Kelly Belly-17 weeks (a day late of course!)

I wanted to wait until today to post this because I had my doctors appointment.  

How Far Along: 17 weeks!!!

Size of Baby: they say baby is the size of the palm of my hand...but I do have a pretty big hand!

Maternity Clothes:  some.  We had a dinner to go to last night and I wore a maternity dress.  You could for sure see my little bump but the dress was black so it kind of hid it.  Oh and this picture was taken after a SIX COURSE MEAL so some of that is bloat...I was soooooo full!!!!!

By the way, my husband HATED the flower in my hair.  I thought it was cute and springy.  What do y'all think???

I went last week and bought some summer dresses at Belk.  They aren't maternity but they will work for a long time.  Here is me in one of them.  I also got a bright blue one and a navy one.  Oh and those are my mother's day flowers from one of my friend's...how sweet is that?

I got some non-maternity shorts from Old Navy that have a stretchy waist and no buttons or zippers.  They just tie so they will be able to grow with me also.  And they are long so my butt doesn't hang out.  I HATE THAT.... 


Also, you would think that a girl wouldn't grow out of her scrubs....well I have.  I can't go back to work in the same scrubs!  They drove me BONKERS yesterday.  They have absolutely no give at all so they just dig into my belly.  I am going to order a bigger size pants and see if that helps...UGH!

Weight Gain:  I was up 4 pounds at the doctor this morning from a month ago.  So this is +6 pounds total.  

Stretch Marks:  no new ones.  


Belly Button:  I did take my belly button ring out this week.  It was showing in the dresses I was wearing!  I guess I'm going to leave it out.  It's not that I am attached to it but I feel like I look weird without it.  I have had it for 10 years so I am just going to have to get used to looking at my tummy with no bling.  Oh and it is always way in....I find it hard to believe that it could poke out!  



Sleep: I have been sleeping really deep but I wake up with headaches about every other day.  My hips have also started hurting at night.  It almost feels like they have a cramp...weird...  I bought some new pillows and two body pillows so hopefully that will help all of this.  

Best Moment of the Week:  Of course hearing the heartbeat this morning.  It was 158 bpm.  My mom went with me so she got to hear it too.  Such a sweet sound!  Oh and I had a girl at work, A, scan me yesterday.  That will always be a great moment :)

Movement: not yet that I can tell.  I have felt a few little weird things but I have no idea if it is the real thing or not....

Symptoms:   still the headaches, huge boobs, and fatigue.  

Food Cravings/Aversions:  I have been eating two pieces of peanut butter toast every morning.  Then for a mid morning snack I have been having one of those Naked drinks that I talked a little bit about here.  This seems to work very well for me.  I don't get that "OMG if I don't eat right this very second I am going to fall over and die" feeling.  I am still loving Simply Lemonade...I guess that is not going to go away.  I have done really well this week on drinking the right amount of water.  It is hard!  My honey also made some chicken salad yesterday and I can't wait to chow down on that for lunch!

Gender: I promise a gender reveal post tomorrow :)

What I Miss:  I honestly don't miss anything and I love being pregnant.  We are members of a Wine & Gourmet Club that meets twice a year and our spring dinner was last night.  I am going to post about that later this week but if you like wine and are pregnant you will miss your wine at this dinner!!!  Although it was super fun being the pregnant girl there!

What I'm Looking Forward to: my Florida trip with the girls/women in my family.  We leave in a week and a half.  So technically it will be baby's first family Florida trip!  And, of course feeling the baby move!

Weekly Wisdom: This comes from my friend Sarah....KELLY!!!  You are four months pregnant and it is ok to have a belly!  QUIT thinking you look chubby!!!!  Literally she yelled this at me.  I should listen to her more....

Milestones:  Another doctor's appointment down!  Officially started wearing some maternity clothes that show my belly!  

Dreams: A few days ago I dreamed that I drank a bunch of wine because I forgot that I was pregnant.  A total flip out ensued....


I also dreamed that I was running around my aunt Jenni's house naked.  I was banging on her window so she would let me in and shower but she wouldn't....super weird...


