the {GREAT} name :|REVEAL|:

Last week was a big week, we found out that our precious baby is a girl! This week, is just as important and exciting, we have chosen a name for our baby girl! Names are incredible things, they usually describe the person you are, many times your name is the very first thing somebody knows about you, maybe even before they meet you. I love names, I think they are beautiful and I was bound and determined to give my baby a beautiful unique name that they would love. Growing up, my friends and I always shared all the names we picked out that we wanted to name our children someday, I think I had some pretty silly names picked out over the years, but I remember how much I loved coming up with different names for boys and girls. But man, when I found out I was pregnant that was one of the first things we talked about, names. Naming a someday baby and naming your baby that is actually going to be born in a few months is so much different, so much more difficult especially when you have to come to an agreement on a name with your significant other! I had names that I loved but Sam didn't like them, and Sam had names that he loved and I didn't like them. We had a really hard time agreeing, especially on boys names. 

Like I said in my last post I had a feeling we were going to have a girl the whole time, my mom and Sam's mom had the same instinct. But even before we found out the gender of the baby something crazy happened. Sam and I were dog sitting for my Aunt and we were hanging out my phone buzzed like I got a text message and at the same time Sam came to me and said how about the name "Lilliana Grace" and I said that I loved it so much. Sam's mom's name is Lillian, and she is an amazing woman! I thought it was perfect! Well Sam went about doing his thing again (Remember how I said I got a text,) I checked my phone and I had gotten a text from my mom and it said "Lilliana Grace" I SWEAR ON MY ENTIRE LIFE PEOPLE THIS IS NOT A JOKE. I talked to both of them and neither of them had spoken to each other! They picked, out of the millions of names in the world, the exact first and middle name. I felt like it was fate. But, like I said this was before we knew the gender so if it was a boy we were just out of luck. We only agreed on one boy name, Noah. and I wasn't too super crazy about it. Not like I was Lilliana Grace, it was just too perfect. 

So when we found out on Thursday that the baby was a girl, I knew her name had to be Lilliana Grace. We still had to officially decide and I was already calling her Lilly and talking to her using that name, so Sam told me that I had to make it official. So here I am, making it official. Our beautiful daughter is going to be named Lilliana Grace Diaz, after her beautiful grandma Lillian. I could only pray that she would be just as wonderful, beautiful, kind, humble, and caring as her grandma. Sam and I agreed that it is the perfect name to describe our baby girl. So cheers, to choosing a name! 

Lilliana Grace Diaz

Giraffe necks! haha trying to reach over the board!

Love my little family <3

until next time

<3 Me & L.G.

xoxo.

sugar & spice {{16 weeks}}

Friends I am SO sorry that it has taken me a week to post! I have been extremely busy this past week and I honestly didn't feel like sitting down and blogging!!!! But now I am going to tell you all the story of finding out Baby D's gender!

So right when I found out I was pregnant my wonderful friend Jenna told me about this place in the cities called Enlightened 4D Imaging, its an AMAZING ultra sound clinic where they do fabulous 2D 3D 4D ultrasounds, you name it AAAAND they can tell you the gender of your baby at 16 weeks (at my Dr. you have to wait til you're 20 weeks!) and of course since I am impatient I could not wait and booked my appointment very very very far in advance!!!  (here's the link for those who are interested in the clinic, http://www.enlightened4dimaging.com/)

Our appointment was last Thursday morning, the night before Sammy flew in from Puerto Rico (where he was visiting his beautiful family,) so me and mom and Sam stayed in the cities that night and my best friend Nikki met us at the hotel the next morning so we could all go to the ultrasound! The morning felt like it just dragged on, I could not wait to get to the clinic and find out what we were having! We finally got to the clinic which was literally .5 miles from our hotel, it took all of 2 minutes to get there, and needless to say we were SUPER early! Let me just take a second to give a shout out to this clinic, seriously, the BEST customer service I have ever had. They gave Sam and I a diaper bag, a cooler to keep milk cold, 2 containers of formula, a bunch of formula in bottles, a bottle, a bunch of coupons and more that I cant even think of right now. The receptionist, Bonnie, was so sweet and welcoming, and our Ultrasound tech was fabulous. He knew what he was talking about, he was hilarious and he made everyone feel really comfortable. I love this place and I will definitely go back!!!

