Happy Easter!

Happy Easter! I hope you all had a wonderful weekend full of some fun family time and possibly enjoying some nice Spring weather! Jordan and I hung out with his family, ate some delicious home cooked food and watched some basketball games and I actually got a lot of school work done! These last few weeks of the semester always seem to be the busiest so it's go time for studying and cranking out some papers and getting ready for finals! And I can't believe it will be April already tomorrow, wow! Hope the start of the month is a good one for all of you!

9 Weeks

week 9 update: Eeeeek!!! Baby E's first pictures from the ultrasound!!! Peanut looked like a little gummy bear but was wiggling around like crazy and at one point, it looked like we even got a wave! It was sooo cute and funny! Peanut's heart rate was 178 so it was fast and strong, just where they would like it at this point and everything was measuring good and looked great! NOW it definitely feels REAL and Jordan and I are so so over the moon excited and happy! We are so incredibly blessed and lucky to be on the journey and to become parents together! 

Friday Funnies - 3.29.13

Welcome Friday, you are finally here! And I'm still smiling knowing that we are sharing and spreading the news of Baby E's arrival. I still just can't wrap my mind around the fact that I'm pregnant....crazy stuff! Anyway, this week was pretty low key considering I was still in spring break mode and so that meant lounging, napping, more lounging, no studying, cuddling with Paisley, movie night with Jordan..........and repeat. Whoops. Guess that means I better be productive this weekend! Oh but it's Easter this weekend so that means enjoying some Easter candy while being productive. We will see how that goes! We are heading up to Cedar Rapids for the large part of the weekend to spend some time with Jordan's family and then some family friends on Saturday and then more family time on Sunday. We will mix in the March Madness games too, of course. Can't be missing those! Since the Easter holiday is upon us, let's all have a laugh at some poor kids who are now forever scarred by the Easter Bunny. And mental note: I don't ever want to puke my children through something like this....the pictures are funny but oh so terrifying at the same time!

image via Google
And she is now terrified for life of mascots....good job Mom and Dad!

the Easter Bunny is coming tonight!

And now these kids are not only scared of just the Easter Bunny but also their own Dad...

8 Weeks

week 8 update: just a bit of nausea here and there but it is very limited at least! Once I eat something or have a snack, it goes away so I'm really thankful it doesn't last all day and goes away rather quickly! I am definitely feeling extremely tired at all times of the day and can't seem to sleep or nap enough! Jordan and I are sooo excited for the appointment next week but of course, I'm still nervous since as of now, I don't have any typical pregnancy symptoms so I'm nervous to not hear a heartbeat or to not see anything on the ultrasound! Stressful but exciting at the same time....so many emotions!!

7 Weeks

week 7 update: still feeling pretty good for the most part and am glad that the flu bug has finally gone away! no signs of growing a bump yet or any real pregnancy symptoms so I'm anxious for those to kick in so that this will start feeling real to me!

6 Weeks

Week 6 update: no big changes yet! I haven't had any morning sickness or sore boobs or really anything yet. The worst thing that I've had is dealing with the flu which has been pretty rough. Combined with knowing I'm pregnant and can't just take some medicine when I feel like it I think adds to my anxiety of how crappy I'm feeling. I'm definitely ready for the flu bug to go away and to start feeling better....or at least be able to leave the bathroom for longer than a 10-20 minute span!

Oooh BABY!!!

First comes love... Then comes marriage... Then comes...


BABY EASTON!!!!

Jordan and I (along with Paisley, of course!) are so sooo excited to announce that we are officially expecting Baby E's arrival in October of 2013! Eeeek! I have known since the last week of January so it has been a long couple of weeks keeping this underwraps so I'm relieved to finally be able to share our secret with everyone! 

Jordan has been taking a weekly "bump" picture of me so that will be a new weekly post as well, "My bump, my bump, my lovely baby bump!" and while there isn't much for a bump yet, I know there will be in a few weeks or maybe sooner! As far as how I have been feeling? Well, great actually! I never had any morning sickness (or afternoon/night sickness like some women get) and the few times I did feel nauseous, as soon as I ate something, it went away! My face has been breaking out and my emotions have been off the charts, like I'm talking tears over anything and everything, so hopefully once my emotions start leveling off in the next 1-2 weeks, that will all start to calm down! 

I can't wait to share our journey with you all and experience this with the my best friend and husband! I remember the night I told Jordan I was pregnant, I was already crying and he just looked at me with a big smile on his face that nothing could have wiped off and he gave me a big bear hug and said, "You know, everything is going to be ok. We are going to be parents and this is going to be incredible. I love you so much." Here's to our most exciting and crazy adventure together yet! 

Now since I had to wait so long to go public with this news (didn't want to jinx anything!), that means I'm going to be behind in my weekly picture! So to play catch up, I'm going to do a big overload of the past weekly pictures now so that by next week, I'm caught up and on track instead of being behind! 

the day I found out....so many emotions!

the official start to my photojournal "from bump to baby!"