On A Sugar High, On A Love High

A couple of weeks ago I went for the routine 1 hour glucose test to test for gestational diabetes. To our surprise my results came back elevated by 20 points
(we think it may have been due to the poptart I stupidly ate before hand, even though the Dr. said that shouldn't have mattered).

This of course worried us so we scheduled my 3 hour glucose test for the next morning in hopes that my blood sugar levels would come back normal. They do this test at the hospital and only at 7:15am. Unfortunately I have been sick for most of my pregnancy and an empty stomach tends to make my nausea worse, but you have to fast for 10-12 hours before taking the test. Additionally I have always been onc of those people that feels nauseous when extremely tired. Now 18 months ago arising at 6:30am was normal and my body was fine with it, but now I am pregnant and barely sleep, 6:30am is so so early for me. This combination of things, plus a 10oz drink of syrupy sugar left my body very unhappy and 1 hour into it all I threw it all up and the test became void. This was extremely distressing as the thought of doing it all over again just seemed unbearable.

At our regular 2 week appointment on Friday my Dr. told me I could try again or just be treated as though I had gestational diabetes. I decided I would try one more time. So this morning I made my way to the hospital in the dark and started the torturous 3 hours over again. The nurse Tena was so so nice to me, (she was the same nurse as the first attempt), she let me sit in a dark room with a reclining chair,a blanket and got me a big cup of ice water. With her kind gestures and a lot of will power I managed to keep the drink down and this time passed with flying colors. I am so glad we don't have to deal with Gestational Diabetes for the last 7 weeks of the pregnancy and that we don't have to worry about our little guy being big or having high blood sugar when he comes.

So I have been on a sugar high 3 times to find the results of my blood sugar, but in the process I have found a lasting love high.

The thought of something being wrong that could hurt our little baby was so scary. I became more aware of his movements and cherished them more and more even though they have become more uncomfortable. I started to talk to him more, and play with him when he kept sticking his bum out on my right side. His little personality is growing and I just fell more in love with him through this journey. I knew even if I did have gestational diabetes that it could be treated and with effort on my part there was no need to think there would be any problems, but I just couldn't bare the though of our little boy having to suffer from day one in this world.

It has made me think about the journey he will take through life, I don't want him to ever hurt, but I know that he will, I know that he has to, to learn and to grow he must face adversity. In spite of that knowledge I just want to protect him and love him with everything I have. He won't be little for long so I want to make sure I cherish the little time I have before he becomes independent and had to start facing things alone.

I'm on a love high. I am so in love with our little Munchkin that words cannot even begin to explain, and he isn't even here yet. I can't imagine loving him more, but I know in 7 short weeks I will!

I am so blessed, I have the most incredible husband who never fails to make my day, he is so kind and giving and his love for our little boy gives me butterflies.

As much as the 3 sugar highs were no fun, I am grateful that it led me loving my little boy so much more.

Fell In Love With A Freshman

4 years ago, at around midnight I ventured onto campus with this freshman boy...I didn't plan on falling in love with him, but I did and now we live happily ever after!!

Life is happy!!

I Met The Love Of My Life...

4 years ago today!!

For those of you who don't know I was a teaching assistant for a freshman leadership class. A class where students applied and I interviewed them for a spot on the Heritage Halls Council. I pretty much had my council in place with only 2 spots to fill...I wanted to fill those 2 spots with guys to even out the ratio of girls to guys.

Brett put an application in, and it wasn't very impressive, but he was 1 of only 4 male applicants I had left so I pulled him in for an interview 4 years ago today! Long story short I can't remember a word he said and couldn't even remember what he looked like. I had my boss pull up his picture and my boss indicated that I probably shouldn't choose him if he didn't stand out.

But he did stand out...in a round about way. He stood out because he didn't impress me and he stood out because I couldn't get him out of my mind, I felt like I needed to put him on the council. So I did!!

