16 weeks!

How Far Along: 16 weeks!

Total Weight Gain: Still not sure, maybe around 4-5 lbs.

Maternity Clothes: Not yet but I haven't been able to find any that I really like.

Best Moment This Week: Buying a few decor items for the nursery.

Gender: Still hoping to find out on Monday. I'm really starting to think it's a boy now that I'm showing a little bit.

Movement: I haven't felt anymore flutters so I'm not sure if they really were flutters. But I've been worried because I haven't really much of anything yet.

Food Cravings: Cherry Limeades. I want one everyday.

Food Aversions: Onions and Eggs

What I Miss: Nothing really.

Sleep: I've been sleeping on my right side lately but I wake up with a really sore back.

What I'm Looking Forward To: Finding out the gender!

Belly Button: In 

15 Weeks!

How Far Along: 15 weeks

Total Weight Gain: Still not sure. I'm guessing around 4 lbs.

Maternity Clothes: Not yet, but I did buy a dress and shorts from Old Navy.

Best Moment This Week: Others are starting to see my bump!! And I finally got my hair done and feel more like myself again.

Gender: We'll hopefully find out Monday. Fingers crossed.

Movement: I think I felt some flutters the other day but I'm not real sure.

Food Cravings: Still jalapenos and cherry tomatoes.

Food Aversions: None right now.

What I Miss: My face not being broke out all the time.

Sleep: I've been sleeping great lately. I think it's because I've been walking and working out more.

What I'm Looking Forward To: Finding out the gender.

Belly Button: In

14 weeks!

How Far Along: 14 weeks!

Total Weight Gain: I'm not real sure now.

Maternity Clothes: Not yet

Best Moment This Week: Starting to see a little bump! :)

Gender: We don't know yet. 2 more weeks!

Movement: None yet but I can't wait!

Food Cravings: Jalapenos and cherry tomatoes.

Food Aversions: They're pretty much all gone now.

What I Miss: Not being so moody!

Sleep: As long as I have my body pillow, I'm good!

What I'm Looking Forward To: Finding out the gender!

Belly Button: In

13 weeks!

I've been battling a head cold all weekend on top of traveling to Oklahoma to watch my brother's conference tournament. So don't mind the no make up and looking like a hot mess look. I'm a little late on this post since we were gone half of last week. I'll be 14 weeks tomorrow :) I'm still just looking bloated right now and don't have much of a baby bump. Some of the blogs I follow do these really neat bump date posts with the memories about pregnancy that I know I'll want to remember so I'm going to try them out too.

How far along: 13 weeks

Total weight gain: 2 ounces

Maternity clothes: I've bought a belly band and maternity leggings but that's all so far. I can't button my pants anymore but just use the belly band and it works like a charm.

Best Moment This Week: Even though we were at basketball games the majority of the time, spending time away with my husband was great!

Gender: We don't know yet, hopefully at our next ultrasound.

Movement: I haven't felt anything yet, but he/she was really jumping and kicking during our last ultrasound :)

Food Cravings: None really. I really like spicy foods (which I normally HATE) and ice cream in particular right now. 

Food aversions: It's been shrimp/seafood the whole time that's kind of subsided and I don't have any right now. 

What I Miss: Nothing, I've loved this journey so far!

Sleep: I have my nights. Now that I'm not supposed to sleep on my belly or my back, it's been hard to get comfortable. My body pillow has helped out tremendously though.

What I'm Looking Forward To: Finding out the gender! 

Belly Button: In

New Years Surprise

So our big New Years surprise that I mentioned a couple of posts ago is....I'm pregnant!!!! We had been trying to conceive for 5 months and finally on January 1st, 2015 I took a pregnancy test after I was 4 days late and BAM! A little pink positive line. My cycles had been different every month since I got off birth control back in August. So it was tough tracking my ovulation schedule. Anyway back to the little pink line, I immediately began to cry and laugh at the same time. I called my Nanny, my grandma, who is also my best friend and told her first. She also began to cry. She had been really stressed out with her health and her brother's battle with cancer at the time so she really needed to hear some good news. My husband was over at his Aunt's when I took the test and it was a struggle to not call and tell him immediately. I wanted to surprise him. So after I called my grandma, I called my mom. She was excited but wanted me to go get some more pregnancy tests just to make sure. I had to go get groceries anyway so I picked up a box of the digital tests while I was out. I was out a little longer than my dad thought I should be so he called to hurry me up and take those tests. I took one and sure enough it popped up pregnant 2-3 weeks. I sent a picture of the test to my parents and then they really got excited. When I knew that my husband was on his way home I set up a little card written from the baby, the pregnancy tests, a Spurs onesie (since hubby is a HUGE Spurs fan), and a book for first time dad's. I recorded his reaction when he walked through the door and it was priceless. He was so excited he was jumping and yelling. It was perfect.

