Together again!

What a great weekend!! James came home on Friday night, yay! We are so happy to be back together for a little while. We spend most of the weekend just enjoying each others company, watching movies, grilling out, being lazy!! On Sunday we got up and went to chapel on Post, then we went to one of my friends house for brunch so that all of our husbands could meet (since we all met while the guys were at NTC). It was so much fun! I think all the guys got along real well, and of course us ladies had fun! I am so thankful to have met good friends out here, when we first got here I was so lonely and sad, I felt like we were never going to make friends! I cherish the few frienships that I do have out here. James has to go back to work tomorrow, but he will have a pretty easy work load until deployment. They are giving them 4 day weekends every weekend and should only have to work until about 2 or so everyday. It will be nice to get some family time in before the deployment. Next week our friends Aaron and Jessica Leach are coming out to visit! They will be our first visitors :) we are so excited to see them!! I know they will have a lot of fun out here.

23 1/2 weeks

For all of you who have been asking for a belly pic here it is...I am 23 1/2 weeks (6 months) here. I went to the doctor earlier in the week and everything is still looking great! We can wait for James to be home sometime next week!

Army Life

For about 3 weeks now James has been in California at the NTC getting ready for Iraq until sometime in April. I have still been here in Hawaii. After a week and a half of him being gone we got our fist tsunami here in Hawaii due to the Chile earthquake. It was luckily not nearly as bad as they had expected, basically it just caused the tide to rapidly go in and out for about an hour. But it was still a very scary day, I was awaken at about 4 am that morning with the news that it was going to hit around 11 am. It was an extremely nerve racking day, especially without James here with me...he is always the one to keep me calm and make me feel safe. But we made it through, and it was definatly an eye opener that this could happen anytime and we need to take all precautionary measures to be prepared.

In the past week or so I have started to feel my little man moving! That has been exciting! I have also been growing a little more, and my appetite has been increasing :). I have another ultrasound on March 11, cant wait to see how he is growing! I hope that he is more photogenic this time and not so shy! James is ready to be back here to see how my belly has grown (by the time he is back I'll be 7+ months), talk to the baby, and feel him moving in there! We hate that he has to miss this time, but we know it is just the beginning of all he is going to miss. I know thats just all part of the "Army Life" but that doesnt mean we're looking forward to it. We just have to keep our faith in God and know that there is a purpose in all this! I am so proud of him for all that he does for this family and our country.

It's a BOY!!

We found out yesterday that we are having a little boy! We are very excited! I do have to admit though, I thought it was a girl, and when the lady said "ohh thats a boy!" I asked her about 3 times if she was sure hahah! It really didnt matter to us what the baby is, we hope that eventually we can have both a boy and a girl! I am feeling a little nervous that its a boy now, I will admit. I grew up with all boy cousins and I remember how crazy they were when we were little. I am hoping we have a good little boy, especially with daddy being gone so much! I guess I just worry that he wont listen to his mommy! His daddy is quite the adventurer,why just the other day he brought in a HUGE bull frog and I was screaming at the top of my lungs...so Im sure we will have a little boy that is the same way! Just so long as he doesnt bring snakes in the house haha. We already love our little man tremendously! We picked out his first 2 outfits yesterday from us, I cant wait to put them on him! We are going to go with the name Connor David.

His first 2 outfits from mommy and daddy!

Connor's crib and bedding

Daddy has had the bedding picked out for a boy almost since we found out I was pregnant, so he just had to go get it yesterday before he has to leave for a few months!

Excitement!

I have just been giddy all day!! tomorrow is the big day that we find out what the baby is. I have seriously been so excited today you would think that tomorrow is Christmas!! I cant believe that we are getting to find out, and that daddy gets to be here for it! It seems like it was just yesterday that we were taking a pregnancy test. This pregnancy seems to be flying by to me! I will have an update tomorrow so everyone can know the sex if you havent heard otherwise!

12 week ultrasound

I have been meaning to upload the pics from our ultrasound at 12 weeks for quite a while now. I couldnt believe how clear of a picture we got of the baby! You can see its head, body, sucking its thumb and its little legs! We hope this is a good sign that our baby isnt camera shy :) We will have another ultrasound next week and I will put that one up then!

17 weeks!

I have had quite a few people asking me to put up some belly pics so here they are! I am now 17 weeks. Feeling much better after getting some medicine! We go on Feb 17, about a week and a half to find out what the baby is!! Im so excited!! We get to find out right before James leaves for Ft Irwin, so as long as the baby is cooperating and not camera shy he will get to be there for it!