Anyways, when we got there Nikki took little video clips of everyone talking to the baby and saying what our gender predictions were. I am really excited to see those videos and I am really glad that we are doing little things during this pregnancy that we can look back on and smile and have something to show for it. The ultra sound tech got there and led us back to the room. It was a huge room with couches and a big projection screen that we would see the ultrasound on. Everyone got all situated, I got the blue goo on my belly and we began the ultrasound. Right away you could see baby up on the screen heart beating super strong, the tech was moving the wand all over my belly trying to get different shots of baby. Well, baby wasn't budging, and I'm thinking, OH GREAT the baby's gunna be stubborn again! After a couple of minutes of me flipping on my side and upside down and doing backflips.... (okay maybe not the last two...) he showed us how the baby was sitting in a pocket in my uterus (that sounds really weird and gross!) and she was all comfy and didn't want to move. Wellll then he gets up and asks me if I like chocolate and I'm like DUH! I'm pregnant and I am a woman of course I like chocolate! So he disappears and comes back with a Lindor Truffle. Within 1 minute the baby's heart rate went up and the baby started kicking and flipping and moved to the complete opposite side of my uterus! It was the most amazing thing I have ever experienced, he showed us all the fingers and toes and legs and arms and heart and spine and explained all these different facts to us. I couldn't look away from that screen, before my eyes was the most amazing little human being, moving and kicking and raising its arms, and this little human was mine, with my DNA inside it's little body. It was so SURREAL.

All cozy in the pocket!

The tech almost right off the bat had an idea of what the gender was, he kept saying that his prediction was very consistant with what he was seeing, and of course we were all dying to know!! Its so funny because before the ultrasound my mom thought the baby was going to be a girl and then she said she had a dream it was going to be a boy and then the whole ultra sound mom kept calling the baby a "he," I kept saying "OR SHE," I had a feeling the whole time that it was a girl. Finally the tech said, "okay guys, you want to know what you're having?!" and of course by this point my mom and Nikki are pretty much a foot from the screen eyes and video cameras glued to it! He went through showing us what we were looking at and talking about what these parts of the body were and what they were doing and then he said, "So that means, GIRL!" My jaw literally dropped, my mouth was wide open for 5 minutes, I was laughing and crying and these emotions just flooded over me of complete joy and peace.  I was having a baby girl, I knew it all along, but that very moment just confirmed everything. It was one of the most precious moments of my life.

Its a GIRL!

As soon as we got out of there all of us called about every person we could think of to tell them the news! Of course me, mom and Nikki were THRILLED because that meant fun girly baby clothes shopping!!!!! So after the ultra sound, thats exactly what we did, poor Sam..... He was so good though, what a guy, spending the day with.. now FOUR girls!! ;)

Well, this is a long post but thank you for sticking with me and reading, and motivating me to get this up before she is born! ;) haha! Love you all so much!

Baby "D" is a GIRL!

until next time 

<3 Me & Baby D.

xoxo.

Is Baby "D" a [[boy]] or {{girl}}?!

Hey guess what?!? I'm 15 weeks already people! That means 1 more week until we find out the baby's sex!! Next thursday I have the gender determination ultra sound and I can't even hardly wait one little bit! So last week my sweet boyfriend left for Puerto Rico to surprise his mamma! How sweet?! So I've been without him for a week, which is nothing compared to what we have done in the past. He is from Puerto Rico so we did long distance for a little over a year! He will be gone for one more week, so a total of 2 weeks we will be apart, and I really miss him! Plus I feel like my belly has grown a lot since I last saw him and I think it will be even bigger by the time he gets home! But he gets home the night before the ultra sound! What a wonderful way to bring in his home-coming!!

