Baby V: Week 7

How far along? 7 weeks... only 33 more to go! ;)

Maternity clothes? Nope, not yet

Sleep: pretty much the only thing I want to do

Best moment this week: Finding out Baby V's closest cousin(due July 3rd) is going to be a girl!

Miss Anything? Not feeling queasy all the time

Movement: Nope toooo tiny still :)

Food cravings: No real cravings, just aversions

Anything making you queasy or sick: Being awake in general. I have yet to be sick*knock on wood* but I am nauseous pretty much from the time I wake up to the time I go to sleep.

Gender: Still a surprise, but you better believe this mommy and daddy will be finding out as soon as they possibly can!

Labor Signs: Goodness no! Not for a very long while!

Belly Button in or out? In

Wedding rings on or off? On

Mood: Exhausted. I like to tell Stephen that it's tiring growing a whole human being ;) But still so excited, I try not to complain.

Looking forward to: our doctor's appointment next Tuesday which will include the first ultrasound! Can't wait to get a peek at our little peanut! Also starting to take belly pictures. I finally found a cute chalk board that I like for weekly update pictures. 

Baby V: Week 6

How far along? 6 weeks.. long way to go!

Maternity clothes? Nope! Hopefully not for a while

Sleep: This week I've slept pretty good. We bought a fan for our room and it has made allll the difference. I can't sleep when I'm hot.

Best moment this week: My doctor's appointment. It wasn't anything exciting, really just paperwork. But it made it real and I got to schedule our first ultrasound! I can not wait!

Miss Anything? Nope not a bit! I'm too excited.

Movement: Not for a while, I'm sure

Food cravings: Moe's nachos. And they were DEEE-lish!

Anything making you queasy or sick: everything? Not really. I shouldn't complain, it hasn't been that bad. I've yet to actually "get sick" but I do have nausea pretty much all day. The weirdest thing is my aversion to mac n cheese. It's one of my all time favorites but I can not even think about it without gagging. Seriously, I have to stop thinking about it right now.

Gender: Still a surprise, but you better believe this mommy and daddy will be finding out as soon as they possibly can!

Labor Signs: Goodness no! Not for a very long while!

Belly Button in or out? In

Wedding rings on or off? On and with this cold snap they're actually loose. Hopefully they will stay that way for a while

Mood: Ecstatic. I can not even begin to describe how happy/excited/blessed I'm feeling. It's so amazing. I'm loving answering people's questions as we slowly tell more people. I love talking about it especially with my husband. It's already so cute to me how excited he is. I will admit that today the   tiredness has hit me like a ton of bricks. I was being a little hoitty toitty about how good I was feeling and not really being tired. Yeah, about that. I literally can not keep my eyes open today at work. I will be heading home and spending the night on the couch until I go to bed probably around 8:00!

Looking forward to: the color run(walk) we're doing with friends tomorrow, family Disney trip in February, and most exciting our first ultrasound on the 29th!!!

Spreading the news

When we first found out that I'm pregnant we agreed not to tell anyone because it was so early. That only lasted a matter of minutes because we were both bursting with excitement.
Then we decided we would only tell our immediate family for now, parents and siblings. That quickly grew to include grandparents.

Not wanting any of them to hear from anyone but us we called and broke the exciting news. They were all so excited! I think telling our family has been the best part so far. They're all so excited to meet our little one already that it makes me even more excited!

Wednesday night my extended family was coming over to plan our Disney vacation. I decided to try my balloon plan on them since it didn't work for my Dad.

Mandy and Trae got there first. I couldn't wait to tell her because she's actually pregnant with her 2nd is due about 2 months before me. I'm excited about how close these two will get to be growing up! Trae didn't really care, he just wanted to play with ths balloons. So I untied them for him and he was hitting them around,the house when everyone else got there.

Alisha, Troy, Brayden, and Aunt Michelle came later. The balloons Trae was playing with went right I we their heads. After waiting a few minutes for them to notice the balloons, we just had to tell them.
Everyone is excited for our growing family. So many cousins all close in age, they are going to have a ball growing up together.

We asked Trae if the new babies would be boys or girls and he decided they would both be girls. Then he decided that he wanted a little sister but a boy cousin so he says his Mommy is having a girl but Aunt LoLo is having a boy. We will get to find out if he's right about his Mommy in just 2 more weeks! We've got 10-11 weeks for us though. I'm hoping they fly by!

