Hello all! Happy New Year!! :D
Our new year started off really lame. Curtis and I made a fantastic dinner (yes, I am bragging) of orange chicken, fried rice, and beef and broccoli. Yum yum. We shared our meal with my brothers and a friend. After dinner Curtis and I were both exhausted (he is sick and I am always tired) so we decided to curl up on the couch and watch Emperor's New Groove (a tradition for us on New Years Eve). We fell asleep about half way through that and woke up with about 10 seconds to midnight. Happy New Year! Lame... Then we went to bed. We're too young to have such a boring new year.
Christmas was fun! Curtis's mom went to go visit her daughter and family in New York for real Christmas so we had early Christmas with her and Curtis's siblings before she left. It was way fun. We had real Christmas with my family which was super fun too. We got some really fun gifts from both families. Our baby got some diapers from it's Uncle Carl and Aunt Jen, and some books with read along stuffed animals from my parents. Curtis's mom got us this awesome huge tent that we are super excited about. We got people lame presents because I am exhausted and out of my mind and Curtis is super busy. We'll do better next year...
Now onto life's big updates. Things are going well baby wise. I can feel it "flutter" every so often now. I feel like I'm starting to look pregnant. People say I don't though so maybe I'm just looking fat but either way I don't fit into my regular pants anymore. I still have constant nausea and at least daily vomiting. That is always fun. I am eating and drinking a lot more now though so at least that is good news.
Everything tastes at least a little different. I'm pretty sure I don't like chili anymore and red meat tastes terrible. Other than that though I really don't have any flat out aversions to food, it just all tastes a little different. I really don't like water right now for some reason and so I drink a lot of milk instead. Oh, and for some reason I can't cut onions. That overloads the nausea system. I can cook with them, hold them, do whatever, I just can't cut them. Weird.
My hips hurt like crazy. They hurt to the point where I can barely (if at all) walk sometimes. I cry a lot cause they hurt so bad. I try to exercise to get them to strengthen but it doesn't do much. All I want to do is lay down because they hurt and I'm exhausted (I am ALWAYS exhausted) but after about 10 minutes of laying down they just start to kill. I wake up at least 3 times a night because it hurts so bad and I have to shift and anyway.. Now I am just complaining. Moving on.
The second week of December was finals week and of course during the middle of the week, in the evening, while Curtis was at work, a deer ran into the side of my car while I was driving down main street. My car got pretty beat up (front driver's side, driver's door, steering and alignment) and is still in the shop but I'm okay and so is the baby. I'm grateful that it did such little damage all things considered. My awesome brother-in-law/mechanic, Carl, came and helped me and my car get home safely. I hope Boo (my car) gets home soon. Curtis's truck is so not pregnant lady friendly.
New semester starts next week. I'm not excited at all for school to start again but at least it should be an easy and fun semester for both Curtis and me. I'm taking five classes but three are online. Curtis is taking his last calculus class, a physics class, and some music class.
We get to find out soon what the baby is so I'll send out an update on that when we know! :D We are super excited! And no.. We honestly have no preferences on the boy or girl issue. They both have their benefits. I just want to know so I can feel like I can get this show on the road!
Until next time! :D
