The babies first picture:]
SO much has happened in the last week since we found out we were expecting. I have not been up to blogging or anything else for that matter.This little baby bird is making me nauseas all day long and incredibly tired. Luckily I still have not gotten anything more than nauseated! My life consists of laying on the couch, sleeping and eating. As horrible as I feel, I am comforted by my pregnancy symptoms because that means the baby is still there and doing well if I am sick all the time.
I am basically useless and I have been relying on Matt for everything. He has been so patient, caring and sweet. He is always at my side and so willing to do anything I need. I can't thank him enough and I am so blessed to have him as my husband!
The last post we were planning on telling our family and friends at my "surprise" birthday party. Little did they know the surprise was really for them:]
The cover up was that Matt was taking me somewhere and he wanted me to get all dolled up and get my make up done at Nordy's. I left the house around 10:30 and was supposed to get to the house by 1pm so everyone could be there and yell SURPRISE! I accidentally left my phone at home and I didn't know Matt was frantically trying to call me because people were trying to cancel and or going to be late. Matt had to be really stern with his mom and told her that she HAD to be there even though she was a little sick. Fortunately, everyone showed up and I arrived right on time. They all yelled surprise as I tried my best to act like I had no idea what was going on and try to hide my nervousness. We had to tell everyone immediately because there were two bottles of champagne and they were waiting on me to open them. Matt put the babies shoes in a gift bag and announced to everyone that I had to open my present now and that it was a gift for everyone. They all tried guessing what it was and Matt's dad asked if it was alive (yes it most certainly is!). I opened the gift and everyone just stared at us and was not understanding why I was holding baby shoes. Our grandma's were talking away and didn't even notice what we were doing! Matt had to say WE'RE PREGNANT and then all of their mouths dropped and all we heard was screaming, WHAT?!, gasps and lots of other things. We gave them all the details and there were LOTS of hugs, congratulations and tons of love.
I was so scared to tell our families fearing that they may think we weren't ready but everyone supported us 100% and are SO SO excited for the baby bird to come into this world. I can not tell you how much that meant to me and we could not keep a smile off our faces!
Today was a crucial Dr. appointment for the baby and we went to hear it's heartbeat. I was so nervous going in because so many things can wrong in the 1st trimester and I was terrified of getting bad news. My mom and Matt came with me and we anxiously waited while the Dr. was checking the ultrasound screen. I then heard the most amazing sound in my life: my babies heartbeat!! He turned the screen around so we all could see this teeny tiny little thing and it's teeny tiny heart beating, which looked more like fluttering. We then heard the heartbeat again and he said it is right where it should be. He also said that whenever they hear a heartbeat you have a 95% chance of carrying the baby full term! Basically the baby is doing VERY well and I am due September 27!
I also want to thank everyone for their prayers! We need as much as we can get and we still have another 6 weeks until we are done with the 1st trimester.
This is such an exciting time for us I am doing my best to treasure every moment, even if every moment consists of me being nauseas!
