Baby Belly Pics!

I'm 15 weeks 4 days!! You can kinda see baby bump through the clothes now (especially if I'm not wearing black), but most people still can't tell I'm pregnant. Which is ok...they say whatever weight you gain before 20-weeks is not baby weight. :-) So far we're still -10 when it comes to weight lost since we found out I was pregnant (I've put back on 5 lbs though!). Yay morning sickness!

Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

A few pictures of our Christmas decorations from around the house! We went simple on the decor this year as we're still building our collection, but everything we have has some sort of significant meaning or was given to/made for us by a family member.

Merry Christmas!

We have a busy week ahead of us with festive celebrations and family get togethers. Beginning tonight! I have a fun evening planned with a few of my close friends at my house. We're having a "formal" dinner and then watching Christmas Shoes. Hopefully pictures will follow, but if I don't make it back to a computer before the New Year...Merry Christmas to you all from the Bergen Family!

O come, O come, Emmanuel
And ransom captive Israel
That mourns in lonely exile here
Until the Son of God appear
Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel
Shall come to thee, O Israel.

O come, Thou Rod of Jesse, free
Thine own from Satan's tyranny
From depths of Hell Thy people save
And give them victory o'er the grave
Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel
Shall come to thee, O Israel.

O come, Thou Day-Spring, come and cheer
Our spirits by Thine advent here
Disperse the gloomy clouds of night
And death's dark shadows put to flight.
Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel
Shall come to thee, O Israel.

O come, Thou Key of David, come,
And open wide our heavenly home;
Make safe the way that leads on high,
And close the path to misery.
Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel
Shall come to thee, O Israel.

O come, O come, Thou Lord of might,
Who to Thy tribes, on Sinai's height,
In ancient times did'st give the Law,
In cloud, and majesty and awe.
Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel
Shall come to thee, O Israel.

So much for that...

Yesterday I wrote a huge post about my renewed energy levels and how great it was! Well, after my very productive day yesterday, I laid down around 8:45 pm for a short "nap" and woke up at 9:00 am this morning. A 12 hour "nap"?? Yes, it definitely sounds like my energy is back. :-)

A new house, A new pair of jeans and A renewed energy level!

This week's craving: Chicken Salad Sandwiches
This week's pregnancy rule-breaker: Caffeine! (Ohhh! Justin bought cherry pepsi. I have to have one a day otherwise "the baby gets mad at me" ;-))

Well, we're back to where we were last January (minus the recently bought size 9 jeans!! what on earth? oh well, at least they're not maternity jeans lol!). Playing the house hunting game. :-)

Yesterday we put a bid on a house not far from where we live now. We bid quite a bit over the asking price as there were two other bids on the house and it seems to fit our criteria very well. So now we get to play the waiting game. :-) We're going to keep looking at other houses in case this one doesn't go through, cause after what happened to us last February, we've learned not to get too set on one house until you have a signed contract in your hands! I'll try to post pictures later.

My energy is slowly coming back. I'm enjoying feeling like a human again and I'm sure Justin appreciates having his wife back. It feels good to be cooking almost 21 meals a week again and getting the house back on its regular cleaning schedule (the game of "lets see just how bad it can get this time" wasn't much fun...or sanitary for that matter) and laundry takes only one day, not a week. ;-) Life is good.

Now that school is over, it hit me all of the sudden all of the things I have to accomplish before the third trimester. We have to be accepted to the birth center, but before we can do that we are required to pick a pediatrician for the baby after he/she is born. So now I have to figure out how to pick a pediatrician...ahhhhh! We have to sign up for birthing classes (anyone know who teaches a good Bradley childbirth class in the area?),
find a maternity chiropractor for me...once again...ahhhhh! I feel so overwhelmed! It feels exactly like when I was planning my wedding right after I got engaged. So much to do, so little time!

Well, I'm off to eat an orange (yes! i'm eating healthy again!) and clean the bathrooms.

