Ok, Lincoln Foster Hatch it is!

Spelling of baby's name

Hmmm, Steve said that he was thinking of spelling it Linkin.... now I'm not sure. Linkin Foster Hatch or Lincoln Foster Hatch. Not sure, not sure....

And baby Hatch's name is....

So, I think we have settled on a name! Lincoln Foster Hatch. We got Lincoln off of the tv show Prison Break. (Yes, some people name their kids after prophets or bible people, we name our kids after tv characters, lol) And Foster is Steve's dad's middle name, so it is a Hatch thing. I like his name more and more the more I hear it.
So the last couple days I have started to really feel little Lincoln move! It is so cool, it is my favorite part about being pregnant. He still doesn't move a whole ton, but enough to make me happy. I can't wait until Steve and Lorelai will be able to feel him move though. It will be fun to see what Lorelai thinks about that. I think she is starting to understand a little bit more that a baby is going to come live with us. Today her and I were going through baby clothes pulling out all boy clothes that we could find from Lorelai's stuff. I actually found a couple brand new boy outfits that I had, I must have bought them before I knew what I was having with Lorelai, and I'm sure they were on clearance! I still haven't bought Lincoln one new thing yet though! I have been looking, but I haven't found anything that I had to have, at least not in my price range! There are a ton of cute boy clothes out there, but you have to pay a pretty penny for them! And I don't go shopping much, so I don't get to do my clearance shopping as much as I did for Lorelai. Oh well, we have some clothes coming from family and my Mom is coming in Novemember and I have a feeling Lincoln will get a couple new outfits then!
So we have been potty training Lorelai for a couple weeks now. She has done AMAZING!!! She has had a total of 5 accidents in a 2 week period! I think that is pretty amazing! She was telling me when she had to go by day 3. We did the candy thing and she stopped wanting candy on day 4, she just wanted to go potty. She is awesome! I'm so proud of her! She still ask for a diaper to go poo, or just poos her pants, but I think she is doing pretty awesome! She is over 3 now, but she just wasn't ready before. It made such a huge difference waiting until she was ready. She got trained right away. We had tried a few times before with no success. But it was worth it to wait!
Steve and I painted the kitchen last weekend. It is a really pretty dark red. Oh did we have some problems though. Well we found the PERFECT color on clearance and Steve assured me that we would have enough...well he should have listened to me because we didn't! And since it was on clearance we didn't know what color it was, and the paint came from Wal-Mart...so needless to say we weren't able to match it just right. We are going to go to HomeDepot sometime though and see if they can color match it with their color match technology. It looks pretty good though, there are a few spots where you can tell the color is a little off on the main wall, but it isn't bad. On the wall with the sliding glass door though, ha, that wall looks ridiculous! Well, if you look at it from far away it looks fine, so if you come to my house, just keep your distance from that wall and you won't be able to tell a thing! I do love the color though, it makes me happy to walk into my kitchen and see some color!
Steve also put our back lawn in. It looks really good! He did such an amazing job. And he pretty much did it all by himself! Our neighbor Britton did help a bit, and I attempted to help a couple times, but for the most part, Steve did it all himself. He worked so hard for a couple weeks getting it all done. He is so awesome. He would come home from work and just go right outside until it got dark and worked on the yard. He is a very good husband and father. He works so hard for us and wants to make us happy. I'm a lucky lady to have him!!
I have to say, I'm pretty happy with my life. I have an awesome husband, and amazing little girl, and a sweet little boy on the way. We have a beautiful home, and my husband has a good job. We have wonderful family and friends, what more could we ask for?? Sure money is tight, and I get lonely sometimes having no family around, but life is great! I feel really blessed.

Knocked Up!

