Oh Thursday.

So I didn't really want to blog about anything in particular (seeing as though I have 15 minutes left of my work day) & decided this would be quick & interesting. Even though nothing I do is quick. We shall see. Start time 4:14pm.

I saw this post over at Jenn's blog this week & thought it'd be fun for me to give my answers for you guys too! :)

I am... Pregnant.

I want... can't I just make a list and get back to you? How about a house!

I have... an amazing boyfriend.

I wish... I didn't have to work full time & could spend the 1st year of my son's life with him all day everyday! (When he arrives in September)

I hate... hate is a strong word. I dispise a lot. Especially this 105 degree weather!

I fear... heights, lightning, labor & delivery.

I hear... my coworkers discussing work related things. As I sit here and blog lol.

I search... Pintrest like crazy!!

I wonder... when my baby boy will get here & who he will look like!

I regret... nothing. I refuse to live life with regrets. Everything I've done, was meant to be.

I love... my boyfriend, my family, my little bun in the oven, my job, my apartment, my life!

I never... drive without my seat belt on!

I ache... all day everyday. Being 31 weeks pregnant can do that to you!

I always... shower two times a day! or bathe. Either or. Oh & make my bed!

I usually... hit the snooze button 2-3 times every morning.

I am not... good at relaxing. I do way too much. Ask my boyfriend. He yells at me a lot.

I dance... amazingly! I love dancing! I miss dancing. I mean I can, but it's harder these days!

I sing... amazingly. Yeah I used that word twice. I'm just all around amazing I guess. Thank God i'm not modest. Pssh.

I sometimes... pee in the shower. Yeah gross, whatever. Don't judge me. Pregnancy & peeing are no joke. I literally pee every 2 minutes.

I cry... lots. My hormones & emotions are crazy right now.

I am not always... on time. I used to be extremely anal and punctual. For some reason, since I've been with my boyfriend, he's rubbed off on me. He likes to use the phrase "You can't rush perfection" or continues to tell me that the tortoise beat the hare. He's quite a comedian :)

I lose... my train of thought so easily!

I am confused... 99% of my days. Forreal.

I need... to clean out my spare room & prepare for baby B's arrival. 9 weeks!

I should... start packing up & head home.

Survey end time: 4:24. Wow only took me 10 minutes. 

Toodles lovies :)

3 months late!

I had not realized that I haven't updated this blog since April. Needless to say, I am now 31 weeks pregnant and definitely have started feeling the shitty aspect of being pregnant. Yes, everyone thinks being pregnant is so great and wonderful and magical and amazing. And there are times I can agree. But 98% of the time, I can't. What is great about being kicked in the ribs? Head butted in the bladder? Feeling like I've been kicked repeatedly in the crotch & am bruised? Leaking boobs? Swollen feet? Loss of appetite? Nausea? Stretch marks? And most important, try sleeping comfortably. Yes, I am aware the outcome of my misery and suffering is my beautiful little boy, but for me to say I LOVE BEING PREGNANT, is an understatement. Go ahead, judge me or disagree. Do I feel like a horrible person for feeling this way? Sometimes yes. Ok, most of the time yes. Because I realize there are women out there who would give ANYTHING to feel this way, and those women are the ones who can't have children. I take this pregnancy a day at a time and I do have my good days. Thank God for my amazing, wonderful, supportive, loving, helpful boyfriend. I couldn't do this without him!

Ok, enough of the Debbie Downer post. A lot has happened since my last blog. I've got 9 weeks to go until the baby is here. We found out we are expecting a little boy. His name is Bryce Pierre. (Pierre is his Daddy's middle name and Daddy want his little boy to have the same initials). I was kind of weary in the beginning with Brittany, Brent and Bryce. But it just seems to fit him so well now. We spend MONTHS finding a name. Every name I picked out was criticized. I wanted something unique and different. Since our baby is biracial, we ran into a lot of "different" names and "different" reactions. I wanted Daylan (Day-lin) Amare (A-mar-ee). But was told it sound too black. I gave up and told Brent, YOU PICK THE NAME! So he sat down, took him 2 minutes, and there you have it. Our girl name came to us SO easy. It really was such a hard time finding a boy name.

