Photos

I just updated our picasa albums but here are some highlight photos:


This is crimson clover...there are fields and fields of it right now, it's so pretty and red!

Issac, Bryan & Lisa's little one.

TJ and I!

TJ & I with Charlotte, our houseguest! And my haircut...

This is my peony...we planted it last year and I thought it died. Turns out they hibernate in the winter! I'm looking forward to this bud flowering.

My long hair before I got it cut.

This is at 9 weeks. Only a little bump. :)

End of May

I'm not getting on the computer as much these days...there is not really any comfortable position between the desk and chair and computer, and evenings have been rough so I've rarely been turning on the computer!

Feeling a bit better now at week 9 1/2. Am thinking a bit more clearly through the nausea, and getting some breaks in the waves. We had a scare last week when I went into the doctor with horrible cramping and some bleeding. Baby S is fine though and among other things the midwife seemed to think my cyst was part of the problem. So until the cysts bursts (or they decide to remove it) no more twisting, bending, medium lifting, jumping or otherwise doing anything that could make it twist.

We had a houseguest for a few weeks, our friend Lisa's mom Charlotte! She was a great houseguest and even cleaned our house top to bottom for us before she left! Our bathroom wasn't this shiny when we moved in and we are in awe of her cleaning skills.

We're still working on our garden, slowly weeding and planting. We got some watermelons in this weekend but still have a large portion of the garden to go. We hope to rent some of the youth from Lisa & Bryan's church to help us weed...they make money for their summer trips and we get help with weeding!

We have no plans for the Memorial Day weekend, just planning to stay home and relax and work in the garden. I have more pictures to post but at the moment am not sure where my camera is and think it's probably in the car. It's raining at the moment so I think I'll wait till later to upload more photos!

May Has Arrived!

It is surprising how fast April went by! I think the biggest news for April was finding out I am pregnant! Donna had given me some of her old tests and on the 7th I had tested. A very light "pregnant" line appeared. The test was expired so I figured it was just an error. Got another test that night...and the next morning...and the next morning...and don't you know that pesky line still was there! I had a pre-schedule doctor's appointment on the 9th and they ran some bloodwork to confirm the pregnancy, and that night the doctors office called and said "Congratulations! You are pregnant!"

As Donna says, "a line is still a line, no matter how faint it is." She said this a lot in response to my "but it's only a faint line..." comments. :D

On the 18th I did a very relaxed Pampered Chef show at Kris & Andrea's- and writing this reminds me I need to place those orders today!!

I had my first appointment with a midwife on the 22nd. They ran a lot of bloodwork to test for the most fascinating things, and she guessed I might be around 8 weeks. I squeezed the ball longer than I was supposed to while giving them my blood and still have a huge bruise.

I had an ultrasound on the 28th to try and figure out how far along I really am. The ultrasound tech said I was 6 weeks, 2 days. How can they tell? I don't know. She thought my due date would be around December 18th. Hopefully baby will come a bit earlier! The ultrasound tech also found an ovarian cyst on my left ovary. I was surprisingly glad about this because I'd been having some sharp pain there for a month and thought I might have a hernia. The midwife said the cyst should just dissolve on it's own soon.

This is tiny baby...the two + signs are the crown and rump! The photo says the baby is .54cm...I'll be 7 weeks tomorrow so maybe baby is an inch now!

Baby news has been our biggest focus this month. I'm feeling tired a lot and finding that as Adele said, "it takes a lot of work to make a baby!" I can't do as much at all or I'll get very nauseous and sore. That cyst acts up too which doesn't really help anything. Today is Saturday and we're enjoying a sleepy rainy day at home.