Changes are a comin'

One clearly wasn't good enough...

So I thought four more should do the trick. 

Typically I'm not one for going overboard on anything... * cough cough* yeah right. So why wouldn't I have taken FIVE pregnancy tests?! Sweet Baby Nelson will be joining our family sometime in August. Scott and I are thrilled out of our minds and can't wait till we find out what this peanut is. I had an inkling the 17th of December that something was out of the ordinary so I thought I'd take one just to see what happened. I decided to take it after Scott left for work, I thought for sure he'd think I was losing my mind. I was getting ready to leave the house for work and while I was waiting I kept singing the lines of Eric Church's "Two Pink Lines". And boy was I not expecting the two pink lines I got. I sat there in shock and started crying tears of joy. But I didn't want to get over zealous about it, so I called Scott and he's like, grab some at lunch and we'll try again at moms house. I agreed and we got another positive. I'll never forget the ear to ear grin he gave me. We did another one that evening and two the next day. Finally we decided, this is happening!!

Keeping it a secret from my mom was the hardest. She was making the weirdest comments that week, for instance Scott and I bought a new car that same week...

and we were meeting at her house to head to the dealership together, she asked if we were coming over to tell her she was going to be a grandma... Uh, no mommy, not till Christmas! We decided since we were having our entire families over for Christmas, Grandma's included, that we would tell everyone together. So we took a picture of 2 dog bones, the boots Scott and I got married in, and a baby pair of cowboy boots in front of the tree. Luckily I was smart enough to write on the back "Coming in August" "Can't wait to meet you Grandma" and things of that nature. When we gave them their cards, and had them open it - they had NO FLIPPIN' CLUE what was going on! Someone even made the comment who's boots belong to who... Whaaa??? My dad's girlfriend finally put two and two together and blurted out "They are going to have a baby!!!!!" My mom started bawling like a maniac, Scott's parents, grandma's... It's all on film too :)

As for this mommy-to-be, not an ounce of sickness! Wahoo! Sure there are days when I've just felt bad, but there hasn't been any morning sickness (11 weeks and 6 days as of 2/7/2013). I feel so fortunate! Only thing I've noticed changes in are I'm exhausted and want to be in bed by 9 or 9:30 and I have to eat every two hours or I feel absolutely famished. My feel like I'm showing at this point pretty good, to the point where I can't button my pants anymore (It's selfish but I'm struggling about that whole process) and I feel like I need to purchase bigger tops. It's probably not all that extreme, but I notice. And so does Scott, his favorite term is "load". How's the frontal load today?? Thanks jackass! :) He's been extremely helpful and I feel so blessed to have him as my husband. He's cooked, cleaned, done laundry, shoveled snow a boat load of times, cooked lunch.. I could go on and on. He's a gem. And in the middle of all this crap, I caught the flu that's been going around! He quarantined me to our bedroom and he slept on the couch for 4 days.

I felt so guilty for being such a slob for weeks and weeks on end so I wanted to do something nice for him. So starting the 1st of February, I've been doing the 14 days till Valentine's day- giving little, cutesy gifts and on the 14th he gets the voucher for our 3 day getaway to Jackson Hole. With everything that's happened the month of January; a baby, sickness, losing our dear friend... We NEEDED a break. And Jackson is one of our favorite places to go in the winter. He deserves it for taking such good care of me. And he needs to get his mind off of losing Boede. We talk about him everyday. It's still so unreal and hard to deal with. I'm looking forward to a little break away.

My next appointment is the 19th, so when I get the report back from that I will give everyone an update! And I'll share some photos from Jackson!

Until Next Time, 

-M