Trip to Ventura & Week 9

I was very lucky and I got to spend Veterans' weekend with my wonderful husband! He had to work all day Saturday, which kinda sucked, but we got to spend all day together on Sunday and most of Monday.

On Saturday I went out to see Ventura and it was actually a pretty good day. I walked downtown on main street and window shopped and ate. There were so many places to eat, it was a little ridiculous.

Then I went back to the hotel to take a nap. When I woke up it was about sunset so I decided to walk down to the beach. Our hotel was so close! All I had to do was walk across the freeway bridge and then beach! I took lots of pictures of the sunset, it was so pretty. Then I took some pictures of the people of Ventura. Seriously, I'm glad that it wasn't dark because there were some pretty interesting characters around.

I took a whole bunch more, but I don't think that you want to look at a million sunsets. We all know that a sunset is pretty and here is enough proof!

The worst part about the whole day was when I went to go get dinner. I went to this place called Beach House Tacos.... well they took 40 minutes to make me one fish taco!!!!!!!!! I was not that happy and by the time I got my food I was so starving it wasn't even close enough to fill me so I stopped at a Taco truck and got a quesadilla.Then I went to the hotel to wait for Chris to come back.

On Sunday we went car shopping and it was fun. We found a pickup that we really liked, but they were asking too much and wouldn't come down and then when we drove it it had some issues.

On Monday we went to the movies and saw Thor, yes it was very good, and got Chris some new dress clothes for the church and the holidays coming up. I left at 4 and got home at 7:30pm. It was really hard to leave because I just felt like we didn't get to spend enough time together. This was the first time that we were able to spend time together while we knew that I am pregnant and so it was just really sweet.

Speaking of being pregnant!
I'm really bad because I totally missed week 8. Let's just say that I was really tired and too busy to take a picture for week 8. But I did get in week 9!

I've been feeling really great and I'm very happy with my progress. I just really hate how much pain my back is in. I'm seeing a physical therapist now and so hopefully it will get better.
I also had my second ultra sound and it was pretty awesome! I got to hear the heart beat and see the little hand and legs that are forming. It is so cute!!! I'm in love already!!!

Week 5-7

So, I want to take a picture every week to track my progress and growth. I have already started, even though no one really knew that I was pregnant. Here is week 5-7.

 So, during my fifth week I still felt really good. I didn't really feel pregnant yet and before I went in for my ultra sound I actually took two more pregnancy tests to make sure that I really was pregnant. I also really loved seeing the pregnant on the test!

I would also highly recommend clearblue to anyone who is testing. They are just so easy to read!!

During my sixth week I started to feel really tired all of the time. I slept a lot. I felt really good in the morning, but come about 12-2 if I didn't get a nap I would be out at 5pm. I also started to have some cravings. The most memorable one was Mexican food. But not just any Mexican food. It had to be two chicken enchiladas from El Gallito. Oh it was heavenly. I also really love cottage cheese!!

There are still a few days to go until week 7 is actually over, but I have already started to not feel like eating. Nothing sounds good. And so sorry about the TMI, but I feel like there is constantly a bubble in my stomach. It is so uncomfortable, gas really sucks. My smell has started to get better already and my back has started to hurt more. I have always had a dull ache in my back, but now it is so painful. Sometimes I can't even bend over. I'm planning on going to the chiropractor.

Well, I'm going to do my best to keep up my streak of not throwing up and I'll update you guys in a week!

My first ULTRA SOUND

Technology is pretty awesome! I was only six weeks along when I went in for my first ultra sound and we could actually see the heart beat! It was the most surreal thing ever. Seeing that there is another life inside of your own body is just crazy. It was a beautiful and special experience. I really wish that Chris could have been there, and he does too, but he is working hard to do well in school and take care of our little family. He will be able to come to the later ones and honestly those will be cooler because there will be more to look at.

In this picture our baby is a grain of rice and is attached to the white circle inside the black one. The white circle is the yoke sac and eventually is disappears. So, you can't really see Baby yet, but I could see the heart beating. It was so cool! It was still too quiet to hear it, though and so I go back in a couple of weeks and I'm really excited because Baby will look more like a baby!

So, kinda totally embarrassing, but I'm holding the picture upside down. I was so excited that is just how it ended up. Anyways... It was a pretty awesome experience.

FINDING OUT WE'RE PREGNANT!

It all started the weekend I spent with Chris in Port Hueneme. For some reason I was always hungry! I'm pretty sure that I ate more than Chris. That weekend we joked about it, but neither one of us was being serious until I got back home and he said I should take a test.

I had a few under my sink and so I decided to just go ahead and take one in the morning, because I knew that early on the HCG hormone is more concentrated in the morning. Well, I woke up to pee a couple of times and thankfully I had a few tests. The first was too hard to read and it was 5 am so I probably wasn't awake enough to read it.

The second was at about 8am, but I accidentally used an ovulation test. So, then about 15 minutes later I took an actual pregnancy test. It was clear blue and so easy to read (as the name would suggest). When it read pregnant I just about died!

My parents were home still and so I ran in to the house FREAKING out! I was so excited I couldn't control myself. My mom thought that I was bringing in a dead rat.... Anyways, they were both excited to be grandparents and I quickly texted my doctor to find out what to do next.

I made an appointment for an ultra sound on my first day of the sixth week.

The only bummer thing about finding out early in the morning was I had to wait ALL day for Chris to get his phone. I sent him a picture of the test and waited for him to call.

The first thing he said to me was, "Are you joking?" Now seriously, what kind of joke is that? Cruel. He was then speechless. It was pretty awesome because I don't think he has ever been speechless before.

Then we called everyone in the immediately family to tell to them. We weren't together, but we were able to do a conference call so we were able to tell people together.

Winston's Exciting News

Winston would like to announce....

We are expecting our little one June 19, 2014!