Ok, so it's been a while. The big news, I'm finally pregnant!! I'm due Feb. 7th, 2011. I think it was that HSG test that did the trick! We are so excited and can't wait to have this little one join our family! Still will be about another month before we find out the sex, but either way it doesn't matter! I do have to say that I am more nervous for a boy. I just already know what to do with a girl! And we already have all the girl stuff, so it would just be easier, lol. But either way I will be happy. Steve thinks it is for sure another girl. I have no idea, I knew Lorelai would be a girl, but this one has me confused! Guess we will find out in about a month. I want to thank everyone for their prayers and good thoughts. We really appreciate it and feel so grateful to have such wonderful family and friends!
This pregnancy has been a bit different from my first one. I've been WAY more sick. I haven't puked yet though! I'm about 15 weeks along, so I might never puke, woo-hoo! I have never been a big puker thoughI think I went like 6 years without puking at one point. I've been super tired this pregnacy too. That isn't diffent from last time, but now I have a 3 yeaer old to chase around, so I can't sleep everytime I'm tired! Oh well. I'm surving and I'm just so thankful to be pregnant.
Lorelai is growing up so much. I can't believe what an awesome little person she is. I just love to sit ther eand watch her and see what she does. I love watching her discover new things. She is such a little performer too! She totally recites lines of movies/shows and does dances. She has such an amazing memory as well. She watches a movie once, and she can quote it the second time we watch it. She is so beautiful too. I'm so in love with this little girl, it amazes me!
Yesterday we went to a pool party that our dentist office was throwing. It was so much fun! It took Lorelai a little bit to warm up to the idea of swimming, but by the end she was running all over the kiddie pool. I really need to take her swimming more. It is just so hard when we don't have a community pool. There is a city pool in the next town over, so I think we will have to go there at least a couple times before the summer is up.
My mom and dad decided that they are coming to Utah again this year for Thanksgiving. We are really excited! Hopefully we can get more of the family to come as well. We had so much fun with my family for Thanksgiving last year. A lot of my family is going to be getting together in Texas for Labor Day. I'm sad that I won't be able to go, but we just couldn't swing it this time. We have had so many expenses lately, we just have to really watch our money. But I hope that they have a great time, and maybe they can make it here for Thanksgiving!

Testimony of the Book of Mormon

And the waiting continues and comes to a hault

So my HSG test went good. My tubes are all clear. I actually had to go there twice. The first time the doctor couldn't get the tube or whatever in the right position, so after being poked and prodded at for about 45 minutes, they sent me home and I had to return the next day. Took that lady all of 10 minutes to complete the test....oh well. They gave me a $25 Barnes and Nobles gift card since it was such a pain and I had to come back, lol. But yeah, tubes are all clear. We went back to the fertility doc, and now we have to do all the other test. Steve needs to get his sperm checked and I need to have my eggs checked. We were planning on doing those in a couple weeks, but now we can't. Since insurance covers nothing fertility related, we just can't afford it. We are having a really hard time financially right now. We are hoping by July we will be back on our feet, we just have to make it until then! But yeah, so all the baby stuff is being put off. Oh, and I have been doing ovulation testing with the pee on a stick things. And yeah...I am not ovulating this month, or I missed it I guess. That worries me a lot, but I can't worry about it now because there is nothing we can do about it. We don't have the money to get anything checked and won't for a while, so we will have to just wait and see. Hopefully I will just get pregnant sometime in the next year or so and then we won't have to go back to the fertility doc for now.
But on a positive note, it has been beautiful outside! I have been enjoying just sitting outside, it is so nice! And we have grass to sit and play on, it's great. Lorelai has been enjoying it as well. She plays with her next door neighbor friend Raylee so that is fun. We have bbqed with Lindsay and Britton(our friends and next door neighbors) as well, so that has been fun. I see a lot of hot dogs and hamburgers in our future! Especially since Lorelai LOVES hot dogs. Who knew? Not me. She will eat about 1 1/2 every time we eat them, no bun, just the dog. At least it is meat....well sort of, haha!
Steve has a business trip in CA coming up. His meetings and stuff are Monday-Thursday or something, so he decided to take both weekends surrounding that and stay in CA and visit with his family. He will be gone 10 days, which is a lot, but I thought it would be good for him to spend sometime with his family without Lorelai and I there competing for time. (Whenever we go on vacation I actually want to see my husband since that is the only vacation time he gets off) It would have been fun to go, but it's ok, I don't mind staying behind. Lorelai and I will find fun stuff to do. There is something that makes me sad though. He planned this trip a couple months ago and at the time didn't realize that he would be gone for Mother's Day. Well, he comes home that night, but not until around 9pm. It's a bummer, I wish we would have realized that, but to late now. He says we will just celebrate the next day...but it won't be the same. Oh well.

