17 weeks and 5 days!

What a busy weekend!  We had our closest family members over on Sunday to celebrate Easter and we had such a great time.  Towards the end of the day it hit me that next Easter we will be celebrating with a 6 month old in tow! WOW! As crazy as that sounds to me, I can't wait!  We decided to tell our family the names we have picked out, but wanted to make it memorable :)  We wrote several boy and girl names on slips of paper and divided the family into teams.  Each team had to come up with what they thought we had chosen for boy and girl first and middle names.

                                                            My grandma, sister and cousin working hard to pick out baby names!

Thomas mom, sister, brother and sister's boyfriend actually got both names exactly correct :-) We will keep the names mum for now...sorry!

Thomas and I have been pretty busy trying to check off some things on our "house to-do list" before the little one arrives.  This week we will be installing two new a/c and furnace units and we had new carpet installed at the end of last week.  Still have so much to do, hoping we can manage to get it done before September!  We were able to clear out the room that will be the nursery- so that will be exciting to get working on, if only I could figure out how to decorate it :/

We had out 17 week appointment on Thursday and little one had a strong heartbeat of 150.  We go on May 3rd for our official ultrasound, can't wait for this!  We haven't seen baby since about 9 weeks so it will be incredible to see the transformation.  Hoping we can stand our ground and not find out the sex of this little one.  I may have to have Thomas duct tape my mouth closed so I can't say "Yes! We want to know!"

I've been feeling pretty good.  Crazy thing: nausea and vomiting have hit me full force every since I entered the second trimester.  I didn't have any vomiting during the first trimester and thought I was going to be one of the lucky ones and not have to experience it! Wrong!  I think I may be changing my previous "boy" prediction to "GIRL!"