Big Day!

So Matt and I started out the day waking up early to head to the bank. We had to set up a wire transfer for a down payment, we FINALLY signed for our first home! It has been a crazy long process and I am so grateful for Matt, he did a ton of leg work on this one. Daily phone calls with the banks and lenders and realtor then off to work for a 10-13 hour day, then back to sleep to do it all again the next day. We found a great one story home, 3 bed 2 bath, a huge back yard, and shutters on all the windows (haha I liked that part because it makes the house look cute). I'm proud to say we were able to put 20% down, and as of tomorrow at 4:30 we own a house!

I'm excited to move in and have our own space, it's going to be great and Lewis is going to love it, especially the yard. We worked really really hard to get here, it's so weird that's it's finally all coming together! 
After an hour of signing a million papers we got Chick-fil-A for lunch. Before we left I made a little restroom pit stop, then not even two minutes later I get a text, "Don't forget to come with a full bladder!" [Back story: I am super impatient and didn't want to wait another week and a half to know the gender so My lovely friend Ashley who is in ultrasound school said I could be a practice patient - yay!] So we are on our way to get an ultrasound and I'm downing a bottle of water and trying to finish my freshly refiled cup of lemonade from lunch. by the time we got there I thought I was going to puke, I drank SO much. (Turns out I drank too much! By the time Ashley's teacher came in she said my bladder was way too full and sent me to the restroom!)
Originally my friend Vanessa was going to come to the ultrasound and be the only one to know the gender and then Matt and I would find out in some fun way, but it ended up being just Matt and I there (and Ashley obviously) and I didn't want to wait so I watched. ...and watched ...and all I saw was weird blur haha. eventually I saw the spine and fingers and toes. After a little back in forth thinking it might be a boy, or maybe that was a girl, or maybe that was a boy part, Ashley's teacher came in and confirmed....

It was a pretty neat experience. I've had two other ultrasounds, but this time it actually looked like a baby in there! We haven't fully decided on his name yet but I'm sure we will soon (we better haha). Other than that news, my hair seems to be agreeing with pregnancy. It's thick and like never oily - two things I am not familiar with. I haven't felt a big kick yet, more just the occasional tickle.. like if a little fish was in there haha. I still love my sparkle drinks. My mom found me some coupons for 25 cent fountain drinks at am/pm, and I will be there getting my sprite on!

The good part

I hear that this is the good part. Second trimester energy, showing stomach, no more nausea! Oh and i've officially "weened" myself back on to chicken. I had my first regularly homemade grilled chicken cooked meal and  it was good. I needed lots of rice and the sauce covering it, as well as some red hot haha, but it was good and I ate the whole thing!
Everything is much better now, I feel good. Although I seem to be starving about every two hours! So far my cravings have stayed the same, nothing too strong or insane, but I do love those mashed potatoes and gravy (adding turkey has been perfect). Mongolian food also always sounds good, mmm YC's :)
I've started to show quite a bit more. I've decided I'm cardigan pregnant haha. I feel more fat than pregnant but when I wear a little sweater it hides my love handles and just shows that little tummy poking out!
Happy moment for the week- At church on Sunday someone asked me if I was pregnant. That was nice, I figured I must finally look more pregnant than fat if someone is brave enough to ask! (or maybe it was just the cardigan) 

I am 15 weeks and baby is currently 4inches and can be compared to a Haas Avocado. So far no new stretch marks however I did get a couple light purple dashes on my inner thighs. They are very small, I'm kind of hoping they stay that way ;) But either way I should probably get some cocoa butter, I haven't done that yet! oops.
The big question we all want to know - is baby a boy or a girl? Only a few more weeks and we will know! Hopefully by my next post we will find out. I wanted to do one of those "gender reveal something cute on pinterest" things, and I really thought I could, but man there is no way I'll be able to wait any longer. Plus my mom is dying to know... to know if she should buy the girl clearance at Target or the boy clearance haha!

Hello Baby

We decided to keep the whole baby thing on the down low until we were ready for the whole world to know, so for over a month I basically avoided my mom haha. We finally told our parents and then made it fb official a couple days later. We printed out the picture I posted on fb and gave it to our families to announce this little baby's arrival.
Honestly, as horrible as this is, for a while I wasn't all that excited. I mean I knew this was what I wanted, and it wasn't an accident so why wasn't I as happy and excited as all of my other pregnant people encounters?! It didn't seem real, it almost still doesn't. I just felt so sick and kept thinking man, why do people willingly go through this (I know, I probably sound like the worst person ever). But I promise I really do want to start our family and be a mom, I just feel so sick and it doesn't seem like there's actually a baby in there so I think it has been hard for me to find that "glow" or that "this beautiful baby from God that I'm holding!" I'm sure I'll get there but I really just haven't found that yet :/
Although I will say, it turns out all I needed to do was tell my mom and let everyone know! After being out in the open, it started to feel a little more real, at least the excitement part!

So far with this pregnancy I have not thrown up. There have been a few times where I probably could've but I kept it down. Other than that I've just been super nauseous, heartburn, and  I'm tired. So tired. I've found a couple light stretch marks and I swear, you couldn't pay me to walk around with my pants buttoned, the pressure makes me nauseous! Any pressure, even to the point of a fitted shirt, makes me feel so sick. Man have garments been hard. So weird right? anyone else have this problem? I hope its something that eventually goes away.