I'm due September 8th, three days before Bradley's and a week before my Nanny's. To make it even more exciting, my best friend who I grew up with is also pregnant and she is due September 20th. We are so excited for this journey and I can't wait to document it.

I was so exhausted and busy at work weeks 8 and 9 that I didn't get to take pictures. My hair looks awful too. I've been waiting to get out of the first trimester to get it highlighted.

Again, we are so excited! I go back to the doctor on Monday. Hopefully we can hear the heartbeat then. :)

Happy Valentine's Day

Well our Valentine's Day was totally uneventful. My brother plays college basketball and he plays every Saturday until the second week in March every year. Valentine's Day always seems to fall on days that he plays or that Bradley played so we've never really been able to do much. I also better add that I could not have married anyone as identical to my dad than my husband. My dad is a great man, but when it comes to romance with my mom he needs a little work. Same as Bradley. He rarely ever gets my mom anything or does anything sweet for holidays or special occasions simply because he just doesn't think about it. Typical man, right? Well a week before Valentine's day, Bradley took me to our little Commons shopping area. He let me buy a pair of Nike's for work which were super nice and needed, but I automatically thought something was weird because he literally never lets me just buy things or shops without a conversation about it first. Sure enough whenever we got home he said "Happy Valentine's Day." I get that I should be grateful which I was, it just caught me off guard because I wasn't expecting him to say that. So fast forward to Friday before V-day. He wanted to go to a high school game in Little Rock that night. Which was fine because he had asked me months before if he could go. Well I didn't actually think that he was going to go. I thought he was just telling me that and really actually had something special planned for us. Nope, of course he didn't. So I got my hopes up for nothing and we literally didn't do anything for V-day, awesome. I got him some Mont Black Legend cologne which smells so good and a sweet card explaining how great of a husband he was. I thought that I would at least get a card on the actual day because he is usually pretty good at getting cards, but nope. Granted I have been super emotional lately and I probably over reacted a bit, but I've always wanted a man that just did sweet things for me without me having to ask. I definitely didn't get that marrying Bradley but he does so much more for us. So with that debbie downer post, we are iced in today and just being lazy. Which feels awesome.

Sweet Nova girl

2015 has been so exciting so far. We found out some really great news New Years Day, but I can't tell what it is just yet. All I can say is that we are sooooooo excited. I don't know about you, but last Monday morning was just such as drag at work. Being off for the holidays had really spoiled me. I'm still not completely adjusted back to work yet. Last Wednesday, our sweet Nova girl had to get spayed and had a hernia repaired. When I picked her up Thursday it was seriously the saddest thing. She had a cone on and she couldn't jump in my arms fast enough. Now the rules were pretty strict; she is wear the cone at all times unless she is right beside us and we do not let her lick her sutures. She is not allowed to jump, run or climb stairs. Um, seriously? She is a puppy who literally just learned how to jump on/off the couch a week ago. All she wants to do is run and play. She is terrified of the cone every time she runs into the wall or it hits her bowl when she tries to eat. We've been having to give her water through a water bottle because she just won't drink from her bowl. I think its affecting me way more than it is her though. It makes me so sad to see her so limited. She's lost weight too. I'm sure this post sounds so weird and believe me I was totally one of those people who never understood how someone could love an animal so much. But I'm definitely that person now. I love her so much and I don't know what I would do if something happened to her. She is our first baby and has been a great companion for me as we've been trying to conceive for the past 5 months. When I would have my down days and feelings of despair and doubt she always knew. She would just lay beside me and be my little cuddle bug because it was what I needed most. Bradley just don't understand it all so Nova has been my only companion through it all. Dogs really are a man's best friend. Oh and last night we went to the hospital to see precious baby Kyree. Bradley's aunt and uncle just had their second little boy on Thursday and we were so stoked to him. Bradley is terrified of little babies. He didn't even want to hold him because he was afraid he would hurt him. He has really big hands and he always thinks he's going to drop them. He did great though. He always says he's not ready for kids but he will be when they get here. Kyree will be some great practice for when that day comes for us. :) 

Poor baby girl!

She just cuddled with me all day after I picked her up!