Thankful

This year has definitely been both a wonderful and trying year.  I've experienced so much heartache but have also received so many blessings.  Thanksgiving is a time where we give thanks and so I just wanted to share what I am thankful for.

When my dad passed away, I received so much love, prayers and support from so many people.  I am so thankful and blessed for all of the kind words, prayers, and thoughts that were sent to me and my family.

I am so incredibly thankful for my husband.  He puts up with my crankiness, deals with my constant repeat of dinner(yakkin'), reads with me, and for his love and excitement over our little "bun in the oven". I am so thankful that he is already a concerned daddy!

I am thankful for my family- both old and new and wonderful friends.  Family and friends are so important and it is so important to make and cherish as many moments as you can with one another.  I am so blessed to have married into an amazing family!

My sweet, sweet kids who not only make my job fulfilling, but so much fun! Their personalities, hugs, I love yous, smiles, excitement to share any and everything, their ability to get along SO well with one another and love each other so much, and their little minds that just soak up information like a little sponge, for making me see the small victories and celebrate them like it's a holiday!  I love them!

A job!! I am so thankful for a job that I love with people that I love!

For God's hand in our lives. - For making this move to MB a smooth transition!

Thankful that we MAY have a house SOON!!!

And lastly, this goes truly without saying, but I am so amazingly thankful and blessed to be carrying a small life inside of me.  I'm thankful for Baby's heart beat, for making my belly grow, for making me sick,sick, sick because I hear that, that means Baby is healthy, For all of the excitement and love this is bringing to Brendan and I and our families.

Hope everyone has a safe and wonderful Thanksgiving! 

14 Week Check up

Brendan and I went to our 14 week appointment.  So far this pregnancy, I've only gained 3 pounds. I lost 1 lb and then in a month's time, I gained that 1lb back.  So all in all 3 lbs gained.  I refuse to stress over the whole weight gain issue. Or I should better say I am really going to try very hard not to stress over gaining weight, I mean really?! I am growing a person inside of me.

No ultra sound this time. Booooo! I was hoping Baby would be far back and we could barely hear like the last time but she found Baby quickly!  Heart beat was 154 bpm. Which is down from the whopping 170 bpm during our last appointment.  It's normal.  The nurse said Baby's heart beat was great! 

We always go in with a list of questions.  I'm still sick and running out of my "miracle pills" which have proven not to be as much as a miracle as I had hoped.  Dinner time is especially difficult and I do have  a tendency to see my dinner twice if you catch my point!  Mornings are not so bad. After lunch is rough.  Basically, I'm scared to eat and have my belly get full.  Let's pray that things will ease up!  Brendan and I would greatly appreciate it as he's pretty tired of hearing me getting sick too!

We go back in 3 weeks for more blood work to get tested for all sorts of things with Baby. THEN the exciting news, we got back in 2 weeks ( total of 5 weeks from today), 1 WEEK before Christmas!!, to find out if Baby will be wearing baseball caps or hair bows!  Either way, Baby WILL have a matching something to go on their head with every outfit. :) So WE are extremely excited and anxious.  I've decided to post a poll on here to get everyone's opinion of what they think Baby will be.  I'll post baby bump pictures in case you want to judge based on that. Feel free to ask any questions!  I'll do this a little later though.

First Baby Dream
Last night, I had my first dream about Baby.  Baby came out being a GIRL and Brendan wanted to name her Carmex.  Yes, like the chap stick.  He also put her car seat in the front seat and smoked a cigarette with her in the car.  ( He doesn't smoke)  Then we were home and we needed to run somewhere.  So we did but we left Carmex at home because "well, she doesn't do anything but sleep anyways." Brendan's words not mine but I agreed.  We were not good parents to Baby Carmex in this dream.  Also, Carmex was a HUGE baby.  Ohhhh craziness!!


HOUSE NEWS
Brendan and I ventured out this past weekend and look at some houses and models.  Our frustration with waiting and waiting on this other house had gotten the best of us and we decided to start moving on.We did see a lot of possibilities!   Well, I say a lot but I really mean 2.  Yesterday we got SOME sort of answer on the house that we put a bid on and the answer was not WAIT but APPROVED and now it goes before someone else and then they approve it and WE CLOSE!  POSSIBLY as early as MONDAY.  Holy Moly!!  God is GOOD!!  Pray again that everything works out.  God has been so wonderful to us in our move here to MB and he continually blesses us.  I will keep you updated on that as we get updates.  It's just so incredibly nice NOT to hear "wait" anymore.  I pray that we don't get that again!

Halloween

So I've had this costume picked out before we were even thinking of babies!  I knew exactly what I wanted us to be when Halloween rolled around and IF we were pregnant.  Unfortunately, they've actually started making this costume but it was not nearly as good as ours.  Thanks to my AMAZING mother-in-law and PERFECTIONIST husband, our costume this year TOTALLY rocked.  It was also how we officially made the announcement.

In case you're scratching your head- I'm a bun in the oven and Brendan is a baker!  :)

Mom and Dad Talty's reaction to Baby Talty

I absolutely LOVE thier reaction!!

My Mom's reaction to Baby Talty

Let me explain because otherwise, she would not be happy with me! My Mom had come to lay out at the beach with me so she was dressed so for the occasion. And the last little bit that she was saying was "Ferrell's going to be a big brother". It takes a while to upload videos on youtube so stay tuned for the next reaction video! :)

Pregnant Jenn's Favorite Things

 

  

K-I-S-S-I-N-G

  So you may be wondering how we told our folks that we were pregnant.

We gave them a photo frame with 3 photos :

 

 

 

If you know the old rhyme:

“Jenn and Brendan sitting in a tree, k-i-s-s-i-n-g. First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes Jenn pushing the baby carriage.”

 

 

How I told Brendan.  Brendan kind of ruined it for me as he guessed it when I called and left him a panicked message to call me back as soon as possible.  At first, he thought something was wrong, then he figured it out without saying it because he knew I REALLY wanted to tell him in MY own way.  Which, my original plan I didn’t do because I honestly thought I had more time! I reacted and was just too excited!

 

So Brendan came in to this: