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 !

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

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!

Life

I am totally in love with not going to work. I know. Shocker. I do truly love my job. But, I do love doing whatever I want, when I want. And also the complete opposite, doing nothing, never. My sleep schedule is all outta wack, but I was sick, still sorta am. So 2 weeks of dying, I let myself sleep in til... my body couldn't sleep anymore. That will be fun next week when I have to be up. Depressing !

So what have I been doing? Christmas kept us pretty busy. Got a ton of gift cards :] which is awesome, since we don't know what we want and now we can just have the money! I loved seeing family, especially my cousins since I pretty much only see them at this time of year. And I love seeing all the Perry's together. There's so many of us. I loved all my gifts. My amazing husband got me a fancy wedding band to replace the ones we got from my aunt and uncle. This one has lots of little diamonds and "matches" my engagement ring so much better. I'm sad we don't have matching bands but love how shiny my finger looks. And I wasn't expecting it. Usually I ruin my surprises or find out or something ! But this one, even when I got down to the little jewelry box, I still didn't expect a ring, but maybe a necklace, or earrings. It was such a fun present. Love it ! And Chris and his mom went in together and got me a nice sewing machine ! Woo ! I'm so excited to use it. I apparently have a long list of things that need fixed. And I can finally make all the clothes I have pinned in my "DIY Clothes" board. I love clothes. I love sewing. There's something so soothing about that sound. And it's mine. No more borrowing, or breaking, or figuring out. I need to find a learn your sewing machine class. This one has SO many stitches and needles and all this crazy stuff. Yay presents ! And Baby Peaches got his/her first present ! My grandma sent us a little floor mat gym thing. It's so cute. I'm so excited to find out what the baby is and see all the cute stuff we get and finally get to buy stuff since I've held off until we find out. Woo !

And I'm so excited for the shower next week. Invitations are out so in the next few days everyone will know if its a boy or a girl. And then one more week and we get to know !! Ah !! It's true that doing this right after the holidays made the time go so much quicker. One more week. I love my little baby. I love feeling her move around, and push against my tummy and all those fun little things. And seeing her on the ultrasound, hearing her beautiful heartbeat. But to finally know if we're having a little boy or girl will be so wonderful. To finally know ! Logan or Lizzie. Mickey or Minnie. Pink or Blue ! Ah ! I love it. I can't wait to know ! 7 more days !

 So now that I have no idea what else happened this last week since I'm so excited for next week, I'll move on to the baby survey!


How far along? 21 weeks 
Total weight gain: I've gained 2 since last appt, but still -1. I dont care anymore 
Maternity clothes? Yes maam ! Love all the comfy ones. Might have to graduate to bigger shirts since all my big tshirts are getting tight. Lame !
Stretch marks? No?
Sleep: I sleep for forever, but never feel like it when I wake up. And no position is comfy. Lame.
Best moment this week: Well last week someone who doesnt know me asked me a question regarding being pregnant ! Woo ! It's finally noticeable !
Miss Anything? Not being sick. Every other day about I throw up. I thought this was over.  
Movement: Lots. Nothing consistent. And I swear I felt a kick on the outside ! So close ! 
Food cravings: Fruits. Apparently anything out of season and a million dollars for crappy fruit. Next pregnancy is during the spring/summer when fruit is delicious ! 
Anything making you queasy or sick: Coughing makes me gag, cold to hot, it's lovely.   
Gender: This week I'll say boy, cause I'm too excited to use Logan :] 1 week !
Labor Signs: No way
Symptoms: Throwing up, pregnancy brain, tired, fat.    
Belly Button in or out? In.
Wedding rings on or off? On. Still loose
Happy or Moody most of the time: Happy? lol 
Looking forward to: THE SHOWER !! ahh !!

Oh and I did remember an awesome thing from this last week (pregnancy brain... sorry!) We all got to go to the Columbus Temple with Madison for her to receive her endowments. That's where someone asked me about being pregnant. I got to wear the comfiest skirt. It was stretchy. Loved it ! It was really nice being in the Temple with all the family and friends. It was lovely. I love being in the Temple ! Here's some links for those interested or if you have question ! http://www.lds.org/church/temples?lang=eng (for temple info) and http://www.lds.org/scriptures/gs/endowment?lang=eng&letter=e (for endownment info!)

Yay life !

Time flies !

