Kitchen Clean Up

Since Jon has been in Houston for work all day, I decided to take on the kitchen. I clean out all the drawers and cabinets, as well as the pantry.

I took before and after pictures of the messiest cabinets and drawer and of course the pantry.

Our kitchen utensil drawer before.

And the drawer after.  

 

The spice cabinet before.

 

The spice cabinet after. I am planning on buying some cabinet wheels so that we can easily find the spices that are hiding in the back.

Probably the most embarrassing…the tupperware cabinet…yikes!

After some cleaning out and rearranging, I moved our tupperware to a bigger cabinet…much better!

The full pantry before.

And the pantry after, looking much more organized.

And here is my nice clean, organized kitchen. Ahh, much better.

 

Now I just have to figure out what to do with the stuff I cleaned out of the cabinets.

Oh well, that will be a job for tomorrow. :)

-Lauren-

8 weeks

Here is my 8 week belly picture. Since Jon was out of town most of the week we didn’t take it until last night so its a little late.

The Unisom and B6 combo my Dr. told me about works really well, but it totally knocks me out for a couple of hours so I really can’t take it in the mornings. I have been feeling a little better throughout the day and I have been able to get a lot of rest this week, which was great!

Jon has to work all day tomorrow, so I think I am going to attempt to start cleaning out the kitchen. We have decided we need to go through each room and do some cleaning out and organizing. I think I want to start in the kitchen. I will make sure to take some embarrassing before pictures and hopefully some impressive after pictures. :)

Have a great weekend!

-Lauren-

I’m still here

I’m just taking it one day at a time, and haven’t felt like blogging much lately.

This weekend (after my staycation at the Four Seasons), my family got together at my grandparent’s house. It was great to see everyone and luckily I felt pretty good the whole time. Two of my cousins are also expecting which means in the next few months my grandparents will go from having 4 great-grandchildren to 7! So fun!

Since we graduated from our fertility specialist last week, I had my first appointment with our new regular OBGYN today. It was great. My doctor seems really nice and upbeat and her nurse was so helpful. The nurse told me to take 1/2 a B6 vitamin and 1/2 an Unisom tab every 8 hours to prevent my “all day sickness”. I immediately went out and bought the 2 pills. I took a dose about an hour ago, I will update on how/if it works. Keep your fingers crossed!!

I had another ultrasound today but since our scanner is not hooked up and Jon is out of town it will be a few days before I can post it. Speaking of which, Jon left this morning for CO. He is helping a good friend of ours drive back to Austin tomorrow and Thursday. Jon’s flight left this morning at 6:30. We were supposed to leave the house around 5 so I could drop him off at the airport. Unfortunately his alarm volume was turned down and we didn’t wake up until 5:47! I kid you not, we were out the door by 5:50 and at the passenger drop off at 5:56 (it is very helpful that we live 5 minutes from the airport). He was able to check in just in time and make the flight! If it had been me, I’m pretty sure I would have missed the flight…from bed to car in 3 minutes! It takes me a couple of minutes just to put my contacts in. Hehe. Anyway, I’m glad he made it safely and am looking forward to him coming home on Thursday.

My Staycation

This week my parents are in town for a conference my Dad is attending at the Four Seasons. So this is where I spend the afternoon today and I plan on spending the morning tomorrow.

It’s okay, you can be jealous. :)

My day started off a little rough (basically every morning is rough right now), but once I get past the throwing up, I feel good for most of the day. This morning I had my last appointment with our fertility specialist. My Mom came with me to the appointment, which was great. She got to see our little one’s heart beat (a strong 165 bpm).  My Dr. said everything looks great, and we officially graduated and are ready to go to a regular obstetrician. Yay!

After my appointment, my Mom and I ran some errands and then headed to the pool. Even though its 105 here, we still enjoyed sitting under the big umbrellas and floating around the pool. The pool guy brings out snacks every hour…frozen grapes, smoothies, etc.  It’s a nice life.

Now I am home and I am feeling pretty good, so I think I am going to force myself to do some cleaning. At least I have another day of my “staycation” to look forward to tomorrow.

Oh, I got more ultrasound pictures. I will post them later today or tomorrow. Everything looks great and right on track. My official due date is March 23,2010. Our anniversary is March 25, maybe we will have an anniversary baby. :)

-Lauren-

7 Weeks

Here is my 7 week picture…not much has changed, other than the fact that I am sick! It has been a rough week so far, and I have a felling its just going to get worse.

This not the best picture, we waited too long and the sun was down, so we had to use the flash, thus the shadows. Maybe we will retake it tomorrow.

-Lauren-

Blog Award!

I love blog awards, and guess what? I got one from this sweet blogger.

I am passing of this award to these lovely bloggers

Meet the McCrady’s

The Kenningtons

Back in Texas

Wivelihood

A Day In My Life

The Bally Family

Love Leslee

First Come Love…Then Comes Marriage

The Knepp’s

The rules of the "One Lovely Blog Award" are:
Accept the award, post it on your blog together with the name of the person who has granted the award, and his or her blog link. Pass the award to a few other blogs. Remember to contact the bloggers to let them know they have been chosen for this award.

Happy Blog Award!

-Lauren-

Look what came in the mail today…

The UPS guy dropped of my first preggy package! Our good friends, Ally and Steven were so thoughtful and sweet and put together the perfect package!

Oh my gosh, look at all this stuff! It totally made my day.

The picture frame is so cute, it has little caption cards that are interchangeable. I put in our first ultrasound picture (I’m going to keep changing it as we get more recent ultrasounds), and the caption “coming soon”. Too cute!

The Beband is going to come in so handy. I work on the floor chasing after little kids all day and I have already started using a rubber band with my button on my pants so I have a little more room.

They also gave me a keepsake journal that is just so perfect! It is going to be so fun to fill out as I go through the pregnancy and it will be so special to look back on years from now.

I hadn’t seen the Baby Bargains book before, but I can already tell it is going to be so helpful. It ranks all kinds of baby stuff, which will help us in deciding what to splurge on and what to save on when it comes to all the baby purchases we will be making.

The other book is our little one’s first baby book! I Love You Through and Through is so sweet, I know we will be reading in to my belly in a few months!

I am so looking forward to trying the tea and preggy pops! Last week I was just feeling nauseous, but yesterday it was hard to keep any food down. This morning was rough, but I am doing pretty well tonight.

And of course, last but not least, they sent me a sweet sweet card. I am so thankful we have such loving friends. I know our little one is going to be blessed by all our family and friends!

Thanks Ally, Steven and Jackson!! You guys made my day!!

-Lauren-