Baby update.... again?! No way!

Another baby update so soon?! Crazy!

Well, we had another doctor appointment today. It went very very well! We were very worried because they couldn't get one of the pictures of the heart that they needed. If they didn't have the picture, we couldn't deliver at Jefferson and it was starting to really bum me out. Well, even though our little girl moves more than any ultrasound tech has ever seen a baby move ( according to 3 different techs), we got the picture! Her heart is perfect according to the specialist, which is awesome. They also did an intense brain scan which was perfect. All I can say is... nothing compares to worrying about your baby! You basically spend every second thinking of worst case scenarios instead of best case. We got a few more pictures of her today. She's pretty stinking adorable. Well, I'm going to stop writing before I reread this and realize how boring I sound.

Finding hobbies....

I'm SO bored! Honestly, I always dreamed about how cool it'd be to be a stay at home wife... but I'm losing it. I've worked for the past 10 years so not working is making me go a little stir crazy. I really don't miss waking up at 4:30am... but it's weird to have only a few days a week with something to do.
My dad has always been a "survivalist", so I've kind of made that my new hobby. I've learned to make things instead of buying them which I'm actually really enjoying, plus saving a lot of money.

My issue is that I lose interest quickly. like blogging.. I want to blog so I can read back and see what I was doing with my life, but it's just so boring. Also, I'm becoming a little bit of a recluse. Not all the time.. sometimes I go to town and spend the day with friends, but I live in the middle of the woods and can easily go an entire day without seeing or hearing another person(other than phone calls of FB...). I look out my window and see... birds. And trees. Occasionally bears or raccoons. I spend time with  my dogs, but walking down the road is boring and walking down the trail is a little lonely. I heard some coyotes a few nights ago... which was about the most exciting thing that's happened to me. I spend a lot of time setting things on my belly and watching my baby kick them off. It's pretty interesting. Anyways, I've done my civil duty of blogging. I'll be able to read back in a few months and see how bored I was. Woooohooo.

Baby!

August 23, 2013
Week 17
I've been neglecting doing this for a long time... but here we go!
Baby is the size of an onion..  which is huge! I can't wait to see more pictures of it. We heard the heartbeat today which was fun. The morning sickness is slowing down a tiiny bit but it still sucks.
my sister sent us a baby name book a few days ago so we've picked a few names. It seems like kind of a big deal so I usually just go drown my fears with food whenever I think about it.
Well that's all for now. Pregnancy is boring.

1 year anniversary trip!

day 1(may 10)

Since I blogged every day of our honeymoon, I thought I would for our one year anniversary trip too.
We arrived in Cannon Beach, OR, last night around 9:30 to our bed n breakfast style suite, called "the best room in the house". We checked at the actual hotel and then drove a block down the road. We went into a litttle adorable courtyard and then to our second story suite. We have a fireplace and a balcony with a view of the ocean. I love it because it feels like a house, not a hotel room. We also have a GIANT Jacuzzi tub. We made a quick run to Seaside to grab some dinner (everything in cannon beach was closed) and got some gas.

 our room was the top left

day 2(may 11)

This morning we actually slept in until almost 8! Well, jake did. I was up at 5.. go figure. But it was very relaxing. We're off to grab some breakfast now, toodles. Ok, back from breakfast. It was so yummy!  We went to pig'n pancake. It was super filling! After that, we headed to the beach to get some sunshine. It was kind of warm for a while, but the wind picked up so we headed back to the room. We took a looong nap which was wonderful. Then we headed to some shops in a little shopping area. We got some crazy pizza, then walked to a candy shop, where they made toffee with old fashioned machines. Jake hadn't ever seen it made, so we were both pretty excited. We bought waaaaaay too much candy. We walked around the shops for a few hours, then went back to the beach. I wore a dress and we both ended up running into the water. I went up to my waist, but jake chickened out when the water barely touched his knees. We both got pretty wet so we sat on the beach for a while and tried to dry off. It was warmer and there was less wind, so it was very relaxing. Definitely my favorite part of the weekend! We watched dogs playing in the surf, then went back to the room. We decided to go to a restaurant called the Irish Table for dinner. It was very very delicious!  Jake had steak and I had rock fish. We wanted desert but we were both SO full. 

day 3(may 12)

Last day... woke up around 8 and packed everything up. I was very sad to say goodbye to our beautiful little beach hut. We went to Lazy Susan's for breakfast. We split a fiesta omelette and a gingerbread waffle with pears, lemon topping, and whipped cream. It was the most delicious thing I've ever had! We headed back to the little candy shop and bought more truffles(LOTS of truffles). We have waay too much candy. wow. Anyhoot, we left Cannon Beach around 11 and made it back to Portland around 1, after a quick stop at REI.  The weekend was amazingly relaxing and I'm so happy we went! Sigh.. back to the real world now....