Gender Reveal Party

While looking at baby shower ideas, I came across a very much exciting idea. A gender reveal party!

I feel as though calling,texting, or emailing about something that's so important like a new baby is just not the way to do it.

So, Jim agreed to have a gender reveal party, now this party will take place as soon as we find out what we are having. And I'm sorry to say that only family will be able to come. Just because we have lots of friends and not a lot of places to put everyone comfortably. :)

ANYWAYS, I'm very excited to have this party 1) to finally find out what we are having 2) to see the excitement in our families when we tell them.

I have soo many ideas for this party I can hardly contain myself! So I thought blogging about it will help me.

Invites-    snugasabugbaby

Food- http://www.createmyevent.com/2010/04/diy-baby-gender-reveal-party.html

http://babycarrigan.blogspot.com/2011/01/gender-reveal-party.html

And of course the guessing board!


Where I got my first idea of the gender reveal party-http://www.hostessblog.com/2009/09/real-parties-baby-gender-reveal/   Very pretty!

First Trimester done!

I know you all are very curious and are dieing to know how my first trimester went.

I know it might sounds like I'm bragging, but I just feel VERY lucky that I didn't get any morning sickness at all. But I was just waiting for the moment I had to run to the bathroom in the most inconvenient time. 

I was on the other hand always tired and working with children four days a week for 10 hours a day can wear you out normally, but adding being prego and you have a very tired and grumpy person. And don't get me wrong, I love what I do! 

Not only was I tired all the time, but I have to eat all the time too. And no, not all pregnant women know what they want to eat either. I still find that frustrating when I'm starving and have no idea what I want.  

The first trimester isn't all that bad

One of the best feelings in the world was telling my family and friends that we were having a baby. So going through the tiredness was completely worth it.

The other best feeling in the world was being able to hear the heartbeat of our little one. I couldn't stop smiling or giggling. The Doctor made a comment, "Are you ever going to stop smiling?" My response was a very quick "Nope!" and I wasn't lying. I've been smiling and laughing every since and can't wait to be done with my second and third trimester so I can see this wonderful little person who has already filled me with so much joy.

June 9th we are going in to see the Baby and maybe just maybe we can find out what we are having.

19 more days and counting.

So I also posted a blog when we told the family that we were pregnant. I was 7 weeks when we told them. I had butterflies in my stomach, all day that day!!!

Here's the post:

Telling the Family

Monday, April 11, 2011 2:02:00 PM

We thought long and hard about when, how, and

where we were going to tell our families. It's so hard

sometimes to get both sides of the family together;

so we decided to do lunch with my family and then

dinner with his, all in the same day. We went out the

morning of to look for a gift for the Grandmas to be.

We easily found something for Jim's Mom, being that

this baby will be the first Grand Baby in the family.

We got her a pink t-shirt that read Never fear

Grandma is here! My Mom was a little more tricky,

she is a Grandma already to 7 other grandkids. So

finding something for her took a little more time, but

we did. I decided to get her a picture frame that

read, Grandchildren are the sunshine of life.  

I got everything wrapped and ready to go for the big

day, and we were excited as all get out. When we got

to my sister's house (where we were having lunch) I

started to get really nervous, which then made me

very nausea. Me and Jim couldn't wait any longer, so

before we ate we handed my Mom the present (my

heart was beating like crazy). When she finally read

the note (which it seemed like forever for her to

unwrap it) her face lit up and you could see the

excitement in her eyes, which of course made my

eyes water.  I then got a hug from my Mom, a slap

on the leg from my sister Becky followed by a hug,

my sister Lisa gave me a hug (never really happens,

not a touchy feely kind of person), my Dad gave me

the biggest hug I've EVER received from him, and my

Brother sat there in shock. The rest of the time there

was filled with smiles, laugher, and many questions.

Over all a very successful surprise!  

After we stuffed our faces with food at my Sister's

house we moved on to dinner with the Felps. By this

time I was getting very tired, but still very excited to

tell them our secret. When we got there we had our

small talk about how everyone was and what was

new in our lives, while we waited for Grandma M. to

arrive. I'm more than positive that I was biting my lip

and twitching my feet waiting for her to arrive. When

she finally arrived (in reality was only 8 mins) Jim

went outside to grab the gift. Julie was surprised just

by the fact we got her the gift, little did she know

was why. When she opened the gift, she was the

only one who knew what the gift ment. Ed and

Grandma where a bit confused when they saw Julie

jumping and screaming. When she unfolded the shirt

for everyone to see the excitement then filled the

room with congratulations and hugs.

The funny thing about both of our Moms was that

they both asked if they could brag on Facebook. You

got to love the bragging rights a Grandma gets to

have, but sadly to them we didn't want to put it up on

at the moment. But I can only imagine what is going

to be said when we give the green light! 

Baby Felps

So keeping a secert as big as being pregnant was very hard for me. Luckily, I had something that helped me. the bump has on there website sooo many things about being pregnant and the life saver for me that helped me not tell everyone in the world that I was pregnant was their blog. So I blogged the first time I found out I was pregnant.

Here it is:



A New Chapter in our Life

Wednesday, March 23, 2011 11:23:00 PM

Hello, my nameis Sarah and my husband's name is Jim. We've been together for four

years,married six months out of that total. I had been talking to my husband for awhile about starting

a family and one day he said, "Let's do it." Pure happiness filled me. We started trying the end of

February. March 18th I was a week late, not thinking that I could possibly be pregnant I went to the

dollar tree to get two test ( I really didn't think I was pregnant, I thought my body playing a tricks on

me).I got two thinking that the first one would be negative and I would have theother one for the next

time. I took the test...  I guess I didn't wait long enough for the result to show, sadden I told Jim I was

not pregnant; but when I went back later that night and looked at the test I saw a tiny  line. I was

thinking to myself, no way is that right, I'll take the other test tomorrow morning and see. The next

morning I was up and ready to pee, sure enough the pink line appeared. Shocked I woke up my

husband to show him the test. "Does that look like a line?", I asked? "Yeah it does." he replied.

"That was fast!" those were his last words to me before falling back to sleep. STILL in disbelief I

asked my wonderful husband later that day to go to CVS and pick up one of those test that says

pregnant or not pregnant. Because he's such an amazing man he did it (bickering about the price

the whole ride home). I took the test bright and early the next morning. And there I sat on the

bathroom floor in tears and a pee stick that read Pregnant. Once I gained control over myself I jump

on the bed and whispered into Jim's ear, "You're going to be a Daddy." I've never seen him wake

up so fast in the time we've been together. The rest of the day was full of hugs and kisses which still

remain till today. Are we excited? I would say so