The belly...

So, I really hate taking pictures by myself, but everyone wants to know what the belly looks like so here you go. The background is lame, and Nate has a hard time getting a good angle. If he stands he's too tall, and I have skinny legs, and if he kneels I look like I have a huge belly, so this is the best we could do!

Nate took me out last week for my birthday. He got me some beautiful flowers (strategicley placed behind me in the pic.) And we went to Islands for dinner, it's a burger place, I would have choosen something more fancy for my birthday but that's what I was craving! I ate so much stinking food, it was sick! I had such a wonderful birthday, my husband is the best!

This baby is very active, she is constantly wiggling around, it's tons of fun! I'm 25 1/2 weeks (almost 6 months) pregnant, and I'm feeling great. Bending gets harder and harder every day, and I already HATE sleeping on my side, but that's ok I'd better get used to it. My memory and brains altogether are going. The other day I wasn't paying attention and burnt some of my bangs off with the blow-dryer, oops! (luckily that hasn't happened with any of my clients at work though!) Life is wonderful for Nate and I, he is the most anxious person I know, August just isn't coming soon enough!

Happy Easter!

Nate and I did absolutly nothing for Easter this year. It was so good to relax and do nothing. Although Nate did make some delicious pancakes for me. I asked him to make me an easter bunny pancake because for every holiday my mom used to make special pancakes for example St Patricks day- green pancakes, Valentines day- pink hearts, etc etc. I told Nate in order to be a good Dad he had to practice his skills now, and boy did he deliver!!!!!


I was cracking up when he brought these to me. I honestly thought "There's no way he can make an easter bunny out of pancake batter", I was so wrong! I guess this means Nate is going to be the best Dad ever!

It's a..............

GIRL!!!!!!!!!!
And we are so EXCITED!!!!! But I was completely shocked! I was so sure we were having a boy, that we haven't even really thought of any girl names! Our ultrasound today was really cool. Our doctor sent us to a different place to do an in-depth ultrasound. We got to see our little girl in 3D, we got a TON of pictures on a CD, and a DVD!!! It was so cool to see her moving around, which she does a lot! I've been feeling her a lot in the last 2-3 weeks and it was confirmed today she is a squirmer!! The tech was getting a little frustrated because the baby was moving around so much. It took forever for to get a good measurement of her heart and spine, for the most part she kept herself curled up in a little ball. I had to walk around for a while to get the baby to move around so we could get a better shot. Over all we spent almost 2 hours watching our little baby. Here are a couple of my favorite pictures:

The profile

Here she is, she's a skinny little thing, so Nate keeps talking about how I don't eat enough. ha ha.

Her feet. The tech was laughing at this picture cause she said "I think her 2nd toe is longer than her 1st". That's from her mother, poor child.

This is my all time favorite picture of the day. Her feet look long, but adorable! The 3D ultrasound was way cooler than I was expecting.

Everything looked great today, nothing to give the Dr. any concerns. Heart rate was great, everything was measuring wonderful. They said our little girl is in the 26th percentile, and looked perfect!! We are so grateful and blessed and can't wait to have our little girl in our arms!

Here's the belly. I won't be fitting in to most of my clothes pretty soon!

Update

I thought I would write a quick note about the things I've learned about pregnancy so far:

-Chocolate Shake is NOT good the second time around!

-If I have a question about my symptoms don't ask Mom or Sunny, apparently I'm very weird and I have weird symptoms. Thank goodness for pregnancy blogs that put my mind at ease!!

-As soon as you tell people you're pregnant, you get sick. (I was queasy before but during the last week I have felt yucky)

-When you go out (even just to Wal-mart) make sure you look good. A guy in line behind me said to me "No need to look so sad". Apparently I looked like crap.

-Stay away from Chinese food and scrambled eggs!!

-When taking your prenatal vitamins, make sure your stomach is Full, not just kinda full.

Nate and I are so thrilled that I am pregnant and I would gladly take these "joys" if it meant we could have a child. I really haven't been very sick at all, I was able to hide it from both families through Thanksgiving, Christmas, and a wedding. I was surprised we were able to keep it a secret at all. We did tell our parents, so I had a few people I could talk to about it, but I was kinda scared that my Dad would spill all the beans. Occasionally he would say things to me like "You're sick?, good stay that way" (my brother was standing right next to me) or during the holidays he would pay close attention to my eating habits. All in all I have felt great.

I've had a lot of people asking me questions about the pregnancy and I haven't had much time to reply so I'll try to answer all questions now. I'm not sure when my due date is yet. The doctor wanted to wait for the next ultrasound to give an exact date. When I went in for my appointment I thought I was 10 maybe 11 weeks, but the baby was measuring almost exactly at 12 weeks. So if we go off the size of the baby my due date would be July 31st. (Like the hottest day of the year, excellent!) We will know the sex of the baby sometime at the end of February. Nate wants a little girl, (actually he just wants a clone of our niece Kanela) and I want a boy but either way we will be soooooo happy. We have thought of some names but we will not be disclosing them until we know what we're having, we're secretive people I'm finding out. (I've mentioned some of the names before).

Nate is just as happy as can be. He's always trying to hear the heartbeat of the baby by pressing his ear to my tummy. He tells me "hold your breath, stop making noises with your stomach, your heartbeat is too loud" It's pretty funny. And I ask him every day "Do I look pregnant" still the answer is no, but if I'm not careful my gut can be decieving. One night he said to me "oh look you have a little belly", I responded "no, that's not where the baby is, I'm just bloated". He's a little more careful about that now. We are soo thrilled about bringing a child into the world, we've been wanting this for quite a while now, and we feel so blessed to be trusted with such a sacred responsibility. Thanks for all the congratulations and support from all the people we love!

The doctor said I am measuring at 12 weeks.

Fun Weekend

Nate and I had the best weekend!!!! Our favorite people Curtis and Courtney drove all the way down from Salt Lake to spend the weekend with us. It was a last minute decision for them to come and we are so glad they did. We got some yummy in-n-out burger, went to the temple, went to the theatre (we saw Paul Blart, Mall Cop it was pretty funny) and just hung out! We made a Wal-mart trip and they bought a cactus to take home as a souvineer, and we took them to "The K" (Circle K) to get slurpies because they had never been in one before. One of our favorite things was going to the Diamondbacks Stadium. Curtis and Courtney are big sports fans and they love baseball so we went and ate lunch at the T.G.I. Friday's in the stadium.

Here are a couple funny pictures we took with some random statues.

Then late on Sunday night we were able to convince Nate to do the Haka for Curtis and Courtney who had never seen him do it before. We went to the park and Nate had his best performance yet. Be warned it's a side of Nate that only comes out during the Haka, he's kinda scary.

We had such a fun weekend. Thanks for the visit Cortis and Curtney!!!!

LOTS OF NEW POSTS!!!!

For those of you who care..... my computer has been down and we've hardly been home at all for the past couple of weeks. So I just added a ton of new posts. If you want to read them in order I would sugest starting at the end and working your way forward. It's kinda confusing but I wanted to keep things in order. The last post that I added was Chelsea's bridal shower. Enjoy!