Coming up on 2nd trimester

I started back at Provost this week and wow! I soon remembered what it was like to be BUSY and not just have a full schedule. By the time I get home from work at only 3:30 I pass out for at least an hour before I can do anything else. The good part about this is that I was so busy that I didn't really have time to be nauseous. I'm 11, almost 12 weeks, now and so maybe being less nauseous has to be with soon entering the 2nd trimester! 12 weeks = 3 months! Crazy! 1/3 of the way done growing this little bean already.

Our baby room is starting to take a more noticeable change from storage room to baby room. My fabulous husband took a load of boxes and stuff over to his dad's business to store there so we can start putting things together in the room. My mom and step dad will be coming down later on today with the last piece of our crib and the whole changing table so it will REALLY start to look like a baby room soon and we still have 6 months to go. If any of you remember my little 6 month stint in middle school of collecting palm tree things, you may not know that I still have some of that stuff in my old room at my mom's. The plan for the baby room is going to be a tropical/jungle type theme whether it's a boy or a girl because I already have some cool decorations from that collection that will fit right in. Plus I found this really cute baby book about a month before we were even pregnant for about 2 bucks with this cute little palm tree on the outside. I'm going to paint a picture or two for the room too once I can find my paints somewhere in my mom's basement.

Baby stash so far:

Crib

Changing table

Rocking chair

Car seat

Portable crib

Total: $160

Thank you KSL deals!

Our M friends

This summer we've been having (almost) weekly game nights with our friends Matt and Mary and their little one year old Michael (sometimes other people come too). It has been a lot of fun and I have enjoyed getting to know them. Matt and Nick met while serving in the small towns surrounding Park City, mostly Kamas and Oakley, during their mission.

Today, one of their other mission friends, Matt, is getting married (to Michele... Nick and I feel out of some secret M name loop when all 6 of us are together.) Note: Nick's friends are almost exclusively named either Matt or Chris. When he starts talking about "Matt" or "Chris" I have to ask him to clarify which one because he sometimes forgets he knows so many of each. Anyway, so last evening Matt, Matt, and Nick went out to pizza and a movie, and Mary and I hung out at the house with little Michael. I made some cupcakes and Mary and I took our time decorating them to the best of our limited cupcake decorating abilities and laughing at our child like creativity. It's not easy coming up with something to turn cupcakes into without some sort of idea beforehand. Little Michael had fun too. He is always laughing and smiling when they come over and it makes us more excited about becoming parents ourselves soon. Matt and Mary don't really have many toys for Michael, so he is always easily entertained when they come over by a whisk, a remote control, his reflection in the oven, or looking out the window. After that Matt and Nick came back and we all hung out for a bit longer. This morning Nick and I found some really great deals on KSL for baby items so our collection is slowly, but surely, building!

I'm almost 10 weeks along now and it has graduated from a little embryo to a fetus! It's so exciting and now our thoughts have been shifting more and more to getting ready for this baby. We are only a few days shy of being 1/4 of the way done with the pregnancy. All of the baby's organs are already formed and now he or she basically just needs to grow before we get to meet it!

Month of firsts

So many firsts going on this month!

We might possibly have to file our first legal complaint this month. Our old landlord from the duplex still has not sent us our deposit back! He's been saying since the middle of June that it's on it's way and we've been looking daily for it. He is saying we must have just thrown it away... (so frustrating) He also has said he'll cancel the old check he supposedly sent off and mail us a new one for about a month now. At the end of July we gave him a deadline of August 1st or else we'll start some legal action going. He said okay but we still haven't seen a thing in the mail or heard from him since.

On a happier note, our first actual appointment with the midwife is this upcoming Monday and we'll get to hear the baby's heartbeat! I don't think they do ultrasounds at their office early on unless you pay extra for them so I'm pretty sure we'll have to wait a few months to actually see the baby, but we're still excited for the first appointment. Nick's mom and little sister might come along to the appointment and come hear the heartbeat with us but I have to check and see if that's okay. By the end of the month though I'll be done with the first trimester too which means 1/3 of the way done with the whole pregnancy and we'll start announcing it to the rest of the world! Time is sure flying by quickly this summer so that has been nice. It's been great to be off of work while I've been feeling really exhausted and sick. It really was perfect timing to get pregnant when I did.

Our first anniversary is this month too! We are debating on if we should go camping, go on a little trip somewhere, or just go out to dinner and plan a fun date to celebrate. Can you believe we've been married almost a year folks?!