La de da

(Please, please, please ignore my face on the first one.)

It's been really hard for me to really tell if I'm growing at all so I decided to put these together. Obviously I am, whether I can tell or not. It's just a little bit, but you can still tell. It's very exciting. 

Devin and I are moving to WA THIS MONTH. Yep, believe it or not, it's THIS MONTH. Can you say holy crap?! It's coming really fast. We are super excited, but I'm still a little nervous just because of the whole being pregnant thing. I'm sure it'll work out though, cause if it doesn't I'm going to be a very unhappy pregnant lady and that won't be pretty. Trust me. 

We get to see our baby again on Tuesday. I really like the fact that we've gotten to see her every month. It's cool to get to watch her grow. Have I mentioned how active she is? She is crazy! I don't know what she's gonna do when she is so big and there is hardly any room left to move in her little home. She'll probably kick me in the ribs. That'll be fun. 

I can't wait till we get to WA and I get to wear my new swimsuit. (There is a pool where we're going to be living!) It's ridiculously cute. 

See..

Of course I don't look quite this good in it, but It's pretty close. haha

Devin is sooo excited to get out there and start selling. I'm really happy that he is looking so forward to it instead of dreading it or something. 

All in all I think this summer is going to pretty awesome AND one of the biggest adventures of our life.... so far.

Cloth Diapers

Yes, I think I'm going to do it. Just after reading all of the stuff I've read like: 

    It can take 200-500 YEARS for a disposable diaper to decompose in a landfill and there are 50 MILLION of those diapers dumped every day. (What are we doing to our planet?!)
    Babies who use cloth diapers potty train sooner/easier, as long as you change them quickly. They potty train up to 24 months early. It's only in the US and other places that use disposables that kids don't potty train as late as 36-48 months. The US used to be like other countries and potty train sooner, but once disposables were introduced people began to push it back. (Are we really that lazy? Why?)
    It DOES cost less to use cloth too. You can buy good quality cloth diapers and use them on more than just one child, PLUS if you keep them in good enough shape you can resell them when you no longer need them. (Can you do that with disposables?)
    Also, I've talked to other moms and from their experience they recommend starting cloth diapers with your first child so that you can be in the habit of it before all the other kids come along. (Makes sense to me.)
   Plus as far as I've heard, the main reason women use disposables is because it's easy. Easy? Really? That's it? You have no other good reasons? Well that definitely doesn't make me want to use disposables. I need a little better reason than that.

  There are a bunch of other reasons why I choose cloth over disposables, but I don't feel like listing them all. So there is just a few of the reasons. As far as I'm concerned cloth diapers ARE worth it. 

People, don't be rude about my choice, ESPECIALLY if you have NO personal experience with cloth diapers. It's my choice to make, not yours. 

(sorry for the rant there. I just had to get it out. some people are just so thick headed.)

(p.s. cloth is the best choice in my opinion, but I don't have anything against people who use disposables. it's your choice. i will still probably use disposables on occasion, they just aren't going to be my main way of diapering.)

Anyways... if any of you out there have any ideas, advice, or anything else you would like to share about cloth diapers please let me know. I don't know everything so I'm very open to hearing other people. 

 

4 Years ago

Devin and I went on our very first official date. It was kind of a big deal to Devin at the time, cause he had been trying to get me to be with him instead of this other guy I was hanging out with. 

I think I made a good choice. 

It's probably kind of a silly "anniversary" to celebrate, but we always like to remember it anyways. He was so cute. I remember a lot of that date very well. Little did I know that I would end up waiting two years to marry that cute boy. 

Best choice EVER. 

20 Weeks

So I'm officially in my 20th week of pregnancy, but I still just barely look pregnant at all. I'm hoping after this week I'll start showing more. *fingers crossed*

Next week we get to see our baby again. I'm excited. I bet she is a lot bigger looking, cause I feel her moving on a daily basis now. For me the movements don't feel like butterflies though. It feels like gas. (haha) I guess it just depends on the person. 

Thats supposed to be the size of the baby right now... a small cantaloupe. 

I hope that we're able to find a good baby doctor in WA. I'm really sad to be leaving my doctor here. 

I'm pretty sure that I'm going to do a natural birth too. No epidural. Our bodies were made to give birth. 

Of course this idea might change. But I'm going to try really hard to go without one.

We are going to be getting our taxes back soon. It's going to help us out a ton. 

Last day of February

You remember that last post that I told you Devin and I were going on a date? Well, the date was great... in more ways than one. 

First we went to a few more of the homes in the Parade of Homes show. They were pretty nice, but none of the houses we saw this year were as awesome as the house out in Hurricane. We both love that house and hope to be able to have something like it someday. Devin hopes someday sooner rather than later, but we'll see. After we finished with the homes we went to Pasta Factory for dinner.

 I got my usual, angel hair pasta, alfredo sauce, and some seasoned chicken breast. It was delicious. It always is. Devin got the exact same thing except for the noodles. He got spinach noodles instead. I tried a bite of them and they were actually quite good. Who'd a thought, eh? After dinner we went to the movies to go see I Am Number 4. It was a really good movie. I would definitely reccomend it. While we were at the movie theater a couple of exciting/crazy things happened.

 The first one was exciting. 

Devin dropped me off at the theater to get our tickets and find some seats while he went to Wal-Mart and bought some candy for the movie. (movie theater candy is just too expensive) While he was gone I felt the baby move for the very first time. It really is quite a crazy feeling. Ever since then I keep thinking that I'm going to start feeling her more, but I haven't. I'll just have to wait a lil bit longer.

 The second thing that happened was quite crazy. 

Apparently while we were in the movie there was a huge explosion caused by some propane tanks that were in a garage, in a house just a few hundred feet away from the theater. We didn't find this out till after we got out of our movie.

 During the movie though we did hear a huge explosion, we just didn't know what it was. The explosion was so big it shook the tiles in the ceiling during the movie. It was kinda scary, but since nobody knew what caused that we didn't think anything of it. I personally feel that we should have been evacuated from the theater or just notified of what was going on outside. Stupid Weststates theater. Oh well. We are fine.
That is not an actual photo of the fire. 

Life on 2/25/11

So it's been quite a while since I've posted anything. I'm not the greatest blogger, plus I feel like our life is very boring and there just isn't much to talk about. 

We have less than 2 months till we move to WA. I'm really excited, but I'm also a little bit nervous. I'm really nervous that I won't get approved by Medicaid up there and if I don't then we are in big trouble. I'm a little nervous to be having a baby up there too. Maybe if I'd of had one before it wouldn't be quite so scary and intimidating. 

Devin is good. He just does the same thing every day. Gets up, goes to work, comes home for lunch, goes back to work, then comes home for the evening. I know he isn't loving this job, but he is doing it anyways... for me, for us. I love him lots for all that he does. 

We have our 20 week checkup/ultrasound in a little over a week. I'm excited to get to see our little girl again. Since I still don't look very pregnant it's really easy to forget that I am. I really do hope that I start to look pregnant soon though. I'm tired of just looking like I'm gaining weight. 

Devin and I are going on a date tonight. I'm pretty excited about that. It's just dinner and a movie, but it's still pretty awesome and exciting. 

It's a girl!

Here are her little feet. 

Here is her bum with legs and her girl parts. 

She still looks like an alien when we get to see her face, but she has gotten really big since our last ultrasound.

And the heartbeat... it goes down in beats per minute every ultrasound. Pretty interesting. 

Well there she is... so far. We are both very excited and very nervous, but I know we will do just fine. And Devin is going to be the cutest daddy evar.