Baby update

I have already announced to pretty much everyone that I'm pregnant, but now the detailed posts will follow.

FYI for those who are non LDS or religious, I'm a very spiritual person and a strong believer in the LDS faith, so I may say a lot of things regarding feeling the spirit, etc. when it comes to decisions and such. This is your fair warning. :)

Describe the events leading up to the decision to have a baby


It's actually an interesting story. We had been talking about having children for a long time now, but had always talked about how it would be after I completed my Masters (Master's?). This means we would have waited until Summer of 2010 to have our first. That would also mean I would be 27 years old, and that was just a little later than I really wanted to start, but we had, at the time (first year of marriage) felt it was the right thing to do. We definitely knew we wanted kids though.

We went up to Idaho to visit our fabulous friends Chance and Jenny. I believe this was in June or July, I cannot remember which month, but it was summer of 2007. It was before Chance and Jenny had moved, and it was when they had started packing up to move to GA. I want to say July, but I could very well be wrong. ANYWAY, back to the point. Chance and Jenny had tickets to see a comedian with another couple, or something, so Bryan and I had gone to see a movie. The movie was Shrek 3. SO many kids were in the auidence, we were literally surrounded by them. However, we loved it. We were all smiles, and just loved the kids in the audience. I don't know about Bryan, but during the movie, I just had this REALLY strong feeling that we weren't supposed to wait until I was done with my degree to start having kids. It was literally right smack in the movie that I felt this. I looked at Bryan right when he looked at me, and we smiled. I had a feeling he was thinking about the same thing, but I didn't say anything. I had figured this would be something I would bring up when we got back to Utah. When the movie is over, we get int he car to go back to Chance and Jenny's place, and Bryan says something along the lines of "so...do you think three years is too long to wait?" I laughed, and had told him I was thinking the same thing. We had discussed that we didn't really think we should be waiting anymore. We said we would start trying when we got home, or at least talk about it more seriously.

Well a few months went along, and I no longer had insurance, that kind of put a damper into our plans, since Bryan no longer had insurance either. But, we found some programs we could afford later on, and had started trying around November, maybe December. That was when we figured we should start trying. We did basal body temperatures, I kept track of my cycles, then January we decided to buy one of those ovulation predictor kits. We didn't get pregnant in January, obviously, but I was late, very late, and we figured we might be on the right track. So we bought another one for February, and it was the end of February/beginning of March.

Fast forward to March 15th, the day of the pregnancy tests. :) Yes that's right...TestSSSSSS. That's another post :)

Update

IEPs are done for the year, yay!
Got a summer job for sure, YAY!
Just sent in my passport to the visa place to get my visa for brazil, yay!
10 weeks along now...weird. Everything is great so far, no problems, no actual morning sickness things. Just don't feel good if I don't eat often. Thyroid was really low again when i got a pregnant, they've upped the meds twice now, we'll find out if it's enough in two weeks, at my next check up. That just basically means I'm exhausted all the time.
two finals left, YAY!

Had food poisoning over the weekend, so not fun. Still don't feel quite all the way better yet, but hey, i'm not puking anymore, that's a plus.

Yeah, I know, lame bullet list, but I'm tired :)

Bragging

I love compliments, who doesn't?
I've been (ETA, it should say never been, not been been, leaving it so you can see case in point :) ) been confident of my writing skills, as I know all too well that my vocabulary is below average of what it should be compared to people who are at my level of education (getting their masters degree). In fact, I swear my sister who is a high school senior has a better sense of writing than I do when it comes to vocabulary, style, etc.
Recently, I had turned in a research paper for a pre-read. I was nervous about it as I didn't follow the professor's guidelines entirely, but turned it in that way anyway since I felt I had what I needed to fill 5 pages, and not go beyond (I ended up going 6...ahem).
In class this past wednesday, our professor had announced that she had given our papers to a professional editor to look over our papers for apa style and grammar stuff. I expected a TON of marks on my paper. To my surprise, there were only a few, some of which I had expected since I wasn't sure of how to do it write (looking at an APA manual can just take too darn long sometimes). I was very pleased and proud. We still had to wait for our professor to edit the content of our papers.
Today, I got this e-mail from my professor:
"Emilie,
I wanted to tell you that my editor friend thought your paper was very well done. She used the term, "of high quality". I have made some suggestions so look them over. ( tried to put them in the paper could not get it to save the track changes.) You have a very professional style of writing. I hope you consider doing research and publishing in your area of interest in the future. If you have further questions let me know."

See...I am doing something write, and I am supposed to be here....now to just figure out how to do work, school and a baby all at once for fall and winter and summer next year....hmm

Seriously now

So...I'm a pre-school teacher for deaf children at a deaf school (I'm deaf myself). I'm trying to arrange a field trip, so I call the place to make reservations through relay. The woman who answers the call tells me that the process for reservations is too lengthy to do through relay, and needs to talk to someone who can hear on the phone in order to do this.
Yeah, I'm pretty mad at this point.
I explain that most of the faculty at the school are deaf.
Well then we can just fax back and forth.
I was still too mad and hung up, but I still have to do this stupid reservation.

Seriously, I can't help that I'm deaf and have to go through relay....nice way to keep business.

Learning about the baby

Learning about the baby is really cool.

*ahem* announcement please

So....
hmmm...
November 23rd? Yeah, pretty big day for us.
Why?
Well..........we'll be getting a new family member, a brand spankin new baby. YEah....I'm pregnant!!!! weird. I know people don't typically announce this early...but it's the first time we've been pregnant ever, and we're just too darn excited. Found out the due date today :) (if you count right, I am only 4 1/2 weeks).
Still feels surrea

Sao Paulo Brazil

What about this place that is the world's third largest city that is worthy to be in my subject line?
I'm going there.
Yeah, that's right, you heard me.
I'm going there for a week in July!