Winter Blahs

It is snowing...again. Most my blog entries this winter could probably start like that. I am definitely ready for spring. I came down with the flu this weekend, so I've been spending all my time indoors. I blame the weather for making me sick:). A year ago we were getting anxious for our Mexico trip, this year we're getting anxious for babies. That's fun too, just in a completely different way.
Also, an update on my Meijer wine stoppers label--Bethany posted it on her site now! I guess she didn't dislike it like I had said:).

Joe Too??

Hopefully only a few more days until I have my own computer at home! Joe's is on order and should be coming in soon. It's sad that at night we both want to be on the computer when we both spend our days on a computer too! How did people ever live without them??

I was taking a quiz the other day to find out the gender of our baby (a mix of all the wives' tales out there). One of the questions asked if the father of the baby was gaining weight in his stomach. I thought, how silly, why would the father show pregnancy symptoms? Then I realized that Joe's been complaining about being extremely tired lately and about eating more. And for the first time in his life he WANTS icecream (he normally doesn't really care for it). He said that he thought he was pregnant too. So maybe the quiz was right...too bad I don't remember if that meant you were having a boy or a girl:). I guess we are "one" and therefore rub off on one another--apparently sickness rubs off on each other too! Next thing we know people will be asking us if we're brother and sister--oh, wait, we've already been asked that. Yikes! We (Lord willing) have many years ahead of us of marriage and it's probably only going to get worse! I can't wait:)

And We're Going To Be Parents???

This weekend has been pretty relaxing and uneventful especially with both church services cancelled today.
Last night as we were leaving the house to go run errands, our garage door opener wouldn't work to put the door down. I ran back in the garage, shut the garage door, then locked and shut the side door on my way out. I ran back to the truck (it was cold!) and made sure to ask Joe if he had a key to get back in. He said that he did. We also figured that the garage door opener would be working when we returned since we could buy a battery while we were out. While we were out it started to snow. By the time we drove home it was very snowy and really hard to see anything. I had a headache, had to pee and was starting to feel nauseous, so I was very anxious to get home. While we were running errands Joe had realized that he didn't have a house key on his truck key ring. As we pulled in the driveway, we both thought, how are we going to get in?? So then we thought, well, we'll have to find the battery in one of the grocery bags in the back of the truck. So there we were, freezing, searching through Meijer bags in the blowy snow to find the garage door opener battery. We finally found the battery, got back in the truck and replaced the batteries. The garage door still wouldn't open!! Apparently it wasn't a battery issue (which we probably could have figured out since the little red light was working the whole time). That afternoon I had taken a spare key (that our realtor had given back to us when we took our house off the market last week) out of my purse. Who would've thought we would have needed it that night! We then remembered that Joe's parents had a key to our house while we were gone at Christmas and that we had never gotten it back from them (Joe must have given them the one off of his key chain). Thankfully we called them and they were home and they were able to find our key (which was a miracle in itself since they can't always find their own keys:) )! Joe's dad met us part way between our houses which saved us some time. I was so relieved to finally be home and in our house as my headache had gotten worse and I had gotten more nauseous from looking into the snow (and I was getting hungry and probably partially from being pregnant). Then to add to our stupidity of the evening, we had also discovered when we got home that we had left a candle burning. Oops! And we're going to be parents??? Scary thought, I know:).
Today's weather was even worse than last night. We only went to Joe's parents house, but there were times on the way there when we couldn't see anything. All we could see was our vehicle surronded by white clouds of snow. It was especially scary trying to cross an intersection surrounded by open fields. At one point during the drive we spun side ways and came within a couple of feet of plowing into a mailbox. We definitely would have been stuck had it not been for the four-wheel drive!! Don't worry, we won't be driving out in weather like that when we have the baby:)

It's A...