So I'm freaking myself out a little bit so I thought I would write about it, and maybe that would help! So we went to the fertility doctor yesterday. He seems really nice and the clinic seems awesome and super helpful. It was just a consult, so we don't know anything, and won't for 2-3 more weeks. It is driving me crazy already! I don't know how NOT to think about it though! I am going to have an HSG test(Hysterosalspingogram). It is scary. It could show m that I won't be able to get pregnant on my own without a surgery being done to try to correct the problem or just having to do in vitro. It makes me really sad that this could be the problem. If it is, looks like we won't be able to have a big family like we have wanted. But I'm trying to come to terms with that. Even if we were just able to have Lorelai, I would be ok with that, she is the greatest little person in the whole world!!! But yeah, so we just have to wait and see if that is the problem. HOPEFULLY that isn't the problem and it is something a lot simpler than that. But the doctor seemed really concerned after I told him about my appendix surgery, so he thought this would be the best place to start. The test isn't cheap either! Unfortunately insurance won't pay for it, they actually pay for no fertility stuff at all. But the HSG is going to cost us around $400, and that is the best deal around here, but we have to pay it in cash...which has been low around here for a while. This whole thing is soooo emotionally draining and it is just beginning. I need to find myself some projects or something to do to keep my mind off it all. I wish it was nice outside! It snowed last night, so I don't think it will really be warming up anytime soon. When I'm in the house all day I find myself on the internet a lot reading about infertility and freaking myself out. It's not a good thing! But I can't help it, I'm just so nervous about it all. I'm really scared. Hopefully things will be ok...

Meh!

Another month and still not pregnant. I'm really sad and frustrated. I've been crying tonight(Steve hasn't noticed yet, I haven't told him). I'm so tired of all this trying and just nothing coming of it. I'm so sad. The worst part of it is the hoping and letting myself think that I am pregnant just to be disappointed. I don't know what else to do. We have the ovulation kits and all that. I'm just so frustrated!!!!! But enough about that...
So we went to CA a couple weeks ago. We had a really good time. We spent time with Steve's family. We usually see my brother Rich and his family, but unfortunatley that didn't work out this time. It is fun to spend time with Steve's family. We always play the Wii a lot. We bring ours down everytime we go and we golf and bowl most of the time. We also got to go to Pleasanton 1st ward. Both Steve and I both grew up going to that ward, so it was fun to see everyone that still lives there. I always feel very at home going to church there. Lorelai also had fun seeing the animals that her grandma and grandpa have on their property. Horses, cows, chickens and lots of stray cats!!
Our drive home was a pain in the butt!! There was a storm coming so we tried to head out before it hit, but we failed! The roads and stuff actually weren't bad at all, but because Californians are afraid of the snow, we got stuck having to put chains on. We did come prepared though. On our way out of town we bought some chains from wal-mart. We have done many many trips to CA and have never had to use them(we always returned them when we got back home). So Steve got out in the slush and tried getting the chains on. He tried and tried but just couldn't do it. Turns out we bought the wrong size chains. Apparently we have some monster wheels on our little car or something! So we got ripped off and had to end up buying some chains at a gas station. They were about $70 so it was an unexpected pain financially. But oh well. We got home safe, that's all that matters. Lorelai was so super good. She is such a good kid. She just sat quietly in the back, watched a couple movies on the laptop or slept. We are so lucky.
So we have been home for a week or so now. I've been working hard on keeping the hous clean. I've been doing pretty good! A lot better than I have ever done I think. I have also been working out a lot which has been nice. We bought a new toy! We bought a 50 inch plasma for downstairs. Steve has some of his video games down there and we watch movies down there too. All we have left to buy is a couch or a futon or something for down there and then we will be done buying things for the house for a long time!! Buying the tv was a luxory, but we got a really good deal on it, so we decided to do it now. Tax refunds are coming soon, and we have no intrest payments for 6 months, so we will get it completly paid off before then!
Well I guess that is about it for the last month or so. I haven't really taken any pictures or anything but I will try to do better with that. My mom and sister are coming in a couple weeks, so that will be fun. Time for a little bit of girl time! I really need it!!