6 Weeks to go!!!

So as I get closer, I get more miserable!!! :) It's so wonderful! I am so grateful to be having such a healthy pregnancy! Brody is growing like he should and I am right on track for giving birth. No contractions or anything yet. I almost feel like I'm not even coming to the end just because I haven't felt anything the doctor keeps asking me about. But I assume that is actually a good thing since I still have 6 weeks left!

Every week it seems I go through something new that I just love(that was sarcastic for those of you who coulnd't tell)...the last few weeks it has been an itchy belly! And I dont mean I sometimes have an itch...it's like I have a ton of mosquito bites all over my lower stomach! It's awesome! I have tried what seems like everything to get the itching to stop but I just keep itching! I find myself scratching my belly when I wake up during the night! I am hoping this wont last the rest of the 6 weeks!

I haven't had many problems with my feet swelling until I went back to work. By Friday they are huge and it hurts to walk...usually by Sunday my feet look normal again and I feel good walking...but that did not happen this weekend! They never went back down! It's never good to start out the week with swollen feet and ankles! I have put a big box under my desk so I can put my feet up during the day while I am sitting there. I think it has helped quite a bit!

Well I think those are my biggest complaints as of right now! I don't have the problem of having to run to the bathroom every five minutes yet, but I hear that will come when he drops and I will be able to breathe again, but will have to use the bathroom constantly! I guess we shall see!

So it's kind of funny but sometimes I image what it will be like when Brody is finally here with us and since he has been in my for what seems like forever, I can almost imagine him talking and walking right away! I know that's not possible, but I feel like he's already so old! The way he moves around, which is my most favorite part about being pregnant!, it feels like I know him so well and that we have these silent connections with eachother. I hope that doesn't make me sound crazy...

Anyway I am glad I got to write that all down! It feels good to get it all out! In the next few weeks Luke and I have decided to do the maternity pics! I am so excited for Dari to do those! They will be so fun! So hopefully by the end of my 4 weeks I will have those posted, if they are ready! I figured that would give me something to look forward to though! Yay! Dari took this pic by the way! I don't know about everyone else, but it looks like my nose has doubled in size!
Awesome...

30 Weeks!!!!

So I am officially in my 3rd trimester and am counting down the weeks! We haven't done anything to get ready for the Brody's birthday! I have started looking at all the big stuff that I would like to get, but with Luke working 24/7 don't know when we'll actually start getting them! Hopefully by September I will at least know what I am going to do with the room. I still have no idea if I am going to have a theme, or just a generic color scheme that I can use for all my children! I do have a few ideas but can't decide on one!

I feel Brody moving around all the time now! At least when I am sitting or laying down! I'm still not used to the feeling of it! It surprises me everytime! Especially when I can actually feel his hand or foot! Craziness!!!

I still have a bunch of other stuff to post, but it goes back to May, so I haven't decided if I want to do all of that! We will see...turns out even though I wasn't at work staring at a computer all day, I still hated being on the computer while I was off!

Everything is going really well though, Luke will be back to a normal schedule in a few weeks! Yay! I am really excited to have my husband back! Although it's nice to have the extra income. I will try, try, try really hard to get the rest of my posts up before the end of the week! I think it will lift a weight off my shoulders for sure! Love you all!

It's a Boy!!! & 25 weeks

So I just realized I never blogged about the sex of our baby!! I figured I should do it before I update with the rest of the stuff I have been meaning to put up here, which should be by next week! But We are very, very excited!!! Now I can put the room together and start figuring out what stuff we are going to be buying for him! He's already way adorable of course, I will put the ultra sound up when I put up the rest of the my posts. Anyway the name I have picked out is Brody Byron Orton...hopefully it sticks, as that is what everyone calls him now anyway! Luke doesn't mind it, he says it is growing on him, and since he doesn't really have an opinion about it that is what we will be naming him!

I also thought I would post a pic of me at 25 weeks! I grow more and more everyday, it's pretty amazing being pregnant. There is a lot the human body can go through, but this has to be the hardest and craziest. And yet somehow after all the stretching of the skin and growing of body parts, you can still somehow make it back to your normal self after a little bit. I do not think I will be one of the lucky ones that can just automatically get any sort of figure back, but that's ok, I do enjoy working out! Well mostly...it's the getting there part that is hard! So we are still way excited to be bringing this little boy into our lives! Most days it still doesn't feel real, but I suppose one day when I am holding him at 3am trying to figure out why he is still crying it will...

