3rd blog of October!

Wow I am bloggin a lot this month. Don't know why, since I am usually a slacker. I just wanted to display some pictures I had forgotten about.

These are some pictures of when Eliza was about 1 month old.




These are some more pictures of her in her blessing dress, look how much so has changed!





This is the quilt that my mom and dad got for Eliza Jae when she was born. Sonya Buckner made it and I absolutely love it. It is sooo adorable. Thanks everyone!




Sorry this blog is pretty random, but I thought I would post some funny little articles I found.


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Quirky tag

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Thanks to everyone who tagged me. I will try to think of 5 quirks.

1. I'm a band geek. I love big band music, classical music, opera music, musicals, etc... I can play the flute, piccolo, saxophone, and clarinet. I would love to learn to play more musical intruments. I really want to learn to play the harmonica.

2. I hate my feet to be rubbed, touched, looked at, or thought about. I can not even think about having a pedicure. When I get massages I have to ask the massage therapist to skip the feet. No loving husbands rubbing my feet. I can't even touch them myself without my blood pressure rising.

3. I eat paper. I think it might be some sort of disorder. I eat the sucker sticks after I am done with the sucker, I eat non-used tips of the q-tips, I love to eat brand new notebook paper, I just chew the edges off any paper towels and eat them. I know this is weird, but it happens.

4. I love to stay in hotels. I just love new clean (nice hotel) fluffy pillows. I love the hampton inn down comforters. I love the continental breakfast, ice machines, swimming pools, and hot chocolate on demand. I like laying on the bed with the TV right in front of you. I always take the sample vanity kit, shampoo, conditioner, and lotion. I am talking about nice places here, not your everyday Motel 8's or Comfort Inns.

5. My favorite snack is a microwave smore. Try it. Two grahms, two big mallows, and handfull of choc. chips and microwave for 23 seconds (depending on your microwave). Small glass of milk and you are in heaven.

I tag anyone who needs something to blog about.

PS here are some pictures from the blessing.

October?!

Wow I can't believe it is October already. Time is flying. Sorry I haven't blogged for a while. Just been busy running around. We blessed Eliza a couple weeks ago, but I haven't posted the pics cause they are on a different camera and we lost it for a while. But I will post them soon. Josh did an amazing job on the blessing and we really appreciate all those who came to support us.

This weekend we came down to the Valley to hang out with some family and watch conference. President Monson gave a great talk and I notice something I haven't really notice before, he has beautiful teeth. They are perfect! Next time look and you will agree.
My sister and I did some crafts. I made a magnet board for Eliza's room and a halloween decoration. It was fun.



Here are some recent pictures of Eliza Jae. She is growing up so fast.





And to end this blog, I must tell you of a torn heart in our family. Someone is in anguish over decisions to be made. One side of his large heart he feels he must hold true to a long devotion to a certain team of young men. (AKA Wyoming Cowboys). The other side of his heart knows the need he feels to go out and be in God's beautiful wilderness to hunt and trap those four legged animals. Yes that is correct, October brings a sad tale to tell. One questions the need to travel to Laramie and watch the Cowboys(who are sadly not doing so well this season) play versus the need to hunt for food for our family (yeah right its all about the horns baby!) Anyway this is what October brings to the Roitz household. And hopefully both sides of Josh's heart can be fullfilled this month.

Blah blah blah...

I hope I don't annoy people. Now that Eliza Jae is here I feel like all I do is talk about her. So SORRY everyone who gets annoyed by me(I know they probably don't, but I feel bad sometimes). I remember when there wasn't a squeeker around here, and I would listen to everyone talk about their kids, I didn't get annoyed but I just didn't understand and couldn't relate and empathize with them, now I know. And I really did love to hear them talk about their kids, it's just different when you really have one.

