16 Weeks

How Far Along? - 16 weeks 4 days

Total Weight Gain? - 3 lbs sinces my 12 week appointment so a total of 2 1/2 lbs.

Stretch Marks? - nope!

Sleep? - it has been a lot better since I got a huge body pillow! I still wake up about two times a night tho.

Best Moment This Week? - My friend let me borrow her doppler and it was so fun to be able to find the baby's heart beat all on my own in my bedroom. Me and John were all giggles.

Miss Anything? - My hot showers and sleeping on my belly and my back.

Movement? - I have thought so but its hard to know because this is my first pregnancy.

Food Cravings? - cheese! pretty much anything with cheese will please :)

Anything Making Me Queasy or Sick? - stinky people ;)

Gender: - unknown

Labor Signs? - no

Belly Button in or out? - in

Wedding Ring, On or Off? - on

Happy or Moody most of the time? - happy but I definitely have my moments!

Looking forward to: my 20 week ultrasound appointment in about 3 weeks! I can't wait to find out what this sweet baby is!

Baby is the size of an: Avocado

Baby's development this week: 5 inches long and 3 1/2 ounces the size of my open hand. Baby is listening up now, the doorbell will actually startle it! And baby's fingerprints are starting to develop.

Baby Alice

I recently spent the day at my sister Michelle's house. We had a fabulous lunch and I took a bunch of pictures of her new sweet baby girl Alice. She sure does move a lot! I have some pretty funny pictures with the faces she was making, but here are a couple of my favorites!

When ever we laid her down she never wanted to look at the camera but I think this one looks great.

Our Big News!

On December 17th I took the test and it didn't take the full 3 minutes to see that I am pregnant!

We are clearly super excited about this news. A question everyone has been asking is if we were trying and YES! We didn't want to wait any longer to make an addition to our family!
On January 27th I had my 12 week appointment and got to hear our baby's heart beat. For me that made it real and official. I'm really having a baby no doubt about it! So two days later on my birthday we told my family when they came over for cake and ice cream. I was surprised to see our clueless everyone was to our news. I don't have any pictures of that because John just took a video of there reaction. I'll post that soon.
Then January 31st we got to pick Max up from the airport after returning home from a 2 year LDS mission to Argentina! We spent the day catching up with him. We saved his christmas presents so he opened all of those and he gave us the souvenirs he brought back. One of the weirdest things he had was a mug made out of a cows hoof..

But after all of that we broke the news to the family and they were just as surprised and shocked as my family was! But finally what a relief the world knows!

Just about one week later when I was at 14 weeks I started to show! Good thing we told everyone when we did. Here's a picture of me at 14 weeks. I look bigger in a dress..