There's a Baby in There

I haven't mentioned much about being pregnant aside from the fact that I am pregnant. Uh.

I have a baby growing inside me. It moves, it makes me gassy. Instead of sleeping all over the bed in fifty different positions, I am down to two. I pee three times as much as I used to, and eat every two to three hours. But my hair is growing in nice and healthy, and my hormones feel more balanced now than ever before.

I can't tell you how many women I have talked to, while at the salon, who tell me that they loved being pregnant. They go on and on about how they felt the healthiest ever. Not one sick day the entire nine months. Everything was perfect and they have had like fifty kids or something.

I'm not going to lie, from my perspective, being pregnant is really uncomfortable and not so glamorous. I started getting the whole morning sickness thing at about five weeks and didn't get over it till about fifteen weeks. Following that, I dealt with some massive headaches for two to three weeks. And now, I am just getting over a cold. I am totally a fan of ibuprofen, caffeine loaded migraine pills, cold syrups, and inhalers. However, my medicine cabinet is reduced to Tylenol and Benedryl. And apparently my hips are widening now. My rear end often feels like I have been sitting on a giant rock and after a long day at work I have a slight limp and screaming heels.

I can still wear regular clothes. Although, for comfort purposes, I occasionally wear the maternity pants or attach a Belly Band to my waist. I can't seem to find any cute maternity tops though.

I know. I am a whiner.  

But, there's a baby in there.

So here we are. Almost six months pregnant. Baby boy. No name for now. Just baby. And in love. The other half of the pregnant story goes like this.

I am pregnant and that fact is absolutely amazing. Starting a family has been a subject for discussion between Brett and I since we got married. I wanted kids but I wasn't sure when that would be. I literally woke up one morning in our last apartment and had to have a family of my own. Now that the opportunity is here I can not explain how grateful I am for this opportunity to be a family of three.

I wake up everyday and look down at my belly, thankful that I am getting bigger. I am thankful for the little frog hopping feeling inside that let's me know my baby boy is strong. I can't wait to see his little eyes and munch on his baby toes. To give him a cute little mohawk and watch him walk in his first pair of Jordans. I want to listen to him jabber on in baby code, teach him all about my favorite scripture heroes, tell him about the family he comes from, and tell him I love him.

Baby...

He's in there and I will gladly take nine gas infested months for him. So until the end of May, keep a few air fresheners on hand. I can't help or trade my bodily functions.

This Year...

I've been dealing with a bit of a cold these past few days, which really stinks when you are pregnant. There isn't much you can take to get it out of your system. 

Anyways, since I was feeling miserable Sunday morning, I ditched church to get some much needed rest. Any sleep past 9AM these days results in a massive headache, which is also hard to cure being pregnant, so I didn't sleep in as much as I would have liked. After I got up, I looked up some New Year's resolution articles on LDS.org. I came across a talk by Elder Jeffery R. Holland, titled "The Best is Yet to Be." It really didn't cover resolutions, but more looking forward into the New Year and not dwelling on the past but learning from it. There is one quote that I would like to focus my year around.

As a new year begins and we try to benefit from a proper view of what has gone before, I plead with you not to dwell on days now gone nor to yearn vainly for yesterdays, however good those yesterdays may have been. The past is to be learned from but not lived in. We look back to claim the embers from glowing experiences but not the ashes. And when we have learned what we need to learn and have brought with us the best that we have experienced, then we look ahead and remember that faith is always pointed toward the future. Faith always has to do with blessings and truths and events that will yet be efficacious in our lives.

I love how he defines faith. As members of the church, I think that each day we set a goal to be a better person, so that we may be worthy of specific blessings and those blessing come through faith.

Elder Hollard's talk wasn't quite specific to resolutions, nonetheless it did inspire me to add to my list of things to do this year. That being said, I have always been bad a making resolutions. I think of them and that's about it. I came up with something things I wanted to accomplish this year about twenty four days ago, and that's about it. However this year, I thought it would effective to make them goals, to write them down, and maybe take advantage of the inspiration I received from Elder Holland.

This year...

I want to read the Book of Mormon at least twice. I am hoping for three, but two is the minimum. I'd like to have round one done before baby boy arrives

I want to spend more time studying my primary lessons. The lessons leave so much room for more studying and I honestly love the stories.

I want to keep a weekly journal. I used to be so good at this in high school. Reading back on old embarrassing entries actually offered some really amazing personal insights.

I need to blog weekly too.

Keep my kitchen clean. Brett and I are the worst at letting dishes pile up. The kitchen doesn't even have to be spotless, there can be a dish or two in the sink. Or even a box of cereal on the counter. I just want it it take three minutes to clean when it gets messy, not thirty.

Hang pictures up. I am horrible at hanging a frame without a picture. I have tons of picture on my computer and like three on the wall.

Start a food storage. I have been meaning to do this for the past three years, and this time it is getting done.

Three things I can do by myself and three things Brett and I can work on together. Since we are twenty four days into the year we have just started some of these, but others, like the kitchen thing, have been amazingly successful. So, this time next year I will report back and see how I did. Wish me luck.

Dear 2010

Last year I wrote to your brother, 2009, about how I almost zoned out that year. I reminisced on fourteen things for 2009 that seemed eventful enough to blog about. Now even though 2009 had forty blog posts and 2010 has only twelve, I am positive this past year has been more eventful than the last.

As a matter of fact, this year has been more than eventful. I have so many wonderful things to report about. We have had so much fun growing up this past year and are so excited for the events to come this year. Hopefully I can come up with more than fourteen things to reminisce about this year, many which probably didn't receive a blog post. Here's to 2010!

I got a job as a stylist at Ulta

I quit working at PostedProperties.com

We got a puppy named Deagan

Brett turned 24

We bought a house

We got called to be primary teachers

We got a puppy named Emma

Vacationed to California

Had lots of sleepovers with Brooke

I turned 22

Went to a Jack Johnson concert

Vacationed to Washington DC to visit the Allphins

Ate at DC Cupcakes and paid too much

Worked way too much on yard work

Installed wood floors, painted, and decorated our home

Celebrated our first Christmas in our home and hosted some parties

Found out we going to have a baby

Found out it was a boy

And more to come this year