This baby is already so loved and will be so spoiled. My sister texts me pictures of cute baby stuff in the store she works at everyday. I'm going to go broke! ;)

Happy Friday y'all!

Baby V: week 5

How far along are you? 5 weeks and 2 days

Size of baby? About the size of an appleseed. Just teeny tiny thing but growing!

Weight gain? not yet! Just bloating and hoping to keep it that way for a,while.

Stretchmarks? Hopefully never

Belly button? Just normal... Hopefully for quite a while!

Sex? Won't know for quite a while still but love talking what ifs

Cravings? No real cravings yet, but I am already finding myself,turning my nose up at some of my favorite foods.

Latest hormonal outburst? This morning. I find that I can't get on Facebook or watch the news lately without crying. Luckily I've been able to keep my hormones in check so far so no one else has witnessed any outbursts.

Vomiting? Not yet. Lots of nauseousness that comes and goes all day but haven't actually gotten sick yet. Won't mind if it stays that way.

Feeling prepared? As prepared as we can be at 5 weeks! Haha I'll feel much more prepared when SE actually close on our house and can start getting things settled there.

Names? For a boy, Nolan. That's already decided it's just a matter of agreeing on a middle name. For a girl we've got nothing. Stephen likes really traditional names but I prefer them to be a little different just not off the wall. My favorite right now is Emmalyn. Luckily we,have a long time before we have to decide!

Random pregnancy side effects? Mostly the normal, nausea, exhaustion, peeing ALL the time, swollen boobs... The most random one so far is that I've been waking up at exactly 5 every morning to pre and then I can't get back to sleep because it feels like I have butterflies/nerves in my stomach. I'm hoping it's just the excitement of the newness still because I would really like to sleep til my alarm everyday!

Still wearing heels? To work although they already make my feet swell. I've always had a problem with my feet swelling anytime I was bloated so this is no exception.

Work? Of course. The only person there I've told yet is my good friend. I plan to tell my boss after my first ultrasound and hopefully I can convince him to let me work on getting things set up to work at home during my maternity leave.

Best moments this week? Finding out and being able to share the news

Looking forward to? My first doctor's appointment next Wednesday then my first ultrasound the following week.

Best day ever!

Tuesday, January 8, 2013 should have been a boring work day like any other. Holidays are over it was back to the grind at work I was just getting over a cold. We had settled in to my parents' house for a week and a half since our lease ended while we waited on our house to be ready to close.
What we didn't know is that this day would change our lives forever.
We have been trying to have a baby for the last few months to much disappointment and discouragement. I had resigned to put it on hold until we were settled in the house and I had time to go back to the doctor for a full work up. God apparently had other plans for us.
I had been really sick for almost a week but just thought it was the flu. I was about 6 days late by this time, but didn't think much of it because my cycles had been off the last few months. Stephen insisted I take a test because he was dying to know. I told him I would first thing Tuesday morning but not to get his hopes up.
I woke up for work on Tuesday and I was getting dressed to go walk the dog I took one of the pregnancy tests into the bathroom with me. Expecting another disappointing negative sign I was beyond shocked as the second line appeared almost instantly creating a positive sign. I was over the moon excited and completely shocked! Since Stephen was already at work and I knew I couldn't wait all day to tell him I snapped a picture of the positive sign and sent him a text of it. He was just as shocked as I was.
Somehow I managed to get ready for work and not give it away to my Mom. I wanted to think of a cute way to tell her and my Dad at dinner that night. About halfway to work I realized I couldn't not tell her either so I called and spilled the beans. Needless to say she was ecstatic too. Stephen and I decided just to tell our immediate families since it's so early(they're estimating I'm about 5 weeks.) Since everyone is so spread out and we can't contain our excitement he called his parents to let them know they are going to be grandparents and we called our siblings to let them know they would be aunts and uncles. Everyone's reactions were priceless! As this is the first grandbaby on either side I can foresee a lot of spoiling!
I laugh because I had about 20 pins on longest and all these ideas in my head of cute ways to announce it but in the end we couldn't wait and phone calls did it.
We waited to tell my Dad that night at dinner so I thought I would try to salvage my creativity and stopped to buy it's a boy and girl balloons to tie up in the dining room to see how long it would,take him to realize.  (picture)
Well Stephen insisted we go to dinner to celebrate anywhere I wanted. (chili's, duh!) My Dad was running late from work and just met Mom, Stephen, and I there so he missed the balloons and I again just ended up blurting it out. He is ecstatic and admitted to not being able to keep it a secret.
My last hope of a cute announcement is telling my grandparents this weekend. I'm still working on ideas in my head and hope I can hold off that long!
I plan on documenting everything so we will be able to remember every detail to tell baby so you should be seeing me more often around this little blog now! :) Starting tomorrow because we have the final construction walk through on our house! I will finally post completed pictures. It's a beaut if I do say so myself!
Now to try to get some more sleep, growing a human being is tiring! More updates soon
Happy Tuesday y'all!

