Baby Details!

Thanks for your nice comments yesterday!  There are some things that I want to remember so I just wanted to recap them. Sorry if this post is long and wordy, the video at the end is funny!  :-)

October 2 - Our friends are getting married!  (Remember their gift here)  I realize that I'm a few (3) days 'late' so I decide not to drink but get grilled by my friends, relentlessly.  This is a rather routine occurrence with them, they drive me crazy when they find out that I'm not drinking.  C knew that I hadn't tested and she even wanted to walk next door while we were getting our hair done to buy one for me to take but I told her no, it was too early.

October 3 - K leaves at 4AM to go finish an ultimate tournament in the hopes his team makes it to Nationals (and they do)!  All day long I sit home a wonder what should I do.  Should I wait.  M finally convinces me to go to the store and get a pregnancy test.  I swear she had to talk me into it.  Fact:  I'd never had to do it before I was terrified.  Finally I go and tell M that I will txt her after K gets home and tell her.  At about 5:30 I decide to take the test, K said he'd be home by 8 or so.  So I go and it instantly comes up with 2 lines.  I didn't have to wait 5 minutes, it was positive.  My hands were shaking and I just sat there, not knowing what to do.  The rest of the night was kind of a blur.  The newlyweds stopped by real quick before they went to their honeymoon so we could take care of the house/mail and I am shocked that I didn't just blurt it out to them.  K finally comes home at 11:00 at night.  Seriously?  I've had to sit here over 5hrs and not tell anyone it was killing me!   At this point I was exhausted I did a lot over the weekend for the wedding, so I turn to him and just say, I really don't know how to tell you this and just hand him the pregnancy test.  His reply?  "Yeah, my boys can swim!"  That's my husband for you.  I txt M to ask her if she wanted to be called Aunt M and she says she screamed she was so excited.  We pretty much just floated through the whole rest of the week in a blur. I took a second test a few days later.

October 23 - If you remember my parents were in town, we decided that we wanted to tell them in person.  So we went out to dinner for their anniversary, handed them a card and then K said "unfortunately you're present won't be here until June, you're going to be grandparents."  My mom was excited and my dad was pretty much floored, he didn't really know how to react, but I'm really happy we got to tell them in person (and my lil sis)!
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October 25 - First Dr.'s appointment was pretty simple, nothing too big, just some bloodwork and health history discussion.  It is determined that the due date is in early June.  Next day we left for a great trip to FL because K's team made nationals.  It was nice to have a few days to soak everything in and enjoy.

November 1 - Our first ultrasound and it was quite the experience.  It was amazing to see the baby and to hear the heartbeat.  Though I have to admit, it was kind of funny to see K in the Dr.'s office, it was like he didn't want to go in the wrong direction accidentally.  :-)

First Trimester Highlights/Recap:
8week visit - HeartRate - 176bpm & Ultrasound
10week visit - HeartRate - 173bpm
14week visit - HeartRate - 153bpm
Symptoms - Nausea, I was definitely feeling sick, but never actually got sick.  This went on for several weeks  I don't know if that's better or worse.  I learned that one this to help was to each a small snack very, very often.  I also had heartburn/indigestion which I'd never had before.  I was also really tired through about week 15.  And I'm still suffering from some acne, blah.

Spilling the beans to friends:
December 2 - After much debate we decided that we were ready to tell our friends.  Honestly it was weird but since the wedding no one had grilled me about not drinking so I kind of surprised.  We went out one night to dinner and we were going to tell them when a mutual acquaintance was there and we just weren't comfortable telling them all with him there, so we waited.  2 Days later we went out with just 3 of our friends, but it was getting hard to get to get them all together at the same time so we decided if the time was right we'd just do it.  The conversation went something like this.
B:  Lauren do you want some of my Coors Light? (huh? completely out of the blue and off-topic)
Me:  No thanks, I don't like Coors Light.
B:  Why not?
Me:  I might as well drink water (sorry if you like Coors, it's a running joke in our friends)
B:  Are you pregnant?
Me:  Yes, I am
All of them:  Seriously?  (jaws dropped to the table)

It was kind of funny and completely random, but whatever.  Unfortunately there were several people not there that we had to call, which was disappointing but it wasn't going to be easy to hide and we weren't all going to be together again for a long time since so many people were traveling etc.  Plus it meant that one of them finally won the bet and was going to get their money.

I think that's everything I wanted to recap.  Oh I did want to show this video from HIMYM that I think is just hilarious (except when they find out they're not pregnant):  (I wish I could find a clip of her freaking out saying she has an alien growing inside her, it's funny too!)

Where I've been!

