12 Weeks

This is a few days late seeing how I will be 13 weeks in a couple days, but it's never too late to start, right? I have a feeling that a lot of my future posts will be about my pregnancy/baby, so I hope you don't get too bored. I will try to mix it up every now and then, I promise! :)

These past couple months have been pretty rough. The first few weeks after I found out I was pregnant, I was dead TIRED all the time! It would be 2 in the afternoon and I would want to go to bed. And then after that the nausea and smell aversions started. All day long I would feel nauseous and just thinking of having to cook dinner made me sick. Chris has been really helpful with doing the dishes and keeping the toilet clean for me. Cause we all know that throwing up in a dirty toilet is awful! He has also been very understanding and patient with my sickness, so that's been refreshing.

I have craved a lot of orange juice and lemonade popsicles, grapefruit juice, and cuties. Baby loves the citrus! Working out has been tough too. I used to work out 4 to 5 days a week, and now it's down to MAYBE once. I am hoping in the next couple weeks that changes cause I miss it! It's just hard to do when you have absolutely no energy.

I won't be including my actual weight in here, cause frankly nobody but my doctor and myself need to know those disgusting numbers. But I will just say that I have gained about 6 pounds so far in these first 3 months, yet I feel like it's much much more! :)

We have been busy getting out second bedroom organized and ready to make into a nursery. I want to do all white furniture in there with grey and white bedding/linens. Then once we find out what we are having then I can do the accent color of pale pink or turquoise. We found a super cute bassinet on craigslist for $20 that we will use in our room in the first few months. (Ours doesn't have the mobile on it though)

Through all the sickness and pain, we are super excited for the next 6 months to get ready for our soon to be new addition to our family! We can't wait to meet him/her! And we will take any good recommendations for must haves for the baby if you have them!

Our next Doctor's appointment is February 7th!

 



9 Weeks

We had our first Doctor's appointment when I was about 9 weeks along. My doctor is Dr. Leavitt at Leavitt's Women's Healthcare Center. I was pretty nervous leading up to the appointment. First, I had to wait 5 weeks for it to finally come, and I just wanted to know that everything was ok in there.

But the day finally came! And everything was perfect. We got to see our cute little baby and hear its really fast heartbeat. :) The heartbeat was at 178 and the baby was measuring right on track. It was the coolest thing ever. The ultrasound tech was super nice. We didn't actually meet Dr. Leavitt in that appointment. We met with the P.A. and she was really nice as well, but we should actually meet our doctor at our next appointment, which is February 7th!

Here is a picture of our Little one! :)

Baby Allen!

I found out I was pregnant on December 1st, 2012. I woke up that Saturday morning knowing that Aunt Flow was supposed to make her appearance that day, but I realized that I hadn't had any of my usual symptoms leading up to that day. I usually get really depressed the week before and cramping a couple days prior. But I actually felt pretty good! So I went in the bathroom and took a test! This is how it looked:

I couldn't believe it! It finaly said PREGNANT! Yes, we had been trying for a few months, but I was still expecting it to say Not Pregnant. :) Chris was still asleep in bed, so I went in there, jumped on the bed and told him that I had something to tell him! I then showed him the test and told him I was pregnant. He couldn't believe it at first. And yes, he was still trying to wake up, and pretty sure he was still in shock, so it took him a little bit for it to sink in. Haha

I told Chris that I really wanted us to wait to tell our parents on Christmas Eve, with a cute gift announcing that they were going to be Grandparents. But after the first day of knowing that we were pregnant Chris had already told like 10 people! Don't worry I told a few people the first day too, like my sister Bethany, my BFF Sarah, and Stephanie. We were supposed to go to his parent's for dinner the next night, and I didn't think that he would be able to go through the dinner without telling them. :) After church on Sunday Chris and I had tithing settlement and Chris ended up telling our Bishop I was pregnant too! I then knew there was no way he could keep a secret, and I could also tell that he really was excited about it. So that made me happy, and decided we should tell his parents that night.

We told them as soon as we got to their house, and boy were they excited! There was a lot of screaming and clapping and jumping up and down. :) I was actually glad we told them cause it would have been hard to keep it from them anyway. We can't wait for August to come! And it's so fun cause Sarah is pregnant too! She is 5 weeks ahead of me, due July 7th. We have always wanted to be pregnant together and it's finally happening! Yay!

