Well..I officially felt my little peanut start punching and kicking yesterday! I was sitting in sacrament meeting DURING sacrament when suddenly two really distinct hits came. My sister said I jumped 3 feet off the pew! It scared me to death! haha! I wasn't expecting it or for it to be that much of a nudge! But boy did it make me happy!! Now everytime I feel it moving I get the cheesiest grin on my face because I know my baby's just saying hi!!
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I basically felt like an idiot taking pictures of myself, which is why I have that stupid kissy face plastered on! haha. Oh and I wanted y'all to see my growing belly...even though most women I know laugh at me when I say how big I am! It seems pretty big to me!!!
If any of you have ever watched Rock of Love which happens to be like my favorite show despite being soooo incredibly stupid! It's strangely addicting I'm not even kidding, and I think Bret Michaels is disgusting and Jess thinks I'm crazy for ever watching it but I don't care! Anyways, from the first season this girl named Jes is the girl that won. Throughout the season I would always say how much I LOVE her hair. I would love to go pink too haha but I'm not quite that daring! But she is my muse if you will, and tomorrow hopefully my hair will look like hers! 
Well today is probably one of the saddest days of my life! I had to give away my baby...Mr. Higgins!!!! That little booger has been in my life for over a year and despite the fact that he has never been the most well mannered little pooch, I'm SO attatched to the little guy!!
I decided about a month ago that he needed to go. I didn't want to, and still don't want to, but his energy level and badness level combined with a newborn baby I think would be not so good! So I prayed hard about it and decided to sell him. After several quite nasty emails that people wrote me on KSL.com telling me how horrible I was for giving him away, which made me feel 10 million times WORSE that I already did about giving him away, a really amazing nice family called about him! They live in Monticello Utah which is by Moab. They have a lot of land and a 4 year old little boy! Sounds like the perfect scenario for me! Higgins LOVES kids he's great with them in fact my nephews adore him, but I was just too worried about having him around a newborn.
So, I'm about to go and meet up with the family who is coming to get him. I'm already crying, and will probably bawl my eyes out like a complete idiot when I give him away.
As if I haven't cried enough over the past 3 or 4 weeks. It's been so stressful. My mom started her chemotherapy, and has to stay in Salt Lake for the duration. So, I offered to move in with her at the Marriott which caters to the Huntsman Center, so we have a super huge suite for VERY cheap! I've been up there during the weeks with her making sure she's ok and getting her what she needs, taking her to the hospital for her treatments, and most importantly making sure she gets out as much as she can so she doesn't go CRAZY! It's been an emotional journey thus far and my Mom and I have been shedding alot of tears together, but it has really been good for me and her to have this much alone time, and I have enjoyed our many very very late night conversations because neither of us can sleep! My mom is such a strong woman, and so far she's doing very well with her treatments, and we're keeping our fingers crossed that her hair won't fall out this time! But I told her if it does I'm buying her all sorts of fancy head wraps which are supposedly the "in" this summer! :) And some cool wigs too!
Anyways, there's a quote that has been constantly running through my head this whole time and it is: "Be not faithless, but believing" . There have been times when I feel way to overwhelmed and can't hold it together, but that quote has given me inner strength and peace. God has a plan for everyone, and we just need to stay faithful that things will work out in due time, so staying positive is key. But we will continue to pray and be believing instead of faithless that things are going to be fine.
How did you meet your LoVe?Answer all the questions HONESTLY . . . .
1. Where did you meet? At the singles ward in Kansas City
2. What was the first thought that went through your head when you met? I had seen him a few weeks before and thought he was gorgeous, but the day I actually talked to him in sunday school I got so mad because Aly (my sis) totally got his number!! That night we went to hang out with him and his roomies and I bee-lined right for him! She never had a chance! haha j/k, she knows they weren't meant to be anyways :)
3. Do you remember what she/he was wearing? A blue french cuffed shirt and suspenders..adorable!!
.4. Where was the first time you kissed this person? The night we met at his apartment bahaha..we thought none of his roommates or my sister could see us we were watching Tommy Boy and the lights were out, we were like rolling behind the couch! BUT to our horror they could see us! hahahaha
5. How did he/she ask you out? He just called me up and asked me to Plaza III which is the 4th nicest steak house in the US..DELICIOUS!! and his company paid for our like $50 fillet mignons! Holla!
6. Do you and this person have kids together? Not yet, October 15th!!! :)
7. Have you ever broken the law with this person? I'm not gonna lie, lots of times!! Oops :) we have trespassed into parks and pools ,driven like maniacs, and we actually almost got arrested last year 4th of July in DC when instead of walking all the way around like 5 miles to our car we hopped over fences and were right by the Capital. These cops ran us down and yelled at us, but we just kind of ran.
8. When was the first time you realized that you liked this person? It was attraction the first day we met, but I knew about 2 weeks after we'd met that he was the one.
9. Do you get along with any of the ex's of your partner? I hated her for a long time, but I would be nice now if I saw her, I mean I won right? :)
10. Do you trust this person? DUH
11. Do you see your partner in your future? We will be together for all eternity :)
.12. What’s the most expensive thing this person has given you? A house, my ring, my car in that order haha
13. What is one thing he/she does that gets on your nerves? If he sees a spider he picks it upand chases me with it..yeah it's very charming haha
14. What is the thing you do that gets on his/her nerves? Worry and procrastinate
15. Where do you see each other in 15 years from now? With at least 5 or 6 kids and retired and living our dream life with our family
.16.Will this person repost this? Nope!! :)
Don't you just LOVE spring? I do!! It's finally warming up in Utah and boy does it feel fantastic! We drove up to Ogden today for a double baby blessing with my two cousins which was so fun! I love babies, especially recently, (hmm wonder why??), and they're both adorable. One is Andrew Jacob Maughan, and the other is Evangelline Louise Maughan. Soo cute! But after the fun filled family lunch that was afterwards which went on wayyy too long, like our family functions always do, (it's just so much fun talking to all my cousins and aunts and uncles it's so hard to leave) , Aly and I wanted to have some pics taken on such a beautiful 65 degree day :)
Aly Scooter and Me
For ONCE I'm taller!
