This week has been filled with so many great moments that I feel like this post is going to be so long.
May 9th - May 15th
How far along? 19 weeks 2 days
Total weight gain/loss: 7-8lbs
Maternity Clothes: A mixture, I wear all of my normal tops, but I love my maternity capris.
Stretch Marks: Same ole same ole, lathering on the cocoa butter
Sleep: great but I am up at 545-6 every morning and then not going back to sleep.
Best Moment of the week: This week has by far had way to many to count. See below
Have you told family and friends: Yes the entire world knows now.
Movement: Lots
Food Cravings: Nothing really out of the normal.
Anything making you queasy or sick: Nope
Have you started to show yet: Yes
Gender prediction: See below big week
Labor Signs: Nope
Belly button in or out: In and hoping it stays that way.
Happy or Moody most of the time: This week i have been nothing but happy. From all of the joyous occasions to getting to be off for 2 extra days it has been a great week.
Looking forward to: All of the exciting events of the weekend.
Daddy/Big Brother Moment: This week by far has had a lot, Eric has been too excited for this weekend and finding out what we are having as has Jayden.
So this week has been so busy, but good busy that I feel like I have so much to talk about. I only had to work Monday-Wednesday this week which was great because we have State testing. Anyone that teaches, knows that getting out of testing days is a present in itself. Thursday my mom, sister, grandma and best friend Annalea came into town. I can't tell you how excited this made me. I haven't seen my family since Christmas so it was a huge present to get to see them again for the whole weekend (but it's never long enough)!
Friday we got up super early because my graduation was at 9am in the morning. We all piled into Dad's truck and left the house around 715. It is so exciting to finally have accomplished with yet another degree. I didn't realize this until my grandma told me but I am the first one in my family to receive my Masters. Which was a huge honor and made me feel extremely proud. Graduation lasted about an hour and a half (which was good cause I know how my boys are.) It was just a great feeling to have my family there. Only one missing was my daddy, but he was handling important business.
So after that, we came home and mom got started on the organizing of the new place. She loves doing that kind of stuff (and I love having her do it, there's nothing like moms way). We ended the day with a Mexican fiesta and watched some movies.
Saturday was the biggest day of the weekend. We have been anxiously awaiting this day since the moment we found out we were pregnant. We planned a dinner to celebrate both my graduation and to have our gender reveal party. It was so great to have our family and friends in the are at our dinner and I was just overjoyed with the people who were able to make it. It truly melted my heart
and I defiantly shed a few tears in my speech thanking everyone to come. The day seemed to take forever and as dinner wasn't until 7. We spent the day at the park (it was beautiful outside), took a nap, and then Jayden had a basketball game at 5:30 which made the time go a little bit faster.
After the basketball game, Eric insisted that we go in separate cars and the he would be there shortly. I knew he had something planned but I didn't know what. We arrived at the restaurant and slowly everyone started trickling in all displaying their pink and blue shirts. Around 7:30 after everyone had arrived, Eric was still not there. I texted him and he responded he was parking.
Well in he walks with a huge array of balloons and two bouquets of flowers. If anyone knows Eric they know he is not the romantic type, so this was soooo not like him. I immediately started crying and smiling from ear to ear. The funny thing was he had a mixture of graduation balloons and only blue balloons as he was confident it was going to be a boy. It was a wonderful surprise and he knew he caught me off guard.
I couldn't wait any longer so after everyone ordered and we were waiting on the food, I decided it was the right time to reveal the cake. Eric and I thanked everyone for coming and said a few words. We had decided from jump that we were going to let Jayden cut the cake. I looooved our cake as I always do ( I am biased but our cake lady is AMAZING).
The funny part is I assumed that the whole cake would have the blue or pink creme in it. So Jayden and I took the knife and cut the corner piece; pulled it away and nothing but white cake. Lol it was quite the suspense buildup. By that point Eric had, had enough. He took the knife and Jayden and cut the top portion of the take and toppled it over. TEAM BLUE PREVAILED AND IT WAS BLUE!!!!! It was so exciting, we were all ecstatic and just overjoyed. I can't wait for what is to come for our soon to be family of four!!
