14 Weeks!

How far along? 

14 weeks 5 days!

 Total weight gain/loss: 

I was at the doctors office last Tuesday and I was only up 2 pds which puts me at 108. 

 Sleep:
I am sleeping pretty good. I have a hard time falling asleep but once I do I am out for the night. I don't even move.

 Best moment this week: 

Honestly I have had a pretty crummy week. Our weekend was filled with terrible 2 tantrums and I had to work. I feel like I need a weekend from my weekend! I am hoping I can find some energy and feel better before this next weekend! 

 Movement: 

None. I feel like sometimes it's baby but it just ends up being gas! Hopefully soon!

 Symptoms:

This past week has been really hard on me, I told R I finally feel like I am pregnant. My hip bones and tailbones are so sore and I have been nauseous for about a week now.

 Food cravings: 

Nothing. I just eat when I can.

 Food aversions:

Everything. It seems lately everything is making me sick.

Gender:

We do know! We are not announcing it until we are in Disneyland for Christmas! So excited!

Labor Signs:

None.

Belly Button in or out?

Still in.

What I miss:

My energy! They say it comes back in the 2nd trimester but I am still waiting for that to happen. Between work, my 2 year old and household duties I am so exhausted all the time.

What I am looking forward to:

Our Christmas trip to Disney and San Diego with my family! 

Weekly Wisdom: 

I am trying to keep a positive attitude but all I want to do is sleep and not feel sick!

 Milestones:

Pushing into the 2nd trimester! This pregnancy is flying by!!

Life Lately

After finding out we were expecting again, moving, Thanksgiving, and now prepping for our trip to Disneyland things have been pretty hectic! I try to document little moments in our life that I love. If you follow me on instagram you have probably already seen some of these! If not, I hope you like them. It's always so fun to go back through your instafeed and remember all those memories!

This was us at Krew's 2nd birthday party! We had so much fun, it was Cars themed of course! It was a small intimate party with our closest family! Krew slept through 80% of it but I think we all had fun!

Krew begged to be Lightning McQueen for Halloween. I couldn't find a cute costume that actually looked like McQueen anywhere. I came across this jacket at H&M and figured it was perfect! We had a fun night with his cousins!!

Our fridge was delivered the day we moved in and it completed the look to our kitchen! I still love love it,

The stress of moving really caught up to our little guy!

1 night my belly really popped. I had ate around 4 bowls of cereal. I freaking love cold cereal!

My nieces & nephews are my sunshine!! I love them so much and Krew always has so much fun with them.

Hubby and I have been squeezing lots of date nights in! Its been nice.

We are excited for Disneyland and San Diego for Christmas. I am excited to come back to real life to and have my schedule settle down. I want to be able to focus more on getting our new home put together, and baby #2!

We also already know the gender and we plan on sharing it in a fun way while we are in Disneyland!

xoxo

1st appointment & 10 week update!

I am actually writing this on 11/11. How cute. Anyways, R and I ventured to our 1st prenatal appointment on Friday 11/07. I was so nervous for this, for some reason during this pregnancy I have been way more nervous than I ever was with Krew. I honestly think it's because I know the meaning of life & the value of having a healthy & happy baby. Everything went REALLY well. We went over LOTS, somethings were just reminders. I have planned on working out and running for a majority of my pregnancy however due to my last premie I've been told I need to take it pretty easy. I will need to meet with a specialist at our integrated screening and each couple weeks after that, he will work with me to help keep my energy up but our chances of another premie down. My Vitamin D level and Iron level are both extremely low so I have started taking supplements to help both of those. My thyroid seems to be acting up a little bit too so I will have to have monthly blood tests to keep an eye on everything! Also, starting around 16-20 weeks I will have to start injecting myself with progesterone shots, right in my bum. This will help keep contractions down and my cervix from opening too soon to hopefully prevent another pre-term labor. I will try and document my journey the best that I can.

