Finding Out

 (I've been keeping a journal about my pregnancy since I found out.  Thought I'd share..)

Written after I found out....

I got a positive pregnancy test on Monday, March 7.  The weekend before I took the test I just felt “off” the whole time. Saturday, I remember being in the car and feeling extremely hot. I even remember having Zach feel my head. He said I definitely felt warm, but other than just feeling “weird” I didn’t feel sick.  So we went and had lunch and I felt much better afterwards.  Sunday I was just exhausted! But what really got me scratching my head was when I was eating homemade pizza for dinner it tasted DISGUSTING. I couldn’t even finish one piece. It was making my stomach hurt.  Zach said it tasted fine so I went and got some cinnamon bread instead. It went down juuuust fine.  Now, anyone that knows me knows I LOVE pizza, so for it to taste strange… well that’s just not normal.

Monday I still felt strange. I was burning up and so exhausted.   After work it was as if some force took over me and my car went on auto-pilot straight to buy a pregnancy test.  I bought 3.  The whole time I told myself I was being stupid and just setting myself up for disappointment.  I even told myself I had to wait until the next day to test. Maybe even Wednesday.

I got home, let the dogs out and paced back and forth staring at the tests. I remember thinking to myself “ just take the test so you can see the negative and just move on with it.”.  So I did.  I took the test, set it on the counter and waited a few seconds. I saw the control line start to appear and didn’t see a thing in the test spot. So I said “told you so, dummie” and went to let the dogs in.  I cleaned them off and headed back to check again about 4 minutes later.  WHAT IS THAT I SEE!? Dear Lord, it’s a line. Two lines. Two of them. Right there, staring me in the face.  It was a faint second line, but it was absolutely there.  I stood there in shock for a good 10 minutes and then tried to continue about my evening. Hahaha!  Zach was at work and I couldn’t tell him that sort of thing via text or phone call so I just sat there.  I didn’t even tell the dogs.

The next day I took another test and the line was even darker.  So after trying to function like a normal human being all day at work (unsuccessfully) I ran out and bought one of those expensive digital tests and planned to take it the next morning.  I still hadn’t told Zach but thankfully he was on spring break so I asked if he wanted to come have lunch with me Wednesday. Luckily he wasn’t at all suspicious.  I took the digital that morning and “PREGNANT” popped up within a minute. I stared at it a lot, put it in a plastic baggie and stuck it in my purse.  Weird.   The day crawls by at a snails pace until Zach comes to pick me up at 11:30. I hop in the car and try not to act strange.  It didn’t work so well because when he tried to pull out of the drive I yelled “no! stop the car! Wait! Don’t go anywhere”.  He goes “um, ok….” and I fished the test out of my purse. He reacted immediately (probably didn’t even see what it said) and was super happy!  It was exciting. It was awesome.  We are going to have a baby!

The News

It's baby time!  

That's right, I'm pregnant! I'm about 15 weeks along now and we are just so, so excited!

The wee one is due November 8th :) 

Many more updates to come!

A Dress for Kate

I'm not going to even pretend to tell you that I'm not TOTALLY EXCITED about the Royal Wedding tomorrow. I'm mildly obsessed. Seriously.  My alarm is already set to get up before the crack of dawn to watch the whole thing go down.

Obviously, I'm most excited about seeing The Dress.  Since I'm a lunatic, I went ahead and did some research and here are my suggestions (you know, because I'm an authority and all). I'm interested to see how close I come.  I'm a bit torn between ballgown and a-line/trumpet. Although I have a feeling she'll go with a sleeker design. I am definitely banking on lace though. I'm also betting she wears sleeves, but let me tell you, that's hard to find!

In no particular order.....

Amsale

Kenneth Pool

Ramona Keveza

Lazaro

 Phillipa Lepley

Monique Lhuillier

Oscar De La Renta

Pnina Tornai

 Saison Blanche
(designer of my wedding gown, so obviously, the most awesome choice ;)

For the record, I HATE the Oscar dress, but I just have a sneaking suspicion something like that will end up being the one.

Just your typical Saturday morning...

Soooo innocent...

Oh, Hail!

In case you haven't heard... We got some hail last night. I'd never experienced hail quite like this before. I honestly thought our house was being bombed.  Zach said I went in to "full-on panic mode" Ha!  Luckily the damage to our house is minimal considering what I've seen around town.  Just looking across the street I can see missing shutters and windows. Down the road there are houses who's siding literally looks like swiss cheese!  It was insane.  So, our new house might be getting a new roof. I'm hoping there's also damage to our deck, because a new one of those would. be. awesome.

Behold! Nature.

 Note: This hail had been in the yard for about 15-20 minutes before we picked it up, so it was probably even BIGGER! 

Levi's 3rd Birthday

Saturday was the 3rd birthday party for Zach's God-son, Levi. He's the little firecracker belonging to our friends John and Sally.  Levi is one lucky kid, every single year the weather has been absolutely gorgeous for his party and yesterday was no exception!  I even managed to get a little color on my face! Finally! The Yo-Gabba-Gabba themed party was fun and the little kids had a good time. And man, were there a lot of little kids! Yowza!

Ted Turns Two

Our big guy is two today! He's all growed up and has turned into a very awesome dog.  He's, loving, he's funny, he's obedient, he's so, so cuddly and he's so smart it's scary.  He's also a wonderful poser for my camera!  I swear this dog has never once laid in the yard to chew a stick, but the second I get out the camera he goes to town.  Such a character!

His first two years have not been without their challenges, but he has really turned into quite the amazing dude.  We both love him to pieces and it never amazes us how 'human like' he is. We talk to him like another person and he just seems to understand.  Before we got a Dane, people told us that they are different than any other dog and I didn't believe them. I mean, he's a DOG.  But, it's true.  They are just different souls.  He's our concerned, caring, loyal, protective, comedian, spoiled rotten, big baby.  Happy Birthday, Teddery Dude!