13 weeks

The past week has been great for the most part! I got a little nauseaous/dizzy/not feeling well this past weekend, but overall I am LOVING the second trimester! We registered for a few classes at the hospital this week too-Preparing for Childbirth, Caring for Your Infant and Beginning Breastfeeding! I'm so excited! I really wish we could find out what the baby is right now! I feel like I'm just twiddling my thumbs, waiting to decorate the nursery and max out our credit cards with baby stuff!

Anonymous

Nothing hacks me off more than an anonymous commenter. If you really stand behind what you are saying to someone, you should be able to put your name on it. But instead, you act like a coward and won't let anyone know who you are-probably because you are so high in society and smarter than the average lowly human that you dare not state your name in order to not make us lowly humans feel bad about ourselves. Right? Or maybe you are just a pathetic loser who has nothing produtive to do with their time, you know, other than harassing fellow bloggers. And thanks for the links, by the way. How thoughtful of you to go so much out of your way to look up multiple websites for me to see how much of a "hoax" something is. So because you were so thoughtful in giving me advice, let me give some to you...GROW UP, stop leaving stupid anonymous comments on my blog, and GET A LIFE!

Ear Candles

Have yall ever heard of ear candles? I bought them from an organic food store in town-Manna Grocery. This sounds gross but you use them to clean deep inside you ears!

Here is an ear candle...


The pointed part of the candle goes into your ear (as you will see from my lovely model below).


And just light the other end of the candle. We put the candle through a paper plate just in case any of the burnt candle falls off.


And it always helps to have a little helper!


The candle will make popping noises inside your ear...that's how you know it's working!


And just burn the candle until it reaches the pre-printed line on the candle that tells you to stop. It takes about 5-10 minutes to burn down.


When it reaches that point, blow out the flame!


And then if you want to be realllly gross (like us!) cut the top of the candle off and dump the insides out into a sink filled with water to see what all came out of your ear! It's pretty interesting!

AND you don't even realize how clogged your ears are until you've done it! We try to do it about twice a year and it feels really good to have clean ears!

Ok, I promise I won't post anything else gross for a while! Happy Saturday and Happy 2nd Trimester to Me and Baby!! (I dreamed the baby was a boy last night!) 13 week picture and post coming soon!

Show Us Your Life

This week on SUYL, the theme is Wedding Receptions and Honeymoons! I'm going to go ahead and warn you that I am about to OVERLOAD you with pictures!

Our reception was held at the Four Points by Sheraton here in town.


It was gorgeous! There was a lot of dancing..

and eating!! This is my-if you put this cake in my face, I'll kill you-face!

Brad's cake

My cake...which was SUPPOSED to have flowers on it!

And now for the honeymoon! We spent a week in Ocho Rios, Jamaica at the Sandals Resort! Pure BLISS!



Rafting down the Martha Brae River!

Who would have known that a little over a year later, we would be expecting!

(Almost) Wordless Wednesday

Preggie Pop Drops are the BOMB. And yes, I know I'm huge. Thanks.

I've been awarded!!

Janae at McDonough Family Life awarded me with my very first bloggy award! I'm so excited! So go on over to her blog and show her some LOVIN!!!




And now I'm going to award a few people of my own! Drum roll please...................


April @ The Fabulous Five
K-Mom @ The Mommy Diaries
Brooke @ TBMommy
Erin @ Hoping for our own Peanut
We're Expecting!


So there you go!

12 weeks

Only one more week until I enter my second trimester!!! Yall I am SO excited about that. It's just a HUGE milestone to accomplish. I will feel a lot more peace about the pregnancy and that we will actually be able to see and hold our baby in February! PLUS I am SO looking forward to having more energy and being less sick-I've slowly been getting more energy back and slooowly been less sick these past few days!

I also think I look more like a pregnant person now instead of just looking fat! That's always good! And even though my belly continues to grow every week, I think it's slowed down a lot. I am almost 4 months now and look it, instead of being 2 months pregnant and looking like I'm 4 months! I'm enjoying being pregnant now! And once I feel the baby move and find out what it is, I'll be as happy as a clam!



Only 6 weeks and 5 days until we find out what our peanut is (God willing!!!)!