seeing the light at the end of the 1st trimester tunnel

I'm still here.  I'm just barely starting to crawl out from the 1st trimester.

Quick question, how is it one goes an entire pregnancy without even knowing they're pregnant?

And how in the world is that number so high they can make a tv show out of it?

For the past few months I felt like someone had kept me up for weeks at a time, thrown me on the Tea Cup ride at Disney World 24/7 and then punched me in the chest repeatedly.

Anyone feel me on that?

I need to give a shout out to Kellogg's and General Mills for their nutritional efforts these past months.  If one says one cannot live on Honeycomb's then I beg to differ.  At one point when boy called from the store asking what I wanted I just requested the entire cereal aisle.  And he got pretty close.  I also have to thank Joel at Subway for giving me the hook up on Subway bread.  Not a sandwich just the loaf of bread.  I have craved Subway bread like no one's business and sadly, their not super quick to just sell you a loaf, but Joel has saved the day. 

And the pug's are still up to their usual craziness.  I told boy I think they've put on a few pregnancy pounds with me and sure enough they have.  With one too many dropped Lucky Charms and no walks their looking a little pudgy.  Also, I am beginning to worry about pug and his response to the baby coming.  I've been doing some googling on it, but wanted to see if y'all had any good recommendations for bringing a newborn home to a dog with boundary issues.  Love to hear your experiences.

And hopefully I can get a preggo picture up this week...13 weeks baby!

resolution 2013

For the past couple years instead of posting a resolution (that I stick to for a day), I've posted more of a fashion resolution I'm going to avoid for the year.  And not to toot my own horn, but I've keep them all.  I've had the bump-it ( the fear of it falling out was always too high), the toning sneakers (fear of me falling was also too high), and even last year's trend of the poncho I stayed clear of during it's short lived life. 

This year I'm kind of stumped and truth be told I don't feel like I'm in a position to be judging any fashion trends because this pregnancy has had me digging into the sweats drawer.  And  not just the classier sweats and yoga wear, but digging deeper and dusting off the high school/college year sweats.  So I'm really just a hot mess of faded collegiate wear and flannel drawstring pants sans the straw strings to them.

And if that doesn't ban me from the nearest Gap, boy's observation surely will.

"Um Baby, Um Um (the sounds of a man trying not make a preggo cry), babe you have a cheerio stuck to your butt."

And then I did cry.

Maybe my trend should just be avoiding sugared cereals on my behind.

on finding out

Happy New Year's everyone!   For us New Year's day = Football for boy and endless HGTV for me.  As I type this I feel a real need to move to Hawaii or better yet win the dream home this year.  A girl can dream.

Thank you all for your sweet comments and well wishes on the baby!  I am so terrible at keeping secrets that I struggled to blog during the month of December because every time I sat down to post all I wanted to do was tell y'all.  It was a long month.

It's so fun to sit back now and see God's hand in all this.  We get asked a lot, was it planned?  After 7 years of marriage yes it was very much planned.  We have prayed and longed for this baby and to be honest by October I was in pure frustration mode.  First part of October we had a contract on our house and we thought maybe once we finished building and moved in it would happen.  The type A in me needed a well organized plan and that one seemed to work.  So, we moved in November out to our rental.  I should mention again this rental was minutes from my parents in the cutest town, but not super close to boy's work.  He thought it'd be fun to live out here for the six months of construction and put up with the commute.  We hadn't started construction on the new house and about a week of being here I secretly started to love it.  I loved the small town feel, no traffic and hey it has a Chick-fil-a.  It was perfect.  I didn't make this known to boy because he was the one with the drive so I kept my mouth shut.  About a week later out of no where boy said "I really want to live here...I really want our kids growing up in a town like this" (we didn't know about the baby yet).  He knew I loved it, but we decided to pray about it for a week and go from there. 

Well during that week something felt off.  I was thinking it was just the move or everything smelled, but one morning while boy was out hunting on the land with my dad I decided to find out. 

And that positive sign couldn't have popped up any faster than it did.  I screamed so loud I scared the pugs.  The hard part was waiting for boy to come home in a few hours.  But thankfully he got home early and while I was trying to get him into the bathroom to see the test and record it, he informed me he felt we really needed to be in this town and so on the drive back he cancelled the contract.  I love the timing of this.  He finally figured out why I wasn't fussing over his news when he saw the test and I love that I was able to get it on my phone.  Completely priceless! 


We told my parent's later that day.  I was 5.5 weeks finding out and later that week I found a doctor in our new town that I adore and had our first sonogram and the best part...hearing the heartbeat!!  Amazing!

Bless you if you have read all this.  I wanted to catch you up on finding out and explain why I might be giving birth in a cardboard box come July because we haven't found a home.  It is so true that we plan and God laughs!

our christmas gift

 I'm a little late wishing y'all a Merry Christmas. 

 

Forgive me...I think I may have a good excuse though.

 First, the pug's and I have been anxious to share with you they got for Christmas. 

Yep...we're pregnant!!

We cannot wait for this sweet blessing to arrive this summer.  

The pug's on the other hand don't have a clue how rocked their world is going to be!!

all the stockings were hung by the chimney with care

Ugh I've been a terrible blogger.  I'd blame it on "FaLaLa Lifetime" or "It's a Wonderful Lifetime"; you'd think I'd have remembered which one for all the insane amount of Lifetime movies I have dvr'd this month.  But I'd probably blame it on the fact that I spend half my day telling a pug to get out of the fireplace.

He just lives in the fireplace.

It's so weird.

Forgive the crummy picture I snuck up on him and my phone was acting up.   We haven't even had a chance to use it and at this point I'm a little afraid to start it up, you know because pug isn't the brightest crayon in the box.  

Maybe he's waiting for Santa.

happy turkey day!

Thanksgiving completely snuck up on me this year with the move and add in the fact that it's been in the high 70's this week and everyone's walking around in shorts, well it just didn't seem possible we're ready to prepare a turkey feast already.  Our family has so much to be thankful for this year, with boy's health earlier this year to the house, that I could sit here all day and write a sappy list.  But I'll spare y'all.  Instead I'll share some of the forgotten "thanks" on my list to kick off the holiday!

1.  I'm thankful for not breaking anything when I tripped on some stairs in a home under construction.  That's what you get for snooping in a spec when the sun is going down.  Also, thankful no one saw me but boy.

2.  I'm thankful boy offered to take pug to the ranch overnight to hunt earlier this week.  Yes, please!  I'll back his bag.  Landry and I were able to enjoy the peace and quiet catching up on some Bravo recordings.

3.  I'm thankful for our neighbor that helped me chase down both escapee pug's and then carry one home for me.  Bless his heart.

4. I'm thankful for cable.  Although, I need to add in I am not thankful that our new provider, Att&t U-verse, doesn't carry the Hallmark channel.  What's up with that?  Do they not realize I live for Hallmark Christmas movies starring forgotten 80's child star actors and Golden Girl reruns? 

5.  I'm thankful that I have no idea if Christmas cards will get sent this year or that I haven't even made a dent in my Christmas shopping.  Actually it's I'm thankful that it's not keeping this type A girl up at night more than anything.  Ask me in 3 weeks, might be a whole other ballgame.

Happy Thanksgiving sweet friends!!

a pouting pug

Pug's in desperate need of a xanax and with all his wimpering so am I.  I was really nervous about moving pug from his home.  He's not a fan of change and as his eyesight has worsened his anxiety level has risen because he has a hard time seeing things in front of him.  Bless his heart, this pug mama is trying it all.  I think it may just take time.  Anyone have any experience with having a pet having a hard time with a move?  I don't have the heart to tell him we get to do this again in a few more months.

We had my parents take the pug's before the movers came, but pug was on us sensing something was up.  Then we didn't bring them to the rental until it was all set up.  Landry was a champ at the move.  He was phased for all of two minutes before he spotted his blanket on the sofa and then curled up and went to sleep.  All the while pug began his whimpering and pacing.  He loves being at my parents so I hope that helps.  In the meantime he's too ticked to even pose for me.  Goodness he is a drama pug!

On a totally random note has anyone had any problems with their iPhone camera freezing up when you try and take a picture?  I know very off topic, but someone could save me a call to apple.