Here is the baby belly this week! 

Our reception...as promised!!!

First I want to say Happy Mother's Day to all the wonderful mommies out there.  I know that I am so lucky to have mine in my life.  She is the best.  I was going to post about my mother's day today but then I realized I can't!  I was going to post pictures of what I got from my mom and my aunt but if I did that it would give away the sex of the baby.  So I will post that later this week after my gender reveal post.  I know y'all are just on the edge of your seats ;)


So in this post last week I promised pictures of our royal reception :)  Here they are!

This is my sweet niece and nephew Collier and Syble.  They were our ringer bearer and flower girl.  They were two and a half at the time and did such a great job.  

I mean....

This was when we were first announced and entered the reception.  I love this picture because we look so happy and excited.  

This was the food table.  Which I never actually saw so I am glad someone took pictures of it!  I was just so busy talking and dancing!

 The ice sculpture that I just had to have.  That is shrimp surrounding the bottom of it.  

 A table serving champagne punch....never actually saw this either but I still have plenty of those napkins!!!  

 These were our wedding favors.  They were small bags of blue and white M&M's.  Some of them said Kelly and Lonnie and some said the date....10-6-07

 Programs that I made.  Pretty sure I was still printing them and tying a ribbon to the top the night before the wedding.  

 Some of the flowers...my favorite part!

 We had tall centerpieces on some tables....

 and smaller ones on others....

Cutting the cake!

 This is one of my favorite pictures.  My niece Syble REALLY wanted those chocolate covered strawberries.  We were standing there about to cut the cake and I felt a little tug on my dress.  She didn't look at me at all just had her eyes dead set on those strawberries.  So cute!

 I also love this one a lot as well.  We were having such a good time!

This has been super fun going back and looking through our wedding photos!  I should do it more often.  We have been through a lot in our 3 1/2 years of marriage but I feel like we are closer than ever.  I love you honey!

Kelly Belly-16 weeks (a day late)

How Far Along: 16 weeks....as in four months....holy smokes!

Size of Baby: Avocado....way to go baby!

Maternity Clothes:  I need to go shopping.  I have been staying in my workout pants every day.  I have never been so thankful to wear scrubs to work!  I am going to be making a trip to Target in the next week so hopefully I will find some things there.  AND now that it is warming back up I can switch back to dresses and leggings.  So comfy...  This is how my jeans are being held up if I can't wear the belly band.  

Weight Gain:  I think that I have gained another pound but I'm not sure.  I go back to the doctor next week.


Stretch Marks:  same as before pregnancy

Sleep: has been better this week.  I am not sure why but it might have something to do with the rain (not storms) that we have been having.

Best Moment of the Week:  Well.....there are a few.  The first was sitting at my aunt's house with her and my mom discussing baby names.  That was super fun and we came up with a few new ones.  But I have to say that very best moment was yesterday because I found out the sex!!!!

Movement: not yet but hopefully soon.  Two days ago I was sitting in the recliner and I felt a little popping way down there on the left side for just a few seconds.  Before I even realized it to pay more attention it had stopped.  It could have been something but I am totally not convinced.  That was 15w6d....

Symptoms: still just the headaches.  They suck but I am totally willing to deal with them.  I have yet to take any Tylenol.  My boobs are ginormous...like seriously.  I mean I was a very small girl to start with so they might not be big to some BUT for me they are rockin'.....and it is awesome.  

Food Cravings/Aversions: I am still on the Lemonade.  Other than that I really haven't had any cravings this week.  

Gender: I know but I am not saying just yet....that is going to have its own post :)

What I Miss: We went to Outback last night and I was so excited because I LOVE the blue cheese chopped salad.  Only when we were about to order did I realize that I'm not supposed to eat blue cheese.  It was sad....  So I guess this week I miss that BUT NOTHING compares to being pregnant!

What I'm Looking Forward to:  feeling the baby move and buying stuff now that we know the sex!

Weekly Wisdom: I'm fresh out of wisdom this week

Milestones: I'm 16 weeks...as in four months pregnant!  That is just mind-boggling.....

