22 weeks

Small Child is growing and I can feel him/her move a lot these days! It's so exciting and makes it more real. :) We started our birthing classes a week ago and are really liking them! We are doing the Bradley Method, which promotes natural birthing and the importance of the husband as the coach. We are learning a lot of information about nutrition, exercise, and just overall about pregnancy.

Here's a picture for those of you wanting a belly picture. :)

Celebrating our 1st Anniversary

It's been almost a year since Tom and I made our marriage covenant before God. It's been a wonderful year filled with learning a lot about each other, growing closer together in the Lord, getting used to 'married life', facing trials and sorrow, and for me learning how to be the help meet that God has created me to be for Tom.

To celebrate our one year we went for a night to a B&B in Northfield. We had a great time there and it was nice to just get away. The weather was beautiful and even a little hot! Here's a little recap of our time:

Our B&B the Magic Door

Dinner at Froggy Bottoms-- a fun Pub style place.

Tom looking at all the fish, suckers to be exact.

A walk on a beautiful morning.

Thanking God for the gift of marriage!

Half way there!

Today we got to see our baby for the first time and it was sooo amazing!! The little one was moving quite a bit which was fun to see. Saw the mouth moving (it must have been eating the Indian food I had for lunch). Seeing the baby just made me marvel at God's creation and how everything works together so perfectly. The fact that there is a little life inside of me is wow...incredible.

The foot

The little hand is so cute!


Small Child

18 weeks and Spring

Here is the baby bump at 18 weeks. Small child is growing slowly but surely :) I'm pretty sure I felt the baby move yesterday! It felt like something was popping inside of me, very weird feeling. I'm going to pay attention and see if it becomes consistent. We have our first ultrasound in a couple of weeks. We're not going to find out what the baby is for those of you wondering. Keeping it a surprise until the birth day. I'm excited to finally be able to see the baby!!


Spring is here in Minnesota so we have been doing a lot more things outside. Tom has golf fever so has been golfing a lot and is already tan! I'm still pale but hope to get some sun soon. We went out on the river (Mississippi) last week with some friends on Tom's parents pontoon boat. That was really nice and peaceful. The grass is green, the trees are getting leaves, flowers are blooming, the sun is out, and it's in the 60-70's!!! I love Spring.

Small Child

Here is a pic of me and the growing 'small child' (emphasis on small) as my husband refers to the little one inside of me. This was taken on Saturday, so 15 1/5 weeks. Excuse the messy closet. I was doing some Spring cleaning and rearranging :)

Ice Cold Water

I'm sitting here drinking some ice cold water and I'm realizing how much I like cold water. The lukewarm stuff just doesn't cut it. It makes me more thirsty and my throat becomes dry. Cold water is so refreshing and rejuvenating. I can gulp it a lot better than lukewarm. This reminds me of a verse in Revelations....

Enough about cold water. My birthday was yesterday and I turned 25 and my oh so sweet brother told me not to have a quarter life crisis. Thanks Carl. I'll try not to. ;-) I think this will be a good year though. I already have some exciting things to look forward to in this 25th year of my life. Such as, a one year wedding anniversary (oh yeah!), trip to CA, seeing my cousin get married, planting a garden at my in-laws, getting ready for a baby and Lord willing welcoming the baby into the world. That's a lot! Yes, this will be a good year.

Baby update: The babe is doing well at 15 weeks and so am I. Pushing through more so I have a bit of a rounding tummy. It's enough to not be able to button all my pants and use nifty rubber bands to hold them up. If I don't feel like rubber banding it then I use this awesome invention called the belly band which can be found at target. I seem to be losing the "I need to eat something now or will be nauseous" stage. I'm not as exhausted anymore which is super nice, still tired but there is no need to have/want a nap every three hours! I'll try to get a picture up here soon of the belly. I know certain people have been asking :)

Off to enjoy this beautiful sunny Spring day!

New heartbeat

Today Tom and I had the privilege and blessing to hear our baby's heartbeat!!! :-) I am 13 weeks pregnant and the little one is due September 29th. Hearing your baby's heartbeat is just so amazing. I can't even describe it, just plain awesome. I am in awe of God and how He works everything together and how such a tiny tiny life can have such a great heartbeat! Things are going well and i'm feeling fine other than just tired and hungry all the time. Will keep you all updated as time goes on. :)