Gorgeous St. Maarten

We are officially in gorgeous St. Maarten!!!!
We arrived after about 14 long hours of flying from midnight to 2pm, but we are finally here. The water is completely clear and the color of pure turquiose. We walked into our room and have a jetted bathtub big enough for about four people and a view of the bay on our large balcony that I could take home with me.

Today we transfer to our home for the week and are looking forward to just snorkeling and swimming all day. The pina coladas are absolutely amazing and the people are friendly.

Shawn and I are so happy to be here and keep looking at each other with these huge grins, incredulous that we are finally here!!!!

This morning we woke up and worked out together, which was such a treat. Now we are off to the beach!!

VaCaTiOn!!!!!

So we officially go to St. Maarten in 38 hours and we are so excited. Our bags have been packed since Saturday and we are just waiting for Thursday night to come so we can board the plane and get to our tropical island destination.

The morning sickness is about gone but now my bottom ribs are killing me. The doctor said it is from the extreme amount of growth I have had in my breast tissue, so I am just praying they go back to their normal humongous size after the baby or I am going to have to have these puppies reduced. It is really only bad after work, when I have been sitting at a computer all day. I am working on kind of sitting back while I am typing and Shawn is wonderful and helps me get dinner and all together at night.

The deck is finished and now when we get home from vacation we will have one weekend to prepare for the gigantic house warming party we are throwing on May 2. It should be a blast and I am looking forward to entertaining eventhough our house is not in perfect shape.

Second trimester

We are officially in the second trimester!!

This past week has been especially hard in regards to being sick from the baby as well as extreme fatigue. However, despite the five hour naps I was taking, my mom came over for over 6 hours on Saturday and just decorated and opened boxes. It was amazing!! The house looks great and I am so relieved to have most of the boxes gone and the house decorated.

The deck is almost finished and Shawn spent the entire weekend on it, again. We spent all day Sunday finishing screwing and drilling and now we just need to finish off the top with screws and put on the hand rails and we can get it stained!!

BRUTAL

This is an ultrasound of Baby O at 9 weeks and about 3 days. We are now 11 1/2 weeks so baby O is a fetus and even bigger.


Today is so brutal in regards to how I am feeling I can hardly believe it. I am feeling so exhausted physically as well as nauseous. I am just hoping this is the end of the first trimester so I have to just put up with this last bout of tiredness and nauseousness and then I will start feeling wonderful again.

I am so excited for the second trimester I can hardly stand it. We are going to St. Maarten/St. Martin on the 9th and I am hoping to be feeling wonderful by then.

So this is an update. I became extremely sick tonight and just sat next to the porcelain throne crying, so pathetic. I was sitting there just begging Baby O to help me feel better and Shawn came in and was so sweet. I keep thinking I would never want to go through this again, but there has to be a reason people have multiple children. I am so excited to see this little one I can hardly stand it. Hopefully then I will be willing to have a brother or sister for Baby O!!

Friday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Last night we sold my motorcycle, which broke my heart but such is life. I had not been feeling very safe on it since it had been tweaked a bit by one of Shawn's friends and now I am going to be a mommy (#1 priority). It was sad because that was the first big gift Shawn ever bought me and was pretty much when I knew he was going to ask me to marry him. Sure enough less than two months later we are actually getting married in a whirlwind.

Baby O is well and I am so excited because he or she is almost 11 weeks. I just am so impatient to feel those first kicks and flutters I can hardly stand it. Baby O is in there kicking and punching up a storm, I just cannot feel it yet. It seems all of our friends are having babies right now so it is really fun to see all that we are in for. Shawn is probably going to be scared out of his mind but I cannot wait. What a lucky kid with all of the fabulous friends and family we have in our lives. He or she will have an entire town of great-grandparents in Florida, plus three more sets across the country. And unlike his or her mom and dad both sets of the wonderful grandparents will only be minutes away to spend time and spoil them.

The house is coming together but my ribs have been brutally hurting me so it is slow. I finally finished our bedroom and have been throwing stuff away in amazing amounts. We did buy a very adult dining room table that I love and still need a couch for our living room, one for the basement, and a tv. The bar downstairs is set-up and then we are almost finished setting stuff up.

Shawn is starting on our new deck this weekend and I am super excited about that. Next I would love it if he would tile the other two bathrooms and the landing in the basement but all in due time. I do not want to wear him out :).

We leave for St. Martin in a short two and a half weeks!!!!!!!! Oh my gosh I am so darn excited.

We are officially a plum this week

Baby O is the size of a plum this week and growing rapidly. I had an ultrasound last week and actually got to see Baby O moving about inside of me which was a completely surreal experience. The pregnancy is still not super real at this point despite the fact that we have heard the heartbeat and seen pictures because aside from morning sickness and extreme fatigue I just feel sort of bloated. I am looking forward to the first time I feel Baby O move around inside of me so I can be sure there is actually a baby growing in there.

Baby O is officially a fetus this week so we are out of the gestational period where malformations are most likely to occur, so yea!! He or she now is beginning to form little fingernails and toenails and is developing hair follices. Go Baby O, Go!!

What a wonderful life!!

So we have officially owned our new house for a month tomorrow and boy what an adventure. We have changed so many things it is incredible. We painted the entire house inside from top to bottom, cleaned the ducts, had all of the carpets deep cleaned, and Shawn tiled two of the bathrooms and they look fantastic!! We have hung all new lights, changed the locks, and cleaned like crazy.

Shawn has become an amazing handyman and has built these enormous shelves in the garage for storage as well as a giant loft above his work area to store our holiday stuff. We have plenty of room for growth!! He put in a dog door for Shrek and it was such a pain in the butt that it took him over 5 hours and we still have to go and buy a new one that is bigger.

Baby O is growing well and is the size of a kidney bean. He has webbed fingers and toes and a his little primordial tail is almost gone. We are very excited and cannot wait until the rest of the house is finally together so we can start thinking about our nursery.

Shawn's next project is to build a giant deck so we can enjoy our phenomenal view!! We still have lots of work and most of all, we really need furniture.

To be continued....