Let the Photos Begin

5 Weeks


7 Weeks (Joey held the camera crooked)


8 Weeks (I thought I was getting bigger so I took it a week early)


10 Weeks

Another 10 Week a little closer up.

Those are the belly pics thus far. I definitely have gotten bigger lately. But I don't mind, I love that my baby is wanting to be seen. :) I went to the doctor today for a checkup. Everything looked great. We got to hear the baby's heartbeat via doppler. It was a little difficult for the nurse to find, Baby Antebellum was moving around quite a bit. He/she just grew muscles and I guess was trying to get a good workout in. The heartbeat was 167 beats per minute. Dr.Adams said that is picture perfect healthy heart rate. Yay!! I am exactly 10 weeks today. What a relief! Dr.Adams also said weeks 8-10 are the worst for symptoms and soon should subside. So I feel super blessed because I have symptoms.. but are minimal and very easy to deal with. So.. I would like to take this time to thank Jesus for helping me and baby feel good. But also I want to send Jesus a reminder that it is fine to give me more symptoms.. just keep Baby Antebellum healthy.
We scheduled me next two appointments today. I think at the next one they will start to measure me. I am very excited for that (is that weird?). And then June 10th I am scheduled for a sonogram to find out what this little jelly bean inside of me is. Please feel free to leave a comment on what you think it might be. I have NO CLUE! I have had a lot of dreams that I have a boy. I even had a dream at the end of December that I delivered a baby boy and they handed him to me in a santa suit. The baby was soo cute, with blond hair and was so little. So in January I actually bought a baby santa suit because I felt like Jesus was sending me a message. But.. who know. I am so anxious to find out though!!

Oh Man We Were Living

As most of you know by now.. my womb is occupied!! I took down the for rent sign in my uterus because it has been filled. YAY! It has been filled for approximately 9 weeks 1 day. And let me tell you it has been amazing. I have been to the doctor and have had 3 ultrasounds. Might I say that my baby looks amazing! The last heartbeat was 176 beats per minutes which is a very healthy rate. Did I mention how smart my baby is? Oh ya.. really smart! It is so smart that it was growing 1 day big at last photo shoot. Ya.. Baby Reids brain is so full of knowledge that it had to grow 1 day bigger. :) Also..Baby Antebellum Reid is now an embryo. An EMBRYO! Getting so big, they just grow up so fast. I haven't been able to see any photos since reaching this milestone (it happened yesterday). But I do have the widget in the right hand corner for you to keep tabs on the growth. Don't be embarrassed if you check it daily.. I do.

Symptoms wise I must say I am doing pretty good. I have only had mild (very very mild) nausea. It is just the kind where I say in my head "I feel a bit nauseous right now" and then out loud I say "Lets eat, I'm starving". Holy cow, Baby Reid currently requires 1 calorie and yet constantly tells me shes/he's hungry. I am hungry non stop! But it is a hunger that is not satisfied.. ever! I am starving, so I eat and then 10 minutes later.. starving. I don't know what to do about it. Dr. Adams says to eat whenever I am hungry, but I don't think he realizes how hungry I am all the time. I have been trying to make good choices, like fruit and yogurt, but sometimes my choices aren't so grand. Things I love.. fruit, yogurt, milk and ice cream. Things that make me want to vomit: hamburger (I just threw up in my mouth while typing it), steak and ... any kind of meat really. (Ok not ALL meat) :) The first two are the absolute worst. They sound awful.

Next symptom: My irritable bowel should no longer be called just "irritable". I think I will now call it Raging Pissed Off Bowel Syndrome. I have approx 5 minutes to high tail it to the bathroom once the heat waves and stomach cramps hit. There is no cooling measure option by rolling down the windows when it is 20 degrees outside.. oh no that measure has been taken away completely. There is also no option to hold the sphincter muscle closed or attempt to pucker the butt closed (sorry for the TMI). Those options have been revoked entirely! I have to quickly run to the bathroom or else. I think you know what the "or else" option is. I will stop on the Raging Bowel Syndrome as I do not want to offend or gross you out while reading my blog. I just never knew this would be a symptom. And although I take all my symptoms and rejoice that I have symptoms because I am finally uno pregnato.. I was taken by surprise with this one. But that's fine, I tell Jesus all the time that I will gladly take any symptom he wants to give me. As I frequently say.. BRING IT!


