Life has gotten a little more exciting around these parts.

Paul and I are expecting our first little one January 2nd, 2014!!  We are so amazingly excited we can hardly contain ourselves!  This year may bring a lot of changes as we go through this pregnancy, Paul will finish manager class, and then will begin applying to stores and we may move come January/February, but it is all in Gods hands, I pray he lets us stay in our house and Paul gets a job around here, but if not, I am excited for the adventure.  Maybe just not excited about the possibility of moving with a newborn. :) 

We told our parents and siblings on mothers day.  I made them cards and they had these pictures inside. We facetimed with my parents as they opened the card because we weren't able to get together with them that weekend, and then Pauls family came over for Mothers Day Brunch and we told them then.  

I feel like my belly really popped out this week.  I am still trying to swim 4x a week and would like to keep that up through the whole pregnancy.  Some weeks I make it 2-3 times but I am getting there! 

Paul laughs at me because I said we couldn't buy anything till baby was 12 weeks and then when baby hit 12 weeks I immeaditly started decorating the nursery.  To my credit all I have bought is that chair (I got an awesome deal) and the curtains and the rod, which I bought at Ross so they were also pretty cheap.  I am going to look at a crib today so I hope that goes well!  The left wall will be painted grey (the color of the swatches on the wall) and the dartboard on the right wall will go.  And that will pretty much be the nursery.  Low key, gender neutral, all reusable stuff, most of it we already had. Oh I did make the banner though with $1 worth of felt, and its now my favorite part of the room. :)

Other news.  Paul and I went on a 1.5 hour hike to look for grouse a few weeks ago.  We hiked through brush and all sorts of stuff, we did end up seeing one grouse (bird that Paul is going to hunt in Sept. that apparently tastes like chicken) but that's about it.  It was a nice relaxing, low key day off together. 

Cravings are no joke, I don't know if you had them Becca, but man do I get an inkling for something and really want it right that minute.  We were shopping at the supermall and you have to drive by wendys to leave.  We ended up making an impromptu stop for fries and frostys.  It is a good thing there isn't a wendys closer because we would be going way more often.  

The little kids to the right are all my friend Gabes neices and nephew.  They were moving out of their house (which Gabe was living in too) so I was over helping move Gabe and say bye to the kiddos. They are moving up north after they spend 2 months in Korea.  

My new favorite clothes include anything stretchy.  My low belly has definitely begun to grow and I hate things to be tight.  But along with a growing belly baby's heartbeat has gotten super easy to hear.  I bought a doppler for $30 on amazon and I can hear baby's heartbeat whenever I want to.  I recommend it to anyone who is pregnant, it's so fun, and so comforting to hear baby trucking right along! 

Along with arranging the nursery I had to rearrange my craft room and the linen closet (as I swapped furniture and emptied the closet in baby's room).  I love my craft room even more now!  (even though it houses a litter  box, cat food and water, and their scratching tower.)

I have been eating a TON of fruit lately.  Raw veggies sound super nasty to me ( I am praying my appetite for them comes back soon) so fruit it is.  I am also struggling to eat enough protein in a day since all I want is pasta, pizza, soda, and fruit.  I have been making myself eat healthy though, just I am still low on protein.  I am working on it though. 

I was wayyyyyy past due for a haircut!  I went yesterday and it feels so good to have a cute, short, light, airy haircut again.  I keep thinking I may grow my hair out because it is so convienent to throw it back in a pony tail, but I keep going for haircuts, so I guess right now is not the time. :)

And that's all for now!  I am just glad to finally have some energy back.  From 4-11 weeks I was taking 2-3 hr naps every day and getting 9-12 hrs of sleep a night! And I was tired for all hours inbetween! Thank goodness that has passed, for a while at least!