HUMP DAY!!!

It is official, I am 20 weeks along, which means I am half way there, yay!! My cute husband suprised me with a hump day present (to be honest that is how I found out it is called hump day). The note attached to the present said:

Happy Hump Day!
(because you’re half way and because of what we did to get that thing)



His letter was very sweet and so was his thoughtful present. Thanks Hubby, I love, love, love you!!!

We have been taking some pictures of my growing belly and I think in the last week my belly has doubled in size. Now I am really starting to think I am pregnant or there is actually some proof of it. In fact people are starting to ask me if I have a baby in there (thank goodness I do!) and someone actually offered to carry something for me at the store! There are some nice people out there.

So here is the growing belly pictures. We had three but our middle picture which I believe was 17 weeks seems to be missing so here are the other two.


13 Weeks


20 Weeks (The look on my face says, "Wait a minute, I thought something felt different")

Coming Soon...
Next Tuesday 9:00 a.m. we will finally know the sex of our little baby.

WE CAN'T WAIT!!!

Half Way!?

Heidi continues to grow and I don't think she could be any cuter. Her little belly poked out and grew slowly enough that I didn't notice the size very much until suddenly it got perceptibly bigger in just two days! I can't wait for her tummy to have it's own gravitational pull. In the mean time I still enjoy touching it whenever I can, especially in the morning. For some reason right when Heidi wakes up her belly is particularly firm.

Heidi has been feeling the baby which makes me a little bit jealous because I am excited for when I will be able to feel the baby. Also, I'll be telling Heidi some really important, awesome story perhaps about stereochemistry or how lobotomies work only to find out that she wasn't paying attention because she was focused on trying to feel the baby. I understand this will be a continued trend as I'll probably be getting less and less attention as the baby moves from fetusdom into persondom.

Monday marks twenty weeks of pregnancy. Part of me just can't wait for everything to happen and part of me can't believe how much needs to be done in the next twenty weeks in order to be ready for the baby. We haven't purchased anything, or even made any specific decisions about what to buy. I am trying to build up my mental toughness to be able to counteract, with reason and practicality, Heidi's nesting instinct.

One thing we are looking forward to is finding out the sex of the baby. April 27th at 9:00 AM is our ultrasound appointment. All signs so far are pointing to girl (mostly based on feelings, though) which is great because if the baby is a girl at least we have the name picked out. If the baby turns out to be a boy we don't even have a top five list going.

The semester is coming to a close and summer semester will begin shortly. Originally I was looking forward to having the summer off, but considering the circumstances I could not be more excited to go to school all summer and take fall semester off. Summer semester ends at the end of August, which means that after my last final Heidi will be unable to tie her own shoes and I won't have any homework. We'll have four entire months as a family of three and I'll have seven days off in a row every other week to spend on my two most important people.

March Madness

Oh my goodness so much has happend in the past month and I think I said almost everyday that I was going to blog. Well it looks like I never got to it. I have just been busy busy. With work and work and work I guess blogging just gets put on the back burner. Luckily we were able to sneek in a little vacation to celebrate our birthday's and our anniversary.

***BIRTHDAY DINNER***

We were so excited to let our families know that we were having a baby and thought it would be fun to let them all know at the same time. So on March 7th we had a joint birthday dinner at my brother's house. My family always calls on Adam to say the prayer before dinner so we had planned that he would just let our good news out during the prayer. Oh man, it was cute I have never seen Adam so nervous (except for maybe when he proposed) he was talking so fast and his voice pitch was extra high. I was just trying to concentrate on not crying and not being so nervous but it was really hard. Adam finished up his prayer by saying something like "please bless that all of our nieces and nephews will accept their new little cousin coming this September". Everyone was super excited for us and we were so happy that we no longer had to keep this fun news a secret. So fun!! My sister and her family were unable to make the party and we missed them!

***THE HEARTBEAT***

I was wondering what would be going on at our next Doctor's appointment and, lucky us, we got to hear our little baby's heartbeat. I don't even know how to put in words the overwhelmeing feelings of joy I felt when I heard that sound. Undescribably amazing. It brought tears to both of our eyes (surprise, surprise) I love my sensitive husband. Our Doctor said by the speed of the heartbeat he would say it was a girl but he is wrong 50% of the time. I guess we will just wait to find out in April when we have our big ultra sound. It will be fun to know what we are having so we can start buying a few things or at least planning a little bit.

***A MUCH NEEDED VACATION***

I can't believe that Adam and I have been married for a year, crazy! What a fun, fun year it has been. I just feel so lucky everyday that I married my best friend who makes me so happy and treats me so good. Who loves the gospel and makes me want to be a better person. Who is going to be the best dad ever, needless to say I am loving the journey to happily ever after.

St. George...
So we headed down to St. George March 18th-22nd for a weekend of no work, homework or any sort of obligation. Thank goodness the morning sickness is finally gone. We had so much fun. We went to Vegas for a day and went to a few museums and had a yummy buffet dinner at the Paris Hotel. We also went golfing, mini golfing, to the batting cages, to the pool and just hung out in big house for the weekend. Seriously the master bedroom is bigger then our little student apartment the place that we call home and love so much. We also went to Zions and went on a few little hikes. It was the perfect weekend away.


On our way to St. George we had breakfast at the Original Pancake House with Adam's siblings to celebrate his birthday


At the wax museum Tiger started gettin' fresh


Adam was so mad!


At Zion's National Park

***OH MY, OH MY, HOW THINGS KEEP GETTING BETTER AND BETTER***

Can I just start out by saying how much I love being pregnant. I think that I have already forgotten the morning sickness stage. I feel like I am a normal person again that has energy and I actuallly feel motivated to get a few things done. I am loving the belly that is growing on my body and the little movements of flutters I feel when i have a chance to sit down and relax. Oh that's right you heard it I am feeling our little baby move inside me. I LOVE IT!!! So I felt our baby first in the morning on March 31st while I was watching the news. I didn't know if I believed or not because I was only 17 weeks along and I didn't think I would feel him or her until I was a little further along. So I muted the television and I felt the little bean move again. I love it and any time I find the time to relax a little bit I take it. I don't always feel the baby when I lay down but I treasure the times I do. What a neat and special experience this is to me.

I hope I didn't leave anything out. We are just so excited right now and having so much fun having all of these experiences. We can't wait to meet our little child but on the same token we just want to enjoy every minute and notice the special moments along the way.