Sisterly Love :)
And OH SNAP! a baby's pokin' out :) It's incredible I'm already showing so much at 3 months! I'm either having a HUGE baby..or multiples! We'll see...
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MY FAVORITE THINGS around the house
My favorite thing in the kitchen is... hmm definitely my George Forman! Love that little grill! Or our sandwich maker sandwiches are so much yummier hot!
My favorite thing in the bathroom is... I love the tile on the floor! It's fabulous. But since I've been spending so much time in the bathroom lately being sick and all..don't really care too much for the bathroom at the moment!
My favorite thing in the bedroom is... BODY PILLOW! Sleep like a friggin baby
My favorite thing in the bedroom closet is... oh my..just ONE thing? Sorry can't name it!
My favorite thing in the living room is... Our dominican painting i love looking at it never get tired of it!
My favorite thing in the pantry is... well not a whole lot appeals to me at the moment except pickles, nilla wafers, and pretzels but definitely not together!!
My favorite thing in the "office" is...our SWEET office chair so comfy, and the computer of course :)
My favorite thing in the baby's room is...Well it's not officially the baby's room yet, it's currently a storage room, but when I start making it a nursery I'll let you know!
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I thought I should blog about this momentous occasion....I was finally able to go back to the gym the other day! WAHOOOOO!!!!!!!! Since getting sick over a month ago I have not stepped foot into my beloved place of working out. So needless to say I've felt incredibly out of shape! I have lost weight from puking my brains out, but what pregnant woman is trying to lose weight? Seriously...I just want to be as fit as I can!
So anyways, now that I'm back into the swing of things I'm feeling like a new woman and boy does it feel amazing! I'm running again, lifting, and will be starting up some prenatal yoga which I'm REALLY excited about! I also think that water aerobics would be oh so much fun, I got the idea from my good friend http://jennvalenzabrandt.blogspot.com Jenn who is 6 months pregnant and always blogs about how much fun she has at the classes. So that might be a new activity I'll be picking up!
It still hasn't totally dawned on me that I'm even pregnant, I mean yes I have been deathly ill which is an obvious sign, not the mention the amazing growth of my chest which hey, I don't mind too much! But my first ultrasound is next tuesday and until I actually get to see the baby that is really inside of me it will really all seem real! I am SOO excited!!
The time of year has come again, yes a day that should be a holiday! Aly and I's wonderful day of birth has come and gone on April 3rd. It was a really fun day for both of us. Although Jess was not with me I got to spend my birthday with Aly and my parents, a first for over 4 years!! Me and my Mom and Aly and I went to go see a matinee of "27 Dresses" at the dollar theater, and then we went out to dinner to Chili's which was the first restaurant I have been able to go to in over a month! Then we went and got our bowl on! After we got home we had one of my Mom's famous delicious cakes and opened presents. All in all a really fun relaxing day!
Me and my Papa in between bowls!
Aly with her good bowling technique!
The next night a few of our close girlfriends took me and Aly out to PF Chang's for dinner!A few of them couldn't come, but it was still fun! Once again I was ecstatic because I was actually able to eat! PF Chang's is one of my absolute favorites so I am glad I didn't have to pass that up! We laughed and ate and Aly and I even got free dessert! Yum! I have the best girlfriends in the world :)
Me and one of my bestest friends Jamie
23 Holla!!!
Aren't we an attractive group?
The week before Jess left (tear :'( ) A few of our very close friends and us went to Buca di Beppo's in Sandy for sort of a goodbye dinner for Jess. It was kind of funny, because when we left Dallas for Baltimore, that's the same restaurant our friends and us went to to say goodbye! It has just become tradition I guess! We all shared each other's food which was all quite delicious, and got the most amazing chocolate cake for dessert yum!!!
But this was also a special night because this is the night we started telling everyone we were pregnant! We wanted to wait longer, but some people already knew and before the news spread like wildfire, which it has, we wanted at least our good friends to know! So it was a night of celebration for us! 
Me and Abbie who is like a sister to me
The proud parents! Why does Jess look so unhappy?
Our whole crazy group! We got a lot of laughs from the host who took this picture for us! 
Me and my good friend Anny admiring the little boy peeing fountain...oh we're so mature
Aly, Abbie, and I were being silly on the car ride home
A bunch of my girlfriends and I are on a volleyball team for the city of Orem. It's been soo fun! Since 6 of us are from Philly and grew up together, we decided to call our team the Phillies, even though 3 are from Cali..but oh well!
So far, we have been 4-3! A pretty good record :) We have such a blast when we play together and it's really a good workout, and just a good time all around for a Monday night.
Our team clockwise from top left: Keri aka "i don't dive", sara aka "guns", amanda aka "co-po", abbie aka "drabbie", me aka "buti-licious", but now they all call me "baby maker"!, Jamie aka "J-Money", Aly aka "a-baby", Jessica aka " big red", and emily aka "chunk".
Luckily, I have still been able to play despite my horrible morning sickness! It's fun for me to get out of the house and especially out of my sweats which have been my uniform for the past like 3 weeks. And my doc okayed me to play for two more weeks which should hopefully be as long as our season will go!
I'll keep you updated on our status and whether or not we win the big tournament in two weeks!
Gooooooo Phillies!!! Picture on right top: Our team huddle in the crucial point of the game. middle: amanda, aly, and me in our hitting line during warm-up. Bottom: midgame action!
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