Results Are In......

Jedd and I went to the doctor's on Friday and we found out what we are having....

IT'S A GIRL!! We are so excited for little "Libby" to join our family in October.

Ok now a question for you moms out there. I have been looking at strollers because I have been so excited. What is your advice? Do I go all girl and get this adorable pink and brown stroller that I have fallen in love with? Or do I go green (there is a pretty cute green and brown one that I like) so I can use it if we have a boy down the line. What do you think? Go all girly and pink? Or be smart and economical and go for a cute green one that could go either boy or girl?

Which one do you think?

We go into the doctor on May 7th and if our baby cooperates, we get to find out what we are having. So what do you think we are going to buy? Blue or Pink? I really am curious to what you all think we are going to have so leave a comment with your guess. (I know it is a total guess, but I still want to know!)

Stay tuned for the official news!

(Aren't these totally adorable? I can't wait to start buying things for our baby!!)

Update

I am officially on week 14 (tomorrow) and I am feeling much better. I have finally pinpointed why I have been so sick the last couple weeks and have realized that it was due to these crappy horrible prenatal vitamins I was taking. Yes, they were a generic brand from Target and they are the most evil horrible things I have ever swallowed. Come to find out, every single time I would take them, the last couple weeks, I would throw up before going to work, try to hold things down while at work, and then would throw up when I would get home. I would even take them at night (per suggestion from many of you!) and that did not seem to help. My doctor recommended that I try these vitamins and they have worked WONDERS!!

They don't make me sick. And they actually taste like sweet tarts candy, that is until you swallow. BUT HEY, I am not sick and have yet to throw up once! I am feeling GREAT! Thank you Flintstones for making my life a little more enjoyable.

A few of you have asked questions so I figure why not answer them??

1. Yes I will be working next year. If I can get it officially approved (still waiting to hear the final word) I will be working every other day thanks to the A/B day schedule my high school offers. One week I'll work 3 days a week (Mon, Wed, Fri) and the next week I'll work 2 days (Tues, Thurs). I can still keep my insurance and my retirement years still count. My department head has been so great to work with me and has been doing what she can to help me out for next year.

2. About the gender of our baby: Jedd swears that it is a girl.....HANDS DOWN! I thought it was a girl, but then I go back and forth and am kind of leaning towards a boy at the moment. But let's be honest. I don't really have a "feeling" either way. I figure if Jedd says girl, I might as well say boy and one of us will be right.

3. I am not showing yet, well at least not to anyone else, but myself. I can tell a huge difference, but when I ask my husband, he just says "can't see a huge difference!" I can't do up my buttons on my pants, so I had to invest in a belly band to hold them up. Imagine if you will, I was using an elastic before I bought this "band" to hold my pants together. And all of a sudden I would lean over while I was teaching to pick something off the floor and oops.....the elastic would come undone. SO I would have to try very slyly to fix it. Not the greatest thing, but watching it, I'm sure, was quite the treat. Thank goodness I teach high school students that don't pay attention to anything anyway.

That about does it for answers to questions. Still crossing our fingers for May 7th to find out what we are having. I'll post updates every so often and when I actually start showing where people can tell, I'll post pictures.

The reason for my blogging hiatus......

Yep, you thought correct. Jedd and I are pregnant! I started getting horribly moody and not feeling so great in February (which is not me at all!) and so I took one of these and found out we were expecting. I am currently 12 weeks and a few days along and our due date is October 21st. We couldn't be more excited. The next question people always ask is... have you been sick? And the answer is YES! I'm sure most of you know exactly what I am talking about, but being pregnant sucks. All the puking and dry heaving (sorry for being graphic!), I don't know who in their right mind wants to do this twice. I know the end result is so worth it but at the moment in the thick of it all, I'm quite content thinking "I'll never do this again!" I've been extremely tired and food has really disgusted me. But I am starting to have more good days than bad days, so I hope that I am on the up-swing. (hopefully I am not speaking too soon!)

We have been to the doctor twice now and have had 2 ultrasounds. My doctor's office is amazing in that we get an ultrasound every visit so it has been fun to see all the changes that occurred between our visits of 4 weeks. We got to see our baby move for the first time and for the first time I think I really freaked out.....reality finally hit! But after I calmed down it was really fun to see our little one move and stretch it's legs, arms and back. Our doctor told us that if the baby cooperates, we might be able to find out what we are having the first part of May. If not we'll have to wait. SO..... everyone cross your fingers that this little one cooperates!

My Talented Dad

If any of you know my dad, he is a very talented and skilled woodworker. Every time I get the chance, I ask him to make me things. (There is something about my dad making me something out of wood that is so special to me! Maybe it's because I feel like I have a part of him in my house at all times. Who knows!) My dad loves to have a challenge and create things that he has never done before so in comes my request for floating shelves. My creative father put these together for me and they turned out so perfect! Everyone kept telling me it would be so much easier to just go buy them, but I really REALLY wanted my dad to make them for me. Because I am a little younger than my two sisters, I haven't had the chance very often to have my dad make me things for my house so this was a perfect time! With these floating shelves now hung on my walls, my bedroom is complete! Thanks dad I LOVE LOVE LOVE THEM!!!(And of course just a picture of the whole wall all put together.)

