Week 13 reflections

2012 was an awesome year because I:

• Travel to Jamaica
• Learned how to swing dance
• Learned how to salsa
• Placed in the top 3 at my first swing dancing competition
• Got a new job (voluntarily this time) :)
• Sky dived with my mom for her 55th birthday
• Traveled to Germany to attend one of the biggest parties in the world
• Spent Christmas in Disney and drank my way "around the world" at Epcot

It was a pretty fricken awesome year, but in 2013 my list will just have one thing on it

• I had a baby

Week 12

I think I "popped" this week. However, if I wasn't pregnant you might just think that I just had a really big meal. But I think otherwise it's pretty noticeable.  One of my bosses said she could already tell before I said something but didn't want to ask me (though I don't know how long ago she was able to tell).

This week we also announced the new to the world (facebook and both of our jobs). Here is the final facebook photo we ended up going with.

It was pretty nerve-racking letting out the news. Never know how people will take it.
Grandma and grandpa are very excited but it seemed to take a little while to sink in. By the end of the night grandma was extremely excited. What was funny was that grandpa actually going to come in that day and tell us "i'm not getting any younger" about giving him a great grandchild :) He turns 75 this year. Grandma said that she will keep the card in her keepsake box (which I didn't even know she had).

Maybe it's just tonight but I'm starting to get a little sad of the idea of getting used to this new life. I'm excited about the future but at the same time it will be a big transition. My priorities will change w/out me even having to try, my friends will go and hopefully i'll make new ones, no more happy hours or late nights out downtown. Many of which are not fulfilling activities but you feel "included". But life is moving on and here we go!

Week 11

Let's start out by saying I'm exhausted, starving, and freezing. I'm sitting in the living room with my winter coat and hood on and a few numb fingers waiting for the house to get warm!

We had my second midwife apt this week and it will probably be the best one as we heard the heartbeat and even a couple kicks! We were able to record it and send it to my parents and dan's parents. They both thought it was so awesome. I had texted it to vicki and was wondering what was taking so long to respond, but it was because she was listening to it so many times :)

We are thinking about redoing our announcement photo. I found something a little cuter on instagram that we are going to try....we'll see how it turns out!

We told the horseshoe group last night. we were both pretty nervous on who would even show up and what they would say. But, the news was received very well by everyone. A lot more excitement than I had thought. Mom told Carol too that night (with her mug) but Carol didn't get the hint right away so it seemed a little uneventful. Tomorrow we are telling my grandparents with the card I made them. so, with that i'm going to segway into i gotta run b/c i have a lot of cleaning to do before tomorrow afternoon!

Pizza and Wings, bye!

Week 10

Was extremely busy! It's actually day one of week 11.
The most notable thing last week was that I did my first (and hopefully not my last) swing dance weekend and competition. It went pretty well, but overall not that great. To be honest I missed my liquid courage a little - need it for asking people to dance. However, not dancing too much probably wasn't a bad thing. I wasted to take it easy for the first time since, even when i'm healthy and non pregnant  those weekends are extremely exhausting. I really want to place in a competition (again) before I can't dance anymore!!

Today's Craving (week 10)

Takeout. I don't care too much what it is, I just won't want to make it!

Announcement

This weekend we worked on the facebook announcement photo. It of course was inspired by pinterest :)
It took a lot more time to pull together than I thought, and the original idea didn't even end up working that well. We probably spent an hour or so on Friday night drawing the picture on the chalkboard and 3 hours the next morning taking photos! I got my hair done about 3 days earlier and didn't wash it until after the photo was taken so it would still look good..hehe.

Here is the inspiration photo and then what we ended up with (I'm not sure yet which one I'll post).

 

Rats

So I have a sinus infection :( I'm on antibiotics (amoxicillian) for the next 7-10 days. Even when I'm not pregnant I'm not a fan of taking much medication, so I am a little worried. However, I trust my midwife and she is ok with me on these meds. She says it's better to get this taken care of then let an infection get worse. I guess the meds I'm on are class B, which I was just told is a safe medication class.

Let's hope we all get past this in the best of health!

Week 9

I'm still getting over my cold/flu but I feel a lot better! I also finally got in touch with my midwife. She seems a little concerned (which is concerning me) but I'm not going to worry too much until there really is something to worry about! If I'm not 100% by monday or if I get worse, she wants me in by next week.
To try to clear up my sinuses I'm using a deffuser at night, eating homemade chicken broth, stopped drinking juices, and will start using the humidifier tonight while I sleep.

I also told me boss this week that I'm pregnant. I know it's a little early BUT, Dan decided to tell his boss a few weeks ago in hopes that he will get a bigger raise. Well, I just had my yearly performance review with my boss and told her then in hopes of the same result - no luck. But she is super excited and already says "we have to plan a shower!". I had a fun time that afternoon chatting with her about baby stuff! With every person I tell, I get just a little bit more excited :)

I'm hoping tomorrow morning to take my announcement photo. I was a the salon yesterday so i'm hoping my hair style lasts one more night (I'm not washing it!!). I was hoping to take the photo at Melissa's place in Arizona but we moved our trip to April, so that's a little far out for me...I couldn't wait that long!