and get the fulfillment in spirit that I have been missing.
3. My nephews graduated high school. Fabian Jay Ybarra from Weslaco High School and Gilbert Villanueva Jr. from Karnes City High School. I am soooo proud of these handsome boys and very proud of their parents.
4. The baby knows how to "bust a move". In other words....I feel her movement very well now. It is really something that you have to go through to fully understand. She takes my breath away somtimes. Eddie has a way with her already. He can speak to her and tell her to "kick mommy" and she will listen. He actually started to tell her "one...two...baby....one...two". So the baby no longer does single kicks.....she now kicks or punches with her right and then her left. Eddie is teaching her to fight .....me!!! I feel more kicks on the left side of my stomach. Maybe she will be a "leftie" like daddy?
5. I had a wonderful baby shower in the valley that was hosted by my beautiful mom. She did a great job. The food was amazing and cake and cookies were delightful. She worked so hard to make the party a success. And it was. I love my mom....so much for EVERYTHING she has done for me, my baby and my whole life.
6. We hosted an adult sleep over. That sounds kinda wierd....let me re-phrase that. We had mandy and chris and cerise and joey over for a weekend. We stayed up late, played games and ate junk food. Just like teenagers. It was so fun....to be so carefree.
7. Eddie and I went to see COLDPLAY last night. It was the most amazing concert. COLDPLAY put on a very good show. We recorded a lot of the songs on our camera. We never want to forget how much fun we had. So...our baby went to her first concert "in utero". We love music and we hope she loves it too.
8. Belly is growing overnight. Bellybutton is trying to become an "outtie". Eddie is scared of the bellybutton.
9. Everytime Eddie cuts the grass....it rains!!!!!
10. House is being taken over by the baby....everywhere you turn...there is baby stuff....Who does this baby think she is? (just kidding....we love you baby)

*I met this lovely lady this weekend who begged me to cherish my little girl. She explained how kids grow up sooo fast. And that we get carried away with life and work that we miss out on the childhood of our children. This lady was sooooo sincere. I hope I can take the time with my baby...and I pray that everything goes well. She also explained the neccesity of writing things down. Because you will forget some of those small details of the most special events. So with this lady's advice....i am really going to try to blog more.*

Halfway Point...

Well, it is week 20 of this crazy journey called pregnacy. As you can see my memory is still not quite as good as I would like it to be. The last entry I posted, I recall stating that I would post more frequently. I have not. But I am really trying. I am actually feeling pregnant now. I have a belly. I feel the little flutters of the alien inside me. It is really a wierd feeling. Kinda like someone doing "spirit fingers" inside your stomach. I don't feel them very often yet. And they happen mostly when I am at work. I am hoping this means that the baby is going to be AWAKE in the working hours and ASLEEP in the actual sleeping hours. I have another appointment on friday. At this appointment we SHOULD see boy/girl parts....so I will post the news ASAP!

Recently we went to Monday Night Raw in San Antonio and had a blast. Lots of hot and sweaty half naked wrestlers to watch. We are trying to squeeze in as much fun as we can right now, before we add our extra De La Garza. That's all for now. I am watching an episode of LOST and Eddie is nesting...i think. He is working outside staining our fence, and he has lots of plans to landscape the yard.

adios,
sandy

12 weeks and counting...

So....I thought I would be better at posting blogs. But...along with pregnancy comes memory loss. REALLY...I don't remember a lot of things these days. I have not posted recently because I could not remember my password for blogger. So after several password attempts...I finally got it.
Yesterday I had an Obstetrical appointment. Eddie was able to get off work and come with me, so I was super excited. I had an ultrasound done...a REGULAR one!! Yup...no action for me...YAY. It was a regular pelvic ultrasound. Our baby was so cute. He/She was waving at us. At one point it looked like it was DANCING. Waving his/her arms around in the air. I guess all that American Idol and Rock Band that we have been playing is really sticking to our baby! We are very excited. Eddie swears that we are having a boy. I am kinda leaning towards girl...because the baby's heartbeat is staying in the 160 bpm range. But whatever happens we will be thrilled. The next ultrasound will have boy/girl parts to report. That will be in April at my 20 week appointment. So if anyone has any guess....feel free to let us know.
As for symptoms.....so far....NO MORNING SICKNESS!! I am just tired ALL THE TIME. But I am NOT complaining. I would rather be sleepy than hurled over the toilet. Prenatal vitamins not only make your hair on your head and your fingernails grow....but also....the hair everywhere else. I feel like a big hairy monkey. But...Eddie is great to me. I love him so much. I will try to post more frequently!
sandy

We have a SAC?

