9 months is just too long to wait for something that you have waited your whole entire life for. I have wanted to be a mom more then anything since I was 2! And now that it is time, you want me to wait for 9 months??? I don't think i can wait that long. but I guess I have no choice. so I will just...wait. We are just soooooo excited. last week I bought Landon some construction paper and he made a chain with 103 links on it to count down the days! Remember doing that as a kid? so we have this huge multi colored paper chain strung on the backs of our kitchen chairs. It's pretty awesome.

How far along? 26 Weeks

Total weight gain: oh boy, so I have to???? 23 pounds already!!!!!! I swear I don't look like it. It must be all in my boobs.
Maternity clothes? Maternity leggings (I live in those) and long maternity tank tops. then I wear a lot of my regular clothes mixed in.
Stretch marks? no
Sleep: I wake up a ton to switch sides.
Best moment this week: We went Christmas shopping and bought a few cute clothes for him! he is going to be the best dressed baby out there
Miss Anything? sleeping on my stomach, muscle definition(I stopped going to the gym, but i need to start going again) and my energy level.
Movement: I feel him mostly all day, but at night he goes bananas. He has dance parties.
Food cravings: I haven't had any huge cravings. like the " I- have- to- have- that -now -or -i -will- kill -someone" type of craving. something might sound good, then if we don't have it in the house then i forget about it. so no craving really.
Anything making you queasy or sick: not since the first trimester.
Gender: BOY!
Labor Signs: No, but i do get BH contractions.
Symptoms: light swelling in feet at night
Belly Button in or out? starting to flatten out
Wedding rings on or off? on
Happy or Moody most of the time: Happy!
Looking forward to: Christmas! I hear Santa is bringing him presents and he isn't even here yet! this guy is spoiled already

I got the questionnaire idea off the blog where i got the chalk board idea.

as of now I am 26 1/2 weeks, feeling rather large and in charge, and I can't believe that I am going to get bigger then I already am! 14 something weeks left to go and this kid needs to gain like 5 or 6 more LB's, I can't handle the fact that I am going to get bigger. I already struggle with getting dressed. showering, turning sides while sleeping and bending over. Speaking of the shower thing, I think I could really not shower until after I give birth. Am I the only one thinking showering while prego is hard? It is allot of work! Then after, your skin is so dry you have to lather your whole body in lotion and use stretch mark cream all over. after a shower I am ready to nap.
One thing that Landon and I get annoyed with is when people are asking us about the pregnancy, people always say "babbies are sooo much work", "kids are forever" "enjoy your time alone and the time that he is still in your belly" or "are you sure your ready for this?" All those comments drive me nuts. I'm thinking I know! and I am so ready for it! I know how kids/babies are! I know you can't just give them away when you need a break, and I know that they will drive you crazy and make you poor and take over your life. We know what we are in for! And we couldn't be more ready then we already are! I know they are coming from a good place when they say that, but it still drives me nuts.

We already got a car seat and stroller! they are just sitting in my house and I cannot wait to use them! I wish i had a baby to push around and take for rides! (obsessed much? I think so) I wanted a nice jogging stroller, but not just to jog in, one for ever day use so we got this BOB stroller and I am so in love. It is the smoothest ride and it has shocks too. I wish I could ride in it but it only will hold 70 lbs.... bummer.

Then this car seat will attach to the stroller so I can use it while he is still itty bitty. This thing is heavy. I think all car seats are. then add a 10 lb and up baby to it? Moms must have huge biceps! I struggle with this thing with out a baby in it. I better start seriously pumping some iron. why do they always have to slap baby warning stickers all over things? It drives me nuts that they do that.

I am currently already 24 1/2 weeks already! Time is flying by! I still feel pretty good. Its is hard bending over to pick things up, but that is expected, but honestly I cannot complain! I am just so ready to have this little guy here. I think we are set on a name. I just don't know if I want to reveal it yet.

Thees 2 photos are out of order. sorry for lack of make up or if I am just in my jammies!

