Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Productive !

Not really sure where all this productive energy is coming from (and not, I'm not feeling all energetic and such, still tired from growing a human) but maybe cause I can't nest and put my efforts into baby stuff, I just put it into other things. ie my fun project today !

So Chris is getting super into this whole budgeting thing and how awesome the app is (ie it tells us we eat out too much, guilty as charged...) So in my attempt to help keep us in our budget and not get yelled at for eating out so much, I wanted to find a more efficient way for me to get dinners made. I hate working, coming home to clean the kitchen, to cook and dirty it up, to clean it again. Lame. I'm tired. I don't care enough. I'd much rather get a $2 meal deal from taco bell and call it a day. Step in handy dandy Pinterest (seriously what did we do before this thing!). I've pinned things for forever about freezer meals, or make a billion meals from $100 and blah blah and thought I'd check it out since that's why you pin stuff right? To use it later? And then some of the meals actually sounded good, and I'm thinking, "hey, I can actually do this!" I looked up a few different pins and pulled some of their recipes, cause some sounded weird, or expensive or they found a certain meat way on sale and yeah, that's not going to happen. So I picked and chose (sounds weird) what I wanted to try, and tried to vary a bit since Chris gets sick of chicken.

The meals I decided on: Garlic Honey Chicken, Garlic (something?) Pork Chops, Teriyaki Chicken, Chicken and Broccoli Alfredo, Beef Stew, Chicken Tacos, Rotisserie Chicken with Potatoes, and 2 bags of Meatballs (cause I love them <3). That's 9 bags, 9 dinners, which the recipes say serves 4ish, so they had better be enough for dinner and then some left over for lunch (which is my big perk since I always go out to lunch at work and really should bring lunch). Oh I'll put recipes in a sec. Don't fret !

 So I got my shopping list together with all the things I needed for the recipes (and a few extra things) cause if I don't make a list I'll just buy. And the point of this is to stay on budget. It's such a cute list :]

And then I came home unpacked everything and set out what I needed for my freezer meals.
My teeny tiny counter. This was pretty much everything, minus the meatballs I haven't found yet, and some canned stuff I already had in my cupboards and didn't set out before my picture (I'm new at this tutorial, what I did thing). 

Then I needed to sit down for a second cause I'd been on my feet for a bit to long and little baby is still chilling on my back and my hip was killing me. I needed to label my ziploc bags anyways (Do this before ! It seems like it'd be so hard after, and another BTW, buy FREEZER bags. I'm lame. Pregnancy brain. I'm thinking I'll be ok because I don't plan on storing these meals for months, but just in case, get freezer bags. I'm really hoping I didn't ruin everything!)

Bags are all labeled and ready to go :] Just recipe name, and what to do with it to cook. I didn't put recipe cause... everythings in it, unless it requires something after. Just "thaw, cook for 4-6hours on low" etc. Easy!

Now came the fun part. Just pick one bag, find the recipe and start dumping in the bag. It was soothing to watch the counter of ingredients disappear and these clean little bags fill up with yummy food. It took me a little less than two hours (yikes) but I was distracted by Downton Abbey (!!) and moving slow. You could probably do it quicker. Two hours later and I'm short 1 piece of chicken (I can't count apparently) and just need to track down meatballs, and I've got bags full of yummy (hopefully) meals !

Aren't they beautiful? Yummy... 

My single bag of chicken tacos (just a closish up example) labeled, directions, all the pretty layers of food!

And they stack up all pretty in my tiny freezer and I have plenty of room ! So exciting !

So time for recipes ! Since I've had a few requests. 

Garlic Honey Chicken
1 1/2-2lbs chicken breasts
3 garlic cloves
1/2 cup soy sauce
2/3 cup ketchup
1/4 cup honey

Mix in bag. Cook on high 3-4 hours or low 5-6 hours.

Some type of Pork Chops (call them garlic brown sugar, or I don't know)

4 pork chops ~1in cut
2 garlic cloves
2 TBS brown sugar
1/4 cup soy sauce
1/3 cup chicken broth
Salt and pepper to taste

Mix and cook 4-5 hours on high, or 6-7 hours on low.

Rotisserie Chicken and Potatoes

Whole Chicken
1 tsp onion powder
1/2 tsp thyme
1/2 tsp chili powder
2 tsp salt
1 tsp paprika
1/2 tsp pepper
4 garlic cloves

Mix spices and rub over chicken. Put garlic inside chicken and put into freezer bag.
Day of cooking: Thaw, cut 3-4 potatoes and wrap in foil. Place these in the bottom of the crockpot. Place chicken on top. Cook on high 4-5 hours, or 7-8 hours on low.

