It's almost Christmas! I'm so excited, I absolutely LOVE this time of year. :) It's so crazy to think how this time next year we will have an adorable, handsome, awesome little boy running around taking all the ornaments off the tree and feeding the pups Christmas cookies. I can't wait!
We were planning on going to Nebraska on Wednesday, however there is supposed to be bad weather, so now we're leaving on Tuesday. I can't wait to see everyone and just spend some good quality time with them. We will be there for almost a week and it will be great!
Things are going amazing lately, and I thank God everyday for all the awesome blessings in my life. Zach and I FINALLY felt little man move for the first time a couple weeks ago. It was the coolest thing ever. He was at work when I felt it for the first time, he was going CRAZY in my belly. I wanted Zach to feel it so bad, so I stayed in the exact same position for 45 minutes waiting for Zach to get home from work. So as soon as he walked in the door, I started screaming for him and he came running up the stairs thinking something bad had happened (whoops lol). But by that time little man had already stopped. Bummer. The next day, I was feeling it again, so I had Zach feel it and BAM, he got kicked in the hand. Zach's face lit up, it was the cutest thing ever. And ever since then I've been feeling him everyday, he loves to party at night time..typical newborn. ;)
This past Tuesday I had a bad stomach virus and ended up in the hospital. I called my OB nurse to find out what I could take to feel better and she asked if I had been having stomach cramps and I said yes, and she was worried that from my vomiting I had become dehydrated and that my stomach cramps were actually contractions. I was pretty sure I wasn't contracting, as the pain wasn't unbearable but she insisted we head to Labor & Delivery just to be sure. So off we went, and we were there for about 4 hours while I was hooked up to a contraction machine and heart rate monitor, and I wasn't contracting, thank God! And by the next day I was feeling 100x better.
As the holidays pass, remember to hold your loved ones tight and tell them how much they mean to you. 27 families won't be able to do that ever again in Newtown. That tragedy breaks my heart every time I think about it, I just can't even fathom the pain they must be going through. I pray for them daily and hope at some point they start to heal.
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year! Safe travels if you're traveling!
Sunday, December 23, 2012
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Baby Boy :)
We found out one week ago that we are having a bouncing, baby boy! We couldn't be more thrilled! Zach and I have called him a boy since day one, pretty much everyone said it was a girl, mainly because of his high heart rate...but I proved all the wive's tales wrong, lol. A few wives tales were, high heart rate= girl, breaking out with acne= girl (cause she's stealing your beauty;)), and I even peed in baking soda which the results proved girl. But with all that Zach and I still called him a boy and by his name since the very beginning. I was starting to think how bad I would feel if I had to tell our daughter that we called her a he for the first 20 weeks, lol.
We opted for an elective scan in town, where we pay out of pocket so we could find out on our anniversary. Best $50 ever spent! lol We got to the clinic, where my bladder was about to BURST and thankfully they said they didn't need a full bladder for a gender scan (praise Jesus!) lol, I was able to enjoy the ultra sound SO much more. When she first put the wand (?) on my belly, she said "it" was all curled up, and I thought, "oh no! move! please, so we can find out!" So she had me roll to my side to make "it" move. Zach and I were both awaiting anxiously, until she typed on the screen "I'm a boy!". We were both SPEECHLESS! And the tech says "Oh crap! Did you not want to know?! I didn't even look at your sheet, but you both went silent!" We were like, yeah we wanted to know, we're just speechless! lol It was amazing, I seriously couldn't even speak. She said she could tell right away that he was a boy even when he was curled up but she wanted to give us a better picture of his manly parts. ;)
We were only supposed to get to see him in 2D but she was awesome and showed us 3D too. It was amazing seeing his little ears, and toes, and nose and fingers, eeek it makes me so excited. He kept putting his hands over his face like, "no autographs, or flash photography, please" lol. We were also only supposed to get two ultra sound pictures printed but she printed us like 30! After the ultra sound, we went to the car and called our parents, Zach's grandma, and our siblings, then I texted a few close friends. :) We went to Zach's squadron and showed everyone there. Then we went to Babies R Us and picked up a couple outfits and finally got me a pregnancy pillow so I can hopefully make myself sleep on my left side...which is not going too great.
I've pretty much been on cloud nine since finding out. When I sit and think about raising a son, it overwhelms me with emotion. We get to teach him how to be a gentleman, and how to treat women, but we also get to see him just be a boy, and hopefully take up his father's hobbies like working on cars and hunting (even though I don't believe in it, lol). Any mood I'm in just thinking about him makes me so happy and giddy.