Where the heck does the time go ! It's almost Christmas, and then it's New Years, and then hello, it's 2013. What the heck !! Why does time go faster the older you get instead of the other way around ? That would make so much more sense to me. When I rule everything, that's what I'll do...Noted.

Well, not much has been happening. Work has just been work. We have too many people and not enough to do, especially since it was getting towards break and everything slows down. I do still enjoy it tho! I say that like I'm waiting to one day hate it. Never gonna happen ! So work is work. I have off for 3ish weeks. Which is super nice and awesome. And another reason why I adore my job.

We had our baby appointment last week. Goodness, it seems so long ago. I love ultrasound appointments and being able to see our little one. And he/she is big enough to see all kinds of details. We counted all the fingers and toes :] That was awesome. Measured everything. Tech says baby peaches is looking good. So that's comforting. So far I haven't done anything wrong. We went through with our crazy idea of not finding out then. The tech was so good about it and joked with us and kept telling us to look away just in case. I'm glad. I was afraid we'd see something. And Chris has been such a good sport. He hates, HATES this idea, but he's been good about it. I said just give me this one baby and this one fun idea, and then he can do whatever he wants for the rest of them. But, I resisted the urge to peek in the envelope, and handed it off asap, and so far so good. Take that all you nay-sayers ! We've lasted a week without any mess ups. Chris keeps saying Angel is giving it away, but I'm just not paying attention enough. So two more weeks. Yay for baby shower ! Ah, I've gotta register ! Arg. I'm excited though. Everyone planning it and all their little comments and their excitement makes me so excited. And so thankful for everyone helping. I can't wait to see their ideas and their work and everything. It's going to be great. Aleshia keeps saying I hope you like it, or it's what you want and I just keep saying as long as I know it's a boy or girl when I walk in, and as long as no one ruins it before Jan 5th, everything will be perfect. So... 2 weeks. We got this.

I finally got sick too. Stupid cold. It's been my turn, everyone's been sick around me for forever and I'm so surprised I hadn't gotten something sooner. But it didn't turn into the flu, or pneumonia or anything. I just sound horrible, cough up a lung every morning, and can't breathe 90% of the time. But hey, "this too shall pass" right?? If only I could take my dear sweet NyQuil and conk out for the night. I can dream...

Luckily with this break, I can just sleep all day (not always a good thing) and get better and take it easy. And that's what I've been doing. Take that.

Chris got that job at Radio Shack. He was supposed to go in sometime to train this week, but they never called... weird. But hey, it's supposed to snow ! Who called it? Me? He hasn't even started yet and it's supposed to snow. I guess I shouldn't gloat until I actually see snow. Usually there's a 100% chance of 1in or more and then there's nothing. But, he's out salting right now. Yay money ! We're so broke. It's awesome. In the worst way.

Anything else? Busy busy with the holidays. Can't wait to see everyone. Can't wait for the shower. Jan 5, 2pm. Be there.


How far along? 20 weeks ! Halfway. And I barely feel pregnant...
Total weight gain: According to me like 8lbs, but we'll see at my appt next week. 
Maternity clothes? Heck yeah ! I love love maternity pants. And the super slicky black ones Lorien sent <3
Stretch marks? No
Sleep: Actually slept from midnight til 1030 one morning straight. no potty breaks. NOTHING
Best moment this week: Feeling the little baby pushing up against my belly and pushing it back. So fun !
Miss Anything? Not feeing outta breathe. and I know I am barely experiencing part of that issue 
Movement: Little jabs, and then full on pressure against my tummy. and i push back. lol its fun  
Food cravings: Stilly my Wendys salad. YUM. 
Anything making you queasy or sick: Not lately. Please don't ask or something will happen.   
Gender: I'm saying girl. 2 weeks!
Labor Signs: Nope
Symptoms: I'm such a ditz. Love it.   
Belly Button in or out? In.
Wedding rings on or off? On. Soooo loose
Happy or Moody most of the time: I can see my swings more now. Sorry Chris ! 
Looking forward to: Feeling better. and then next survey will be about the shower ! ah !

December !

December is going by so fast. Oh yeah and Christmas... I should probably get on that whole present buying thing. Oh wait ! You need money for that. Haha ! Silly me. But Chris has a second interview at Radio Shack today. I'm really sad cause it's cheap-y mall pay but hey, its better than what he's making right now, with no snow, and no job. Lame. And (hoepfully) it will start snowing ASAP. Cause that's how it goes. But yay for job interviews ! I thought about a second job, except who would hire me for 5 months... Lame.

