Bun in the Oven

I feel it's only appropriate that my last blog was Ryan's birthday. Because that was the day we found out we were pregnant! It's just a testament to the lack of motivation I have had to get anything done since the little peanut started forming inside me. To blog or lay in bed watching Netflix?....Netflix won every time.

So here's the low-down on how everything went down. First of all, you all need to understand that I had "phantom pregnancy" all the time before I got pregnant. Because I have this fun thing called IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome) and yes, it's as lovely as it sounds. I would get sick often from it and because of that I would always have this fear in the back of my mind that I was pregnant, so I'd check and I never was. Well... a few days (ok it might have been a little longer, but seriously it wasn't long) after we started trying I told Ryan that I thought I was pregnant, but because I thought it was just me working in up in my head I decided to wait a week before taking a pregnancy test. I don't think I lasted the entire week though because the night of Ryan's birthday we decided I'd check... Positive. What the?! I didn't believe it so I had to take 2 more.... Positive, positive. Ahhhhh! I know we had decided to try but I just never thought it would happen so fast that even though I had 3 sticks telling me I was, both Ryan and I had a hard time excepting it. Need proof, here's our faces....
 

Surprised, mortified, scared, and possibly slightly nauseous

The next few weeks after we slowly started going into denial. We would talk about me being pregnant, then it turned into "if" I was pregnant, and finally became more "doubt" we are actually pregnant. Reality sunk in for me quickly after I started experiencing the nausea, lack of energy, etc, etc. For Ryan, it didn't become real until I had gone to the doctors and they showed me the flicker of the heartbeat on the ultrasound-- undeniable proof that we indeed had a little peanut inside of me.

The next few months consisted of me going to work, coming home and getting into my PJs and bed immediately. Repeat the next day, and so on. And yes, I did watch all 9 seasons of the Office in the process. Fortunately, once I hit my 2nd trimester I've felt so much better and can now handle life again. I will catch you up on the fun things we have done this summer now that I can include all the fun parts of telling people we are pregnant! I'm pretty behind, so forgive the constant blogging that will follow.   

Happy Birthday Ryan!

Ryan turned the big 25 this year and it was the first time he's been home for a birthday in 7 years!!! So of course I had to throw him a party, even if it was against his will. Ryan did make me promise to keep it simple, which I did. We had a BBQ in the backyard followed by a movie projected on the side of our house. It was super fun and I was thrilled about how many people came to celebrate!

The morning of his birthday I made him breakfast in bed and then gave him his presents. He'll probably kill me for posting this, but look how happy he is!!! I got him some nice jeans and the Nike's he has been drooling over the last year. My parents got him a hatchet and some extra gas cans so we can have more back-up fuel for the wave-runners. (We are kinda counting the wave-runners as his present this year except for they are mine too!)

Hot dog bar

Yuba Lake

I've been struggling lately with blogging, so this is a little dated. We actually went to Yuba about a month ago. Ryan bought a couple of waverunners and was dying to try them out so we invited our family to go camping with us down at Yuba Lake to play on them.... we probably should have waited a few weeks; it was a bit cold.

Setting up the tent

Dinner time

Ryan and Morgan were the only two willing to take the waverunners out the first night... too cold!

Campfire good times

Breakfast cooks

The puppies were in heaven

Waiting for breakfast cuddles

Love that face

Breakfast is served!

Now time for playing on the water

Even for the pups

They live to fetch the ball

Sand Castles

 Begging for some more fetch

Ryan showing off

Puppies wanted a ride

Until it got too cold for them.. poor little things.

Rain clouds rolling in

 We lucked out and got a few good hours of sunshine before the rain clouds rolled in. Then we had to hurry and pack up camp so we could leave before the storm. Overall, still a really fun time with the fam!