Seasons are Changing...and so am I

Well Christmas is over and I hope you girls had a wonderful holiday! I spent this holiday with my family and it was nice. I watched my niece and nephew open presents Christmas morning and they had a blast. I got a few things...food saver, ice cream maker, tea kettle...which I wasn't expecting at all! But I was very pleased. But the best present of all was a call from my baby Christmas morning :) We got to talk for about 30 minutes so that made my day! I miss my love so very much. But we are focusing on him coming home and at the same time little Zoey's arrival in May. I know God will keep him safe until then :)


I have settled into my apartment as much as I am going to. Most everything is unpacked...everything I want unpacked that is. I have definitely discovered while unpacking everything that Jake and I have a lot of stuff! Too much stuff for a 2 bedroom apartment that's for sure. Right now Zoey's room is pretty full of boxes so I have to figure out what I am going to do with the rest of our things so she will have a place to sleep lol! Oh well I will figure something out. I can't wait to start buying things for her room! The anticipation is killing me!


So I am now 21 weeks and my baby bump keeps getting bigger and I love it! And when she moves around and kicks me it is such an awesome feeling! I am definitely loving 2nd trimester! It is so cool to realize I have a little person growing in my belly. It also helps me to realize I have a part of Jake with me always so when I'm feeling sad and I'm missing him I just rub my belly and it makes me smile :)

So this is my baby bump at 20 weeks and it's amazing how much it's grown! Also hard to believe I am halfway through my pregnancy...gosh how time flies! I will be starting birthing classes in about a month so that should be fun. This baby is such a wonderful gift from God and I thank Him every day for blessing me with Jake and this baby :)

Here is the recent outfit that I bought Zoey...she's so gonna be a little cowgirl lol!

Sweet lil things...

So Jake and I were in Temple last weekend looking around at Academy and we happened to walk by these adorable little camoflauge shoes! Now we don't know if we're having a boy or a girl yet but we HAD to get them because they were so darn cute...and as Jake says camoflauge. He told me it didn't matter if we were having a little Zoey or a little Hunter because regardless our little boy or girl will be chillin in these cute little boots!

We have an appointment Dec 11 to find out the gender..how exciting! I had such a time at Darnell yesterday. Since Jake will be leaving around Dec 15 I wanted to get an ultrasound in before he left so he could see our baby and know whether it was a boy or girl. Well the appointment maker guy was really rude to me and confusing me so bad that I started crying because he just wasn't understanding what I needed and he wasn't helping me at all. Well Jake HATES it when I'm upset so he's trying to figure out what's going on and then like 3 nurses saw me upset and were trying to calm me down...ok so I wasn't crying that bad. But they were all so nice to me and helped me so much! Eventually we got it all straightened out and luckily got an ultrasound scheduled like 3 days before Jake leaves so I was really happy when I left. AND we got to hear the heartbeat and it sounded so cool!! The dr said it sounded really healthy so that put my mind at ease seeing as we couldn't see the baby on ultrasound just got to hear the heart. At least I have one picture for now :)

Growing belly

Well this is me at 14 1/2 weeks! My regular clothes are starting to get pretty tight so I either have to walk around with my pants unzipped or buy bigger pants. I just don't know what I'm gonna do lol. I'm just not ready to buy bigger pants darnit! Not that I don't enjoy seeing my belly grow because I do, but bigger pants...just not too sure how I feel about that. Oh well I think I have at leat another couple of weeks to make my decision so I won't stress out over bigger pants just yet.

My nausea has gone away, for the most part. There have been a few days here and there (i.e.yesterday) where I've wanted to just throw up to get the nausea over with. It's been really nice to be able to eat things again. For about a month I couldn't eat much because I wanted to barf at the thought of putting certain things (many things) in my mouth. These days I have a love for chesse tator tots from Sonic...mmm yummy! Oh and Dr. Peppers which I limit those to 2-3 a month. So in place of Dr. Pepper I have turned to strawberry limeaides for comfort. Lol.
Another wonderful thing I have found myself indulging in are chocolate covered cherries...holy yummy!! Those things have captured a tiny spot in my heart. But if I'm not careful I'll find myself sitting and eating like 5 or even more!

Ok so I've been reading in my pregnancy books to keep myself up to date on things and they tell me that by now...during the 2nd trimester...the need to urinate frequently is suppose to calm down, but that has not been the case for me. I have to get up at least 3 times during the night to go pee! It's so irritating lol. I know I just now started the 2nd trimester but it's suppose to be getting better not worse. So all in all I'm ready to stop peeing every 30 minutes lol.

My first peak...

This was the first ultrasound at 11 weeks. As you see the baby was lying on it's belly so I only got to see the side view. I didn't get to see it for very long but I got to see the heartbeat and see it moving around so that was enough for me for the time being. It was so stinkin cool to actually see my baby inside of my belly! Pretty much the coolest thing I've ever seen. Jake didn't get to be there for it because he was at WLC but hopefully we'll get another peak in a couple of weeks and he'll get to see it then.

Army Doctor Aggrevation...

Ok so I went to see my regular dr on Oct 1 to confirm my pregnancy. At that point I was already 8 weeks along. He then referred me to a certain dr at Metroplex which is a non-post hospital and is what I preferred. My dr told me they would be contacting me within 3-4 days to set up my OBGYN appt. I was thinking ok surely I'll get in soon. Well someone calls me about a week later and schedules me for my first appt on Oct31. Yeah that's right, a whole month later. A few days later, upon talking with a friend of mine, she told me my first visit I'll only be filling out paperwork..that's it. So on my 12 1/2 week visit I'll be filling out paperwork instead of hearing my baby's heartbeat and seeing that everything is ok! Unbelievable! Then at that appt they will schedule me for my actual physical where I can find out everything is progressing normally and see and hear my baby's heartbeat...I'll be at least 14 weeks at that point, if I'm lucky to get in in two weeks. I am so frustrated about this. I mean seriously, I had to wait one month to fill out paperwork...how ridiculous is that!! Oh and come to find out I was referred to the wrong dr. My appt is at Darnell-the hospital on post-not Metroplex which is where I wanted to go.
I just feel like there is no sense of urgency and I definitely don't feel taken care of by the Army at this point. I'm being caused undue stress that my baby doesn't need. I am trying really hard to not stress out and to not let it bother me too much. But I am very disappointed in how Army spouses are treated sometimes.

Necessities...

So I'm pregnant for the first time in my 29 years of life, therefore I had no idea what to expect. In my 10 1/2 weeks of pregnancy I have come to realize that these wonderful items have been a must in my life and always at the top of my grocery list:

Prenatal vitamins for baby and me to stay healthy; apple juice for morning time when my tummy is feeling quite queezy; saltine crackers and sprite are wonderful together in the middle of the afternoon to, again, fight nausea; tummy butter to keep nasty stretch marks off of my growing belly; and last but not least whole dill pickles that I've had a craving for from the very beginning. Ahhh pregnancy necessities!

My life as I see it...

Jake went to WLC this morning. He'll be away from me for 2 whole weeks..sigh. I'm gonna be sooo bored the next 2 weeks. He just got back from a month in California for NTC..that was a long month let me tell ya! All this seperation time sucks. But I suppose it gets me prepared for when he deploys to Iraq in Dec. Ultimately this is the life I chose and I honestly wouldn't change it for anything.