My birthday was this week and my mother-in-law picked this out for me to go on my night stand. Don't you think it matches perfectly with everything else? I just love it!

More pictures to come from my birthday and another wood piece my dad made me. Can't wait to paint it and put it in my entry way.

Valentine's Day

With Jedd loosing his job in January, we really should be saving our money. But we decided to splurge and go on a date for Valentine's Day. (at least I have a pay check coming in!!) We have all of a sudden made it a tradition to go to Olive Garden for Valentine's so that's exactly where we went. Of course we went during the middle of the day to miss the crowds. We then headed to see When in Rome. (note: DUMBEST MOVIE! I would not recommend it to ANYONE!) And we went to the matinee for two reasons, 1. it is cheaper and 2. again missing the crowds. We decided that we weren't going to get each other anything because our present was our date out, but Jedd surprised me with a sweater. I watch the Bachelor (pathetic I know!) and saw this sweater on one of the girls and fell in love with it so Jedd bought it for me. What a great hubby!!

I know, cheesiest picture ever, but if you can't tell it is a sweater that goes longer in the front and this royal blue is gorgeous! Happy Valentine's Day! (sorry I'm so late)

A Whole New Bedroom

When Jedd and I got married, Jedd brought his bed, headboard and all of his dressers that he used (my bed was a twin so thank goodness he had a queen!). Besides the mattress, everything were his parents, they actually got it for their wedding. I was so excited to have the furniture, but not particularly excited about the 70's look it had. So I asked Jedd's parents if they were ok if I just painted them to match my black and red themed room. They said of course so this has been my plan for the past year. When we moved out of our apartment in July I thought what a perfect time to paint. They sat in our storage shed instead. Then when we moved into our house in October, I thought ok this is the perfect time. They sat in our garage for 4 months. I was honestly planning on doing them when it got to be better weather and I could paint them in our garage, but Jedd decided he would paint them (with a TON of help from his mom!). Last week Jedd went and got the paint, and already had a full coat of paint on all of our furniture before I even got home from work on Thursday. His mother came to help us finish up the painting on Satuready and when we had family over on Sunday they helped us move it upstairs. (the dresser weighs 1000 pounds!) Here are some pictures of our bedroom. Oh ya, we also hung my mirror above our bed. We are still waiting for shelves to finish before we officially finish our one wall, but other than that, the bedroom is FINALLY done! I absolutely love it. What do you think??

Blah Blah Blah

No fun things going on in our lives and nothing to report. Just the same old thing. Get up, go to work (school), come home, cook dinner, go to bed. Repeat, repeat, repeat. I don't particularly care for the first few months of the year. Even though I really enjoy Valentine's Day, I just feel so BLAH until my birthday month gets here.....March!! So all of you who are reading this, enjoy the BLAH months of the year!

The Dreaded Machine

For an early Christmas present, Jedd and I decided to splurge the day after Thanksgiving and buy an elliptical. I was able to talk Jedd into getting this over a treadmill (I don't really like to run on a treadmill, actually I just don't like to run period.) So after some convincing, we bought this elliptical machine from Sears. And so begins the dreaded feelings towards this machine. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love this thing! And in just a few days of working on it, I feel so much better and can feel a difference in myself. But at 5:00 in the morning when I get on this machine, I hate it! And so began my New Year's Resolution. My resolution wasn't to loose weight (which it normally is), but to feel better about myself and if some pounds came off, that would just be an added bonus. Like anything else, you have lapses during the week and then you start all over again. But I am loving this machine and the way it makes me feel when I actually use it. It amazes me how much more energized I am when I get to school and how much better I sleep when I exercise. We right now are keeping our elliptical in our basement and thanks to my mother, we have a soft piece of carpet that we put it on. It seems to work really well for us. Because I talked Jedd into getting an elliptical, I decided to give in and let him get one of these with one of our gift cards we received from Target for Christmas. (thanks sis!) I have to say that I have NEVER EVER had a scale in my house for one reason: I DO NOT want to know my weight. I gauge my weight by how my clothes fit, but Jedd likes to work towards a goal so we picked this beauty up. And let's just say that every Saturday morning when it is our 'weigh in' time, I hate this stupid piece of plastic as well. But I am learning to like it and to use it as a tool, rather than think of it as a pure enemy of mine. So here's to feeling better about myself this year! Hopefully it lasts longer than my other resolutions (which usually last about a month!).

This Day 2 Years Ago....

January 19th, 2008 proved to be one of the most influential days of my life. For on this day, I met my best friend, and husband of mine. A blind date, that neither one of us was really truly excited about, was the beginning of our story. A date down to California Pizza Kitchen and then off to a bowling alley in Bountiful was where the magic began. Ending the date on a note that neither one of thought was good, we said our good-byes and both thought we would never see each other again. We both have our own versions of the story and what actually happened, and both of us feel pretty confident our story is the correct version. But I think there was help from above that brought us together. Now 2 years later, we are happier than we ever imagined possible.

I love you Sweetie! Happy 1st Date Day!