Mother's Day

To all the moms!

Well as Lane would say, I'm only a half mother this year but I can't help thinking every day what kind of a mother I will be. Will I be too hard or too easy on our kids? Will I show them the difference between right and wrong and what's truly important in life? Will I be a good Christ-like example to them? Lane and I have the privileged of going to Jordan and Kyriel's wedding on Friday and her Dad gave a beautiful speech. I won't forget what he said about raising a family, "What you do, your children will do and what's important to you, will be important to your children and most of all what you love, your children will love." I'm so glad there are so many great parents and moms out there who are so selfless and I hope that I can take from their example.

I have been wanting a good camera to get into photography with as a hobby so for mother's day, Lane got me this 70's camera. It still needs a lens but I'm very excited to start playing around with it!

My steady growing belly.

Every time I wake up in the morning, I look in the mirror at how fast and how much my body is changing. I've worked out a few days but not too much because I'm scared of cutting of oxygen or rattling the baby around or something. It just feels different that's all. I've put on 10 pounds already which is hard to see on the scale but am grateful that its because of a new life and that makes it easier to handle. But what's WAY easier to handle is this second trimester! It does have its new 'fun surprises' but they seem much more manageable than the vomiting and bad nausea.

We are excited to have our big ultrasound scheduled to find out the gender so we are literally counting down the days, it will just be so nice to put a name to our baby and feel more attached to it (and then we don't have to refer to it as "it" either lol).

Well here's a few pictures from previous weeks. Enjoy!

Week 11

Week 12
Week 13
Week 14