Yep it's true. I spent the day in the ER with kidney stones. I have never been in so much pain in my life! I think labor will be easier then having a stone. They had to be careful giving me pain meds because of the baby, but they gave me morphine, and that didn't even touch the pain, in fact it kept getting worse, then more morphine and it still kept getting worse. then they gave me something stronger then morphine and that finally helped. (all while monitoring the baby of course.) and they had to take xrays of my belly (they HAD too) so I got to see my lil peanut's skeleton inside of me! It looked so funny, but it was cute. I have had a few kidney stones before and some women just happen to get them every time they are pregnant, so I just might be one of those lucky ones! I think being prego made it worse because You don't just have to worry about yourself, but there is someone else who is way more important that you have to worry about also. so im hoping it will not happen again, at lease until he is out

The GROWING Belly

Its a boy!!!! we are so excited! at first, I kind of thought it was a girl. For some reason I just always imagined having a baby girl. Landon's dear sweet grandma passed away a month ago and when she was in the hospital she wouldn't stop talking about our baby and how much she wanted to meat him/her. Then when she was getting ready to let go, his grandpa said that when she is up in heaven, she will pick out a boy just like Landon. (Landon was THE favorite grandchild and his grandma and grandpa loved being around him). So ever since she died, I was kind of wondering maybe she will pick out a boy for us! and She did! We went to Fetal Photo to find out because my Dr wasn't going to tell us what we were having until the big ultra sound at 20 weeks. I could not wait that long! This thing is way too exciting!!! When the ultra sound tech was trying to get a good shot to show us, I saw the "boy parts" first and shouted "It's a Boy!" and she was pretty shocked that i could tell before she did. Landon could not wipe that smile off his face. He had knew it was a boy all along and he is so excited to have a little buddy to play baseball with, hunt, and go golfing! we went to the mall right after and went straight to Baby Gap. We got some cute stuff! it is sooo much fun shopping for this little guy. At checkout, I glanced over at all the ruffles, dresses and girly stuff. I got a little sad for a minute, but then got over it. We are so excited to have this little guy!

I wanted to take pictures of the growing belly and I wanted a cute way to do it. Cute little Mary pinned this idea on Pinterest (littlebabygarvin.blogspot.com) so I thought I would do this too! Mine is no way near as cute as the baby garvin one, I have no idea how she gets her chalk to look so good. Give me paints and colored pencils and i would have a masterpiece every week. I'm just not so good with bulky chalk. I went to the DI and couldn't find a big enough picture frame so i just had to work with the smaller one i found. well, I hated the smaller one so I made My sweet husband make me a huge chalk board from scratch! I love it and now i have more room to write.

My pictures always upload backward, so thees are backward. don't mind my ugly makeup less face in some of them.

(serious bloating in week 15)

oops, i just erased week 14 picture. crap. if i try to upload it, who knows where it will end up.

This is me at 5 weeks. I didn't start to get a belly until around 14 weeks, but sometimes i look bigger due to all the constipation and bloating! ha! TMI??

We have the big ultrasound on Oct 28, and i can't wait to see him again! I have not felt him move yet and I am dying to! it is so weird to me that I have a 5 1/2 inch (crown to rump) squirmy baby in my belly and i haven't felt him move yet. its just weird.

My Wedding!

I just love how all my pictures get uploaded backwards! Geez! Here are a few from my wedding. there were over 450 to choose from, so this is just a fraction. Most of you have seen all of them on FB, but here are some good ones! We stayed at a B&B before we were on our way to hawaii. the B&B is HAUNTED!!!!! Thank goodness my mom told me after we had left there, or else i would of not slept there. I did have a feeling it was haunted when we got there.I remember telling Landon "I think this place is haunted!" and all he said ya, this place is old. It was creepy and old looking! ha ha How romantic! I had a hard time sleeping that night. It is the Armstrong Mansion. Google it. (if you do, it will show you a picture with a ghost walking around!) it is on the haunted registry list thingy. But we got it for free, so that was cool!

Everyone seeing us off. What I liked about my reception is that peolp STAYED and HUNG OUT. most receptions you drop off a gift, say hi to bride and groom, get food and bail. but everyone stayed and mingled so it was an on going PARTAY!

Landons beautiful mother high-fiving Him!

We had a photobooth! it was sooo fun. I love looking at my guest book and seeing peoples pictures and not just their message and signature.

Oh, this cake. beautiful huh? This guy right her, Adam, he did it. He is incredible! I did not want to cut into it, it was sooooo pretty! it was amazingly tasty too.