Well thats all I have for now.. I will definately update you within the next couple days. I have some belly photos to put up. I know its early.. but we must start somewhere. :)

Maybe A Little Something

For months I have been looking at this blog. I would look at it and want so badly to write on it. But like I had said before, I was waiting to start writing again until my womb was occupied. Truth be told, for approx 2 weeks my womb was occupied. I found out I was pregnant on February 4th and started bleeding on February 5th. Darn you aunt flo. She loves me so much that she just can't stay away. Maybe I should start buying the non fluffy pillows, make her less comfortable. Needless to say... I was devastated. I wanted that beautiful little bean more than I can ever attempt to explain. But I do believe that things happen for a reason, so I have glued my heart back together and decided to get back to work. It is a bit difficult these days because nearly everyone who has decided to start trying have been impregnated on the first try. THE FIRST TRY! How does that happen?! BLAH! I am happy for them though. Jesus knows how sucky this route of TTCing is! Since the last time I wrote I have quit doing some things though. Such as: I quit praying for things that don't warrant a prayer. Such as... when I am driving in my car and am having an irritable bowel attack, I no longer pray that I can make it home without pooping in my pants or my car. If I poop in my pants... I poop in my pants. I am not going to waste a cherished prayer that could be used to help me get pregnant on not pooping in my car! I also have quit wishing. I don't wish on 11:11 anymore. Its pointless and disappointing. I have, however, started to pray almost 3 times a day. I pray to our wonderful Jesus and also to Saint Gerard. I have decided that next time I get pregnant I will name the little sticky bean Gerard. It will hold the name Gerard until the sex is decided, at which time the adorable sticky bean will then be called by thier name (Anthony, Dominic or Adrianna). Alright.. enough about that! I will be sure to post more before too long.




Here is a picture of what my baby looked like before Aunt Flo evicted him/her. Shes a jerk. (Important to note- my baby was not as sticky as this one)

On The Mind

Day 2 of 2 at work and I can't stop thinking about babies!! This is about the time of month that I start to feel impatient and antsy. My right lower abdomen has been sore tonight and someone said "Maybe you are ovulating". Yay!! I love it when my eggs decide to make an appearance... they just haven't decided to appear when Joeys swimmers make their appearance. Maybe they are shy? They better buck up because Reid/Ahring babies are NOT shy!! Or.. maybe they are. Frankly, I don't care if they are outgoing or shy.. I just want them NOW! :) Tonight JonAnn told me that her sister tried for nearly 1 year before getting pregnant and it gave me hope. I always read about these people who try for over a year and require IVF. That just SUCKS! I do not want IVF! I want to do this thing naturally. Alright alright.. I am going to try and quite thinking about it because we are not technically trying this month. I just need to calm down, relax and just enjoy my husband. I just wanted to share my thoughts.. even though they were a bit lengthy and .. of course about TTC! Thanks for listening (reading) guys.

I Just Couldn't

I'm sorry .. but several days pass and I just kept looking at my blog. My poor little page with no new updates. So I just HAD to writes SOMETHING. I figured that we aren't trying this month anyway.. so if it prevents pregnancy this month I won't even know or have my hopes up. Alright.. lets get real about this. EVERY month I get my hopes up. But... I will not press the TTC issue this month so it shouldn't hurt as bad. Alright.. that's enough of TTC talk.. I could just go on and on about it. You know how I love to talk about my FBR (future baby Reid)~!
On another note.. I am freaking exhausted today! I worked Friday and was off on Saturday. So I slept from like 0830 to 1245. Then I cleaned up the basement (not a small task). I picked up all the trash and boxes, swept the floors then shop vacced the baseboards. Joey and John finished up the fireplace crown moulding. It looks AMAZING!! I am super excited about it! So after we finished up down there Joey and I laid on the kitchen floor for a while. We frequently do that... just lay on the floor and rest. I am pretty sure that nobody else ever does that.. but we certainly love to. Then we went to the store and picked up all sorts of goodies for dinner. Joey made steak, baked potato, mushrooms and garlic bread. Can anyone say delicioso! And I made some chocolate chip toffee cookies. They too were delicious. After that it was back down to the basement for us. Brent even came over to help with all the basement festivities. I am pretty sure that if Brent hadn't came over that we wouldn't have went back to down there to work. Thank you Brent for helping us be productive. Alright.. so then I painted the bottom of all the walls. We didn't get done until 1245. Holy cow is my back is killing me! But overall it was a very productive day. Ok, finally that leads me to today. Joey woke me up at 1045 and said we were going to Nebraska Furniture Mart. He had to pick up a stove for a property so he wanted to look at bedroom furniture. Well... WE FOUND SOME FINALLY!! Yay!! I posted some pics of the furniture. Unfortunately we won't get the set until March since it is an order out. But that's ok.. we have waited this long. We didn't get the mirror to go with the nightstand. It seemed unnecessary.


Then we found this curio in the clearance section. Joey got them to go down an additional $50 from the clearance price. YAY! He is such a good salesman! This curio is going to go in our front room. I am super excited about it! Then we found this curio. Sorry the picture is so small.
It will go in our dining room to put our fine china in. Joey bought some fine china for Christmas last year.. but it has remained in the buffet because we didn't want it to get broken. We might cancel this curio because Joey thinks it might be the wrong color. Who knows! But I am super excited about everything. The only problem about today was 1. I felt like my body had been ran over by a truck and 2.I had to work tonight and I woke up early and didn't get much of a nap. I got home at like 4:30 and tried sleeping until like 5:50. Overall I think I got about 30 minutes of sleep.. but over an hour of rest. And that 30 minutes actually did make me feel tons better!

