April 2, 2013 6W6D

Better late then never. :) We vow to start doing better, and I'll start wearing make up.

April 1, 2013 6W5D

I've been slacking! Lots to catch up! I'll start with our Easter reveal. We are currently living with my in laws while we start to build our new place. I bet we are about to live here a lot longer with our addition, but that's just fine. They have a finished basement that's bigger then our old house and it is on the lake. We decided to reveal to them on Easter because honestly they were getting suspicious. :) My mother in law was wondering why I hadn't received my Ovidrel shot this month. We got an Easter basket from Walmart and filled it with pink and blue peeps, pink and blue candy, and I put a prized egg in it with a poem that I borrow from a girl on the bump and our latest ultrasound picture. We went upstairs for Sunday breakfast and I said the Easter Bunny left your basket downstairs! They opened the egg but neither one had their reading glasses on so we had to pause for a moment. Then the tears started flowing and we all hugged and laughed. My mother in law never even got to the ultrasound so we had to point it out to her. It was a great moment and my father in law kept saying how this was the best Easter and called my mother in law Granny the rest of the day.

So today we had another ultrasound at the REs and right away the heartbeat showed up. I was so relieved that I cried right there on the table. It was 130 beats per minute and that flutter on the screen was the most beautiful thing I've ever seen! I had a very small bleed that the ultrasound tech said wasn't a big deal, but it still worried me a little. They were releasing me to my OB, but then changed their minds at the last minute and want me to come in one more time in 7 - 10 days. Trace is so excited and videoed the heartbeat, but it is really hard to hear. All in all it was another great day!

The last two pictures are a conversation with Trace and a picture of his recent searches on his phone. He is going to be an awesome daddy!

March 22, 2013 5W2D

First Ultrasound Day! I couldn't sleep last night and one time when I woke up at 2 Trace asked me if I was getting in the shower because he thought it was time to get up. We ended up leaving super early and got to our appointment 45 minutes early. Well I settled in for the 45 minute wait till our appointment time and Trace went to fix himself some coffee (why do they have a Keurig in the waiting room with no decaf when they insist that you cut caffeine???). Anyways Trace is still preparing his coffee and they call us back! I was like c'mon hurry! I'm thankful we didn't have to wait because the five minutes I sat waiting on the US table I almost made myself throw up I got so nervous. The regular tech came in and the first thing she said is why'd they have you come in so early? I was like no idea, and she asked if I had spotting or cramping and I was like nope. She went who knows and told me not to expect to much because it is super early.

She didn't have the wand in there two seconds and she said there is the sac! I asked her if it was in the right place and she said its in the uterus! i asked if it was on the left and she said no its dead in center but that the twinges and cramps on the left were probably my corpus luteum. When she turned the screen towards us and started pointing out the sac and yolk I thought Trace was going to push me out of the way so he could see better. He was across that room so fast and all asking questions. It was great. She said she wanted us back in 7-10 days and the longer we could wait the more we could see when we came back. We settled for 9 days so we will be heading back April first. I can't wait!

When we left our appointment we headed to the Marietta Diner where I got the million dollar cheesecake and Trace got the chocolate suicide in celebration.

March 18, 2013 4W5D

We had a pretty good weekend in Savannah. Trace finally came up with an idea for our weekly bump picture and I love it! We are going to try and take pictures every week outside in different beautiful or meaningful places. For our Anniversary week in August we are going to go to where he proposed. Some other places could be this gorgeous overlook in our town, at our land, and where ever else we can come up with. He doodle his first number and I think it's really cute. I may document on the next page symptoms and such.

On our drive home, about 30 minutes from home, we were crossing a bridge and a car heading in the opposite direction hit our mirror and sent it flying through Trace's window. It was so loud and we had glass everywhere! Poor Trace's face was bleeding and I had a few minor cuts. Of course the other car didn't stop. The state patrol was kind of an ass to us, but we are just both thankful we are ok. Now for all the fun insurance run around. Ugh....

March 13, 2013 14DPIUI

Well if y'all haven't figured it out yet my husband is not your average male. When we planned our wedding he had way to many opinions. Drove my mother in law and I crazy! Yesterday on the 5 minute trip from our house to our land he was full of useless but hilarious information.

Trace's Rules for a Healthy Pregnancy:

1. No Hot Sauce. "It can't be good for the fetus"
2. I have to ride in the back seat or I have to turn the airbag off to sit in the front. He hasn't figured out how I'm going to accomplish this if I have to drive myself....

I'm sure this list is going to break 100 before we know it. Then we were talking about Nurse Helen that has drove me nutty the past few days, and Trace was trying to describe to me which nurse she was. According to him she is "the old grumpy black lady that always takes him back to rub one out". He then went on to say that it was hard to get excited when she was the last thing he saw. We decided that our clinic should hire a hot blonde in a sexy nurse uniform to take the guys back for their specimen and that she should drop the specimen cup and then bend over all super sexy to retrieve it. That clinic would make millions! I bet the success rates would soar too!

Well today I am officially late! I have my 2nd beta this afternoon and I'm hoping that 60 doubles! I'm still taking test because I'm crazy, and I'm still temping but I think I'm going to force myself to stop because my temps stress me out. Oh yeah! My Pygmy goat is pregnant too!