Another Exciting Chapter

Wow...so, I started writing this on August 25th. I can't believe I didn't post it! (I think I was waiting on photos)...anyway, I can't believe it's been so long since I've posted!!! So much for catching up!! Yes, I'd still like to, but it might be a while.. :)

Just for kicks, I'm going to share what I wrote then, and then update on what has happened since then. :)
"...I've been distracted.... MAJORLY distracted. Like, distracted with all these weird feelings, sensations, and symptoms of the longest flu out there!!!! The nice part is: I haven't thrown up.
Yep...I've caught it--the 9-month flu. Except, in my case, it's more like mostly tiredness and ravaging midnight hunger at this point.... ;)

How we announced it to our family and close friends--3 days after we found out. (My symptoms were so dramatic so immediately, that there was no way we'd have been able to hide it from my family even if we'd wanted to, while living in such close quarters. :) )

This was actually taken right about 9.5 weeks (which is when we announced it on cyberspace)

We're 9.5 weeks along right now, and let me just say, I've got the best husband ever! See, at 6 weeks, not only was it a crazy week pregnancy-wise, but I ended up being on crutches for a week due to dislocating my ankle! He's been great to make some of his own breakfasts (much to my chagrin), let me sleep in when he has to get up at 4:30am, and get me things sometimes...oh, and cuddle. I need that sometimes--something about feeling safe and secure, ya know?"

13 weeks

Well, now here I am, many, many weeks later. Now at 24 weeks - 6 months!! Much has happened since then. We threatened to lose our little "Hershey" (as we affectionately call him, or her? We don't know) around 6 weeks, and I have to pace myself, otherwise my uterus can get a little too active ;), but other than that, I've had a pretty smooth pregnancy for which I'm very grateful. I did throw up twice at 10 and 11 weeks, not from morning sickness but car sickness and spicy food!! :)

15 weeks (yes, I was really that big! I have almost no space between my ribs and hips, and so  it makes my pregnancy even that much more an adventure!)

We decided to wait to find the gender until birth, and so we opted to get an ultrasound at 15 weeks just for fun. Boy, is our little one active!!! :) And, at 6 months, let me tell you, BOY, IS HE ACTIVE!!! (Yes, we say 'he', because Eve came out of Adam, and it just makes sense, since we're definitely NOT having an 'it'!) ;)

Our little "Hershey" at 15 weeks

God answered our prayers, and in September dropped a house almost right in our laps, literally right before we signed our first rental agreement. Talk about amazing! Also an answer to prayer, I finished my 1st trimester 2 days before the house closed, which was super important to me, because tiredness was one of my biggest symptoms.

Early September 2015

So, we got a little bit of a fixer-upper for a FIRST home!!! And though renovations and settling in has been a little slow, between Alex's crazy work hours, my energy and weight restrictions, and a crazy, amazing fall, our house is finally starting to look even more like a home.

17 weeks Pregnant

19 weeks Pregnant

21 Weeks Pregnant

22 weeks pregnant

Thus, pardon my absence, but now you know what has been taking it!! :) Gotta end this by saying that I married the right man. Hands down, no doubt. I'm so glad for him, so immensely grateful for his Godly character, his leadership, his hard work, his integrity, his humor, his holding me tight when I have an emotional, exhausted moment, and his creativity.

Thanksgiving 2015 - 22 weeks Pregnant

And with that, my dear readers, Merry Christmas! May Christ be your Reason for the Season!!!

"For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given: and the government shall be upon His shoulder: and His Name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The Mighty God, The Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

Of the increase of His government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his Kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with Judgement and with Justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this."

~ Isaiah 9:6-7 ~