Saturday, January 29, 2011

Lots of new news!

Ok, I've been meaning to get on here for quite some time now! Guess what?? I'm pregnant! :) At this point, everyone who will be reading this has known for awhile. I'm 18 weeks 4 days. We decided at the end of 2009, after the crappy year we had, that we would start trying to get pregnant in Jan. of 2010. What a lot of people don't know is that we were successful RIGHT AWAY. It was kind of crazy how quickly I got pregnant. I found out when I was 5 weeks, had a doc appointment to confirm it at 6 weeks, then found out at our first ultrasound at 7 weeks that it was ectopic. *sigh* Not fun times. We were heartbroken and it took several months to heal both physically and emotionally.

Needless to say, we were trying again by June. Second time around, it didn't happen as quickly and by the end of September/early October, we were getting frustrated... (I know, that's not that long, but it felt like it!) We decided to stop thinking about it so much and just enjoy our time together. Well, if you've done the math yet, I ended up finding out I was pregnant on 10/20/2010. :) The cool thing is, that was right around the time that the first baby would have been due. It seemed very apropos and we had a good feeling about this one. We had been calling the first one "Baby Bean". Therefore, this one is "Super Bean" - It's Baby Bean with Super powers. :)

Once we knew I was pregnant, we decided it was time to book the cruise vacation that we had been thinking about. We went down to FL and stayed with Dan & Steve for Christmas weekend. It was great! This pic is of us on Christmas morning out by their pool. :) We got some fun baby stuff from people for Christmas gifts. I plan on taking some pictures of it all and posting on here sometime soon.

That Monday, we left on our 5-night Carnival Cruise with stops in Grand Cayman and Cozumel. It was fun and relaxing, just what we needed. While in Cayman, we met up with our friend Joanne. We went on a glass-bottom boat ride and had a delicious lunch. Then in Cozumel, we used our gift from my mom and spent the day relaxing at a beach club. On the boat we saw shows, played trivia games, ate lots of food. :) I ended up being the winner of Michael Jackson Name That Tune Trivia and then on the last day, Brian won bingo! Woohoo!!













Ok, I'm going to stop here for this post... next post will have more Super Bean pics and info! :)