This week was pretty fun. Decorated work with lots of snow flakes. I love them. Watched Elf (not at work, I would never do that...) and had fun with my people. We're coming up on our last week of work. I'm so excited !! This week should be pretty simple. Lab lunch, yay free food! Then OB appt to see the sex of the baby Thursday !! Then Friday is the big department lunch. More free food ! I like food.

So, regarding the gender, don't ask me what I'm having. I won't know. You'll know. If you want an invite/save the date, let me know ! I think they're sending out "save the date" type things first, with all the info, then later you'll find out what it actually is. DONT TELL ME!! I will punch you in the face. I'll let you know the date ASAP. People won't confirm or deny. But yay. It stresses me out cause I feel like there's so much I need to do ! Ah ! Help ! **UPDATE: The date has been confirmed. Jan 5th will be the shower. Please let me know your contact info. Location is still to be determined. I doubt it will be anywhere but the church but that's not confirmed yet !

I've finally jumped into maternity clothes. At least pants. Shirts tend to slide up the little stretchy belly part cause its slicky. But they're so much more comfy then waiting until I'm absolutely uncomfortable in my jeans and have to unbotton them. Then I'm paranoid people can see and they're like look at crazy lady. But thanks to some wonderful people in my life, I've gotten hand-me-downs and they fit ! So I've only had to buy 1 pair of pants and that was from the consignment sale for $10. Oh yeah ! Go me. But they're comfy. I don't know why normal people don't wear them all the time.

So I've been having these crazy thoughts now that all the blogs say the baby can hear me and will start hearing outside stuff. I'm so paranoid about what I say. Nothing bad, obviously I don't have a potty mouth. But there's stuff I'm like my child will never watch this or whatever, but there I am talking about it, or watching it. And I'm like OH NO, my poor little babies ears ! I'm going crazy ! Except last night, I went to my Aunt Linda's Christmas Festival thing at her church. It was awesome. Pretty sure they have more people in their choir then we have attend our normal church service. COOL. I was jealous. They did amazing. So many different types of songs, not just the traditional normal boring Christmas music. And I was really sad at first cause I went alone (screw you world, I do what I want!) and felt like such a loser, except I fellowshipped and made friends :] But I was sitting there with my newly showing belly, and was super excited that my baby could hear. I'm like yay ! you'll love Christmas music ! And how beautiful it sounds and then I was like, wait, I'm not alone. I'm never alone (freaky weird thought I know) but I was happy to enjoy this first little Christmas moment with my little one. I know, I'm a crazy mom-to-be with my psycho thoughts. But it was a cute little moment and like a :p moment to all the people that didn't come with me ! I was alone. Let me comfort myself.

And... that's all I have for ya. I really can't remember all the other craziness that is my life.

I'll post pictures of stuff. My g-mail is being lame.

 Happy 19 weeks. Almost halfway !

 At the sweet concert. Aunt Linda being a "ding-a-ling" as she called it !

First MU Basketball game. We barely won. Slackers.

How far along? 19 weeks ! Almost half way. Weird.
Total weight gain: Might have actually gained this time. 
Maternity clothes? Yay for stretchy pants, the maternity bottoms I have, and i've got my eye on a belly band.
Stretch marks? Not that I've noticed
Sleep: Normal
Best moment this week: When Robert called my Chubbs. THANKS
Miss Anything? When we talked about sushi again. 
Movement: Little jabs, little waterbed type movements.  
Food cravings: Salads. I know its not "good" but wendys salads and baked potato. I had one Sat. Will have another for lunch.
Anything making you queasy or sick: Decided I wanted to get sick out of nowhere Saturday. COOL.   
Gender: Everyone finds out this week ! Thursday !
Labor Signs: No
Symptoms: Total forgetfulness. It's awesome.  
Belly Button in or out? In.
Wedding rings on or off? On. Fall off tho
Happy or Moody most of the time: Um... happy? 
Looking forward to: Seeing my baby on the ultrasound again. Even if I won't get to know the sex, I love seeing him/her!

Almost halfway... weird !

Well... I'm bored. Not really sure what I'm updating for except a few things I have to share. Nothing monumental. 