Home sweet home

I'm happy to report that we officially closed on our house(*FINALLY*) last Thursday, the 14th. I know, I know a heck of a Valentine's Day present to us! :)

To be honest, that was about the extent of our Valentine's day. We closed at 4:00(surprisingly, quick and painless), then went and picked up Natty dog and took him for his visit to the new house. We let him run around the yard and the empty house and we just basked in the moment of realizing it was really ours after months of visiting just to see the construction. We took the dog back to my parent's house and proceeded to spend our Valentine's mattress shopping and eating dinner. I know we're very romantic, but you have no idea how exciting this was for us!

Since we both had to work all day Friday we decided just to move in Saturday. So we spent a last few days at my Mom and Dad's house. I'll admit it was really nice being there, don't tell him but I don't hate my dad's crazy idea of living in a commune. They're some of our best friends and I enjoy just hanging out with them doing nothing. Not to mention my Mom is an amazing cook and I enjoyed eating there for almost 2 months! :)

Saturday bright and early we loaded up our cars and started the moving process. I had been stressing about it because I *HATE* to move. But it was surprisingly uneventful. We were beyond blessed by the amount of help we had from family and friends. All of our belongings were in the house in under an hour and a half and most everything was put where it belonged by that afternoon. I'm still finding places for little things and attempting to organize but overall it's pretty well together and feels like our home already. I am a terrible blogger and didn't manage to take one single picture on moving day. (Cut me some slack, I was a little preoccupied!) But if you missed my last post you can see pictures of our house here, it looks the same it just has stuff in it. Eventually I will get it all decorated and post "after" pictures.

Leave it to my terror I mean dog to make a mess within minutes of moving in. It was a record for him, it took all of about 5 minutes (if that) for him to figure out he can dig under the fence on the side of the house where there are no neighbors. To the right of our house is still an empty lot for sale which makes the ground uneven where our fence is since the lot isn't cleared and our sod hasn't completely taken yet. All he has to do is use his paw and pull up a piece of the sod right along the fence then it's just clay and sand that he can easily dig out and roll under the fence. LOVELY!

We thought we had rigged it up enough to keep him back there while we finished moving until he came running through the garage door into the house a lovely shade of orange/brown from the dirt. Onto my new beige carpet. Luckily we caught him and wrangled him into the garage before he could make a mess, but he was definitely giving us a run for our money that day! I'm still trying to decide the best way to remedy that situation until a house is built over there(which could be years!). Electric fence is sounding like the most reliable option, but we'll see. I might try chicken wire and bricks first. Gah, the things I do for that fur baby!

We were pretty wiped out still Sunday. We shopped for some things we needed right away and for groceries. After putting the groceries away we took a two hour nap.(We're incredibly productive!) We did finally get up and hang all the blinds, hook up the washer and dryer, and organize a couple closets. I made burritos for our first dinner in the new house and we went to bed extra early. (Think before 9.. sad truth: I STILL didn't want to get up for work this morning!)

But that's about it for our Valentine's Day/weekend/home buying/moving experience! I promise to post some furnished pictures soon, once it looks a little more together.

Until next time....

Happy Monday y'all! :)

Our first house

We went to the house yesterday for the first construction walk through. The house is completely finished save for the few repairs we discussed with the super yesterday.

I LOVE IT! It came out even better than I had imagined! The construction phase should be completed within two weeks and ready to do a final walk through.

Unfortunately were probably looking at another month until closing because were waiting on mortgage paperwork to be finalized. Were(hopefully if all goes well) getting a great deal on a rural development loan. If you're looking at buying or building I highly recommend checking out it's availability in your area. Because it's a government backed program were now at their mercy and we all now how quick the government gets things done! (NOT)

In the mean time I took a million pictures yesterday to leave you with.

Happy Thursday y'all!