Well it seems I just didn't have it in me at the end of the year.  So after a short break I'm back to the blogging world I hope.  I will surely probably not blog as much as before but I'm going to give it a shot.  Meanwhile I'm on a mission to redesign this here bloggy blog and make it about me and my family.  I loved getting comments from everyone and I've definitely missed that over the last few months.  This is going to be a short, short post but it's good to be back!

Ok, so really, want to know where I've been and my excuse?

That's right, Baby C is on the way.  Found out about the week I 'came back' in October and I just didn't have it in me to blog with all the excitement and secrets and then the holidays came, whoa.  I have lots to recap and will be working on those soon.  Sorry for those of you that don't want to read another baby blog but we're heading in that direction.  I'll do my best to keep the baby blogging to a minimum but it's my life now.  I'm thinking some of my old posts may come down so I feel more comfortable sharing with family.

Happy New Year everyone!

Friday Fill-Ins

What a week!  Luckily my Mom and Aunt arrived yesterday so I'll be spending the weekend with them until we bring my Aunt to my cousin's and then Dad is coming on Monday!  It will be an interesting week or so!

Trying to get back in the swing of things so I thought I'd do a Fill for the day.

1.   Blogging is     something I'm working to be better at (and missed while I was gone)    .

2.  A current fashion trend I wish I was brave enough to wear is    leggings/skinny jeans, and knee high boots.  I really, really wish that I could wear this style.  I love it, but my calves are way too big I think.  

 

3.  My greatest accomplishment in life thus far is    graduating from college, engineering kicked my butt  .

4.  If I had to choose between a mountain or a beach vacation I'd choose  the beach.  I love to just sit back and relax in the sun and water, even though I'm not much of a swimmer. 

 

5.  A talent I wish I had is     to be able to do my make-up and my hair.  I am no good and doing make-up.  I can do other people's hair, pin it, style it braid it, but I can never do anything with my own, it's so plain and boring  .

6.  A talent I do have is    being able to engineer things.  I love making cards and sewing, but sometimes it's a little bit of creative engineering to make them look pretty. :-)  

7.  This week    is over!  So glad that my mom and aunt are here and dad is coming soon!   

Wedding Gift

As I mentioned our friends Matt and Candra got married last weekend.  I knew I wanted to make them something as a gift but I didn't know what.  I saw the beautiful McKinley quilt pattern on obsessive crafting disorder and I thought it was perfect!  I modified the pattern to be bigger and instead of using charm packs, I just cut out my own 5x5 squares.  I absolutely love the fabric!

Here's the full quilt, thanks to KC for holding it up for me in the backyard.

A couple of close-ups of the squares and the backing, made with a twin sized brown cotton sheet from Target:

 I hand embroidered their names on the front:

 Used my Stampin' Up Big Shot to makes some 'flowers' to add some appeal:

I made a cute bride and groom card to go with it:

 This was definitely a time consuming project.  I loved how it turned out.  I had hoped to make it bigger.  I just knew that with the late start, I wouldn't have been able to make it bigger and finish on time.  I spent an entire weekend sitting at the kitchen table, just quilting. Matt and Candra loved it, I'm glad that I did it!  Thanks for your advice that you would have loved to receive something like this.  It definitely gave me the motivation to get going on it.

I'm still here!

I can't believe it's been so long since I last blogged.  September 15th!

Remember that new job that I got?  Well it has just sucked up all of my time lately.  I can no longer blog during my lunch time.  I had to get on the phone at 9pm for conference calls and that just left me with no time to blog.  It is really overwhelming to start I new job.  I never imagined it would be like that.  Despite that, I am soooo happy now at work.  Before I was feeling unsatisfied and unmotivated.  Now, it's all very new and exciting!  The late night phone calls stopped this week so hopefully I'll have a little bit more free time to do some blogging.

I have lots of things to share.  Our good friends Matt and Candra got married and it was a beautiful ceremony.  Later this week I'll share the gift I made for them.  I ran a 5K, and started training for another 10K.  Unfortunately the half marathon got put on the back burner after an ankle injury earlier in September.  This weekend KC and I did Habitat for Humanity and it was an interesting time.  Didn't feel like I helped as much as I would have liked but framing and roofing is hard when you don't like ladders.  :-)  My sister and I went to a Lady Antebellum concert and it was great!

On top of not writing posts, I haven't been reading/commenting much either, or reading the book club book.  Things are looking busy but manageable now.  I hope to get some more posts up and start commenting and reading more.  I miss blogging and hope that you'll "have me back"!  :-)  Thanks to Jessica for reminding me and motivating me to write a new post!