let the countdown begin!!!!

i am finally in the 3rd trimester! wooooo freakin hoooo. this has been an exceptionally long pregnancy. why, you ask? oh, because i found out i was pregnant like the day i got pregnant. well no, but i basically took a pregnancy test everyday that i could after we started trying to get pregnant and knew the second that the line turned the fainest pink to ever exist. my dates were off and i thought i was 6 weeks along when we found out. that morning bj and i promised not to tell anyone. that was at 5:00am. at 5:15 i picked my friend amanda up for the gym, screaming the second she got into the car, "im pregnant!!!!!". oops. the day continued that way and by the end of that night, all of our family and anyone we worked with knew. they knew that we were 6 weeks along. except i actually wasn't. when i went to the doctor a few weeks later, it turned out i was actually only 6 weeks along at that point. before, when i was telling anyone who would listen, i was only 3 and a half weeks pregnant. kinda funny. needless to say, the countdown has been long and i am excited to be on the homestretch! 10 weeks left.

a few things at 7 and 1/2 months

- slight swelling of the hands and feet at night

-braxton hicks. i feel them more when i am working out consistently. those false contractions may or may not be my only motivation for the gym these days. the more i feel them, the sooner i will go into labor..right??? no? no. but it makes me feel like it, so to the gym i will go.

-i feel her move more on my right side than on my left. weird.

- we had her 3D ultra sound which was so awesome! i am so glad we chose to do one.

- pregnancy cravings- citrus. i loooove anything citrus and eat grapefruits/oranges every single day.

- im still more emotional. not mean, just more weepy. my irritability also seems to be increasing but that could just be because im gumpy about my increasing chubbiness. who knows.

5 months

6 months

7 months

its really hard to imagine growing for another 10 weeks.

here are some of the 3D ultra sound pictures. SO neat! whats crazy is that these are "bad" 3D pictures. she was facing the wrong way, so the tech (who i love) spent like 20 minutes trying to get pictures of her face. this is "all they could get", and the tech said that when they can get a good shot, you can see every feature perfectly and that the pictures look just like a baby in real life. this type of ultra sound isn't routine in the office i go to, so it was going to be $150 to get it done. they couldn't get any "good shots" though, so it was free! since we dont know the difference, we are trilled with the way they came out and are just happy to have gotten a sneak peak at our little babe for no additional charge. woop!

although we are bias, we think she is simply adorable and cant wait to meet her!