Chicken Tacos
1 1/2 chicken breasts
2 TBS taco seasoning
1 can of corn
1 can of black beans ( or any you like I'm sure)
1 can diced tomatoes
1 tbs (I used a tiny can) of diced chilies

Mix in bag and the recipe I got it from said cook all day. Yeah, really specific. I'd say 6 hours give or take on low, but keep and eye on it. I plan on shredding the chicken and mixing it all back in together. Yummy. Serve with tortillas, on rice, etc whatever you want to do !

Chicken Broccoli Alfredo
1 1/2 lbs chicken breast
1 bag of frozen broccoli
2 16oz jars of alfredo sauce

Mix in bag (YUMMY) and cook on low 4-6 hours. Serve over noodles or rice.

Beef Stew
1 package beef cubes
4 carrots (I used 1/2 a bag of baby carrots)
4 red potatoes (I sliced them, the recipe didn't specify)
1 packet of onion soup mix
2 cream of mushroom soups
1 8oz can of tomato sauce
1 bag frozen peas

Mix in bag. Cook on high 5-6 hours or low 7-10 hours.

Teriyaki Chicken
2 chicken breasts
1/2 bag of baby carrots
1 cut red onion
1 large can of pineapple chunks
2 garlic cloves
1/2 cup of teriyaki sauce

Mix in bag. On day of cooking: add 1/4 cup of teriyaki sauce and cook on low 6-7 hours. I plan on serving this with rice.

Meatballs (!!) for 2 bags
~36 frozen meatballs (or homemade if you're super ambitious. I am not.)
1 16oz grape jelly
1 20oz (I got 18oz) BBQ sauce

Mix in 2 bags. Cook on low 2-4 hours. I think I'll do bakes potatoes and veggies with this to make it more than just a little appetizer, party food type thing.

So that's my recipes. That's my ambitious day. I'm super excited to try stuff. I can't wait. OH and I also made my own disinfecting wipes (go me right?!). I love the clorox ones, but they're so danged expensive. And I'm excited about the homemade ones, except some of the negative nancys that post comments. So we'll see if we get some mutant disease or my house is filled with fumes. Or I might have just wasted my money. Whatever. But they smell delicious (I love pine sol) and they seem to work well. And they are definitely cheaper. Cut a roll of bounty sheets in half (harder then it seems, even with a sharp knife), but in a rubbermaid container that fits ( make sure not to waste money on new ones that are too small and end up using one you already had) and I made a mixture of 1/2 cup pine sol and 2 1/2 cups water. Give or take. And poured it over the paper towels in the bowl. Put the lid on and shook it up. I used a little too much liquid, oh well. They'll take longer to dry out. Took the top off, used a sharp knife to cute a horrible little whole. Pulled the cardboard tube out of the middle and found the end sheet and threaded it through the horrible lid whole. Tada! And I have plenty to make another batch. Probably will last a little longer than the $7 clorox wipes I love. Yay me !

Here's some of the sites I got ideas and recipes from (and there's a ton more you might want to try) I don't remember which came from which. Sorry ! Blame the pregnancy brain!

http://joelandkitty.com/4o-freezer-meals-in-about-4-hours/
http://www.aturtleslifeforme.com/2011/06/freezer-meals-on-cheap.html
http://www.savingyoudinero.com/2012/06/12/1-hour-1-mess-5-crock-pot-meals/
http://melissafallistestkitchen.blogspot.com/2011/09/freezer-cooking-slow-cooker-meals.html
http://www.ringaroundtherosies.net/2012/02/freezer-cooking.html

Now my house smells like garlic and pine sol. My back is killing me. But it was totally worth it. And now I can't decide which meal I want to try first !

I'll try to remember to update on how the recipes turned out. Or if you try them first, let me know !

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Hello Heartburn !


Another week. And another week. I really wish there was more going on in my life. Between me working, Chris working and going to class... that's pretty much life. Somehow I manage to be busy, but I'm really not sure how. 

