9 weeks...tomorrow

Tomorrow I will be 9 WEEKS already! Holy cow, this is going by FAST! After 9 weeks, your chance of miscarriage drops a lot, so that's a great feeling!

I'm getting used to being pregnant, I know when I need to eat so I won't get sick. I get a little nauseous mayyybe once a week, but nothing too bad at all. Once again, I have to eat quite a lot of carbs, which was scary to me at first, but now I have just accepted that it's what my body and baby need.

I think I have been really LUCKY so far. I have dodged 3 big pregnancy downers...

1. I'm not sick
2. I'm not emotional
3. I'm not constipated (TMI? Sorry!)

Chris loves that I haven't been crying every other second like we hear about many other pregnant ladies! The only time I have cried this whole pregnancy is when I found out that I was pregnant, which is SO surprising for ME! I can't complain. Maybe it's just the fact that I'm trying to be stronger and thinking less about myself, and getting ready to be a mom. That's the best feeling. And the scariest!

Well, here is the latest picture update...please excuse the lovely background, they gym seemed like a great place to take my 9-week photos....haha!

9 WEEKS!

Not a huge change, but I can definitely tell a difference in my body. We are SO excited for me to get a big ol' round belly. Chris has never felt a baby kick or anything, so we're really looking forward to that!

I go in for my first appointment in 10 days [I have a countdown for it on my iPhone!] I'm pretty dang stoked! Should I be nervous? Because I'm not...

Here is something I find interesting...

When someone tells me they're pregnant, I tell them congrats and then almost always ask them if they have thought of names yet, I have always loved hearing names since I was little.

So...out of all of the people we have told, only ONE person has asked me about names. ONE! Every other person has asked me how I'm feeling, which is fine and nice of them of course, maybe since I haven't been sick, that's why I think it's weird that 239048 people have asked me how I'm feeling. BUT thank you everyone for being concerned about how I'm feeling :)

8 weeks

I'm 8 weeks today! It's going by so fast already.

We started telling people that I'm pregnant, everyone is really excited! Beth said, "I'M GONNA BE AN AUNT!" Shawna downloaded an app to follow along weekly with me. Braelee and Whitney were screaming. Caitlyn almost passed out. So we had some good reactions haha! I told Tina, but I think I'm going to wait until after my first doctor appointment to tell everyone else at work.

I'm feeling good. Just FAT. It's probably from my CONSTANT need to eat. Here is how it works... I don't eat for about an hour, I get sick. I eat throughout the day, I feel fine. So, I guess I can't complain because I haven't thrown up and I feel good the majority of the time. It's just my body feeling like a chub that isn't so great.

I'm still feeling really tired too. Every night at 7:30 I say, "Chris, is it bed time yet?" Never thought I'd say that. You couldn't PAY me to stay up past midnight anymore. We like to think back and laugh about how late we stayed up while we were dating and engaged. OHHH GEEZE, I don't know how we did it.

Chris is going to be such a cute little dad. He always gets down and talks to my belly (even though baby can't hear yet, of course) "Daddy loves you more" "Mommy is hot", sometimes he gets a swat on the arm for it haha! He is so sweet with little ones and I know that he is going to be the greatest dad in the world.

My parents are really excited to have their first grandchild. My dad even said that he will take our bean to Disneyland! I think that really shows how excited he is, he never even wanted to take us when we were little. My dad says that this will be the most spoiled child in all of the world, I don't think I can argue with that haha!

We are actually moving back in with my parents in a week or two. We love having our own place and privacy, but with me only working for a few more months and Chris not working for 2.5 more years, we need to save as much as we can. After May, every dollar we spend will be from a Grad Plus student loan. Basically, for every $1 we spend on a student loan, we will be paying back $2. So we have to be extra careful.

Food

Baby doesn't really care for pizza, pork, or sugar! WHAT?! I am all about the salty nowadays. Sometimes I feel sick and the only thing I can eat is toast, hello carbs! I can tell I'm gaining some weight, which I guess is normal according to all my apps and my mom.


So, last week I got really scared and cancelled my Birth Center appointment and decided to go with Dr. England at Riverton Hospital. First appointment is on Thursday, November 3rd, I will almost be through my 1st trimester. I feel a little sad about straying from my original birth plan but I want to make sure I can have vaginal births before I just go for it. My main concern is that my mom was too small for us to fit, so I don't want that same thing happening to me. To the hospital I go!


Not much else has changed. Just tired, kinda sick occasionally, been working out a lot, and getting really excited for baby Vivien or Jack!!!! We are telling Andy and Cammi this weekend!! We will be down on St. George for Chris' birthday, so we thought it would be fun to tell them in person! Our parents, Ry, and Ty are the only ones who know. We will be announcing it on October 18th to close friends and family, I will be 8 weeks at that point, then we will possibly wait one more month to tell the whole world!! We are so excited!!