In June we traveled to Myrtle Beach for a family vacation. I got some great preggo pics & had such a good time. I made sure to protect my belly with SPF50 and the rest of my body with SPF 10. I look hella funny being tan with a BIG WHITE belly. We stayed from Saturday to Saturday. The weather was great. Enjoyed a lot of virgin Pina Colada's while watching my boyfriend slurp down Strawberry Margarita's. Visited the Ripley's Aquarium, Margaritaville, Carlos & Charlies, Barefoot Landing, Broadway @ the Beach & watched Fireworks. All in all, our trip was great. The car ride wasn't as bad as I expected. I only made boyfriend stop 2 times on the way there and 2 times on the way home to pee. I was so glad to be home & in my pillow covered bed after the week was done! (Don't mind my pastey whiteness, it was the first day at the beach! lol)

One major thing I forgot was us moving in together! We found a great apartment two blocks away from my Mom's house and in the town I grew up in. Everything is coming together great. We just need to clean out/organize the baby's room so we can set up his crib and get some sort of flow going. I have decided on pastel green, pastel blue, and brown for his nursery. I'm pretty much waiting on the babyshowers before I buy anything myself. I believe i'll be having at least 3 showers, so most of the bedding and decor will (hopefully) be bought for us. I sound confident and cocky about that lol. We will see! I don't have any apartment pictures, but I'll have to get some. Our kitchen is HUGE, the living room is HUGE, the bedrooms are decent & so is the bathroom. I just wish we had more storage space. This is definitely a good place to bring Bryce home but once he hits 12 months, a house will definitely be needed. Plus, I promised boyfriend he can have a "man cave".

Well that's really all the major fun and exciting things that have happened since I blogged last. The pregnancy is going good, baby seems to be healthy and fine. I hate my OBGYN office. But that in itself is a whole other blog post. That can be my agenda for tomorrow. Get ready for a full post of bitching! It's what I do best! :)

Not Eating for Two!

So one thing about this pregnancy that I promised myself, was that I was going to refuse to actually "eat for two". I'm insecure enough about my body and I really don't want to look at myself after giving birth and see the extra 50-70lbs i need to lose. That's a lot. I can honestly say I haven't been the BEST eater, but I haven't been over indulging. I'm 15 weeks pregnant, and knowing that in 2 weeks I'll be starting my 5th month, I'm happy to know that I'm still holding strong at 149-150lbs. When I got pregnant I weighted in at 147lbs. So a gain of 2-3lbs in 15 weeks is fine by me. I feel as though I'm losing weight everywhere but my Boobs, Butt and Belly. Triple B's lol.

This week I have decided to start eating lunch in the office (seeing as though my wonderful boyfriend bought our groceries on Sunday totalling $80) so that way I can save money & eat better. At my job, eating out everyday for lunch is very very common. Eating in the office, alone in your cubicle, is not. I've decided to keep a journal of the food I've consumed to see where I'm at lol. We'll start with yesterday.

Monday - Breakfast I had a little bowl of fruit loops & yogurt. Lunch I had a ham sandwich, pringles, string cheese, sliced pears, 2 pickles and a root beer. When I got home from work I CRAVED salt, so I had a handful of chips. For dinner, I had grilled chicken, asparagus and few french fries. All in all, it's not really different from my normal (not pregnant) diet. I did take 2 walks yesterday too as well. I really need to stick with exercising. I used to work out A LOT until I found out I was pregnant.

Today - Breakfast I had a little bowl of Cinnamon Toast Crunch. Lunch I had a left over chicken breast and asparagus, peaches, string cheese, a pickle, pringles and a root beer. Not sure what I'll have for dinner but probably one of my Stouffer's meals.