So this is 12 weeks: I'm starting to feel better, everything is lightening up. My cravings have been mashed potatoes and sparkling beverages. Sonic is my new best friend. Only Sonic Coke is good right now, cherry limeade, and the occasional apple cider desire.
Chicken? The look (specifically grilled chicken), gag... the taste... no no no! That was a really tough adjustment in our house. I don't generally cook a lot but when I do (or did) it's chicken and rice, chicken and noodles, chicken casserole, anything chicken... The first couple weeks of no chicken were pretty rough, I had no idea what the frick to eat! So, it ended up being a lot of jack in the box, pizza, taco bell, pizza, in n out.. basically junk and fat. BAD IDEA. Ever had a ton of fast food for like 10 days straight? man the weight finds you. Ever since that little episode I've only gained a few pounds on top of the fat food pounds. Oops.

Call it a graduation gift

Matt has officially graduated the police academy and is now out on the streets. He is currently on FTO so he drives around in cop car doing cop like things only difference is that he has a partner in the car training him and walking him through situations. He really enjoys it and I've been enjoying the crazy stories, haha it's exactly what I signed up for.
September 19, 2014 was graduation day and man was it a busy one! We woke up early for the start of a big day, but before I got in the shower I decided to take a pregnancy test. I was a couple days late so just thought I'd check. I let the little test sit in the bathroom while I showered, tried not to get too hyped up, and when I got out of the shower, bam! It was positive. I thought about when and how to tell Matt but as I walked back to the bedroom he was just waking up and said hi and I said "Morning, oh guess what!" Turns out I couldn't hold on long enough to tell him in a cute Pinterest way.

I am so proud of Matt for making it through the academy and choosing such an honorable job. He looks great in his uniform ;) and our future baby is going to be so lucky to have such a cool daddy!

Get here quicker?

So clearly I'm not great at blogging. I've never been good at journaling or writing down anything really. Here we are at the beging of September and Matt has two weeks left in the academy. I have not recorded anything about it, and as always I wish I had. For the past 18 weeks Matt has been working so hard, with mountain runs and physical training, being pepper sprayed, fighting guys (and a girl) who train MMA fighters, getting punched in the face repeatedly, punching his friends in the face repeatedly, and so much more. I think by now he would say it's been a crazy experience but he finally came home last week telling me about what a fun day it had been. They had practiced tactical driving so he got to flip on the police lights and practice chasing other vehicles. It is so funny for me to see him enjoying his time in the academy because for the first month or so, specifically the first three weeks he had no hope whatsoever. They break you down so much, telling these recruits that they are worthless trash, and cuss word cuss word scum, picking on them for anything at all even the stupidest things like being too tall or too short. It was all silly, just mind games, but man... Matt took it hard. There were days that he would come home and just tell me, I don't know if I can do this babe... Poor guy. But here we are, almost done! Through the yelling, training, homework and endless papers, memos, perfect reflective boot shining, here he is with a smile.

That about sums up our summer. We went to a Dierks Bentley concert, Matt and I celebrated our two year anniversary and I turned 21.  So now on to everything else, complete police training took over. We are trying to buy house but have been stuck waiting to get pre-qualified for a loan. Matt has to graduate the academy first. September 19th, feel free to come quicker. We are so ready to move. It has been a blessing in many ways to have lived in my nana and tata's little add on appartment, but when I say little I mean it.. like as in very low ceilings (haha keep in mind - Matt is 6'4''). The rent is fantastic and should have been a great two years to save money.. but instead I think I may have shopped a little much. All in all, we have out grown this place. There is nothing about it that I will miss, especially the newly added creatures that have decided to move in the last month or so. However, every seems to say "You'll miss those simple times when you were first married, the place you lived and everything about it." I guess we'll see, but for now I'm ready for change. But hey, who knows, maybe I'll eventually wish it all wouldn't have been here so quick.

Here goes nothing

Well, I've decided to start a blog. I think it will be a nice way to remember this time of my life. I am so absolutely terrible at keeping a journal so let's see if this whole blog thing doesn't work out better.

A lot is about to start changing around here. After a long long process, we got the call three days ago. On Friday, March 28th, Matt got offered a conditional offer for the Chandler Police Department, so I'm sure you can be expecting some pretty crazy blog posts in the near future. We could not be more excited. He goes into the police academy in May, and then assuming everything goes well (I'm sure it will, Matt is amazing and great at everything) he will be hired on and start early this fall! So we have that going on this summer, we also plan on buying our first house, I will (finally) be starting at ASU after 6 semesters of community college and we've recently added a little peanut to our family! Lewis Henry the Dog. He is so stinken adorable, I didn't even know I could love a doggy this much. So holy cow I can't even imagine how much we are going to love a baby haha.

Lewis is a tea cup Yorkie! He is actually 1lb over tea cup standard but too small to be a normal Yorkie, nevertheless he is 4lbs and SO adorable and fun! Matt got him for me this past Christmas.
Anyway, we are looking forward to a busy summer, with everything going on and a possible Cancun trip coming our way, we'll see how it all plays out and hopefully I can get into this whole blogging world!