Half-way!

Today I am officially half-way done with my pregnancy! I am exactly 20 weeks along! We were so excited that we decided to have a half a party tonight! We ate half cookies, and got half price on our dinner. We wore half red and half tan cloths. As you can see from the pictures I only got half ready too! I tried to convince Jacob to only shave half of his face this morning, but he decided against it, he didn't want to get in trouble at school. It is so exciting to know that we are halfway there to seeing our new little member of our family!

This is us after our half party!

Yep here it is, the half done pregnant belly picture!

Isn't Jacob just so cute! I just had to put in this cute picture of my boy!

Good News!

Just the last few days I have started feeling my baby kick, a lot! It makes me so excited and it makes it feel a lot more real that there is a baby inside of me! Jacob has thought it is funny because for a while before I felt our baby I would kinda poke it a little bit and tell it to kick mommy because I really wanted to feel our baby move! Now I can feel it move and it makes me so happy! It even makes me laugh when I can feel him or her "jumping" on my bladder! This kid is so wiggly, I'm not sure how I didn't feel it before!
For some other good news, a couple of weeks ago Jacob got a new Sargent. He has been talking to him to see if there is anyway he can stay here for an extra month after he graduates before going to Texas to our next training so that we can be together when the baby is born. They were able to pull some strings and we are 99 percent sure that it will all work out. It is such a relief to just know that we will be able to be together during that time! I know Heavenly Father was watching out for us like he always does. This is an issue that has been causing a lot of stress for both of us, but it is nice to have it mostly resolved!

17 weeks

So something has happened just this last couple of days. I am starting to look pregnant! So far I have just looked like I was getting a little thicker around the middle, but as of just a few days ago I actually look pregnant! It is kind of exciting! We are way excited about this little baby! I have a doctors appointment on Monday and then the next appointment after that I should be able to find out if our baby is going to be a girl or a boy! Right now our baby is about 5 inches long from head to rump and weighs about 5 ounces. Next week I will enter into my 5th month of pregnancy, crazy!

Yesterday I finally met with my OB and I really like him. I was so nervous about the appointment, but he was very kind and he put me at ease. He felt my stomach and said that my uterus is measuring at about 16 weeks which is about how far along we thought I was, but then he did an ultrasound and all of the measurements he took on our baby make our baby out to be a 14 week baby. My doctor did tell me that now is really the worst time to measure to see how far along the baby is and that I could be 15 weeks along, but for now he is going to change my due date to November 16 instead of November 6 like we thought. Bummer!
It was so neat to be able to hear my baby's heart beat and to get to see our cute little bundle on the ultrasound. It made everything a little more real, and made all of this barfing I've been doing a lot more worth it. I was so overcome by love when I saw my baby on that screen that I couldn't help getting a little teary. It was so cute, when the doctor was showing me my baby's hands, one of them started wiggling as if it knew it was being seen and it was saying, "Hi Mom!" Words can't even express how excited I was to finally see my cute little baby and to know that he or she is doing alright. Some other good news is that I think I felt my baby move yesterday morning for the first time. I was laying in bed and I felt something right where my baby is three different times. I also thought I felt him or her move this morning also. I haven't felt anything when I have been up and moving and focused on other things during the day, but I am pretty sure that is what I felt when I was lying still in bed.
When I told my doctor about our predicament with Jacob's graduation being the 21st of October and then our planned move to Texas he said he really didn't think it was a good idea me moving within the last 2 months of my pregnancy and with our due date moved back farther we really aren't sure what we are going to do now. I wish we knew what date Jacob had to be in Texas after his graduation. Right now we are trying to decide if I should move out to Texas a month before Jacob graduates or if I should just stay here and take our chances. If I did move to Texas early there is always the chance that Jacob might fail his test and have to stay here for another 3 months and I would be stuck in Texas alone or there is the chance that I might have the baby early and that Jacob wouldn't be there for the birth. If I stay here then if everything else goes according to plan and Jacob does well on his test then he would be going to Texas about 3 weeks before I am due at which point I really should be driving that far and Jacob might miss the birth of our baby anyway. This is just something that we have been a little worried about lately, but I know Heavenly Father is in control and that it will all work out for the best.

Happy!

I got tagged by my sister Caralee so here it goes.

Top 10 things that make me happy!

1. Jacob

Jacob is the number one thing that makes me happy! I love being married to my oh so handsome and perfect husband! He has been taking extra good care of me since I've been pregnant. I don't know what I would do with out him and I never want to find out! My very favorite thing is spending time with him. It doesn't matter what we are doing, we could be watching Lois and Clark, making dinner, or just talking with each other, but he is my best friend and I love him a lot!

2. Nieces and nephews

I love being an aunt! It is the greatest job in the world! I am the proud aunt of 11 almost 12 cute nieces and nephews! I just love how excited they get when they see me and how much fun we always have when we are together! It is really cute, I have one niece who adopted me as a sister and everytime I talk to her mom on the phone I can hear her in the saying in the background, "My sister, my sister! I want to talk to my sister!"

3. Books

I love books! I love curling up in our chair and escaping into a book all day long! I love to read new books I haven't read before and go explore the new adventures it brings to me, or re-reading an old favorite! I love buying new books. It is an expensive habbit and I'm sorry to say that we are out of room on our bookshelves. We are going to have to buy a new one pretty soon if I'm going to keep up on our book collection.

4. Snuggling with my husband when we first wake up on the weekend

There is nothing better than snuggling with my cute hubby first thing in the morning, especially when we don't have anywhere to go and we can stay in bed as long as we want (until our bladders or our tummies force us to get up that is.)

5. Talking on the phone with my sisters or mom

It's sometimes kinda lonely living far away from family, so I love to talk to my sisters and my mom on the phone! It is so awesome to be able to communicate with everyone even though they are so far away and to know what is going on in everybody's lives.

6. The Ocean

I absolutely love the ocean! I never knew how much I loved it until we moved here so close to it! I love how it looks different almost every day. I love just standing on the beach listening to the crashing waves. I love finding fun new seashells. I love walking on the beach barefoot. I just love the ocean!

7. Sour Gummy things

I have always loved sour gummy candies, but now that I am pregnant, my love for them has grown exponentially! My mouth is watering just thinking about them. I especially love the Jolly Rancher sour gummy candies! Yum!

8. Chocolate

Need I say more?

9. Cafe Rio

One thing I miss about living in St. George (besides being so close to family that is) is Cafe Rio! I really wish we had a Cafe Rio nearby, but unfortunately for us the closest one to us is about an 8 hour drive away. Sometimes we try to replicate Cafe Rio salad for dinner, but no matter how hard we try it just isn't quite the same thing.

10. Having a clean house

I love it when my house is clean! I'm not the best at keeping the house clean but I always feel so much better about life in general when everything is put away in its place. Since I've been pregnant I haven't been the best at my domestic duties, I struggle to make meals and my house has suffered as well. Last week Jacob and I took a day and just cleaned our house (we had people coming over) and now I love to be at home because our home looks so nice!

Now I tag any one who reads this and wants to be tagged!