Update

Okay so I don't have much to blog about lately, but I'm blogging anyways because I can't stand to see Glenn Becks face as the first thing I see on my blog.

This weekend has been great so far. Wednesday and Thursday were busy with Thanksgiving food preparations and feasting on Thanksgiving dinner. We went to my parents for lunch. All of my siblings and their families were there. We went around the table and said what we were grateful for. I forgot to mention in my list that I was grateful that our whole family was together for the holiday. I mean, what are the odds that you have five children who marry into five families, who go to one side of the family every-other year, but all happen to go to the Yospe side on the same year. Amazingly every single one of my sibling's "Yospe family turn" is on the same year.

My three oldest nephews were asked to say what they were grateful for.
Luke (age 4) said "I'm grateful for Mommy, and Daddy, and Max."
Lincoln (age almost 8) said "I'm grateful for the army." Don't know where that came from, but it was the only thing he listed. Very responsible of him I suppose. His little brother, Calder (age 4) is the complete opposite. When asked what he was grateful for he said "Um. . . The GRINCH!"

Friday, and so far today (Saturday) have just been spent relaxing and taking advantage of the long weekend. Josh and I went to lunch yesterday and ran into his parents at the restaurant! Wish they'd arrived the same time as us because we could've sat together. Last night they brought us their 4 foot tall fake Christmas tree to borrow for the season. Later tonight Josh and I are going to decorate it. Last year our tree was only 18 inches tall and I'm excited to use all my ornaments this year instead of just the little ones.

The first year Josh and I were married we bought a real tree. Which we decided not to do again when it fell over in the middle of the night and spilled pine needles and water all over our living-room carpet. In my excitement of having my first Christmas tree as a married woman I bought all red and silver ornaments for our tree. I have some beautiful ornaments that I wasn't able to use last year.

Josh and I already bought (and opened) our Christmas gifts to each other and we will enjoy just having a small Christmas with our family. We bought some games from "Game Night" on 2100 So. and 700 East in Salt Lake City. I highly recommend this store. They have really unique and fun games to play. We bought a game called "Wasabi" and the expansion pack to "Ticket to Ride, Europe". Yesterday we also bought some shoes at Famous Footwear. I needed some slip on shoes because my growing belly is already making it difficult to put on shoes, let alone tie the laces. So now we're done and won't have anything to open on Christmas morning, but we don't mind. We like to keep it small and just spend time with our families.

I'm now starting to feel the baby kick on a regular basis. It was really strange at first, but I'm getting used to it. I'm now 22 weeks pregnant. Only 17 or 18 weeks to go until we meet our little guy!

If you couldn't tell from the Widget on the right. . .

I'm pregnant!

Maybe seven weeks along is a little early to tell people, but after three years of trying I think we deserve to be a little excited! After having a consult from the U of U fertility clinic last September, and being told to lose about 10% of my weight I went back to the doctor again in May, pounds lighter. I waited until my work's cafeteria plan renewed so it would be more affordable to see the doctor.

In June my doctor prescribed the lowest dose of Clomid, which makes you ovulate, and did two ultrasounds to determine if it had worked. It worked and I had "two healthy eggs" the doctor said. He told me to start using the Clear Blue Easy Digital Ovulation predictor twice a day and try when I got "a smiley face".

And presto! It worked like magic! I'm now seven weeks and feeling (happily) very sick today. Since I went to the fertility clinic they let me have an ultrasound already, so Monday Josh and I got to hear the baby's heart beat and see that little guy, or girl floating around down there. It pretty much looked like a circle in a kidney-shaped sack.

Since I had two eggs we asked the doctor if we could possibly be having twins. He said that if we had waited just one more week to have an ultrasound he would've been able to tell us for sure. We only heard one heart beat, but he said that the ultrasound did look like there could be another baby in there, but it was just too hard to get a good enough view to tell for sure.

Josh had a look of wonder on his face when we heard the baby's heart beat. We got about five pictures printed out of our little jellybean, but I wish I could have taken a picture of Josh's face right then because I've never seen him have that look on his face before and it was just too precious!

So, Yes. I guess on my blog I'm telling people. I figure that probably not many people read my blog. I know my mom and my brother's families read it, and maybe one or two friends, so really I don't think I'm telling many more people than who already knew.

We're really excited, despite my having a slightly sick-to-my-stomach feeling most of the time, and a lot of aversions to food and things that I can't even smell. In fact, I feel like I should apologize to the baby, but every time I see that little fetus thing floating around it makes me queasy because it's so ugly! I'm sorry little baby, but that isn't you. You are adorable, I'm sure! . . . Or, er. . . will be by the time you're born, I'm sure!

So I'm due around April 1, or 3rd. My doctor says April 3rd, but that baby count-down is set to April 1st. So give or take a couple of days. I'm hoping for a March baby, just to have the baby early, but also because of all Josh's six siblings, their spouses, his parents, and his 18 nieces and nephews, none of them are born in March. In fact, it's the only month out of the year when no one has a birthday. So ours would be the only one!