our wee babe...

the beginning of this story isn't super funny or even that interesting:  boy meets girl- they get married- and decided to start a family...  it seemed that simple and really it was EXCEPT that emotionally it was so much more personal than i ever realized...

deciding to have a baby was easy.  i'm 27 and we were both just ready and really wanted to start our family.  i also really wanted to have my first baby here in vegas where i am surrounded by my mom and my family... i'm a total mama's girl and wanted my mommy to be close by. ha!

it was an interesting roller coaster from month to month getting hopes up and then being disappointed... i became so much more sensitive to others around me that were going through the same thing.  i never want to ask "are you pregnant yet?" cause sometimes its just not that easy... and then you have to share your disappointment of not being that month... and then once you are you kinda want to keep it private for a little bit but its hard with everyone asking "are you prego yet?" haha... anyway. when may hit i really had a feeling i was.. but i'm too impatient to wait for the most telling sign... so i took a test... like 6 days early... and it had the faintest of faint positive lines... i didn't even tell chris cause i wasn't sure... i mean i knew it meant i was pregnant but it made me nervous being so faint... so i took one the next day with the same result... i came out and showed chris and he was like... ok?  haha having no idea what the 2 lines meant... i said i thought it meant i was pregnant but he was a little hesitant to get excited... i told my mom and she was the same way... i think its because the line was so faint.  but it was there and i KNEW i was!!! so for the next 4 days i kept taking the test till the last time and it came out with 2 solid dark pink lines... yep positive!!! chris was more excited at this point.  we set out and told our families right from the start... i had wanted to wait and tell the general public till later and really held off as long as possible...

after my first appointment it became much harder to not say anything... i wanted to tell everyone about that tiny heartbeat beating like crazy and getting the real visual confirmation that there was a baby inside me... surreal moment!  well... as time went on we told more and more people and now here we are at 10 weeks and we've let it out.  my family will tell you i have NEVER been able to keep my own secrets... NEVER.  i get too excited and its all i think about and i am usually one to share thoughts... therefore people end up knowing.

we are so excited!!! its funny to think how we are going to fit a little one into our tiny apartment that i have packed full already... but i am willing to pack up lots of stuff to fit a little one into our lives.

how am i feeling??
- i am super bloated and already look pregnant at almost 11 weeks
- i am nauseous all the time... zofran helps a little but not always
- i am sleeping a lot.  i'm not working so when i don't feel good i just sleep.  i dont sleep at night except random 3 hour spurts so i'm usually sleepy in the day
- i haven't puked at all... not once so i count myself lucky and feel i can't complain too much about the nausea since i can still eat (usually)
- i feel as though i have lost my mind. i forget things and get lost in the middle of sentences forgetting what i was saying

that is about it.. i will brag that chris has been amazing through all of this!  he does the dishes... all of them which is a bigger task since we don't have a dishwasher.. and he takes out the trash... and he never complains when i don't make dinner for the 4th night in a row.... he tells me i'm beautiful and to just take it easy.  i'm spoiled and in love.