You Knit Me Together in my Mother's Womb

These are pictures and updates I get from babycenter.com. They send me one weekly and I'll try to start posting them to here. Its fun to see all the changes that are going on. And just to clarify, they alternate weeks using he/she until you specify the gender. This week it just happens to be "he"...we don't know yet... :-)

Your pregnancy: 14 weeks

How your baby's growing:This week's big developments: Your baby can now squint, frown, grimace, pee, and possibly suck his thumb! Thanks to brain impulses, his facial muscles are getting a workout as his tiny features form one expression after another. His kidneys are producing urine, which he releases into the amniotic fluid around him — a process he'll keep up until birth. He can grasp, too, and if you're having an ultrasound now, you may even catch him sucking his thumb.In other news: Your baby's stretching out. From head to bottom, he measures 3 1/2 inches — about the size of a lemon — and he weighs 1 1/2 ounces. His body's growing faster than his head, which now sits upon a more distinct neck. By the end of this week, his arms will have grown to a length that's in proportion to the rest of his body. (His legs still have some lengthening to do.) He's starting to develop an ultra-fine, downy covering of hair, called lanugo, all over his body. Your baby's liver starts making bile this week — a sign that it's doing its job right — and his spleen starts helping in the production of red blood cells. Though you can't feel his tiny punches and kicks yet, your little pugilist's hands and feet (which now measure about 1/2 inch long) are more flexible and active.

Hi, my name is Laura and I'm addicted to Zofran

Brrrrr!!!! It's cold outside! I don't know how it is "in your neck of the woods" but here it feels like windchill of -70! Maybe not that cold, but its pretty nippy!

Our apartment is pretty drafty so even though we have our furnace cranked up, my toes are still numb! I have found the one room in the house that stays warm though. The bathroom. Its small and there are no windows, which equals warmth! Luckily (and unluckily) for me, I've been able to spend a good portion of my day in there. One of my goals for winter break was to attempt to go off my nausea medicine, Zofran, which I used to control the intense morning sickness I had. Today was day 1 of the mission and the results are = FAIL! I felt great up until about 11:30 this morning, then I threw up 3 times in one hour! And thus has been my day. But at least I get to be sick in the one warm room in the house, right? :-) So the verdict is I shall keep taking my nausea pills as needed until further notice.

Today is my first official day as a college graduate. I don't think it will really sink in for me until January because everybody at Friends is off school right now.

Justin and I are off to look at houses with our realtor this afternoon! Have one house that is a possibility so I'm excited to see how it goes. I love looking at houses, and the possibility of moving to a place with windows that actually keep heat in the house excites me to no end! :-) We're really not hoping to move until about March (when our lease on the apartment is up), but figured we'd get started early so we wouldn't feel rushed when the time came. A full report tomorrow shall follow!

Bundle up and stay warm wherever you are! :-)

Merry Christmas to Me!!

This has to be the best Christmas...ever!! Quite possibly even topping the year we had four Christmases in two weeks (every seven-year-old's dream).

Two things are making this Christmas season extra super special:
(1) I'm growing a pretty cute human inside of me and
(2) as of 11:00 AM this morning, December 12, 2008 I am.......

A COLLEGE GRADUATE!!!!!!!

WOOOOOHOOOOOO!

Baby Pics!!

Pretty cute if you ask me! :-) But what can I say? I'm slightly bias! :-)

Preggo Belly!

So to get everybody up to speed. I'm currently about 14 weeks pregnant. Due date is sometime between June 6-16 (ultrasound and doctor are arguing). This growing belly picture is from when I was only 10 weeks pregnant. Very possibly could have just been fat, but I like to think you can see a little bump! :-) I'm a lot bigger now, so I should take a new picture. I had to go buy "fat clothes" (I think the nice word for them is transition maternity clothes) because most of my tops were getting too small, but the maternity clothes were still swimming on me. So...yay for fat clothes! :-)

Welcome Post!

Hey all! I'm new to the blogging world, but I figure now that I'm a college graduate I'm going to need to do something to fill my time. :-) Plus, I figured this would be a great way to help you all (especially my school friends who I won't see as much anymore * sniff *) stay connected with whats going on in my life and stuff.

For the next 6.5 months you'll probably see a lot of stuff about Baby Bergen, and after that who knows? I'll just keep on dancing through life and see what other exciting adventures come my way to blog about! :-)