No new pregnancy updates. The baby's been moving just as much as ever. Chris feels him a lot more. I was sad because Maddie wanted to feel him before she left but she didn't say anything til 2 days before she left ! I'd have screamed for her anytime he moved if I had known. I think my belly is getting big enough for people to just touch it. So far only 3 boys have touched it and they're related to me. And no strangers in the grocery stores or anything like that. I'm sure its a matter of time. Chris always just laughs at me anytime my shirt is tight, or something. He's like your belly is huge ! Thanks sweetie ! I feel like I have heartburn all the time. I'm not sure if I've ever had it ever. So it's what I'm guessing is heartburn. Either way, I have my Tums in my purse. I have an appt tomorrow so I'm going to ask if what I'm feeling is heartburn/acid reflux or whatever, in case I'm medicating for something I'm not experiencing and killing all my stomach acid. And another appt means another heartbeat hearing ! And people keep asking when my next ultrasound is. I wonder if I get another one, since I'm not high risk I can't imagine I'd get another one if it's not his practice. And I can't decide if I want to get the 3-D u.s. even though they are awesome but expensive. We're poor. What's new?

Speaking of poor. Chris got super ambitious the other day and wanted to find a good way for us to remain diligent at a budget. We've made budgets, Dave Ramsey-ed it up, and then 4 weeks later, its all done and over with. Mostly cause we can't do the envelopes and cash. We're debit card people. We never have insufficient funds, or spend like mad. We monitor our spending thanks to our awesome bank app. So Chris found this pretty sweet app, Mint, The Mint, not sure, and it syncs to our bank and monitors spending, categorizes charges, suggests things, IE you go out to eat too much, hence the $100s you spent on fast food last month. Shut up app. Don't tell me what to do! But we went back through our budget, input everything in the app, and now we're hoping this digital "envelope" system will work. As long as we're diligent, I think it will work. There are so many tools and nifty things. I'm excited to take charge of our finances. I'm really excited that Chris is so excited. I like when he gets motivated and hooked on something. Well, most things. Not apple products, windows phone, type things.

Patti and I had a fun date night last weekend. Chris went with Mark and Maddie to snowboard and she needed a night outta the house. And we've not hung out like ever so it was exciting. We went to Applebee's (yummy) and got dessert stuff and made this chocolate chip dip that wasn't as good as I wanted but it was yummy too. And Patti went through the baby shower stuff. That was fun. It was so fun watching her. And she has lots of tips and what works, and what doesn't and little things she discovered along the pregnancy line. It was fun and informative. She dressed up one of the stuffed animals I got with all these random pieces of baby clothes. Man I should take a picture of that ! Ah ! But it was fun. It was nice to just talk. Good times <3

Lets see. 

Madison is officially an official missionary ! Crazy. She went into the MTC today (missionary training center, for you noobs). When we said goodbye to her Monday night it all seemed surreal. Like she's not really leaving for her mission. She's just going back to school, or working or something again. We've just gotten used to her not being around (sad I know) so it just feels like one of those things. Except when I want to text her, or facebook something. It's sad I won't see Sissy Poo pop up on my phone for a looong time. But I'm so excited for her. So extremely jealous. I know it would have happened if it was supposed to, but I wish I'd have had my life in order so I could have served a mission. I just feel like I'd be 10 steps ahead and that much better of a person. So it's so incredible she has this opportunity, considering 3ish months ago, she didn't think she'd ever get to go on a mission until they lowered the age. How amazing! It's really incredible to see how the Lord works. I can't wait to hear from her. I know it won't ever be often enough. I love missionary stories, and especially Sister missionaries. Ah ! So excited for her!

Cute little family !
 Such a sweet moment. So proud. 

Maddie & Pres. Lim after she got set apart. Official Missionary !

I'm sad she won't be around for things, even via skype ie the birth of our child. She's been saying stuff about peaches since we got married. And I was so excited to tell her we were pregnant when we found out cause I wanted to share it with my little sister. But alas. Sacrifice brings forth blessings. I'm being selfish. She'd barely be here for it. She'd be at BYU and all that. But still. I'm really not meaning to sound bratty. It's totally worth it. And really, going to serve the Lord for 18 months vs staying home, going to school and talking to us every few days/weeks... I wonder what's the better choice to put her efforts into. Duh, Haley.

Ok. Survey. Cause nothing else is going on !

