Week 9-12 Bumpdate

Week 9

Week 9 started only a few days after we heard the heart beat- thus the chalkboard sharing the news!!  Aside from this, morning sickness was still in full effect and going to bed early is wonderful!  I spent most of week 9's weekend on the couch, reading pregnancy books and watching movies.  

Week 10

Isn't my husband adorable?!  Week 10 was when I thought my morning sickness was starting to subside.  I had a few really good days.  Don't get me wrong- I was still puking in the morning but it wasn't much and the queasiness didn't last as long.  But I was wrong.  I can't complain though about morning sickness.  For one thing it is confirmation to me every morning that Baby Hannay is growing and doing well so if I have to puke for reassurance of this then I will certainly take that.  Secondly, so many women have it far worse than I do!  Some women are nauseous all day long; mine seems to be mostly gone by lunch time.  And three I feel so blessed that we have a baby on the way and I know there are so many women out there who would love to be pregnant and can't so I will certainly not complain.  I'm blessed to puke :)

Week 11

Excuse the picture- I was exhausted.  Just finished coaching and minutes before bed :)

I've learned that Baby Hannay loves pancakes- or at least my hormones love pancakes!  Eat a pancake (specifically chocolate chip with fresh strawberries and syrup) and I don't have morning sickness.  Too bad I don't have time every morning to make pancakes.  Another fun thing this week was sitting down with our friend Kristin and her baby Kenley to learn what baby products to register for- what they have found useful, necessary, not needed but recommended etc.  And I splurged and order a few items for the nursery!

Week 12

We finally get to announce to the world that our little baby Hannay is on the way!  It's been hard not to blog or facebook about this little one for the last 7 weeks.  It's fun to finally let the news out and perhaps this explains my lack luster of blogging so far this year.  But I promise it will pick up again.  We are excited to share out journey with everyone!  Also this week started major headaches but I'm thankful I can take Tylenol!

Weeks 5-8 Bumpdate

I can finally share our weekly updates!  I will be doing bumpdates each week throughout this pregnancy!  I've watched so many friends do this and I couldn't wait to do it for our little pumpkin too!  I am going to recap weeks 5-8 today and then 9-12 tomorrow!

Week 5

 

During week 5 I had my first doctor's visit but really it was just another doctor's visit to confirm what we already knew!  We are pregnant!  As I will tell you in another story- I took 3 tests before this doctor's appointment.  Not that I didn't trust the pregnancy test but well I was just excited!

Week 6

At 6 weeks the extreme exhaustion kicked in.  Ryan looked at me fast asleep on the couch at 7:30pm one night and said "just go to bed."  It's amazing how quickly fatigue sets in!  

Week 7

Just before 7 weeks hit I was eating breakfast, my normal yogurt and as I finished the last bite it was an instant feeling.  I booked it to the bathroom and puked.  Just once and then I was fine.  And from then on I've had morning sickness.  Some days are worse than others.  Some are a one time deal.  Others last until just about lunch time.  Again, it's amazing how such a small baby can do so much damage to my 26 year old body!  My sweet husband tried to figure out how to 'cure' morning sickness.  I'm sure if he ever figures it out, we'll have lots of pregger ladies who want the magic cure!  He went out and bought me so many saltine crackers, some ginger gum, and sparkling water.  Needless to say, we have yet to find the cure!  

Week 8

We got to see our baby!!  I had my first ultrasound!  It was incredible!  I haven't really cried yet through all of the exciting news.  But I cried when the ultrasound technician showed us the adorable blob that is our baby and when the heartbeat filled the room, I was a puddle of tears!  WOW!  It's incredible.  We got lots of pictures of our baby!  And we got to see our baby move around a little.  It was wiggling back and forth.  Such a miracle and so amazing!  

So that was weeks 5-8.  Tomorrow I'll share weeks 9-12.  And then we'll start our first weekly bumpdate for week 13!  YAY!!

Blessings,

Dear Friday...

Dear Friday,

I'm really glad you are here and we can finally start the weekend together!  It has been a really exciting week as we publicly announced Baby Hannay and his/her arrival this fall.  I felt overwhelmed- yes I cried at work- with all the love and sweet messages from everyone.  It was heartmelting!

I'm looking forward to dinner tonight with Reed and Annie.  And celebrating Dustin's 30th birthday tomorrow!  And Sunday's Easter celebration will top off a great weekend.  Time with family and lots of good eats all to celebration Jesus!

