Maternity Pants.

Today I got my first pair of maternity pants! Lol.  I don't look pregnant yet, but my pants have gotten really tight and uncomfortable. The maternity pants are super comfy, but not exactly the cutest. It's a strange thing slowly watching your stomach get fatter and fatter. Right now I look like I've had one too many bowls of ice cream (which is probably true).

I guess I should rewind a little bit and give a little baby update! In early December I took a pregnancy test that had the faintest light pink positive line. I started jumping up and down and telling Jake it was positive. I kinda forgot he was color blind and he was pretty skeptical thinking I was imagining things. To his credit you could only see the line under bright lights. The next day I took another test and sure enough, Jake saw the positive too. We decided to wait to tell our families until we saw everyone in person, but it was sure hard to keep it a secret even for a few weeks!

Since then, we have listened to our little baby's heart beat a couple times and we even got to see it once on an ultrasound.  We are due sometime between August 8th and August 14th, but they aren't quite sure yet. In a couple weeks we will find out if it is a boy or a girl!

The first trimester of my pregnancy was not what I expected at all. I thought I would be sick all the time but instead I just found myself feeling queasy a lot. Certain foods and smells made me feel realllyy queasy. I also felt really tired... all the time. Around 7 or 8pm I was ready to go to bed. The pneumonia/ pregnancy combo was not so fun. But overall I feel like I got pretty darn lucky.

Our plan was to move to Atlanta right after Jake graduates on August 6th, but now it looks like we'll be hanging around Provo for a couple weeks until we have our little baby.

We are so excited to welcome our new addition!

Booked.

Jake and I had talked about taking a little graduation trip this summer, just the two of us, before we enter "the real world." However, since I'm due in August (update on that later..) we realized the time for a vacation was now! We have a little break in February, right before Jake has back surgery, so we are taking full advantage of it! Right now we are both in the middle of midterms, so it felt so good to take a little break and book our trip to San Fransisco! See you soon California!

Back to Life

After being sick and staying on the couch for like a week, both Jake and I were dying to get out of the house! lol.. First we played lazer tag with friends. Naturally we played boys against girls.. their team won this time, but I give the credit to the super intense little boy on their team ; )

Then we braved the snow storm and went to happy sumo. Since, I dont like fish I always order the same "fake sushi" that has chicken in it. This time I tried the veggie tempura roll and fell in love. . it was so yummy and it looked like a catepillar, cute.

It felt sooo good to go out with friends and get back to normal life!

Lifesaver.

What I didn't mention in my holiday posts is that over the break I caught some nasty flu bug. So I started the new semester feeling pretty under the weather. I hate being that girl in class who blows her nose every 5 minutes and coughs germs all everyone. I was sick for a several weeks and it started getting so bad I couldn't sleep at night and had a hard time breathing. Come to find out I had pneumonia, ugh not fun. A task as simple as taking a bath would tire me out for hours. Luckily, with some anti-biotic I started feeling much better.

On Tuesday I was at home working on some homework when.. SURPRISE, my Mom is at the door. Her flight to Canada to visit my grandparents got cancelled, so she came to Utah instead. Needless to say she was a life saver! She cleaned every surface of our dirty apartment, did our huge pile of dirty laundry, ran errands for me, took me to class, and fed us everyday. I'm so grateful to have such an amazing Mom, who still takes care of me when I'm sick.

Aruba, Jamaica ooo I wanna take ya.

Right after Christmas, we met Jake's family in ARUBA. Oh hello paradise. We ate almost every dinner on the beach at sunset. Doesn't get much better than that!

We learned the best way to eat out is with your bare feet in the sand!

Aruba is a pretty small island so we were able to go to beaches in several different parts of the island. We also enjoyed snorkeling in the pretty coral reefs. On one of the beaches we went to there was hardly anyone else snorkeling so it felt like we had the ocean to ourselves. In lakes I am super paranoid about fish but in the ocean I love snorkeling and seeing all the different creatures. Jake and I had a little school of fish following us for a while. While that was pretty cool it also kind of made me feel like a one of those big whales that have fish following it. lol

One day we went deep sea fishing. Let's just say it was an adventure. lol We didn't catch anything and a few of us were feeling a little sick, but we still got a nice boat ride. 

adios marina

There was a lot of sunset photography going on. Especially from my husband! Like always, he got some pretty cool pictures, but I'm especially excited to see the Aruba vacation video he's making! 

On New Year's Eve day, we went shopping in town. I always love the bright colors that fill the shops in the Caribbean islands. 

One of Jake's biggest goals in Aruba was to drink lots of (virgin) pina coladas. So we took care of that of course...

One of the biggest mysteries of the trip was the loud explosions that were going on all over the island the entire week we were there... day and night. We all had theories about what it could be.. construction, loud cars, guns. But when we went into town on New Years Eve Day, the mystery was solved. Arubans are alllll about the firecrackers. People will stop traffic on busy streets throw down a huge line of firecrackers and everyone stops to watch as it explodes. One line of firecrackers on a very busy street literally went off for probably 30 or 40 minutes! Later walking to our car another huge line of firecrackers went off so close to parked cars that a bunch of alarms were going off. Cracked me up. That night we learned that the entire island means serious business about their fireworks too!

We had such a nice time soaking up the Aruban sun and relaxing with family. How did we get so darn lucky to have 2 great families to spend the holidays with?