22 weeks & our official Christmas Pic

So we needed to get a pic of us in front of the Christmas Tree and tomorrow I'll be 22 weeks so we took our pic and then took the belly pic. :)

In our pajamas!!



I'm really starting to 'expand' now and I'm noticing swelling. Before I was gaining weight only in my stomach, I've noticed my arms and my face getting bigger. My mom and her sisters and then my cousins got BIG everywhere and I thought I might luck out, but I'm not getting my hopes up now.

2010 New Years Resolutions List

I'm starting a list... I've been coming up with things ALL DAY!

1. Continue to learn more about God and His word and to follow & trust Him.
1. Be an amazing new mommy!! (but not the crazy, over-bearing, worry-wart kind)
(yeah... I have two number 1s. They're both extremely important!)
2. Train for a triathalon in spring 2011 (this training of course starting after Junior's born)
3. Master the art of baking a cookie from scratch. After my ginormous Christmas cookies that tasted a little off... I need some work on my pastry baking.
4. Religiously wash our sheets EVERY week. I confess, I wash the probably once every 3 weeks or so. :-D
5. Get my Professional Certification at work. It's going to be tough, especially when I have Junior, but I need to do it and I want it!
6. Set up some sort of "I love you" surprise for my husband every month. These things happen all the time and go unnoticed, that's why these are going to be a little bigger and a lot better ;)
7. Spend time with mine and his grandparents more. Time is precious.
8. Read at least 5 books! This is going to be a tough one. I read magazines like crazy (and not just the fashion and trash ones, but I love those too!), but I need to actually read a good book.
9. Visit my friend in Ft. Myers more. I haven't seen her since end of August (I think) and now it's New Years!!
10. Learn something new from my husband. He's a very talented man. He can build all sorts of things and fix them too!
11. And I know I haven't had Junior yet, but by the end of 2010 he'll be just over 7 months old.. so I want to have most of the baby weight gone!


That's it for now, I'll keep adding more as the day and the New Year's weekend continues. I should do a 6 month evaluation on this to hold myself accountable!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

Continuous Wish List

I always see things that I like and would love to get someday, but when it comes around to Christmas time, my birthday, or when it's time to treat myself to a present... I forget! How awful is that!

So here's another one of my lists that I'll be starting to continuously add on to. :)

---I want this sooo bad!Count Me Healthy Bracelet

Christmas Recap

Here is a quick recap of Christmas.

We had Christmas at our house on Christmas Day with Trav's family and my Dad and Grandma.

p.s. my belly is getting so big! 21 weeks pic.



Then on Saturday we went to my Mom's to spend the evening with my brother, his girlfriend and daughter. We got totally into Wii Bowling.




By far the coolest Christmas present from my Mom and brother and car seat w/ matching stroller by Eddie Bauer.



Very cute!!!

What a great Christmas I feel extremely blessed. One thing that was missing is that me and the hubby didn't get a pic in front of the tree with Junior in my belly... but the tree is still up so maybe we'll still try. :)

FAVORITE pregnancy & baby websites

I wanted to mention some websites that I want to check out more or keep in mind, that talks about baby things that I like.

Preggers N Proud = had a cute "Good daddy's are hot" shirt

Baby Center = has good information




I just realized that I'm 6 months pregnant! WOAH! Time flies! I knew I was over half way but 6 months sounds like a long time!

It's the end of the work day...

YYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!

I haven't been this excited to get off work in a LONG time! I'm not sure if it's because I'm so bored at work, I have stuff to do at home, I have 2 days off, I'm going to have a family-filled weekend, it's Christmas,or all of the above, but YAHOOOOOOO!!!!!!

Recent picture and belly boo-boo!

So I uploaded a recent pic from my camera to the computer and I also took a picture of my ouchie that I got on Little T! I was making Corned-beef and Cabbage last night and it splashed on my stomach. I was wearing a thin shirt so it hurt pretty bad. Anyway, I haven't been burned like that in a long time. I think it's funny, it's the little guy's first boo-boo!

We're roasting hot dogs over an open fire tonight so hopefully I can keep my belly out of that :)







P.S. Just saw on TV that TLC already has a Secret Life of Tiger Woods special tomorrow night. And it's suppose to talk about how his wife new about the other girls and how they have non-normal sex. Really... I'm over his issues.