How far along? 25 weeks
Total weight gain: Will know tomorow morning
Maternity clothes? Can't wait to find stuff at the store in Charleston this weekend. A WHOLE MATERNITY STORE !
Stretch marks? The ones I see I'm pretty sure were already there... hopefully lol not?  
Sleep: Getting enough cause I wake up to pee and feel refreshed and can't fall back asleep  
Best moment this week: More baby kicks. All the time. I love it !
Miss Anything? Breathing normal/not feeling like I have heartburn..
Movement: Tons !
Food cravings: Double stuff oreos <3 that I went and got... Lame  
Anything making you queasy or sick: The super cold air !   
Gender: He's a boy. Pretty sure I'm deleting this next week. Sorry to disappoint! 
Labor Signs: Nope 
Symptoms: Still itchy. Belly is super tight. Peeing.       
Belly Button in or out? In. 
Wedding rings on or off? On.
Happy or Moody most of the time: So happy lately I love it ! 
Looking forward to: My appt tomorrow to hear the heartbeat and see what's next, so I have something to look forward to !

Thursday, January 17, 2013

Warning: Boring... Sorry !

It's lunch time. Almost. And I'm not hungry. Weird. Apparently donuts fill you up :] Let's be serious... I'll start typing this and then get extremely hungry and come back later and finish...

Still not hungry :]

Nothing huge has transpired in the last week. Everything was leading up to finding out what we were having. And now that we know... we just know. I did finally get to buy something. I made myself. It wasn't even like a OMGosh I have to have this for my baby. It got to the point where it was like, "I seriously haven't bought one thing yet? Ok, this will do. It's Disney." I do still want to go get the mickey plush <3 and I need to get ambitious and return/exchange stuff we got doubles of from the shower. Anyone? I want a PA. (Personal assistant for all those not down with my lingo)

My bellys getting huge. I feel like I can hardly breathe when I lean forward. I can hardly ever even lean forward. Unless my legs are splayed open at an awkward angle (nice visual huh?) And the itchy skin! It's worse the hours after showering, so I'm fresh with oils and lotions and I'm SO itchy... gross. And new this past few days, hello round ligament pain ! I read about it. Thought I was escaping the 2nd trimester without experiencing it, but for real, I'm not that lucky :] It's horrible since I can feel that one stupid muscle, or ligament, whichever, stretching. I'd almost say tearing, but that makes me cringe. We'll go with stretching. Dang growing baby. But it's fun that he's growing so fast now. All the baby blogs are like so many ounces a week and yada yada and growth burst, and baby fat and tada = a baby. I'm tiny now. Or so people say. Even though I'm starting to do that knocking stuff over with my belly or run into things that I swear I had enough depth perception a few weeks ago, why am I hitting everything now? So I must be getting bigger so little Logan is getting bigger. Joy :] He moves a lot. If I focus on it when he's all rolly around in there, I can motion sickness. It's kind of funny, in a I'm going to be sick way. Cause I'm not moving, at all. I'm perfectly still. But focusing on the wavy type motion, ugh. And Chris feels him every now and then. I love when I feel kicks. I always giggle or get this huge grin on my face. I could sit all day and chase him around my belly feeling for kicks. Or punches, or headbutts, not really sure. My little karate kid !

So... my super exciting life. Our living room is full of bags of stuff. We're on the last (?) step of getting the townhouse closed !! YAAY!! I keep telling myself I'm so excited to get that done and start moving and getting settled, but I'm so lazy lately, do I really want to do all that work? No, I want my magical fairies to do it for me ! Hello my new PAs!! But hopefully that "nesting" thing will kick in and I'll be gung-ho about getting the house in order. I want to start packing stuff now but I'm afraid I'll need something and that will super frustrate me if I need something and its packed somewhere. So get excited about helping us move in the next few weeks. Hopefully. Fingers crossed. I have more than enough time, since hello, it's January, and the baby won't be here until May. But I'm looking at pregnancy checklists and you-should-have-this-done-this-week-of-you-pregnancy calendars and I'm so behind ! And I stress. But a lot of it I'm ahead of schedule on too. Breathe Haley. You'll be ok.

And lastly, hubby and I had a little moment last night. I've read about "talking" to your significant other about the reality of all this and how they're feeling and be open and honest with how I feel and yada. Well, Chris and I are open and honest, but it's never in a serious setting, or there's usually another conversation going on immediately before or after. But last night before bed we had such a good moment. Just an open honest, I'm-excited-I'm-scared etc conversation. Couldn't have been more than a paragraph's worth of sentences. But it made me want to cry, to be on the same page, to know I'm not alone in how I feel. In how utterly afraid I am, of how much I already love this little guy and how different our lives are going to be. I love having Chris right there next to me, knowing he's there forever, on my team. He's the best husband I could ask for. The best friend. I'd never dream of doing this with anyone else and I'm so glad it's him.

BABY SURVEY before I start crying at work !


