Smudge moved!

So it finally happened.... I was laying in bed Friday morning at work and though I was awake I was not quite ready to get out of bed yet. While laying there... I felt the baby move! At first I wasnt sure if I was really feeling it or imagining it... but it felt like popcorn popping inside of my belly. I layed there for a few more minutes and felt it again. It was the strangest feeling! I havent felt it again since then, but probably because Ive been so busy that when I hit the bed at night Im asleep and then I wake up and get moving right away. I know soon enough it will keep me awake all night making its presence known!

Jenna and Savannah came to visit yesterday while Brad went to the Florida - Georgia game in Jacksonville. Shawn actually stayed in and watched the game with us, which was so sweet of him. I think he wanted baby time! He had so much fun playing with Savannah, and she absolutely adores him. Its so amazing how much she has grown up in the past few months. She had lots of fun crawling around the house, and I think Allie had fun running around the yard with her cousin Peyton. She actually went and layed down in her crate last night before it was bedtime just so she could get some sleep, poor thing. All in all it was a nice day, and Jenna and I got to swap clothes (her digging through my pre-pregnancy things that I have boxed up and me getting to borrow all of her maternity clothes.) What else are sisters for? It was great to get to spend time with them... and Jenna is the best Mom... it is so fun to see her with Savannah.

And my first official week of school is over... with all of my assignments completed and in on time. YAY! Its strange being back in the "student mode...."

The Hippie Show

Here is a picture of Kristina holding my neice Savannah Belle from a recent Florida football game....

Last night I had to work at a concert at the University of Florida bandshell. The band was called the String Cheese Incident, which I had personally never heard of so I didnt quite know what to expect. Apparently they are really big with the hippie crowd.... so for 8 hours I got to watch flower children dancing around barefoot and smoking pot in the middle of a field at UF. Needless to say it was quite interesting. I was amazed at the impressive amount of hula hoopers that there were walking around with their hula hoops and dancing. The music was actually fairly good, but the people watching was much better!

I am finishing my last 48 hour shift today and tomorrow.... my last trade time to pay back from vacation in early September. Then all of the additional hours I work will at least be overtime and not a trade.

Shawn is at home finishing the nursery today.... he tried to get the new paint on the walls Friday while I was at work but ran out of paint before he could finish. It was still a very nice surprise to get home Saturday morning and see it almost finished. The new color matches perfectly with the bedding, so I cant wait to get the walls finished and hang the valence so we can see how it all looks together.

I start back at school tomorrow... which will be the first time in almost 2 years that I have to be studying! But Im sure it will fly by... I am taking Accounting and Medical Ethics this semester. Ive emailed with both of my professors already and they seem very cool. So far my entire experience at Saint Leo has been very positive... they are very helpful and nice to work with. Next semester I will be eligible for a FRAG grant, which is a grant they give people in the state of Florida who choose to go to private schools. I should get enough money from my grant to pay for all of my classes, so hopefully school will basically be free for me! That would certainly be nice.

I talked to Helene last night for awhile. She is having a coed baby shower, which seems like it will be fun. She says she has a bunch of games for the guys, including one that challenges them on "Daddy skills" so that will be funny to watch! I cant wait to go down and see her and Jim... the last time we say them was in July and it seems like it has been so long! Her baby is due in January and she is having a little girl that they plan on naming Lana. She said she also has some maternity clothes for me... so it seems that I will have quite the wardrobe to choose from, which will be nice.

We went down to Macintosh yesterday before I had to be back at work. Shawn and Ben's boss has a huge house down there so they had a barbeque while the festival was going on. I didnt get to stay very long, but definitely had fun while I was there. Shawn ended up talking to one of his friend's wives who works in the financial department at Shands and said they just posted a job that Shawn would be very qualified for with his background in banking. She said for him to get his application in and she would make sure it gets looked at, so we are keeping his fingers crossed. It would combine banking with healthcare, which is what he was looking for, plus it would be 3 12 hour days so that would work out much better for us then him working every day.