Yesterday we had his anatomy scan. It was pure torture, I had drank a crap load of water and when you have a bladder the size of a walnut like me, it seems like even more water. I couldn't even walk I had to pee so bad, and then he was bouncing the wand all over my belly, I honestly thought I was going to pee on the table! Everything looked great and he weighs 13oz, which the tech said is accurate within 2oz, so he could be 11oz or 15oz (in case you struggle with math ;-)). I haven't felt him move yet but I have a anterior placenta, meaning my planceta runs down the middle of my belly (I guess), so that could be why. Can't wait to feel him move!
Sorry if everyone is sick of my posts and statuses about him, and our new found excitement, but no one is forcing you to read. :) I want to document all of this excitement, and since I live so far away from everyone blogging and facebooking is the easiest way.
This weekend Zach and I are going to Green Bay to watch the Packers! I'm excited, but super sad to be leaving my fur babies. :(
Anyway, that's enough for now. Thanks for reading!
P.S. He has a name, we have just only shared it with close friends and family for now. :)
We opted for an elective scan in town, where we pay out of pocket so we could find out on our anniversary. Best $50 ever spent! lol We got to the clinic, where my bladder was about to BURST and thankfully they said they didn't need a full bladder for a gender scan (praise Jesus!) lol, I was able to enjoy the ultra sound SO much more. When she first put the wand (?) on my belly, she said "it" was all curled up, and I thought, "oh no! move! please, so we can find out!" So she had me roll to my side to make "it" move. Zach and I were both awaiting anxiously, until she typed on the screen "I'm a boy!". We were both SPEECHLESS! And the tech says "Oh crap! Did you not want to know?! I didn't even look at your sheet, but you both went silent!" We were like, yeah we wanted to know, we're just speechless! lol It was amazing, I seriously couldn't even speak. She said she could tell right away that he was a boy even when he was curled up but she wanted to give us a better picture of his manly parts. ;)
We were only supposed to get to see him in 2D but she was awesome and showed us 3D too. It was amazing seeing his little ears, and toes, and nose and fingers, eeek it makes me so excited. He kept putting his hands over his face like, "no autographs, or flash photography, please" lol. We were also only supposed to get two ultra sound pictures printed but she printed us like 30! After the ultra sound, we went to the car and called our parents, Zach's grandma, and our siblings, then I texted a few close friends. :) We went to Zach's squadron and showed everyone there. Then we went to Babies R Us and picked up a couple outfits and finally got me a pregnancy pillow so I can hopefully make myself sleep on my left side...which is not going too great.
I've pretty much been on cloud nine since finding out. When I sit and think about raising a son, it overwhelms me with emotion. We get to teach him how to be a gentleman, and how to treat women, but we also get to see him just be a boy, and hopefully take up his father's hobbies like working on cars and hunting (even though I don't believe in it, lol). Any mood I'm in just thinking about him makes me so happy and giddy.
Yesterday we had his anatomy scan. It was pure torture, I had drank a crap load of water and when you have a bladder the size of a walnut like me, it seems like even more water. I couldn't even walk I had to pee so bad, and then he was bouncing the wand all over my belly, I honestly thought I was going to pee on the table! Everything looked great and he weighs 13oz, which the tech said is accurate within 2oz, so he could be 11oz or 15oz (in case you struggle with math ;-)). I haven't felt him move yet but I have a anterior placenta, meaning my planceta runs down the middle of my belly (I guess), so that could be why. Can't wait to feel him move!
Sorry if everyone is sick of my posts and statuses about him, and our new found excitement, but no one is forcing you to read. :) I want to document all of this excitement, and since I live so far away from everyone blogging and facebooking is the easiest way.
This weekend Zach and I are going to Green Bay to watch the Packers! I'm excited, but super sad to be leaving my fur babies. :(
Anyway, that's enough for now. Thanks for reading!
P.S. He has a name, we have just only shared it with close friends and family for now. :)
Sunday, November 25, 2012
Debt Free :)
Well things are going absolutely fantastic! Our latest and greatest goal has been met...we are DEBT FREE. Late last year we took Dave Ramsey's Financial Peace University class and it was literally awe-inspiring. On January 16th of this year we decided to get serious about paying off Zach's student loans and our two car loans. So in nine months and twenty three days we paid off $11,956.75, and it feels seriously amazing! We had decided early in marriage that we would absolutely not bring a child into this world with debt, and we met our goal! I am so proud of us. :) It feels so nice to own a car that is still worth $10,000! So enough bragging about that. ;-)
Onto the BABY, which we will be able to call a HE or SHE on Tuesday! We are so excited, it is also our two year wedding anniversary, I can't believe we've been married that long! It has FLOWN by! We have our ultra sound at 10a on Tuesday, then we're going to call our parents and siblings and text our closest friends, than go buy the baby's first outfit. Yay!