How far along? 24 weeks Hello 6 months !
Total weight gain: Find out next week ! hopefully something since I'm fat lol
Maternity clothes? Comfy gifts from the Gods. Wish macy's had a better motherhood section. lame. And downeast's wonder tees are PERFECT! take that maternity tanks that are nonexistent in wv
Stretch marks? Not yet... 
Sleep: I'm now waking up dying of heat no matter what the temperature.  
Best moment this week: our heart to heart chat <3
Miss Anything? Sushi. Not feeling guilty for missing my vitamins
Movement: He's going to be a karate master. 
Food cravings: I wish I had one big one. Still just little things every other day  
Anything making you queasy or sick: Been ok lately... and I just jinxed myself I bet.   
Gender: Still our little Logan. I wonder when I can delete this question... 
Labor Signs: No way. 
Symptoms: Itchy skin. All the time. Stupid ligament pain.      
Belly Button in or out? In. 
Wedding rings on or off? On. Still so loose
Happy or Moody most of the time: Happy :] 
Looking forward to: Hearing about the house ! So I can finally put into action my baby nursery ideas

Friday, January 11, 2013

Where to start !

Oh there is so much ! I can't even get my thoughts sorted enough to post anything. Which is why it's been two weeks ! Oops !

So first things first:

WE'RE HAVING A BOY! 

Ahhh! How insane ! Our little addition to the family will be Logan Nicholas Perry (unless he absolutely doesn't fit this name, but he'd better!) We love that name. It's the only one we agree wholly on and this was (I'm pretty sure) before we were married. We're still deciding how we feel about this. That sounds so bad ! Ok, let me explain. Well I know how I feel about this, Chris I'm not so sure about. I did want a little girl, because they're cute, and all the fluffy, ruffly stuff you get to have. And I'm a girl, and what girl doesn't want a girl! But, obviously, typical mom answer, I'll be happy with either as long as he's healthy. Which is so true, just lame. (Side note: there are never enough gummies in snack packs. Just FYI) So boys. Chris is really disappointed because he really wanted a girl. Like really, really, really. I know he's happy either way, and will love any child we have. But he makes such sad little "joking" comments. It so depressing. I know he's not serious. And as soon as he sees him and holds him and the first time he says da-da, or follows him around or anything, he'll melt. So, yeah. So now that I've come to terms with not having lacy dresses and hair bows (because I won't do that to my baby boy, at least not with picture evidence...jk) now I'm thinking of all this stuff about boys and what I don't know and how do I explain things to a boy. I'm not a boy ! I don't know anything about being a boy ! And so much responsibility. I know this is normal OMGosh freak-out pregnancy thing, but all this what if, and he's supposed to and what if he doesn't things go through my brain. And a lot of it is SO out of my control and as long as I do what I'm supposed to do and I know to be right, then Logan will have his own choices. But what if ! Ok, I'm done before I start having an anxiety attack at my desk.

Moving on!

So the shower. Which should come before "it's a boy" since that's the way it happened. Whatever. The shower was incredible. Absolutely amazing. It worked flawlessly (take that all you doubting thomas-s!!) No one spilled the beans, or let slip. I can see in retrospect where I could have known from things I noticed, but I would see something, and not dwell on it, because I didn't want to ruin it. Chris on the other hand... He was such a good sport and hated waiting and resented me for my awesome idea, but whatever. It worked. And it was awesome. So if you don't know my idea cause you're lame and don't read every post on my blog (j/k) we didn't find out what the sex of the baby was at the ultrasound, but had it sealed in an envelope, and gave it to my mother-in-law who passed out the info to parents, and those throwing/planning the shower. The week prior to the shower they told all the guests if it was a boy or girl, so we could get gender specific clothes, cause I hate the thought of having a closet full of ducks, or yellow and green. Lame. Now guests know, we registered for both girl and boy stuff. Pretty sound plan. Then if it was a boy, I wanted Mickey, girl I wanted a Minnie shower. That way, Chris and I would walk in, see pink or blue and know and yay ! So much cooler than finding out with a stranger in a dark room with goop all over your belly. No offense.

