Our Family of 3: May 2013

Thursday, May 30, 2013

March?

As I started going through pictures from the month of march, I was surprised that I had barely any! Nothing has really happened out of the ordinary. In fact I think these three pictures that I found from this month really sums up our life right now.

Mom, Dad, and Kody (who was also sleeping before he heard me moving around) exhausted!

Jeremy and I enjoying a night together on separate laptops

Mom eating mint-chocolate chip ice cream while playing sudoku on her new phone.

Wow! What a life we live!

Luckily we did get a little photo shoot in for week 30 of the pregnancy!

Kody has been really funny about the pregnancy. I totally believe he knows something is up. He gets really jealous of any kids that come over, he is very protective of me, and seems very interested in my ever growing belly. It will be interesting to see how he reacts when she arrives!

Good news for the month: Only 10 more weeks to go!!!

Second Trimester Update

It has been so nice this trimester to feel a little better. The nausea started going away towards the beginning of this trimester and I'm starting to gain weight. Never thought I would be excited about that! Each doctor's visit that I get on the scale and the number goes up is such a weird feeling. I'm torn between the feeling of "yay this is healthy" and "crap I'm going to have a lot to loose!"

I would have to agree with the large majority of women who say this is the best trimester. I'm starting to show to the point where it doesn't just look like I've put on some belly weight. I'm embracing the cute baby bump! I was grateful that the move came during this trimester because I felt well enough to get all the packing and cleaning done and had enough energy for all the late nights and early mornings Jeremy and I pulled to get everything done before leaving Rexburg. I think I might have over done it a little since I had a little medical scare right when we got back to California, but nothing that a little rest didn't fix.

I have still been experiencing some symptoms just to remind me that I am in fact pregnant.

#1 Back pain: I was surprised that this started so soon because my belly isn't big yet but my doctor has explained other factors that contribute. My fear is that this will only get worse. I pray that it will just stay the same!
#2 Acne! I noticed some skin changes in the first trimester but my poor skin has gotten so much more broken out this trimester. Another blessing of living with my mom is that she helps me take care of it...what would I do without her! Jeremy is constantly reassuring me that my skin looks great...I'm lucky to have such a sweet husband.
#3 Heartburn: Another symptom that I was surprised came on so soon! It isn't horrible yet but I never really got heartburn before so I am hating it! This is another symptom that I hope doesn't get worse! If it does than I hope that means she will come out with a lot of hair!

Each week I get emails from babycenter.com that tell me about the development of Baby Evans. It always gives the approximate size and correlates that to a fruit of vegetable The beginning of the second trimester (week 15) was an apple. With a drawer of apples in the fridge we couldn't resist a little photo shoot!

Month Four

Month Five

Month Six

We couldn't be more excited for our little apple to arrive!

My 23rd Birthday!

The Saturday before my birthday I was up early working on my latest project of organizing mom's new office space. Jeremy had left bright and early to go surfing for the day and so I figured I would start out early to see how much I could get done. I totally forgot about this lunch that mom said she was going to at Charlene's and had invited me to go with her too. So imagine my surprise when mom says we have to leave in 15 minutes. I'm deep in the middle of paperwork, pictures, fabric, etc. and I had't showered or even brushed my teeth. Mom tried to talk me out of showering but after smelling myself I figured it was a necessity. This meant doing my make-up in the car which of course ended up spilling all over me. To say the least, I was a mess.

On the drive over I got a text that was a little confusing. I read it out loud to my mom to see if she understood and she blew it off but I was a little suspicious. Then we started to drive down Charlene's street and I saw some familiar cars.

Me: "Mom, is something happening at Charlene's?"

Mom: "What are you talking about?"

Me: "Because if there is some surprise happening that I don't know about I'm going to be totally bugged and embarrassed."

Mom: "Karlee that's pretty presumptuous of you to think that."

She was totally convincing and I felt pretty dumb. But of course I was right to feel suspicious The door opened and there was group of some of my favorite women there to surprise me. And I was surprised! Especially to see Katie and Michelle who had flown in just for this! It was a fantastic party and I felt very loved and spoiled. There was food, dessert, a handmade quilt to be tied by all those who were there, and books for me and Leila. Such a great party! I'm so spoiled!

"Mom...I knew it!"

So surprised to see Kaite and Michelle!

Decor

Opening presents

My moms working on the super cute ladybug quilt!

Baby Bumps...only one is real!

And of course cake time...gotta love the BUNT!

I was also able to hang out with Michelle that night before she had to jet back to Utah.

Can you tell its the middle of the night?!

On the day of my birthday, Jeremy took the day off and we went to the San Francisco Zoo. I LOVE zoos and so I was very excited for this surprise especially since I have never been to this zoo. We were some of the only people there without kids and one guy even commented that we were starting pretty early gesturing to my stomach. But I guess we are just kids at heart! It was so much fun!

Gorillas!

This big guy sat on his haunches and stared down the people watching him the whole time we were there. I would not like to be stuck in a cage with him!

This guy, on the other hand, was very friendly. (It said on the sign that this gorilla and another one like to tease the big guy.) he stuck out his tongue at me and wiggled it so I did it back. Then he did it again. This happened several times...so cute!

Of course I had to see the lions!

This monkey was pretty cool looking...it also had a blue bum!

Jeremy with all the penguins

I was amazed with the hippo...I had never seen one and it was huge!

Cool story. We were walking around and saw these two bald eagles completely in the open. I thought they were fake but as we got closer we realized they definitely were not! Turns out each of them have some injuries that prevent them from flying away but the zoo takes care of them. So cool!

These snuggling bears are sisters. They had a cool rescue story too but I can't remember the details now!

I made Jer pose on the grizzly since I had already posed on two other animals! He's a trooper!

We stopped to each the lunch we pack on a bench by a tank of seals. I wanted to sit in the sun since it was little chilly but it turns out this was the best place! The seals put on a show for us during our whole lunch!

Crazy thing is both of these seals are blind! The zoo brought them here after they were found with serious wounds (one had a gunshot to the head).They have rehabilitated them and since they cannot return to the wild they keep them here. This was one of my favorite exhibits!

We loved the koalas too! Amazing fact: how koalas give birth is crazy! The baby grows inside the mom like other other mammals but when the baby is ready it just crawls down the birth canal it's self and buries itself in it's mother's pouch. Sounds a lot simpler than how we have to do it!

Flamingos! We matched!

The monkey cages are really tall. Earlier we had looked at them from down below but you can also view them from a higher up deck. So glad we went up there. So many cute monkeys that stay up there including this guy. He was totally passed out on a ledge. Livin' the life!

At the very end we got to catch a giraffe feeding. We got to get right up close to them! It was amazing! Perfect way to end the trip!

We had to be back for Jeremy's volleyball practice and then quickly rushed back home to help get everything ready for dinner. I was very spoiled to have my mom make me a delicious dinner and Jeremy got creative with the dessert. Yummy!