We were crazy people and had our insane DC overnight trip. Drove up Friday, way to late getting started. Stayed with friends out there. It's fun having friends. Being little grown ups with other grown ups. Then rushed off to go to the DC Temple. Which is gorgeous and like a castle if you ever have the chance to see it in person. I'm going to talk like you know what I'm talking about but if you have questions, just ask cause I don't know if I want to explain it all here if I don't need to. For the first time I was able to use names from my personal family history and take those names to have work done at the Temple. We just did their baptism and confirmation, which is the first step. But it was such an incredible experience to bring those by no one else's efforts (minus my dad who helped a lot) and get their work started. It was pretty amazing. Here's a brief intro to part of what I did: Temple Baptisms. So that was a great start to the day. 

Then we took some pictures and I had this whole itinerary scheduled and ready to get going and it all got shot to Hades. So it ended up just being Chris and I in downtown DC walking around the mall looking at the sites, which was totally fine cause we like to spend time together and we have fun. And neither of us had been down there in years, so it was a-ok. We wish we could have scheduled a segway tour. MAN that woulda been sweet. Oh well. Then it was rush back up to where the Temple is (it's actually not in DC, it's in Kensington, MD, about 30 mins north of DC) to get food from Cafe Rio !! The best place to eat cause I miss it so much from Utah. ::sob:: We had to rush through the line and I had to eat in the car. Lame. Silly time constraints. Oh well. It was delicious. Even the next day. So rush back to the Temple where they have a Visitor's Center with all kinds of fun things to do, exhibits, murals, statues, videos, learning things. Fun Fun. Well the whole point for the trip was to go see this Christmas concert with Jenny Oaks Baker, an amazing violinist that my little sister in law loves. The concert was free why not. We made it to the concert 2 minutes before they gave away our seats. Rude. But it was cute little Christmas thing. We walked around to see all the pretty lights that are strung up everywhere. Said bye to everyone and hit the road. Ugh. 9pm. Yay...? I had to be back to make it to church the next day because I was teaching. Silly teaching. But we made it. We thought it would be a lot later like 4 or 5am by the time we got home, but we pulled in right after 3am. Sleep. Church. More sleep. The end of the weekend trip. 

So baby news. Went to my appt last week. Everything looks great. I heard the baby's heartbeat <3 Which was such a wonderful sound to make me feel better about everything. I didn't hurt my baby when I fell, my baby was fine even if I wasn't growing, etc. Silly mommy thoughts. The best part of the appt was leaving and scheduling my next appt for the gender ultrasound ! AH !! I can't believe it's already been long enough to see what my baby is... where is the time going!! So in a week, Dec 13th, I'll go get the ultrasound, keep it a secret from myself (I'm pretty sure I'll let Chris know, since he's being a butt about it) and then sometime after Christmas or the New Year I'll have my baby shower and find out. YAY! I'm super excited. Pretty sure I won't be fat for my baby shower. How lame is that? Except that, especially today, my jeans are NOT comfy and for the longest time this morning they were unbuttoned and unzipped. Thank you big t-shirt and hoodie. So maybe I am starting to grow. Woo ! So that's the fun news. So if you're coming to my baby shower, or whatever, I think it will be that week after the New Year when people are getting back from vacation and such. Oh So Excited ! And then I remembered everything I have to do. Anyone wanna help me register. Cause I don't want to. haha Or send me some suggestions :] THANKS !

Such a good looking group ! 

 Pretty Temple !

    The Washington Monument, in case you didn't know.

So that's been fun. Now this week is just work, survive, and make it to our break in a few weeks. And keep my fingers crossed that Chris passes all this classes.


How far along? 18 weeks !
Total weight gain: -3 pounds. Cool. 
Maternity clothes? I'm in the market for belly bands since I'm not so huge to not need my normal pants. Oh and another bigger bra. Cool!
Stretch marks? nope?
Sleep: The norm  
Best moment this week: hearing the reassuring slushy heartbeat of my peaches
Miss Anything? Um... no? 
Movement: Little pokes and jabs. Kinda like if I have the slightest twitch of a muscle deep inside me.  
Food cravings: Nope. but my baked potato today was divine. and i always want danged fruit
Anything making you queasy or sick: When we got back from our trip and i was so exhausted   
Gender: My prediction... since next week everyone will find out... is GIRL haha we'll see
Labor Signs: Nope
Symptoms: My belly feels like its in the way and I'm squishing it when i lean to grab something  
Belly Button in or out? In.
Wedding rings on or off? On. Fall off tho
Happy or Moody most of the time: Moody. I think it's stressed 
Looking forward to: Everyone finding out the sex next week so they can get excited !