3 weeks to go...

I haven't blogged since October... mostly because teaching took over my life and then being pregnant from December on  made it so I had zero motivation to blog. But now I'm done teaching and almost done being pregnant! I'll make a recap of the past 10 months of our lives.

Trent has allllways wanted children. I'm pretty sure from the first Sunday we were married he saw all the cute babies in our ward and would look at me with puppy dog eyes and say "Can we have one?" I would always respond that it wasn't like having a pet and that it came with a lot of responsibility. Well that lasted for 2 years and we finally decided to start a family. A few months later reality hit when I got the positive pregnancy test. I had been getting dizzy spells and could not keep my eyes open while teaching. But I just thought that was because I was a teacher and it was close to Christmas break and my body was on the verge of surrendering to 23 seven year olds. Turns out I was pregnant. Trent was beaming and I was freaking. HOW was I going to teach while having all of the horrible pregnancy symptoms that everyone talks about?

Well, miracles happen. I hardly had any "morning" sickness. I would get nauseous but if I ate or Trent forced me to eat it would go away. I slept a TON for the first 10 weeks. That was the extent of my "horrible" symptoms during the first trimester.

Trent took this at 4pm right after I had gotten home from teaching. 

 

 

 

Flattering pic I know but I was soooo tired.

All during this time Trent was going to school and starting up an internship at a chiropracters office. The timing was perfect. I would sleep non-stop and Trent would study for organic chemistry non-stop. We got to go to our first appointment and see the tiny little baby inside. That made it very real to me.
 

Telling our family was a lot of fun. Of course Jonas gave the best reaction which is expected.Once my mom found out she would call me almost daily to see how I was feeling.

During my 2nd trimester I honestly didn't feel pregnant at all. I had energy and I could eat pretty much whatever and my acid reflux was controllable. and then this happened.

March 20th - Around 17 weeks pregnant.                          

And then 18 weeks pregnant.....one week.

And that's when I realized the normal jeans had to go. Ok so I tried to fit into them for a couple more weeks with the belly band trick but it just got too uncomfortable! I have been in stretchy pants as often as possible ever since.

The bottom pic is in St. George where Trent and I spent spring break. My parents were there too and we all had a lot of fun. My mom shopped the heck out of me and Trent and my dad golfed a lot!

Before even getting pregnant Trent and I had made the decision that he would go sell pest control another year. This time in Wisconsin. Mostly because we LOVE moving and being apart is our favorite past time. (not) He left Mid-April after finishing up his degree in Exercise Physiology. He didn't want to walk for graduation so we  have no fun pictures....lame. Before Trent left we got to have our 3d ultrasound. That was so fun! We haven't had one since and i'm dying to see what baby boy McKenzie looks like!

His arms are up by his neck if you couldn't tell what those little nubs were...I ironically sleep just like that!

The next 6 weeks were excruciatingly long. They were worth it though. Trent did really well selling in that time and worked his tail off.  My family helped me a TON to get through those weeks. Especially this little princess....

and my mom! She was a saint during those 6 weeks. She came up to see me a couple of times and we even took a trip to Salt Lake together to visit my aunts. She may be crazy but I love her! :)

The end of those 6 weeks was very emotional/exciting. I had become so close with all of my kiddos and was happy to have freedom of summer but sad that I wouldn't get to be a part of all the good times we had together anymore. I had the perfect class.

see what i mean?!

 

On the last day I made a video of the whole year for each of them and I ended up crying at the end. One kid said, "teacher! You are crying!"  Thanks buddy for announcing it to the whole class! After everyone noticed they all gave me a huge group hug and then I told our class clown to tell me a joke so I could be happy. And then I looked at three of my most crazy/rowdy boys and they were crying too! It was so hard when that bell rang to see them walk out that door crying! Luckily I had the excitement of seeing Trent in a few days to cheer me up. 

When I flew into Milwaukee and saw Trent he hugged me and I started crying of course. The people around us where probably thinking why is that 16 year old pregnant girl hugging that grown man and crying? I pulled it together and was SOOOO happy to be back with him. 

Since then we have been preparing for our little man to arrive. Which takes a lot of time! Trent has been working hard selling and I have been working on Teacher's Pay Teachers and getting his nursery ready. I sewed my first pleat the other day and I'm pretty sure that means I'm officially a domestic genius. 

The last few weeks of pregnancy have been less than pleasant. Sitting up is almost impossible. Acid reflux may be the death of me. People STARE at me everywhere. BUT I am BLESSED to be pregnant and I remind myself of that every day because I have too many friends who have, are, or will struggle with not being able to and my heart breaks for them. On a happier note my teacher friend who had been trying for 4-5 years finally got to adopt the perfect baby girl! She went through a crazy amount of trials to get there so I'll take the acid reflux and the discomfort of being pregnant any day.

Trent and I will be in Wisconsin for an undetermined amount of time. He's currently decided whether he should go to chiropractic school or if he should make Pest control his career. He's been given some great opportunities so we'll see where they take us! 

Wish us two kids luck as we become parents! We are going to need all the prayers we can get! :)