11 week Ultrasound

Today we had our first prenatal appointment with my actual doctor. Normally you are supposed to get to hear the heartbeat, but our little one was playing hard to find, so my doctor ended up having to do an ultrasound instead where I could see the heart beating. The baby looks more like a baby now than a blob/line seen in the last ultrasound. It is amazing just how much has changed in 5 weeks. I am definitely noticing the changes now that few of my pants fit. Although when I got weighed at the doctor today I had not gained a pound surprisingly. And our due date got changed back to September 2, 2010 after my doctor looked at the 6 week ultrasound. Jackson or Grant may be sharing a birthday with their niece or nephew.

Our Visit to Greg and Stacy's

We went to Reno this past weekend and had a great time visiting our friends Greg and Stacy. On Saturday, Stacy took us up to Lake Tahoe and we drove around the whole lake. It was beautiful as you can see in the pictures. We were trying to find a trail to go down to the water, but instead found a short trail off the side of the road with a nice waterfall and view of Emerald Bay which is where we took some of the pictures. That night we went out to a Basque Restaurant where we had an enormous amount of food. It is crazy. First there is bread, then soup, then salad, then beef stew...then you order your main entree...which for me was steak. Then came the main entree with pinto beans and a huge plate of fries, then there was ice cream to top it off. Everything was really good. Chris was so stuffed though, he just had to go for a walk. Then on Sunday, we went up to Virginia City, an old turn of the century mining town and went on a tour of one of the mines and walked the shops. It was a busy and fun weekend. Stacy is the sweetest host and I felt bad I had moments of just utter fatigue by the time Sunday afternoon came around.

Crib Project...practice pieces

Don and Chris...inspecting their practice cuts...they weren't very happy with them.

One of the legs for the Sleigh Crib

This is the end of the crib

So Don and Chris have started working on making a Sleigh style baby crib. The plans are very difficult, so yesterday they practiced making some of the pieces before they buy the good wood. The curves to the Sleigh look were really hard for them to cut and turns out they need to get a different blade to be able to do it.

This is a picture of what the final product will be like except it will be dark cherry.

On a positive note, I have actually been feeling kind of normal again. I have even been able to go running a few days a week, clean my house again and help with cooking dinner without getting sick. I hope it stays this way and the nausea doesn't come back later.

First Ultrasound

I had a little scare and worried there was something wrong with the pregnancy so I got an early ultrasound and everything turned out to be just fine. The ultrasound dated the baby as 6 weeks and 3 days which gives us a due date of August 31st, 2010. We saw the heart beat at 117 bpm. It seems even more real seeing the little heart even though in this picture it doesn't look like much. This week I have definitely started to feel more pregnant with nausea, heart burn and fatigue. I have been sipping on lots of ginger ale and snacking on saltines. Hopefully this passes in the coming weeks.

Christmas!

Jackson and his new nutcracker for his growing collection

Uncle Chris and Jordyn with her new cell phone

Mom got a new computer

When we told our family that we are expecting

A mandolin from Grant...now I can make perfectly cut veggies

Jordyn in her new car

Jackson got DJ Hero

Jordyn with the nerf gun that is about as big as her

Katie and Jordyn

Don and Chris got knives

Barb...excited new grandmother to be..this might be an understatement...her reaction was pretty funny

Chris and Chelsey

Me

It was definitely a Christmas to remember and of course the best present of all being the news that we are expecting. We had a great time spending Christmas Eve with Don, Barb, Chelsey and Grandma and then Christmas Day with my family. I got so many neat baking things including a bunch of extra silpats, a beater blade, new measuring spoons and cups, a silicone rolling pin and commercial grade icing gel colors. I think everyone knows now how much I love baking and as you can tell from my blog that I tend to blog about it a lot.

Because this gift was rather humorous...I had to put a video in. Here is Jordyn in her little mini cooper. Her face is so funny.

And here is a video of Jordyn dancing to DJ hero


The highlight of Jackson's Christmas was the 4 remote control helicopters he got. They were actually really hard to fly, but he got better with practice.

We're having a baby!

We were blessed this week with the best Christmas present ever!!! We are expecting our 1st baby. To tell my family I made these cute little onesie cookies. It came as a big surprise considering we thought the fertility drugs I was on did not work and were being referred to see a specialist on January 4th. I was so happy to cancel that appointment. It truly is a wonderful Christmas gift. I can't wait for our first doctor's appointment and to find out our official due date...right now I am guessing around September 2nd, 2010.

Poor Chris

Last night Chris got elbowed in the face at soccer and ended up with a broken nose, 2 broken walls of his left sinus and injury to his infraorbital nerve making the left side of his face below his eye and his left front upper teeth numb. Poor thing. He will have a consult with a plastic surgeon to determine if he needs surgery or not. It makes me so mad that some people have such bad sportsmanship and that the refs let someone like this play. He didn't even get a red card for this.