Describe a Favorite Vacation From Your Married Years..

I have decided to randomly find blog topics and share my thoughts on them. I am doing this in hopes that this will turn into something more then a journal. I do not know how it will work, but here goes nothing.

"Describe a favorite vacation from your married years.."

Surprisingly, even though Shawn and I have only married since 2008 we have been able to go on a few really neat trips. We went to padre for out honeymoon. We ended up staying leaving padre and went to sea world in San Antonio. We went on a cruise for out babymoon. I would have to say that I would like to do it again, only next time not pregnant. I would have liked to not have ended up in the ER in the Bahamas. We also went to Disneyworld, which I really want to visit again, not pregnant as well. Out of these there is still one trip that Shawn and I went on together that was better then all of these, our trip to Deleware.

In august 2010, Shawn and I loaded up our then 5 month old baby and started the long journey to Deleware ..... by car. Shawn didn't want to spend the extra money on a plane ticket ( go figure). We actually really enjoyed the road trip and we could not have asked for a better baby. We made it all the way to Kentucky in one day and got the opportunity to stay at my Grandmas house. It was really a treat because I had not been up there in a really long time... and she is a amazing cook.

The next day drove the rest of the way to Deleware. Our mutual best friend, is stationed up there and we wanted to take this opportunity to go see him. He has had alot change in his life and we kind of wanted to get a chance to catch up with him. Anyways, we got to Deleware and met his new (to us) girlfriend. We got in really late so we hit the hay,

The following day we just hung out, recouped and tried to stay away from the car.

Dover is about a hour away from philadelphia, so the next day we took a day trip over there. It wasnt what I expected but we did get some great pictures. We got to eat at both "geno's" and "pat's", two famous philly cheesesteak places. We liked pats. We also got to go see the liberty bell and where the declaration of independence was signed!

The following day we took the two hour drive to have a day in D.C. and can I just say that I love that city. It is so pretty. We got to see the Lincoln Memorial, the Washington monument, the white house (from afar) and the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. It was amazing. We did have a slight problem following "TOM TOM" and ended up walking about 10 blocks in the wrong direction at the end of a very long day, But Dc was my favorite of the trip.

The next day was spent hanging out with our friends and getting to chow down on some yummy food our friends made for us.

Then all of us took at trip to none other the New York City for the weekend! It was really neat... The only downfall of the whole trip..... MY CAMERA GOT LOST WITH ALL MY PICTURES FROM THE ENTIRE WEEK ON IT! Needless to say I was not a happy camper. But we did have a great time. I can now say that I have been there and seen things like times square which is unlike any place I have been in my life. I can say now that I have seen at least in part central park, and the statue of liberty (although we missed the tour to ellis island by 3 minutes) . We saw the empire state building and the famous Swartz toy store. We had a blast and really enjoyed our visit.

Our first family vacation I have to say is my favorite vacation that I have been on in my married years to date. I would like to go back to all of the above places again as most of my pictures should be reshoot (lol) and there is some stuff that I would still like to see. All in all though, it was a great trip filled with moments I will treasure and never forget about.

It has been to long

I need to get back into blogging. I have not been posting and that is just unacceptable. I like to use this as a way to see where I have been. Along time has gone by since my last post and my life is so different. I have a beautiful healthy baby girl and she is now 8 and 1/2 months old!

I am going to try and post a few pictures. Not as many as on facebook lol. But i want to share just a few favorties here.

The one above is a picture of her when she was just a week or so old. She was born on may 6 2010 and was 5 lbs 11 oz. A tiny little thing that had already given Shawn and I a run for our money before she was even born. I spent weeks on bed rest with this little one because of fear of early delivery. I had a few hospital stays, and one Emergency hospital stay while we were on our babymoon in the bahamas. We ended up needing to have her 2 weeks early and had to have a cesarian because of a thing called preclampsia that I was beginning to have. I was terrified, but happily everything worked out just perfectly and my recovery was actually pretty quick.

I will share more pictures in the upcoming posts I am sure as I love taking them!

There have been many changes in our life, and I believe that they are all for the better. Our life has been greatly blessed by the addition of Lillian to our family and I am excited to see what God has in store for us in the future. It will be a fun journey I can assure you as these last 8 months have been. I look forward to sharing about those as we as a family have been taking things... one day at a time.

12 weeks

This is the last week in my first trimester. I cant believe that this is 3rd of the way finished. I have no been keeping up with this as much as I wanted to but oh well. I will get to this when I get to it. We have had some new developments in the last week or so. My BIL's Gf is about 5-6 weeks pregnant. I think it will be interesting and fun to share this experience with someone. She is a few weeks behind me and a few years younger so in a way she feels like my little sister.

Wednesday we have a sonogram that is supposed to analyse the risks of our baby having down syndrome. I am not to worried about that BUT, the doctor did mention that at this sono we might be able to find out the gender. I am so excited to find this out. I really really hope that we are able to find out now as opposed to next month. I will be dissappointed if we cant find out till next month but oh well.

