South Pas Baby Shower

 Last Saturday, my sweet friends here in South Pasadena threw me the most amazing baby shower! It was so thoughtful of them and so fun to get together with everyone. I got the cutest clothes and gifts for little baby Jack. I can't wait for him to get here! Trevor and I are SO ready for him to make his grand arrival! 

Disneyland

 One of the many perks of living in South Pasadena is getting to live so close to Disneyland! Trevor and I are big Disneyland fans, so we have been dying to go lately.

We decided to make our first trip (of many) last Saturday! We got talked into getting annual passes, and  it was so nice to be able to just relax and enjoy the day and not feel rushed to ride every single ride. I can't wait to go back for Halloween and Christmas time and get to see all of the cute decorations! It will be so much fun to be able to take little baby J when he is born too!

 We found this cute little shop in downtown Disney and had to snap a shot of this "dentist in training" :)

As you can see, I (and baby) am getting giant! At our appointment last week, we got another routine ultrasound done of the baby, and our doctor looked at us and said.. "Okay.. which one of you was a big baby?" So I pointed at Trevor since he was 9 1/2 lbs and 24 inches long, and she said "Oh, thats why. This is going to be a big baby!" So little baby J is growing great! (a little too great :) and he is definitely taking after his daddy! He is just comfy as can be and looking healthy as ever. His kicks are SO strong now. It is so fun for other people to not only feel, but SEE him move in my tummy. It's almost like he is doing summersaults in there sometimes! It is the funnest thing for Trevor and I when we lay down at night to watch him kick and move my tummy up and down. He is a little entertainer already! 

Trevor is loving dental school, so I am so happy and excited for him! He started working with his hand piece last week for the first time, so I made sure he documented it! I am so proud of him and excited for these next four years! Such exciting times ahead!

P.s. that jar that Trevor is holding is full of extracted teeth that Trevor has been collecting. He had the assignment before school started to collect 300 teeth to work on. Boy am I glad to get those things out of the house!

Oh BOY!

Our sweet little baby is a BOY!! Trevor and I are so excited!! It was the most amazing experience getting to see our baby moving around, hiccupping, yawning, and sucking his thumb while we were getting the ultrasound done! We are both so in love with him already! 

We decided to make one last quick appointment with our doctor in Utah before we moved to California and had our ultrasound scheduled for the day before we move. The whole week leading up to our appointment seemed like a lifetime! The only thing Trevor and I could talk about was "Is our baby a boy or a girl, I can't wait to find out, I'm going crazy!" The night before I could hardly sleep! Our appointment was scheduled for 8:15 am, which isn't so early, except that I had to start drinking water at 6:45. You are supposed to drink 32oz of water at least an hour before your appointment and then hold it and not go to the bathroom clear until the appointment is over. That was the only hard part about the whole day. By the time the appointment came around I felt like I was about to explode, but I didn't even care because I just wanted to know about our baby! 

When our ultrasound tech got him up on the screen he was moving around all over the place! He is definitely an active little boy! It took the tech quite awhile to find out the gender because his umbilical cord was placed conveniently right between his legs. So after about a half hour of trying to find out, the tech finally said, "Gosh, that umbilical cord is just in the right place, I almost couldn't see his boy part." I guess we were kind of more expecting her to say, "It's a boy, or it's a girl," so it took a couple seconds to register and then Trevor said, "So wait, it's a boy?!" She nodded her head and we both screamed we were so excited! There were definitely some happy tears shed. 

I'm so excited for him to get here! I hope he turns out to be just like Trevor. 

It's been so fun to be able to finally start feeling him moving around! It makes me so happy and excited! I just love him so much!

Baby Love

 Surprise! Trevor and I are expecting a BABY! We could not be more excited!!

We first found out a few months ago. I hadn't been feeling very well, I thought something was seriously wrong with me. I kept feeling like I was going to pass out and had some slight nausea, but I wasn't really thinking I was pregnant until I had a really neat experience happen to me at work. I work with adults that have mental disabilities and I love my job. One day at work I was reading a book to a client who has Down's Syndrome when she stopped me and put her hand on my stomach and said "You're having a baby!" I told her I wasn't and went back to reading, she stopped me again and said "Yes, you're having a baby!" It kind of caught me by surprise because she was so sure she was right and was kind of upset when I kept telling her I wasn't. I couldn't stop thinking about that experience all day. I went home and told Trevor about it and he was just as shocked as I was. So we decided to go buy some pregnancy tests. I still wasn't thinking I was pregnant and I felt really silly about taking a test, so after Trevor left for work early in the morning, I decided what the heck it won't hurt to just take one test. So I got out of bed, took the test and waited a couple of minutes... TWO LINES showed up. I couldn't believe it! I started crying and let out a squeal of excitement, I had to take two more tests just to be sure that it was real. I called Trevor right away and told him to come home. We were both on cloud 9 for the whole rest of the day. I didn't even want to go to work, I just wanted to talk to Trevor about our sweet baby all day. We have both been looking forward to this day and were so excited it was finally here! It is the perfect timing and we know that we are being so blessed. 

I've been feeling really good for the most part, definitely tired and I have my nausea and throwing up times but I'm grateful for those because it means our baby is healthy! Trevor was making fun of me because I woke up one morning and was feeling great. No nausea, no throwing up, just perfectly normal. I started freaking out thinking something was wrong and just kept telling Trevor I wish I was feeling sick. Trevor said, "Be careful what you ask for." Sure enough half an hour later I ended up over the sink in the bathroom. So now I know, if I can get a couple of hours in of feeling great, then I will take it and not complain! :) Trevor has been the best husband through all of this. He is always doing the sweetest things and is so good about making sure me and the baby get what we need.

I'm so extremely excited and grateful for this sweet baby that is going to be joining our family! Trevor and I already love it so much. I look at the cute ultrasound pictures every day, I can't wait for it to get here!

Doesn't it just look so cute already!! Ah, I'm so in love.

Coming December 2013!