10.5 wiggly inches

Wow! I was just reading that our Little T is 10.5 inches long this week and a size of a cantaloupe!! Is 10.5 inches really fitting into my stomach right now? After reading that I should be bigger than what I am!

I've never really paid attention to women when they saw what their baby's length was when they were born. I only listened in on how much they weighed... NOW I see the significance of the length! It seems impossible!

I'm going to text my mom to see if she remembers how long I was. :)

Somebody's kicking me!

So I haven't posted a BPF (belly picture friday) in a long time let alone on a friday! Well here's my most recent, I'm sure we'll start to see the changes in the next several weeks.
Travis felt Little T kick last night!! I was so surprised he could feel him since I'm only 20 weeks! We were watching Steven King's 'IT' and Little T was flipping and kicking like crazy so I told Trav and he put his hand on my stomach and Little T kept on kicking!! Trav had an awesome smile on his face. It was an awesome milestone! Trav said he couldn't believe that he was that strong. That's our boy! :)

What an exciting 2 weeks this will be! It's Christmas week & then New Year's week! Sounds like lots of fun and family time.

I've started the tedious task of house cleaning, since we will be hosting Christmas dinner. I say tedious because we have 3 cats and a husband, and they're messy! Today I got our bedroom cleaned and laundry done. Tomorrow I have to work till 4 pm and then I hope I'm feeling up to it to tackle the 'cave' or furture baby room! It's not too bad, just Trav's clothes everywhere and the desk is full of papers that need to be filed away.

I went to the grocery store today to get the necessary supplies to make Jelly Cookies, Old Fashioned Peanut Butter cookies, fudge, and chocolate pretzels. Yummy! I will be giving these out to the grandparents and parents as Christmas presents because they insist that they don't want anything for Christmas. I need to make at least enough cookies to give out to 6 different groups! That sounds like a lot of baking on Christmas Eve. Did I mention that I've never made cookies from scratch before!!?? I just learned today that there's a difference between baking powder and baking soda! The hubby asked me when did I become a cook tonight as he was dishing out his corned beef and cabbage dinner. ....good question actually... Maybe it's the housewife-mommy instinct that's kicked into me. But he's right, ever since we got married I've been a cooking-beast!

goodbye normal jeans, hello secret belly fit!!

So I finally had to say goodbye to normal jeans. I can no longer have them unbuttoned with a bella band. :(
With that sad... I LOVE the secret belly fit jeans Motherhood has!

They feel amazing! There's no restriction on my lower belly at all and believe me, Little Travis is much happier with these pants. What's even better is I found a khaki and a green pair for work! Score!

I had my.. 4th?? (Can't remember how many I've had now..hmm) Doctor's appointment. This was my first one along with out Trav. He has a lot of work to do right now and really can't take the time off work. So I got weighed... 178 lbs! Yikes! I can deal with another 10 lbs if Little T needs it but once I hit 190... I'm going to start getting a little worried!

His heartbeat was great 145. My iron was low so she prescribed a supplement to take with my daily vitamin. Oh! And she also wants another ultrasound!! Yeah! On Jan. 4th. So I'll be like 22 weeks. She said she wants to see him bigger and better. What's cool is that Mom is coming up from St. Pete to go with us on this one. That'll be really special.

I haven't made any progress on the baby's room yet... I have to do a massive house cleaning this entire week because we will be hosting Christmas dinner. So maybe I'll atleast get the cave clean to start transforming it into Travie's room. It sounds like a lot of work now since I'm kind of sleepy. :T

blog face lift

I'm not really excited about how my blog looks, nor do I know how to make it pretty...
Maybe I just like to see change, so I get tired of looks quickly, hence the blue?? (and my boredom is unbearable)

By the way.. I got my Christmas Pins in the mail yesterday!! They're so cute and simple!


I also got the Christmas presents in that I'm going to give my mean coworkers. Tis the season to be jolly and giving :) I'm going to write Kelly Park 2009 on the back of their little heads in a silver sharpie.


I got all these cute things (12 per pack) for CHEAP from Oriental Trading. www.orientaltrading.com

The T Family update

A lot seems to be happening in these past few months. So much that I can't believe that we're almost into the 2nd week in December! I haven't even begun to Christmas shop yet :(

We've been spending a lot of time visiting friends, working, and doing church functions. I love it, but I miss the boring weekend!