Since I update every week I feel like I don't have a whole super lot to talk about, but since we have our gender determination I feel like I should stay true to that subject. I'm sure you are all wondering if I want a boy or a girl, and the truth is, It honestly doesn't matter to me as long as my baby is healthy. Mine and Sam's Mom have a gut feeling its a girl, so I have gotten very used to that idea. Mom and I look at girl baby clothes and nurseries online, so I suppose I'm slightly leaning towards a girl because I want to dress her super cute! But I would love having a boy just as well (even though they definitely don't make as cute of boy clothes as they do girls!) My mom already bought the baby a hot pink ruffly diaper cover and a bunch of headbands that we are going to glue big huge bows and flowers on. So we will see, obviously my mom is certain! haha!

Lately I have been craving mexican food, and really anything spicy. The other night My BFF Tori and I went to a Mexican restaraunt and I ordered a chicken burrito with spicy green sauce and when it arrived I about had a heart attack by just looking at it, I promise you it was the size of my forearm! It was HUMUNGOUS and DELISH. I love flamin' hot cheetos, and I have a hankering for ramen noodles doused with sriracha sauce and lime juice. YUM. Oh and Mom and I have been baking so I've been eating lots of ginger snaps (I think we might have to make a triple batch this year!)

Like I said last week, I LOVE CHRISTMAS, and one of my favorite things to do is decorate the Christmas tree. Well We decorated the tree two weekends ago, and this year we had a stubborn tree, the branches were flimsy and you couldn't hang ornaments without the branch bowing, so it was really droopy. My stepdad so sweetly (God Bless his heart) picked out the Christmas lights this year and put them on the tree. But the lights he picked out were the huge bulbed bright LED lights that you need sunglasses on to look at them. Mom and I always pick out the mini soft colored lights that look so magical and twinkly, we tried to suck it up and adjust our feelings and eyes to the new lights. So we just continued to decorate the tree. The next day mom called me and told me to get ready because Tony (my stepdad) had class, and we were going to redecorate the tree with our lights because she hated the LED lights. So that night we went to home depot and got our lights, went to target and got tinsel, went home and took off all the ornaments and lights and completely redecorated the tree, the smaller lights seemed to help not weigh the branches down as much, but it was still hard to hang ornaments because of all the drooping branches, but we covered the tree in tinsel so you couldn't even tell. The tree looked BEAUTIFUL, you could actually look at it without going blind (before, it was like staring into the sun.....I may be slightly exaggerating.....) it twinkled and glimmered, and the tinsel absolutely made it! Finally we had a beautiful tree. Well the next day, I called mom when I got off of work, and she began to inform me that when she got home the tree was scattered all over the floor. It had fallen in the day and the trunk had a huge gouge and wouldn't stand back up in the base. It kept falling over. So my mom went out and got a brand new tree and we had to redecorate it all over again, for the THIRD time. Needless to say, my tree decorating tank has been filled 2 times over so I will be okay for a couple years.... So there it is, The Great Tree Disaster of 2012.

Well folks, I LOVE MY JOB SO MUCH! Lasata is amazing, I love every single person I work with and I feel so blessed to be there. I told my boss I was pregnant last week, and I was really scared about what she would say because I didn't want her to think I was trying to trick her, and I didn't want her to be mad for me not saying it right up front. And I was even more scared because every day I was finding out about a new pregnant person in the salon! I am the 4th pregnant person there, and we are all a month apart. I for sure thought that I was in some deep trouble. Though I was extremely nervous I braved it and told my boss. She was SO good about it! Everyone has been so amazing and supportive, and welcoming and nobody has given me any trouble for being pregnant. I LOVE IT. I am being trained in nails right now so if you're in town stop in and I'll give you a fabulous mani pedi!

