Did you feel that?

So, I'm sure as you've read, you know how much I have wanted Matt to feel our little girl moving around in my belly. Last night, he finally felt his little baby girl kicking around in there!

We were laying in bed watching the season finally of Grey's Anatomy (wow is all I have to say about that show!). She was moving around a whole lot so I just had Matt lay his hand on my stomach and wait it out. She had one big kick and I looked at him and said "did you feel that?" He had a huge smile on his face.

Every day this whole pregnancy is becoming more and more real to us and I think since Matt can feel her moving in there it's becoming more real to him as well.

22 weeks!

As of today I am 22 weeks along! I cannot believe I am more than half way through this pregnancy. It is going way too fast. I am cherishing every moment of it though. I do have to say that since being out of the 1st trimester, I absolutely love being pregnant! The 1st trimester was pretty rough, but I feel amazing every day and knowing what's going on inside my body brings me such joy.

My stomach is pretty hilarious. It starts off each day as a cute little baby bump and then as I go through out the day it seriously doubles in size. It makes me laugh quite a bit. I get so bloated, I don't feel sick or anything, I just gets big with my food then I sleep and it gets smaller again.

I have to say that this past week my stomach has just popped! It is definitely growing and I love seeing it. I was worried that I wasn't going to be okay with getting bigger at the beginning of the pregnancy, but now I love looking pregnant.

This little girl of ours is a mover! She is so active. It is so amazing sitting here and just feeling her move around in my belly. I love it. It is truly one of coolest, kind of strangest, feeling I have ever felt. I cannot wait until Matt can feel her move. I have a feeling it will be soon. One of the most precious things to me is when Matt and I will be hanging out and he just lays his hand on my belly. He is going to be an amazing daddy. I cannot wait to see him with our little girl. He is definitely going to be wrapped around her finger. I have a feeling I will cry every time I see him with her for the first little while.

This next week is going to be a bit crazy, hopefully I can keep up. This weekend is my birthday so we have a couple of family celebrations to go to. My sister-in-law and her son will be coming down on Sunday for a week so we will be hanging out with them every night taking in as much of them as we can in a week. Matt and I will be going to register some time this week, taking Jenni (sister-in-law) so we make sure we register for only the necessary. We are so excited to be able to see her and be able to spend time with them.

Here are a couple pictures from 21 weeks:

Take a look at our little girl!

19 week ultrasound

Waving hi to her mommy and daddy!

Her cute little feet

Our little bean at about 8 or 9 weeks

It's a....

GIRL!!! We're having a beautiful, very active baby girl! The ultrasound was the most amazing thing I have ever seen. To see God's work that He is still perfecting every day on a screen right in front of me was breath-taking!

The ultrasound technician said she hadn't seen a baby that active in a long time! Apparently we're going to need help keeping up with this little one! So, everyone keeps asking us if we have though of names yet. We decided that because we found out that we were having a girl on Cinco de Mayo that we would give her a Mexican name in honor of the holiday. Guadeloupe it is!! It is just a joke but we had the technician laughing pretty hard when we told her that. We are very excited to be expecting a precious baby girl. I think I mentally had myself prepared for a little boy and all the sporting activities that went along with a boy, but I keep telling myself that we can have a very athletic little girl, if she so chooses that. Right now I am trying to decide what theme I want to go with in her room now that I can actually start thinking about that. It is a tough decision! I have looked at tons of different ideas and everything is just so darn cute!

Anyway, have I said how amazing my husband is before? Because he is pretty darn amazing. This past weekend was our 5 year anniversary and he surprised me with a trip back to Islamorada (an island in the Keys). We went back to the same resort we went to for our honeymoon. It was such a relaxing and much needed trip. I was so thankful to get to spend time with my hubby and only my hubby. We limited our cell phone usage, except for emergencies, so that we could truly focus on each other. We had a blast.. Matt got to go fishing while I spend some time at the spa and relaxed by the pool. We also went kayaking and bike riding and laid out on the beach. I was so incredibly sad to come back and have to get back into the grind of life but I certainly do cherish the times we get to spend together.

Just a thought... Just when you start to get into the grind of life and the mundane routine of it all, we get comfortable and sometimes forget to thank God for His awesome works. Then He makes Himself so incredibly clear with his day to day miracles. Don't forget to thank God every day for what you have and what you don't. He is amazing and will reveal Himself to you when you least expect it!

I will post pictures of the ultrasound later when Matt can show me how. I am sure I could figure it out but I would prefer not to break anything!

Tomorrow is the big day!

So, tomorrow is the big day! We hopefully find out the sex of our little baby! We are so stinkin' excited. I'm a little nervous and trying to guess what we are having. Everyone keeps asking me what I think it is...I have no idea! How am I supposed to know! Either way, boy or girl we are so excited and can't wait to find out.