The first day of class he showed up and told me he was trying out for the baseball team and if he made it he couldn't be on the council. This made me mad, so I told him to sign up for the class and if the baseball team wanted him they could get him out of the class!

Well as you can guess he didn't make the team...he says I jinxed him because I wished him luck but said I hoped he didn't make it!! He stayed on the council and within a couple of weeks we were best friends and inseparable, I loved his personality and loved being around him! But he had this bowl haircut that made him not so attractive so we were purely just friends! (See above picture for evidence of the hair!!) Then one day he cut off all his hair and I knew things would be bad from then on! He was gorgeous!! Hiding under that hair were gorgeous blue eyes, an adorable scar on his forehead and the longest eyelashes I had ever seen!!

So I fell in love and so did he (not that he told me until I went to visit him in Cali before his mission!), we spent as much time together as possible, both went on missions, wrote a ton of letters, came home and 4 months later got married!!

4 years ago today I had no idea that my husband had just walked into my office, but I am sure glad he did! He is the sweetest, kindest, most adorable, giving person I know!!

I Love You Brett Joseph Steenblik!!

A Year Ago...

As summer ends and one more year of school approaches it marks a year for many events that led to the establishment of our small Steenblik family. I thought it would be fun to do a little timeline of the events that happened this time last year...oh how time flies!

August 20th 2009 - I was still a missionary, and it was a great day for many reasons. My companion and I played a prank, a cute prank on our mission President's wife, and I took some departing missionary pictures. But the biggest event was when I got a page (yes on Temple Sq we have pagers!), I called Sister Lee back and she said sounding very confused "Sister Leoncio told me to tell you, your boyfriend is on the Sq looking for you". (Boyfriend wasn't quite the right word, but what else would you call him? haha) Luckily I knew he would be showing up sometime that day so I wasn't too surprised. Sister Gunter and I heading up to the Sq. As we walked out of the South Visitors Center I saw someone walk past a tree, I knew that walk and knew it was Brett. We laughed, A LOT, shook hands, and it was as though we had never been apart. We talked for a good hour, and had Brett share his testimony with us. As he left we knew in 10 short days when I was home our forever could start! That was a good day.

September 1st 2009 - I started the day off as a missionary, went about my assignments, did a lot of crying with the other departing Sisters, had a farewell dinner, packed up my things and headed to Provo at about 8:30pm. I was released by my former Stake President at about 10pm and then I ventured, on my own, in the dark, (scary for a missionary released for only minutes!) to the Bell Tower. I got there to find Brett sitting at the Tower's base where I have found him so many times before. We hugged for the first time, talked a lot, cuddle some and even held hands. It was so surreal, but so great all at the same time. Another good day!

September 2nd 2009 - School had started 2 days previously so I jumped right back into classes. I met Brett after my first class as we were in the same building and then I went to spend sometime with my family. That night Brett came to dinner with my family at Outback and we had a lot of fun. It was nice for my family to finally meet Brett. Later than evening Brett and I went back to his apartment and stood outside talking for quite sometime. There was so much going on for us with just getting home, school, finding jobs and our relationship that we were a little overwhelmed. I stood there with my head on his shoulder when all of a sudden he kissed me! That was a surprise!! I had barely been home 24 hours! I was a nice surprise but I was in shock for sometime and Brett says I didn't really kiss him back...haha sad! He kissed me one more time that night and I think I kissed back that time! As you can imagine that added a whole other level to things! Mmm looking back that was a great day!

September 4th 2009 - The question this day was...are we a couple? We established we don't kiss people we aren't dating, so it was official. After 3 years of patiently waiting we could finally be together! We both agree it was worth the wait! That was an amazing day!

In the next couple of months we hit the year mark of some other huge events in the life of Brett and Kymee, but I will save those for a later blog post. But this week marks a lot of firsts and a lot of great memories for us.

Today we have been married 8 months and couldn't be happier! Time flies because we love being together! Life is an adventure and Brett's sleeping habits continue to get weirder, but I love him anyway!