Labor Day Weekend

For the long weekend we went up north to my parent's house.  The weather felt so good!  While up there we went nursery furniture shopping at Ikea and spent lots of time with family and friends.  It was fun to see a lot of people.  On Monday we had a BBQ with my family and I made sure to snap a picture with my sister, Noelle.  She is pregnant too.  She is having a boy.  Here we are:

Belly shot!  Noelle: 20 weeks, Me: 18 weeks

I feel like the last couple of weeks my belly has really popped out.  On Friday I am having another ultrasound and will know for sure if we are having a girl.  I hope so, otherwise I will have a lot of returning to do!

Such a great weekend!  Now back to normal life.  

Back to School

Everyone has been asking me how my job is going, so I thought I'd do a little blog update.  I started working a week and a half ago and I have to say, I was absolutely exhausted after the first day!  My body went from laying on the couch most of the day to spending the day walking all over a school (somehow the classroom I'm in just happens to be on opposite ends of the school from the special ed. room).  I came home thinking... "what am I doing???!"  But since then it has gotten a lot better.  I'm still tired every day, but I like that it gets me out of the house and I'm starting to tell myself the walking all over the school is good exercise!  I am working with the same kids I had last year, so instead of being in kindergarten we have all moved up to first grade.  The adjustment from kindergarten to first grade is difficult because these kids aren't used to staying all day long.  By the end of the day they are so tired.  But we're working through it!

I'm also happy to report I am over the morning sickness phase.  Yay!!!  I haven't thrown up in a few weeks and the nausea is gone (for the most part).  I started feeling better about 2 days before school started.  Seriously an answer to my prayers.  I knew If I was sick there'd be no way I could work.  But now I feel good, just tired.  Some foods are starting to sound better and I had my first real pregnancy craving this week.  I woke up from a nap and all I could think about was a Digiorno stuffed crust pizza!  Something I have not had in years.  I just kept imagining the stuffed crust and it's the only thing that sounded good.  So Dan and I ran to the store to get some.  It did satisfy my craving, but tasted way better in my head.

And lastly, a little story from work...  so I was walking a boy back to class and he said to me "Miss Michele, I think you got taller over the summer!"  and I said "oh yeah?  What about fatter?"  he replied "nope, you still look skinny to me!"  Then I proceeded to tell him I was pregnant and that in a few months I might not look so skinny.  However, I don't feel skinny anymore, but everyone keeps telling me I don't even look pregnant yet.  I definitely have more of a belly than I've ever had in my life though!  But I'm fine with being small, otherwise I can't imagine how I'd be by 9 months.

4 Years!

4 years ago today I married my best friend.  I love him even more now than I did back then.  He is such a great husband and I know he will be a great father too.  I was thinking and we have done a lot in the past 4 years...

• I finished college.
• We have each had 2 different jobs (post college).
• We have moved 5 times (and hopefully won't again for a very long time).
• Dan started his own company.
• We have found a place to live where we are both happy (we weren't sure that would happen... i like Utah, he hates snow... haha... very few choices there!).  
• We bought a condo and built a house.
• We've gone to Disneyland twice.
• And my favorite... we're expecting our first baby girl!

It has been a great 4 years and I'm looking forward to many, many more!  My sister in law tells her kids on their anniversary that it's their family's birthday.  I'm definitely stealing that from her (thanks, Katie!)... so... Happy 4th Birthday to our family!!!  I love you, Dan!!!  

It's a...

GIRL!!!!!!!  At least we're 90% sure...  baby was being modest and made it hard to tell!  She was kind of laying weird and crossing her legs so the ultrasound tech had to look around for quite a while.  She was trying to get the baby to move.  Anyway... she finally told us she was pretty sure it's a girl.  We both have felt like it was a girl, so we're going with that!  I can't wait to go shopping... the doctor told me to save my receipts just in case.  We're having another ultrasound in a month where we will hopefully know 100% if it's a baby girl.  Anyway we are super excited!!!

Random pictures

I finally have a few things to post about.  I haven't had much to say because we really don't get out much, which I am totally fine with.  I'd rather lay on the couch and watch the Olympics anyway.  Because I'm just so tired!  Whenever pregnant ladies told me how tired they were I never understood how incredibly tired that really is.  It's like I could just nap all day long and still go to bed early and sleep through the night.  Making a baby is hard work (I keep reminding Dan of this). Speaking of work... my job starts up again next week.  I'm excited to get back into a routine, but a little nervous.  Just crossing my fingers I'll survive!

Now for a few random photos I have snapped this summer of things I have actually done other than lay on the couch...  

At Nielsen's with Dan's family.  Can't have a visit without a trip to Nielsen's!

Double rainbow over Cafe Rio!  For a while St. George was rainy and I loved it.  Meant less than 100 degrees every day!

New washer and dryer!  I love them! We figured we should get a decent set because I'm sure I'll be doing more laundry once baby comes. 

At the fair with our niece.

Carnival games.  Dan loves them!  I just try to forget how much the carnies are cheating us.

The fair was really fun, but after walking around in 102 degree weather for a while I was ready to go home.  I had to get a huge snow cone at the end to survive.

And last bit of news... we find out Baby D's gender tomorrow!  We are super excited!  Except I keep worrying they won't be able to tell and they'll say... "sorry, come back next month!"  haha... hope that doesn't happen.  I'll be sure to update tomorrow!