Christmas

Christmas this year was great! Chris and I went out to Sacramento to spend it with my mom. But the few days before Christmas was spent with Chris's family. His brother and sister both came in town for the holiday so we spent some time with them. The Saturday before we went to lunch at Chuck a Rama with ALL of his family. His grandparents, cousins, parents, siblings, and his awesome wife. :) It was a yummy lunch and it was fun to catch up with family. We then hung out at his parents house playing cards for the rest of the night.

After church on Sunday we went over to the In Laws for a Christmas dinner. We ate lots of yummy food, visited with the fam, and played our favorite card game Progressive Rummy. It was a nice relaxing day, as most Sundays are. :) Chris and I also opened our gifts that his family had for us since we weren't going to be there on Christmas Day.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Christmas Eve (which was Monday), we met Chris's family over at Perkins for a big yummy breakfast! We hardly ever go out for breakfast, and since it is my favorite meal, I was so excited! Their french toast is AMAZING, and it definitely filled me to the brim. We then spent the afternoon at Esther and Jared's house relaxing, napping, and getting ready for our trip!

Chris and I were leaving that night for California! Yay! I was so excited to get to spend Christmas in California with my Mom. It had been many years since I was able to do that. We needed to be at the airport at 5:30pm to head out, so we stopped at Subway to grab some dinner (Some Christmas Eve dinner, eh?) haha, and then got to our apartment to finish packing. The bad thing was that it had started snowing a few hours earlier, and I mean SNOWING!! Tons and tons of snow and it didn't look like it was going to let up anytime soon. I was scared our flight was going to get cancelled. But Chris's mother came and picked us up and took us to the airport. When we checked in we found out that it wasn't cancelled but Delayed till 10pm. Ugh. So we got to spend Christmas Eve in the airport. Waiting.

We read magazines, watched people, and played cards waiting for our plane to arrive. Our plane finally arrived at 10:05pm. We waited for those people to get off the plane, and then we finally got to get on! It had stopped snowing, but had to wait for them to de-ice the plane and do paperwork before we could finally leave, which was 11:15pm!! Holy cow. 5 hours later than it was supposed to. It was a pretty smooth flight and we arrived in Oakland at 12:15am and my Mom and Lee were waiting for us when we got there. By the time we got in the car and drove to Sacramento it was almost 2am. What a long night. We totally crashed as soon as we got to Mom's house, and it felt really good to actually be there out of the crazy weather.

Christmas morning we woke up about 9am with breakfast waiting for us that my mom had made. And then we opened presents. My mom was really good to us giving us gift cards and candy and scarves and socks. We also got some nice things from our family who couldn't be there with us. It was a modest but really nice Christmas. One thing that Chris and I gave to both of our parents was this:

Yep! That's an announcement for exactly what you are thinking, but I will get to that later :) The rest of the day we relaxed, ate lots more food, went to the movies and saw Parental Guidance and then played Rummy for a few hours before going to bed. It was a great Christmas and fun to show Sacramento to Chris since he had never been there before.

The next day we went to the movies AGAIN and saw Les Miserables. It was pretty good. Good music, good actors, but it was kind of long. And LOTS of singing. :) haha We walked around the outlet stores for a bit afterwards, grabbed some Burger King on the way home and hung around the house the rest of the night playing more cards and eating ice cream and brownies. Yummy!
 
Our flight back to Idaho Falls was leaving on Friday, but Chris and I were staying at a hotel down in Oakland the night before so my mom could get back to work on Friday. We wanted to spend a few hours in San Francisco, but by the time we got up and got ready for the day and headed down there, it was pretty late in the day, and we didn't want my mom to have to drive through a bunch of rush hour traffic. So instead we got checked into our hotel, ate lunch at a restaurant across the street from it, and said our goodbyes. The trip went SO FAST!! It was sad to already have to say goodbye and hopefully it wouldn't be too long till we can see her again. Chris and I hung out at our hotel the rest of the night. Went swimming, watched movies, ordered pizza, and ate a bunch of candy we had gotten at the gas station earlier. We love hotels and it was really nice to just relax and be together.

After we got up and ate breakfast the next morning, we got ready to go, and then our hotel drove us to the airport for our flight! We were there a few hours early since our flight wasn't till 3pm and we had to check out of our hotel at Noon. So we ate lunch at the Chili's restaurant there and hung out till we had to board. Chris loves getting to airports hours and hours before we have to board cause he worries that something is going to happen, so he likes to be there super early. So, our flight was on time, and we said goodbye to warm California, and got off in SNOWY Idaho :( It is so cold here!! Boo!! But it was definitely a nice Christmas and I am very grateful we got to make the trip. It was totally worth it. The only bad thing is I didn't take any pictures while I was out there! I need to get better at this picture taking thing. :)