We meet with a specialist in January to go over all things keep baby in for as long as possible! Now on to the ultrasound which is always my favorite part, based off my LMP I am 11 weeks but based off my ultrasound I am just 10 weeks which puts my due date at June 4th! We are so excited to be welcoming another baby into our crazy family! My o.b projects I will have the babe in the middle of May, so happy to be having a summer baby! No worrying about weather for birthday parties! 

How far along? 

10 weeks!!

 Total weight gain/loss: 

When I was weighed at the doctor on 11/07 I was 106 pds. Which was a lot less than I was thinking. So I am going to go with that as my pre-pregnancy weight. I think between the move, and a little stress I dropped a couple pds. My doctor recommended I stay below 130 so that's the goal.

 Sleep:
Now that we are in our new home and somewhat settled I have been sleeping like a dream. I hate to use any medication so early on. Luckily, I usually crash within minutes. 

 Best moment this week: 

Since it's only Tuesday I am going to revert this back to Friday and seeing our little bean on the screen!

 Movement: 

None yet. I do hear with a second pregnancy you feel them a lot earlier on. We will see!

 Symptoms:

Jesus, constipation, headaches, back pain, the list goes on. Our little babe is worth it! <3 em="">

 Food cravings: 

Pickles, Cocoa Puffs, Anything sweet!

 Food aversions:

Cheeseburgers, Chicken, most fast food.

Gender:

We don't know yet. We both think we will be blessed with another little boy! We will wait and find out on Christmas Day in San Diego!

Labor Signs:

None.

Belly Button in or out?

Still in.

What I miss:

Staying up late, drinking with friends, and my clothes!

What I am looking forward to:

Sending out our Christmas cards and finally announcing to the world that we are expecting!! 

Weekly Wisdom: 

Enjoy the day as it comes. Keep your stress low and jump in that garden bath whenever you need it!

 Milestones:

Getting moved in and settled!

Game Changer

I went and laid back down in bed. Of course I couldn't sleep but I was so tired I needed to lay down and I didn't want to hover over the test in fear of seeing a negative. I said a quick prayer, tried my best to leave it up to God. I have always said if I was only ever blessed with Krew than I of course would be totally happy and blessed and ok with 1 child. I stumbled back into the bathroom..

I was in disbelief!

Like so totally utterly shocked! I was freaking out. I skipped back into bed. Googled my due date and was so giddy to find I would have a summer baby! I didn't want to wake up Ryan. I wanted him fully rested so we could hang out all day on Saturday. I didn't fall back asleep all night. So many thoughts were running through my head. I kissed Krew 5 dozen times and pictured him as a big brother. In my heart he is still a baby. How in the world will he handle taking on the role of big brother. I cried thinking of our growing family, soon we would be in our dream home and planning on bringing yet another precious human being into this world. Around 5 AM I finally drifted back to sleep. I woke up with a smile and some butterflies in my tummy. I had to tell Ryan. We drove to our new house to check out the progress and I kept my mouth quiete. I didn't want to tell him just anyway I wanted to tell him at our new house where the memories were going to be made. It was locked we couldn't get in until 10. He asked me if I had taken the test and I told him No I forgot and that I would take it the next morning. He wasn't having it. I broke out and told him. I couldn't keep it from him any longer. He had the biggest grin on his face. He was so happy. He is always so supportive and full of life. I just love him. We decided we wanted to keep it a secret. We did want to tell those closest to us though. I will post about how we did that soon!! For now.. I am writing this on October 14th. According to my LMP I am about 7.5 weeks and still in shock! We have our first appointmnet on November 7th. We are estatic!!

September 26th

Up until this past March Ryan and I never really thought of adding baby #2 into the mix. We were so comfortable as a family of 3, and had finally found our groove. Plus building a house and not really having an end in sight living with my parents, put baby #2 on the back burner. Of course, family members and friends kept commenting on how we needed to give Krew a sibling. I agreed to just disagree. R grew up with 3 sisters, all relatively close in age. My sister and me are only 18 months apart. So we both understood the importance of a sibling bond but just shook it off for the most part. We just weren't ready.

