Soccer

The kids have been loving soccer.  Brielle practices every Monday and Wednesday for an hour each day, and then has an hour game on Saturdays.  Hyrum's team just meets on Saturdays, for a practice then a game right after.

Brielle likes playing defense best.

 Hyrum's practices are taught by a UK coaching group, where all the employees are from the UK, and they have awesome accents.  ; )

They don't have goalies at Hyrum's age, just smaller goals.  Hyrum has made lots of goals, and really enjoys playing.

Hyrum's Birthday

 On Hyrum's birthday he went to kindergarten, then after school, and after his dad came home, we went out to eat (around 7:00pm).  By the time we got home we had the kids hurry and change into pajamas, and then Hyrum opened his presents.

 He was very excited about all of them!

 A week later Hyrum had a birthday party with his friends.  It was a movie party, and we had 11 kids at our house.  The kids ate pizza for dinner, then cake and ice cream (Hyrum wanted a Plants vs. Zombies cake) and then they watched Epic, with movie popcorn of course!

Pregnancy

 I haven't blogged much.  I haven't been able to do much of anything, I've been too sick with this pregnancy.  The worst pregnancy was easily Brielle's, but this is definitely the next worse.

With Brielle I threw up everything.  A sip of water.  A single cheerio.  I was constantly in agony: pain, hunger, nausea, and there was no relief, ever.  The whole 9 months.  It never let up.  I was in and out of the hospital, getting IV treatments, I took Zofran, Phenegren, and every other remedy imaginable.  I had injections to help with the nausea, but nothing made it better.  The dehydration was the worst, once I became dehydrated there was no end to the vomiting, until I wound up back at the hospital getting IV fluids pumped into me.  Then I'd slowly get dehydrated again.  Vicious cycle.  I also had a month on bedrest after spontaneously gushing blood for awhile at 10 weeks.  Lots of fun in that pregnancy.

This one is very similar.  The nausea is terrible and relentless.  I'm vomiting much much more than I did during my pregnancies with Hyrum or Clara.  And the worst part is still the dehydration.  Water makes me throw up.  Lots of things make me throw up, but water always makes me throw up, even if it's just a sip.  I've tried juice and tea and things, but sugar really upsets me right now, the idea of something sweet makes me feel sick, and it's hard to find drinks that don't have sugar, or sugar substitutes.  So I'm progressively becoming more and more dehydrated, which increases my vomiting.  Now it's several times each day.  (Clara finds it amusing.)  I can't go more than a few hours without eating, or else I'll definitely throw up, but I never feel like eating.  I seldom cook, but when I do it takes twice as long, since I have to keep running to the bathroom to toss cookies.  I turn off all the burners before running away each time (I'm a responsible vomit-er) so that slows down the cooking process.  Working with food always seems to trigger the vomiting.  And whether I throw up or not, it doesn't relieve the nausea.

It would be nice if I thought it would end soon, In a week I'll be out of the first trimester.  But in the past I've never gotten over the nausea, it has lasted the duration of the pregnancy, so I'm not holding out much hope.

So if you want to know how I'm doing, there's the long answer.  The short answer is: okay.