It's a Girl!

SO i wanted to post this the day we found out but our scanner wasn't working and then i was EXTREMELY busy with homework. and i just finally got the scanner to work from micah's computer so i can put up the ultrasound pictures yay! when we did the ultrasound she didn't want to turn her face so we didn't get a good look at her but i'm sure she's beautiful! i only saw a profile but it was still so amazing.

here's the heartbeat... nice and healthy

here's her little girl parts

here she has her hands under her chin you can see the ears and jar aren't her little arms precious

this is kinda the same with her hands under her chin but you can see her little fingers

Anniversary

This last weekend Micah and I spent some time together to celebrate our anniversary. it wasn't actually our anniversary but it was the only weekend that would work to get some time away just us. it ended up being a great weekend. Micah on thursday and friday made up some drill in lincoln and we stayed the night with my brother and sister in law. on friday micah was done around 12:30 with drill so we thought we might as well make our way to omaha. the short 40 something miles ended up taking forever because they decided to shut down the interstate and take all 3 lanes and make them all get off at one exit so traffic was back up for miles and it took almost 2 hours to get to omaha. o well once we got to town we stayed in a hotel that look like a old fort or castle it was kinda fun.
omaha has a fun little section downtown that has a bunch of restaurants and cool stores, called the old market so we walked around there and found an awesome leather shop and candy store. then we went out to eat at a place that has pool and brews their own root beer so micah was happy it was a very nice place. we found a huge movie theater close to our hotel and saw monsters vs aliens in 3d becuase the other one we wanted to see was sold out but it was really funny. all in all it was a great eveningthe next morning we went to the Henry Dorrly zoo. we talked to a bunch of the zoo keepers and got the inside scoop about some of the animals and the gorillas were really active chasing and hitting each other. it was entertaining and one even came up and hit the bubble window we were in.

Army News

so Micah had drill this weekend and they gave more updated information about his units deployment. it's both exciting and scary. Good news they won't be gone for 18 months instead they are gone for 12! very happy about this! and he won't be leaving until october instead of september which gives me another month with him before and 6 more months afterward. so thats awesome.
he found out where he'll be and what he'll be doing. he'll be in northern iraq and is going to be the line medic on convoys which is kind of scary because the trucks are one of the more dangerous jobs because of IED's and stuff. and i guess northern iraq is kind of a hot spot at the moment. maybe it will settle down in the coming months but still scary to know. pray now for protection of him and his unit awhile they are over, i earlt start won't hurt a thing.
some more good news Micah got promoted back to E3 which is great. a little pay increase and higher ranking is always nice. plus they said he will most likely make E4 before they are deployed also good news. so thats what he has told me for now we'll see what new things will happen in the months to come. love you guys

busy day!

Well i've been keeping busy... i'm thinking about how i want to convert the guest room to accommodate a crib and such for when the baby because we most likely will stay in our place at which we are now. so i cleaned our room and rearranged so last week i rearranged the guest room with a little more today and i used my sewing machine for the first time today made a band that can go over pre pregnancy pants that i can't zip all the way. it's been fun but frustrating.



Guest Bedroom before was kinda used for storage and get stuff out of the way. we've never had people visit us so never had a reason to use it.


Guest Bedroom after rearraged and cleaned. beautiful! i'm trying to figure out what to do with my lounge i made a couple years back because i have to put the crib there! ha


i don't have a before picture but this is rearanged and cleaned as well i think it looks nice.


another view of our bedroom! ha

my belly and the band i made it's nice!

Ultrasound

So i had my appointment yesterday and everything went well. but that is all overshadowed because we are going to be having another ultrasound next month to find out the sex of the baby! i'm very excited. next appt i will be 24 weeks along. right now i'm 20 weeks exactly half way through the 40weeks it's going so fast! the apointment is at the 7th at 3:30. it was hard scheduling this one to fit with both micah and my schedule but it worked out. we have alot going on this next month and the news will make it just even more exciting and busy, we don't really have anything for the baby so along with drill our anniversary, a wedding a bridal shower and us trying to celebrate we'll have to try and fit in deciding everything we'll have to do to get our place ready, clean and decorated. fun stuff is coming our way!