At Your Request, Brianna.

Well, it's been more than enough time since the last time I posted. For that, I apologize. I've had a lot of really great things happen in my life since then, and now it's so overwhelming to post about them all. Let's start with a few basics since I last posted on 9/5/12.

9/24/12 - Josh and I celebrated our 1 year anniversary. I can't believe it's been over a year since that day! It was one of the happiest days of my life and I'm so blessed every day to have married my best friend. I love him!

10/16/12 - I turned 29 and my husband was away on a business trip in India.  I had a nice, quiet celebration with some on my best girl friends (Megan Roberts and Heidi Kloempken) at an Ecuadorian restaurant in NE Minneapolis. Then I went and spent some time with Jamey and Kate. It was a good day. Lots of surprises at work...flowers, cupcakes delivered by bike from my brother, old friends stopping in (Megan Roberts' parents!) and a beautifully decorated bakery...thanks Meg!

10/18/12 - I left on a week long trip to meet my love in France. Josh had a layover in Paris, so we met up  over there as a belated anniversary/birthday trip. It was a wonderful week spent looking at the sights (i'd been there before, but it was really fun to go back with the one I love and show him around a bit!) and being in love.  We came home and a few weeks later....

11/11/12 - We found out we're having a baby! It was the morning of Gran's 75th birthday party and I just had to know..took the test and YEP...it was positive.  Baby Janos is Due July 19th, 2013. Let the baby preparations begin!

-- My first trimester went well. I wasn't really very sick, but i did have massive fatigue and just a slight nauseous/icky feeling for most of it. Not really any barfing or anything like that, but I did lose 7 lbs due to lack of appetite. I had a few struggles, but nothing horrible. All in all, it was a pretty good first trimester and I feel blessed about that!  
-- My second trimester has been going great. I'm 15 weeks and 2 days. I'm getting eager to start really showing so that it feels more real to me. Aside from severe back pain when i sleep and recurring mild headaches, I feel normal and it's slightly unsettling.  The Doctor said everything seems fine, so there's nothing to worry about, but until I can feel the baby and see it growing, it's a little unreal. (Aside from the fact that I got to hear baby's tiny little heartbeat! It was incredible!) I have the hiccups and heartburn a lot, and I'm not sleeping well at night. Other than that, I feel pretty good. I have energy and a little bit of ambition. I have my appetite back, but I still only crave things like fruit and string cheese. Really healthy things. For breakfast I had two hard-boiled eggs, a piece of sting cheese, an apple and some yogurt. I had the same breakfast yesterday only I added a rice cake with peanut butter on it, and didn't have the cheese.  It's funny how much healthier I eat now compared to when I was just me living in this frame of a body.  I don't really consciously choose better foods, they just sound the most appetizing to me. nothing else sounds good. funny!

I thought I'd also give updates on what the house looks like.  You'll have to excuse the mess, as I didn't clean before snapping these photos. The quality of photo isn't good either...I just took them with my phone. But you get the gist of it! 

The Kitchen!

We hope to replace the counter tops, floors, and appliances in the next couple of years. And the light fixtures...they gotta go. Hideous!

There are two big doors to the left of this photo. Sliding door that leads to the deck.

The Basement! We changed the color to one called "Ivory Brown" and it's a much nicer color to take in. The greenish yellow from before was AWFUL!

Please excuse the mess. Josh's China trip remnants and messy couch blankets.

Pickles says Hi!

The Bar! This is where we keep our small keg of brown ale and all the soda and water I can drink! it's a pretty neat feature of our home. We love having a little bar. It's kinda fun for entertaining!

So I guess for now that's a pretty good start for an update. I'll try to get around to posting more often. I know some of you really like to read what's going on in my life...forgive me for not being diligent. I hope this satisfies for now.  I will try to post some pics of the France trip and other projects we do around the house, namely -- the baby's room! As always, thanks for reading and I hope you have a wonderful day!

imma take a nap. 

xo
Megan