weeks 5-15

(gotta love the awkward preggo pics ha)

telling our families
we decided to tell our families the big news on mother's day/mother's day weekend.
we bought both of our moms a little onsie that said "grandma is the best"
and had them open them in front of everyone.
we told branden's family in the middle of dinner at red lobster and let's just say everyone was staring at us to see what all the screaming was for.
luckily we told my family at my moms house so there wasn't quite the scene :)
we tried facetiming my dad and step mom that night but weren't able to get a hold of them. they were coming up the next weekend for graduation and taysom's blessing anyway so we decided to wait and tell them in person!

just gonna add--- telling people you're pregnant is super awkward. amiright?

symptoms 

for the first week or two it was hard to believe that i was pregnant. 

then week 6 rolled around and i felt like crap.

i would throw up every morning when i brushed my teeth

and then someday's i would throw up 2 or 3 more times.
yuck. 

food sounded gross and i was so thirsty all the time. 

water tasted gross and soda left a weird taste in my mouth so

i drank a lot of gatorade. 

after a few days of being sick i caved and called the doctors office 

to see if there was anything i could take.

they called me in a prescription called phenergan but it didn't help a ton 

and it made me so tired. 

i would go home for lunch and sleep for 30 minutes and then when i got home from work i would get in bed and fall asleep again.

so that wasn't working for me. 

next they called in zofran and that's what i've been taking ever since.

it still didn't make me feel 100% but it helped sorta. 

i've gotten quite a few migraines (which is the worst!) 

and i even had to go to urgent care one night to get iv fluids 

because i was so sick. not fun. 

luckily the last few weeks i have started to gradually feel better. 

it seems like the later the day gets, the sicker i feel. 

which is weird because it seems like it's usually the opposite for most people.

so my two main symptoms have been nausea/vomiting 

and headaches/migraines 

hoping to be rid of both SOON! 

doctors appointments

our first appointment was when i was 8 weeks. we met with the nurse and she basically just asked a million medical questions and gave us a little gift bag full of parenting magazines and some diapers and formula. 

our second appointment was at 10 weeks. we met our doctor for the first time (love him!) and got to hear the heartbeat for the first time. it was almost a little suspenseful... we were waiting to hear something and then finally the quietest little heartbeat came up. sometimes they can't find a heartbeat that early and end up having to do an ultrasound but luckily we were able to hear ours! yayy! so crazy. 

our third appointment was this monday when i was a little over 14 weeks. short and sweet. he measured my stomach and we got to hear the heartbeat again :) 

one of the most exciting parts of this appointment was scheduling our follow up---

the appointment that we get to find out the gender!! 

we scheduled it for monday, july 15th! 

i can't believe that in less than 4 weeks we'll know if we're having a boy or girl! 

predictions

i honestly have no idea what we're having. 

i keep going back and forth trying to decide which i want 

(i would love either of course) i've always wanted a boy first

but we have the perfect name that we both love picked out for a girl. 

so either way it's a win-win. we just want a healthy babe!

that's all for now :)

finding out

*fyi this might be a TMI post for some people. 

if you aren't interested in hearing any pregnancy related "things" feel free to skip these posts!

it was saturday, april 6th when we found out 

that there was a baby setting up camp in my belly! 

we had been "trying" for about 9 or so months. 

(i hate the term "trying". we just decided to "stop preventing" and see

what happened. if it was meant to happen, great, if not owell)

well after nothing happens for 9 months you kinda start thinking nothing 

is going to happen. 

every month i got the lovely reminder, right on time, that my eggo was definitely not preggo. 

the week of april 6th rolled around and i started getting those subtle cramps (that are really a forewarning to prepare yourself for a week of death) 

so i knew that once again i was not preggers. 

at this point i was use to it, so no biggy. 

i was supposed to "get my monthly visitor" on thursday the 4th...

well thursday came and went. and then friday came and went. 

nothing.

i was still pretty convinced that i wasn't pregnant. especially because i was still getting legit, period cramps (sorry tmi) 

saturday morning i woke up earlier than normal. i just couldn't sleep for some reason. 

i woke branden up and told him i was gonna go to the store to buy a test. 

just to be sure. 

so, off i went to fred meyer! well i'm trying to be as discrete as possible, because hello how awkward to run into someone you know during a time like this! (or maybe that's just awkward for me??) anyway, i made it out of the store, test in bag, and i just so happen to run into branden's cousin. it was painfully obvious to me that i had a pregnancy test in my bag, so i said a quick hello and got. the. heck. outta. there. 

on my way home i stopped and got mcdonald's breakfast, because if your awake before 10:30am you best be taking advantage of that! 

when i got home, mcdonald's in one hand and pee stick in the other, i ran to the bathroom to do the dang thing. 

turns out i didn't have to pee. (tmi? ha!) well i managed to get a few drops out and then i waited.... 2 minutes passed and i decided to check. this is what i saw---

aka nothing. as in, no positive sign, no negative sign, notta! 

i either got a dud, or my lack of pee wasn't sufficient. 

either way there was nothing on the test. 

even though i bought a package with 2 tests in it, i was kinda over it and decided i would wait and try again later that day or the next morning. 

my sister, her husband, and their one month old baby were in town visiting so i went and spent the day hanging out with them. i went home around 3pm to take a nap and decided to take the 2nd test.

once again, i went to the bathroom and did the deed, waited 2 minutes and then looked. 

this time it looked very different!

i'm pretty sure the first thing i said was
"oh my hell" 

even though i was beginning to think it was actually a possibility 

it still came as a shock to see a plus sign.

i wasn't very smart and decided to take the test when branden wasn't home. 

i didn't want to call and tell him over the phone so i had to wait for over an hour with this HUGE secret just waiting for him to get home so i could spill!! 

finally when he got home i was sitting on the couch waiting for him.

he already knew something was up because i had called him a few times and was rushing him to come home. 

plus i couldn't keep a straight face. 

he asked me if i had taken the other test, so i handed it to him....

he kept saying "so what does this mean" and i kept saying

"read it! what does it say?!" duh. 

he had the biggest nervous smile on his face. 

i think he was freaked. it was great. 

we decided not to tell anyone for a few weeks until we went to the doctor and were a little farther along. but with news that big we decided we could each tell one friend. 

i told jessica and branden told travis. 

and then silence for a few more weeks.....

coming december 2013 :)

we are very excited!

check back for updates!!