pregnancy update

well i had another doctor appointment today and i have lost two pounds since my appointment last month. it is crazy. my doctor prescribed some medication to help me with the nausea so hopefully i will be able to keep more food down within the next few days. we got to hear the heartbeat which was really fun and i am measuring right on schedule. i am glad we got to hear the heartbeat, it makes the exhaustion and nausea worth it...just a little over two weeks until we find out pink or blue...

sweetest husband in the world

...so i am still sick pretty much every day. it helps for me to keep something in my tummy all the time...eat when i wake up and then never let my tummy be empty...which is kind of tough to do when you are nauseated most the time. my sister rachel came over on friday night and we made quesadillas and had girl talk time. it was so fun. i am glad she has been pregnant before because she totally understood when i became nauseated and hot and had to turn on the air, open the sliding glass door to let in even more cold air, grab the bucket(just in case) and sit down. thanks for understanding and for finishing preparing dinner rachel!

anyway, i had a pretty hard night and saturday morning when i woke up i turned on the tv and just stayed in bed hoping i would be able to fall asleep. i thought dave was at the gym so i just decided to rest. about twenty minutes later, dave opens the door to our bedroom with a big smile on his face and a tray holding some french toast he had prepared for me because he knows how much i love it. it was so fun to have breakfast in bed with him. what a sweetheart! how did i get so lucky??

throwback thursday

my mom at age four. isn't she adorable?

wordless wednesday

throwback thursday

i know that it is thursday evening, but i thought i would participate in throwback thursday and post a couple of my favorite pictures from yesteryear...


i love this picture, doesn't laura look just like kate in this picture??



i think i was done taking pictures at this point

oh happy day!

so after a long frustrating day at work of being exhausted, dave sent me an email that he was coming to pick me up...then i started feeling really nauseated so i went to the bathroom and the jamba juice(the only thing i had consumed today) came back up. too bad i did't quite make it to the toilet. i just had such a rotten day. when we got home there was a package for me. dave ordered me a new phone. the phone i have had for the past year is junk as anyone who talks to me on the phone can attest. any phone conversation with me is always peppered with "can you hear me now?" and "are you there?" or worse, dropped calls. i have needed a new phone for such a long time and i have had my eye on the blackberry pearls since they came out. i can't wait to get accustomed to all the fun features on this phone...and it is pretty...dave spoiled me so much already on christmas. we received some christmas money from my parents so dave and i used the money to buy each other things that we needed and wanted but would not normally buy for ourselves. dave now has brand new cycling shoes for the upcoming 100 miler he is training for and i have a phone that i will not have to constantly apologize for. thanks mom and dad!

makes me sick...but happy

last week we had another ultrasound. it was so fun to see the baby again, and this time it looked like a baby. we saw a head, two arms and two legs. i just started giggling like crazy when i saw the baby...even though it was the day after christmas, it was definitely our favorite christmas present. it put my pretty much constant morning sickness in perspective. i haven't found anything to ease my queasy tummy. saltines are a temporary fix but they only work while i am eating them and the salt makes me really thirsty. preggie pops don't work, at least they didn't for me. i am eleven weeks pregnant now and i am hoping i am one of those women who is only sick the first trimester, crossing my fingers...