Coming this October.

Most of you already know this, but we will be three in October!

I'm 13.5 weeks right now and so far pregnancy has been an adventure, something no one could have prepared me for. I started work at Target on February 14 and took a pregnancy test after work on February 17. My jaw literally dropped when that second little blue line appeared. I just sat and stared at the test for about 10 minutes before saying to myself, "Well ok!"

Jono was scheduled to work late that night and I called him and asked him to come home early. He asked why and I said I would send him a picture. I took a picture of the positive pregnancy test and sent it to him. After he got it his team at work asked what had happened, and he told them the picture didn't come through.  :)  He managed to come home around 7:40 pm and it was good to spend the rest of the night with him and talk about what's to come.

For the most part I've been feeling really good. The worst of it was during weeks 5 and 6, with a trip to the emergency room, throwing up and fainting. But by week 7 I was feeling a LOT better. I've just been really tired, and working 50 hours a week definitely adds to it. I didn't really have morning sickness, just food aversions--mostly with meat and soda. Yes, I said soda. I am happy to say that I have't had a soda for 2 months!  But now that I'm in the second trimester eating has pretty much gone back to normal, which has been nice. Foods I've been loving are all fruits, popsicles, and Nutty Bars (the chocolate and peanut butter bar of goodness). 

Jono has been the best husband so far. I have been so blessed to have him and could not ask for anything more. He hasn't had to make any late night trips to the store yet, which I know he has been grateful for :) But he has been very supportive, patient and giving. And the full body massages after the long days of standing for 10 hours has been bliss too. We have fun reading books together, talking about names as well as our plans for our future once baby gets here. Before we got pregnant we had discussed not finding out the sex beforehand. Now Jono is set on it and I'm wavering a little. We'll let you know what we decide :)

We are just trying to take things one day at a time.

We are so grateful Heavenly Father has allowed us to have this experience. We know now more than ever that everything is in the Lord's timing and we just need to have faith it will all work out.

Since I don't really have a baby belly yet I wanted to share a picture of the little one.
My official due date is October 16.

(In case you can't tell it's a profile shot and baby's head is on the right.)

What do you think? Boy or Girl?

January Utah Trip

Back in the middle of January I decided to go on a littly road trip by myself up to Utah. I was a little nervous because I had never made the drive by myself before and usually when Jono and I drive it together I end up sleeping most of the time. I left January 17 at 8:20 am and I got to Lehi around 7 pm. The first night I stayed with Jono's sister, Sarah, and her family. They recently bought a house in Utah so it was fun to see it and spend time with them.

The next afternoon I met up with our friends, the Villarreals, who just moved to Bluffdale. It was so good to see them and their two adorable kids. We ate lunch at Carl's Jr. and after we went back to their apartment and hung out and talked.

Then I drove down to Provo and met up with my good friend and college roommate, Christina. She served a mission in New York for the past year and a half and this was my first time seeing her since she got back in November. It was so good to see her and catch up, just like old times. We grabbed some dinner and then I watched her intramural inner tube water polo game at the Smith Field House. We stayed at her sister's apartment that night.

The next morning we went to the Provo temple to do a session and then got some lunch after. We watched the Time Traveler's Wife and then went bowling that night.

Thursday morning I had breakfast with Liese Rodger at Magelby's Fresh, which was delicious! It was nice to talk and catch up with her as well.

I then drove up to Salt Lake and had lunch with my brother-in-law, Jeremiah, at Cheesecake Factory. When I was almost there, driving on State Street I noticed a truck that was driving to my left. I looked at the driver and my mouth dropped. It was my Uncle Doyle! It was so random and I started honking hoping to get his attention. He finally looked over and I waved. I'm sure it took him a second to realize who I was since he was probably not expecting to see me in Utah. We pulled over to a parking lot and talked for a couple minutes. It was so good to see him and was totally random at the same time. Lunch with Jer was delicious and the conversation was good as well.

From there I drove up to Ogden where my sister and her family recently moved. I hung out with Danielle and her son Connor until Brad came home and we went to Chili's for dinner. Towards the end Connor started to get a little fussy, so we started dancing/swaying to the music hoping to distract him and he liked our moves so much he decided to copy them. It was so funny, we were all cracking up. The video was too large to upload.

The next day we ate breakfast and then got dressed to go sledding! We had to drive up into the hills and it took some time to find the perfect spot. But we found it! Everyone except Connor had fun, poor guy. But he was pretty cute in his snow suit.

He wanted down...

So she put him down...

Awesome...

And down he goes. 

That night we rented Robin Hood from Red Box and watched it. It was actually really good! We stayed up way too late watching it. The next morning I got up and drove back to California. The drive wasn't too bad until I hit a car accident on the 91 freeway about 15 minutes from home. It literally took me another hour to get home. Ridiculous. But I had a great trip and I was able to see so many people I love!