18 Weeks

Well, here I am. Gettin' bigger. My first ultrasound is Thursday. We're pretty excited.

We're at my Mom and Dad's right now. Came up last minute for Easter and it's been very nice. Amy and Mike came up too. It's always great to hang out with them. Greg and I have been missing them a lot lately. I have been DOWNING the sweets these days. But it's Easter, so who cares, right? Conference was nice. I always plan on watching everything and never do, but this year I did pretty good. I only skipped one session and snoozed a LITTLE during a couple. It was different this year. Whenever the talks are for parents I always listened and stored the information away for the future, but this year my ears perked RIGHT up. I know it's still gonna be awhile before I'm actually teaching my kids spiritual things, but it is more on the way than it's ever been. I gotta say, I'm pretty excited about having a baby. Each week is a little different. This week, for some reason, little chubby arms have been in my head. A few weeks ago, I always envisioned chubby legs crawling away in a diaper. Just those things isolated in my brain. Not the whole baby, just part of one.

Oh yeah, those are maternity pants up there- can you believe it? What a score! Greg and I drove through Eugene on the way and stopped at the mall to buy our future sister in law a bridal/bachelorette gift and we walked by a maternity store and saw a sale and BAM! New pair of jeans. I gotta say, I feel pretty hot in them. This whole week I was DYING because my pants just aren't fitting anymore. Particularly one pair. At first, I've just been unsnapping the top and rubberbanding them to stay together. But my skinny black jeans. Forget it! I can't even really zip them anymore. I put them on the morning we bought my new pants and I just knew it was the last time. It made me really sad. I really love those pants. But I was so pleasantly surprised in these new jeans! I thought they were gonna be ugly and obviously maternity but I don't think they are. Anyway, it made me really happy. And oh so comfortable. I couldn't stop talking about how heavenly my belly was suddenly feeling. It was starting to feel strangled! Literally. So I'm a happy girl. I was worried I'd feel sick and ugly and fat my whole pregnancy, but I honestly feel great all the time and I really feel sexy even though my stomach is bigger than it's ever been!

Works been perking up and it's been soooo nice. I mean, in all honestly, it is still SOOO slow, but I've been getting requests and repeats and that makes me HAPPY. Like I haven't lost my talent. Greg starts work in less than a month! Holy cow. And we should be in our house by then too! Crazy! I've sort of been putting it out of my head for awhile now. Right now it's all waiting and everything's out of our hands, so I don't wanna get hyped up just for someone to say, "Oh never mind, it's not going to happen. Go find a different house." But it's crazy, because we're going to try to close early (we're still waiting to make that offer to the sellers). We think they'll go for it (because they were REALLY pushing for an earlier close date when we originally signed the papers) and if it IS earlier, then it might just be in 2 1/2 weeks which is CRAZY!!! When I realized that I sort of started to freak out! Like in a panic!

Shannon and Ralph just moved home, so it's the 6 of us now. Ethan, our only nephew on the Jentzsch side, is visiting! So we'll get to see him tomorrow when we get home. That will be great. That's the latest. Happy Holidays!