Thanksgiving 2012

Our Thanksgiving was just wonderful :) My parent's came up and ate way too much food.

They came up Wednesday evening and we had sandwiches for pre thanksgiving dinner. They hit the spot. I was really worried about being able to eat Turkey Day food. I am still not able to eat much. I am doing better then the first 3 months but not by much. Still sick most mornings, still very limited on what I can eat. Still not much fun yet.

Thursday I woke up not feeling great so my mom had to step in more then we had planned. Thank goodness for mommy!

We had pancakes for breakfast which is our usual holiday breakfast and my typical safety food but not on Thursday.

For Turkey dinner we made Gordon Ramsey's Turkey, twice baked potatoes, Stuffing, Pumkin pie, salad, Corn bread and peas.

Of course I have pictures but I have apparently run out of space and have to pay for more. My Picasa albums all count towards this space and apparently when you delete things from your picasa albums you are actually deleting them from your laptop so now I have to try and recover those photo's I deleted thinking it was just from picasa. Unfortunately I don't know where they all went as they aren't in my recycle bin.

Drayton Hall

This past weekend, the 9th, I decided that I would ditch Brian and go hang out with Mom and Dad. I disguised it as a birthday present since Brian became one year older on the 8th :)

While I was there Mom, Dad and I went to Drayton hall. It was very cool and we are going to go back because there were other activities we wanted to do but couldn't because it was way past lunch time. Biggest surprise, this house only had 3 bedrooms!!!!!! Where did company sleep? It had two flank houses that no one is sure what they were used for but we have decided the guests stayed there.

Awww they like each other!

Benjamin and Bailey lead two very independent lives. They rarely interact with each other. Bailey also is learning how to be more basset and less Beagle.

Look what we found!

They are cuddling in the sun together!!!!

Three Months

So I am technically in my 4th month but this is what I looked like when I was finished with the third month and truthfully....nothing has changed much since these pictures. If you don't know me well you wont know I am pregnant. Most of my friends who do know me have noticed that I am not showing. I can notice slight body changes. My tummy that is under my ribs no longer goes in. Everything is just straight down. And depending on how much I shrink my pants, my pants aren't as lose.

Eating is slightly better. Still getting sick most mornings. I can eat certain things but I can't branch out that much. I can do that mostly on the weekends, I can't risk it during the week. I can pretty much eat any fruit, oatmeal, protein bar, yogurt, pretzels, raisan bran, pancakes and thats my usualy go to's. Dinner is a tad difficult.

Good news? I fully expect to eat Thanksgiving! I may only be able to do it once but it should work out well.

Sleep. Lots of sleep. I am exhausted all the time. Energy has not come back and I am now thinking those with more then one kid are superwoman as I cannot imagine trying to take care of a kid feeling like this. Poor Brian is getting neglected and I can barely take care of myself.

I swear I thought I was standing up straight

And this is what happens when Brian decides to stop participating

How am I feeling?

I do not know how Michelle Duggar did this 19 times.......heck I don't know how my mom did this twice!

What did not help was that I caught the stomach bug right when the morning sickness started. That weekend I couldn't eat anything and was really doubting what I had gotten myself into because I hadn't realized it was a stomach bug yet. Once the stomach bug ended life got somewhat more bearable.

I haven't been able to eat much at all. I am now finally starting to get the hang of this. I am very limited on what I can eat. Garlic, tomatoes, bread, bagels, pasta, anything that sits heavy is out. Pancakes are fine...like mother like daughter. Everything is at a 50/50 and I don't know whether I will be able to keep it down until I have eaten it. I also have to be careful with what time I eat. So far I can eat most fruits I have tasted, yogurt is my breakfast that I have to wait until 8 to eat. Oatmeal is my lunch. I have a protein bar as snack, and pretzels/ginger cookies throughout the day. Dinner has either been pancakes or cereal. And that is really all I can trust to keep down...as long as I time everything okay.

One of my biggest hurdles is that my taste buds have not returned. NOTHING tastes right....not even hot tea. I really think I have lost weight this month. You cannot tell when I am in clothes and I think only my mom and I could really identify a baby bump if I were in a swim suit. My goal is to only gain 20lbs with this pregnancy, that is more then enough for baby and me, but I am starting to worry that I wont even gain that much.

The nausea has made it extremely hard to sit up and do anything, hence lack of blogging. Outside of trying to keep it a secret, I couldnt sit up straight without my head spinning and my stomach churning. Getting through work was really really hard. I had a lot of concerned people asking if I was okay because of how pale I looked.

Sleep, I have been sleeping a lot. This I do not mind so much. It is only lately that I have not been sleeping as well as before. I still sleep through the night but I have periods of brief consciousness as I move from dream to dream where as before once I was out, I was out cold.

As I leave the first trimester and head into the second, I really hope my tastebuds come back :-\

2 months

2 Months because it took Mommy (man that's weird!) that long to realize she was pregnant :) It was decided at my first dr's appointment that I was exactly 8 weeks so we are going to have to skip the 1 month post :)

At this point I definitely hadn't gained much if any weight, so I do not think I look that much different. How am I feeling? Oh that deserves it's own post.

I am not sure what has caused our good fortune....

I don't know if it was the Holy Well in Inisheer, Ireland that is supposed help infertility:

Or the the "wall statue" in Bunratty, Ireland that's supposed to help infertility:

Or the Mexican fertility goddess my friend Nicole, from work gave me:

However whatever it was...worked!

If you haven't guessed by now....Brian and I will be expecting our first bundle of joy May 21, 2013!

We are safely out of the first trimester and all the people that should know in person already know....which means it is safe for public knowledge. :)

Let sleeping dogs lie....

There is one thing that Benjamin and Bailey do really well....sleep! Benjamin is a tad bit better ;)

Under the bed....

On Dad's foot...

In a puddle outside....

In the corner

"why'd you wake me....I was comfy!"

Under the dining room table...

Finally, a puppy asleep in a bed :)