Because Lindsey asked for it

Happy Lindsey? :P (that's me sticking my tongue out at you, in case you didn't get it)

Anywho, an update... let's see. First doctor's appointment wasn't even really a doctor's appointment. I went to a clinic thing and they drew blood (and sucked at it too, got a huge bruise from the experience), told me when my next appointment was, gave me a prescription, and that was it. I was in and out in less than ten minutes. Sort of really a let down for all the worrying I did. Don't worry though, my next appointment (which is on January 10th) is supposed to be between 3 and 5 hours long. Yikes.

Thow up count so far: 2 times, both in the evening.
I haven't gained any weight at all even though my boobs look bigger to me and I sort of have the beginning of a baby bump (or at least I think so). I'm rarely nauseous anymore, but I still have a problem with finding anything to eat that actually sounds appealing. Recently though, I've started having problems with my left hip like... catching or something. Like the joint will hurt really bad for a few minutes if I try to move. This usually happens if I've been lying or standing in a weird position (most often in the shower for some reason). I'm assuming this is happening because my bones are shifting, but I don't like it; it hurts.

At the moment, Tucker and I are looking for a new apartment to move into later this month, so tomorrow will probably be filled with tours for me, which will more than likely mean that I will either A) need a nap, B) need to go to bed early, or C) both. Yay sleeping!

Also, 1 week left till WoW Cataclysm comes out!!!! Yeah, I'm a major nerd. I thought about posting a screenshot of my character in-game to emphasize the nerdness, but the first sentence of this paragraph probably captures it well enough on it's own. Although, if someone does want me to post a picture, I'll totally do it.

There ya have it! Hopefully my next post will be of me describing our new place or something. Love you all!

First Doctors Appointment is today

Yep, first appointment. Is it dumb that I'm kind of scared for this? For some reason the past few days I've had this irrational fear nagging at me that I'll get to the appointment and they'll tell me that I'm not actually pregnant. Yeah. That would suck majorly. Tucker's coming with me though, so that makes me feel a bit better. If I don't do another post today about the appointment I'll try and get one done tomorrow for sure.

Telling my parents

So, when we found out the whole going to have a baby thing, I was kind of really sad that I wasn't going to be able to see my parents reaction to the news because there's just no way we could afford to fly out to Phoenix for this. Sure we could tell Tucker's parents in person (and we did while on a hike at some really cool waterfalls), but I'm sort of selfish and wanted to tell my parents in a special way too. Well, after telling my sister and having her help me come up with some cute ideas, I settled on sending a package to them with a small gift to let them know. But I still wanted to see their reaction, so I enlisted the help of a friend from our home ward, and rather than sending the package directly to my parents house, I sent it to the friend's (Doris) who was going to take it over to my grandma's house the following sunday while my parents were with her eating dinner. Doris even agreed to take a video of the whole thing, and I finally got it uploaded to youtube, so here it is!

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Personally my favorite part is my grandma's reaction ("Oh, crap."), but it makes me cry every time I watch this because my mommy cries :). Anywho, enjoy!

The Hiatus is Over

Or at least it's over for now. I feel really bad that I suck at this whole blog thing, but it's just the way that I am; I'm excited about something for a couple weeks, lose interest for awhile, but then always return to it. So here I am. Pretty sure that my last post was about 9 months ago, which is kind of funny... in a way... you'll understand soon, I'm sure, if you don't already.

Anyways, the main reason I decided to get my blog going again was because I will actually have stuff to post about. Up until now, my life has been the same. Every day. Nothing changes, and it's fairly boring. Trust me. Not that I'm dissatisfied with my life, quite the opposite. I'm a fan of easy-going boringness. It's the way I am. This brings us back to the reason for me posting here.

I think most of you probably don't check my blog anymore, and I don't blame you, I don't check it anymore either. But for those of you that have stumbled across this post, CONGRATULATIONS, you get to hear our exciting news before most of the rest of the world!

Come next summer (towards the end of May or early June), I'm going to be a mommy!!!!

Yes, we're excited (super excited actually). No, we technically weren't 'planning' this pregnancy, but we weren't surprised by it either (I've been off birth control since January and we haven't really been trying to not get pregnant).

Now, before you head off to facebook to post something on my wall... DON'T! Please.

It's not that I don't want people to really know yet, but I don't. Does that make sense? I haven't been to a doctor yet (won't until November either, which is weird to me, but that's when they said I could come see them), and while I'm not concerned that I'll lose the baby or anything, I'd just assume wait till we have our first ultrasound to officially tell the facebook world. So why post anything here then? Simple. I'm horrible at keeping secrets (generally... usually only when they deal with me). I had to tell someone/thing. And since I'm fairly confident that not too many people will see this, I'm ok with spilling the beans. So, if you do read this and feel the urge to reply, by all means do, just not on my facebook wall. :P

That all being said, this whole pregnancy thing has been mildly 'uncomfortable' thus far. That's not even really a good way to describe it. I just feel kind of blah most of the time. Nothing, and I mean nothing, sounds good to eat, but I'm very rarely actually nauseous (only thrown up once so far). I'm exhausted all the time. Before I would say that I was tired most days when I got to the afternoon, took the occasional nap, you know, like a normal person. But now, I'm ridiculously tired by the time 10 or 11 roll around, and if I don't take some sort of nap during the day, I struggle to stay awake past 8ish. This is the most annoying thing for me so far. I hate feeling tired. Oh, also, my boobs hurt like crazy! That's second most annoying, because it hurts to hug Tucker, which makes me laugh and cringe all at the same time. I mean, it's funny, let's face it.

But yeah, there you have it. For those of you that are reading this, consider yourself special; you know something only a select few know right now. I'd appreciate it if you kept it to yourself too. But I mean, since I'm bad at keeping secrets, I can't really be mad if one of you guys is too, just don't tell anyone that we both know that might be offended if they don't find out directly from me. Yeah.

Well, it's good to be back (we'll see how well I keep up with this) and I love you all!

North Cak-a-Lacky

Or for those of you that didn't understand that, North Carolina. Yep, that's right we're finally out here and all moved in. I would have posted something sooner, but there was some drama with our internet, and we just barely got it working this morning. So.

Tucker has started school at NC State, and seems to be enjoying it. He hasn't really complained about anything yet... though, he doesn't complain much anyways. But he does taste a lot of cheese, or whey, or powdered milk. Basically lots of dairy stuff. Yum?

I got out here about a week ago after a super long drive with my parents (we had to go up to Provo, then come back down from Provo, and THEN drive out to NC) who were super nice in being willing to help us move. If it wasn't for them, we would have had to start from scratch for the most part out here. It was hard to see them go, especially when my dad cried as well when they left; it was a given that my mom and I would cry, but not for him. Then my in-laws came up with a bunch of stuff for us, so our apartment is filling in quite nicely. And not only did Tucker's family give us some furniture, but they brought us tons of groceries. Super, super nice of them. I consider myself lucky with how nice/good Tucker's family is.

But yeah, we really like our apartment. We consider it a step up because it's bigger than our last, but there are some weird problems (like the fact that most everything is slanted downhill) with this one that we are still figuring out.

Now all I need to do is find a job, so wish me luck!