Anyways, I am really happy, so many good things are happening right now, and I cant wait to find out what gender our sweet baby is! So here is the belly pic this week to tie you over. My blog post next week (to announce the gender) will be on Thursday night the 13th or Friday night the 14th. So be looking out for that! :)

Is Baby Diaz a Boy or Girl?!

Until next time,

<3 Me and Baby D

xoxo

{14} WEEKS :)

HELLOOOOOOO FRIENDS!!!
I am so very proud to announce that I am officially in the SECOND trimester! :) No more nausea no more a teensy bit of fatigue, and thats really the only difference. Now I have new symptoms, and they aren't pretty! I'm always plugged up, if you know what I mean, aaaand I guess little peanut is sitting right on my bladder because if I sneeze or cough or exert to much body force, I pee just a little. What the heck is happening to my body!? I feel like an old grandma who needs to eat a thousand prunes and wear Depends. But despite all of this weirdo stuff thats happening to me I am so overjoyed that sooner than I think I will have my precious baby in my arms!

I started my new job at Lasata Salon and Spa on Monday, and it is amazing! I am so blessed! Absolutely everyone that I have met so far is so wonderful and friendly and I am so excited to meet all the girls and get to know each and every one of them! Today was my second day and let me tell you, I have a serious case of pregnancy brain. I don't know if any of you have heard of pregnancy brain, but the theory is that your brain turns to mush during pregnancy and is almost completely useless to you. I can never find ANYTHING, and I forget or mix up EVERYTHING. So needless to say, pregnancy makes you a total airhead. Well yesterday my wonderful boss wrote down a schedule for me for the next two weeks. I entered it all into the calendar on my phone, memorized my schedule, and kept the piece of paper in my purse just in case. Well last night I went to bed at 12:00 am because I didn't have to work until 11:00 am. Well I forgot to set my alarm clock and I got a call from my boyfriend at 10:00 am! THANK YOU LORD. It was a close call. So I got ready really quick because I wanted to be to work early, I got to work about 10:55 am and walked to the back to meet with my boss. I put my coat away, Im feeling good, I'm early for work, I say hello to my boss, and she says "Oh you're here! I had you down to work at 10 this morning, but maybe I told you 11." My heart sank PLUMMETED into my stomach. I said, "Yeah, I think you told me 11!" (I pulled out the piece of paper with the schedule that was in my purse...... it said 10:00 am) UGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! I felt so bad and I apologized a million times, but everyone ended up just laughing about it, (thank goodness for me!) So what happened is that I got today (Tuesday) and Wednesday's schedules all flipped around! So tomorrow I'm going in an hour early to make up for lost time! ;)

Well, Mom and I are getting ready for Christmas! Oh my word Christmas is my most favorite holiday! I love everything about it, the movies, the music, the treats, the joy, the spirituality, and the magic of it all. Oh and I love to drag it out as long as possible, so even before the thanksgiving turkey is set on the table, mom and I already have half the house decorated! (I may be exaggerating just a tad.) But over the next few weeks mom and I are going to be doing a TON of Christmas baking! I will be attending a Christmas concert with "the girls" (my Mom, my Aunt Robin, and my BFF Nikki.) We do an annual girls baking weekend, where we buy matching pajamas and bake Christmas goodies until our fingers bleed green and red.

I don't think I can think of anything else new going on with us, Sammy is doing really well, I am doing really well, and baby is doing really well! No new cravings this week besides the fact that I want Christmas dinner already. but HEY in just 16 days we get to find out the gender of baby Diaz! I CANNOT WAIT! Anyways, here is the 14 week pic! Have a blessed week everyone! I hope your Thanksgiving last week was fabulous, I know mine was (I ate so much, and it was SO good.)  Oh and p.s. I have a VISIBLE bump now!!!!!!! yay!

