13 Weeks

Second Trimester!!!

How far along? 13 Weeks

Total weight gain/loss: 0 lbs

Sleep: Like a baby. Or actually better because babies don't really sleep well. haha

Best moment this week: I stopped having 24 hour nausea!

Miss anything? nothing this week

Movement: I felt a flutter! It was quick and tiny but very real. :)

Food cravings: Pretty much anything I am looking at

Anything make you queasy or sick? nothing specific

Have you started to show yet? I think it got pushed back in. haha

Gender prediction: I keep envisioning a boy...

Happy or Moody most of the time: Can I pick sleepy?

Looking forward to: Really showing and feeling the baby again!

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving!

Once again... I am behind on this post. But we had a wonderful Thanksgiving that we got to share with my dad and grandparents as well as a visit to Steve's dad and family. The break went by way too fast but we had a lot of fun! Of course my mom and I went Black Friday shopping! It was awesome.

How far along? 12 weeks

Total weight gain/loss: 0 lbs

Sleep: Sleeping wonderfully! And can't stop napping

Best moment this week: Got to spend time with family eating stuffing!! haha

Miss anything? Staying up late... I can't even keep my eyes open after 10 now.

Food cravings: This week, stuffing.

Anything making you queasy or sick? Grocery shopping. Don't ask why, but I look at all that food and I want to puke haha

Have you started to show yet? Maybe... but still nothing really.

Gender prediction: Everyone tells me its a boy

Happy or Moody most of the time: Can I choose sleepy?

Looking forward to: Second Trimester!

11 Weeks

I have been terrible about posting this past week. We moved for most of last week and I haven't had the motivation to find my laptop power cord. (haha terrible excuse)

Anyway, Here is last weeks post!

Excuse all the crazy bright colors and we had no nails to hang this on the wall...

How far along? 11 Weeks

Total weight gain/loss: 0 lbs

Sleep: I sleep amazingly in our new place!

Best moment this week: We moved into our new home with room for the baby now!

Miss anything? Cooking meat without wanting to puke.

Movement: My app I follow says it is fully moving now and if I poke my stomach it will squirm in response but I can't feel a thing

Food cravings: Mexican Food!! Love love love...

Anything make you queasy or sick? Uncooked meat

Have you started to show yet? This week it's more of an inny belly now.

Gender prediction: Want a girl!

Belly button in or out? In

Happy or Moody? Happy, but moody when it comes to moving :(

Weekly wisdom: Enjoy my husband while I can keep him all to myself. And keep busy! I don't feel as sick when I am busy.

Looking forward to: Thanksgiving! I am hungry just thinking about it...

10 Weeks

This week has been a little bit crazy. I should have posted this on Monday but I have been super sick all day so it comes on Saturday instead! Also this pic is kinda terrible, but we are moving out of our apartment this week so no more cinder block dark pictures! Yay!

How far along? 10 Weeks

Total weight gain/loss: -2lbs

Maternity Clothes? Nope

Stretch Marks? Nope

Sleep: I toss and turn all night long now...

Best moment this week: Telling the people at my work. They were all so excited!

Miss anything? Eating normal meals

Food cravings: Well, it's happened... I just want a pickle! And I can't stop thinking about pumpkin. I just want pumpkin pie, pumpkin cookies and pumpkin cheesecake! I blame the time of year.

Anything making you queasy or sick? Still pretty much anything. It's more terrible food odors than what I am actually eating.

Have you started to show yet? I think this pic shows some belly! It goes away thought. So it was probably just a food baby.

Gender Prediction: This week I think I'm having a boy

Belly button in or out? In

Happy or moody most of the time? This week definitely moody!

Weekly Wisdom: Sleep whenever you can!

Looking forward to: Moving in to our new place next week!

We Are Having A Baby!

It's official! The word is finally out!

We can hardly contain our excitement! I have promised myself that I will be such a great blogger while I am pregnant and especially once we have a baby.

So here it goes! I want to document everything! Each week I'll be posting a new pic and new stats on the little one.

This time around I am doing an update/review of all of the weeks leading up to now.

