daily coke.

mama is living on her daily coke:)  makes up just a LITTLE for not being able to have an afternoon coffee during naptime!!

new year's eve 2014.

mike had to work new year's eve, so brady and i rang in the new year together (yeah right, we were both asleep by 9pm haha).  we toasted with coke & root beer, and shared a pizza. the perfect quiet evening for a pregnant mama & two year old!!

for the growing family...

santa brought mama a new car for Christmas! gotta make room for an extra carseat!! i'm just a LITTLE bit excited...

next year...

hard to believe next year on Christmas Eve, there will be two babies decorating cookies for santa:)

14 weeks.

these pics were on Christmas day, 13w6d.

in the last two weeks, i've suddenly popped out a baby belly!!  with brady, i think i couldn't button my regular jeans by around 10 weeks. but am a little later this time around. until about 12 weeks, my pants were fine until late in the evening. this week especially though, i can't button them in the mornings either:)  it's exciting to see physical progress with my pregnancy, it's the best part i think. i'm starting to finally look pregnant to people who wouldn't know otherwise. it's about time to announce on facebook...just waiting to find out our gender results and then i'll do a grand reveal of "hi i'm pregnant" and "it's a..." all at once.  want to do something different this time around, and since we're finding out the gender earlier than with brady, that makes it fun & different.

i'm finally starting to feel better most days. the mornings are definitely my worst time of day for nausea but once i eat breakfast, it usually resolves for the rest of the day. unless i just wait too long to eat, then it will creep back in. i am still terribly nauseated by the sight/smell/thought of coffee, but not having as much nausea for "no reason."  i also feel like i have more energy now for normal stuff & not feeling like i want to nap every other second. starting to get into the best part of pregnancy, the 2nd trimester!

more updates coming soon with hopefully, a GENDER reveal.

i've been feeling girl for about four weeks or so now, so that's my guess. we'll see soon!

it's a first.

at 14 weeks today, i had to bust out the belly band today because i finally couldn't button my jeans! exciting to see the tiniest of baby bumps developing...

Christmas Eve service.

Christmas Eve services at church. we loved the candlelight service as usual & it was fun to sit together for our last Christmas as a family of three. trying to soak up every second of this season with bubby at the perfect age to enjoy it all.  oh! and every SINGLE time we ask brady, "does mommy have a baby brother or a baby sister in her tummy?" he says, "baby sister!" :)