Going Swimming

We spent some of our Memorial Day weekend out at the farm, especially out at the pond. It was beautifully HOT weather, but nonetheless, the pups thoroughly enjoyed running free at the pond and getting to roll around in whatever nasty smells they could find.

Other than one time when Tilly took a super-man dive off the dock into the pond because she didn't know any better, the pups have never been swimming before. Because it was so warm and the water felt really good we decided to see how their swimming skills were. AJ would lower them down from the dock into the water and they would doggie-paddle (literally) their little legs and swim to the edge of the pond to walk out. They actually seemed to enjoy it too as they kept coming back for more! Eventually it wore them out though so they decided they were done.

Here they are, swimming away! :)

Oh, and I couldn't help but post this next picture. Charlie is a COMPLETELY different dog when we're out at the pond--so free and happy and this photo FULLY captures it :)

The Moment You've Been Waiting For

Well, here it is. The moment you've all been waiting for. I can still remember being told by my friends in high school "we can't wait until you're pregnant because you'll actually gain some weight!" Gaining weight has definitely been true so far in this pregnancy, but only in the first 8-9 weeks of course! Since then, I've only gained about a pound, so I guess my body was just prepping for what was to come :P AND since I'm in the 'smaller' portion of society, baby has nowhere else to go but OUT.

With that, here is baby (inside momma) at 14 weeks, 3 days...BEFORE dinner even! :P

Hello Little Lemon

Well it's finally official. We've made it to the second trimester!! (yay!)

In general, I've felt pretty good so far and haven't had any issues with morning sickness. Just the occasional nausea, the desire to sleep at least 12 hours each night, and the extreme lack of motivation. But all of that has changed over the past week or so as I can no longer sleep that long even if I tried (I'll just lie awake for almost 2 hours in the early morning hours), and I even managed to get some dishes done as well as some laundry! (proud moment, yes.)

We had our 2nd check-up appointment yesterday and everything is still sounding great with the little monster. Heart rate was at 164 yesterday, so it's been decreasing from the 175 and 172 from 4 weeks ago, which has AJ hopeful that there's a BOY in there (going by those old wives tales of course!), but only time will tell :) Baby was also quite active yesterday when we were listening to the heartbeat because they kept moving away from the doppler! Must be a little energetic!

Baby is now measuring about the size of a LEMON (3.5 inches long from top of their little head to their little butt).

Grow little baby, grow! :)

Going to the Farm Farm Farm

So we've had this past weekend planned for at least a month now, and even though the news about Baby came out about 2 weeks before we had originally planned AND Axton was sent to Arkansas last minute for a week, we still managed to make it down to the farm for Mother's Day weekend.

Since Tilly was able to live on the farm with me during breaks from school, including a long summer break, any time we tell her that we're 'going to the farm' she gets SO excited!! She starts jumping really high, her tail wiggles as fast as it possibly can, and she starts running laps around the apartment! Needless to say, who WOULDN'T be so excited to run FREE around the huge yard and out around the pond?! :)

Since AJ was going to get in late from Arkansas (driving the 10 hour drive!), I headed down with the pups after I got off work on Friday. Our plan was to do a little fishing out at the pond, make some "Hobo" meals for dinner in the fire, and then make some yummy peach cobbler in the fire as well. Unfortunately it was CRAZY windy that night, so the fishing never happened as it was definitely cooling off quickly that night. We were still able to make our dinner and dessert in the fire, we just had to hang out in the cabin for the night.

Thankfully Saturday was a beautiful day without as much wind, so we were able to spend some time with the crazy animals outside. And who can resist baby farm animals?! :)

The 7 baby chicks with their momma (yes, even some piggy-back rides were in order!)

The fancy little Rooster struttin' his stuff!

And of course the baby sheep (who aren't AS small anymore, but they sure love to follow you around the yard!) Brown Bruno was LOVING the walk in the grass (can you tell by his smile?) And White Willy is a little more shy and he didn't want his picture taken :P

The Real Avengers

So Thursday evening, AJ went with a few of his friends from work to the midnight showing of the movie "The Avengers". Before going, they had the idea of dressing up as some of the characters from the movie. AJ had the choice of either the Hulk or Iron Man. He chose to be Iron Man, which was probably better being the 'skinny' character of the two :P Here are a few photos of their fun while waiting for the movie...

He said it was a good movie and that he really enjoyed it, just maybe not at midnight again...especially when having to be to work at 7 the next morning :P

Oops! Almost forgot!

I guess that in all the craziness of our last blog entry and trying to think of everything we have been up to the past few months, we completely (or purposefully!) forgot to mention ONE other thing that happened in March...

We found out we're expecting!!

Here's little baby monster at 9 weeks 3 days, and looking cute as ever :)  (even at only just over an inch long!)

At our first appointment everything went perfect and baby's heart rate was at a healthy 172 bpm. We are SO excited to start this journey and we cannot wait to meet this little one this fall :)