14 weeks, we have a lemon baby!!!!

Until next time

<3 Me and Baby D

xoxo.

13 Weeks!

Oh my word! 13 weeks! This post wont be as exciting as normal because nothing that spectacular happened besides BREAKING DAWN PART 2 COMING OUT!!!!! :)

My BFF Nikki and I went to BDP2 on Friday evening, it was so good, and when it was over I bawled like a baby, I literally hid my face into my purse trying to muffle my hysterical cries, I kept saying crying "It's over!" Then I went to the movie again the next day with my wonderful man, and of course cried again. I seriously want to cry just thinking about it now, those closing credits were beautiful!!! (WHO AM I?! I've turned into such a sap!) Needless to say I loved the book series, I loved the movies, and I'm just devastated that "its over!" waaaahhhh! ;) oh pregnancy does wonderful things to your hormone levels!

This week I was super duper craving gyros from (drumroll please) the ever fabulous, Nupa! You're not supposed to have lamb and veal and all those baby immature animal meats (it sounds better when I say it like that.) But I asked my doctor and she said that I could give into my desire, as long as it was in moderation! So yesterday I went to Nupa with my other BFF Tori and stuffed myself (with what room I have left in my abdominal cavity) with a delish Gyro and some Lemon Chicken and Rice soup! YUM-O! Other than that I still just want pasta all the time, and fresh fruit and veggies! Nothing else is really floatin my boat! But I did have some egg drop soup today for lunch and it was AMAZING. Seriously I could've eaten 3 cups of it, it was such an unexpected tasty surprise!

Okay so before I forget I have to tell you all the story of how I told my 5 and 6 year old brother and sister that they were going to have a niece or nephew! So I took Hanora (6) and Jack (5) trick or treating on Halloween. We were all dressed up.... well they were dressed up and I just wore odds and ends pieces of Jack's costume. Jack was a pirate (who got mistaken for a pilgrim at almost every house because he refused to wear the hat, eyepatch, clip on earring, and wouldn't carry the sword! What 5 year old BOY wouldnt want to carry a sword?!) and Hanora was a "she" devil (she picked out the costume solely based on the wand that came with.) As you might already have caught on, my brother and sister are two funny little kids! So after we got done trick or treating we went back to my house and  they counted their candy and sorted it out into groups and all that stuff that kids do when they are looking over their treasured items of the night. I figured, this would be a good time to tell the kids about the baby! So we were sitting down and I said, "hey guys guess what?" it took me about 5 minutes to steal their Hanora's attention from the candy and 'It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown.' (I couldn't manage to capture Jack's attention.) So I said to Hanora, "You're going to be an auntie!!" and she was just kinda confused, so I explained that I was going to have a baby and she was going to be the baby's auntie just like how she has an auntie and blah blah blah. She got wide eyed and a big smile peeled across her face, she said "I'm going to hold the baby all the time! I'm going to be an auntie even though I'm still little!" She was thrilled, I was happy, I'm thinking to myself, "This is going great! Now I'm going to tell Jack!!" So finally, when Jack was all done counting his 80 pieces of candy, I began to break the news to him, I said, "Hey Jack, I'm having a baby, and you are going to be an uncle, like your uncle Tim." He just looked away and had a really bummed out look on his face, then he looked back at me and said, "But I don't want to have a beard." OH MY GOSH PEOPLE! I could not stop laughing. Okay so when I said he was going to "be like Uncle Tim" he thought I meant that he was literally going to be like him, a grown adult with a beard. I suppose I should be a little more clear when talking to a 5 year old. Anyways I thought that was hilarious, my brother and sister are amazing and I would be the luckiest mom in the world to be blessed with a child as wonderful, brilliant, hilarious, and beautiful as they are.

Halloween Fun!!! Just before trick or treating! 

