So I put a poll on the side of my blog about what I'm having - I'm giving clear until the day we find out what we're having for you to vote!

After you vote, I would LOVE it if you would comment and tell me what you think I'm having! I love knowing what people think (and why, if you have a reason).

I'm voting for boy, mostly because of a couple of dreams I've had (see Baby Mama post for one of the dreams). Don't base your vote on me though! I could definitely be wrong (plus, Nate thinks we're having a girl, so who really knows!).

Details...

Well, I've made my happy announcement and I can FINALLY tell everyone what I haven't been able to talk about for a few months! Some of it may seem a little like complaining, but I'm definitely not - I'm just sharing what I've gone through with pregnancy these last few weeks, so some of you can relate and some of you can look forward to such fun-ness.

I think I got pretty lucky as far as morning sickness goes. From about week 6 to week 12 (and even occasionally now) I did/do feel nauseous. I haven't thrown up at all (for which I am VERY grateful), but I felt nauseous all the time. It was kind of like being car sick all day every day. Not very fun, but at least I kept everything down. I did lose a lot of weight because nothing sounded/tasted good. I ate Ramen a lot because for awhile that and Buffalo wings were the only things that sounded good.

Now that the nausea is mostly gone, I've started getting lots of headaches. Trade one for the other I guess.

Nate doesn't think I really was that much more tired than normal in my first trimester (at least he doesn't think I SLEPT more than normal), but I was definitely exhausted. There were about 3 or 4 weeks where I showered at night and just threw my hair in a frizzy, awful ponytail every morning because I was too tired to fix it. I straightened my hair a few days ago, so I must be doing better now. I am definitely less exhausted than I was for a few weeks. I must say, I'm glad that's over (though it was nice to always have an excuse to sleep A LOT).

I have no brain. My sister AJ used to talk about something called "Baby Brain" (I'm sure that's a real term). She also commonly said "Baby's eating my brain." I had NO IDEA how true that is! I can't remember anything! If I don't write something down, I will forget it in less than 5 minutes. In fact, when I went visiting teaching last month, I couldn't think of the words "Word of Wisdom." The poor girl I visit teach had to listen to me try to figure it out: "it's that thing in the Doctrine and Covenants that talks about what you should and shouldn't eat..." My sister-in-law Emilie says it never comes back either (that part of the brain my baby is eating). Oh joy.

Those have been the three biggest symptoms I've had. I really haven't been that moody (if anything I've been happier), except when I'm really tired or really hungry.

So there you go! I have my 18 week appointment early December and we find out what we're having December 22! When I scheduled the appointment the receptionist said a cute idea would be to bring a teddy bear to the ultrasound tech with a pink bow and a blue bow. Then when she finds out what the gender is, to tie that bow around the bear and put it in a box (without showing us), then wrap it and open it on Christmas! Cute idea, but I don't think I'll be able to wait. :)

Well, sorry if that was boring. My belly is starting to show in earnest (I can't button some of my pants very well anymore) so I'll have to take a picture in the next few days.

Tagged...

It seems like I only occasionally get tagged and usually just post whatever fun tagging things I see on other blogs because I feel like it. :) But I was actually tagged this time (sorry it took me so long Linds :D).

I'm sure most of you have seen this picture tag - the 4th picture from your 4th folder in your pictures folder. Since most of our pictures are still on Nate's laptop, I had him look and e-mail it to me.

The 4th folder on Nate's laptop is called "Alisa and Me" so any picture from that folder would have been of US. :) This was less than 2 weeks after we met - we went to play in the snow with a bunch of Nate's friends from Colorado and this is after we got back in the car. Cute huh?

Hmm...now I get to decide who to torture next...I TAG: AJ (when you get time), Shan, Em G. Em C., Alta and Mom (oh, I'm only supposed to tag 4? Oh well).

Still can't tell what I'm posting about? Hmm...I wonder about you. Here, maybe this will help.



A brief note on the following reaction: we really didn't think we would get pregnant when we did. I don't think he believed me at first. Just goes to show Heavenly Father does things in his own time, no matter how or what we plan.




I think I wanted him to jump up and down and start crying like I did. But it's probably better he didn't.

So this picture is for my mom (who has been begging for pictures of me pregnant)
This was me at 6 weeks - I'm actually 14 weeks now and due May 13th. Honestly, I don't look much different from that picture (I've actually lost 7 pounds from then til now). Baby's still hiding somewhere in there...

So I don't have pictures to post, but I'm bored at work (Fridays are usually pretty slow) so I thought I'd just post some SUPER randomness. I'll be amazed if anyone reads the whole thing. Oh, and I'm color coding each different thought.

I made the mistake of bringing Christmas music to work today. I had one of Amy Grant's Christmas songs stuck in my head this morning (don't ask me why), so I decided I wanted to listen to Christmas music.

Bad idea. Look, I'm one of those people who gets REALLY bugged by Christmas taking over HALLOWEEN and Thanksgiving. I'm okay with it slooowly coming in over the month of November, but I mean really slow. Not like, the second October starts, Christmas stuff starts filling the stores. That bugs. I like to be able to enjoy each holiday on it's own, so I want Thanksgiving to be it's own thing. But listening to Christmas music got me SO excited! It makes me want to put up my tree and drink egg nog (I think Nate might hate Egg Nog...sigh...).

Lots of you probably already know this about me, but I LOVE to clean. I know - you think I'm a weirdo. Lately, I've been busy with other stuff and haven't kept my house as clean as I'd like. In fact, I realized two weeks ago, I hadn't mopped my kitchen floor since like August.
That's disgusting. It felt SO GOOD to get that floor squeaky clean again! And I love those days when I get a TON accomplished - all the dishes washed and the kitchen clean, laundry done, clutter picked up, etc. Does anyone just LOVE the feeling of your hard work and the finally clean house?

I have a new favorite show.
I was blog surfing one day and saw someone talk about a show called Pushing Daisies. The way they described it made it sound SO funny! I decided to give it a try and now I love it. It's really clean (which is amazing for TV these days), super funny and a very creative idea. I've heard rumors that they're talking about canceling it (not enough sex for viewers apparently...grr). Watch the show so they don't cancel it! To learn more, go here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pushing_Daisies

I've read a couple of books lately that were COMPLETELY opposite books, which was fun. I read a book called The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler. At first, it kind of intrigued me - it was basically told in stream of consciousness I think. That's how it felt at least, but after awhile it just kind of bothered me that things would change really quickly. One sentence to the next would be totally different. Blah. While I'm glad I read the book, just for the sake of reading something new and different, I really didn't like the book in the end and HATED the ending. Also, apparently, it was made into a movie!

The other book I read was called Deception Point by Dan Brown (by the way, I Wikipedia'd Dan Brown - did you know he used to be a musician?).
If you've ever read a Dan Brown book, you know they are very grabbing; his books are very hard to put down. I really liked this one because I feel like I was better at solving what was going on than I was with Angels and Demons or The Da Vinci Code. I even guessed the bad guy WAY before he revealed it! Definitely action packed and totally unrealistic, so read it!


That's all. Thanks for reading my boredness. :)