One More Year To Eternity

December 29th Carson and I celebrated our 3rd Anniversary!

Carson surprised me with a Flip recorder!- We'll use it to film the birth (kidding)

I can't believe it has already been 3 years since I married my best friend. I am so grateful I stumbled across him at a gas station of all places :) The Lord works in mysterious ways...I won't go into it, but it definitely wasn't just a coincidence that we met. I absolutely needed to meet Carson at that time and the Lord knew it. I think that is why things happened so quick. We only dated about 4 months before we were engaged. :)

These past years have been great! A list of some of the things we have experience the past 3 years together:

We have lived in 3 places, both go accepted into our educational programs, we have experienced job loss and also a new job (for Carson), position changes at work (for me), then stepping down after working 4 and a half years in management and switching stores, getting debt paid off, then adding some more (student loans- I guess it's a good one to have if we're to have some :)) hanging out with awesome friends and sharing our families with each other, enjoying the addition of 2 new nieces and 1 nephew, being able to travel (Disneyland, DC, Cruise to Mexico), helping each other through heart ache and sickness, church callings, Netflix changed our lives :), coming up with nicknames for each other, sharing the journey and excitement thus far in bringing a new member to our little family!

I couldn't ask for a better spouse to share all of lifes ups and downs with. LOVE YOU CARS!

Half way there!

This is kind of a late post. I am actually over half-way through my pregnancy...can't believe it! I am 22 weeks (about 5 and a half months).

We went to the doc for our 20 week ultrasound a couple weeks ago to check on the health of the baby and to verify that it was a boy....as you will see from the picture, it is in fact a boy! Hard to miss it :)

He is looking perfectly healthy as far as they can tell. Carson and I couldn't believe how much he has grown since our first sneak peek at 16 weeks!

They do want us to go back for another ultrasound to double check the heart. He was in a difficult position for the tech to get good, detailed views but from what she could see, it looked normal. So we may just do a 4D ultrasound when we go in cuz why not????

One other exciting happening: Not only have I started feeling the baby (first felt the "flutters" at 18 weeks) Carson was able to feel his first kick on Thanksgiving! What an awesome experience for the both of us! Since then, we have enjoyed feeling him move around before we go to bed (he's more active at night for some reason).

Halloween

For Halloween this year we were invited to a Murder Mystery Dinner-Party hosted by our good friend Leslie. This was held at our other friend's Jeff and Holi Chambers home up in Salt Lake.

It was a 20's themed mystery with a whole bunch of characters in the mafia and such. We had to figure out who killed the mayor of the town. I was Sher Ratton, a singer/bad business woman. Carson was Tiny Torrelli, a mafia leader.

I actually ended up being the murderer! I didn't know I had it in me...Carson seemed to have me pegged though :)

I had never participated in a murder mystery but have always wanted to! Thanks Leslie for putting it on! We had a BLAST!

It's a.......BOY!!!!

As I mentioned on my last post, we had someone from school scan me. At first the baby didn't cooperate, he was being very modest. The tech was finally able to sneak a peek. She said she's 90% sure it's a boy! 90% because he's small and was in an awkward position. But she was pretty darn sure...I mean 90% is pretty sure, though we will have our 20 week Dr's appt. next month and it'll be easier to see. Just a couple pics:

The last pic is hard to tell it's a boy...or hard to tell it's even a baby :) I think the image moved when she took the pic, but we were seeing it on the monitor and we could totally see what she was talking about and it definitely looked like a boy!

We are SO excited to have a boy! And this was the first time we got to see what's growing inside me...it's so surreal!

What do you think?

Today I was sitting in clinicals and my rotation this week shares a space with ultrasound. A few ultrasound tech's have offered to scan me but I haven't had a chance yet to do it and quite frankly it actually hasn't been very convenient even though I work pretty much directly with them.

But as I said this week I share an office with them and realized, "Oh, they can scan me like today!" So Carson is on his way over and we'll get our first view of our baby!

Originally I just wanted to just see the baby. I didn't want to find out today what we're having. I planned on waiting until our 20 week appointment at the Dr.'s office but Carson thinks we should. The sooner we find out, the sooner we can start planning.....I was kinda hesitant, but I gave in...I think we'll do it!

So quite possibly, if the tech can tell, we will be finding out the sex of the baby TODAY! I am 16 weeks which they are able to tell at this time.

So, what do you think? Boy? Girl? Let us know. We'll see if you're right!

The baby bump has emerged

Well I am 15 weeks and into the 2nd trimester. Just this last week I kinda started the "popping" process. It's kind of an awkward stage as I pretty much just feel fat. :)

I'm still feeling pretty darn good, knock on wood. My lack of energy has subsided quite a bit. That has been the hardest part. There have been a couple of tears shed over the stress of juggling work, school, and being pregnant; therefore, being exhausted but Carson has been quite supportive. I couldn't have a better partner.

It's crazy to think I'm over 3 months pregnant already...hard to fathom we'll be welcoming a new member to the family in only 6 months!

Things are sure going to change around here

Well, it is official. We are going to have a new addition to the Cullimore household....I am pregnant!

Originally we weren't going to start our family until after we both were finished with school but decided we could probably handle just one year juggling having a baby and going to school (with some convincing from my sister, Kristy). I don't know why, but she really wanted us to start having kids! haha To be honest, it didn't take much convincing. I have a lot of volunteered help from my family to help with watching the baby while we go to school and am so grateful for that.

I can't believe how easy it was for us to conceive. I figured we'd have a few months of "trying". Boy was I wrong! We immediately got pregnant! Fertile Mertile I guess.

I am currently 13 weeks. Due April 6th. We got to hear the heart beat yesterday. It was quite amazing. I haven't been able to think it's real until I actually heard that heart beat. It's crazy to think I have this little living being with it's own heart beat growing inside me!

I have been exceptionally lucky with my first trimester. I have not had any nausea. I feel super blessed. I don't know what I'd do with school and work if I was struggling with that.

I have been VERY tired though. I normally am tired anyway, but oh my gosh! I pretty much pass out at like 8 each night!

We are so thrilled to start our family and feel so blessed that Heavenly Father has allowed us to care for one of his children. I can't wait to see what all the different stages of pregnancy brings and can't wait for the little guy or girl to get here! (though I'm really not ready at all) :)