Trip to Pennsylvania

This past weekend, I drove to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for my friend Nikki's wedding.  I got to see some of my college friends and my college roomates.  It was a lot of fun catching up with everyone.  Here's my 13 week picture.  I am still feeling great and love eating food!!  I feel so blessed to have such a wonderful pregnancy so far.  We have another appointment in a week to hear the heartbeat again.  And hopefully I am on track with everything (maybe he can rule out twins??!!) Hope you all have a great week!  I love the Monday holidays!

This is my friend Jennifer's sister Ashley.  It was so much fun hanging out with her! 

This is Jennifer, one of my college roomates. It looks like we fit together like a puzzle :)
This is my other roomate, Emily.  

Working away...

Just a little update on the baby and our house.  Here is a picture of me at 12 weeks.  I feel like all of the sudden, my belly has kind of popped out.  I am looking forward to our next appt in 2 weeks to hear the heart beat!  Maybe this time, the doctor can rule out twins :)

Jeff is currently outside staining our deck.  He is constantly working on a project here at home and I love that about him! He never complains and I think he really enjoys doing things around the house.  Here is a before picture of the wood...

Here is Jeff down on his hands and knees staining away

Here is a small section of deck that has been stained.  We didn't want a really dark color. We wanted more of a natural color so it may not look that different on the computer but it looks great in person.

And I am so proud of this piece of work.  We had to have a step put in beneath our patio door for insurance to continue covering us! And for safety's sake.  It was a 2 foot drop off so here is what Jeff did!  He did a fantastic job and now everyone can feel safe going out the sliding patio door!  Thanks Jeff, it looks great!  Hope everyone has a great week!

P.S.

We are not going to find out what we are having :)

New House Pictures and Baby Update

I wanted to post a few pictures of our house. These are not the most updated but I never took any since we moved in. So next time I clean and organize, I will try to post more.  We have countertops now :) We are enjoying being homeowners but it is so true that the projects never stop.  The only thing we changed about the bathroom was that we had the tub re-glazed.  Everything else, we left as is.

We had our floors refinished and we love them.  
Our fireplace is not a working fireplace. It could be, but it would cost a few grand to fix.  So right now it's just for looks :) But we love the built in bookshelves.

We got back from vacation in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico last Friday and had a blast.  It was a great week of relaxing, sun, and playing games with our good friends Mindy and Tony.  I felt great the whole time and I think I gained a couple pounds during this trip :)  We had our first doctor's appointment today and it went great!!!  We love our doctor and feel very comfortable with him! We also got to hear the heartbeat which was great! Can't wait for 4 more weeks until we can hear it again.  I am feeling great and am loving being pregnant! Enjoy the pictures...

Love to you all!

New Belly Pics

Here are a couple new pics of my belly.  I am 8 1/2 weeks pregnant and feeling great! The past 5 days I have felt completely normal.  Not that before was bad, but I just didn't feel great.  Now I do and I am so thankful.  We are leaving for Mexico on Saturday and I am so excited! It will be a great week off and fun times with our friends, Mindy and Tony.  I then have my first doctor's appointment on Monday, the 17th.  We should get an ultrasound that day which will hopefully rule out my thinking that I am having twins :)  I just never thought that my belly would feel this big at this point.  Not that it's that big but I feel like it is growing daily!  Enjoy the pics and I will update after the vacation.  Love to you all!

By the way, for those of you familiar with my belly button, it used to be oblong and skinny and it is definitely already rounding out and becoming more shallow.  Check it out...

Oops...

It's funny how God's timing is.  It is definitely not our timing.  Anyone have any guesses?........

Yep, we are pregnant.  This is a belly shot at 7 and a half weeks.  I will be 8 weeks on Friday.  Jeff and I are really excited! (Once we got over the "holy crap, what do we do now").   We weren't trying so we feel really blessed to have gotten pregnant so quickly.  It's just that the baby's due March 12th (the first Saturday of the NAIA National Basketball Tournament)...God's timing :)   I have felt pretty good.  I have been having A LOT of food aversions (can't stand cold cereal or craisins).  And a lot of food sounds good one minute then sounds disgusting the next. But thankfully I haven't had any real morning sickness.  You can see below my stretch marks from growing in 8th grade so I am sure I will get some being pregnant.  

Well, I'm off to get ready for bed...I am always tired!

Oh yeah, one of my best friends (Amy) is pregnant also and we are due 4 days apart (she's due March 8th and I'm due March 12th).  It looks like both of our husbands could miss part of the tournament...oops :)

It's been a while...

Sorry to everyone out there thinking I was going to post often.  I really tried hard but just not hard enough :)  Life got busy with moving and re-doing the house so the only free time we had was for sleep!  I was going to post some pictures tonight but forgot that I gave the camera to my mom.  We are all moved in but still "arranging".  I haven't gotten any pictures hung up but most everything else is done.  We love it here!  It definitely is a lot of work owning a home but we are very blessed! I will try to post some pictures this week when I get my camera back.