Speaking of Holidays, Thanksgiving is this Thursday and let me tell you my mother goes to town on all the food she makes. It is my favorite meal of the year and I cant wait to stuff myself like a Thanksgiving turkey! Also, let us me not forget the spirit of the most important thing, Thankfulness. I am thankful for so many things this year, my family, my friends, my amazing boyfriend, our baby, the wonderful support we have from everyone, a working car, good health, the wonderful country we live in, and..... my new job at Lasata Salon and Spa! YAHOO! I just went in for my second interview today and they hired me right before I left! Not sure when I start yet, they've got to make a schedule for me and I have to go in and sign some papers and la-de-da, but anyways, I have a ton to be thankful for.

So I will wrap this puppy up with my 13 week bump picture. This week the baby is the size of a peach! Oh yum! Seriously who thought of comparing your unborn child to food?! We are pregnant women, not a fabulous idea to tell us that our baby is a peach or a plum or any other delicious treat! Im obviously food obsessed so just ignore me and look at my adorable chalkboard and baby bump!

The chalkboard, me and the conspicuous "bump" extra chub.

Until next week! 

<3 Me & Baby D.

xoxo.

SURPRISE!!!

Hey everybody! Friends, family, loved ones, today is the day that I tell you our exciting news! We are having a baby, and we will welcome our precious blessing into the world around May 26th, 2013. I have been keeping this blog for a few weeks now, so go right ahead and look at the past posts, those kinda walk you through the beginning weeks of the pregnancy! I am 12 weeks right now, and feeling great, like I said in my last post, I am no longer nauseas and that hasn't changed so I think we are in the clear! PTL! But I am very fatigued, always always always  TIRED. ugh! But as I get closer to that 2nd trimester that should subside.

Yesterday Sam and I went to our 12 week Doctor Appointment, at the appointment our amazing Doctor (we just love her!) just asked us if we had any questions and then she was like "Are you ready to look at baby?!" and of course I hopped up on the bed faster than anything. She prepped me for the ultrasound with the blue goo and she put the wand on my tummy and moved it around and we saw our baby, and he/she actually looked like a real baby, no longer a little blob! It was amazing, I could feel tears welling up and then i just laughed, I was so incredibly happy. The baby's heartbeat was going strong, 158 bpm. He/she had her arms crossed and his/her little hands covering it's face. I think the baby must have been really comfortable or sleeping or something because he/she was being REAAAAAL stubborn. Our Dr. kept putting pressure on the baby but nope, Baby D. wasn't havin it, the baby just threw up his/her arm as to say, "talk to the hand!" Sammy and I were joking with the Doctor saying, "oh man she's already giving us trouble, we have a stubborn one!" So we just got one picture out of the session and its not one of those sweet profile views like every other person gets, oh no, its a view of the baby looking straight ahead, like he/she is looking straight at you. Its so funny because it just looks like the baby is making a funny face or something, because its so hard to make out the facial features.

Baby is laying sideways head is that first little blob
belly is the second blob (same size as head) and that little
white line attached to the belly is one of the arms!

Even though I would have loved an adorable picture, what is important is that the baby is healthy, the heart is beating at a normal rate, and all of my stats are normal. So I thank God for that! Well I don't really have any new cravings or anything since last week. Still really loving pasta, pasta of any kind! I cant think of any other new things going on, so I guess I will bring this one to a close with one of the chalkboard pictures that I promised!!! There is a tiny bump!!!

Until next week!!

<3 Me and Baby D.

XOXO

11 week update.. a little late.. ;)

Ok. So I know I promised I would start doing the belly pictures this past week, but I was supposed to have somebody take them and they never showed up so, and I am now in the 12th week, so there is no point in taking an 11 week picture. BUT, I did get the chalkboard done, and I do have a picture!!

My finished Chalkboard!

I absolutely promise that this week I will have belly pictures with the chalkboard! Although my belly is not huge, there is definitely a little bump there! I am anxious for when it looks more rounded and pregnant instead of just looking like a fatty pooch! 

