Bump

Things are progressing perfectly with this pregnancy. Couldn't ask for anything better. Even though nothing scary had happened, and I've been told the baby is healthy, it's always such a releif when I get to hear the babies heart beat when I visit the Dr. And last month we got to see the baby again with our second trimester ultrasound.

The ultrasound tech went through her routine checking this and that, the eyes and lips and hands and feet and pretty much every body part until finally we got to find out that our baby is a she! We are having a girl! Which is so exciting and so scary. I certainly wasn't expecting her to say that, and might have even asked her if she was sure that's what we were having. But sure enough it's a girl. It's taken me a while to wrap my head around that fact. I've been preparing myself, in my mind, for a boy. Now I'm trying to focus on ribbons and dresses and pink, it's been quite a task. Again everything has been reported healthy, every little body part. Even every, not so little, body part of mine. I feel like I'm blowing up like a ballon and can't imagine getting any larger or my belly stretching any further. But in the next 3 1/2 months it's going to. We are so happy and excited and scared, and have a lot of work to do to get ready for baby girl. 

A New Adventure

This is about 4 months late but I thought it's about time I make an official post about the most exciting thing that has ever happened to me. Out of all the crazy adventures I've been on in my life, including my mission and school and travel, all the places I've seen and people I've met this by far takes the cake as the biggest, craziest adventure ever! The adventure of being a parent has just begun! 

About 4 months ago I was having these strange stomach pains that kind of felt like cramps mixed with nausea. I thought I might have been pregnant because I was about 4 days late and we had decided to stop preventing the possibility of getting pregnant about 2 months prior. Caleb and I went to the drug store to pick up a pregnancy test. This was kind of a scary and confusing experience. There are so many different choices and some very expensive tests! How do you know which one to get? The expensive one that will be better quality or does a cheap in do the job just as well? What about quantity? How many tests do you take? Should you take 2 or 10 just to be sure, or is one enough? This was a little stressful. But we finally picked the cheapest box and thought if it's positive the cheap one will do just as good as the fancy expensive ones. Although a little stressful, it was a lot of fun embarrassing Caleb and the drugstore, he loved it. :)

So we got home and I ran to the bathroom to take care of business. I felt like I already knew the answer so I was so scared to look and have it all be real to me. So I made Caleb look first and sure enough PREGO!! I was so happy and jumped up and down. Caleb was excited too but he's to practical to do any jumping, plus he's way better than I am and containing his excitement than I am. Needless so say I couldn't sleep that night. I couldn't keep my kind off of what was to come in the near future and all the changes our lives were about to go through, not to mention what my body was going to go through and what was going on in my body and the little peanut inside me. 

Since then we have had three Dr appointments. We go once a month. Our Dr is Glenn Leavitt. He plays football with Caleb for the Mustangs and they have known each other for a while. We get the "Mustang teammate discount" which is so so nice of him! The first appointment we went to they did and ultrasound and we got to see the tiny thing on a big tv screen. That's when it really became real for me. I started to cry without expecting to. Just seeing that there really was a baby inside me and to hear the hear beat was just too much joy to contain and I couldn't hold it in. Since then every appointment I've been to I have been able to hear the heartbeat, and every time I get emotional and want to cry. It's mostly because it's good to hear that that little heart is pumping away. And the next appointment Caleb will be coming with me so that we can find out if we are having a boy or a girl! So excited and so scared for this brand new adventure!

We've only just begun

It may have taken us 6 years but we finally made it. When its right its right no matter how long it takes to make it happen. When trying to figure out how to document our new life together, and sharing our happenings with our loved ones, I thought about journaling (which I should be doing regardless) and of course posting photos and events on Facebook, but Facebook just seams to cheapen what is so sacred to me, my family. So while I will still be involved on Facebook this will be my main resource to post the comings and goings of our new adventure called marriage. We will see how this goes since this is my first attempt at this blog thing. Blogging, like marriage is new for me and we have only just begun.