It's a...baby reveal party!

We had our gender reveal for our close family and friends last week and it was successful!  With everyone excited to know what the gender was they all arrived on time lol.  It seemed like everyone guessed for baby to be a girl (me included)...either way we were all surprised!

Nobody knew the gender before the reveal which made it even more exciting...so without further ado...

Thank you everyone who attended our little reveal and a special thank you to Justin for capturing these wonderful photos!

Now to mentally prepare to have a house full of boys...let the adventure begin :)

19 weeks update... Just a little late

I haven't been very good at keeping a progress photo of baby, so here we are last week at 19 weeks.

Symptoms this week are still headaches, but they have gotten so much better ever since I turned to alcohol acupuncture. I've had 2 of my good friends recommend acupuncture to me recently and they both had amazing results from it. I really had nothing to lose at this point. I was getting multiple headaches daily. They were debilitating and began affecting me at work. I tried taking Tylenol, upping my water intake, you name it I did it. Now after finishing my second week of treatment I can definitely tell that my headaches have decreased tremendously. My insomnia has gotten much better as well. Over the past few months I would just randomly wake up in the middle of the night and have a hardest time falling back to sleep. It sucks so bad, because I have to wake up so early in the morning for work. Growing a baby is tough business! 

Current cravings...

I have the best husband... Good looking out Josh! Craving satisfied! 

Halfway 19-20 weeks

We have our gender reveal party today and we can't wait to see everyone and find out what baby will be!! 

We had our anatomy ultrasound yesterday where they check baby from head to toe take measurements and make sure baby is growing properly.  We decided last minute to bring Brandon with us and we are so happy that we did. Along with mommy and daddy he was very excited to see what baby looked like. 

We had a wonderful tech she was so good to Brandon and was even better at not dropping any hints. 

We will keep you all posted once we find out! 

Ryan's epic 3rd birthday party!

We woke up late Saturday morning to howling winds outside.  I took a quick trip to the bathroom before I decided to make breakfast. As I was sitting there the lights went out...good thing I was just going pee! The first thing that went through my mind was  'Oh man did we forget to pay our electricity bill??'  my next thought was maybe it was just Josh fooling around with the power, but quickly realized that my husband has no handy bone in his body, so I knew that we just lost power.

We made plans that day to attend Ryan's birthday party. I spoke with Merrie that morning and it looked like the power was still on and they still had power. Brandon was super worried that the party was  cancelled, but I assured him that it was still on... 

On the way to the party I get a text from Merrie saying that they had just lost power. The party was scheduled to start in 30 minutes! Thankfully Ryan's birthday was baseball themed so most of the food were being prepared on the grill and the weather was on our side, so it was easy to move the party outside! 

The kids had a blast playing outside and halfway through the party the kids got a big surprise. A fire truck pulled up to the cul-de-sac! I guess one of the neighbors called because they were worried about one of the trees falling over. The firefighters were kind enough to let the kids sit in the truck and  handed out hats for the kids to keep. It was awesome! Talk about epic party! Brandon still talks about that fire truck! Happy birthday, Ryan and thank you for the amazing party!