Well I can tell you that This pregnancy has made me so hormonal! I cry about EVERYTHING and I can get a little cranky, my amazing sweet man can attest to that (he is wonderful by the way, I don't know how he puts up with me!) But I cry during movies, commercials, just little things that I think of, songs, I cry over food, just about everything! But the good part is that I'm getting closer and closer to the 2nd Trimester and I can tell you I'm already starting to feel a change! I am hardly ever nauseas, and I mean I haven't felt sick AT ALL for the past few days! I also have been craving wonderful delicious foods and after I eat them I can still eat them again. In fact I have eaten Fettuccine Alfredo and breadsticks from Fazoli's for the past 3 days in a row (i have leftovers that I'm going to eat today, so make that 4 days in a row!)

   

   Fettuccine Alfredo

Can't forget the BREADSTICKS!!!

Cravings

Fettuccine Alfredo w/ Breadsticks from Fazoli's 

Canadian Bacon and Pineapple w/ Garlic Crust from Domino's

Mama Cozi's Supreme Pizza (thick crust) from the freezer section at Aldi's

Celery and Baby Carrots w/ Jimmy's Veggie Dip

This week is an exciting one, for me and the pregnancy! Today I am going to get my haircut and brows waxed (UM HELLO HAIR GROWTH!!!!!) the pregnancy has made my hair and nails grow like mad!  So anyways I need a little LOT of special attention because I have a Job Interview tomorrow!! :D YAYYYY!!! So thats exciting, and then on Wednesday we have our 12 week Dr. Appointment, so I am hoping for another ultra sound picture because on Thursday, Sammy and I are announcing the pregnancy to all of you who will be reading this!! I cant wait to tell everyone!

Well until then!

<3 Me and Baby D.

XOXO

Playing Catch Up!

Since I'm 10.5 weeks and started blogging just now, I started with 4 weeks and figured I would break if up so there wasn't one extremely long and boring post. I wanted to be that pregnant girl who had adorable belly pictures every single week (I'll post an example pic from this cute blog I came across) but I have been so tired nauseous and fatigued that I have had no energy to do it! I have a couple of mirror belly pictures from weeks 8 and 10, and starting week 11 I am going to commit to do some really cute belly pictures every week!

Example belly pic from
www.littlebabygarvin.blogspot.com

ooh ooh ooh! Another thing, i have a most favorite app on my phone right now, its the "What to Expect When You're Expecting" app. It tells you week by week the size of the baby and how much longer you have left! Its so cool, every week I send the update to my mom, Sammy and two best friends. Its so wonderful!

                

                          Raspberry Baby, 7 Weeks!

8 weeks, Green Olive baby!

             

                       9 weeks, prune baby,
                     and I could use some prunes.....

    Gettin so big!

The first trimester is something I have never imagined would be so not fun GRUELING. I am extremely tired all the time, I am nauseous but never to the point of throwing up (thank you Lord!) I thought that I would have cravings and want to eat everything all the time but no I have aversions. which are the complete opposite, I do not want to eat anything and I'm lucky if something sounds good enough for me stomach. Usually if I do have a craving I will eat it and afterward I never want to see that food ever again in my life!

Cravings so far:

Macaroni & Cheese:RULED OUT

Mr. Pizza, Cheese Pizza: RULED OUT

Chinese food:RULED OUT

White Cheddar Cheese Its: LOVE 'EM!

Candy of every kind: LOVE IT!

I really haven't had any other cravings, the only thing I like right now are those last two things! So needless to say I have lost some weight!

Well Sammy and I had our first Dr's appointment about a month ago I want to say, I honestly don't remember the date, but it was just an informative appointment where the nurse just asked us a zillion questions about our family health history. I was so so so hoping to be able to do an ultra sound but the nurse said it was way too early for the ultra sound machine to pick anything up. At the end of the appointment she gave us this big whopping book called the Mayo Clinic Guide to Pregnancy, which has been a total life saver for me, the extra nervous & curious woman!