16 Weeks!

Well I have finally made it to week 16 and I am HUGE!!!! So I needed a break from work on Tuesday and decided to look up some baby stuff that I thought would be fun to read! Well I came upon some checklists and I thought, "Oh I love checklists! Let's see what I can start getting ready for!" So I first started with the daddy list, so I was going through it and thought, "ok I can help Luke with all of this, except what is the birth plan?" Every list I looked at it mentioned some sort of birth plan but never said what it was...anyone?? What the heck is that? Ok then I look at the hospital bag checklist and see I need to bring something to wear that I wouldn't mind throwing away later....had no idea, ok...then I need to bring some breast pads, forgot about those, ok....bring a book to read to pass the time during labor! what?? Am I really going to be reading??? Ok so at this point I start realizing that human I am growing inside me HAS TO COME OUT! I can't leave the hospital without that happening! Little freaked out...So then I move onto the baby proofing checklist....for those of you who have been to my house know that our house is nowhere near baby proof...how is that ever going to happen??? Danger everywhere! Help! Then it says I need to put together a few first aid kits to put basically anywhere I will be going. It says I should even put one in my diaper bag, so the first aid kit has about 40 items in it, but at the same time it says you don't need to pack the whole nursery either, but wont the first aid kit take up the whole diaper bag anyway?? Then when I started reading about what stuff I need for the nursery I realized I will actually be taking care of this child and that's when I ended the reading of the checklists! I was feeling so overwhelmed! It was a lot to take in all at once! Because at that point I really realized I have no idea how to be a mom! Any books I should be reading? Any advice for the hospital visit??? I need all the help I can get! Oh and I need to work out really bad, any advice there would be awesome too!

Anyway, just thought I would share that with everyone. It helps to get it out all my new fears and worries out in the open!

Kiss Your Mate Day!!

Ok out of all the funny holidays I like to put on here, this one has to be my favorite so far! So I say go crazy! Even more than usual!

Today also marks week 16 for us! Almost half way! Pics and longer post to come....

SPRING BREAK!!!!

So for spring break I went to Vegas for 2 days with my friend Sharay! We had so much fun! We got to stay in a suite at The Palazzo! It was very nice! The only problem with it was there were gross hairs in our bath tub, and even after we complained about it never got cleaned up! Even when they said the manager had come to inspect it, they never touched the tub or shower when they tidied up our room! Rude! But the rest of the room was fun! So basically we went to relax and lay by the pool, well it was only sunny the first day we were there and only laid out for about an hour, the next day it was overcast and windy! But we found The Fashion Show mall to keep us busy until we had to go to dinner and then our show! We ate at Margartiaville our first night, it was alright...we might not have ordered the right thing though. But being pregnant nothing sounded good but a salad! But we did get our virgin daquaries. They were tasty! Neither of us won any money, but at least this time I knew how to use those machines! I tried to play 21 because I have been practicing on Luke's phone, but when I finally got the guts to sit down and play I got I.D'd and didn't have my I.D. on me. The lady was very rude and told me to get off the casino floor! So I never got to play my game! :( Oh well I will just have to go back and play... Here are a few pics of the fun we had. I was a slacker and took like 10 pics so I picked the best ones...hopefully!

The King size bed!

The living room of our suite.

Cool volcano show outside the Mirage!

We got half price tickets to dinner for 3 bucks each! We went to Planet Hollywood! It was pretty good, and the whole time we have wanted cool cups that we see everyone with, but of course without the alcohol. Well we found out they are like 29 bucks so we settled for these from Planet Hollywood that light up! They only cost 7 bucks extra.

One of the Blue Men...He got blue on me though...:( Not good for a white hoodie! But they were very strange but very funny! They never smiled or laughed, just straight faced as they did stuff. I can't even describe what the show was like, it is just something you have to see! I would suggest getting tickets half price at the half price place at the Fashion Show Mall. The show was really fun though!

The cool band that played along with the Blue Man group. All you could see was their cool skeleton colors and the paint on their faces. They looked so cool!

Rascal Flatts!!!

YAY! Megan won tickets to the Rascal Flatts concert and asked me to go with her! This was the end of February sometime. They were so awesome!!!! And very hot! We had great seats, I think the best I have ever sat in for a concert! We had so much fun rockin out to them! I took like 100 pics, it was very hard to pick which ones I wanted to put on here. So I decided one of each of them! I highly recommend going to their concert though if you get the chance!