I wish I could say girl for sure, but we obviously have no way of knowing yet (and we won't even know for another 6 months)! Last night when talking with friends I was talking about how I have it in my head that I'm having a girl, so I better get that out of my head so that I'm not disappointed if it's a boy. The heartbeat was somewhat high and I took the Chinese Baby Predictor and it said it's a girl. How can I not believe that? :) (It does say on the website that it is believed to be 99% accurate! I bet!) Plus awhile ago I dreamt I had a girl and you know how reliable dreams are! However, last night I dreamt that I was having an u/s (which the nurse lady used a hand mixer to do the u/s with) and the baby had clothes on! The nurse then said that she couldn't tell what it was because the clothes were covering its "area", but the clothes were blue so I figured it had to be a boy. I must have been thinking of ultrasounds since Lindsey had a 3-D one yesterday and it's amazing (and a little creepy, sorry Linds) how much of the baby you can see. I'm so anxious to know what me and my friends are having. It's going to kill me to wait until August to find out, but I know the surprise will be fun too!!
O, and Lindsey, I swear I didn't mean to steal your title! After I wrote it, I thought, hmm, that sounds familiar:)

Wasn't Sure What to Expect While Expecting

Only 3 months along and I already have noticed so many signs of pregnancy. It is just amazing what pregnancy does to your body (good and bad)...and men don't have to deal with any of the bad affects...although that also means they don't get to experience any of the good affects of it either (which probably won't be until I feel the baby move and then the delivery the baby--yep, can't think of any other good things). My nose was bleeding last week at work (which I've never had before) and I thought to myself, how could this be baby related? I doubt it is. Then while reading "What to Expect While You're Expecting" I came across a Q and A regarding nose bleeds occuring during pregnancy. Who knew!?! Not me! I've also been having the craziest dreams. The other night I had a dream that I was snow mobiling with one of Joe's friends when he rolled backward down a hill and went into a coma. I knew that the right thing to do to save him was to cut off his head. I then put his head in my trunk in a bag and forgot about it for awhile. Then remembered, told Joe, and we then brought it to a nurse that I know at Zeeland Hospital and the nurse said that he'd be just fine. His body would come back as soon as his head came out of the coma! I've also dreamt about getting chased by an eel as he bit off my fingers, having someone throw biting lizards at me, and having the doctor make us a clay replica of our baby (deformed none the less). Between the crazy dreams, backaches, vomiting, nose bleeds, memory loss, heartburn, and acne this pregnancy isn't quite as fun as I had imagined. The baby better be worth it!! Only kidding, I know it will be:)

O, Baby!

Well, I can finally post about being pregnant! Many times in the past few months when I want to write about what's on my mind I can't because it involves being pregnant. Now that we are almost 14 weeks, I can write about it and not care if anyone sees it. The past few months have been rougher than I ever expected pregnancy to be. I feel like a big baby when I complain, but I have really just never felt so sick for such an extended period of time in my whole life. I've been feeling MUCH better lately, so that has been a relief.
It's just so strange for me to picture my life a year from now. I know that I never know what my future holds, but with the baby coming and with friends' babies on the way too, this year just seems to hold even bigger changes than I'm used to. It is the start of a new phase in our life and I can't wait!

Winter Wonderland

We thought we'd take advantage of the beautiful snowy weather on Saturday and go for a walk. It sure was cold, but we still had fun. Elvis looks absolutely freezing on the pics, but he was keeping warm from the adrenaline he had from bouncing through the snow. It's funny how at home when we put him out to go potty he won't walk through deep snow--he'll only walk on the path that Joe so nicely snowblows for him in our yard--but out in the woods he loves running through the snow! On Sunday we showed the pics to my family and they thought about turning us in for doggie abuse--I swear he was having a good time! The snowballs that stuck to his fur melted quickly once we were back in the truck. The seats were still wet the next day from him, but that doesn't bother me as long as he had a good time:) Here are some of the pics. All the pics are posted on my Facebook. It's a shame the running pic with his ears up turned out blurry--he looks so funny in motion!