I've been feeling great, I am now 19 weeks, almost halfway there! We have our anatomy scan for the baby in one week as well, so we'll get to see little gummy two times in the next week. :) I can't wait to get more pictures, hopefully it cooperates and we will easily be able to see if it's a boy or a girl.
Zach and I decorated for Christmas yesterday, we don't have a tree yet, but we're getting a real one this year and I'm so excited. The first year we lived here we lived in the apartments so we could only have a fake one, lame and last year we were moving into this house on the 23rd, so we didn't get a tree. So FINALLY, we were able to decorate for Christmas. We get to go home on the 26th and I'm stoked. We are also going to Lambeau to a Packers game in a couple weeks with Zach's parents. :) Then the weekend after that we are going to Decorah to go to my family's Christmas with the crazy Smocks. I love this time of year!
Hope everyone is doing as great as we are!
Until next time,
A
Onto the BABY, which we will be able to call a HE or SHE on Tuesday! We are so excited, it is also our two year wedding anniversary, I can't believe we've been married that long! It has FLOWN by! We have our ultra sound at 10a on Tuesday, then we're going to call our parents and siblings and text our closest friends, than go buy the baby's first outfit. Yay!
I've been feeling great, I am now 19 weeks, almost halfway there! We have our anatomy scan for the baby in one week as well, so we'll get to see little gummy two times in the next week. :) I can't wait to get more pictures, hopefully it cooperates and we will easily be able to see if it's a boy or a girl.
Zach and I decorated for Christmas yesterday, we don't have a tree yet, but we're getting a real one this year and I'm so excited. The first year we lived here we lived in the apartments so we could only have a fake one, lame and last year we were moving into this house on the 23rd, so we didn't get a tree. So FINALLY, we were able to decorate for Christmas. We get to go home on the 26th and I'm stoked. We are also going to Lambeau to a Packers game in a couple weeks with Zach's parents. :) Then the weekend after that we are going to Decorah to go to my family's Christmas with the crazy Smocks. I love this time of year!
Hope everyone is doing as great as we are!
Until next time,
A
Thursday, October 18, 2012
Oh, BABY!
Hello friends!
Long time no talk (or write, I guess?) Things are going AMAZINGLY. Zach and I are expecting a precious bundle of joy in April! I am due on my brother's birthday, what can we say..we wanted to give him a a REALLY cool present this year. ;) Zach took me to dinner in June and told me he was ready to start trying and I was SPEECHLESS, literally...and if you know me, you know that that is just plain crazy for me, lol. I really thought it'd take a while to get pregnant, but 3 weeks later, I had a bun in the oven. We are hoping for a boy but will be equally excited for a girl. :) We had our first ultrasound a few weeks ago and it was seriously the most amazing experience we have ever had. Our little gummy bear was swimming and fluttering around like crazy, with a heartbeat of 160!
I had my 13 week doctor appt last Friday and have lost 7oz since pre-pregnancy, my dr isn't concerned that I haven't gained weight, not yet at least. I have to go get tested for cystic fibroris tomorrow, which is just a blood test, so not too painful. Zach and I opted against the down syndrome test, that test has a really high rate for false positives, and quite frankly that wouldn't change our feelings for this little gummy anyway. So if he/she comes out with down syndrome, blind, deaf, with three arms, whatever we will still love him/her like crazy. Hopefully not three arms though, because I would have to special order all the clothes and that's probably expensive. ha
I had never really believed this thing called, "pregnancy brain." But after my past few weeks I'm starting to think it might be real...
One day a few weeks ago, I locked our front door, and got to my car with...no keys! Awesome! I had to call Zach, who was in his tree stand hunting so he could come let me in and so I could go to work!
Last week, I was driving to work which is a half hour drive and I couldn't get the heat to work, I was FREEZING. All the windows were fogged over because the defroster wouldn't work. My finger tips were frozen and I could see my breath. I texted Zach at work and we were hoping it would be a simple fix, well after work, I got in my car only to realize I had it pointed to the COLD side...WHAT??!? I know I'm not an idiot, so I'd like to believe God was trying to play a funny joke on me, and make me look silly...not cool! Zach won't ever let me live it down. :(
And my depth perception has been REALLY off lately, the other day we went to the store and parked next the cart return. Well, I opened up my door really hard, and bashed it into the metal bars, lol...crap. It looked a lot farther away than it really was, Zach was like "Amber! What the!?" lol I probably looked really stupid.
And yesterday, at work I jammed two of my toes on a huge hutch type thing, not once by TWICE...the hutch has been there everyday that I've been there, but for some reason I couldn't stop running into it.
So either, I've just become really stupid and clumsy, orrrr there really is a thing called pregnancy brain..I'm going with the latter. ;)
That's all for now!
