Week 10

This is two days late and has no picture, but I really look exactly the same, so just see above, lol.

 

Pregnancy Highlights:

How Far Along:  10 Weeks
Size of baby: Baby is the size of a kumquat.
Total Weight Gain/Loss: None that I know of.
Maternity Clothes: Not yet, but I do feel some of my tighter jeans getting a little too tight, though!  I thought about doing the rubberband around the button trick this morning, but I forgot about it.
Gender: We don't know yet.
Movement: None.
Sleep: I'd been loving all the snow days, but unfortuneately, it looks like we're in for a full week of school this week!  :(   I have rehearsal for competition every day this week as well, so I'm in for an exhausting week, I fear.

What I miss: Nothing really - maybe drinking real coffee or Diet Pepsi? 
Cravings:  I've been craving fruit, so I've had lots of different kinds this week.
Symptoms: Not a lot this week.  Still sore boobs a little, but not nauseous at all.  This worries me a little, but I did have a bad headache today, and I know that's a symptom too. 

Best Moment this week: Telling my high school drama teacher (and now my friend) that I was pregnant.  She was so excited!  It was fantastic.

We're Expecting!

After more than two years of trying, one miscarriage, hundreds of ovulation predictor kits and monitors, countless pregnancy tests, and night after night of crying in despair, we are finally pregnant!  We had our first prenatal appointment on January 18th, and everything looks wonderful.  Baby Martin's heart was beating, we've got two arms and two legs, and two chambers in the brain, which they look for.  We could not be more excited, and we have only God to thank for this miracle.

Sorry this picture is so blurry; it's a picture of a picture, obviously.

So from here on, I'll be doing weekly pregnancy updates:

9 Week Bump Shot:

Pregnancy Highlights:

How Far Along:  9 Weeks
Size of baby: Baby is the size of a grape.
Total Weight Gain/Loss: None.
Maternity Clothes: Not yet, but I do feel some of my tighter jeans getting a little too tight, though!
Gender: We don't know yet.
Movement: None.
Sleep: I'm sleeping very well.  We've had so many snow days, I've been able to get lots and lots of sleep in, and I think that's why I've not been too terribly exhausted.  This week I went to work four days, so I was more tired than usual.
What I miss: Nothing really - maybe drinking real coffee or Diet Pepsi?
Cravings: I have on and off cravings, but mostly it's just hard deciding what I want to eat.  Once I know, though, I must have it, or someone might get hurt!
Symptoms: Nauseous on and off; I feel better when I eat something, but also feel nauseous when I eat too much.  Realized this morning that I felt sick, and remembered I'd eaten nothing yet! 

Best Moment this week: Seeing our precious little baby on the ultrasound!!  I will never forget that moment!

Williamsburg VA at Christmas!

This year for Christmas, Colby and I decided to take a mini vacation, just the two of us.  His mom got us season passes to Colonial Williamsburg for Christmas, so we went up there on the 23rd, 24th, and came back on Christmas Day.  It is beautiful up there!  I can't wait to go again when it's warmer; we'll probably do this on Spring Break. (If I get a Spring Break, that is....we've been to school three days since Christmas break, it's snowing now, and isn't stopping until Thursday!)

This is what I did on the drive to VA:  played with my iPod.  I love how serious I look in this picture.

Our first adventure of the evening:  eating supper at Christiana Campbell's Tavern.  Pricey, but ok food.  We sat in the basement, and were entertained by a fiddler, and a woman who monologued about being Christiana's "daughter."

They had these huge bonfires at night on the streets.  It was kind of neat, and awesome to stand close to them and (sort of) get warm.

Our lovely and cozy room at the Applewood Bed and Breakfast.  Highly recommended!  The breakfast was awesome!

The governor's palace:

The courthouse:

This was a gun and weaponry making place:

Another building...

Inside the Capitol Building:

Colby...

This was inside the museum.  There was an amazing quilt display, and this neat table where you could design your own quilt square with wooden blocks.  Of course I had to play...

On Christmas Eve, we went to a Yuletide Supper (very festive!) where we had a delicious four course dinner, and lots of authentic Christmas entertainment.  It was really awesome!  This was one of the trees inside the Williamsburg Lodge, where the Supper was held.

