marchy march

we took primrose up to visit with cassidy and her mom. turns out she lives in the cutest ranch on about 10 acres and deer love it as much as i do!

eek this is the last photo of ashton's blanket i made! promise i finished it and i gave it to her when miss aurora was born. it was pretty thick so it turned out to be more of a mat than a blanket.......

ohhhhh wow. i was holding prim and trying to open a can. the can opener wasn't working good and i kept trying and trying and while prim was silent as a mouse i noticed that her thumb was getting squished in the can opener handle!!! so sad!! she didn't even cry or act like it hurt but her thumb was so red.

walks and facetiming with old reliable

sadie hates kids including prim but is so protective. she won't smell or lick prim like the other dogs do and hardly looks at her, but she always sits close by. if i'm holding prim and sadie is sitting at my feet and another dog gets close, sadie growls at them.

i am bald!!!!!!!!!!! after the 'fourth trimester' i started to lose hair like crazy. i know it is common post baby, but jon is convinced that part of it has to do with my body shutting down. either way, i would like my hair back please.

i love dressing prim in her boy clothes. one day at the grocery store she was wearing a little gender neut outfit (with no bracelet) and a little three or four year old girl came up to us and said "i love your baby! she's so cute."

made this little baby a headband!

we went up to fredricksburg to eat and go shopping. this little restaurant was referred to it and it was subpar.

plus it was a quaint little restaurant with no music playing and every table stared at us and kept talking to us about prim the entire meal.

our street.

hey first time in her bumbo!

teehee, little baby leggings

we skipped church and drove around a pretty neighborhood around the church and we found this sign and many other of that caliber.

observation tower in our backyard. do not go up there. so rickety.

four months old!

peach blossoms.

we got little chairs for our patio.

happy st. patty's day! wearing the shirt papa got her in ireland.

poor baby got sick after her vaccinations. it was so sad to see her in pain.

haircut from miss ashton.

we started going to work a couple hours a week doing paperwork and such for a lady in our neighborhood.

this was an outfit of me and my sisters from when we were babes.

and same with this bonnet!! i had her wear this as often as possible because the back of her head!

i went to brunch with these two dears a few short days before ashton had her baby! prim loves aaron and just stares at him and smiles

lights to compliment our chairs.

in her big girl bed!

see what i mean about finding terrible places to sleep?

trying out this location for the 'baby makes three' picture. prim was into it. (those feet)

another hat from the old days.

we took this cute photo for nana's birthday

rocking on the glider in the backyard.

the baby!!!!!!! march 25th.

i walked into our room and bandit stood up and stretched. first and last time he ever did this.

trying rice cereal for the first time at 4.5 months. it was a bit thick...whoops.

poor ashton and aurora had a rough start. she kept getting told that she'd have to get a c section until they finally used the vacuum (eek), and got the baby out! then aurora had jaundice and had to stay in the hospital for a full week.

#sexyghost #lololololol 

dang, i wish i would have gotten a better photo of her in this outfit. we bought this the week before Prim was born. we were at the px looking at baby clothes and jon picked this out! 

first trimester, baby #2!!!

I am officially out of my first trimester and feeling great! i was fully prepared to be exhausted and sick, sick, sick. luckily, this was not the case. when I found out i was pregnant, i could have tricked myself into thinking i wasn't. it was so different from the first pregnancy, i didn't feel pregnant at all. as i got to week 6, i kept remembering back to how sick i was at this point before....week 7, week 8 and I still wasn't sick. i remember telling amanda and lyndsi that i believed at this point it was mind over matter and if i truly believed i wouldn't get sick, that i wouldn't. (HA) i kept putting off being sick and i never became plagued with sickness like i was before and i can't say how grateful i am for that. there were a handful of days that i felt crummy, but mostly when I was in utah with a lot of help with prim. i also think that taking care of primmy took my mind off of tiredness or sickness i may have been feeling if i was able to mope around and feel bad for myself. i've been reading about other women with 'short interval' pregnancies and they all talked about how tired they are/were. you guys. when i had my kidney issues, i was. so. tired. i couldn't get out of bed and couldn't hold prim because it made my arms too tired. i guess i'm seeing now how those events could be blessings in disguise. i am nowhere near as tired now as i was then. 

 this is when we found out. i was at ashton's house and we were talking about how i wanted to get pregnant again. i was a few days late, but didn't say anything. on the way home i stopped at the grocery store and bought a pregnancy test. cassidy happened to be there, so again, she was one of the first people to know (sort of know)! she is the checker so when she scanned the test she looked at me and said "seriously?" then got so excited and hugged me and prim even though there was a line. i went home and took it and it was positive. this is right when we got back from california, so i text jon and asked him to come home from school. he didn't think anything of it because after being together for the whole weekend, he just thought we missed him. i put the test on the bathroom counter and told him to go look at it. he turned around with tears in his eyes and hugged me and prim! we were both in blissful shock.

right when i saw the positive, i ran to prim and told her "mommy's having a baby!" she smiled SO big and starting kicking her legs. later, when i told jon, we asked her if she knew who the baby was and she smiled again and got excited.

 bold to be posting this, eh? this is between 5-6 weeks pregnant. nobody knew. i took this picture to send to amanda showing her how the swimsuit she gave me fits (we're like that). not flattering but pretty much me post baby and pre baby :)!

 at exactly 8 weeks, we went to our first doctors appointment. i had text my ob to tell her the good news, so she was expecting us. as she was doing the sonogram she said "aw, i was hoping it was twins". who would wish that juju on us at this point in life?! the baby looked great and seeing that little heartbeat was really touching.

 celebrating after the appointment at cheesecake.

we told my family and jon's family at about 7/8 weeks and then told everyone else around 9.

here i am at ten weeks.

 11 weeks up at the cemetery.

and 13 weeks!
it took me a few days to get over the anxiety and guilt about having another baby. i got melancholy about taking time away from prim, but i had to keep reminding myself that we wanted this like crazy. we aren't taking anything away from her, but giving her a little sibling that can hopefully be her best friend! we love being parents and love little prim so immensely that we knew pretty darn soon we wanted another one. we have so much love to give these two babies. we keep thinking that this may be our last one, so i'm soaking up this pregnancy just in case!! i am looking forward to the second trimester, hoping to have a little more energy and starting to see a cute little bump (before i get huge). here we go...