Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Things that change once your a mommy, volume 1


It is absolutely crazy how your wants change once your a mommy. 
Once I lusted for coach bags, high heels, and trips to the spa.
Now?
Rain boots, diaper bags and cameras. 


I used to religiously wash, dry and straighten my hair 6 days a week.
Now?
I'm lucky to wash it 2-3 times a week, and blow dry and straightening? Thats like a spa day all in its own!!

Every weekend, I would go out shopping with my girlfriends.
Now?
I havent been shopping in 8 weeks, and running errands is still a challenge! But we're getting better every trip

But do you know what else has changed?

My house is cleaner, a lot cleaner.
My relationship with my husband is stronger than ever
Speaking of husbands, I am more in love with him than ever watching him be a father
My heart is so so so full, its truly something you cannot explain
I want to continually better my life and prepare for our future




And the MOST important thing of all?
I don't care anymore. Wait, what?!
I don't care that my clothes have spit up on them, that my hair isn't crystal clean and straight. I don't care that I'm missing out on going out for drinks. But most importantly...
I don't care about people to don't care about us. I'm not going to beg people to spend time with us. Plain and simple, its their loss. Without going into great details, unfortunately a lot of people in our life have disappointed us lately. But you know what? The little girl in our lives truly lights up our lives, and the people who DO want to spend time with us, those are the people that matter the most.

And I cannot ever be grateful enough that I get to spend my days with these two.

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

2013 in review..a little late

So we will just go ahead and play the mom card here...its January 13th and I'm just getting around to this.
Disclaimer: This is yet another photo-bombing longest blog post ever. 
Your welcome ;)

2013 was by far the most life changing year of my life.

January was a month of snuggles. After almost two years, we used our fireplace :) We also purchased new bedroom furniture, and installed a new cork floor in our closet! Our pup got neutered and got a nasty infection, so we spent lots of extra time with puppy snuggles.

February was a HUGE month. Not only was I devastated by not being pregnant yet AGAIN, my parents moved. Saying goodbye to my childhood home was very very hard. Funny I fit in that pantry MUCH better when I was a kid. We added another fur baby to our family when my sister brought their little meatball Toby home to their new apartment.

March brought wayyy to much snow and was supposed to be the start of spring, and the snow continued right on into April, boo. Even though mother nature didnt get the memo, we did lots of spring cleaning and bough a beautiful entertainment center and new sectional for the family room. Swoon. I also discovered macaroni and cheese pizza...

April 1st was one of the best days of my life. Read about it here. The begining of my ten month blogging hiatus. Easter with our families, telling our parents and hosting a bridal shower for my best friend. At the end of April we attended a event for my husbands company honoring his sales for 2012--go hubby!

In May we told the rest of world about Baby C, This photo was my rendition of dressing up for a Bachelorette as my baby bump got bigger and bigger. May was pretty laid back though due to some wicked morning sickness and throwing up that continued right on into the second trimester.

June we celebrated my best friends wedding, it was an absolutely beautiful, 

In July we found out we were having a baby girl, my heart melted. I immediately started planning the nursery. Gosh my heart this flutters when I think of this moment. EVERYONE (except me and my dad) was convinced it was a boy, and because everyone was telling me that, I began to believe it too. When the ultrasound tech said, Its a Girl!; my husbands reaction was WHAT?! priceless. He is overjoyed and loves our little girl to pieces, but his reaction was probably one of my favorite moments of being pregnant. 

The rest of July and most of August we spent doing lots and lots of house projects, which included getting new carpet and painting the trim upstairs. 

The weekend after Labor Day weekend there is a dog expo at our local park, and they drain the public pool about halfway down and let all of the puppy dogs in the pool! It was so so SO fun! Im the pregnant lady in the back with the pink. We cant wait for this party next year.

September was more baby prep, painting the nursery and the nursery furniture, lots of cookouts. And too many baby projects to count. We spent my birthday eating good food and relaxing. September is always one of my favorite months because we have 3 birthdays, so.much.cake. :)


October flew by. Our washer broke. It was only 2 years old. Grumble. We celebrated my baby shower. I cannot express how grateful we are for all the people who came out to spoil our little baby girl. I began to feel very very pregnant in October, I'm pretty sure I never changed out of yoga pants, yep I even wore them to our shower, ha.



November I got voted down for hosting Thanksgiving (something about being 39 weeks pregnant and cooking a turkey makes people nervous, who would have thought?!) So we took advantage of not having 25 people at our house and decorated for christmas early. The rest of the month I spent trying to convince myself to get off the couch and cook food to freeze, and waddling around costco stocking up on every necessity known to man (nesting much?!). The day before Thanksgiving was my last day of work. That night we packed our bags and were ready to go.


December 4th 2013 at 9 am changed our lives forever. 
Welcome to the world Emma Lynn, words cannot describe how much we love you.

We spent the month doing nothing but snuggling and loving on our brand new baby and celebrated our first christmas, as a family of 3 <3


Sunday, January 5, 2014

The story of my Bump

Since I didn't blog my entire pregnancy, I thought it would be fun to just see all of my bump photos at once!
Fair warning.. photo overload!

4 weeks...Ok time to clean up the floor Heather.

8 weeks...Gosh we really need new carpet. In the meantime, I'm going to pretend I have a baby bump !

18.5 weeks...Time to find out if baby is a he or she!
for those of you just starting to follow along..Baby C is a SHE!

24 weeks...Possibly still my FAVORITE bump photo!
and, we got new carpet, and painted all the trim :) 

Somewhere around 28-30 weeks....My go to sweater throughout my pregnancy!

33 weeks...At our baby shower with my amazing husband, yes I made him wear that shirt.


37 weeks...Discovered a new hoodie and wondered why I waited 37 weeks to wear it! I then proceeded to wear it about every day for the next 2 weeks.

39 weeks 5 days...at 4 am, on our way to the hospital to meet our little miss!! Cannot believe I was actually this huge. 

Looking back on this photo makes me miss my bump just a little. But I look at the little squeaking miracle next to me and cannot believe she is actually here. What an amazing thing our bodies can do!

A Blog Post?!


So shortly after I posted about my struggle with PCOS and infertility here, this happened!

The way the month went with our test levels we really were not feeling confident, but God had other plans!!
The day after Easter, April 1st, I woke up around 5 am and decided to take a test. Fully expecting yet another "not pregnant" result, I sat on the tub waiting, then to my complete suprise the word PREGNANT came up. I immediately started crying and shaking I was so excited. I ran over to our bed and started shaking my husband to wake up. He was so confused and I was just waving the stick and he immediately knew.
We were going to be parents!!!

So we kept a secret, and then this is how we told everyone:


These shoes...I die. 


and gender?
What pregnant lady doesn't want chocolate chip cookie dough cupcakes?


Stuffed in pink or blue of course!


So where does that leave us? Well my little baby girl is one month old now, and I absolutely cannot believe it. I want to be able to have some memories of this absolutely amazing time in our lives as well as document it in hopes of helping someone :) So expect a whooooole bunch of recap posts

To those of you who have been here, thanks for staying...and for those of you who are new, welcome and I hope we can become friends!

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