Oh boy. so I had this brilliant idea to get a pic of my nieces and nephew in front of this cute playhouse. I had a vision on how exactly i wanted it to be. Boy was I wrong! thees little rascals (mostly Daisee, the middle one) would not cooperate! but thats ok. it still turned out cute.

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the one above and below are 2 of my favorite. kelly is an AMAZING photographer

After we said I DO

my dad following up there.

Love this one of me and my daddy

I was trying sooooooo hard not to cry. I didn't though! but i did at the rehersal!

All my bridesmaids helping me get ready.
I am so sad it is over! that day went by too fast. it was a beyond perfect day! now I just need to work on all my thank you cards. anyone want to help?

Being preggo really sucks the life out of you. I was feeling great then around my 6th week i started to get night sickness really bad. Not so much morning sickness, but night time sickness. I am currently in the middle of my 9th week. Im not as sick as I was earlier, but i am exausted! and c.o.n.s.t.i.p.a.t.e.d.. oooooohhhhhh the constipation! I knew that was a side affect, but i thought it happened later on when all my organs were moved around because of a growing baby. Oh boy this is really annoying! We did 3 gender prediction tests and all of them said we were having a boy. Landon knows %100 that it is a boy, while I have no clue. I have always wanted a boy so He can be the Big Brother, but then I want a girl because I can make so many cute things for her! I went to my First Dr. appt this week and He gave me the due date of March 20th. He did an ultra sound and the little fetus Jumped! it was so cute! It was petty amazing to see your baby for the first time, even though it was just a little blob. I have known Im pregnant for 5 weeks now, and this has been the longest 5 weeks of my life. March just seems like it will never come! So please time, hurry up so I can meet my little person.
I still need to post wedding pics so I will get to that soon!

pregnant!

WE are BEYOND THRILLED to announce that I am pregnant! I found out on July 13! I had been feeling way sad a few days before i found out. So I thought it was just PMS, but then it wouldn't go away. So I came home for lunch to take a test, and it was positive!!! (ladies, please save your 16 to 20 dollars on tests from the regular grocery store. did you know that all a dollar sells them for 1 DOLLAR!!!!! so stock up because they are 100% legit. it is All A Dollar's number 1 best seller!) anyways, I wanted to tell Landon so bad but he was at work and i wanted to tell him in person. i went back to work then rushed home to make a onsie that said I love Daddy, wrapped it up in a box with the test stick. I was watching out the window waiting for him to come home. He was surprised i had a wrapped present for him (it was wrapped in Christmas paper). when he opened it he was shaking he couldn't believe it! we are so excited we can't stand it! Lil' Nugget is due around the end of March. I am only 4 weeks along I think.

This is something I have wanted more then ANYTHING in my life, and now that it is here, I'm thinking uh oh!! This is a scary thing! I'm not second guessing it at all, I'm just scared! is that normal?? I worry about all the things that could go wrong, the well being of my baby, my body, being tired, sick. Landon's dad is a twin and i have twins in my family so there is a chance I could have twins!
We are so excited for this next Chapter in our life. We cannot wait! as soon as I get my wedding pictures next week I will post them. They are beautiful!

Most of you have already seen my bridals on Facebook, but I need to keep up this dang blog so thees pictures are worth posting! So here a few of them. I love love love how my dress turned out. Penelope the dress maker is THE BEST! and no i did not copy princess kate! I had this dress picked out in september, so 7 months before we got to see hers. I had them done at wheeler farm. not a good place to go if you want to keep your dress clean, but i was super careful and didn't get it dirty. There were a bunch of little kids at the farm and the little girls kept on following me! They must of thought I was a princess or something. Kelly the photographer said little girls get mesmerized by a bride in a wedding dress. It was pretty cute.
I can't believe I'm getting married in 8 days! back in the first week of September when I got engaged, June seemed so far away. people were shocked by our 8 month engagement. Boy has time flown by! I cannot believe it is here! I just have a few little things to finish up then I am so ready.
You know when your going on an amazing vacation, and that's all you can ever think about? I used to think about that all the time whenever I had a trip booked. we are going to Hawaii for our honeymoon and I haven't even really thought about it! I keep saying to Landon, "do you realize we are going to Hawaii in 8 days?" I guess it's hard to think about when I have a bagillion other things going on. I don't know if I will post again before the wedding, but next time i do, I will be Mrs. Minear! (this will take a while to get used too- the name changing thing)

A few more of my favorite's...