If you could stay sunny and warm this weekend I would really appreciate it.  If I could not have morning sickness this weekend too- I'd love that.  And if Husband could not work 8-10 hours on Saturday and have some relaxation time I would forever be grateful.  

Cheers,

Telling Our Families the News

So like I said before Ryan and I wanted to announce to our families.  Originally the plan was to wait until Valentine's day but that was two weeks away and I knew I couldn't last that long.  I commend people who go weeks or even months before announcing.  Here is the flip side of that.  My thought on waiting to announce was this... I completely understand why people want to wait.  You wait to make sure you are in the clear, out of the woods, and in the safe zone.  You wait to make sure you don't miscarry.  I so understand that!  However for me, I knew that if something did happen to our baby I would want to lean on my friends and family for support and love so they might as well share in our joy now!  And I guess if something happened, first of all it would be God's plan and my family and friends are the best so I would call on them for support.  

So anyways, we started telling family a few days after our initial surprise!  Ryan went ice fishing with his dad the weekend we found out.  The original plan was not to tell our news but to wait until I could have onesies made for our parents.  But I got a text from Ryan on Saturday morning that he was alone in the ice house with his dad and it was killing him not to tell his dad the news.  So I called Ryan and he put me on speaker phone.  We announced the news to Bill that he would be a Grandpa!  Papa Hannay!  He was so happy for us and excited!  I was glad Ryan could have that moment with his dad and that Bill could be one of the first to know.

A picture from the cabin/ice fishing weekend...

  The following week, I wanted to tell my family before we went to AZ for our trip.  So I slipped the secret to my sister a few days early so she could help me orchestrate the surprise.  We did an 'impromptu dinner' at her house on that Thursday evening.  Like I've shared my parents just moved to a house in the country so I figured I could get away with having a 'housewarming gift' to surprise them with the news.  We got to my sister's house early so we could have my niece and nephew help with the gift giving.  Jaxon wrote a housewarming card and the plan was for the grandkids to give my parents this gift.  Once everyone got to my sister's house, everyone sat in the family room.  Jaxon gave my mom the gift box.  My mom read the card and thought she was getting a housewarming gift from her three grandkids- Jaxon, Laura, and Rose.  She opened the box and pulled out the onesie I had made.  On the front it said "Grandpa and Grandma's Country Bumpkin"  My mom's response- oh how cute!  it's adorable!  She turned the onesie over and read "Ready to be loved in October" and then it all made sense to her.  She put the onesie down and said "Where's Kari?"  I was sitting across the room from her and she jumped up and I said "We're having a baby!"  Everyone squealed with excitement and hugs went all around.  Probably the most special part of that was that my dad had to sit back in his chair and fight the tears from coming.  I was so happy to share the moment with my whole family- Grandpa and Grandma, my parents, my brother's whole family, my sister and niece, and Ryan.  

 So after announcing to my family, we left for Arizona.  The following week, Ryan's mom and stepdad were out of town in AZ for a work convention.  We didn't want to tell them over the phone so we waited for them to get home.  They were back to work on Tuesday so after a working meeting in the morning, our plan was since everyone would be in the office that afternoon we would announce then!  When Dawn finally got in the office and ate her LENGTHY lunch (I was dying at this point!) she finally made her way to her desk.  Ryan sent out an 'out of office' notice for October 8th stating that we would be at Labor and Delivery for their new grandbaby.  Ross of course got the email first and came down to our office and said congratulations!  He knew Dawn would take longer to get to her emails so he tried to hurry her along.  He went to her office and said did you see the email from Ryan?  She was annoyed that Ross was rushing her to her emails.  She said she would get to her emails once she went to the bathroom.  SERIOUSLY?  I'm just about dead at this point.  After a potty break and getting settled back into her office, she found the email notification of our 'out of office.'  She came running down to our office and was surprised and shocked as to how we just announced to her!  We laughed and hugged!  We had to recount the story of how we found out, how long we had been holding on to our secret, and how Dawn and Ross likely will not be traveling to Italy for the month of October this year!  Sorry guys but at least you'll have your grandbaby!  It's Dawn's 50th this year so I think a grandbaby is a perfect present!  

