Coming 3/21/2012

i made this shirt for k....

we went to dinner and then came home for the big reveal.

daddy hadn't seen it yet...

once he saw it they had some time to talk about daddy daughter stuff. lol.....

i bet you want to see the shirt..... :)

Our big announcement that I have been dying to tell everyone!

K is going to be a big sister!!!!!!!!!!!!!

it's even harder for drew to keep the secret, he asks everyday if we can tell everyone yet.

it's cute!

she loves her new shirt.

she talks about the baby in mamas belly.

i took 2 tests before telling drew (he wanted it to be this big thing. lol)

so hard to keep a secret like that!!

then i had to take two more tests.....he didn't quite believe me. this was our first month of trying. I didn't take pics of that. sorry. lol. you get the point. :)

then we had to wait forever for dr. appt.

our trip to cali came right when it was supposed to happen.

so the day after we got back, we had our appt!

everything looks good!

had our ultrasound and heard the heartbeat.

(drew almost passed out/hyperventilated. lol.)

k thought the doctor was taking the baby out right then! lol.

i just took pics of the paper...it's the thermal stuff so it's basically fragile.

i miss getting hard copies and a picture every week.

it was very nerve-wraking. with k i could see her every day and KNOW everything was ok. but i had to be patient and trust in the Lord that everything will be ok.

the baby measured about 10w2d, 2 days ahead of what it should be by my lmp.

so a due date of 3/19/2012 or 3/21/2012 (what i go by) right before our 1 year anniversary!

super awesome!!

So grandma Jane and grandpa Craig will get 3 grandchildren in 1 year! (Kendall, the Smith baby, and this unnamed baby!)

we are SO excited!

I am about 11 weeks today. and am barely starting to feel better again.

the morning sickness has kicked my butt so far. ugh! I don't remember it being this bad with k. the peak of it was, of course, on our cali vacay. fun! so it made my car sickness waaayy worse. made me miserable. with k i could eat and feel better (thus i gained a miserable 10 lbs in the first trimester!) this one....the thought of food made me sick. i lived on soup for so long, it was so good. i forced myself to eat real food because i knew i needed to.... then regretted it when it made me feel worse. not fun. Sweets make me more nauseas, the thought of chocolate or reese's pieces, yuck! I would eat sour things though. (i will let your mind wander on what i am having with the cravings! lol)

so i am now getting to the point where i am hungry and need food.....but still look in the pantry and nothing looks good. hopefully the nausea will be alll gone by this weekend! (*fingers crossed*) it's still better than before, thank you! Ginger tea helps. but that's not so yummy! lol.

we plan on finding out the gender, so we will post about that.

I feel like i'm showing already! :/ they say it shows quicker with the 2nd but geeez, 11 weeks? i wake up looking normal, but by the end of the day....there's a bump!

well, that's our BIG news! Glad we can finally share it.

Glad I'm back vertical and have the energy to post. Maybe I can get started and finish up some of these projects....maybe :)

Final of the day.....

(love this! via lee la la)

Ok this is my last blog post for today...PROMISE! :)

this is just a teaser....

since I have caught up with my blogging (for the most part)

it's time to share so FUN stuff!!

So come back tomorrow and you will be happy you did!! :)

Cali vacay....Day 4

more pics! sorry, it's the last vacay post, i promise!

Funny thou, this wasn't our last day in Cali! This all happened on Saturday and we didn't leave til monday. oops. guess I didn't take anymore pics.....or my battery died and i can't find my charger.

We headed to Huntington Beach. Aunt Rayma and Uncle Wayne are the YSA coordinators and stake reps... they had their YSA regional beach party. So we tagged along. We are YSA program success stories. lol.

k had so much fun walking around on the beach!

she loves it. no shoes either! atta girl!

daddy would carry her for a bit thou, she's kind of slow....or just goes on her own little pace. i call it lali-gagging.

i love this pic. they're so cute together. Miss K loves her daddy!

amber's cute belly! she's like 26 weeks here :)

with uncle wayne

k is just excited.

she would stay in the sand but run back and forth to me and amber, who only got our toes wet. lol! it was coold!

she would come up say "alright, alright mommy?" and once i said yes, she would run away back to her sand pit where she was safe. then do it all over again. lol. she had to make sure those waves weren't taking us away. lol!

her sand pit. someone had dug a hole and she stole it.

they weren't there anymore, i swear. lol

loving it!

the men had more fun in the water. they got tossed a few times on their adventures.

