[22] weeks!

Okay people, here it is, whenever I wasn't pregnant and I heard pregnant women say they felt fat and ugly I would get upset because I think pregnant women are so beautiful and have such a wonderful purpose, carrying and growing a precious life in their belly.. well now that I am pregnant.. I am flippin' trashin' that beautiful speech!!!!  I am so right along with those women!!! I understand that I have to gain weight right now because I'm two in one package, but man my face and my arms are getting chubby and I absolutely hate it. I honestly feel so insecure about taking my weekly pictures because I look so heavy. This post has taken me a little longer to post because I had a complete meltdown! I took the pictures on Monday and I thought I looked so fat that I marched myself down to my room flopped myself onto the bed and baaaaaaawled my eyes out of my head! Sam came to my rescue and hugged me and assured me that I was beautiful and carrying his beautiful baby and all that sweet stuff. Poor guy! He has probably had to deal with more random spurts of crying than he's ever imagined possible. Anyways I didn't use any of those pictures and didn't take another picture until last night, so here it is. I still really dont like it but you know what?! I am going to try to embrace my new-gained chubs and try to remember the beautiful speech my 'not yet pregnant' self made to those beautiful pregnant women!

Choosing to wear my bump PROUD!

How far along? 22 weeks

Total weight gain: at least 4 m&m McFlurry's worth....

Maternity clothes? YEP. Almost only maternity, I need to go shopping, those flowy shirts I was talking about last week... yeah.. not cuttin it.

Stretch Marks? on the girls and the thighs. :/ bummer dude.

Sleep: Ehh. My back hurts a lot and I find myself waking up a lot, I miss stomach sleeping!!!

Best moment this week: My mom got to feel Lilliana kick, that was pretty special!

Miss anything? Just being able to sleep on my stomach and paint my toes without cutting off my air supply.

Movement: She is starting to be really really active! She was moving and squirming all morning! It is really cool because this morning Sam was talking to her and as soon as he would talk she would start moving. She definitely knows her daddy's voice! 

Food cravings: m&m or oreo McFlurrys', Pizza, and fruit!

Anything making you queasy or sick: No Sir!

Gender: Still a girl, haha!

Labor Signs: Nope! Thank the Lord!

Symptoms: Just realllly tired. 

Belly Button in or out? Innie!!!!!!!

Happy or Moody most of the time: Happy happy camper! :) I don't think I have had any crabby outbursts this week buuuut you might get a different answer if you ask Sam ;)

Looking forward to: My BFF coming TOMORROW! :) Excited to plan this shower and celebrate her 22nd Birthday! :)

Until next time

<3 Me and L.G.

xoxo.

21 weeks

hello my fabulous friends and followers!! I hope you have had a wonderful week! I definitely have, though I am EXHAUSTED! Yesterday one of my BFF's and I got together and we made a huge dinner for my family, just for fun! it was great! We actually made the same dinner I made for Sam for his birthday except we tweaked the recipes a bit and it was wayyyy better last night! Anyways, since I post (or try to post) every week there really isn't a whole lot to talk about every single week so I am going to start posting a little update that I found on my favorite blog to copy (www.littlebabygarvin.blogspot.com) this mom had the cutest weekly blog updates! So here it goes!

How far along? 21 weeks

Total weight gain: 12+ lbs

Maternity clothes? yes, maternity pants, shirts (my fave maternity clothes from Old Navy) and I can still get away  with cute flowy/oversized shirts from any store!

Stretch Marks? YES.. on the girls.. :'(

Sleep: its been alright, my sides are getting annoying to sleep on my back, shoulders, and neck have been hurting a lot so its hard to get comfortable. Oh and I wake up about 5 times in the night to pee!

Best moment this week: Lilliana kicked or punched me with all of her tiny little strength! It was the most amazing thing I have ever felt!

Miss anything? Sleeping on my stomach and being able to bend over to pick up things that I drop. I drop everything these days too, so not cool.

Movement: Yes! Still cant feel her from the outside yet, but Sam says she is going to be a great soccer player! **update** **WE CAN FEEL HER FROM THE OUTSIDE!!! Sam felt her kicking tonight!!! :)**

Food cravings: Glazers Donuts from Kwik Trip are my constant, I also LOVE fruit! I have been going through grapefruit like crazy!

Anything making you queasy or sick: No way! I will eat almost anything!

Gender: Girl!

Labor Signs: No

Symptoms: Thankfully not really any, except I occasionally get a little plugged up, gotta pull out that Metamucil!

Belly Button in or out? in!

Happy or Moody most of the time: Pretty dang happy, though I do have my moments. I may have snapped at Sam for opening the oven door while my cheesecake was cooling (it got a huge crack in it,) but hey its just a cheesecake and I felt really bad after I had my moment.

Looking forward to: Next weekend!!! My BFF Nikki is coming down from the cities so we can celebrate her b-day and start talking baby shower! :)

Until next time, 

<3 Me & L.G.

xoxo.

