Its a BOY!

Well, it's official! We will be welcoming a little boy to our house October 1st! I am very excited, and a little nervous at the same time! I am used to taking care of girls! Destry has been saying its a boy the whole time, and I had no clue what it would be. He even went so far as to say we didn't need an ultrasound because he was right...haha. Needless to say he is VERY proud of himself. It was priceless to see the look on his face when the tech showed us that he was a he...our baby boy definately isn't shy about who he is! We chose the name Brevan a long time ago. We wanted to name our little boy after his grandpas without using the same name...so I thought about it and decided on Brevan (my dad's name is Evan and his dad's name is Brad). It works out perfect and I love the name!

This is me at 21 weeks. I am feeling rather large at this point, and it scares me that I am only going to be getting bigger! I dont look at the scale anymore, because really, I dont want to know how much I weigh. I just make sure the doctor says Im gaining the right amount and try to not look at what the scale says. The weight gain part has been hard for me, just because I have spent the last 3 years being a freak about it and running marathons. Its hard to not go out and run hard core, but I know it will be worth it. I am still excersizing and I even jog a little bit, but I dont excersize anything like I was doing before. I think a 20 miler on a Saturday would kill me right about now :) I stick to a Denise Austin aerobics/strength trainimg video that she made specifically for pregnancy, take the dogs for walks and jog a little bit. Somedays, Im too tired from chasing 18 seven year olds around the school, so I dont get anything done, but thats okay! I think sometimes working full time and being on my feet all day is work enough! Im feeling a lot better than I was the first 4 months. I don't want to repeat that again, but I'm sure I will the next time we decide to choose another little baby to enter our family.

As for next year, that has been a brutal decision made with a lot of tears and prayers. My boss really wants me to stay next year, and at first I thought it would be great to stay, but the more I thought about it, the sicker I got. They even went so far as to offer me the part time kindergarten posistion. There is nothing wrong with working and being a mom, and I have struggled with my decision, but in the end we have decided that it is going to be best to stay home next year. We looked into the cost of daycare and gas to get to work, and in the end, it wasnt worth it. I want the best for my kids, and I know that I can't offer that with my job. I get home from work at night, and I feel like Im done for the day. I want the opportunity to be a better wife and be a good mom, so I am going to see what its like staying home for while. I feel like I have spent the last 5 years running around like a chicken with my head cut off. I am so excited and feel blessed to have the opportunity to be a stay at home mom for awhile. I will be teaching piano lessons a few nights a week when Destry is home to help out with things, and hopefully taking some classes towards my masters degree, but for the most part, Im just going to enjoy my little baby while he is little. :)

Baby O

17 weeks

14 weeks

(Baby O. 11 weeks)

(Baby O. 7 weeks)

I have been horrible about blogging, but I am really going to try to be better now that there are things going on in our lives that would be worth writing about. Between working full time and being sick full time, I havent thought about coming to the computer and actually sitting down to blog. I think everyone knows by now that Destry and I are expecting our first little one on October 1st! We are so excited for this little guy/girl and I cant wait to meet them. It was definately hard waiting for this special little person to become a part of our lives, but it was worth the wait.

As of today, I am 19 weeks. We find out in 2 weeks what we are having. Destry is convinced that it's a boy, and I don't have a clue. The only thing I really care about is whether it has 10 little fingers/toes and it gets here healthy. The morning sickness is still around, and unfortunately, so is being sick at night. I have acid reflux, so that has made it 20 times worse. Lately, I have been really sick at night, and just a little nausiated in the morning. I am definately glad to be doing better than I was for the 1st three months, but I am still not loving the throwing up part. It amazes me that you can grow a gut when you are throwing up all the time! Being pregnant really makes you appreciate your mom/other women who have done the same thing.

So far I have had 2 ultra sounds, and they have both been great. It is so fun to see how the baby changes over a few weeks. I wasn't supposed to have a 2nd ultra sound, but they couldnt find the heart beat at 12 weeks, so they decided to make sure everything was okay. The tech couldnt get the baby to sit still long enough to actually see how fast its heart was beating for a few minutes. Baby O. is sitting farther back, so it's harder to find the heart beat with the doppler. I can feel the Baby O move around quite a bit now. It mostly moves at night when I am home and resting. I think a lot of that has to do with the fact that I am constantly on the go chasing 6 year olds all day, so I dont have time to feel it.

Besides being sick, I'm just tired, but thats something to be expected. I get home from work and I am wiped out for the day. I only have 20 school days left, and I am DEFINATELY counting down the days. Without going into details, Ill just say that I have had a hard class this year, so I am needing the break. This summer is going to be my time to rest and get ready for baby. I havent been able to do much with my crazy schedule, but I am hoping to have more time once I'm not at work.

Destry has been a saint through this whole ordeal. He has become the master chef of the house. There are just some smells that I could not handle the first three months, one of them being hamburger. Hamburger is the devil! The texture, the smell, and the taste are horrible and lucky for me, we have a freezer FULL of it! I have had a very hard time cooking anything, and he has been great to help out at night. I think the funnest part of this whole pregnancy is to see how excited my husband is. He is so great, and I can already tell he is going to be a great daddy. He is always talking to the baby, and is so excited to be a dad. It is definately worth all the sickness when you see what a great husband/dad he is going to be. There are so many feelings of love that a baby can bring into a household and I love it! It is so hard to describe until you are in the situation yourself. I wouldnt change those experiences for anything....well except maybe for the puking thing :).

I will try to be bette about posting, and I promise Ill be awesome at it after school is out. Ill post and let everyone know what it is when we find out!