Exciting New Beginnings

The holiday season rolled by rather quickly! Thanksgiving was great, we spent it with Mitch's family this year! Christmas was also good! We got to spend a weekend with my family and then Christmas with Mitch's family! We received some wonderful gifts from some very wonderful people, namely our family members! Yet our greatest Christmas gift that we received (early) and gave to our families was the news that we will be expecting a little one in July!!

Mitch and I are excited to start our new adventure as parents come this summer! This will be our first child and we can't express how grateful we are to our Heavenly Father for entrusting us with one of His children! The process of getting and the timing played out perfectly and was surely a miracle! God truly has set this time apart for us to have this child! Mitch will be done with his degree in December, then he'll find a full-time job or do more schooling... decisions to come later! I will have only 12 credits left at BYU when the baby comes so I will either finish up in December as well or take a semester off and finish in April! Either way I will finish my degree and have a bachelors degree in Human Development!

As I stated before we will be having the baby at the end of July! We do not know the gender yet but we do know that he/she is healthy and growing well! Everything looks great in terms of medical calculations and we have confirmed that we are only have one baby and not twins. Our families are also excited for this new addition to the family that will come in July! We told my family the great news by putting a bun in the oven and having them look inside and figure it out from there! For Mitch's family we put together a description game. We wrote grandma x 4, mom x 1, dad x 1, etc. on pieces of paper and the family was to guess which paper went with each family member. They were a little stumped at first but then caught on!

Here's a 12 week ultrasound of our little one. The left side is the head and the right is the bottom!

Some of the cards used in the game to tell Mitch's family!

As far as pregnancy goes, I have been feeling great! I honestly have nothing to complain about. I am a little more tired than usual, get headaches here and there, but no nausea. My biggest symptom is I'm always starving but that's not too big of a problem :) ! I wish that every pregnant woman felt as good as I do their first trimester, because I have been enjoying it so much! I am showing a little bit but not too much, not picture worthy quite yet, but I'm sure soon I will be getting the infamous baby belly protrusion!!