     Cheers,

How We Found Out

Baby Hannay was planned and yes we were trying.  Our trip to Europe was the kick off to starting to try!  I have to admit that I thought we would get pregnant right away so I was a little surprised each month when we weren't pregnant.  Oh well- more trying!  :)

If this is all too much information you can certainly not read this but I assume since you are at my blog you want all the little details.  So here it goes-- so on Wednesday January 30th I was supposed to get my period.  My body is like clock work so when I didn't have my dear friend's visit in the morning I was a little excited and thought maybe this was our month!  Throughout the day I kept running to the bathroom hoping I still didn't have my period.  Wednesday night Ryan and I went to the Wild game with Dawn and Ross and I knew I couldn't get away without drinking and make it obvious so I ordered a glass of wine at the hotel before the game.  Ryan looked at me funny across the table and suspected that maybe I got my period.  I sort of gave him a silly look and he was confused.  When we got up from the table he said "Well..." and I just shrugged.  I told him so far we were in the clear but I didn't want to make anything too obvious to his parents so I figured one last glass of wine couldn't hurt!
A glass of wine before the game...   And trying to watch hockey when all I could think about was...

After the hockey game when I got home, Ryan figured I would take a test right away.  I couldn't.  I didn't want to because I was afraid it would say negative and I would be bummed.  So as long as I didn't take a test there was still a chance I could be preggers.  Unfortunately that was a bad idea because I couldn't sleep all night.  I was so excited for the possibility to be preggers my mind and thoughts were running all night!  My biggest thought was if I am pregnant how am I going to tell Ryan?!  I always envisioned doing something cute and having a fun surprise for him.  Well just keep listening...

So at 6am on Thursday morning when Dupree woke up Ryan to go outside I booked it to the bathroom to take a test.  It INSTANTLY came up positive.  The two lines were so obvious- there was no question.  I quickly snapped a picture on my phone, threw the test back under my sink, and hopped back in bed like nothing happened.  When Ryan and Dupree got back to bed, Ryan asked how I slept.  He always asks me this every morning.  So I said "not great."  He replied with "it's because you're thinking about babies."  Please note at this point we are both back in bed, laying in the pitch dark and Ryan has no idea I just took a test.  I said "Ryan I have to tell you something.  I'm pregnant."  So much for doing a cute surprise to announce to my husband!  He said "what?"  I said "I'm pregnant."  He asked how I knew and I told him I just took a test.  I showed him the picture on my phone of the positive test that I just took.  And his response "that's an internet picture."  So I jumped out of bed, turned on all the lights in our bedroom, grabbed the test and showed him the positive result.  And said "Seriously.  We're pregnant!"  He was of course thrilled!
The picture Ryan thought I took from the internet :)

What I adore about my husband is how much he thinks like me.  His first thought was 'how are we going to announce to everyone?'  That's another story for how we told all of our families!  But it was so fun to have this little secret between us!  Our secret didn't last long as I'm an open book.  This is the hardest secret to hold in especially when you are so close to family like we are- we work with family for the love of God!  It was hard.  But we kept the secret for a few days!

A few pictures we took that night after I got home from coaching...

 
Happily Excited,

Announcing...

We're expecting!!!!  I am thrilled to announce the arrival of little Baby Hannay in October!  We're over the moon excited and can't wait to share our pregnancy journey with you!

XOXO,

Weekend Shenanigans: Girlfriends are the best!

Friday started with getting a manicure with Annie.  Love spending time with Friend and catching up.  And I got my gel pink manicure which should look great for Easter!  Ryan and I were sort of lazy on Friday night however we did get to the gym at 8:30pm for a quick workout. Yep- I was pretty proud of us for doing that on Friday night!

Saturday was a busy day around the house.  Ryan prepped the basement to start working on what will one day be the theater room.  I was buys cleaning closets and sifting thru stuff from my parents old house.  I can't believe how much stuff I had accumulated thru the years!  Wow!  We got another workout at the gym in and then we got ready to head out for the night.

We headed to uptown to my friend Ally and Tracy's house for dinner.  It was such a fun night as Sydney was home from Chicago and we got to meet Ally's new boyfriend Treston and Mallarie's not so new, but new to me boyfriend, Bryan.  We made tacos and drank Caronas!  Lots and lots of laughing and I've decided both Treston and Bryan are keepers!!

Sunday Ryan's dad came over to help work on the basement.  We are slowly going to start finishing the basement, starting with the theater room.  They framed in the wall and installed the pocket door.  A few more weekends of basement work and hopefully we'll have a theater/gaming room for Ryan!

Hope you had a good weekend and got to relax!
Cheers,