Jared even hit his head on some rocks! yikes! but he was okay!

At about 2 we left, got k cleaned up and in the car. we were going to walk to boardwalk and maybe buy something. but she fell right to sleep in the 5-10 min drive there! lol. so a detour to wal-mart and drive back down to Oceanside to have dinner with my brother and jonathan.

We went to Rockin' Baja Coastal Cantina.

I love this place. years ago i took jon there with my good friend fernanda and her daughter, jade, when we went to Disneyland and I got to go thru the san diego temple.

It was still as good as i remembered it. the location was a different one, but the food was still good. I got my fish taco i had been craving, k got to eat some crabs. that child was eating everything. even stole some of jons chicken. lol.

On sunday we went to church (all 3 hours! pretty good for being on vacay!) Then all the families in the area, all of aunt rayma and uncle wayne's kids that live in cali came by for a BBQ. it was yummy. amber and i made cupcakes. Mine were better, just saying. lol. then we played scattergories! lol!! that was nothing but laughs!

The next morning we left and had THE LONGEST drive EVER. oh my. i hated it.

it was worse than driving across country. seriously. I was never SOOOO happy to be back at amber's house. Then the next day we took the 4.5 hour drive home. ugh. not cool. we were SOO glad to be home!! it took a lot out of us and we needed lots of recovery from it.

But alll well worth it! :)

Cali vacay....Day 3

oh my...lots of pics this post.....

So we headed to Oceanside this time for the beach.

another long drive.

k was always in the sand.

the boys had some fun with the wakeboards.

they definitely needed the rash guards.

they came back all red an nipple chaffed. lol.

my brother, james and Jonathan came over from Yuma for a visit!

oh....and ambs and i got pedicures before we left!

hooray for cute toes that i don't have to hide in the sand

my beach art as i walked on the beach with my hubby!

we ran into this "river" type thingy. on high tide it's very wide and goes far into the land.

so it was low tide and it was not so wide and deep.

plus...it was warm water!!

niiice.

it would have been a great place for k since she won't get in the water.

but we ran into j & a with miss k on our way back....so we turned around to show them.

k ran the whole way. she loves running on the beach.

it's so funny too.

and she's in the water!!!

sucess!

it was awesome. she kept talking about walking in the river

cuute!

then, we got back to the ocean part. and she still stayed in the water!

awesome!

she had some fun.

and we got some good pics!

we had our rock/shell collecting bucket.

notice all the sand on the girl's face?

my fav pic of the day!!

after getting home we ate some yummy pizza and hung out for a little bit.

by 10 we were spent! we went to bed soo early. lol.

Cali Vacay....Day 2

So we decided to head to Corona del Mar for our beach adventure

it took like an hour to get there.

no lie.

the driving was my least favorite part of the trip.

seriously. i get carsick. it's NO fun!

I tried the sea bands. no help :(

so i just tried to fall asleep on every drive.

makes me no fun. but oh well.

as soon as we get there, k busts out her tools and gets to work!

we were camped out next to a day camp.

they were a fun bunch of little kids to watch.

I took up a spot in the sand and put my toes in.....disregard the piggies and chip job. sorry, i didn't have time to get a pedi!

it was overcast and cold.

the men didn't care and got right in!

they crazy!

amber and i took a seat....she even got all bundled up in a towel. seriously it was cold there.

typical. that's how i remember so. cal being.

we finally convinced k to put on her suit (she didn't want to stop playing!)

the started building castles

they finally came in after a bit.

should have gotten rash guards.

drew decided to bury himself saying, "Why am I burying myself? Shouldn't someone be burying me instead?"

lol. yes. but i'm not getting up.

finally k decided to help out. she didn't get very far.

then they decided they needed to wet the sand to make a legit castle.

k didn't want to go in the water though. lol.

she put the bucket upside down to trap the water! lol it was cute!

he hearts me!

miss sandy hands.

she got sand EVERYWHERE!

always on me. of course. lol.

we went for a walk to collect shells

and there was a wedding down at the end of the beach....i wanted to be nosy. lol!

such a pretty beach.

they played and played.

then we left....we got there at like 10ish? and left about 12-1230.

I'm sure the sun would have burned off the clouds some if we waited, but we just went back.

amber and I laid out in the backyard when we got back. we couldn't feel so defeated. lol.