Boy or Girl? Our greatest Christmas present EVER!

Hello all! So, as you may have heard, we have our next appointment on December 29, at which time we should find out our baby's gender! Although it's a couple of days late, we couldn't ask for a better Christmas present.

I've always wanted to be one of those moms who just KNEW what they were having even before the doctor told them. So, I've done a few things to help myself along, as sill as some of them have been :) Here's what I've done so far:

• Listen to my family and friends. I truly believe that some individuals are very intuitive (or just good guessers?) when it comes to guessing the gender of up-n-comin' babies. The final consensus of ALL OF THEM (Mom, sister, aunts, co-workers, best friend)? GIRL!
  
  
• Dangle a necklace over my hand and belly. So, this has been an interesting prediction test. My mom and sister helped me do this originally, and it went slightly back and forth (boy). Then, at work, my two co-workers both did it on me and it consistently went in HUGE circles. Consensus? GIRL!
  
  
• Chinese Lunar Calendar. I've heard from a few people that this calendar has proven fairly accurate. So I thought I'd give it a shot. You take your age at conception, and the lunar month you conceived, and find the cross-section on their chart. What did it say? You got it, GIRL!
  
  
• Old Wives Tales. I found a fun little thing online that combined a bunch of old wives tales and made a cute little quiz out of them. Final results? GIRL!
  
  
• Heartrate prediction. Our baby's heart rate was a whoppin' 160 bpm when we saw the doctor. According to this site that means? GIRL!
  


• JustMommies.com quiz. This silly little quiz also says? GIRL!
  


• Parents.com quiz. Another silly quiz that, you guessed it.  GIRL!
  


• Last but not least, Mother's Intuition. Ever since I was little I have known I'd be blessed with a little girl someday. When I first got pregnant I knew it was her! Then, I had a dream about a little boy, my friends found out they were having boys, and I felt like we were having a boy at our 10 week ultrasound appointment. So, I switched to thinking it was a boy. Well, I think I'm ready to stick with my original feelings. So, along with popular vote, I say GIRL!

Now that is a LOT of pink! :)

DISCLAIMER: I reserve the right to continually change my mind about the matter!

As I was looking through my pregnancy pictures today I had fun noticing the little changes that are happening. Although it's not much, I am showing! Well, it's more of a "filling out" then anything, but that's completely OK. Wanna see comparison pictures?

 

Me at 3 weeks (left) and 13 weeks (right).

Anyways, I've just had fun with this pregnancy the last few days (not being so sick helps with that). I'm in the last week of my First Trimester! WOOHOO! Baby is growing fast and is very healthy. We couldn't be happier for our little munchkin.

Happy Holidays!

A Perfect Second Anniversary Weekend

We did it! On December 16 we made it to the TWO YEAR mark in our marriage. These last two years have been extremely eventful, and extremely wonderful. All marriages have ups and downs, which we definitely have experienced, but what matters is coming out of them with more knowledge and experience than we had before. We have a long ways to go in our marriage, and hope that we can enjoy every mile-marker as much as we have this one.

Todd picked me up from work on Friday and we headed down to Salt Lake City. Fortunately, we beat the traffic of all those heading to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir Christmas Concert, the John Schmidt Christmas Concert, and other various events being held. We checked in to the Little America Hotel, then decided to walk over to the Grand America Hotel to see their lights and play their window game. Although the game was really meant for little kids (you go window to window trying to find a star in each display), but we loved it! Their lights there are very beautiful as well. They are all white, but use various sized bulbs to give it a "twinkling" look.

We still had time before dinner started, so we walked over to the Trax station and took it to Temple Square. Todd bought us some nummy hot cocoa (not to hot, not to cold!) and we walked around and looked at the lights for a little bit. We were attempting to take a picture of ourselves under the tree where Todd proposed to me, and cute girl asked if she could help us out. We figured it was for the best, as our self-portriat skills were a little lacking :)

Our attempt at a self-portrait :)

Todd proposed to me under that tree on 9-9-09 :)

So beautiful!

After walking around a bit longer we headed back to Trax and took it to our dinner destination... Ruth's Chirs Steakhouse. It was AMAZING. The atmosphere was perfect, the services was wonderful, and the food was beyond perfect. They even put rose petals on our table for our Anniversary. I can't even count how many times we were told Happy Anniversary! We enjoyed our time there very much.

After dinner we headed back to our hotel to rest for about half an hour before taking off again to see Sherlock Holmes at the Gateway. The movie was great! Todd and I both absolutely loved it. By the time the movie finished it was after 12:30 am...WAY past my bedtime :) The only downside to all of this was that my cold slowly got worse as the hours went on, so by the time we went to bed I could hardly breathe out of my nose. Good times! But the rest of our experience made it way worth it.