Life as we know it: 18 weeks and an Appendectomy

So this week has been CRAZY! I know people say that all the time but listen to this. Travis just got hired on a new job Monday morning he was to go do the drug test for that job. Sunday night before bed he was complaining he had a bad stomach ache. We thought this was from drinking too much soda. Travis woke up Monday morning in A LOT of pain and had been throwing up off and on all night. He still went to do the drug test but felt like he was dying (the employees thought he was shady and was hiding something.) As Travis is driving home he calls me and tells me he needs to go to the hospital that something is very wrong. So we get to the ER and poor guy can hardly stand. They get an IV in him and some morphine for the pain. We thought he was having kidney stones. Sadly not a whole lot you can do for kidney stones but wait to pass them unless something is really wrong then they would do surgery. They didn't find any stones in the ultrasound so they sent him home with pain meds and said, "Good luck hope they pass soon!" Not 3 hours later we were back in the ER in the same amount of pain. After doing a CT scan we realized there were no kidney stones.... It was his appendix. Travis went into surgery late Monday night. The surgeon said his appendix was dying, that it had turned black and blue and had puss coming from it. It was close to erupting all that poison into his blood! Thankfully we got it out in time! We stayed the night at the hospital, (those hospital pull out chair beds are so uncomfortable especially at 18 weeks pregnant) and then he was released Tuesday morning. He was feeling great and did a little more then he should have and by 7 that night started to get hot and have a pretty bad headache. 3:30 am we were back at the ER. Travis was in excruciating pain from his headache and had been throwing up and after just having surgery he was in a lot of pain. We got him on morphine and did another CT to make sure none of the stitches had busted from the trauma of throwing up. Everything looked great. The migraine they concluded started from caffeine withdrawals (since he is a big soda drinker) and because he had the headache couldn't keep up on the pain and was throwing up all his pain meds. So after we got the pain under control we went home Wednesday at 6am and went to bed. We have been keeping up on his meds ( I was waking up every 2-4 hrs to give him his meds in the night) and he has been doing great!
Sadly yesterday evening we found a leak in a downstairs bedroom from a broken pipe in our bathroom, thank goodness for good neighbors who helped us out so Travis didn't have to do it all on his own.
Is this week over yet?! Haha I am so exhausted!

Friday was our 5 year anniversary!! Crazy it's been this long already and at the same time crazy it's only been 5 years :) hard to believe there was a life when I wasn't married to the man of my dreams!!! They have been amazing and I'm excited and looking forward to many many more years together!!!

On a plus note we were impatient and found out 2 weeks ago that we are having a little GIRL!!!!!!! We cheated and paid a ultrasound tech to check the gender for us at the end of our 16 weeks!!!! We are so so so happy!!!! We have already started on her nursery it's going to be amazing!!
Today we are 19 weeks! We are almost HALF WAY!! Can you believe that? Because im having a hard time believing it myself if it weren't for these little kicks that im starting to feel more and more each day!! Im loving feeling our little girl move, it is honestly the greatest feeling in the WORLD!
Its crazy since becoming pregnant i haven't gained that "Trucker appetite" in fact i have to force myself to eat sometimes because i've realized i haven't eaten in hours. And when i do want to eat its almost always something sweet that im wanting! Which is not me at all, this girl is definitely her daddy's little girl because he loves sweets and eats them all the time. Im having a harder time sleeping at night and finding a comfy position. My nose is constantly feeling stuffy but there is nothing up there its just swollen i guess from the increased blood flow i guess. The headaches are pretty much history, I might get one every few weeks which isn't bad. I have gained about 3-4 pounds since learning i was pregnant. My face is still having battles with acne but ive learned to just live with it. :) And that's about all my updates from the last post to this one :)
Here are some pictures.

Our 16 week gender ultrasound :)