So that was the plan. Here's how the day went :] 2pm took forever to get here ! Ah ! Torture ! Nick and Patti came to get us so we'd have a car and we could be blindfolded in case someone was late and had a huge blue bag in the parking lot and ruined it before people could see our faces. We got the cutest shirts made (thanks Margo!) that have Mickey & Minnie heads that say Mommy and Daddy. Drove to the church. Walk in and we see this:
All down the hall is pink or blue. Chris thought we'd find out as soon as we walked in the Church. Nope. Gotta wait for the party room with all the people ! My heart was pounding. It was so intense ! So we take the longest walk through the hall. All the windows to the room are blackened, Chris says he'll open the door and I'll open my eyes so we'll see together. Sadly, it took him a second to catch the sex cause the room was red, blue, black, yellow- Mickey colors. But I saw the blue balloons falling right in front of the door and freak out ! So on video you here me scream we're having a boy ! And poor Chris had no idea how I knew this. But we walk in and everyone screams "It's a boy!" It was so perfect. We really had no idea. The room was incredible. They spent so much time on the decorations but it looked great. So honestly, the only thing that wasn't exactly what I had pictured was the blue being everywhere. But it looked amazing and they did better than my brain. And I thought about it, if they had done blue trying to match the image in my head, it never would have looked like that picture and no matter how good, it wouldn't have been "right" and I'm a spaz and would compare. So the fact that they didn't do what I thought they were worked out so much better. I never expected the room to look like it did, so its better than I could have imagined ! Ok back to us (tehe) so we walk in, so overwhelmed- holy goodness we're having a boy! My eyes start tearing up with a billion people looking at me. And then we didn't know what to do. Cause everyone's staring at us. And then we played games, and ate super cute food and opened all our gifts. We went from nothing, to having mostly what we need. Might need a few more of a particular item (ie, we got pacifiers, but I don't think 3 is going to cut it) and then we just have to figure out big stuff. It was so perfect. Absolutely the best shower I could have asked for. So a huge thanks to Angel, Maddie, Aleshia, Patti, Sarah and Linda ! I love you !!

And now pictures in case you don't stalk me on facebook:
Yay ! Surprises !

Can't wait to put our little guy in his shirt !

Mickey food !

It's a B-O-Y !


So cute !!

So that was the baby shower. There's a lots of pictures on my and Angel's Facebook if you can get to those and see more. I wanted to post them all but there's so many !

OK! So other things. NYE was fun. We were up way to late. Threw off my sleep schedule SO bad. Life is fun now that I'm back to work and can't sleep in until noon. I've learned even the most functional families get a little dysfunctional when board games are involved. Chris has finally started at Radio Shack. He loves it (?) as much as you can love a job where you don't do much. They're not busy, but he loves all the Mexicans that come in. And I will love it when we get his paychecks.

We're still waiting on the final word on the house. I'm pretty sure its the last step and I didn't want to work over the Holidays, so I guess I can't get frustrated at someone else for doing the same thing. But now that we know what we're having, and what we need for the baby, it's fun to mentally plan the babies room. And the rest of the house. So excited !!

Chris finally felt the baby kick last night ! I say finally like its been forever, but it really feels like I could feel him kick for so long now. And then Sat. I could feel him on the outside, but they're so random and sporadic and not super strong its hard to get Chris to run to me. But last night (so really, its been less than a week since I felt him on the outside... Goodness I'm impatient!) Chris just looked up at me and was like "was that it? Was that a kick!" cause I stopped saying did you feel that?! Cause not every kick apparently goes through the layers of fat and skin. It was fun. Such a good moment <3

Ok. Anything else will have to come floating back to me, or wait for another day cause this post is getting crazy!

Baby SURVEY !


How far along? 23 weeks (almost 6 months... crazy !)
Total weight gain: ?
Maternity clothes? Love them. They're so comfy. Starting to fit better so I'm not constantly pulling up the pants panel. And can't wait to spend the maternity gift cards :] Tank tops are TOO short
Stretch marks? Not yet... 
Sleep: Is fine. Unless he starts kicking, cause then I want to stay awake and feel. 
Best moment this week: 3 moments cause I can't pick one: finding out we're having a boy, the shower and Chris feeling him kick !
Miss Anything? No one giving me unsolicited advice. I know next it will be how to raise the baby. Can't I just punch you?   
Movement: Lots. At weird times of the day. And finally outside kicks !!
Food cravings: um... no?  
Anything making you queasy or sick: Breathing apparently lol   
Gender: BOY! boy boy boy ! Logan ! Yay ! <3
Labor Signs: No way
Symptoms: Itchy skin ! At least once a week I'm nauseous, and my brain doesn't work. Ever.     
Belly Button in or out? In.Chris doesn't think it will ever go out. 
Wedding rings on or off? On. Still so loose
Happy or Moody most of the time: Happy, anxious, excited and totally overwhelmed ! 
Looking forward to: FINALLY BUYING MY FIRST BABY ITEM ! ARG!

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