Here are some random thoughts throughout my day.
**I am glad the baby loves me even when my breath must reek. I know it usually doens't smell minty fresh, but she always lets me talk to her and doesn't grimace and barf. I guess I should be grateful to Josh also:)
**I am glad it doesn't happen when I think " I hope someone doesn't come to my house for a surprise visit when I am in my pj's with my glasses on and my hair up in a rubber band at 2:00 in the afternoon." Which seems to be happening more and more these days....
**When I was preggo I wondered if my belly button would ever go back in, NOW I wonder if it will ever look normal and not sunken in surrounded by my extra fatty spare tire.
**I cannot believe you just made that much noise and and passed that much gas and farted for sooo long and this is all that is in the diaper! ---I am talking about the baby. (Sorry if that was too gross)
**I do not want to watch any more football games that took place 1, 2, or even 20 years ago on TV. Why watch a game you have already seen or one whose players are probably dead now. I also am getting pretty sick of all the muley crazy DVD's and talking about hunting and what everyone saw. (I do love hunting, but I can't go this year and I just don't feel like talking about it oKAY!)
**I absolutely HATE HATE HATE how common swearing has become. There is swearing on every TV channel and bleeping does not help. I need to just toss the stupid tv out the window. Everyone here in Rock Springs cusses I hate it. There are respectable men who do not swear around women(or so I thought that was the norm), but here in Rock Springs they don't care whose company they are in, they just let their nasty mouths run. Now i don't mean a less severe H or D, it is the very worse ones. GRRR I hate it!

Okay breath I am done and headed to bed.




Here she is all 10 lbs. 9oz. of her!

Thank you Fam!

Not a lot of my family are bloggers, but they do read my blog. So I want to say thanks to my family for these past couple of weeks. The last three weeks have been the hardest weeks of my life! I had to have my gall bladder out on August 13th, and then I had to go back and have emergency surgery 4 days later because my bile duct ruptured and I had a liter of bile in my abdominal cavity. My poor little babe had to be taken care of by my mom and my sister. I didn't even really get to see her while I was in the hospital and on soo much nasty medicine. So thanks sooo much family(this includes Josh's family too), I couldn't have done it without you, and I love you. Thanks for all the visits and calls. Now I can go back to being a mom again.
So that is what our little fam has been up to the last couple of weeks. We are just getting back into the norm and Eliza is doing great! She is getting so big already I can't believe it. I also can't believe summer is almost over. I am not quite ready for the wyoming winter. Josh's cowboy season is here(obsession) and I am sure we will be making some trips to Laramie.
Anyway her is a pic of Eliza (no she isn't in her bouncy 24/7, it just happens to be where she is when I take her pic)

I can't believe how time is going by. Our little girl will be three weeks on wednesday. She is doing well, and is quite the little fiesty girl. Oh I will tell the labor story for all who want to hear.

9:00 p.m. Monday July 7th. My labor starts that night but I am not sure it is going to last so I try to go to sleep. Nope keeps getting worse. (At this point I am staying in Tremonton UT to be close to Logan when the time comes) I wake my mom up at 1:00 a.m. to get ready to go to the hospital. I get everything ready and try to take a shower to relax. We head to the hospital and get there around 3:00 a.m. We get checked in and monitored, but I am only at like a 2 so, the keep for a couple of hours, but send me home. I have no home to go to so we have to go to a hotel. But, before I leave they make me take to ambien, which are sleeping pills, to get rest before the real labor begins. Bad idea. I pay for the hotel room(don't remember) and start to hallucinate. I can't sleep because the pains are getting worse and I want to walk around. So I lay in bed for like 2 minutes and sleep and get up and walk around every 3 minutes. I don't remember much of this. Josh and my sister arrive, and I think Josh has blue hair, that I am going blind, I strip down to nothing and walk around the hotel room, and scarf down some cookies. I don't remember any of this.
8:00 a.m. Tuesday July 8th. Water breaks and we head back to the hospital. I am dialated to a four and things are going smooth. I don't dialate very quickly, but I am goin steady. Around noon time I am dialated to a 6 and I am doing great with the pain because I wanted to try no epidural. Then all of a sudden contractions slow to like 5-8 minutes apart and I uncontract. Thats right I didn't know it could happen, but I went back to a 5. So the doctor wants me to go on pitocin, which is what I really didn't want to do. So they give the pitocin and labor resumes.
I start to contract regularly and begin to dialate again. I still am not going very fast, but they are getting more intense. They keep upping the pitocin to move me along and the pain begins to worsen. So around 6:00p.m. I give in to the pain and get an epidural. That helped, but I didn't really like the feeling of my legs being numb. So then I rested a little and at 10:00 p.m. they said I was ready to push. I had asked for the epidural to be turned off so I could feel when to push. Oh yes I could feel, and then 2 1/2 hours of pushing later, here she was. 12:30 Wednesday morning.

