baby's first ultrasound! :D

today eric and i went to get our baby's first ultrasound! we were told it would come around mid- end of september (18-24th?) however i feel it will come early. don't ask how i know lol. we know we are having one beautiful, healthy baby, and we are too excited to find out in 6 weeks the sex of the baby!! give me your guesses (boy or a girl) and i'll post to say what percent of ya said a boy and what percent of ya said a girl k?
enjoy the ultrasound pic i posted above! sorry about the quality. it is the best i've got right now haha. yay to upcoming mother (parent-)hood! :D (if you can't view it then that means you will have to view it on facebook or look at someone else's facebook who has facebook because of the way the jpg is. sorry) :/

ps. what do you recommend, a bassinet for the baby when it comes or a crib? i am thinking I am going to be different and just buy a bassinet... what do you think?

Moving to Spanish Fork!

A few weeks ago, although we live in a great apartment RIGHT next to campus, I felt the urge to find something cheaper/ better. Don't ask me why. So we asked around, and a while ago we got a number from our friends, the Johansens (who recently had a way cute baby boy! his name is alex) for a place with 2 bedrooms for only 375 a month! (like half of what we're paying right now and we only have one bedroom right now). However, there was a "wait list" and considering the gracious price I was like "eh.. we are NEVER gonna get that so i'll just move on haha," but I got a phone call randomly this past week from the owner telling me we could moving in starting april 1 or earlier to number 4, which happens to be the one that is having EVERYTHING remodeled brand new! the kitchen even has granite (niiiice) counter tops and more! we are so excited and feel so blessed to get this 2 bedroom place for so little a month, especially now that we have our little one coming this year! I couldn't help but tell eric after finding out and seeing the amazing place, "It's totally gotta be them tithin' blessings, I tell ya! The Lord sure does love us. Especially this week. baha." So, we are way excited to move in soon! Most likely, we will be moving in in a couple of weeks. We already have several offers for our contract here, but we are hoping to get someone who will be willing to move in one month earlier so we don't have to pay for April, the month we won't be here. Eric is going to pick up this like pretty much new large capacity washer and dryer we found by word of mouth (another steal! geesh we are lucky) for only like 200, and I am going to show off the apartment to friends today because it has been so sunny the past few days! yay spring is comin! (hopefully... haha).

Oh and also this week: I have noticed my stomach starting to grow bigger now. People are starting to notice! yay to the awkward "i look fat not pregnant" stage going away soon! haha. and secondly.. I helped my mom start her own facebook! it took me forever to get the dang thing running last night but I added a bunch of pple that she knows for her on there and she is up and runnin now for business people! so add her if ya get a chance. she is a pretty "cool" lady .. bahaha.. i know i know.. lame sauce but somebody had to say it!

First Baby Appointment! :D

Today, Eric and I went to our first baby appointment here in Provo. We are still awaiting the exact due date of our baby, aside from their guesstimate of 10 weeks along and due in the middle of september, though. Due to not being able to guess (I guess??) we are scheduled to get our first ultrasound to better pinpoint the baby's due date a week from today so.. wish us luck! we are so excited and almost everyone is pretty sure that it is going to be a boy. If so, the name Ethan still stands firmly. :> In addition, my doctor prescribed me anti-nausea meds so that I can actually begin to eat food again (apparently, after being weighed, I lost over 5 pounds in this past week alone... not good i know lol).. so.. yay food!!! I have been literally starving allll week lol.

In addition, apparently, fraternal twins run like crazy in both sides of my family like 2nd and 3rd generations back so.. I just know we are bound to have twins sometime! haha twice the baby, twice the fun as they say... :>

Baby excitement and sickness...

First official baby appointment on the 17th!
So far I have gotten the blood work done and it seems a whole bunch of other unfamiliar tests (i have never even gotten a shot or blood taken before now! aka never been hospitalized lol) and are just waiting till our appointment to find out the exact due date of the baby. We are very excited to find out! We feel it will come early september. Possibly on my sister's or my grandma's birthday!
Also, I recently heard about the old wives tale of the hair/ wedding ring test. Apparently, you take a piece of your own hair and put it through your wedding ring and dangle it over your stomach to find out the sex of the baby. If it dangles in a line then it's a boy. If it dangle's in a circle, then it's a girl. I tried the test and guess what it said... it's a boy!! Eric and I have felt it's a boy with like this weird severe surety for a few weeks. Don't ask lol. We just know haha. We are excited for (we think lol) Ethan to develop further! Apparently he is no bigger than an inch right now.
Aside from all this, this week has been my first week of nausea and until today, it has not been too bad. However, today, I awoke at 5 am feeling like I had dehydration cramps and severe nauseousness and this lasted all day long until this afternoon!

ps. any mom advice from those of you who are mommies already.. feel free to dish it out on me because this is our first! lol