An update...

Well...I haven't written lately because there hasn't been much going on! My pregnancy has been going well. We had our 6 month check-up and everything is going fine. I was excited to find out I had only gained 5 pounds... last month I gained 10 and was thinking that was so much! The Dr. is very sweet and has been reassuring me that everything is going just the way it should. She said our baby is in the 85th percentile, which is good, but worries me that she'll be hard to deliver!

We finally started the nursery (well, sort of). We bought the bedding (we decided to go for the green and blue fish bedding), and also bought white trim and bead board for the walls. We are going to paint a light apple green. Hopefully it will turn out cute! I'll let you know once we actually start putting it all together!

I was in my friend Tania's wedding this weekend which was exhausting but so much fun! The baby got to eat cake and dance the night away! The night was perfect. The baby has also been in the boat quite a bit! Hopefully she will love the water as much as Lance and I do!

Not much else going on... I will write when something exciting happens!

Baby room

So we finally started removing items from the baby room (aka man room). Poor Lance. But he has moved his X-Box down to the 48" flatscreen with HD so I guess he can't complain. What a job though. 2 TV's, a TON of furniture, and so many photo albums I don't know what to do with them!

We went to Babies R Us yesterday to start looking at bedding. Sounds like it would be fun, right? They had absolutely nothing that I liked! All of the pink bedding was way to cheesy and girly. All I want is a simple brown and pink comforter! Is that too much to ask for? No elephants or ladybugs or flowers. Polka dots maybe. We fell in love with a sea themed bedding set that was a purply-blue, teal, and a bright green color. It was too cute. I wonder if we could get away with making that into a girl room?? If we play up the purply- blue color? I used to think that girl stuff was so much cuter and easier to find. We found out yesterday that is not the case at all! I found a million boy bedding sets I liked and not one girl set. Sad. Oh well... I guess we still have time to look.

That's about as far as we've gotten on the baby shopping/ baby room stuff. I feel like we should have so much more done by now! Other than that, everything else is going well!

I'll give it a try.

My first blog... ever. I really don't even know what to say! I thought it might be fun to start blogging so my friends and family can watch the status of my pregnancy come along. I love reading friend's blogs about their lives so hopefully others might enjoy reading about my life too.

Well, I am 22 weeks pregnant with my first child. Lance and I got married last July and figured we weren't getting any younger so why wait. Little did we know that it would happen so fast! I found out I was pregnant in February and boy was that a surprise! I was excited, but also scared out of my mind. I thought to myself, are we really ready to bring another little life into this world? What kind of parents would we make? Even though months have passed, I still am scared to death! But there is no turning back now, so I can only hope that we will be ready when the time comes. Already life has changed so much. I can't imagine what it will be like when there is a little Lance/Michelle running around! But we are ready. We are over the staying up late/ bar scene/ getting wasted days. Don't get me wrong, we are still ready to party and hang out with friends at anytime, but our crazy troublemaking days are over.

So anyway, we found out 2 weeks ago Friday that we are having a girl! Yay! I am very excited to have a mini me to dress up and tote around with me! We went to Miami and Key West 2 weeks ago with my sister Mandy and her boyfriend, Jon. We decided when we had our last ultrasound that we would wait to find out the sex until we were on vacation. So we had the ultrasonographer put the sex and the colored socks in a sealed envelope that we could take with us. In Miami we went to dinner at this cute little restaraunt and decided to open it as the sun was setting while we sat outside. It was so exciting to find out it was a girl! We then spent the rest of dinner calling every one we knew to tell them the news!

I felt her kick for the first time the same day we found out the sex. I think she was trying to tell us that she wanted us to know. It is a really incredible feeling to feel the baby kick. I always wondered what it would feel like, and how would I know that's what I was feeling? It just feels like a little flick. Amazing. Now that I can feel her inside me, the whole pregnancy thing actually feels real. Up to that point I hadn't really felt pregnant at all. I haven't had any morning sickness or back pain or anything (yet). Besides gaining a million pounds (or at least it feels that way) and a little (okay, really) fatigued, I've felt pretty normal. But now I have a little bump and can feel the baby kicking. Crazy!!

Anyway, that's pretty much all I have to say for now. That's just a little introduction to me and my life. My new amazing journey. More to come...

Me at about 8 weeks

At 19 weeks