Name: Erika Hall
Location: Bethesda, MD...soon to be Ithaca, NY
Relationship: Married to Bobby on 6/19/07 :)
Family: This is our first child! We have no pets that live with us, but we still consider his dog that lives at his parent's house and my fat cat that lives at my mom's house "our" pets heh
Due Date: 11/17! We're on team PINK! Her name's going to be Bianca Noel
Current cravings/favorite foods: I've been craving salad, salsa, and honey nut cheerios...not together though (yet lol). I also have weird cravings for s'mores, but instead of putting it on graham crackers, I put it on an english muffin haha! It's good I swear!!
Pregnancy highs: Ultrasounds, getting to see her dance around, feeling her kick. It was cute I had Bobby hold my stomach for a while when she was kicking and he was like "ok Bianca, kick Daddy" and within 5 mins she did. I know it was just a coincidence, but it was still cute.
Pregnancy woes: my back's been hurting me lately, my feet swell sometimes (I'm on my feet all the time at work chasing after 16 crazy 3 year olds that like to bite each other apparently now)
Occupation: Preschool teacher...until July 29th. Then...who knows! I'll work almost anywhere that'll hire a pregnant lady. I also act whenever I can. I was in 2 indie movies this year, which was exciting.
Hobbies: Acting, traveling, reading, going on walks
* + test on March 17th. I remember I took it so early, and I tried not to look at it, but saw that 2 lines appeared wicked quickly! Told Bobby to come look with me when I woke up!!! <3 SO EXCITED!!!
*Before test, I kept getting these awful headaches! Bobby gave me a blessing and I don't remember what else he said, esp about my pain (since I NEVER get headaches!!), but all we remember is him saying that we will be parents to kidS someday!!
*Took blood test that Saturday the 20th, told family and friends on the 23rd, woo hoo!
*1st doc appointment April 6th 11am and got to see her! I wrote: "looks like 1 baby, did lots of tests , measured 8 weeks"
* Ultrasound again 4/21, first time Bobby saw her!!! I wrote: "had strep, yuck. baby danced for us! When she knew we were watching, she stopped and curled up into the fetal position- know it's my baby, lol!"
*5/11 ultrasound "She smiled at us! Sucked her thumb. Measured 13 weeks 1 day"
*Craving: Salad with fresh onions, McD's fries and chicken nuggets, sandwiches (bacon chicken ranch at Subway)
*Hating: Peanut butter, McD's cheeseburgers
*6/7 ultrasound "She was all curled up. Then moved around a bit for us!"
*6/28 IT'S A GIRL AND I COULDN'T STOP SMILING ALL DAY!!!!!!!!
*9/23 "doesn't like to be listened to on doppler b/c she kicked it continuously!!"
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OUR BABYMOON TO SALT LAKE CITY, UT AND LOS ANGLES, CA!!!
5/29/10
We arrive in SLC and get to our hotel and explore a bit. Then my old missionary, Sister Baxter, well now Heather Ellsworth, and her husband Joe picked us up and took us out to eat yummy Mexican food! It was so nice of them and so nice to see her again!!
5/30/10
The next morning we got up early and got into Music and the Spoken Word! It was packed since it was Memorial Day weekend. Heather and Joe were going to come, but it was so crowded that they didn't end up getting in. :( But it was so cool to be there! We took a tour of the Conference Center and went to church in the Joseph Smith Memorial Building, WHICH WAS ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BUILDINGS EVER!! And then we walked around trying to find food, but it was Sunday and everything was closed. We found an Olive Garden and ate there. Basically we spent the whole day exploring and taking whatever tours we could! SLC is so cool!!!
5/31/10
Today we explored the Joseph Smith Building, walked around the temple, and explored more sites! I think today was the day we walked to Hatch Chocolates (The Little Chocolatiers from TLC's reality show!!), but they were closed. And creepy homeless people followed us. Yeah. Pretty sure we went to Deseret Book and got our own Temple clothes and stuff (since you can't rent them in Palmyra, our new temple in NY). We ate at the Lion House either today or yesterday. :) It was good, whenever we did. I think we also went shopping for me to get a dress to wear to my movie premier today and saw a movie at night!
6/1/10
Today we hit up the temple square visitors' center and the Relief Society Building. Both were super neat! Got some awesome ideas to use in Primary for my last couple of months there, lol. It was a bit rainy out though, which was bad because we walked to the chocolate place in the morning, haha. But we got the chocolates and they were yummy!!! We had an afternoon flight to LA. When we got there, we went to our hotel, and walked our to the beach! YEAAAAAHHHH!!! We were so excited to touch the Pacific Ocean. We even rode the Santa Monica Ferris wheel! :)
6/2/10
We got on our bus today and explored LA! The bus sucks BTW. It's AWFUL to wait for at ANY stop. Oh, they were filming something by the Santa Monica Pier this morning. Looks like something Bigfoot-ish? Weird! Then they were giving away free tours of Malibu houses, to try out the tour and such, so we went on it. It was OK. We were the only ones on it, LOL. Nothing too interesting except we can now say we've been to Malibu. We waited a lot for the bus and rode around a lot. Ate at a cute diner and saw where the Splice premier was going to be. Took our real Hollywood homes tour where they also take you to the Hollywood sign. That was the best part about it really. That was actually really cool!
6/3/10
Took the dumb bus to Pink's Hot Dogs! MAN IT WAS HUGE!!! I couldn't even eat it all! And it was just alright. Good but nothing to write home about. Walked around LA some more, got souvenirs, back on the bus, went to Millions of Milkshakes (Bobby got the Miley LOL). Went out to eat in Santa Monica at night and I SWEAR we walked past Meg Ryan!! I swear it!! lol
6/4/10
It was hard to leave this morning, but we did. We had our WB studio tour today before we left!! We got there just in time. It was a lot of fun and really cool to be on a real movie studio! On our way back to Santa Monica, we saw the LA Temple, so cool!! Then we ate, Bobby fell and dragged me down with him (haha, aww!), and then off to the airport we went for our red eye back!
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