Christmas is always the best time of the year. Fun times with family, friends, and yummy food. This year we spent Christmas Eve with my family. My mom cooked a delicious Ham dinner and we even busted out the chimes to our traditional Christmas tunes. We then went to Trev's parents to spend Christmas morning with. I'm so glad this is the last year we have to choose families on Christmas morning. Next year we get to have our own Christmas morning with our little family. It's so hard to split up time with both families. Anyways, we didn't even wake up until 8:00 to open presents which is super unusual. I may be 22, but it's still hard to sleep in on Christmas morning. Santa sure did spoil us this year, especially baby girl and she wasn't even actually here. She got a bunch of clothes, her first stuffed animals from her uncle benji, her very own book about the Chicago Cubs (we even read it to her already and she loved it. She was kicking like crazy.), and a GIANT box of 900 wipes. Yes, 900. You know your getting old when you get excited over wipes.
Her GG and GPA (Great grandma and Great Grandpa) got her a little dress from Cancun.
Those of you that know Trev he is a die hard fan of the Chicago Cubs. Baby Girl got a little pink Chicago Cubs warm up suit. Cutest little thing I've ever seen. Along with a book about the Cubbies.
When we first found out we were pregnant Trevor always joked around that if it was a girl he wanted to name her Wrigley after Wrigley Field where the Cubs play. At least I thought he was joking. He has always referred to her as Wrigley and it's even spread to where the grandparents, Aunts, and Uncle refer to her as Wrigley also. It's going to be one of those awful nicknames like Chuck that is just going to stick with her the rest of her life. I use to absolutely refuse to call her that, but I have finally accepted it. Not for the birth certificate, but as a nickname. There's no way I am winning that battle. Every name I throw out for her Trev can somehow tie it to Wrigley Field. I loved the name Gracie... Mark Grace was his favorite Cubs player..... VETO! I loved the name Ivy, Wrigley Field is completely surrounded by Ivy..... VETO!! I even brought up the name Addison thinking there was no way he could connect it with the Cubs. Welp, to my surprise Addison is the road that Wrigley Field is on..... VETO!! It's kind of impressive, but as much as we love them Cubbies I just can't name my baby girl after them.
Christmas night we went to Temple Square to see lights. I got a new Cannon Camera with a few lenses so of course I took a million pictures. Everyone was calling me a nerd, but I was perfectly content playing with my new toy.
I was super impressed with it. It took some pretty cool pictures. Now I just need to find a photoshop program so I can play around with them more.
We also go this bad boy. I've always wanted one of theses. I can't wait to use it!! Maybe I will actually cook now.
I was so much fun to spend time with family and friends. We seriously couldn't of been blessed with greater families. They are so fantastic to us. Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas!!
How far along: 26 Weeks 4 day. Although, the doc said that she is measuring a few weeks ahead of schedule. :)
Total weight gain: I have now experienced that awful moment when you step onto the scale and it flashes ERROR at you. I had a Dr. appointment right after Thanksgiving so in the 4 weeks between Dr. appointments I had put on 10lbs. I guess that tells you how amazing my moms turkey dinner was. When I stepped on the scale at the Dr. office and saw I was up 10lbs I believe my exact words were "Holy hell, that can't be right!" So, I began to take my shoes off and everything that I could unload to take some pounds off, but it didn't do much. I was waiting for my Dr. to tell me to lay off the ice cream and Doritos when surprisingly he told me it was completely normal. Since I had only put on about 5lbs prior to this point it was normal to make such a huge jump. At least that's what he told me to make me feel good about it. He was telling me that by the end I should have put on about 30lbs. I've put on 15 at this point and I am over half way through my pregnancy so heres to hoping I don't fulfill that whole 30.
Food Cravings: I think Trevor has more "Pregnancy Cravings" then I do. When he wants something he'll always say "I have a pregnancy craving for.." and then we go get it since he does the same for me. Lately I have been wanting nothing but Ice Cream, but even when I'm not pregnant all I want is Ice Cream so that's nothing unusual. Although, at my mom's 50th birthday party I did put potato salad on a roll like a sandwich and I guess that is frowned upon because everyone kept telling me how disgusting that is, but it was awfully tasty. Must of just been one of those pregnancy things.
Movement: She is always having a dance party in there now. It's amazing how strong she is getting. There are sometimes when she will kick me and it makes me flinch or jump because it's so hard. Trevor can feel her kick and move now all the time. I have a station on my phone that plays nursery rhymes and all kinds of music. I can put it on my belly and she will start kicking and moving around. As much as I complained about being pregnant at the beginning it's all worth it now that I can feel her moving around constantly.There really is a baby in there, pretty crazy. She has gotten so big that my bellybutton is now constantly Asian. It's no longer round it just looks like a little slit. It's going to pop out like a timer on a well done turkey any day now.
Trevor is seriously thee most amazing husband and soon-to-be daddy. This little girl has him wrapped around her finger already. Everything baby girl wants daddy gives it to her (even though it's really mommy that wants it) I am only a few days away from the last and final trimester. I can feel all those pesky 1st trimester symptoms coming back. This little girl is sucking all the energy out of me already. Trevor not only works and goes to school he has now taken on all my wifely duties. I don't remember the last time I actually did dishes or for that fact our laundry. He even cooks dinner when he is home. He does it all. He sure knows how to take care of his girls.
This is a little bit late, but with the semester ending, finals week, and planning a 50th surprise birthday party for mom all at once has taken up most of my time lately.
For Thanksgiving we went to Cali to spend it with my sister and the kiddos. Seriously my niece and nephew are at the funnest stages. We could get them to do anything we said. Trevor had picked a lemon off of a bush outside their place and my niece, Harlie peeled it and squeezed every last drop of it into a glass. Trevor told her that if she drank the whole thing that she could come have a sleepover at our hotel that night. You better believe she started chugging that thing. She almost threw up several different times while doing so, but she was determined to get her sleepover. I have a video of it, but for some reason it wont post it. Anyways, we let the kids have a sleepover at our hotel and while we were in the hot tub playing ( since the pool was ice cold ) we told the kids that if they didn't jump in the pool we weren't buying them any ice cream at McDonalds later. They all cannon balled in after that. It was such good entertainment. The next day my sister asked us if we would watch the kids for a little while so she could get some Christmas shopping done. Somehow by the time we were done watching them they ended up looking like this.
We are such good babysitters. Of course my niece wanted nothing to do with it since that was "breaking the rules." She literally freaks out if someone is breaking the rules. She went home and wrote 10 sentences of "I am a good kid and will never break the rules" and she wasn't even the one that got in the mud.
While we were out there we went and spent some time in San Francisco. The only time either of us had been out there was when we did our engagement pictures, but we really didn't get to tour around. So, we did some major shopping on the Wharf, tracked down the Full House, and we also went to Alcatraz. Alcatraz was pretty amazing. We did an audio tour of the prison which told stories of inmates and all kinds of crazy stuff.