Come the middle of April we decided I would have my IUD removed around June more so the end of July maybe, it was no big rush. I had a few running events during the Summer I didn't want out of whack hormones controlling me. For some strange reason I had this CRAZY urge to have it out sooner. Something literally pushed me into the doctors office to have it out at the end of May. My doctor did warn me that my periods would be off and no try to track my ovulation if I was hoping to get pregnant fast. Meh, no rush I said. As always too scared to face reality. Deep down I was hoping I would find out I was pregnant in August early September. Well, it took 5 1/2 weeks for my 1st period to even show up. I was so stressed that I wasn't going to start having a normal period again for awhile. Again, I tried to just brush it off. Another 5 weeks came and went and my periods were still pretty irregular. August passed with no positive test and so did the beginning of September. At this point I was thinking ok, this really needs to happen soon it's like the realization of the age gap in my kids really really got to me. I was beating myself up. Now I know why I had that big urge to get in sooner. Who knew my periods would be that far apart??!

On September 26th I had worked all day but I couldn't help but listen to this gut feeling I had. I WAS pregnant. I had been tired, emotional, and feeling chubbier than usual. I knew in my heart I was pregnant. Ryan was hunting so I asked him to pick up a test on his way home. He happily obliged. I set the test out so I would remember to take it 1st thing in the morning. I didn't sleep well, but that's been nothing new since living at my parents house. So, when I had to get up and pee around 1:30 am I figured I could take it. I prepped myself for a negative but knew deep down it was going to be positive. I peed on the stick and went and laid back down. 

Resolutions Check-In

I haven't checked in on our resolutions since July! Things have been so busy for us. It feels like life never really slows down. I can't grasp onto reality. Since then here is an update on our 2014 Resolutions!

Save $ for Krews private school tuition. - Family- This is going well. Luckily we still have a few years before we need to start actually paying this out.

Train & complete my 1st FULL marathon. Hoping to get into St. George. - Personal - This isn't going to happen. I have no real excuse. Honestly. Maybe, next year.

Pay-off Ryan's truck. $3,000 left. - Family- CHECK! We did this back in February! We love only have my car payment! 

List & sell our 1st home. - Family - CHECK! This is still so bittersweet to me! We sold back in March!

Train & complete my 1st triathlons. Idaho Spudman. - Personal -CHECK CHECK CHECK! I can't believe this is done & over with!

Live in the moment more, social media free. - Personal - This has been getting easier and easier to do! I don't care as much to stay in the loop!

Find or build our dream home, the one we will be in for the next 15+ yrs. - Family - CHECK CHECK CHECK! I think this is the most exciting goal of all! We are ONE week out from moving!!

MAYBE try for another baby. MAYBE. - Family - This year really got the best of us! Busy busy!

Potty train Krew. - Family - Once we get into our house we are going to his this pretty hard. I am nervous since we are going to California for almost a week in December. Will it set him back any once we do get him trained? Should I hold off until the new year?

It's been a very blessed year for my family.

xoxo

#barrasbuild

So much has changed since my last post on our house! We are basically weeks away from completion and so anxious and excited to move in and finally really call it our own! We have had such good luck with our builders so far. Of course as every build goes there have been some bumps along the way but nothing too major!

We have had a ton of friends and some family ask to come and see the process and support us in our new adventure and it has been so fun to share it with them! Every step of the way has been a real dream come true! We have a new closing date of November 3rd and should have the keys no later than November 7th! We can't wait to decorate for Christmas! Here are some pictures and caption updates!

I REALLY don't want to post any pictures of the inside. I feel like that is something I would like to keep private. I will post a few pictures here and there. As for my friends and family come see the inside for yourself!! 

Our shutters go in on Monday and we are waiting on mirrors and one more cabinet door. We have 3-4 walk through's and then we close! 3 weeks people!