Baby update

Posted on May 31, 2010 by Laurie Blundell

I realized that I haven’t posted anything about the babies, pregnancy, etc for a while now. Sorry about that, but here’s an update for you. I am now 16 weeks and feeling quite a bit better. I had a tough first trimester with 24 hour nausea and getting sick. Morning sickness is a joke, mine was evening sickness for the most part. As long as I took my zofran (medicine for nausea/vomiting) I was much better and able to keep food down. I am actually still taking it most days of the week because if I don’t I get pretty nauseous. Now that the nausea has eased up a bit, I am having to deal with wonderful headaches, I’m not sure which is worse, nausea or headaches. Let’s just say so far, I’m not one of those women that loves pregnancy! I will absolutely love the end result though, so I’m not complaining one bit.

we love going to doctors appointments because we get to see the babies and I have had a sonogram every month from my doctor (3 so far). Its crazy to see how much they grow just in a month. The last sonogram, which was last Thursday we were actually able to find out that one of the babies is a boy! The other one was moving around quite a bit and the umbilical cord kept getting in the way so we weren’t able to get a good enough picture to find out what he/she was. My doctor thinks its another boy but we couldn’t confirm it, so it could still be a little girl. We didn’t get any good pictures of the sonogram on Thursday so I don’t have anything to show ya’ll. I am going for a level II sonogram (a high risk sono) in about a week and a half to look for birth defects, etc. It is a pretty detailed sonogram so we should find out for sure what the sex is of the babies and I’ll have much better pictures to post from that.

It was amazing to see them on the screen and watch them moving all around, stretching and what not. One of them looked like they waved at us (we have genius fetuses already-ha). The are about 5 1/2 to 6 inches long and doing great.

Here are some of the pictures of the babies “growing up”, they grow up so fast…just kidding, actually at this point, not fast enough!

8 weeks old…they look like a couple of blobs at this point.

12 weeks old…my little alien and monkey babies….Yes Margie, I did call them that!

I’ll show you what they look like at about 17/18 weeks in a week or two. To be continued…

New House

Posted on May 30, 2010 by Laurie Blundell

We finally moved and are about 90% settled in. The only rooms we really have left to do are the guest room and babies room. We are waiting to find out for sure what the sex of the babies are before we do anything with their room so its all kind of just thrown in there right now. The guest room is set up but its kind of the catch all room, anything that doesn’t have a spot in the house ends up there until I figure out what to do with it.

I ended up at Kirklands about a week ago and they were having a big sale so of course I got some stuff to “update” the decor. There are a couple of rooms we will be painting eventually, the dining room, kitchen, our room and nursery….but I think the only two we’ll be painting anytime soon will be the nursery and our room. And by soon, I mean within the next year…as much as I would love to get it all done and painted, I can’t stand the thought of painting right now.

Well, here are a few pictures that Jonathan took of the house, before all the decor was up, buy you can get an idea of what it looks like. To get a better look you’ll just have to come on by!!

Here is the front of the house, we’re still waiting on the grass that they laid to green up.
I love the big front porch, we need to get some chairs and a little table or something to put out there so we can sit out on the porch.

This is the dining room with the lovely light fixture that I can’t wait to replace!

The living room

The kitchen and dining area looking onto the living room

Our bedroom, other than this one section of the room, I have no clue what to do with it. If you come by you have to give me ideas of what to do.

I just got the new comforter set yesterday for our bedroom. If you know of anyone that wants/needs a king size comforter set let me know. We have our old one that is just sitting in a closet now. Its about 3 years old and does have some snags in the comforter from our dogs nails but overall it’s still in good shape. It looks like this….

So there you have it, those are the main areas of the house. There are three other bedrooms (being used as a guest room, babies room and office) to round out the house. I love being this close to our families and have enjoyed it so much, it was well worth the move.

Seattle

Posted on May 27, 2010 by Laurie Blundell

Jonathan has a good recap of our trip to Seattle last month and I’m going to be lazy and make you go there to hear all about it.

I’m slackin

Posted on May 15, 2010 by Laurie Blundell

I just realized it’s been a while since I posted anything. A lot has been going on lately, I promise to update it soon with pictures from our trip to Seattle, pictures of the new house, and the most recent pictures of the babies…even though I’ll have new ones in 2 weeks!! Stay tuned and I promise I’ll update.