corn maze

I have always wanted to go to the corn mazes and this is the first opportunity I got to go. Chris, Becki, Tucker, Jenn, and I went to the Liberty Corn Mazes. The theme this year was a tribute to the Kansas City Zoo. It was fun but it got boring and other people there got annoying after awhile. Tucker was the one that was smart enough to figure out the map and get us out of the mazes easily, so we mostly just followed him around.

It's a boy

17 weeks 5 days ultrasound shows its a boy. I had an u/s a little over a week ago that the tech thought it was a boy but wasn't sure if the umbilical cord was getting in the way. This week he's definitely a boy!

16 weeks 2 days

I still think I look fat and not pregnant.

Labor Day

Labor day was spent at Pomme De Terre Lake camping with my parents and sister. Chris didn't come along because he was stressed out with school stuff. I rode down in the truck with my parents their two dogs, Becki and my dog Penelope.

penny watching tv

tonight we watch the movie 8 Below. I was prepared for how sad the movie would be from my sister's account of it. I think it's funny though how my dog penny will watch the TV whenever there is dogs on it.

NT test, firs Ultrasound

Today we had the first trimester screening done. I think it's a pretty new test. It is and ultrasound and blood test that looks for your chance of the baby having down syndrome, trisomy 13, or trisomy 18. We won't find out the results for 7-10 days but we did come home we the first pictures of our baby.
It was a big relief to see that there is actually a baby in there with a beating heart. It was neat to see him or her moving around.

Rockford, Illinios

The past weekend we went to Rockford, Illinois to visit Chris's grandparents. I had never been to their house before so it was interesting and a little nerve wracking. It took about 9 hours to drive there. I'm almost 11 weeks pregnant and the nausea is pretty constant these days. I didn't realize how tired I have been lately until we were there because I haven't been doing anything but sleeping and going to work. But I was exhausted and went to bed at 6:30pm most nights we were there. I felt really bad about it but I was just so tired. I also made it the almost the whole trip without actually throwing up until the on the way home. I get the most nausea after I haven't eaten for awhile and right when we pulled into a taco bell parking lot I puked all over the parking lot and my shoes. That was lovely.

While we were in Rockford we watched home videos of chris growing up. We went to a Japanese water garden
We drove by a garage sale on the way to the Japanese garden and Chris's grandma started shouting "HOT DAMN" apparently it was supposed to be one of the best garage sales in Rockford. We went to it on the way home, but i wasn't all that impressed.

The next day we went to Chris's Grandpa's Barber shop that he has for sale. Chris went to play golf for the first time later that day. I should have taken a nap while he was gone but I didn't and then I was too tired to go to the concert in the park that his grandparents had planned for the evening. Apparently it started raining so they left after about 15 minutes, so I didn't miss much.

This visit I learned how Chris's grandma likes to give all her family lots of stuff when they come visit. They are getting rid of their 30 year old RV so we got to go through it and take anything we wanted. This is what are car looked like the day we left.