18, 19 & 20 weeks. [[oopsies]]

hello my beautiful friends, I am so so sorry that I have been a little blog slacker. I got busy with Christmas and New Years and I didn't make the time to blog or even post the bump pics!!!! I'm horrible I know! Anywaysssss. My Christmas and New Years was fabulous and I hope that all of you had a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! For Christmas Eve the whole fam bam came over to my mamma's house to celebrate including my brother Nic (who currently lives in Phoenix,) my BFF Nikki and her boyfriend Joel! So we had a few guests of honor! :) Mom usually cooks a big ole' Christmas dinner but this year, since we sort of have a new family (my stepdad and my boyfriend and my unborn little pumpkin) we decided to start a new tradition and we got Chinese take-out! Hahaha it reminds me of the movie 'A Christmas Story' where the family goes and eats Chinese on Christmas because the neighbors dogs destroyed their Christmas turkey! The food was fabulous and it was such a fun new tradition! Then we all exchanged gifts and let me tell you I think Lilliana got more gifts than anyone, and she isn't even born yet! I can tell our little girl is going to be SPOILED just NOT rotten! :)

At Christmas I was 18 weeks pregnant and miss Lilliana started to move a TON by that week, what a fabulous Christmas gift! :) Feeling your baby move is the most incredible feeling and there is really no way to describe it besides to say that it just feels like strong flutters inside your belly, below your stomach!  By 18 weeks I really started showing!

18 weeks, we have a kicker!

Our New Years was really good too, the fabulous thing was that I got a 3 day weekend from work two weeks in a row, Christmas weekend, and New Years because Christmas Day and New Years Day both fell on a Tuesday! (My work is always closed Sundays and Mondays) So I had Sunday Monday and Tuesday off two weeks in a row!!!!! I loved having that extra time but man I sure kept busy and didn't get that much done! Well New Years Eve is kinda crazy in my world because not only is it a fabulous holiday but it is also Sam's birthday!!! So New Years Eve I cooked ALLLL day to make a special meal for my man! I made Penne Rosa with Parmesan Crusted Chicken, Garlic Breadsticks, and for dessert NY Cheesecake with the choice of Cherry or Strawberry topping.  It was SO delicious and I was very proud of myself! I also broke open the Sparkling grape juice in place of the champagne in celebration of the coming New Year! ;) I might have gained a few pounds over the holiday season, not sure if its the baby or how much food I ate, or maybe a combo of both! 

Sam's home-made birthday dinner! YAY ME!

sweet potato baby! :)

Okay so right now I am 20 weeks! I am at the halfway point in my pregnancy, 20 more weeks to go, give or take a couple! I went in for my 20 week Dr Appt. today. Unfortunately I had to switch Doctors because the Dr. I was seeing only comes in on Wednesdays and I can only go in on Mondays, so I had a new Dr today, but guess what?! I love her even more than my other Doctor, so its not really that unfortunate after all! :) Today Sam had to work so my Mom and my Stepdad came with me to my appt. We were expecting to do the 20 week ultrasound where you find out the gender and all that (which we already know thanks to Enlightened 4D Imaging!!!!) but my Stepdad really wanted to see the baby and the clinic needs to look at the baby to see if everything looks normal and healthy, aaaand I just wanted the clinic to confirm that we were for certain having a girl since the development between 16 and 20 weeks is astounding! (Each week is comparable to 1 year of growth, INCREDIBLE!) Sooo anyways thats what we were expecting, weeeeellll apparently the "anatomy ultrasound," as they call it at the clinic, is a huge deal and you have to schedule it as a separate appointment and its pretty solidly booked out. oopsies. My Dr told us not to hold our breath and that we would probably have to wait a couple weeks to get in, well guess what we should've held our breaths because there was an opening for later that day! So at 2:45pm we trekked back into the clinic to get our ultrasound! (My Stepdad, Tony, didn't end up getting to see the baby because he had to be back at work :/ but Mom and I made it up for round 2!) We got into the room and our ultrasound tech was a little rude (bummer) but it was still really cool to see baby again. At the beginning of the ultrasound the tech said she calls all the babies a 'he' while she's going through the ultrasound. Okay so at this point I'm psyching myself out a little bit because I'm like "What if its a boy?! We've already bought things for a girl! I would love a boy, but we already bought stuff for a girl!! Did I mention that we already have 2 boxes full of baby girl stuff?!!?" So meanwhile I am enjoying the ultrasound but am super nervous to get to the end so she could tell me I was having a girl. But we did get some awesome shots of baby and her profile and we even saw her open her mouth, I think she must have been swallowing. It was just incredible! The tech did confirm that baby is a GIRL, and I was relieved for the sake of my two bins FULL of girl stuff, my bump pics, and the beautiful name we have picked out, oh and also all the girl stuff we have... did I say that yet? ;) 

Lilly, with her mouth open!

my baby girl's beautiful profile!

Anyways, we are so excited for our precious girl Lilliana Grace to get here!!! HALFWAY THERE!!!!! :)

HALFWAY! YAHOO!

 

until next time

<3 Me & L.G.

xoxo.