Hey There, Second Trimester!

Today is the first day of my second trimester.  Yay!  Along with my energy ::hopefully:: it brought a day complete with 75 degree temperatures, which meant that, at least for today, I was able to trade in my increasingly uncomfortable dress slacks for a nice comfy dress.

In honor of entering the blissful part of pregnancy (can you tell I am trying to will myself into feeling better?) I figured I would update on where I've been pregnancy-wise and all that loveliness....

• Clearly, since I was pregnant back with Trevor in '08-'09 I forgot everything about what it was like to be pregnant.  Like, everything.  I may have even had to text some of my mom-friends with what are typical first-time-mom questions.  (thank you for your gentle responses, ladies)  This is definitely a downside to there being close to 4 years between kids.  
• I lied, I didn't forget everything.  The one thing I didn't forget was how terrible morning sickness is.  It is cruel and unusual punishment.  That is one memory that had no issue flooding back...ugh.  
• Speaking of all day morning sickness, the one thing that was a bummer about this go-round was the two weeks of bliss that we had between finding out we were expecting Trevor and when I started living in my bathroom.  Apparently, when you are not stalking your cycle and find out that you are expecting because you accidentally look at the calendar and realize you are late means that (at least in our case) you find out you are pregnant on a random Thursday night and are feeling like poo by Saturday.  Yay for finding out at almost six weeks pregnant.  Sike.
• This time we didn't announce our pregnancy until much later....and I loved it!  It was nice to keep our little secret to ourselves.  The downside was that I am a horrible liar and had to come up with some lame-o excuses for not going out much, or having to bail on stuff last second.  
• It is true that you are more exhausted with your second child...so true.  Taking it easy is a joke.  
• Hopefully, I will also fall into the class of people who don't gain as much weight during their second pregnancy.  I am currently  7lbs down from my pre-pregnancy weight.  I have been able to get back into the groove of going to the gym a couple of times a week recently, so hopefully that will help as well.  
• Am I showing? Well, it is still too soon to tell.  Before I snapped these pictures this morning I would say 'no' or that my "bump" is just a 'pre-existing condition' but after getting these of the memory card this morning, I'd have to say this is a pretty rounded 'pre-existing condition'.....so, officially in that awkward in-between stage.  I asked Shaner what he thought when I emailed him this today (I think my exact wording was "Baby, or BLT from lunch?", hopefully he will answer **correctly**.  

And so, here we are.......13 weeks 4 days pregnant:  

full disclosure

My initial thought when it came to documenting this pregnancy was that because Shaner wasn't going to be here for most of it, that I would start a separate blog, for him, close friends and family to see where I bared it all...the good the bad and the ugly.  The same thought went for how I would document blog-wise, Trevor and my adventures while he was away...I even had a super-fabulous blog title all secured for it too.  But in the last few days it has hit me...why?  Why do I need to segregate what is going on during the deployment from the regular run-down (allbeit usually late) that I do on here?  (Truth be told, I go down the rabbit hole bad enough with him away as it is)....Even with Shaner rocking and rolling somewhere else in the world, we are still a family, and this is our life, separation and all.  So...full disclosure is the policy from here on out....

We just have to smile and keep pedaling along, right?

Right.  

Trevor in the Snow

We finally got some snow for the season Friday afternoon into Friday evening.  We got about 2 inches, 3 in some spots depending on the wind.

We went outside to shovel and play and Trevor had a great time.  It was nice to finally put our Christmas gifts from last year (shovels) to good use!  Thanks Mom and Dad!

I am way too clumsy to trust myself with the nice camera outside, so I apologize for the cell phone picture.  

2013….let the fun begin!

We knew that 2013 was going to be a challenging year for our family with Shane’s deployment taking up most of the year. 

But, apparently that wasn’t enough excitement for us……..