Oh what a day!

So Saturday was quite an exciting day for us.  Brandon had to do guard duty Friday night from midnight to 5am, so I got up in the morning and left him sleeping while I went to the grocery store.  Then after I woke him up to unload groceries, we got ready to go together.  We decided to go on this scenic drive road in El Paso, and it was really pretty!

The far part of the picture is Mexico!  It's kind of hard to explain in that picture, but there is definately a line and then Mexico.  There's a bridge, that is barely able to be seen in this picture, and it's the border crossing. 

Of course we had to throw in a belly picture!

After that fun exploring, we went to the malls and bought a bunch of Christmas presents.  Then we came home, and watched some Alabama football!  But right about half time, I got super hungry for vanilla ice cream with caramel sauce.  Normally I talk myself out of my cravings, because I don't like the idea of running out at night for food.  But Brandon had to go to walgreens anyway for some medicine, so we decided to run to Burger King together as well. So we were heading out the door, and I went to go down the stairs in our apartment, and I slipped on the very first step.  I caught myself about the 4th step, and I didn't hit my stomach at all, so we were like umm wow that was scary! And we went and ran our errands.  Well after we got back home, and the adrenaline had worn off, my back was really hurting and my stomach kept getting super tight.  So after a little bit, I decided I didn't want to be stupid, and that I might as well run to the hospital and get everything checked out for our peace of mind.  Brandon asked if we should drop our puppies off at a friends house, and I was like nahh, they'll just check me out real quick and send me on home.  So we got to the hospital, and we were sent up to labor and delivery, and the nurse put me on monitors for like a hour, and said everything looks really good!  That she was going to call my doctor real quick to tell him and check in, and then I should be able to be sent home.  Well she called my doctor, and he said nope, he wanted me to spend the night and stay on the monitors because I'm high risk, he wanted to make sure everything stayed good.  So I got to check out my hospital for the night!  Found out the food is pretty good there, all the nurses were amazing, the room was really nice, but it was so hard for me to sleep!  I only got like 2 hours of sleep that night.  I'd start to fall asleep and the blood pressure cuff would start squeezing my arm like crazy, waking me back up.  Poor Brandon had to go back home and take care of the dogs, and then be back at the hospital with me just a couple hours later, so he got pretty much no sleep again.  But he did get to try out the husband bed in my room for a little bit, and he said it was incredibly uncomfortable.  He wants to bring a cot from work in February. :)
Micah was good all night though, except he kept trying to hide from the monitors, and kept kicking the nurses like crazy when they would move the monitor back on him.  But he didn't try to make an early appearance, so Sunday morning we got released and I was told to take it easy, drink lots of water, and try not to fall on stairs anymore! :)  Lesson learned- Cravings are bad! Don't give in to them!