Pregnancy Update

I am almost 13 weeks along now, hard to believe. This pregnancy has definetely gone by a lot faster than my pregnancy with Sydney. Thank you for all the well wishes and congratulations, and thank you to all who have voted in our name poll. We are leaning towards Emmett and Savannah, although Sydney likes Carter and Genevieve. Who knows what we'll decide! Sydney is doing better than I thought she would so far with the pregnancy. She has been very patient with her very tired mama. She says hi to the baby each morning and enjoys looking at baby things with me. As for me...well, I've been better. I've had some days of not eating anything and some days of eating tons of food all day long. I am battling daily headaches and constant fatigue. No, exhaustion is the word to best describe the way I have been lately. I joke that I peak at 11:00 am, and it's all downhill from there! Chris has been great about helping out and making me go to bed early. I am so close to the end of the first trimester, I am very hopeful that I will be feeling better soon. Even to just not feel tired all the time would be a blessing. This week we have our first trimester screening, to check for any chromosomal abnormalities. We would never consider termination if something came up, but we would want to be prepared for whoever God chooses to bless us with. Just a few more weeks and we can find out the gender! Chris, Sydney, and I all think I'm having a boy, but everyone else thinks it's a girl. Either way we will be thrilled! I have been looking at baby bedding. Not sure yet for a girl, there are so many cute girl bedding sets! However, I did choose the boy set in a darling little sports set. Here it is:

I'll keep you all posted as new things develop, and when I get bigger I'll post some belly pictures. Hope you are all well!

Christmas and Vacation Part 1

I know I am way overdue, but here are some pictures (finally) from Christmas morning at our house. Chris and I got Sydney a big dollhouse that she had been wanting, and we put it out Christmas Eve after she went to bed. When she got up and saw it Christmas morning, she was just in awe, her mouth just hung open! She had so much fun diving into all her presents!



Christmas evening we started our journey to California. We saw Chris' Eugene family and some of my family on the way down and got to tell them all about the baby! The next morning, we drove to Santa Rosa to Chris' dad's house for one night. It was 11 hours in the car, but Sydney did AWESOME! Here is what she did the majority of the way down...

...she wore her stunna shades, watched Taylor Swift videos on the IPOD, and read her Taylor Swift magazine. Is she 3 or 13?

The morning we were leaving Chris' dad's house, he set up his laptop so Sydney could watch some more videos, and she just camped out in the hallway and watched videos to her heart's content!


Disneyland and Rose Bowl pictures to follow.

Name Poll

I know it's VERY early to be considering names for the baby, but there are TONS of preggo's at church right now, so we want to pick and stake a claim on a name pronto. To the left is a poll, please vote and leave a comment so we know who voted for what!

An Unexpected Blessing

Well, this will be me again the first week of August!

Oh, I look back on how big I was and I just cringe because this time, I know what's coming! Yes it's true, we are expecting a baby! We are very excited and surprised. Most people thought we were trying, but after the miscarriage we agreed to wait until the new year to discuss if we would even try again. God had different plans, however, and now we have a new little blessing on the way! A little blessing who is making me feel not so great some days, but still welcome and loved. I had an ultrasound last week and confirmed that there is one, just one baby in there, so Melissa and I shouldn't be doing the whole twin thing together! We will definetely find out the gender and have been busy coming up with ideas for names. Look for a poll soon to vote on name ideas!