Dreams:  I haven't had any dreams that I can remember this week.  I was writing them down when I woke up and I forgot to do that this week so of course I can't remember.  


This is just a random thing that I want to remember.  Every night when I'm laying in bed I always talk to my little one and tell he/she how proud I am at how far they have come.  He/She is doing so well and I just have so much love in my heart.  


The first pic is in the same clothes that I have been taking my pictures in...

This is a 16 week picture in just some normal clothes.   This shirt was not that fitted.....I am pulling it tight with my other hand so you can see the teeny baby bump :)

Hope everyone is having a good week!  Yea for sunshine!!!

OUR Royal Wedding

Yes, I did watch the Royal Wedding.  I didn't care about any of the hoopla leading up to it but, I mean, I am a girl....I'm a sucker for a wedding!  Also I just think Kate is beautiful and they seem so in love and happy.  I had to watch.  I did not get up at 4 am, I recorded it and watched it when I got up.  


I love tradition.  I love pomp and circumstance.  I love pageantry.  These are the reasons that I watched this stuff ALL day long.  Oh and I am a hopeless romantic.  I mean she woke up that day a commoner and went to bed a princess!!!!  Hello?  That is awesomeness!  I also think the Queen is amazing.  The woman has been queen for a gazillion years and has almost NO  wrinkles!  How is that possible?  She is the original HBIC.  (if you don't know what that means...google it)


And can we just talk for a second about how hot David Beckham looked?  There really are no words for this amount of hotness.  It should be illegal.  My husband knows that I feel this way and he understands.  I love him for that :)


But anyway, Kate looked amazing like we all knew she would.  My favorite part was when she finally made it to the alter and William looked at her and told her she looked beautiful.  That was just too sweet.  I might have cried.   


My other favorite part was during the ceremony the archbishop said that every wedding was a royal wedding.  I could not agree more!  Every wedding is special and is celebrating the same thing.  We may not all have a jillion dollars to spend but none of that really matters anyway.  It is all about committing your life to the one you love.  No matter how big or small the wedding they are all just as meaningful.  


So on that note I thought that I would share with you guys a little bit about OUR Royal Wedding!


Lonnie and I got engaged on May 16,2007.  Here is our engagement picture

We got married on October 6, 2007.  Yes I planned my wedding in a little over 3 months.  I wouldn't do it any other way.  Less time to stress out.  We both wanted a somewhat small wedding...intimate.  The problem came in when I told my dad to make a list of people he absolutely HAD to invite.  That list was over 100 people long.  Since he was paying we sort of had to go with it :)

We got married at The Arlington Hotel which is a very old and historic hotel in the city where I live.  It has a beautiful ballroom and that is where our ceremony was.  Our reception was in a large room adjacent to the ballroom.  My wedding colors were hydrangea blue and white.  The flowers were blue and white hydrangeas, white roses, and white calla lilies.  Everything was beautiful!  Now for a picture overload!

getting ready!

Bridal portrait

Bridal Portrait

before the wedding

This was the first time that Lonnie saw me...

my brother Matt, my mom, me and my dad

This is right when the doors to the ballroom opened and me and my dad started walking down the aisle.

This is right after we got married and when we were walking out of the ballroom.  

This post has gotten pretty long so I will post some pics of my reception tomorrow.  As you can see, I have been playing around with putting a watermark on my pics.  I am going to continue to do this on my family pictures.  It actually isn't too difficult! 


Feel free to share about YOUR Royal Wedding! 

Pics of the week 5 and Blog Award

First of all I want to apologize for being a bit absent from the blog world this week.  My internet has been in and out because of the storms.  It has taken me three days to get this post up!  I have been reading all your blogs from my phone but it wouldn't let me comment from my phone...very frustrating!  

I did not take the first two pictures.  If I would have seen this I am pretty sure I would have had a small heart attack or passed out.  This was the first tornado that hit us Monday afternoon.  This one was about 5 miles from my house.

