It's A...

Baby!

Hunter and I went for what I thought would be my 9 week appointment and our first ultrasound. Surprise! We're actually 14 weeks along and our new due date is May 6th, 2014.

The ultrasound tech was pretty sure it's a BOY as well. At 14 weeks it's still really early to tell. And of course everyone has now been telling me their story of being told it was one gender to find out a few weeks later they were wrong. And one particularly terrifying story where the tech thought it was twins, then a girl, then a boy. Yikes. Time for a second opinion, anyone?

The ultrasound was honestly one of the coolest experiences I've ever had. Cool seems like a pretty lame word to describe seeing your baby for the first time, but it's all I've got right now. I still keep picturing him moving around in there and I swear he was waving to us, Hunter laughs at me every time I say this but it really did look like it.

When the appointment started out, before I even had time for my eyes to adjust to what we were seeing, the tech assured us there was one baby not two. Then she exclaimed well you are definitely not 9 weeks. A few measurements later and she had confirmed we were actually 14 weeks along. It feels so weird to have lost a whole month off this pregnancy. As if we didn't already have enough to do and decisions to make, a shortened timeline sure adds to the stress. But that's ok, because I'm just choosing to picture that amazing baby moving around, sucking his thumb, and no matter what Hunter says waving his hand saying 'hi momma!'.

Baby's First Vacation

As I mentioned we went down to Henderson to visit my parents. While there we had such a fun time hanging out with them, seeing the Hoover Dam, and hiking at Red Rock Canyon. It's been a long time since I've been able to spend such a long time just hanging out with my parents. I spent 7 days there and it was so wonderful to relax, shop, and play some tennis and bocce ball.

After spending a week at my parents, I had another week long training in Vegas for work. Another successful week hiding little shark baby.

Happy Grandmas and Grandpas

Telling our parents was one happy experience all around. I was so excited to see their reactions but never predicted how awesome they both would be. I thought it would be fun to tell them in a cute way, so I got them a frame that said,

"Tiny Fingers,

Tiny Toes,

Rosy Cheeks,

 & Button Nose"

And where the picture goes, I wrote "Picture Coming June 6th, 2014".

When Hunter's parents opened it they both welled up a little bit. It was so wonderful to give them happy news and see how much it meant to them. Hunter's Dad even said "It's been a while since I've had a bouncing baby on my knee." So cute, can't wait to see that.

We went down to Henderson to tell my parents in person (which by the way trying to hide pregnancy from your Mom, even over the phone, is really really hard!). When my parents opened their frame they both screamed with excitement. 

This little shark baby is going to have the best Grandparents that's for sure. Can't wait for all the fun, spoiling, and good times to get here! 

The Next 7 Days...

You wanna know what's the best thing to do immediately after finding out your pregnant? Get on a plane and go on a work trip across the country for 7 days with a bunch of coworkers who love nothing more than grabbing a drink after the exhausting 12 hour work days. NOT!!!

Literally the next day after finding out I was pregnant this is what I did. Not fun. You know what's worse than being nauseous, exhausted, and having horrible headaches...not being able to bitch about it to anyone! I'd like to pretend like this view helped, but it did not because it wasn't even mine. I had a glorious view of the air conditioning units. I stole this one from a coworker.

Oh well, at least I learned a valuable lesson that I probably would have been wise to learn in college. If you are surrounded by a bunch of drinking/drunk people, if you just pretend like you have a drink in your hand nobody will suspect you. So little shark baby (this is what Hunter and I have taken to calling our baby after reading this, plus it sounds bad ass and "monkey" was already taken by our dog) if you are reading this in 20 years you just go ahead and remember that little nugget of advice in college.

I'm going to be a what?!

The beautiful way women get to find out they're pregnant...squatting trying not to pee all over everything, waiting 3 agonizing minutes, and then running through a million emotions while standing next to the toilet. Aren't we so lucky? Doesn't this just sound like such a beautiful moment?

Well I wanted it to be a little more fun and special for Hunter. I was off work that day, so I decided to cook a nice dinner and set the table using our beautiful wedding china for the first time ever! I thought this alone would tip Hunter off on my little secret (I mean we have been trying for 4 months, I thought he would be a little suspicious). He was confused for sure, but clueless. So then I gave him his gift...

Three minutes of Hunter looking at the window cling, looking at me, looking back at the window cling and he finally asked "Are you pregnant?" still unsure. Hahaha why yes, Sherlock, I am and you're going to be a Dad.

Oh Baby! Here we go...

I don't particularly like pictures of pregnancy tests, because really how many things do you pee on that you would actually take a picture of...and then share it! But what the hell. I have a feeling I'm about to experience a lot more things I never thought I would do, so why stop now.

Speaking of things I never thought I would do, this blog. I'll be honest I love reading my friend's blogs. And I've followed parenting, pregnancy, mommy blogs for a long time now (it's a guilty pleasure of mine). So why I thought I would never do this, I don't know. But I decided I might want to remember some of the many changes happening right now, but I'm sure there will be a fair share I'll want to forget. If you want to be scared of all things pregnancy just read this list. Don't worry, you'll have a good laugh too.

So here we go. Upon first sight of those two pink lines, I laughed, cried, screamed and threw up. I'm sure I have lots more of that ahead of me for the next 9 months...let's be honest probably 18 years + 9 months.