Well my doctor appointment went well yesterday. I had another transvaginal ultrasound and this time we had a little more to see. There was a small gestational sac inside my uterus. I kinda started to flip out when the doctor started to giggle. I thought she saw several gestational sacs and that would mean there were more than one alien baby inside me. But she was laughing because it is still REALLY early. I have another appointment for another ultrasound in 2 weeks. Then we should see a fetal pole. The fetal pole is the thing that gives life to this alien inside me.
**A SPECIAL NOTE**
To my alien baby: I am sorry that I keep calling you an alien baby. It just feels like you are sucking the life out of me. And aliens are known to do that. I really do love you and can't wait for you to grow inside me. And I am sorry for all the mean names that I call your daddy sometimes. He really is great you are gonna love him!

Merry Christmas to all!

Sandy

Yup...we are expecting!

So.....I thought I was dying! I was supposed to start my period somewhere around December 2nd. I did not! I took urine pregnancy tests at work and they were all negative. I took like 5 of them. One on December 1st, another one on December 2nd, another on December 3rd, etc......(you know where I am going with this) Anyway...On Friday December 5th I had some blood work done here at work. This lab was everything....because I thought I was going to die! So we were checking my thyroid, my blood count, my hormone levels, and we did a serum pregnancy test just for fun. Well I am not dying, I am just pregnant....YAY!!!!
I am seeing Dr. Susan Rivera in San Antonio. She is extremely nice and I really like her. I had an appointment on December 9th with her. I had an ultrasound done, but we could not see anything yet. But I do have a nice cyst! She ordered lab on December 10th and 12th. This lab was for a quantatative HCG level and then repeated in 48 hours . This was being checked to see if the pregnancy was progressing. Well the numbers did go up, which was great news. I was really nervous about it. I am already in love with something that I don't know is really going to be okay...does that make sense? Eddie was so calm about everything....except when he saw the stirrups in the doctor's office and then I told him that those were for him. He nearly passed out. So I have a followup appointment with the doctor tomorrow. Hopefully we see a little gestational sac...and hopefully just one!! So I will blog soon with good news!!

Eagle Eye!

WOW. Eddie and I just returned from a couple's date with his twin sister Mandy and her fiancee Chris. We love being normal people. With the whole house, and wedding planning we did not really have a "life" for awhile. So whenever we can do whatever it is that normal people do, we get very excited.
So Mandy and Chris came down to visit from San Antonio and we went to the movies to see "Eagle Eye". It was a very fast paced and intense movie. We enjoyed the movie and especially the company. I am not saying that Eddie and I don't enjoy each other's company. But....you see we don't have T.V. or satellite yet....and we are FORCED to actually TALK to each other. And when we get to visit with other people it is very exciting. Then we went to have dinner and ended the night with Eddie and my favorite date spot...WALMART! I know we are some really boring people.
We should be getting our Direct TV hooked up this week....so our marriage will be SAVED!

Once again...my husband is currently being my hero....
We bought some wall plaques and Walmart, and he just gorged his finger with a staple and is nearly bleeding to death...but he is determined to take off those staples so I can hang them up on the wall. We had to break out the "first aid" kit for the first time. I love my husband so much. Oh and he just bought me the new album from New Kids on The Block and let me listen to it on the way home in his car......what a great guy!!!

Sandy

Loving Married Life

So I have been married for 2 weeks now. WOW! I wished that I started this blog a lot sooner. I would have been blogging everyday about all the roller coaster events of planning a wedding, building a house, getting stranded in the middle of the ocean during hurricane Ike, losing my mother's car due to hurricane Ike and learning to live with my fiancee.
Seriously we put a lot on our plate this year. It has been INSANE! But the sun does shine after the rain.
We have so much love for each other. It took going through all this insane year to help us find how much we really do love and care for each other.

The road to where we are now has been very rocky. Two weeks before the wedding I thought Eddie was trying to kill me. Every morning Eddie would park his car behind mine. He knew I left for work before him. So every morning I would walk outside to find his car behind mine, then I had to walk inside and FIND his car keys, then walk back outside get in his car, adjust the car seat, move the car, adjust the car seat again, go back inside to leave his keys, and then finally leave for work. He was SERIOUSLY trying to KILL ME! Of course he denied trying to kill me, and said that he thought he gave me enough room to back out of the driveway.

But I really love him. And I can appreciate all the struggles now. We have been in each other's lives for 5 and 1/2 years. We have lost family members along the way. And have laughed, and cried through a lot of events. He is my best friend and the love of my life. I listen to his twin sister Mandy struggling to plan her wedding, and I am trying to reassure her that all will be fine. We hated each other planning our wedding. We told each other "we can't wait to get this over with". We said this everyday. The day of our wedding flew by. It was the fastest day every. On that day we repeated to each other that this day was just flying by tooooo fast. All the struggles were worth it. I hope Mandy reads this blog and understands that everything will be okay. The love finds you guys all over again. It is like falling in love for the first time.
That's all for today...the Cowboys are seriously upsetting me...so I am gonna eat a lot of food, and yell at the T.V.

Sandy De La Garza