How far along? 9 Weeks

Total weight gain/loss: Well... just about two weeks ago I was down close to 10 pounds (it was the nausea) and now I'm back up to normal weight!

Maternity clothes? Haven't even thought about them yet.

Stretch marks? Once again, they better not be crossing my mind for a while!

Sleep: Who knew you wake up to pee in the middle of the night ALREADY?! So not loving this...

Best moment this week: We had our first doctors visit! Everything seems healthy and we saw the baby on an ultrasound machine. It was so tiny and perfect! We got a little misty eyed...

Have you told family and friends? This is our formal announcement for those of you who we haven't seen in person yet!

Miss anything? Having a normal relationship with food. Also sleeping through the night and not worrying about my stomach every five minutes.

Food cravings: Nothing even sounds good. I am still waiting to get those cravings.

Anything making you queasy or sick: EVERYTHING! No puking involved, but I can't get through a normal day without feeling like I am about to!

Have you started to show yet? I'd like to think so. At night my belly looks way bigger than it normally does. But during the day I just have a slight pooch.

Gender prediction: Typical... I'd love a Girl, Steve really wants a Boy.

Belly button in or out? In.

Happy or moody most of the time: I hate to say it, but I'm moody. I just get so mad about constantly being sick!

Looking forward to: Getting over this nausea! They say it usually goes away around 14 weeks. So I'm counting down the days!

As you can see I have been feeling miserable. I have been through such a roller coaster of ups and downs with my nausea. I still have yet to make it through one day of feeling like I am normal again. But that's what comes with bringing a life into this world! We are so thrilled and wouldn't change any of this for the world!

Family Pictures

We had our family pictures taken this August in the Thanksgiving Point Gardens. It was my mom's side of the family, she has 9 brothers and sisters and each one of them had 4+ kids. Needless to say the number was up around 50! I love my family so much and think these turned out beautifully!

My family

My mom, two youngest sisters and step dad Jared

I love the colors of the pictures and think Tiffinee did an amazing job!

Her website is tiffineedawn.com

I love my family!

Summers End

Wow how time flies.

I promised myself to keep up on this summer and now it's almost October! This is the last of our adventures in New Jersey but we did this stuff in July! So sorry for my delay... But it was by far the highlight of our summer so I am really glad I'm catching up!

On July 15th we went to the Hill Cumorah Pageant in Palmyra New York. It was about a 4 hour drive to upstate, and we spent the weekend up there. The first day we went to go see Palmyra and of course the pageant. We got to the Pageant grounds around 11 and NOBODY was there! We thought it was so funny we got there so early and we were the only ones there. We staked out our spot and walked all around. People got to climb the hill to this little Joseph Smith monument and we loved the view from the top!

I'll jump ahead to the pageant for the pictures sake. It was such an amazing show! There were over 500 people in the cast! Everyone came out before and mingled with the audience. We are pictured here with I believe a Nephite and a Lamanite. The show was just about the Book of Mormon and all the heroes we read about. There was FIRE, WATER FALLS and A FULL SIZED BOAT on the stage! This was for sure broadway quality work here. We loved every minute of it and could really feel the spirit.

While we were waiting for the show to start we went to see the sacred grove, the Smith house and the temple. The sacred grove was the most amazing experience ever. We thought it was just a small little spot that would be crowded and noisy. But when we walked in the spirit just surrounded us and we felt so so amazing to be in the place where Joseph Smith actually knelt in prayer. It was super quiet and actually quite large. We were alone for most of the time and just felt such a wonderful peace the entire time we where there. I got teary eyed the moment we walked in because it looked identical to any pictures or paintings I have ever seen of it.

The temple was simple and beautiful. We also saw a few other monuments like the Smith home as well as we watched the Joseph Smith movie. That movie makes me cry every time! It is so amazing how someone so young could endure so much and still have the strength to move on.

We had such an amazing time in Palmyra and would recommend it to anyone who is thinking about going!