We had such a great Thanksgiving. Sunday the 21st we went over to Dave's place for Friends Thanksgiving, we brought A&C C. (friends). It was a nice gathering, but Dave lives soo far away! It's an hour drive there and an hour drive back.
Thanksgiving Day we went to Trav's parent's house for the celebration. There was Aunt & Uncle, Uncle's Dad, Grandpa & Grandma, Brother, Sister, his Mom & Dad, and us. It was nice and the food was good ol' home cooking.
That Saturday night then we went with the A&C friends to Light Up Mount Dora and saw their Christmas light display. After that they came back to the house and we played a fun board game called Dirty Minds. Hilarious!

On to a not so much fun topic... work. Work for Trav & I has been 'ew' (for lack of a better word). We're both going beyond our range of work duties and getting little to no recognition. I can deal with mine a little more because of the joy of TJ is just all I think about. But poor Trav is working as hard as he can for that company and it seems as though they don't care. They usually give out a hefty Christmas bonus, well this year they said it wasn't going to be that much and they're right, it wasn't. But when the owner of the company allows family members on the pay roll that don't come to work and are overpaid and then supports their living style... well I wouldn't blame the small Christmas bonuses on the economy. Ugh, that business is a joke and I can only pray that Trav gets out before they crumble.

Okay now I have to close with something happy because that company drives me nuts!
We're starting to piece together ideas for TJ's room! It's going to be so crazy when there's a crib in our guest room!

Good times ahead because God is always good :)

18 weeks and watching it grow!

Officially 18 weeks. Wow! Time is flying!! I can really tell how much he's growing by my pants that are slowly gettting tighter and tighter. In the mornings if I lay on my back I can totally feel and see the uterus hump that the doctor's measure.

AND i can feel little TJ kick!! For the last week or so, I just thought it was gas or my stomach was just shifting around, but this week I can really tell that it's the baby. It's very cool. I can't wait til Travis can feel him. :)

It's a boy!!

We had our first ultrasound on 11/23. I was 16w & 3 days. It was really early so we weren't expecting to find out. But our little man had his legs spread and everything and gave us a clear shot of what he's got! We are soo happy and feel extremely blessed! It's offically a Travis Alan Taylor Jr.!

13 weeks belly picture :)

Update Ramble

So we just had an amazing weekend! It was Halloween weekend and although we don't go downtown like we use to (nor do we want to go down there) we had a great time just hanging out with friends and being alert for church on Sunday.

Church was really good on Sunday. Sunday school was great, the sermon was good, and then the 6pm service was exceptionally good. The played a video about how BIG God is! It was amazing.

The B.O.B. got a lot of attention this weekend. It was really putting on a show, popping out and everything. We took our first family photo, I'll have to post it ASAP!

Things are going great right now! And the holidays are fast approaching! Before we know it, it will be May and BOB will be here! Wow!

Praise God! I feel so blessed right now!

Me randomness

FIVE things you wish you could say to FIVE different people right now
I love you.
I miss you.
I forgive you.
Thank you.
Chill out.

TEN things about yourself:
I'm pregnant with our first!
My real hair is brown.
I tried collecting stamps when I was young.
I love cooking if I have the time.
I love animals.
My favorite color is green.
My lucky number is 7, my softball number.
My elbows are double-jointed.
I love seasons and hate how Florida has one, HOT.
I wish I lived on a farm.

SEVEN ways to win your heart:
Show me affection.
Make me laugh.
Be silly.
Be kind.
Leave notes.
Have more happy days than sad.
Accept me for me.

SEVEN things that cross your mind a lot:
My husband.
The BOB.
God.
My career.
My mom.
My weight/body image.
Money.

FOUR things you do before you fall asleep:
Turn up the A.C. to 73.
Turn off the fish light.
Kiss Trav goodnight.
Snuggle with Buddy, my snuggle pillow.

FOUR things you see right now:
Thermos.
Radio.
Envelopes.
Buisness cards.

THREE songs that you listen to often:
Phil Stacey's "Shaken" song
Carrie Underwood's "Cowboy Casanova"
Sugarland's "Baby Girl"

TWO things you want to do before you die:
Own a dog.
Complete a triatholon in a respectable time.

