What will Carter look like???

Have you seen that movie How To Loose A Guy In 10 Days? In that movie the girl takes her photo and a photo of the guy she just started dating and uses some technology to see what their babies would look like. So I googled what will our baby look like and here are the results


this one is creepy!






at least this one looks like a baby

Rocker Recliner

We have been having the rocker debate for some time now. We were originally going to buy one of the really ugly and extremely expensive Dutailer Gliders - similar to this one:

Then we decided we were CRAZY to spend that much money on an ugly glider. It was comfy but not super comfy and neither of us were crazy on how it looked.

Then we looked at this rocker at Babies R Us:

It was comfy and much more reasonable as far as price was concerned. Only negatives where that it didn't recline and the back of the chair didn't go up super high so we couldn't rest our heads on it very comfortably. Joe thought it was ugly, I thought it was cute.

We debated going to JC Penny to look (I had heard they had good chairs) but we were so sick of looking at chairs we decided not to. We were about to purchase the chair at Babies R Us but then Joe received a JC Penny coupon and suggested that we might as well go check out what JC Penny had to offer. Which is exactly what we did today.

We originally fell in LOVE with these chairs.

If we had a media room I know we would be the very proud owners of two of these chairs. Seriously the most comfortable chair I've ever sat in in my life time. But they aren't practical for a baby and are spendy.

Once we finally got our butts out of the movie style chairs we tested out others and really liked this one (but in a nice dark brown color). But it too was pretty spendy.

Then we saw this one - much more affordable and still pretty comfy but definitely not a looker as far as chairs are concerned.

We decided to go grab some lunch and think about it. When we went back to the store we sat in this one again - which I didn't like originally because of the stitching on the arms. It reminded me of the Michillen mans legs.

It was comfy but I wasn't thrilled with the arms, but Joe pointed out that the fabric was identical to the couches in our front room. (obviously the chair in the picture isn't like our couches but you get the idea of the style) When we saw the price tag on this chair my opinion of the chair changed dramatically. It was super comfy and did match our couches and it was a good price - not cheap but not super spendy either. So we went ahead and purchased this chair.

Fast forward a few hours and we're home and I'm going online to look at our chair purchase - I was very excited about this chair and thrilled with the deal that we got and wanted to send our chair to my parents and post it here on the blog. I was very impressed with our purchase! So I'm looking online and I notice that the chair we ruled out because of price was the SAME price as the chair we just purchased. (not the movie chairs, but the rocker/recliner we loved but was spendy) I called the store and spoke to the woman who helped us and walllaahh we got our number 1 choice chair for 200 under the store price tag! We are now the proud owners of this chair - to be delivered next Wednesday - but in a dark chocolate brown color. I cannot wait to get it!

Or so I've been told...

.... that I have popped. Girls at the hotel told me today "You can tell you're pregnant now! You've popped. Last week we couldn't really tell, now we can!"

I agree that my belly is definitely bigger this week. It feels bigger and fuller. I swear I could have a 10 lb baby in there right now with how my belly feels. You know after you eat way too much food and your belly feels SOOOO full? I feel like that. And I swear my belly gets bigger as the day progresses. I don't know why or how but I've heard other preggo people say the same thing, so I guess I'm not totally off my rocker. I'm a little alarmed at how huge I feel. I know it's only going to get worse/bigger!

One other thing to note, my cravings have changed... and not in a good way! I used to crave fruit and string cheese and healthy cereal. The past two weeks I've craved powdered donuts and cupcakes. I don't even really like cupcakes. Anyway, I ate my share of them and now I'm done with it. I'm back to fruit and healthy stuff again.

Here's a belly pic - taken at night/at its biggest. (if you're curious about the arm weight in front of the door - that is so Kody stops shutting herself in the bedroom - that girl has an obsession with shutting doors. Also I don't think my butt is really that big, the shadow makes it look bigger)

1 year!

One year ago today we were married and had the most awesome wedding ever! From start to finish it was exactly what we envisioned when we pictured our wedding. If I could do it all over again I would and I wouldn't change a thing.

bare feet, in the ocean, and just married!

Then we went and "trashed the dress" Something so many people didn't understand at the time... but I think they do now.

I love this one - it's perfect. The two of us relaxed and looking out at our future.

bedding & furniture

We had a pretty productive baby day on Saturday. We finally decided on crib bedding (yeay!) and we went out to order our crib and dresser. We expected to wait for the furniture to come in but someone ordered exactly what we wanted and then picked it up at a different store so they had both the crib and dresser in stock!

We set them up in our 3rd bedroom - the bedroom we planned to use for Carter before we found out we were moving. Our 3rd bedroom isn't that large - the crib and dresser do a pretty good job of filling most of the room up. It will be nice in Flagstaff because the bedrooms are a lot larger.

I'm in love with the zoo animals bedding! It's so soft and cozy and has a lot of different textures and the colors are so great. Plus it has lots of cute room accessories - little nightlight, wall hangings, lamps, stuffed tigers, etc. So cute!

Some pictures:

drum roll please....

It's a boy!!! Carter David Troness - we're pretty set on that name so unless he comes out looking like a Jim Bob I think it's safe to say his name will be Carter David.

My next appt is November 16th. This will be my last appointment with my Gilbert doctors :( I am sad to be leaving them as I really love my doctors office. At least my last appointment with them will have another ultra sound on their cool huge plasma tv. (Carter was too small when they did the original anatomy scan so they will finish it at my next appointment) I have gotten pretty spoiled with ultra sounds at every appointment and am glad that the rest of the anatomy scan will be done in Gilbert where we can watch it on the big screen. Plus I'll be 22 weeks at that time - WOW time flies! - so Carter should look totally different by then!

In other news I felt Carter kick for the first time last night! I was laying in bed reading and all of a sudden felt this thud from the inside. It totally startled me! So far I haven't felt anything that I could for sure say was him moving around. But last night there was no mistaking this - it was for sure a kick. Happened again about 20 minutes later on the other side. Very cool!

So far this pregnancy has been so easy that most of the time I totally forget I'm pregnant. (Although not so much when I was the only sober person at the wedding the other weekend!) Feeling the kick last night was the biggest thing for me so far - bigger than seeing and hearing the heartbeat, bigger than seeing him during the ultrasound. All of that seemed so unreal. But feeling the thud... indescribable. I think it might have finally set in that I am, in fact, pregnant :)

Oct 9th Ultrasound

All looked good! They couldn't complete the anatomy scan though because the baby was too small. I'll go back in in a monthish for another ultrasound so they can finish the anatomy scan. Dr said that will probably be my last ultrasound :(

Anyway, during today's ultra sound the tech started off by looking at the brain. She spent a decent amount of time looking at the baby's head and it didn't seem to be moving and I started getting a little concerned. Thank god the next thing she did was measure the heartbeat. There was a sigh of relief when I heard/saw the heart beating. Baby's heart rate was 146. Which according to babybpm is:

This was the first ultrasound where we could actually see the baby moving around - kicking it's little legs, squirming around, etc. It was so cool, but so weird because I can see it moving on the screen but can't feel it. (They asked if I'd felt the baby move yet.... I don't think so. Apparently it feels like butterflies in your stomach. Psh whatever that means!)