This was the second and larger, more devastating tornado that hit us.  This one hit just a mile or two away from me.  Ummmm.....scary????  I just can't believe all of the devastation that has occurred across the southern states because of these tornadoes.  It just blows my mind.  I am so thankful that we were unharmed because there were so many people that were not as lucky.  It just breaks my heart.  

The only damage we had at our house from the storms was that our dock broke away and floated off just a few feet.  It would have sailed off down the lake but we had it tied up to a tree.  Our neighbors had their dock tied to a tree as well and the current was so strong that it pulled the tree down.  And, no, we would have never thought to tie up our dock but we learned the hard way.  Two years, ago on Christmas Eve we woke up and our dock was no where to be found.  It had floated off down the lake and cost us a frickin' fortune to get them to bring it back!  So here is our dock with our first baby in it which we can't get to...  

This is the walkway that had detached and was on the bottom of the lake now.  It could have been much worse for sure!

During the night the water came up all the way over our seawall and into our yard.  This is a picture of all the fish that got trapped behind the seawall when the water went back down.  There were probably 50 fish like this just lining our seawall.  It did not smell good....

A couple of days after the storm it was finally a pretty day.  We decided to try to take the jeep for a ride.  We had to charge the battery and that is why the hood is up.  Lonnie is putting on our new antique license plate that you may remember me talking about here.  Jeepin' is what we call it here in the south :)

This is sweet Darwin hiding during the storms.  All you can see is his nose!  

This picture probably won't mean much to anyone that doesn't know this little dog.  She is my Grand's dog and her name is Katie.  She weighs 5 pounds and is mean as hell.  Oh not to Grand....just everyone else.  She will snap at you if you try to pet her and it will scare the crap out of you even though she is tiny.  Lonnie was determined for her to like him.  On Easter this is what I found.....they were snuggling...although he does look a little nervous, doesn't he?

I couldn't resist adding this picture.  Lonnie needed to fix the sprinkler intake pump and it is in the lake.  It is shallow but he was still going to have to get wet above his ankles.  So, I had the bright idea that he should wear my rain boots!  Doesn't he look cute?  His feet were so smashed in there...it looked very uncomfortable....

Ok and now on to the award!  Bridget from Our Lost Stork gave me this wonderful award.  

I am so happy that I found her blog because we are very close to each other in our pregnancies (along with a few others!).  No one in my real life is pregnant so it is nice to be able to share things and see what everyone else feels like!  Thanks again, Bridget!

So, here's how it works:

1. Winners grab the image and put it in your blog.
2. Link back to the person who gave you it.
3. Tell 10 things about yourself
4. Award 15 recently discovered bloggers.
5. Contact the bloggers you have awarded to let them know they have won.

Ok so here are 10 random things about myself.

1. I really love flowers and plants but I always end up killing them....
2. When I was a senior in high school my fast pitch softball team won state...we were badass...
3. I love candles....Bath and Body Works has some awesome ones but I only buy them when they are on sale because they are so expensive!
4. I wear contacts and can't see crap if I don't have them in.  
5. I love roller coasters and I can't wait to ride them with my kids.  (my husband hates them!)
6. On my first date with my husband I got locked in the bathroom and couldn't get out.  I about had a panic attack wondering what the heck he was thinking about me being in the bathroom so long.  Turns out you just had to turn the handle upward instead of downward.....I have been terrified of getting locked in a public bathroom since then.
7. I enjoy reading about history and wish I did it more.  I wanted to be a history major but all I could really do with that is teach and that was not for me.
8. I watched the Royal Wedding and cried....whole post about that coming up :)
9. I love mindless reality TV....Teen mom, Rock of Love, 16 and Pregnant, Jersey Shore, etc.  It is awful and I am not proud of it.
10. I have a younger brother!

OK and these are the blogs I am giving this award.  I know I am not going to make it to 15 because I am going to try to not double up.  Here goes...

1. Write, Baby, Repeat
2. The Johnson's Journey
3. Crossing My Fingers But Not My Legs
4. The Journey to Baby Belgard
5. B and R plus 1
6. Still a Guest Room...
7. The Hardest Quest

That is all I have today people!  Happy MAY!!!!

