Updates!!!

I know it has been a little while long time since I last updated the blog. We have had lots of changes here in the Morgan family the past couple of months. The most exciting news is that WE ARE HAVING A BABY!!!!! We are so thrilled and very excited. I am planning to document my pregnancy on the blog because I know that one day I (and maybe our child) would like to look back and remember all of the details about this exciting time. I am going to try my best to do weekly updates and maybe even post a picture of my growing bump every once in a while :-)

We found out that we were pregnant on December 20, 2012.

I had an appointment scheduled for my annual check up that day already. When I woke up, I thought I would go ahead and take a test just to see. I honestly thought that it would show up negative but I was so wrong. Within seconds there were two pink lines. . . . I was in shock and ran down the hall to wake Grant up from a deep sleep by holding the test in front of his face with a look of disbelief on my face. I was so excited and couldn't believe that this was really going to happen. For as long as I can remember, all I have ever wanted was to be a mom. We went to the doctor and they confirmed my pregnancy. When I woke up that morning it was just another typical day, but within hours, I was leaving the doctor with a due date and a bag of prenatal vitamins. I was only about 4.5 weeks along at the time so I was pretty nervous and spent most of the time praying that everything would be ok. I felt perfectly normal and continued to feel good for the next several weeks. Then, week 7 hit and I felt H-O-R-R-I-B-L-E!!!!! Whoever invented the term "morning sickness" was either a man or had perfect pregnancies. I was sick. Nauseous. ALL.DAY.LONG. I would get sick occasionally and feel better for about ten minutes and then it was right back to feeling horrible again. I would wake up in the middle of the night feeling like I needed to be sick. The worst part were smells. Any smells. That would just make the nausea worse. That lasted for about 5 weeks. It has gotten much better. I am still pretty tired at night and don't have tons of energy, but I am getting there. I will be 14 weeks on Sunday and officially into my second trimester!!! I hadn't gained any weight at my last appointment (at 10.5 weeks) but I am a little afraid of what the scale is going to say when I go for my 14 week appointment next week.

Here are some of the ultrasound pictures we got of the baby at the first appt. I was 10.5 weeks so in the pictures it is kind of hard to tell what is what, but on the screen we could see arms and legs and the heart was beating so fast and he/she was moving all around!! Best thing I have ever seen in my life :-)

This is a close up of the head and body. You can kind of see the profile already!!

In other news, we also moved into our new house. Because I have been so sick I haven't really been able to enjoy the house or do anything to the house. Grant has pretty much done everything and been working so hard not only at his job, but at getting the house ready for the baby. We rented a Uhaul and moved our entire apartment to the new house by ourselves. When I say we, I mean Grant. I pretty much just supervised that day. He worked so hard and I still don't know how he did that by himself. This was our Uhaul. It was the largest one there is and it was filled to the door.

We are still adjusting to being in Texas and trying to get settled into our new home. Im not gonna lie. I am incredibly homesick. I may or may not have had a breakdown last week. It wasn't pretty. Poor Grant. He offered to fly me back to Greenville for a couple of weeks. He sure is a good one :-) I do miss our family and our friends dearly and there are days when I would give anything to move back. I'm just being honest. I think it has been worse/harder since we found out we were pregnant because I want so badly for our baby to be close with our family and friends and that's just not easy to do when you are 1000 miles away. My crazy hormones may have something to do with the way I am feeling these days. I cry at commercials. Commercials that the normal person wouldn't. This is a phase and it will soon pass :-)

Please keep us in your prayers, specifically our baby, that they are healthy. That is all that we are asking for. We are over the moon excited and cannot wait to meet them in August!!