ONE confession:
Sometimes when I just can't blow a booger out, I'll pick it out.

1st Trimester... CHECK!!

YAY!!! I'm 12 weeks and 2 days now!!!! I'm sooo happy, I feel so much joy already! I know it will continue to grow! Trav and I are so overwhelmed with happiness :)

A crazy catch-up

It's been awhile since I last posted and some big things have happened!
We heard the heartbeat last Thursday, Oct. 16th! It was strong and fast! Today I'm 11 weeks and 2 days. Time is flying!

I have a come and go belly. When I wake up in the morning my stomach is almost as flat as it use to be. Then by the evening it's expanded to look like a baby bump. Kind of weird!
Krissy got us some baby clothes and an adorable blanket! I took pictures and will post them soon of it. I've been thinking a lot about how to change the "Man Cave" into a baby's nursery.
Everyone pretty much knows about it now even the not so nice people at work, but they didn't hear it from me ;)

Travis is really excited about it, he talks about it frequently. We still refer to it as the B.O.B. We are excited to have an ultrasound soon. Maybe next month!? Our next doctor's appointment is Nov. 16th.

I recently got Sundays off from work!! YAAAY! I'm sooo excited and happy! It hasn't kicked in yet, I've only been once. Maybe when I get to go back to back sundays!?

We also went Archery hunting last week 9th-11th and this weekend we are going muzzleloading. We are loving it. We're having a lot of fun outside in the woods together.

Trav and I recently had our 6 month anniversary! Wow! Again, time flies :)
That's it for now. I"ll post some belly pics soon because I'm starting to look a lot different and I got some maternity clothes already! :)

Confirmation from the baby pros!

Yesterday Trav and I went to our 1st pregnancy appointment! They called it the "1st Nurse Visit". I was really nervous and scared because I didn't know what to expect; I thought I was getting a total exam of everything. All that happened was I peed in a cup and a nurse used their special pee stick to test my urine and confirmed that we were pregnant!

*A big sigh of relief* YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!

I figured I was, but it's so much better to hear it from a professional! So after that she asked a lot of questions and such about our family history, and then that was it!... wait a second... we've been waiting 4 weeks for another pee test?! Kind of a bummer. We thought we would atleast hear the heartbeat.

Our official Dr's appointment with the OBGYN is 10/15/09. That's when we'll get to hear the heartbeat.

We are sooo excited and happy. I feel like I can't get enough of reading parenting stuff and watching Super Nanny! hahaha

Trav is so excited too. This morning before he left for work he gave me a kiss on my cheek while I was sleeping and then I felt him kiss my belly and say bye baby. :) Awwww! It was awesome.

We're just blissfully happy and feel so blessed right now. It's an amazing thing :)

Blah

Today is definitely a blah day. It's rainy weather, but not actually raining. I don't feel pregnant today. I feel constipated and bloated. I wish you got a big preggo stomach right away, because I feel fat right now. Very gross.

On a better note, I'm 6 weeks and 1 day pregnant! :) I feel like that is such a long time! It's crazy to think that the end of my 1st trimester will be at the end of next month! Wow!!

I'm very anxious for the Dr.'s appointment 1 week from Wednesday!!! I'm hoping to get some confirmation and support out of it. Right now I feel like I'm on my own being pregnant. It's weird and hard to explain.

Stick Baby, Stick!

I feel really nervous now that people know. I mean I still haven't been to a Dr. to confirm it! I pray that everything will work out perfect and we'll have a healthy baby. Everyone tells me I shouldn't worry but I just can't help it!

In my pregnancy journal it stated that either yesterday or today the baby's heart would start beating! That's so amazing to think that!! Last night, when I was laying in bed trying to fall asleep on my back, I could have SWORN I could feel a heart beat in my lower stomach. I know it could have been mine but it didn't seem like mine! Can you really feel it??

My only signs of pregnancy is my drastic breast increase, odd & disgusting gas, and sometimes I feel light cramps, but I haven't gotten my A.F. since July 31st.

I'll pray every day for a healthy baby. :)

I'm horrible with secrets!

