9 Week Update

Ana and Jonny are here this week. Thankfully I've had about 4 good days in a row, this is a record. Their last day I was down and out and Ana was kind and let me lump on the couch all day before taking her to the airport. We took Jonny early this am. The good news is I'm on Spring Break this week! I'll be posting about their stay ASAP!
 Belly shot update:

8 Week Update

Hi little nugget! Daddy and I saw you last week and heart your fast heartbeat! It really made us realize you’re with us and it’s thrilling. I have not been feeling well. Since week six I’ve been very sick all day. The doctor referred to Andre as daddy and we both looked around wondering who she was talking to. It was a strange and neat realization. We’re hoping you’re growing happy and healthy and can’t wait to meet you. The farther along I get the more real it seems for us. Here is a picture of the peanut at 8 weeks.

We continue to stay busy trying to get the house just as we want it with time to spare to relax. We've finished the bathroom. Now we have a bathtub between our Jack n' Jill bedrooms for the baby. We have a four bedroom three bath house so there is plenty of space for a baby and the guests we love to have. We had two guest rooms complete and the last guest room was basically empty. We're now moving the guest room to the empty because it leads out to the pool so our guests can have access to the outside. We'll make the old guest room the baby room. Both rooms are nice and bright. Here are picture of the bathroom project.

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AFTER!!!

 

 

 

Here is my belly at 8 weeks, nothing yet!

 

 

 

 

March 4, 2013

Well, I’m sitting on my rear again so I’m trying to be “productive” and update the page. My marvelous husband is hard at work as usual putting our house back together. We recently updated our bathroom, the Jack and Jill one between two of the bedrooms. I am seven weeks pregnant today and couldn’t be more nauseous and exhausted yet thrilled all at the same time. I got to the six week mark and realized I’d be in that 75% that feels like crap all day. Morning sickness is the understatement of the century. It’s all day long, morning being the worst, but it’ll all be worth it, or so I tell myself as I gag while look or think about any food.

Andre’s finishing the bathroom and the bedroom. We finally got our laundry room tiled and back together last week. Our bathroom project leaked into other rooms as always. We had to tear up the carpet in the first guest bedroom because it got wet. He’s been finishing the tile, cutting baseboards, painting baseboards, mudding, etc. He is so motivated and I love him for it. He can do or fix anything, if he’s not quite sure how (very rare) he’ll find out how and his perfectionism keeps everything looking so nice. Normally I’m his right hand lady but lots of the products he’s using I shouldn’t inhale and he’s so over protective it’s sweet. I help with the things I can and have been resting, feeling so lazy but I don’t have much of a choice, it’s driving me crazy!

Welcome to our blog!

So today, February20th 2013 is my first official day of blogging. My sister-in-law Tiffany is my inspiration. She is the most avid blogger I know. (Not sure if “blogger” is a verb or not.) Her posts are always exciting, insightful and inspirational. I don’t know if I plan on aspiring to be all three however I do love that even though I live 4 miles away from her I still need to check her blog to see what’s going on in her life since it’s just too busy to keep in touch. So I figured my family and friends might like to do the same.

I don’t know where to start. I’ve wanted to start a blog for quite some time now and have procrastinated not knowing where to begin. I kind of wanted to start with Andre’s and my beginning and that was overwhelming. Then I wanted to back up to college, then high school and then childhood which became too daunting, so I put it off even longer. I think I’ll start with just today and fill in the missing pieces when I can in hopes to close all the gaps someday. I always want to know more details about my past. Since my mom died when I was young there are many things I don’t know about her or even myself. I wish my mom had kept a journal of some sort so I knew what she was doing day in and day out, her hardships, celebrations, and hobbies. I wish I knew her thoughts and experiences and what she thought of me on a regular basis. I think this blog will be a great way to keep those I love as close as they can be to me/us by reading about my/our life and checking out pictures once I learn how to post. Hopefully someday this will also be around for my children to scan through and feel “whole,” reading my thoughts and praises about them.

I guess I’ll start with something from today. I got my shower gift from Sarah Bradley in the mail today. It was such a creative idea I’ve been so anxious to see it. I gathered memorable t-shirts and sweatshirts and sent them to her in NY. Our friend Shelby made the quilt so now I have all those memories to snuggle up with. Looking at each patch gives me such a mixed bag of emotions. Many are my college volleyball t-shirts. There are numerous emotions that arise when peering at those. Overall amazed I made it though those four years with Joan (our coach) but very proud I did. The girls I played with were all so wonderful and my DOOFERS and I are still close among others on my team. We traveled to Hawaii and the Dominican as a team; gosh it feels like just yesterday. I have sports shirts from high school, a few of my mom’s shirts I hung onto, t-shirts from Bali and Spain and a few other countries Andre and I traveled. Jamboree in the Hills made it of course and some of my teaching t-shirts I had made for the class. I have the breast cancer 5k Andre and I ran and our savage race t-shirt from that muddy experience. Andre, Steven, Tiffany, Darren, Corrie and I ran that race in prom outfits and got best dressed for completing the race and looking muddy and spectacular. I have sweatshirts that have Kylie and Kristopher’s hand prints on them from when they were little wean pots! I also rocked a VT shirt to represent Ana and my dad’s cookie business, Petri! I added my roots and have a Cuba and Cuba Lake shirt, it was really hard to give a few up that I like to wear but I figured putting them on this blanket would make them more “forever.”  It’s one of the most thoughtful gifts I’ll cherish forever. Thanks Sister Seerah and Sheby! Well that's all for now, let's see if I can figure out how to post this!