Palmyra is only about an hour and a half away from the edge of the U.S. So we thought for sure we had to go see Niagara Falls! And of course we had to see it on the Canadian side! It was super packed that weekend and really hot too. It was the most spectacular thing we have ever seen though! There was a ton of mist constantly coming off the falls and there is always a beautiful rainbow! We unfortunately didn't get to go on the Maid of the Mist boat because they were all sold out that day! So Canada bummed us out a bit and we actually didn't stay too long there.

This is really funny to say but one of the serious highlights of our trip up was passing by the cutest little town in all of America. It is right off of one of the finger lakes in NY (there are 11) its a small town called Skaneateles. HUUH? haha we did the same thing. It's pronounced skinny atlas. But it was so flippin cute! The lake was beautiful and the town was so prim and quaint. We are for sure without a doubt having a summer home there on that lake, its that precious! We walked out on this cute little dock in the middle of the lake. (the lake is so crystal clear the people of Skaneateles actually drink this water!) I'm sad I didn't get any good pictures of the place, but it actually wouldn't have done it justice! Just trust me on this one...

Ha nice face.

Well we had a great time this summer in New Jersey! We are sooo glad to be home though! I think our east coast summers are now over, and oddly enough, we are ok with it. Home is always the best place to be.

Now back to school, back to reality! Hope all of you had a wonderful Summer!

Update

OK, I am so sorry for how terrible I have been about writing this summer but I promise to update you all right now! I got a job while being out here and I work 10 hour days and get home at 8pm. So I haven't had any energy or time to write! But we are having a great time out here! We don't do much because I work on the weekends as well, but what we have done has been lots of fun! So here it goes...

Our Two Year Anniversary

We spent our second year anniversary here on the east coast and decided to take a weekend trip down to Atlantic City! (about a 2 hour drive) Steven surprised me and didn't tell me we were going until the day we left! He got us tickets to Michael Buble and we had a blast! We also ate at the awesome Melting Pot. Such a memorable weekend! We loved getting away from it all and thought Atlantic City could be our mini Vegas getaway :)

Stephen and Ariel

Stevens good mission buddy Stephen hehe... Came out to live in the city for the summer and had his wife visit one weekend. We decided to play in the city and show them all around. They wanted to see Wicked so we stood in line for the lottery. We thought we had a pretty good chance of winning because it was 4 names that could be drawn. We told them that if we won we would give them our tickets and of course... I WON! It was a little sad to give up front row to one of the best Broadway shows but I just knew they would love it! Also Ariel was wearing her cute green necklace! A sign that she just had to go! We also ate in little Italy at Lombardi's pizza that night. They loved the pizza so much they said they went back in just a few days! We loved playing tour guide and had a great time hanging out with them!

Summer 2011 Shows

We haven't seen nearly as many shows this summer as last (our count was up to 25!) But we have seen some good ones! How to Succeed in Buisness without Really Trying, with Harry Potter was super cute! Spiderman had an awesome set but terrible music! haha Anything Goes had the ever so famous Sutton Foster, who is brilliant by the way. She is the best actor on Broadway and was super cute! We saw Beauty and the Beast (the inside of the theater is the tiny pic on the bottom corner) and also went to David Letterman! Where Lady Gaga was the star and we got a few seconds of face time with the TV! Even though we haven't seen as many shows, we are still happy with the ones we have seen!

New Jersey State Fair

We loved going to the fair! We are a sucker for fried Oreos and terrible entertainment! We got to feed a camel in the petting zoo (which I was terrified of) and Steve got to be part of the act at the circus! Coke was there with this amazing Coke bar that was like 30 degrees and snowing inside this little dome! We got our picture taken inside with the coke bear and our little free samples of Coke! We loved it in there especially because it was so hot outside!

4th of July

The 4th of July is the best part about spending our summer in New York! We get to see the world famous firework show put on by Macy's and this year it was better than last! We scoped out our spot at this park at about 2 in the afternoon! We were so glad we did because people were going crazy and crowding around everywhere to see the show! They were lit off over the Hudson on 5 barges and were all timed by computers. We had a great day of just playing card games and having fun at the park.

We have since then gone to Palmyra and Niagara falls and I can't wait to post all about that! It will be a much bigger and better post ;) Thanks for being patient! I promise to be better about updating, and just to let you know we only have 2 weeks left!

Yay!