I'm sickey and full of snot!

I've got the nasty sinus, throat, hacking cough cold. And my nose just has the runs so bad! ughhhhh

This is a product of about an hour.

Gross I just realized what this probably looks like, but the vaseling is for my raw nose ALRIGHT.

Jake's getting sickey too...

Six Months Down

We spent Thanksgiving break in Pheonix but I don't have pictures of that yet, so I am going to post all that fun later....

The Sunday we got home it was our official 6 month anniversery. Our day was pretty hectic so I didn't even realize until the next day. And my sweet Jake remembered too :) I was out with my girlfriend Ashley browsin the mall. I got a text from Jake saying that he's making dinner, I can't eat, and that I can't come home for a couple of hours. So Ash and I stopped my parents, said hi, and waited it out. Finally, I got the go ahead to return home. As I get to the door to our apartment, I notice two things... a scarf hanging from my wreath, and a women sitting at the top of the stairs, which is our doorstep. This has nothing to do with the evening, but was still hysterical to me. She likes to sit on our stairs, I think she must smoke or something? It's freezing though, and we're pretty sure she doesn't even live in our building. But she's always very nice and she insisted on helping me tie this scarf to blindfold me before I entered the apartment. haha

So I knocked (well my lady friend) knocked four times as directed. Jake answers the door and I immediatly notice the smell of a campfire inside the apartment. He takes my boots off and puts on my slippers and sits me down. He takes off the blind fold and I see our dining table moved in the middle of the living room, fireplace burning, soft Christmas music playing, candles, flowers, dinner setting for two, and my shabby man in a dinner jacket. TOTALLY ADORABLE. I know this is probably obnoxiously detailed, but I'm really trying to paint a pictures here.

Jake serves dinner in courses. First he brings out a very nice salad and a variety of dressing choices. Once we finished that, he then brings me mashed potatoes and gravy. He tells me though that he found a recipie online and that it was supposed to taste just like KFC's potatoes and gravy... hmmmm interesting right? oh it gets better.

Then he brings out what I can tell is what he's most excited about. He pulls a cookie sheet out of the oven and places two Rodeo burgers on my plate. I laughed so hard I almost fell out of my chair. I really thought I was coming home to a homecooked meal, but I knew that Jake pretty much just handles breakfast and thats about it. This was so much better because it's silly and it's him. Not only have I been begging him to take me to Burger King for a Rodeo burger for the last three weeks, he brought it home to me in style.

We ate our delicous meal and then we got comfy for the Santa Clause. The whole night was so precious and something I'll never forget I'm sure.

I took a few pictures but they're a little foggy because we about smoked out our apartment. We didn't think we had to clean out the chimney :)

Such a cute night, I had to share.

Dragontales and Matchbox Cars.

So I got married at 20 years old. Believe it or not I did have a 'Life Plan' and being married young wasn't exactly in it. The plan was to shoot for a ring when I was 24, 25. After I had gotten a degree, after I had done something super amazing like backpack through Europe or something. But those who know Jake know exactly why I did it. I had to snag him up while I could! He's the man, he knows it ;) I knew and I knew early that Jake had everything I wanted, but a couple of things stood out. First of all his silliness, I definitely married a goof. Secondly was his way with kiddos. You know how sometimes guys can be real timid with little kids? Like they feel like they will break them or something. Well Jake's not. He wrestles, throws them in the air, and is just super cute. I smile everytime I see him playing with my nephew, or with little cousins, even his younger brothers. Jake is going to be the BEST dad.

And guess what......

He's getting the chance to prove me right!

We're PREGNANT!!!!!

So here's the scoop. We found out in early Oct and we both were SHOCKED and I was Freakin out a little bit. After a couple of months of mentally preparing, We're pretty much ready to shout it to the world.

I had my very first ultrasound today and it was the wildest and coolest thing I have ever seen. My Dr. was hilarious. She first felt me up and told me how big my uterus was. Then she told me it was time to see this baby. She puts all this goop on my belly and touches me with the camera. We don't see anything. (I'm thinking to myself... If I've been sick for no reason I'm going to be pissed.) She pushes just a little bit harder, and there it is....and moving. 2 arms, 2 legs, a little spinal cord, a little jaw, everything. I wasn't expecting him to look like a little person yet, but he totally does. He just looks perfect and he's really INSIDE me! We could see his heart beating so fast, literally right out of his little chest.

Jake and I wished we could have filmed it and put it to music because it looked like this kiddo was just bustin a move. I'm nervous for when he gets bigger, he's just going to beat me up.

But I'm so excited to finally feel him move.

(I keep calling it a he. We won't find out it's sex for another month or so, but for now he sounds better than it.)

I'm ten, almost eleven weeks and not really showing much. Thankfully, I haven't even gained much yet, Maybe just a couple pounds is all.

(I'm sure I'll just die laughing at this statement later...)

According to thebump baby's about the size of a prune.

I'm finally to a point where I don't feel like yacking all day so that is a beautiful thing. It's nice not feeling like I've been run over multiple times. Not only was I feelin like poo, but I was a big fat brat to poor Jake. I think he's happy I'm feeling better too :)

anyway here's baby

and a proud Papa