Our Nursery Theme

Here is a picture of the theme we have chosen for the baby's nursery. I think it will mesh well with the beach them of the rest of the house. : )

Fifteen Weeks

Well as of yesterday I am officially 15 weeks pregnant. I finally figured out my due date and it is Friday the 13th of April! Good thing I am not superstitious about things like that!


I had a doctors appointment on Wednesday and so far everything is going well. I absolutely love my doctor... he is so nice and funny and treats me like an equal instead of a patient which is nice. I am so relaxed around him. It doesnt hurt that he is family either! The other night I was sick so Shawn called him at home to see what medication I could take... cant beat that kind of service!

We got to hear the heartbeat again, which was the first time Shawn got to hear it. As soon as he put the doppler on my belly we heard it, which was cool since he didnt have to get my stomach all goopy with gel trying to find it. It is still in the high 150s-160s, which has my mom and sister convinced is a girl. We will find out for sure next month... November 17th as of right now. Shawn is going to take a day off of work to be able to go which is nice because the only appointment they had was in the middle of the day. So then we will know if we are having a pink or a blue Smudge! And everything I have read says that I should be able to feel the baby move probably sometime next week or so.... and I cant wait for that. I think that will make it real.

Last night we went to dinner with friends, which was very nice and unexpected. We went with Kristina and her boyfriend Billy and Megan and her boyfriend Gene, who is like a cousin to Shawn. So that was very nice... and Kristina, the wonderful friend that she is, had a glass of water waiting for me when we got to the resturaunt with an umbrella and a piece of fruit in it so it looked like a cocktail. It was so cute.!

Jenna is out right now in search (hopefully successfully!) for the diaper bag I fell in love with last weekend. She is going to try and snag it for me, so if Graco discontinues the pattern I can have it. I love my little sister and she has so many great suggestions on how to get everything organized before the baby is born! She told me that she actually preordered her birth announcements before Savannah was born and had the envelopes sent to her so that she could work on them before she had an infant to deal with. I never in a million years would have thought of that!

We got the nursery bedding last week.... we are doing an Under the Sea theme, which fits great with the beachy theme of the house and all, and it pretty gender neutral so it wont matter if we have a boy or a girl. It is so adorable and I was so excited to get it.... now we just have to find the furniture that we like!

Allie says HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

 
 
  

Date Night!

Well since I am sitting at work and am actually NOT busy for once, I guess I may as well update this. This weekend I actually got to visit with my mom, my sister, my neice and my brother in law... unexpectedly. It wasnt under the best of circumstances, as it was because Miss Savannah was sick... but it was nice to see them and to get to spend time with them. It was great too for Shawn to get to spend time with my family, especially since I spent an entire week with his parents when we went on vacation!

Other than that, not much is new. I have actually had 2 vomiting -free days in a row, which may not seem like much to celebrate... but trust me, it IS! Maybe as the dreadful first trimester ends things will be getting a little bit easier to deal with.... I certainly hope so! And I am not working as many 48 hour shifts in a row anymore... so I (almost!) feel back to my "normal" self.

Last night Shawn and I had "date night." How silly that you have to schedule a date night with your boyfriend who lives with you... but so it goes when we both are as busy as we are. We got dressed up (okay, I wore jeans, but these days anything other than a work uniform or pyjama pants is dressed up!) and we went to Yamato for dinner (the baby has expensive taste already!) We had a great time... just hanging out the two of us (and the other 5 people at our table) and talking and having fun. It was like the days before we knew I was pregnant and all the stress began... when we didnt have a care in the world. It was wonderful to have our date... and it reminded me of the million reasons why I love him. Then we went home and laid in bed playing with Allie and we watched football... I cant imagine a more perfect night. We even went through the baby name book my mom got us and talked about names.... (though I think we rejected more than we decided were maybes!)

We find out in about 5 weeks what it is... thats when I think I will start planning a lot more. Though I am going to order the nursery bedding this week....