Sorry for another long blog entry, but obviously it takes a while to explain approx 3 days worth of activities. :)

Until Further Notice

ATTENTION: Per the request of Ashley Wrecke I have decided to stop blogging for a while. I will restart my blogging adventure once I have been blessed with a growing uterus, nausea and excess urination. Ashley reported that people with blogs "don't get pregnant". She is not sure why.. but she has noticed this trend. And frankly.. I have as well. So I am sorry for the inconvenience, but I will attempt to enjoy my blog free time. Thank you and feel free to leave comments on how you feel about Ashleys request.

Too Long!

This might be the longest I have went without blogging. Sorry for the delay!! Much has happened.. Halloween, The Election, Broke my big toe...maybe! I guess we should start with Halloween. It was really fun. J came over in his cute lil elmo outfit and was talking TONS! I can't believe he is already 2 years old. He is so grown up now. Keeley was a scary witch and Sophia was a princess with blue hair. It was fun all around. We had 8 bags of candy and ran out by 9:00. I felt awful because there was a lonely kid that was dressed as a pizza chef and we had already turned off out light. I hope he had already gotten a lot of candy! I was doing my best to only hand out 1-2 pieces of candy.. to make it last. But around 8ish a little girl came up and helped herself to a hand full of candy... HOW RUDE! If her dad wasn't standing there I would have taken a few pieces back.. alright I probably wouldn't have. But shoot, I was already running low! This was the first year that Joey and I had handed out candy and it was tons of fun!! It was hilarious to see all the kids costumes. Unfortunately Joey and I hadn't been feeling all that great that week, so we were both a little tired and cranky by the end of the night.
NEXT... THE ELECTION!! So I did my patriotic act and voted. I must admit I was so concentrated on the presidential election I didn't look up too many of the local candidates. However.. I refuse to vote on someone that I don't know much about. I did that once, the result... Matt Blunt. WOW! He was a very poor choice!!! I felt really proud after I voted, I fulfilled my responsibility.. I helped determine our future. :) I probably don't need to tell you that I voted for Barack- I Baracked The Vote. I knew he would win, I really did. And in my heart I wanted it to be a close election. I wanted John McCain to have a lot of votes. He is so darn cute and old! I just wanted him to think that he almost had it.. just not quite. However Barack came out the very popular candidate. I might have shed a couple tears with his concession (is that how you spell it?) speech. How sad! He said, "The people have spoken and they have spoken clearly". Aww, tear. Then he told the crowd that it was his fault that he lost (which is was) but DANG! Why does he have to make us all feel so sorry for him! How about I vote for John McCain as the cutest old guy in politics? Is there an award for that? With that said I think I should say I have a lot of hope for the future and I think President Obama is the best man for the job!! YAY Barack Obama!!
Next up on the list of things that happened... Joeys grandma died. She was on hospice so it wasn't a surprise. She died on Monday and she went pretty fast once she started to go. The family is doing good and Debbi (Joeys mom) is doing surprisingly well. So I am definitely thanking Jesus for that one. ( I have yet to thank Jesus for the baby growing in my belly because... THERE STILL ISN'T ONE!!) I know Jesus... I'm still giving you time. But PLEASE BE SOON! Ok, I am done talking to Jesus on my blog.
Ok, I know you are wondering about my foot. Thank you for your concern. So I was at Pump It Up on Friday, a place with tons of blow up bouncy things and blow up obstacle courses. It was my friend Christas sons (Jack) birthday party and Christa had challenged Joey on the obstacle course. So Joey had hurt his big toe by jumping over one of the hills and falling strait down on his toes while they were curled. He told me about it and said that his toe "hurt really bad". I thought "ya, ok.. sure. that must suck". Then I went to race Megan on the course and I did the same darn thing on the opposite foot. I think that it is a reflex to tuck those toes in and BAM, then you fall and put all your body weight on those poor little piggys. I had to drag myself through the rest of the course. On the top of my big toe there was a rug burn and a little bit of blood. (Joeys was the same way) I even had to cancel my extra for Saturday due to the possibility of it sucking to walk the next day. I was acting like a true baby. But then later when we got home my foot was really swollen and tender. I have a really bad bruise to my big toe and right above it. My toe and foot look really swollen but they are actually just fat. I think my mom mated with Barney Rubble and got pregnant with me. Christa assessed my foot and then compared it to my other foot and said "You know, your right foot looked really swollen until I saw you left foot. And that is a really bad nail polish." She then proceeded to remove the nail polish. Thank you for the help Christa! Megan also assessed my foot and said "You really don't have pretty feet".
Thanks for all of the encouragement guys! You totally helped my self esteem. Christa also told me "The wool socks weren't your best choice". My feet may have stunk a little bit due to the heat inside the puffy socks.
I just wanted a soft cushion for my poor little fat foot!

**Important to note that this IS NOT my foot or leg. I just thought it was funny and proved my point**

Well guys, I think that is it for now. I have much more to discuss but I have rambled on long enough.