AAAHHHH!

I am in just the most un-wreckable good mood today!! At 4:00 today i have my BIG u/s and i'm just PSYCHED! It started yesterday on my way home from work....i was just dancing to crazy music the whole hour drive home. Then i got home and cleaned the carpets, the living room, and the kitchen/dishes...everything i wanted to get done this weekend so now i can relax. PLUS...my friend Jami had her baby yesterday at the same hospital as my u/s so i get to get my thing done, and then get to go and hold a brand new baby girl!! Then we're going shopping with MIL and DH for baby stuff (FINALLY) and momma stuff. And i think o my way home i'll get a hair cut/style too. Not to mention that i discovered a great new feel good cute outfit that was given to me in maternity stuff. It didn't fit before so i cast it off...but now it fits great. I feel so cute today...perfect mood to meet baby finally! Sorry if this is totally scatter-brained....but i'm just so excited and happy and thrilled and yay!!!!!! I haven't felt this good in 5 months...since we found out! LOL

OK i'll be sure and call or text everyone tonight on the outcome of the baby-viewing!!! yay yay yay!!!

I'm gonna go and dance around to music now to try and calm down. HEHE

Sunday Update....

So today Joel and I went to church of course and had a wonderful time as always. We are going through Genesis and it is actually really good. Today we were covering the fall of man and the consequences/punishments given to man/woman. Very interesting insight there but i digress....LOL
Joel is asleep on the couch now and i didn't want to watch Olympic water polo....so here i sit.

Yesterday was nice, we were home most all day long but then went out with Jami/Ethan for Jami's birthday dinner at Kansai....Japanese Hibachi grill...yummo!!
Friday was another stay at home day but it was still nice. I came home from work around 2:00 and Joel came home from his friend's house around 5:00. I'm glad he got to see his friend, they haven't gotten any time together in months since he is in the National Guard. Funny thing that happened when he went to his house.....i guess his friend's girlfriend came over too, with her dog and when Joel saw the dog he said aww a Lilly girl...because she was a black lab mix just like our Lilly...well then his friend paused and said what? how did you know that? LOL Apparently their dog's name is Lilly as well and she is a black lab/boxer mix. hehe.

As far as baby updates go...baby is making him/herself known FINALLY! We have felt a few kicks here or there when we are reading to him/her. I can't wait for Friday when we'll finally find out if it is a him or her.

In a few hours we'll be going with Joel's mom to a potluck get together thing at her church so that should be fun. We haven't seen a lot of her friends since we found out we were preggo so i'm sure i'll be getting a lot of 'woah's!' haha. (boy do i feel huge)

So anywho....that's about it for our updates. Hope everyone is having as relaxing of a weekend as we are!! Now i think i'll go and join Joel for a nap...let that HUGE platter of pasta digest. :)

17 week Mug Shot

So here's my 17 week mug shot....minus my mug. LOL

Another Thursday has come..

So it's Thursday again and THANK GOD for it! Friday is just one more day away.
Nothing too new and exciting to blog about today i guess. I found out that another girl in our office is preggers too but she is only at 8 weeks now so i'm the 'elder' of the group LOL. She's been lucky to not really have any morning sickness yet...sux for me! I still get random bouts of it, i.e. last night...but it's tolerable and rare enough that it doesn't get to me too much.
So Joel and I are planning another weekend in. Last weekend wasn't too successful for staying in since we each went out seperately on Saturday so we were apart from like 9am until 5pm. Hopefully this weekend we can just take it nice and slow and relax and have some 'us' time.
I'll be buying my bridesmaid dress for 'Nessa's wedding on Friday and I'm thrilled that i was able to find a stretchy style of dress for my ever expanding waist-line...or lack thereof. :)
Well that's really about it for now i guess. We are really trying to start saving some money for our trip to FL in October so i think the weekends will mostly be stay-at-home weekends for us for a little while. Gas is killing us so going anywhere we have to consider how much gas it will take to do it!
Well I should get back to work...they like me to work around here which i just think is really over-rated. Oh well...such is life in the business world. Maternity-leave cannot come soon enough!!

16 down, 24 to go

So I had my 16 week appt today and all was great, super, splendid! The baby's heartbeat was super easy to find and nice and strong. Hearing that little :::thump thump thump::: will never get old. I gained 4 pounds so it's nice to see that i'm finally starting to put on some weight to match my baby bumpage. On the one bad side they did detect that i was getting a UTI, but it's so early that i didn't even know it yet so i'm just glad that they caught it and hopefully i can avoid any symptoms by taking the meds early.
There is a test now that i am faced with, the alphafeto-protein test....that joel and i haven't decided on yet. It's a blood test run on me that can detect if the baby is more prone to or has downs syndrome or spina bifida, + a few other problems. There is no harm to the baby or anything, unlike the nuchal translucency test, so at first i was ok with it. But the more i think about it...the more i think it's just another test that i don't really need. We had already decided early on not to run any of the crazy tests that are dangerous at all or poke our baby or anything. But with this, it's just hard to decide. If something were found to be wrong, how would we react then? Do we even want to know? Sometimes there are false positives on tests, and that would put a damper on the excitement of having our child!? Plus if something were found to possibly be wrong, what other tests would we be approached with? It seems better to just avoid the test, but we are going to pray about it and sleep on it to see what we, and God decide is best for us and our little bundle of baby.
So all in all it was a good day and a good appt. Our BIG ultrasound is scheduled for August 29th too so we just can't wait for that!!! yay!!!!

Exciting!!

So this past week has been sort of exciting....
in daily news...On Sunday we finally officially joined our new church! Hurray! We also had lunch with another young couple there and that was a good time...yay for that!
Our weekend was pretty good, but too short. The past 2 weekends now we've been busy busy busy running errands and going to see other people or do other stuff. It's nice, but at the same time, we hardly get enough time for just the two of us as is so when we have a busy weekend, it's just that much worse. So this next weekend we've made plans to do nothing...absolutely nothing. We're going to stay in Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, and work on the baby room, and clean house, and hang out together. It is some much needed time.
On the baby news front....this week brings me feelings of baby movement!!! I can't be sure because as a 1st time preggo it's hard to tell what is gas, digestive system movements, just random body stuff, or baby. Buuuut i was laying on the couch last night and i felt a very distinct :::thump thump thump::: in the right area. So i think that was it. I've been feeling little flutters here and there recently that i've thought...well maybe....but i'm pretty sure that last night was it. It's all so exciting!!
Also....Joel's mom picked up our crib for us. We aren't sure if it's been gifted to us or if we are going to pay her back for it...unclear...LOL....but either way...we have it and it's on the way.
On a random sadder note.....the whole story of Caylee Anthony missing down there is making me angry now. They are dragging Jesus' family into this because he 'might' be the father of the girl. I'm sorry but that has absolutely no baring on the case seeing as how he was killed in a car accident over a year ago. My heart goes out to his family as i'm sure the last thing they want right now is more media coverage than they've already had to deal with. I really hope that they are able to find Caylee alive, and that Casey is put in jail for a long long time for being so stupid about her own daughter. Our prayers go out for her sake as well. But if something terrible did happen to that little girl, via her own mother....then God have mercy on Casey, because i know i wouldn't if i were in her family.

Rupert likes to help mom with the household chores

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