Looking at my little blob baby!

Our second Dr. appointment was on October 17th, so I was just over 8 weeks, and we got to do the ultra sound! I was so so so so so so excited!!!! I was really nervous too, all I wanted to know was that our baby had a heartbeat. The Dr. put that cold blue jelly on my belly and tried looking for the baby and she was having a really hard time locating the baby. So we had to do the more invasive ultra sound... ughhh. I just focused my attention on the screen and seconds later there it was, a little blob with a fluttering heart beating so incredibly fast. All I could say was "Babe!! There it is! See, look at the heartbeat!" It was incredible, and to think that little blob was ours, it was so surreal and it still is!

  

Baby D's measurements!

Baby Diaz, 8 weeks!

So like I said I am 10.5 weeks so our next appointment is at 12 weeks, which is also 3 months, which also means I will be done with the first trimester! YAHOO! I cant wait!! ANOTHER exciting thing is that my friend told me about this 3D ultrasound that tells you the baby's gender at 16 weeks! So I booked that appointment too, so we will be finding out the gender on December 13th! Both mine and Sammy's mom have a feeling its going to be a girl, Sammy wants a boy, and at this point I would be so excited for either one! Im kinda leaning towards a girl just because me and mom have already been surfing the web for some adorable girl nurseries, clothing, and those huge flippin bows to plop on the baby's head! But whatever gender Baby Diaz is, he or she is certain to be showered with so much love!

Belly at 8 weeks!

10 week belly pic!

Until Next time!

<3 Me & Baby D.
xoxo.

Here is the kick-off!

Alrighty, kickin off my first blog, and excitingly enough it is following my very first pregnancy! I just thought it would be really cool to write down the different stages of my pregnancy not only for my friends and family to experience it with me, but so that I will be able to look back and remember all the wonderful and not so wonderful moments during this very special time. So right now I am 10.5 weeks pregnant and my due date is May 26th 2013 Not quite doing the whole sharing thing yet, so you will all see this blog at about my 12th week, but I just wanted to start documenting now! I just graduated from cosmetology school last week so right now I'm job searching, and by the time I have the baby I will have been at my job a good 6 or 7 months. So although the baby wasn't exactly planned, its all happening at the perfect time!

So I guess I will start off with the whole "finding out" part of this story. About 7 weeks ago, so when I was 3 weeks pregnant I was feeling extremely dizzy. I would be at school (and since I'm in Cosmetology I was standing all day) and I would feel like I was going to pass out, I was always light headed and that made me so nauseous. I had never ever felt like that before and it was happening every single day. So one night I was talking to Sammy and telling him how weird I felt and we typed all of the symptoms I was feeling into google, and we clicked on the first reliable link which pretty much said, you are probably pregnant. So we went and got a test and we went home and I took the test, while waiting it felt like hours an ETERNITY! I kept asking Sammy, "Has it been 3 minutes yet? Has it been 3 minutes yet!?!?" and he kept saying no, so after it had definitely been more than 3 minutes I took the first peek at the test and I saw one dark pink line and then after a couple seconds I noticed right there next to that bold line, a tiny faint pink 2nd line! I can not describe to you all the emotions I was feeling at that moment, I was shocked, scared, nervous, happy, joyous, scared, nervous, did I say shocked or nervous yet?! The first thing we did after that was just talk and freak out together and about 20 minutes later I took another test just to confirm and sure enough, it was positive. So I called my mom and my two best friends and told them all the news. They all took it so well, which of course I was nervous about, but everything turned out beautifully. Sammy and I are so lucky to have such amazing families and friends that love and support us through everything.  So from that first moment continuing to now Sammy and I have obviously gone through a roller coaster of emotions but we are so excited and so thankful for all of our support and of course our little baby in the making. :)

My positive tests!

My bloated belly at 4 weeks