Gender Reveal Time!!

Sunday, Sunday, Sunday!!!   So excited about our gender reveal party!!  I wish I had taken pictures prior to people arriving.  We have no pictures of the set-up.  But trust me it was cute!!  Our neighbor (and new friend!) helped me make bow and mustache pins.  When I was over at her house she offered us her decorations from her reveal party.  It was a perfect fit for what we had been planning! 

We had tons of food: pigs in a blanket( cooked by my dad!), meatballs(made by a friend), cookies in the shape of bows and mustaches (made by my momma), amazing cake (made by Publix), spinach and artichoke dip, corn dip (made by a friend), crack dip (made by a friend), veggie tray, and crackers and cheese.  Beverages consisted of pink punch, blue punch, beer, wine and water.

As people entered they picked a mustache or bow pin, tallied their vote, and guessed Baby SH's day of arrival.  I encouraged people to start eating...food was hot!  Paul helped get people in the door and started handing out drinks.  There was lots of mingling going on.  Panthers game was on...and let me tell you, I had no issues with the game on!  We ended up winning again, love our Panthers! !  

I had a little old wives tales trivia quiz for people to complete if they wanted. A bunch of people took part. My only rule was no use of technology :)  Believe it or not our close friend's 6th grade son won!! He got 9 out of 10 right. He was so excited for his prize of chocolate bars. 

We tried to wait until half time to cut the cake, but we went ahead and cut before the end of the 2nd quarter. 

I think I know based on the icing color I see on the knife!!!

We are completely in shock!  Laughing, excited but so not what we thought!!

We are in complete shock, awe and keep saying "it's a boy?!"  We both were sure baby SH was a girl....but oh no...boy it is!  We are looking forward to meeting our Shea Robert in April. :)  Thank you to all that were there to celebrate and those who wished us well from afar :)

Ultrasound for Fun

At 17 weeks, most dr's offices wont tell you the gender of the baby....but I really just couldn't wait any longer!!  Plus our gender reveal party was supposed to be happening on 11/22 and we needed to know!

We had be given several recommendations, all to 3D Dreams in Fort Mill, SC.  Even though we weren't going to be finding out the gender till Sunday with our guests, we were still really excited to see Baby SH!!  We had about a 30 minute session.  Our nurse was just wonderful!  She made it such a pleasurable experience, I asked about a frequent flier discount! We left with many photos in hand, an envelope for the bakery with the gender and another envelope with come more gender pictures and a video of about 15 minutes!  I wouldn't hesitate for a minute to have that experience again, or to recommend it to someone!  Totally worth the money :)  

Now we are just waiting until Sunday to find out our gender reveal party!! 

Week 12-15 update

Wondering where I have been?!  Well...the picture says it all!

The b girls and my husband have been taking really good care of me. I have to say the cheeze-its are new to my diet, typically it's goldfish in bed!  So let me get you all caught up with what's been going on since my last blog.

Week 12: The first time I actually threw up from the nausea.  Both times were right after 

being in the car, so I was worried that I had acquired car sickness. But I seemed to move past that quickly.

Week 13:  We had our first ultrasound in the regular Dr office. We were both looking forward to it!  However, Baby SH then decided I need to focus more on her/him. So instead of being excited all day, I was sick. Like really sick. 10 minutes before the kiddos walked into my classroom, I puked over 10 times. I really should have gone home and rested, but the teacher can't be sick!  So I somehow pushed through the rest of the day. Luckily I have amazeball kiddos and they knew I needed extra support.

Paul met me at the Dr's office for our ultrasound.  While waiting in the little exam room, I had to run to the bathroom twice. I know I wasn't the first person to get sick at the ob office, but still super embarrassing. After coming out the second time I asked for a cup of water. I knew I was going to have to give blood and nothing had stayed in my body all day:(  The sweet lab tech brought me water and laid down the chair/table so I could rest some.

The actual ultrasound went fine. Baby SH is measuring at 6 cm and heart rate is 157...he/she is so big!! Seeing this little one grow every few weeks is just crazy!  He/she is taking up so much room and yet I know will be taking up so much more!

Week 14: I ate a cheeseburger!  Lol I know that may not seem big, but I think it was the first meat I had in a month. I was so scared it would make me sick I didn't tell anyone till the next day.  I made it through the whole week with no sickness either!  No actual sickness,  but the nausea comes and goes.

I also decided to get on the scale.  Mostly because I was curious. I haven't been on the scale since maybe February. With all the meds, depression, and eating in the past 8 months I knew it was not a pretty number. Well in past 8 months (though I'm sure it's closer to the past 14 weeks) I've lost 20 lbs. Between not eating and Baby SH sucking up from my fat cells, I'm not going to lie I was pretty excited. But then also really worried. I don't want to put the baby at risk. I'm going to try to eat more and better.

Week 15: As I begin this week of pregnancy I can say I have eaten two ribs! And am really trying to eat breakfast, lunch and dinner. Or course I'm snacking too. I'm learning the difference between the nausea  (I'm going to be sick ) and the nausea  (I'm need to eat)  My saving grace has been these individually wrapped snacks from Graze. It's this company that ships me 8 healthy snacks every two weeks. They are great to throw in lunchbox or purse!  And they are really yummy too! But I am down another 6 lbs.  I'm not worried yet....plenty of fat cells still remaining!