 

Ice sculptures outside the Lodge.

Happy Holidays!!

Disney Trip 2010

We went to Disney from June 14-June 19.  We had a blast, but we didn't take NEAR as many pictures as we usually do, because we have pictures of EVERYTHING!  Ha!  We did our vacation a little differently this year. We usually stay in a moderate resort during a time when they have free dining, but this time, we HAD to go in the summer (they're offering free dining in the fall) because I'm out of vacation days.  Plus, even though it is crowded in the summer, the parks are open for HOURS later than they usually are.

So we stayed at a Value Resort (Pop Century) and paid for all our food.  It was a great trip, and the focus was eating, so that's always good!! :)

This is what I did the majority of the way to Florida, since we left at 3AM.  It was worth it, though!  We got there around 2:30 and got to spend the rest of the day in the Magic Kingdom.  Colby forgot his camera, so we didn't get any other pics of that day.

And so begins our eating journey...cinnamon rolls...mmmmm....

The aquarium at Epcot.

I'll bet we have 12 pictures like this, at least.

At Pop Century!  Note:  I was in LOVE with this romper!  I wasn't so sure when I bought it, but it was perfect for Disney!  Very cool and comfortable!

Quintessential castle shot...

They brought back the Electric Light Parade!  It was awesome!  I've gotten tired of watching Spectromagic! the past few years!  Haha...you know you've been to Disney too much, when....

We always take pictures in the teacups!  It's our favorite!

Hollywood Studios in the Indiana Jones gift store.  Snakes!!!  (Colby was pretending to be Bear Grylls and act like he wasn't scared, ha ha)

This was the AMAZING!!! dessert we got at The Flying Fish Cafe.  What an incredible place to eat!  We ate there on our honeymoon, also, and it was scrumptious then, and even better now!

Colby at Flying Fish...

This was the CUTEST Cheshire Cat birdhouse that we found.  It's made by Jim Shore, and it was SO PRECIOUS!

Mr. Potato Head was dead.  It was kinda creepy.  We rode Toy Story Midway Mania three times that day.  Once waiting at park opening, then with fastpass, and then we walked on right at park closing, and hardly waited at all.  I highly recommend doing this!  They'll let you on with about three minutes to go.  It's great!

In front of the Great Movie Ride...

Before riding Kali River Rapids.  We NEVER ride this, but it was SO HOT!!! 

And after...ha ha.

The gibbons at Animal Kingdom.  Love them.  There was a mama and baby that were so cute, but they were too far away to get a picture.

Shot of Everest!  We rode three times that day, but then it got rained out.  There was a MONSOON!!  I've never, ever, been so wet in my life.  It was literally like we'd jumped in a pool with our clothes on by the time we walked to the parking lot!  Miserable!  I was SO GLAD we drove that day instead of riding the bus, because those buses are FREEZING COLD!!

Giraffes on the safari!

At Rafiki's Planet Watch the next day!  Love that place!  You ride a train to get out there, and they have a petting zoo, and an animal veterinarian exhibit, and characters.  It's really fun.

Magic Kingdom picture, taken by a security guard!

Colby pretending to be Jimmy Carter in the Hall of Presidents.  We each pretended to be several presidents, but I look HORRIBLE in all the pictures, so I didn't include any of them, ha ha!

 

The swinging bridge on Tom Sawyer Island.  We hadn't been out there in two years, ha ha.

On the back walkway from Tomorrowland to Toontown Fair. 

Back at MK, going to see the Country Bears! 

Dark clouds over the castle...getting ready to rain...again...

At Narcoosees, MY FAVORTE RESTAURANT EVER!!!  That almond cheesecake is SCRUMPTIOUS!

Sitting in the Grand Floridian lobby.  They had an amazing piano player, and then after that, a big band.  I love that hotel!  We've never stayed there, but we will someday!

And then there was THIS woman, wearing her bathing suit in the hotel lobby.  Colby was pretending to take a picture of me.  It was hilarious.  I know that's wrong, but we laughed so hard.  She just looked SO out of place in the lobby!

We had one of the best vacations ever, but I think we're going to cool it on Disney for a couple of years.  They're getting ready to do some AWESOME things to Fantasyland, and I think that we're going to wait until they're totally finished to go back!