And here she is now.

This is what she does more than we would like

This is what we wish she did more

And this is what we really love her to be like. She loves her bouncy.

Here is our sweet little Eliza Jae Roitz.
She was born July 9th at 12:26 in the morning. She was 6 lbs. 12 oz. and 20 inches long.



Welcome to the world!

3 years!

So here we are three years after the big day. Actually three years and 1 day. I can't believe how fast it has all gone by. Josh and I got some of our wedding pictures framed for our anniversary gifts to eachother. We haven't got them back yet, but I am so excited to see them. Yes, that is how fast the time has gone, we are just now getting our wedding pictures! Josh is such wonderful husband and I don't know where I would be without him. Here are some of my favorite things about him.

- He has such a strong testimony. I have been a member of the church my whole life and Josh has been one for 8 years and he knows so much more than me. He is a great example to me and I learn so much from him.
- He is a strong hard worker. Josh has a hard job, but he loves what he does. When he has a day off he can barely sit still. He has to be doing something, he can't lounge.
- He is really clueless when it comes to baby things. Everytime I say something about the baby, he's like, "Do you need to go to the doctor? Do you need to call your mom? ARe you sure thats okay, maybe you should call your doctor." It is really cute.
- He is not afraid to shed a tear every once in a while.
- He is going to be our little baby's daddy!
- He tries to listen and give input about decorating and clothes and baby stuff, but he does it just for me.
- He's a hottie.
- He loves the outdoors and wants our kids to grow up on a ranch like he did.
- He has a great family.

I love you Josh Happy Anniversary!






PS I went to the doctor and am dialated to a 1 1/2 and 75% effaced, and the babies head is really low. I don't know exactly what all that means but I am excited!

6 more weeks

I'm still here, sorry for the long time no blog. We have been really busy lately unpacking and plus we didn't have the internet until Friday. Josh and I went on a little mini vacation to Jackson and Yellowstone and then to Logan for a couple days while I went to the doctor. It was a pretty fun little get-away, and very relaxing. The trip to Yellowstone was very adventurous and for a moment I didn't think I was going to come back with a husband. Are you ready for this? (I know all of you who know Josh are wondering what the adventurer did, here goes)

Story:
While we spent the whole day in Yellowstone, Josh wanted to see a grizzly bear. He kept getting really mad at the National Geographic channel and how they always show grizzly bears walking across the roads or eating food by someones camp, and he has never seen one at Yellowstone. All the time we were driving around we were eagle eye searching for a bear. But, alas there was not a bear in sight. We saw all the usual like the buffalo and the elk and deer, but no smoky the bear. So our Yellowstone was coming to a close and we were headed back to Jackson. As we were getting closer to town, we saw a bunch of cars along side the road trying to see something. You guessed it. Someone had seen a bear and they were all waiting for it to come this way. Whoever saw it said it was walking this way and we should see it soon. So we waited and waited and no bear. This other guy comes over to our car and him and Josh decide to see if they can go into the little field to see the bear coming. So Josh and this guy go down the embankment through some willow trees and cross a small stream. They are looking at something behind some willow trees and see the bear. I ask if they can see it and Josh says, "yeah come look." So I am heading down across the little creek, and I hear in the background, "Oh great, now a pregnant lady is going down there." I am thinking, "Its okay lady, I am from Wyoming." Yeah right. So I go down to where Josh is, and look for the bear thinking it is like a mile away and wham. The bear is like right there. A grizzly bear eating something. The bear was maybe half a football field away. So I decide I don't want to be dinner and run back to the car. I try to get in but the door is locked and Josh has the keys in his pocket. In the meantime more people are gathering, and the guy Josh went out there with decides they are a little too close to the bear and he comes back. Not Josh. Josh decides to go closer to the bear for a better picture. I am starting to freak out a little because everyone around me is freaking out. "What is that guy doing?", "Someone needs to tell him to get back." "Who is that crazy guy out there." One lady from Jackson was actually going to call the game warden. I am just sitting there by myself thinking yes that crazy man is my husband. Then I start to hear some whistling. Josh is walking closer to the bear AND whistling to him so he will look up at Josh. So by now everyone is freaking out and I decide I cannot watch Josh get eaten by a bear. I go back down to the first willow trees and yell at Josh to come back. Of course he was annoyed and says there was nothing to worry about and he knows more about bears than anyone there. I kind of freaked out a little. But he is alive and thats all that matters. I just told him I will never go back to yellowstone with him again if he wants to track bears that are eating their dinner.