I am no longer going to indulge in the nastiness of fast food. I will allow myself one trip to Chick-Fil-A a week, or another place of my choice, but from now on, it's eating lunch in, alone at my desk. To me, it's not quite that bad. I normally work through lunch (which is an hour) and I can leave an hour early which clocks me out at 4:30 :) Well I'm salary so I don't really have to clock out lol.

Here are a few of my favorite choices of food since becoming pregnant! Snow Cones, Mini Cereals, Pringles, Pickles and Spaghetti & Meatballs from OLIVE GARDEN! (which is hilarious because pre-pregnancy, I was a weird individual & despised Spaghetti! lol) I have become quite obsessed with Olive Garden. I could eat there everyday if I could afford it. Bible.

It's still hard for me to believe that in 5 days, I will officially be 16 weeks pregnant. That is the end of my 4th month and beginning of my 5th. Baby Shaffer will be here before we know it! We go April 30th to find out if Baby Shaffer is a he or she. I can NOT wait! I'm really hoping it's a boy & I just feel it. I guess that's a mothers intuition :)

Enjoy the rest of your Tuesday lovelies! :)

13 Weeks - Our little peach :)

I hate to brag, but i have had such an easy pregnancy by far :) I've had the occasional spouts of nausea and I felt super tired in the beginning, but 13 weeks into this, I feel great!

Had a super busy weekend. Which included a trip to the ER for a little scare. Just turns out I have a UTI. I was hoping they maybe, just maybe, would do a sonogram on our little one to make sure everything looked good, but they didn't.

My next OBGYN appt is April 12th and I'll be at 17 weeks. Not too much longer until we figure out what our little Bambino is :) I cannot wait! My friend referred me to this Amazing place in Gaithersburg called Stork Vision, where they offer 2D, 3D and 4D images. You can go as early as 16 weeks for the gender, but I have decided to make an appt for 18 weeks. The packages are reasonably priced & you get a lot. This is something Brent and I have talked about and are so excited for! Everyone keeps saying, oh just wait 3-4 more weeks after your appt and find out, but it's our baby, it's my choice and let alone it being my first child, I'm going all out. I want all the memories I can have so I can share them with our little one as they get older.

So glad the weather has been great these past couple of days. I love sleeping with the windows open. Seems more peaceful. Or maybe it could be the ginormous body pillow i just bought from Wal Mart! Either way, sleeping has become my most favorite thing to do! I better enjoy it now!

I have become obsessed with TheBump.com and reading about everything on pregnancy. It's such a miracle and such an amazing thing to go through :) Here is an update on our little one from TheBump.com.

 

Your fetus is forming teeth and vocal cords... savor this, their non-functional phase. Baby is approaching normal proportions, with a head now only one third the size of the body. Intestines are in the process of moving from the umbilical cord to baby's tummy. (Much more convenient.)

Have a great week everyone! Hopefully I can find blogspot for dummies and learn how to spice my page up a little more!

First Blog!

This will probably be short & sweet until I can figure out the ins and outs of blogging. So if anyone (somehow) reads this, I am grateful for any suggestions or "how to's" of the blogging world :)

I'll start with a simple description of myself. I'm Brittany. I'm 25 (well i will be on the 11th!) and I found out almost 2 months ago, that I am expecting :) I am due September 24th. I am currently employed by First Data as an Analyst. Sounds so plain and bland, but trust me, I have too many jobs around here, therefore giving myself a title would be to complicated. My boyfriend and I have known each other since High School, so we have a few years under our belts. But only have been dating for a mere 4 months. I know I know. I'm sure everyone is thinking, "4 Months! and she's pregnant!" But regardless of the length we've been together, I am truly happy and so so excited for our future. Yes the baby was unexpected, but it has done nothing but brought us closer together with each other & with our families. I feel super lucky and blessed!

I'll write up some more tomorrow, but for now, I'll leave you with a picture of me and my awesome, loving, sweet & caring boyfriend.

Toodles :)