Gender Reveal Party

So by now most of know if we're having a boy or girl...but if you don't, here's a clip from our gender reveal party!

It's a girl!!!

So if you don't know what a Gender Reveal Party is here's how ours went down. Dan and I went to my scheduled sonogram appointment where we got to see our baby! This is the same app where they usually tell you if you're having a girl or boy. Well, instead of having the tech tell us, I had her write it down and she sealed it up in an envelope so we couldn't peak! We came home for Christmas from Michigan and gave the valued contents to a friend who baked us a cake with the filling dyed either pink or blue. Then we gathered our family together for the big reveal! Fun huh?!

Here are some details of our party...We invited our family over for snacks and of course cake! Dan's entire family was in town for Christmas so that worked out perfectly and my whole family was there minus my sister (hence the video). 

I wanted to do as much as I could with pink and blue so here are some pink and blue Jones Soda's for the occasion, which were a huge hit!

Pink and blue sugar cookies...

And the CAKE! My friend Jenny Kusgen (who also made my wedding cake, fyi) was the special someone who got the envelope which carried the important info! She was the only one who knew and made this adorable cake for us to make this awesome memory.

The cake says "Ten little fingers, ten little toes, boy or girl? No one knows!" 

I made these boy and girl pendant signs

One of my favorite parts of the evening was having our family cast their votes as to what they thought we were having! I decorated this chalk board and "boy" got the most votes! To be honest, Daniel and I thought it was a boy too...

But baby girl won it all!!!

This was such a neat experience for us and I highly recommend to it any mom's to be out there who don't know what they're having yet. I stole it from my sister-in-law...you can steal it from me! 

Let the shopping begin!!!

Second Trimester...WHOOHOO!

Soooooooo sorry for the lack of blogging! We've had computer issues since Christmas and this is the first time I've been able to upload pictures! So this is what you've missed over the past month...starting with a pregnancy update!

So I'm in the second trimester and liking it a lot better than the first! I think in my last prego update (here) I said I was starting to get over morning sickness and gain more energy which still holds true! I'm not sick at all anymore. I only get a bit nauseous when I haven't eaten regularaly so I always keep snacks on me at all times! Also, as you can see my belly has boomed! I think I look and feel more pregnant than before which is a plus. AND it's totally feeling more real now that I can actually feel a baby moving inside of me! It's a totally cool and sureal feeling.

My energy level is up, but I still take an occasional cat nap (mostly because I'm bored). But I have stayed true to my working out each morning. I rotate between power walking on an incline and the eliptical for about 45 mins 5 times/week. I think it's really important to remain active during your pregnancy and especially since I'm not working and don't get out much I look forward to my morning walks to get my metabolism kicking!

I haven't had any real cravings, but I my sweet tooth has come back! I didn't really eat sweets when I was nauseous but now that I feel normal again I look forward to my nightly dish of ice cream. I try not to overload on sweets, just as if I wasn't prego, so I balance my diet with lots of fruit and veggies too while staying away from fast foods...Pizza's not a fast food right? ;)

Until next time.....Baby T, Daniel and I are doing great! Oh yeah, if you have any sunshine where you live, send it to Michigan!!!

Quality Sister Time

For work Daniel was sent to Argentina for 2 1/2 weeks. He calls it work, I called it a vacation...so I took a little vacation myself! I flew down to Orlando to stay with Steph for a week to break up my time alone. And to also spend some quality time with my lovely sister since we won't be seeing each other over Christmas this year. And must say...it was awesome!

Each day we got our morning exercise in, ran some errands, ate lunch somewhere tasty and took naps (k, I took naps) all before the kiddo's got home from school. We did take one day and played at Disney. I don't think everyone understand how much I love Disney World! Even when I can't ride the good rides, I still love going and taking in the Disney Magic!

 We had to choose one park so Steph took me to Hollywood Studios to see the Christmas lights, which I've never seen before. They were waaaaaay cooler than I thought they wold be! Think of the Clark Griswold's lights on mega steroids...with music! 

Any day at Disney is a good day, but this was one of the coolest things to do during the Holiday's. And we're just pretty cool like that :)

My week in Orlando was great! I love visiting with my fam and the 75 degree sunshine wasn't bad either....oh yeah and I love my sister! Thanks Steph!