"Only Your Pride is keeping you from a great family vehicle"

Just wanted to send a shout out to my bro in law for his words of wisdom - this goes out to C-leb!
Even though I'm not fully on board I've a new appreciation for family transport.

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12 Weeks!

We are now 12 weeks and finally almost done with this adventure of a first trimester. Its getting more and more exciting everyday, especially as the nausea and exhaustion is finally starting to slow down, just a touch. I even have started to have a little baby bump, either its that or the purely macaroni and cheese diet I lived off for two weeks straight when nothing else was tolerable. ha. Either way, its fun =) The other night at work I was finished eating my lunch at around 0300 am, since that's when you eat on this crazy night shift schedule. I had a fruit by the foot, (remember those from packing lunches back in elementary school, I love them ha) that I wanted to save for a little bit later, like a pick me up around 0500 am. Well when I went to get it out of the drawer I put it in, it was gone and I said "Who ate my fruit by the foot?" and one of the nurses turned to the other and said "Chris, I told you not to eat that...I told him I was just kidding its totally fine. Then the girl turned again and said "you just stole food from a pregnant girl, that was for her baby." He suddenly was so serious and apologetic and said "I am so sorry I stole food from your baby, now its my fault if the baby is malnourished." We all started laughing, but he kept apologizing and now we just tease about it everyday. Silly boys and their awkwardness around pregnant girls. =)

First Ultrasound

We went to our first appointment on January 5th, I was nine weeks then. We had an ultrasound performed. Since about six weeks on to tell you the truth, probably the most miserable I have ever felt. The nausea was overwhelming and then of course comes the vomiting, and then the exhaustion. With all that just to say, all the excitement you want to be feeling is a little cloudy in these first weeks. Anyway,, actually seeing a live image of the baby was so cool, it made all the yuckiness kind of ok. It finally made you really feel pregnant. Seth was sitting in there with me too and it was so awesome to look over and see him smiling and just as happy as I was. We still won't know what we are having for quite a few more weeks but its all so exciting. We will be sure to keep you posted on how Baby Cain is doing.

Still Catching Up...

So in July Seth and I packed and up and moved to Nashville, TN. I got a job in the pediatric emergency department and Vanderbilt Children's Hospital and Seth was closer to the people he was working with for Faceless International. We stayed with Julia and Stephen for almost three months until we found a place of our own in East Nashville. We moved into our place in October, its a cute cottage style house built in the 1930's. Old wood floors, crown molding, sweet deck overlooking downtown, 2 bedrooms, 2 bath, its cute. We are having a lot of fun here, it is a neat city.

September
We celebrated my 25th birthday, still can't believe I am a quarter of a century old. Time flies. We had a lot of fun! Seth took me out to a fabulous dinner, then had some awesome gifts and then we ended the night with a relaxing glass a wine by the fire, we got a chiminea =)

 October
We finally had a roommate reunion actually back at a The Swamp. All the girls back together in Gville. It was lots of fun. We had our own tailgate on campus, then went to the game, (fun but bad ending gators). Always good to get together with those girls, we always have so much fun. I miss them all! 

December 11, 2010
So on my way home from work one cold December morning, I made a special stop on my way home. We were going to a friends Christmas party that evening so I had to figure a few things out. Once I got home, both Seth and Diesel were already awake, having some coffee. I took a shower, had some breakfast and got ready for bed, my usually routine. This time though I had a special surprise for all of us. I was in our bathroom in our room and came out yelling to Seth, "I need you to come fix something." This wasn't really too unusual since our house was built in the 30's, ha. So Seth came running in and I had left him something on the counter. He came out holding the test reading "positive" saying with a big smile on his face, "I can't fix this." So exciting, we are going to have a baby. We both still can't believe it. =)

Christmas
Sharing the news with our families was very exciting, but of course always interesting. We got into Fort Myers to my parents at around 6 am Christmas morning after driving through the night from Nashville (really Seth did most the driving). We surprised them, they weren't expecting us until about 8 pm that night. We really couldn't wait to tell them, especially so my nausea didn't beat me to it. We gave my parents each a package, "a treat from Nashville," Seth called it. My parents couldn't believe their eyes when they each opened a personalized onesie for Grandpa and Grandma for Baby Cain. They were so excited and surprised and tearful and overjoyed. The trick was my parents both had to keep the secret until later when all my brothers and sisters got there so we could tell them all together, they got onesies too. This is where it gets good. Michael and Janine and Chris and the kids all come over and the boys are out throwing the football. I walk out into the yard, like always and hold up my hands to my Dad to throw me a pass. Standing out there are Seth, Michael and Chris. Dad looks at me ready to throw the ball and pauses saying, actually yelling, across the yard "I can't throw a football to a pregnant girl." Needless the say, my face turns bright red and both Michael and Chris are looking at me going "What? You're pregnant?" They too were excited, just not exactly how we planned out to break the news. Always interesting with my family, it was funny, Dad still can't believe he's the one that spilled the beans, he was certain it was going to be Mom, since he is convinced its her that can't keep a secret. So funny. Later that morning we went over the Seth's family and shared the news too. They all opened their onesies and were all surprised together like we planned. Christmas was fun, but a short trip since we had to get back to Nashville for work.

Lets play catch up

The first week of March 2010, Seth and I began our new adventure and moved just outside Philadelphia, PA to Chester Springs, where we would reside for the next 5 months. We were staying with some of our favorite people, Michael, Janine, Parker, and at the time the newest addition Reagan. I was going to be travel nursing and Seth was beginning full time work with Faceless International. I actually took a position at Michael's hospital, which as you can imagine was interesting, but fun =) I was working in the Emergency Department at Brandywine Hospital. When I first started there we kept it on the down low that I had any relation with any administration. However, its not exactly the biggest hospital so you could only guess I found myself both running into Michael, the CFO in the hallways, the cafeteria, and even found him on pictures on the hall billboards when standing with my fellow nurses. Needless to say, our secret didn't last long. But the initial rumors in my department were quite funny...I was there as a mole to administration, or I was the niece of the CEO, and so on. Quite funny. I really enjoyed working there though, met a lot of awesome people, it was a great department and hospital.

We had so much fun hanging out with our niece and nephew. Parker loved hanging out with his uncle Seth or as he called him, his "Guncle" or "Buckle". Parker loved Diesel too, whenever we would get home from running errands, Parker always would run into the house looking for "Guncle" and racing to let the dogs out, both Jack and "Dee-el" =) so cute. While we were there we saw lots of firsts for Reagan, she sure did grow up fast. They both did. Saw Reagan rollover, start to crawl and then even start to stand. So fun.  Parker looks like so much like Michael its crazy. Of course you know Janine and I had the best times of our life. I love that girl. We had so much fun together, all our trips to target and the mall and chick-fil-a and then target again, ha. And our cooking experiences, made some special banana bread didn't we? =) I miss living there! I miss all of them! We love you guys!

 

Seth painted Reagan's room, so talented =)