Sorry that was a long story, but the most eventfull thing that has happened.
Here are some pics of the nursery and our house (just the kithchen)

The crib I absolutley love.

The bedding. This is not a very good picture, but the bedding is green and brown. I didn't want anything pink and frilly so I love it.

Here is a picture of the kitchen, also not a very good one. I love the kitchen it is big even though it may not look like it, and there is tons of counter space.

Home

We have a home. It is true. Back to Rocket City, but better than nothin. I have been moving in and getting everything unpacked this week. My sister, mom, and me painted the baby's nursery today and I love it. I will take pics soon and post them because it is so cute. I have a wall called french roast (the color). Anyway it is nice to be able to be somewhere. I don't know for how long, but it is nice.
I cannot believe how time is flying. Our baby will be here in 2 months!!! Ahhh that is so crazy. Sometimes I can't wait, other times I have a mini nervous break down, and the rest I just can't believe. Me a mom, who would have thought. Its okay friends and family you can tell me if it is hard to believe. I know I still can't.
Another exciting bit, on Sunday we get to talk to Blake! I miss him, but he is doing amazing. He absolutely loves it and I know how blessed we are because of him.

Mt. Rushmore

Since we were in Wright and so close to Mt. Rushmore, we decided to take a little trip over to South Dakota. It took us about 2 1/2 hours to get there. It had been really nice in Wyoming, so we thought it would be nice there. Wrong. It snowed the morning we were headed to see the big heads. It was freezing! We had fun, and it was nice to get away for a little while.
Josh and I kind of want to take a mini vacation before we have a little baby. I wanted to go to Yellowstone for a long time, but I don't want it to be cold and I don't want to wait until the summer because I don't want to go when my belly is gigantar. If anybody has any fun suggestions, let us know! Here are some pictures of our trip and my belly.





We went to a place called Reptile Gardens that had huge turtles. They loved Josh, they all came over to him to have their necks rubbed. It's okay if you don't believe me, but they talked to him. They sounded like dinosaurs, and smelled not so good.


My belly at 27 weeks. Hot pink hotness!

UPDATE

Hooray! We are for sure having a girl. Just thought I would let everyone know the good news. Also I am a week farther along than we thought, so the new due date is July 13th. Thats all for now, hope everyone is doing great.

Adventures

We are going on an adventure. Friends, you might not be hearing from me for a couple of weeks. Josh got a crazy job offer to go "clean up" a pipeline in Wright, Wyoming. Soo, we are packing up the fifth wheel and headin out of town. I find this a small blessing in disguise because we will be gone for about 6 weeks and that is how long we are going to have to wait for our house in Rock Springs. I will be without tv, internet, more than 10 gallons of hot water, and a large fridge. Dont' get me wrong though, I am excited to go. I have been staying with my parents and my aunt since we moved back and I am getting a little restless, even though I very much appreciate all they have done for us.
Update: We may never find out what we are having. I am having some frustrations, but we may be having a girl? Yes that is a question mark. We went to the doctor yesterday to see what we might be having and no luck. This is what the doc said:
"Well I can't see any boy parts, but I also can't see the girl part because your umbilical cord is running right between the legs. It may be a girl, but I can't be sure."
Alayna: "So can you give us a percentage?"
Doc: "Well I'd say its a little over 50%."
Huh?!!?
Alayna: "Should we start buying girl things."
Doc: "Oh no, stick to the greens and yellows. Rainbow colors too."
Our doctor is sort of a rainbow child/hippie lady. She wears grandma snowboots over her scrubs and our baby is "angel baby".
SOooo there is like a 52-55% percent chance we are having a girl. I guess that is the botton line.
We did buy a take home from the hospital outfit today and a little onesie and sox. Here they are:

Take home outfit for baby XX or XY