So today I had to meet up with Travis for lunch. I wanted to talk to him about possibly telling people earlier that we were pregnant. He thought it was a great idea because has already wanted to tell people. :)

So I came home from lunch and called my mom who is ecstatic & told 4 people right away. Then I called my dad and grandma veda. They are all shocked and very happy for us.

Tomorrow is Trav's parent's 27th wedding anniversary, they're coming over for dinner and we'll break the news to them then. I'm so excited to tell them!

I also signed up for the Healthy Pregnancy Program(HPP) today. Which my work suggests that you should do in your 1st trimester; this way I'll have a number to call a nurse at any time during the day/night and supposedly I'll get more of a discount!!

In my books it says that our baby is no bigger than an apple seed! How precious! Thank you God for this amazing blessing! We are sooo grateful!

The HPT says + !!

Travis now belives we're pregnant! Late Friday the 28th I took a different test (a + & - one) and it definitely came out +. He smiled huge and said he definitely believes it now. We're very happy!

We've started trying to figure out when to tell people. I think we're going to wait til after the first appointment Sept. 23rd to tell our parents and then after the October 15th appointment or a little later to tell everyone else.

I read a lot of horror stories about how easy it is to miscarry right now and it would be dreadful to have to tell everyone that if we splurged and told them all now.

So I'll keep this posted for my own sanity! :)

Belly Picture Fridays

On Fridays I'll try to remember to post pictures of my belly to keep track of the growth. So thank God it's BPF!

Here's my belly the first Friday a HPT confirmed a pregnancy. This will be my post-baby inspiration I'm sure!

A faded pink line...

Krissy is in town for her birthday! I was visiting with her and she was talking to me about how she might be preg. Well I disclosed info about how I might because we're not really doing anything to stop pregnancy. So Krissy took a HPT and then I was to take one so we would know for sure. Krissy's came out on solid bright pink line with a bright white background = negative. Mine was one solid bright pink line with a second faded pink line close by! = positive?

Shock was in Tina and Krissy's face AND mine. I was excited, nervous, and just wowed all at the same time! What does a faded pink line mean?! We concluded that it was definitive and that I got to keep the other new HPT to take home to do it with Trav.

When I got home I told Travis, hoping he wouldn't be mad at me for taking a test with Krissy and Tina. He wasn't mad at all, he had a smile on his face. His main concern is getting our hopes up for a faded pink line when it just might be a glitch or conspiracy (Trav thinks it's a conspiracy so you'll by more HPTs).

A.F. next visit should be tomorrow 8/27/09. We'll wait till this weekend to do another test.

Hopes are high on a faded pink line! We're excited but trying to contain it just to be certain!

What do you think?

A decision has been made.

We talked about Pros & Cons and decided that we are going to stop using methods to prevent pregnancy. Wow! It was a big decision for us to make but it feels even more serious and real when writing about it. We haven't told anyone for fear of discontent with our chioce. We've only been married for 4 months; so many feel that it's too soon and that we should enjoy each other more. What a lot of people don't understand is that Travis has been by my side since June 23, 2006. We are completely in love with one another and want to start our family now while we're young. Of course finances are a concern, but when are they not? We both said we'd make it work no matter what.

So now it's in God's hands and we wait.

Hello Aunt Flow...

Got her this morning after Trav left for work. AFTER we had the conversation about getting a HPT to take tonight. AFTER Trav expressing that he's happy, excited, nervous, and a little scared. I called him and told him and he didn't say much, nor did I. He did say, "At least you don't have to get the test anymore." I said we can talk about it more tonight.

I think we're both a little sad. Maybe because of this we'll try a little sooner than January??

???

It's July 30, 2009 7:25 p.m. I have not yet had a visit from Aunt Flow for the month of July... I didn't realize it until Alex James asked me if I got mine the same day she did (in June we were a day apart); I then realized that I hadn't gotten it yet and that was on Monday 7/27. I should have gotten it on July 24th.

I'm confused because I got really sick on July 15th. Headache, nausea, fever, and had to go to the ER because I couldn't stop getting sick. They asked me if I was pregnant and I said no. But don't they normally test your pee anyways? They didn't say anything to me...

So I told Travis. We're both happy about it, but uncertain and nervous because we both agreed on waiting until at least the beginning of 2010 so we would have time to get our finances in order.

So we're going to try a home pregnancy test (HPT) tomorrow.

To be continued...