-A
Long time no talk (or write, I guess?) Things are going AMAZINGLY. Zach and I are expecting a precious bundle of joy in April! I am due on my brother's birthday, what can we say..we wanted to give him a a REALLY cool present this year. ;) Zach took me to dinner in June and told me he was ready to start trying and I was SPEECHLESS, literally...and if you know me, you know that that is just plain crazy for me, lol. I really thought it'd take a while to get pregnant, but 3 weeks later, I had a bun in the oven. We are hoping for a boy but will be equally excited for a girl. :) We had our first ultrasound a few weeks ago and it was seriously the most amazing experience we have ever had. Our little gummy bear was swimming and fluttering around like crazy, with a heartbeat of 160!
I had my 13 week doctor appt last Friday and have lost 7oz since pre-pregnancy, my dr isn't concerned that I haven't gained weight, not yet at least. I have to go get tested for cystic fibroris tomorrow, which is just a blood test, so not too painful. Zach and I opted against the down syndrome test, that test has a really high rate for false positives, and quite frankly that wouldn't change our feelings for this little gummy anyway. So if he/she comes out with down syndrome, blind, deaf, with three arms, whatever we will still love him/her like crazy. Hopefully not three arms though, because I would have to special order all the clothes and that's probably expensive. ha
I had never really believed this thing called, "pregnancy brain." But after my past few weeks I'm starting to think it might be real...
One day a few weeks ago, I locked our front door, and got to my car with...no keys! Awesome! I had to call Zach, who was in his tree stand hunting so he could come let me in and so I could go to work!
Last week, I was driving to work which is a half hour drive and I couldn't get the heat to work, I was FREEZING. All the windows were fogged over because the defroster wouldn't work. My finger tips were frozen and I could see my breath. I texted Zach at work and we were hoping it would be a simple fix, well after work, I got in my car only to realize I had it pointed to the COLD side...WHAT??!? I know I'm not an idiot, so I'd like to believe God was trying to play a funny joke on me, and make me look silly...not cool! Zach won't ever let me live it down. :(
And my depth perception has been REALLY off lately, the other day we went to the store and parked next the cart return. Well, I opened up my door really hard, and bashed it into the metal bars, lol...crap. It looked a lot farther away than it really was, Zach was like "Amber! What the!?" lol I probably looked really stupid.
And yesterday, at work I jammed two of my toes on a huge hutch type thing, not once by TWICE...the hutch has been there everyday that I've been there, but for some reason I couldn't stop running into it.
So either, I've just become really stupid and clumsy, orrrr there really is a thing called pregnancy brain..I'm going with the latter. ;)
That's all for now!
-A
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Heavy Heart
Hello friends,
I haven't posted in quite a while but I wanted to post tonight asking for as many prayers as possible. My sister in law, Marissa, introduced me this blog about a year and a half ago. It's about a precious little girl named Lucy who was diagnosed with cancer, and she has been fighting it since I believe February of 2011, and as of late has actually been doing quite well. This morning, I woke up and read her mother's post, Lucy's cancer is back and she doesn't have much time. It literally took my breath away, and I didn't even want to get out of bed. My heart hurts so badly for her and her family. How do you tell a five year old that she is going to die soon? The thought brings tears to my eyes, but I know my God and I believe in miracles. I know he can heal her. Parents should never have to bury their own children. It's absolutely heartbreaking. I'm asking that you pray for this little girl. I don't even know this little girl and she is such an inspiration, her mother has written about all the awful things she has had to go through and honestly, I don't think I would want to fight..and she has...and she's just a child! She is so inspiring and she deserves her life, she deserves to be a child/teenager/adult. I'm just asking that you please pray for her, life just isn't fair sometimes.
Go Lucy, Go!
I haven't posted in quite a while but I wanted to post tonight asking for as many prayers as possible. My sister in law, Marissa, introduced me this blog about a year and a half ago. It's about a precious little girl named Lucy who was diagnosed with cancer, and she has been fighting it since I believe February of 2011, and as of late has actually been doing quite well. This morning, I woke up and read her mother's post, Lucy's cancer is back and she doesn't have much time. It literally took my breath away, and I didn't even want to get out of bed. My heart hurts so badly for her and her family. How do you tell a five year old that she is going to die soon? The thought brings tears to my eyes, but I know my God and I believe in miracles. I know he can heal her. Parents should never have to bury their own children. It's absolutely heartbreaking. I'm asking that you pray for this little girl. I don't even know this little girl and she is such an inspiration, her mother has written about all the awful things she has had to go through and honestly, I don't think I would want to fight..and she has...and she's just a child! She is so inspiring and she deserves her life, she deserves to be a child/teenager/adult. I'm just asking that you please pray for her, life just isn't fair sometimes.
Go Lucy, Go!
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