Arizona Fun

Here are a bunch of random pics from our fun times in Arizona with family. We really enjoyed ourselves: hanging out, shopping, girl spa days, grilled pizza, zoo lights, christmas fun, walks & cute kids! Thanks to Amanda for some of these pictures!

Lucy was the best at waking up Uncle Jeremy!

Uncle Jeremy learned how to dress a baby! 

What a great vacation!
Can't wait for the next time we are all together!

Christmas Time in Arizona

It was pretty fun in general being in Arizona with the Thomas' since all of us being in the same state together barely every happens and hasn't happened at all since our family grew by two little ones!

 These little ones made this Christmas even more special & fun! 

I can't believe next Christmas we will have a little one of our own! : ) 

I have to brag on our gift a little bit here. What do you get your father in law for Christmas? A deer toilet paper holder of course!

And this is where my camera died for the day!
What fun we had though and also got to enjoy Lana's homemade cinnamon rolls! Yumm-o!

14 weeks

Okay, okay...I promise the next post will be about Christmas! But I had an appointment yesterday and as I started to type out a long status about it, I decided it would be better to put it right here! 

This was our first "routine" appointment with no ultrasound, just a little checkup on everything so Jeremy didn't put in for the time off. I would much rather him be there for every one, just in case he is needed, but it isn't the easiest thing to get time off, especially as a teacher. It just adds more work on for him. So I went to the appointment by myself and right off the bat I knew he should have been there. As I lay on the table and the doctor couldn't find the heartbeat with their little handheld machine. She told me that she kept catching it but that they baby was moving around, but I wasn't sure if I actually believed her or not! So, she left the room to go get the ultrasound machine and I frantically tried to calm myself down. When she got back in the room, added more cold goop to my belly and put the picture up on the screen, my heart completely melted and I wished desperately that Jeremy was there! It probably isn't the best way to describe our little bean, but as I starred at the screen, there was our little skeleton baby and it was too stinkin' cute! I could clearly see the little face with the hands cupped around the little cheeks. Too much cuteness for me to handle! And of course, the little heart was just a-goin'! She explained that where the baby was hiding beneath my placenta and with it moving around so much made it difficult to catch the heartbeat with the smaller machine, but it would start getting easier now. Then she turned the volume on the machine and everything was complete when I heard the sweet little pitter patter and watched our sweet little one dance around on the screen. So much love! She took a snapshot of the screen but it didn't turn out at all, so the story will have to work this time : )

I told you it was too long for a facebook status!

Happy New Year!

Ok, so i'm a little late but things have been crazy around here! Actually, we haven't been here at all for the most part! We left on December 21st and just got back on the 2nd. We had a wonderful time with the Thomas family in Arizona. We had some off and on sickness spread throughout the family and the weather was cold (who knew!), but we had family all around and finally got to meet our little Arizona niece, so the trip was wonderful. I wasn't the best at taking pictures, sometimes there are just more important things, but the ones I do have still need to be uploaded and edited. So for now, I have a couple belly shots for you and a quick pregnancy update to get back into the blogging business! 

I am now 14 weeks along and have a small bump which becomes much more prominent after eating...

I am trying to enjoy each pregnancy moment as it comes but I am certainly ready for some of the milestones to get here. I'm ready for my "real" bump, i'm ready to start feeling the baby (or at least knowing that what i'm feeling is in fact the baby) and I'm starting to get a little impatient about waiting to find out if we are having a little girl or a little boy! I am also super sad that ultrasounds are so expensive or in general that insurance companies only "allow" you to have so many of them before they become your full expense. It will be very hard for me to go to the doctors this week and not get to see our nugget! But i'm still very much looking forward to hearing that sweet, sweet heartbeat. The day that we flew down to AZ was my last day of week 11 pregnancy. The whole day was pretty crappy. Baby did not like flying and even after we landed my stomach was pretty unhappy. Food seemed to make it worse and then I ended up getting a migraine. I actually ended up getting 3 migraines while we were gone, which my doctor warned me may happen. I struggle with them normally anyways and with pregnancy hormones running wild, she prepared me early on that things may get worse! I would say the only reason why they are worse, besides getting 3 in one week, is the fact that you can't take anything for them! Besides that craziness, the morning that I entered my 12th week started a whole new world for me. Besides one episode which was caused from me letting myself get WAY too hungry, I have not been sick at all! What a difference that has made. We are starting to make preparations as much as we can. Moving will be happening within the next month or two, a trip to NY may be happening at the end of March, making plans for visitors this summer, then comes baby showers and then comes BABY! I have said it before, but 6 months seems like a long time until it becomes the time frame for your little one arriving. We simply can not wait! 

We love our little lemon so much already <3