No weight gain, no strecth marks, my belly is starting to harden up which is really exciting :) I am on nausea medication now because i cant keep food down without it. This baby definatly does not like mexican food....which sucks because that is one of the only types of food that I like.
I will post more pictures after the sono on wednesday.

6 weeks!

Sono. Shawn and I went to the doctor for our first sonogram! We got to see and tiny itty bitty embryo that will be the baby! We also saw the heartbeat. There is a little bitty arrow that point to the heartbeat. It looks like nothing in the picture above but seeing it on the sono was just amazing! I have another sonogram at 9 weeks. Im so excited that we have a little bean!

7 weeks - Interesting week

I am so lame at actually keeping up with this weekly but ya. This week has been a little nuts. I was off from work from wednesday on because I got sick. Apparently I caught some sort of flu bug. I went to the doctor and they said that they think I have the flu, and put me on tamiflu because they were worried that if I did have the flu or the dreaded H1N1 I could end up in the hospital before the test results even came back to let me know if I had the flu. He also said that I could have some crazy long word that basically amounts to a bladder infection that has moved to my kidneys that could be causing me fever. The doctor also said it could be both so he gave me tamiflu for the flu and amoxicilin for the infection. It was really scary because I dont have a normal family doctor so I didnt really know this doctor and did not feel very confident in him. I called my OBGYN for a second opinion and he said that it was ok for me to take the medicine and to stay out of the general public....in case I was contagious. I have been getting these little spouts of nauseousness...which really suck, but no m/s sickness yet.


How far along: 7 weeks and 3 days

Total weight gain: I have actually lost weight...but my weight is shifting. I can feel certain parts of my tummy tighten...its weird!

How much does baby weigh:Not sure yet, but the bump says baby it the size of a blueberry.

Maternity clothes: not yet...but very very soon. My pants dont fit right....like at all!

Stretch marks: Nope not yet

Sleep: Getting better. DH and I are finally figuring out a way for us both to stay comfortable. Of course I am still waking up multiple times during the night to use the restroom.

Best moment of the week: Umm this week hasnt been to great with pregnancy stuff. I have been really nervouse this week. I woke up the morning to find I had some bleeding while I was sleepin. The doctor said that the kind I was having was normal, but I am still a little nervous

Movement: No baby movement yet...the only movement is my food...trying to stay down!

Food cravings: Ramen soup...could be from the flu.

Belly button in or out: Inny

What I miss: Drinks with my sister.

What I am looking foreard to: Oct14th sono. I am looking forward to hearing the doctor say thet despite fears of the flu and swine flu and kidney infections and bleeding, that all is well and baby is good. I really hope to hear the heartbeat too.

Milestone: Seeing heartbeat last week.

"Baby is the about the size of a blueberry. Average embryo: .51 in. Baby's brain-- both hemisoheres!-- is growing fast, generating about 100 new cells every minute. Arms and legs are emerging as joints start to form, and a permanent set of kidneys (baby's third!) is now in place. " -- the bump.com

update

Ok I am trying my best to remember to update this thing so I can go back and remember what was going on throught this journey...but I have not started out very well.



I am now 4 weeks and 5 days pregnant. I went to the doctor yesterday morning and had another hormone leverl screening. The nurse called in the afternoon and said everything looked "Bueno". She knows I am still very nervous, so she booked a placement appt for us.



The placement appt is a sonogram that they do to make sure the baby is where it is supposed to me. Ya ya whatever. What it means to me is that on Septemeber 28th at 8:30 I will get to see our baby! Im so excited. Shawn is excited, but I dont think he will realy be as excited as I am until we see the heartbeat and our little seasame seed starts looking like a human baby instead of a tadpole.

Whatever it is pretty dang exciting.

How far along: 4 weeks and 5 days

Total weight gain: Im not sure yet.. I acutally think I have gained some..I will have to check

How much does baby weigh: I dont know yet. First appt Sept 28th

Maternity clothes: Not yet

Stretch marks:nope

Sleep: I am having crazy dreams with people I know in them, and am finding it hard to stay sleeping with the frequent trips the the bathroom in the middle of the night

Best moment this week: Finding out we are going to have a baby!

Movement: Implantation Cramps for sure that make me look like i have eaten a baby elephant!

Food cravings: Celery... well that was at least until I ate it this morning and now I dont think I will eat it again for awhile... my mouth is doing thing ucky thing where I think I might be sick

Belly button in or out: Of course still a inny

What I miss: Caffeine. I have a really really bad addiction to it and cant go cold turkey.

What I'm looking forward to: Seeing baby on the 28th!

Milestone: BFP on September 11th!

BFP

omg i could not even believe the thing when I read it. Im going to try and get in with the doctor today.. just wanted to post something here to get this excitment out!