Howe Sweet Life Is.: Bein Prego.

It's more than halfway through the year...and this is my first post of 2015.

Obviously I've been neglecting my blog.

Just a little bit.

That's okay though, because I've been busy with work, my wifehood duties, and being pregnant!

I'm already 27 weeks!!!

Time keeps ticking away and soon this little time bomb is going to burst.

Soon as in 3 months! Minus 3 days, but who's counting?

Zach and I are sooooo excited to become parents!!

We feel incredibly blessed to have this privelage of being entrusted with one of Heavenly Father's children. One of His daughters.

Pregnancy has been quite the adventure. I have stepped into the great unknown.

We found out on Valentine's Day (awwwe, how special) and let me tell you...I never knew how I would feel until that very moment.

I was so ecstatic then nervous and joyful then worried...so many emotions!

I guess you could say the hormones had already kicked in.

I could not believe the happiness I felt, but also the fear of life never being the same again and my best not being enough as a mom.

I quickly sent those doubts away because YES, life never would be the same. It will just get better! It will be difficult a lot of the time I'm sure, but the best things come from sacrifice.

Our lives will be so blessed.

Heavenly Father will be there right along with me. My best might not be good enough, but His best is always good enough.

We had planned to have this baby and God had answered our prayers...and we were and still are SO happy and thankful.

My second trimester is over next week. I'm hoping that the third trimester will be just as nice as the second. I've been feeling great! I can't complain at all. My ankles swell up at times but then I just prop them up on a pillow at night and just like magic they go back to normal by morning.

Although, there was a span of a few weeks there when I had intense back pain. The pain would cause my hearing to fade and I would have a hard time standing. I had to breathe really deeply and put hot pads all over my back. It would wake me up a few times a night and I'd make the painful walk to the microwave to heat the miracle workers up again.

I'm still not quite sure what caused it but the doctor gave me antibiotics for a UTI and said that it may have affected my kidneys. At the same time that I was taking those antibiotics my super cool physical therapist sister gave me a bunch of amazing stretches to do that would help my back. I think the combination of the both of them made it feel better.
I've been doing those stretches religiously and I won't be stopping anytime soon!

My first trimester was pretty good considering I didn't throw up at all, but I had a close call at work one day. Whew! Sooo glad I didn't barf all over the 7th graders I was teaching that day.

I was a bit nauseous at times. My tastebuds were acting so weird. Food that I normally loved made me want to barf and pretty much every healthy thing that I should have been eating while pregnant did too.

I'd try so hard to be a good wife and cook Zach some yummy chicken or veggies for dinner, but when it was cooking all I wanted to do was run outside as far away from the smell as possible.

The story ends well though, I survived. All of the dill pickles though...did not.

I craved and ate them all. Along with any fruit in my sight...but I think that happens even when I'm not pregnant.

So, there you have it. Much more went on but you can't write it all.

She kicks all the time (mostly when I'm laying down to go to sleep...foreshadowing of my near future?) and I've felt her hiccup!

Sometimes she even kicks hard enough that I can see my stomach move! It's pretty funny.

I love being pregnant and I'm loving living every day at a time.....but I am beyond excited for this girl to join our little family.

Time, go FASTER!!!!!

26 weeks

27 weeks