9 Week Bump Pic

Here's the 9-week pic! Taken a little late on 10.24.11. Still a little bit of a belly bloat going on down there :)

Baby is the size of a GREEN OLIVE this week!

Sharing the news with our families

Just a quick recap of how we told our families this past weekend!

MY MOM: We had plans to get my family together for dinner and tell everyone together last Friday night, but unfortunately my mom had made plans to go to a conference out of town. It had been really difficult trying to coordinate everyone, so I ended up calling her and telling her over the phone Friday afternoon. I figured that if I couldn't tell her in person, at least she should be the first person to know :) She FREAKED OUT and I thought she was going to die of excitement!!

MY DAD AND SISSY: A couple weeks back I had casually asked my dad and sis if they wanted to meet for dinner on Friday 10/14. We decided to meet at the Red Cedar Grill in Williamston and we were able to tell them the news in person! We told them we had some good news to share, and then announced that my dad was going to be a grandpa. I swear neither of them believed it at first - they both said at the same time "ARE YOU SERIOUS??"

KYLE AND SUSAN (KEITH'S BROTHER AND SISTER-IN-LAW): They were staying the night at our house the same Friday night so that we could wake up early on Saturday for the MSU/UM tailgate. We told them in person at our house... Keith said "So remember when Danny was talking about Lindsay being pregnant and made her drink a beer at mom and dad's house? Well the beer can was really filled with water."

DANNY (KEITH'S BROTHER): Keith told him in person at the MSU/UM tailgate... unfortunately I wasn't there to witness it, but I think it went along the same lines as how we told Kyle and Susan :)

KEITH'S PARENTS: This one was tough because we never really had a good time to tell them! We knew we wanted to tell them in person this weekend, and our original plan was to tell them at the beginning of tailgate before too many people were around. But unfortunately we never got the chance to be alone with them until the very end of tailgate. Of course at this point everyone was a little bit toasty (except me!), but we didn't really have a choice other than to tell them then. So again, we told them about how the beer can was really filled with water. Immediately Martee and Ralph both started crying!

Also, we received these beautiful flowers from Keith's parents yesterday. Thank you again!!

We feel incredibly lucky to have such great parents and siblings and we cannot wait to share this journey with you all! Love you guys so much!!

8 Week Bump Pic

I feel like my bump looks bigger today than before! Or maybe I just ate too much at the MSU/UM tailgate this weekend :)

Pic taken 10.17.11. Baby is the size of a RASPBERRY this week!

Hoot... Hoot...

Just a quick post to share an idea for our nursery theme... OWLS!
I have been loving owl jewelry and decor lately and think it would be so cute in the nursery for either a boy or a girl!

Morning Sickness = Not Fun

Well, morning sickness (aka all day sickness) has officially arrived. It started this weekend on Sunday and has come and gone through today (Monday). I haven't thrown up yet but have just had a constant nauseous feeling. It seems that eating something small every 2 hours or so is helping a little.

Food aversions have also started, but for now it just seems to be one (drink) aversion: coffee. Which is crazy because I ALWAYS have 1-2 cups of coffee in the morning every.single.day. But the last two days it has sounded so disgusting. Of course without the caffeine, I started to get the worst headache this afternoon. So I ran up to Starbucks and got a pumpkin spice frappuccino (which was delicious) and it made my stomach happy and my headache go away. So at least I have a back-up plan if the coffee aversion sticks around (although it may get a little expensive!) And on a positive note, the cut-back on caffeine is good for our little one :)

Fingers crossed that this morning sickness doesn't last too long... the only upside is that it is pretty manageable while working from home. I can't imagine feeling like this and being stuck in an office all day.

Also, just a sidenote that I am down about 5 lbs from where I started before seeing those two pink lines (127.5 lbs this morning). I know I can attribute some of this weight loss to the fact that I am (obviously) no longer drinking. Just wanted to document this so I can track my weight gain throughout my pregnancy!

7 Week Bump Pic (and almost being outed!)

Here's my 7-week bump pic (taken 10.09.11) - Keith says you can tell that my abs are becoming less defined (sad face) but other than that, I look the same. Baby is the size of a BLUEBERRY this week!

On another note, we were almost outed last weekend at Keith's parents' house. We were at their house with the entire family to celebrate my father-in-law's birthday. I had left to run a few errands and out of nowhere, Keith's brother asked if anyone had noticed that I hadn't been drinking lately. He noticed I wasn't drinking the weekend before, his other brother and his wife chimed in and said that I didn't drink the night before at the concert we went to together, and then Keith's mom mentioned that she offered me a glass of wine and I declined. I then came home from my errands and walked in right in the middle of the conversation (umm awkward!) Of course we just tried to play it off and denied it. Good thing Keith and I are sneaky and already had a plan: I had bought a couple flavored waters so that we could put them in beer cans and I could pretend I was drinking. So a few minutes after this conversation, Keith snuck out to empty a beer can and fill it with the flavored water, then he handed it to me in front of his family and said "here, will you drink this so they will leave me alone about you being pregnant?" Nobody seemed suspicious after that, so I think it worked like a charm! :)

6 Week Bump Pic

Not much change since last week, but here it is! Taken 10.02.11 (6 weeks, 1 day). Baby is a size of a SWEET PEA this week!