Kelly Belly-15 weeks

How Far Along: 15 weeks!!!!!!!!

Size of Baby: size of a navel orange or a small apple...



Maternity Clothes:  Not yet but most of my clothes do not fit, especially my jeans.  I went out for girls night on Wednesday and made the mistake of wearing my jeans.  When I put them on I thought they were ok....comfortable.  I forgot to take into consideration that I was going to be sitting down all night!  They came unbuttoned pretty quick!  I need to go shopping for myself like right now....



Weight Gain:  up 2 pounds.  I haven't weighed since my dr appointment which was two weeks ago.  I am sure I have gained more but I don't trust my scale at home :)

Stretch Marks:  just the same as before pregnancy.  I have noticed my boobs itching quite a bit lately so I have been lathering up all the time with lotion.  I am using Palmer's Cocoa Butter.  I like it but it does leave me feeling kinda sticky.  I am sure I will get stretch marks on my boobs at some point.  I didn't really have much to work with!

Sleep: sore subject!  I still haven't gotten a body or pregnancy pillow!  We have had some MAJOR storms and tornadoes here this week and some of them were in the middle of the night so not much sleep for me even if I was comfortable.  

Best Moment of the Week: Well, honestly, the best thing this week was that our house, our families, and friends were saved from the tornadoes that that rocked our state.  There is a lot of destruction and some lost lives.  It was very scary and I am just thankful that we were spared.  I will try to post some pics in my pics of the week post coming up.   

Movement: not yet but I am excited to feel it!

Symptoms: I feel great most of the time.  I am still tired but I can tell that I am getting a little more energy.  I only take a nap a couple of times a week instead of every day!  I would say my main symptom is headaches.  They are pretty kick ass!  I have them about every other day.  Sometimes when I get them I need to eat even though I am not hungry and that will help.  Sometimes I just need to nap and that will help.  Oh, and round ligament pain.  That has kicked up this week....mostly on the left side.  I feel it when I change positions too fast but mostly at night when I am laying on my side.  Weird....but cool at the same time!

Food Cravings/Aversions: Still loving the Simply Lemonade.  I am also having a hard time not eating like three ice cream sandwiches a day.  I want them all the time!  I also want chicken spaghetti for dinner every night.  

Gender: Hmmmmm......we shall see :)

What I Miss: not a thing this week!

What I'm Looking Forward to: everything really!  Sometimes I just can't believe that this is happening.  I mean I am 15 weeks pregnant!  I am starting to look pregnant.  My boobs are huge (for me anyway).  I just love everything about it and I cherish every single day.  

Weekly Wisdom:  This is going to be way too much info but, ya know, if I can help a girl out I want to!  If you feel the need to poo.....DO IT!  Don't hold back because, trust me, you do not want to be constipated!  It sucks!

Milestones: Well 15 weeks feels like a major milestone.  Baby boo is getting so big!



Dreams: My dreams are so weird but I like that I am documenting them because otherwise I found NEVER remember!  And it is kinda funny :)
1)  I was Mario (as in Mario and Luigi) and I had to save Florence (from Florence + The Machine).  I had to go through all of the levels and just when I though I had found her they would whisk her away and I had to go through the underwater world to save her....or the quicksand world...or the ice world....
2)  I was in labor in my bedroom.  I was going to have a home birth.  All of my family and friends were in the living room and not allowed in the bedroom.  My mom's friend Beth, who was my wedding coordinator, was my labor coordinator.  It was weird....I just remember rolling around on the bed telling my husband that I didn't want a home birth and I wanted to go to the hospital!


I decided to do a comparison photo this week.  
  

       This was two weeks ago at 13 weeks.....

And this is today at 15 weeks!  Wow!  I love it!

I keep telling myself I am going to take my pictures when I am dressed up and of my whole body but I haven't been getting dressed up!  

Thanks for reading!  I won an award and I'll be blogging about that soon....as well as my pics of the week post.....