Surprise! I had a baby // My Pregnancy

It been a year since I last blogged... And I just read that last post and I had promised some BIG things about blogging more.. oops... 
I am not going to promise that I am going to blog more, but I did need to write this post. Actually I needed to write this post plus another one. I was going to write one giant post about my pregnancy and our birth story, but then it was decades long. And wouldn't load. (so many freaking pictures) So two posts it is! Anyway.... 
I had a freaking baby! 
We found out we were expecting in January, and told our parents and families that week. To tell my family, we made a fake Christmas present for my mom that we claimed someone dropped off at our apartment and we forgot to bring her because we were out of town for Christmas. Below is the video of them opening the present. 

Sorry about the swear words.... But it's too funny.

This was what was in the present! It also came with a card where we wished my mom a Happy Birthday, because the due date was 2 days before my Mom's Birthday.

We told Jordan's parents by sending the photos below to them while skyping! We explained that Toby has been a little naughty lately and getting into some stuff he shouldn't and then said, "you have to see the pictures we took a couple days ago!"

We unfortunately didn't video their reactions, but I can tell you they were just as excited as my parents, though there was a little less profanity. And by less I mean none.

My first trimester was probably the worst part of my pregnancy. I was CRAZY sick, and teaching full time. You think being constantly nauseous is bad, and then you add a classroom full of stinky sophomores to the mix... I thought I was going to die. Luckily for me I never threw up in front of my students! (That honestly was my biggest fear)

Once I hit 12 weeks we decided to tell the world! Before I was even pregnant I had a dream that we announced I was pregnant during a Vocal Point show. I wanted so badly to be able to surprise the guys on stage, but all of the shows around the time we would want to start telling people were like private events, or the 25th anniversary of Vocal Point. I might feel that I am pretty important, but I knew not to upstage that...

Then they added a special joint performance with Noteworthy in Saint George! We asked McKay if would be okay to announce it there, and not only was it okay but he was pumped! From there we got the ball rolling! We got the sound engineer and the stage manager in on the surprise and then took some pictures!

This is the picture that I posted on Instagram after the show, and which started the nickname "Ming Soon Hale" with the VP guys... 

During the show Jordan gave his talkie, a talkie that he had given hundreds of times, but this time it had a little special surprise at the end!

Isn't this just the cutest?? This is exactly how I saw this going in my dream. And I am so happy that we got to do something so cool for the VP guys, because they honestly have become our family! 

Fun fact: I actually never told my students, except for my Student Government kids. Ha. I figured they either followed me on Instagram, or didn't really care. I don't think some of my kids ever caught on...

Trimester 2 and 3 were relatively uneventful. I just had some crazy heartburn, the occasional asthma attack, and so much fun watching her dance around in my belly.

We found out the gender at 20 weeks, and then went to Disneyland! I couldn't wait to get this princess her first set of ears!! 

My last belly picture! 32 weeks pregnant! Little did I know she was coming 4 weeks later... 

I couldn't believe how fast this pregnancy went! Jordan doesn't agree. But before I knew it she was here!