12 Weeks

How Far Along: 12 weeks

Size of Baby: Peach

Total Weight Gain/Loss: ¼ of a pound. A few of my blue jean pants and work pants are getting alittle snug. I can still wear them, but sometimes I just unbutton them!

Maternity Clothes: Not yet

Gender: No idea… not even a guess at this point!

Movement: Nope

Food Cravings: Ice cream cones, pizza and pastas.. anything Italian!!

What I Miss: Deli meat. I know how weird that sounds. Before I got pregnant, I ate a turkey and cheese sandwich everyday for lunch. I know all I have to do is heat up the meat, but I would rather have no meat than hot meat. That’s just gross to me.

Sleep: Some nights are good. Some nights are not great. The first 9 weeks I slept like the dead. I guess I am not requiring as much. I am having CRAZY dreams. I tell Jason that every night I feel like I am going to sleep only to tune into a series of short movies. The dreams are so vivid and real! Some have been entertaining and others have been terrifying.

Symptoms: Some tiredness during the day and especially during the early evening; Hungry a good bit now; The constant nausea has turned into occasional nausea and just a gagging feeling (not all day, but at least everyday) . . . overall, feeling pretty good now!

Best Moment This Week: Getting to see the baby at our 11 week appointment for the second time and hear the heart beat! It is amazing how much the baby has grown in just 4 short weeks! (The heartbeat was 171 at the 11 week appointment- we will see if the old wives tale holds true about high heartbeats and girls!!)

What I am Looking Forward To: The end of the first trimester!!

A Sweet Surprise

Jason and I have some pretty big news we have been keeping kind of a secret . .

As if 1 confirmation isn't enough .... I did 2 more.

We can't wait to welcome Baby Gold in early March! We are thrilled and blessed beyond anything we ever deserve :)

"You will show me the path of life; In your presence is fullness of joy; At your right hand are pleasures forevermore." - Psalm 16:11

 

Put These Books on Your MUST READ List!

I have not been very good this summer about reading. I have tried to get into a couple of books, but I am going through a stage where nothing is really holding my interest. However, that changed last week. I have been dying to read Angie Smith's book I Will Carry You.

I don't even feel competent enough to give this book its proper review. All I can tell you is to read it as soon as possible. Mercy, what a woman of faith. She is one of my absolute favorite writers and this book did not disappoint. 

I also read The Hiding Place this weekend. 

Yet another book that I can't quite put my feelings into words. Amazing story. This book is one that I will read time and time again. I have already lent it out, but Beth you can have it next!! (You will LOVE it!)

Awesome books that will not disappoint! I read both within a week :)

Last Day

Friday was our last full day in the city, and we had a bunch still left to do! 

 Friday morning our group decided to part company. My mom, Clary and me decided that we wanted to go to Madame Tussauds wax museum. None of us had ever been and we really wanted to go! After that, we wanted to head to the Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met). The other group wanted to spend their morning back in China Town doing some more bargaining for goodies! We were all to meet back up at the hotel late in the afternoon because we were going to Brooklyn to have dinner with my great aunt's son and his family who actually live there. We took a car ride over and were able to get very close to Ground Zero. Very neat. 

I took a TON of pics at the wax museum, but only included my favorites! HA!

Best President . . .ever.

This is supposed to be Donald Trump, but it looked nothing like him to me.

Very special tribute to 9/11 firemen

 Mama and J Cash

Biggie!

 Entrance to the MET. . Very busy this day. HUGE facility!

 Loved these gold crosses.

This is Henry VIII suit of armor. Back this Spring I got into watching the Tudors on Netflix. I really wanted to see this once I found out that it was there. So neat.

Rebuilding Ground Zero

 Streets of Brooklyn! Major change of pace from NYC, being only about 30 mins away, to this . . bliss!

We ate at the best pizza place I have ever been to. Which, honestly, isn't saying alot, but it was GOOD. So good, in fact, that its frequent visitors are J*yZ and Bey*nce! 

This was one of the best trips I have ever been on! I can't wait for the girls to get back!! It may be awhile though ;)

Day 2

Day 2 of our trip was shopping day!

Lots of pictures follow!

We were able to hit Times Square, Rockefeller Center (for lunch), and Broadway. That night we went to see a show - Sister Act. It was so good! I wasn't sure that I would at all like a Broadway Show- or have the patience to sit through 2.5 hours of nothing but singing, but I enjoyed it so much! It will definitely be a must for us when we go back. I could not get any photos inside because they do not allow cameras, but I at least got one shot downtown at night. It really is a city that never sleeps!

This is the only picture that really needs explanation. While we were visiting, the Today Show was doing their  summer concert series. The guest for the week we were there was . . Justin Bie*er. This picture was on a Thursday at noon. These teenage girls and their mamas had been sitting/camping out since the previous Monday. I stopped and talked to one girl and her mama and they were so sweet! The mother just kept saying that it was a labor of love . . the things you do for your children! Anyway, we got the biggest kick out of them!

 

ChiTown

This is still part of the travel day (Day 1) of the trip. 

 We landed in NYC around noon and went strait to the hotel to drop our bags off. We couldn't get in because it wasn't quite time to check in, so we left our bags for safe keeping and went off to China Town! It was actually rainy and alittle cold this day! We took the subway, which is another one of my strong dislikes! Luckily this is the only time we had to ride it. We took a car the rest of the time we were there and it is SO WORTH the extra $. 

 Rainy China Town and Hotel Room (super nice by the way! I am a stickler for clean rooms.)