Maui Pix

I posted a few of Andy and I in Hawaii but I missed some of the best pictures.

So this first one we did not get to see but I still love the sign.

This guy we fell in love with while we were at the hotel. He had the best hair it actually looked like it was about to crawl off of his head and bite us. and now Andy wants to find some just like it. ;) (I have blurred out his face to protect the poor man)

Maui

Well we are back from Maui and what an interesting trip that was. I was sooo excited to get away from everything here at work and in Seattle, get some sun and just relax. Mainly I did the relaxing part in bed as I was sick for a good portion of the trip. I feel so horrible for Andy, he had to do all dinners by himself and I kept getting up at 4am Hawaii time (7am Seattle time) to eat. The peanut had no mercy on me while we were on vacation that is for sure.

I found that if I got up early and ate right away I was usually pretty good until the late afternoon. So Andy and I did a lot of leaving early from the hotel and ventured out. We had breakfast very early at the hotel and would walk up and down the beach barefoot - it was my favorite part of the trip for sure!
But being pregnant in the heat/sun was no fun at all. I realized how tired I got and it made me really dehydrated which made the day we flew out interesting. I woke up with a nasty migraine at 4am on the dot. I quickly ate a banana and drank a half of my bottle of water and downed an Excedrin then went back to bed and prayed it would go away.
A few hours later and literally 3 bottles of water later it did. I think it all caught up with me and I just got dehydrated.
Ah and when you lay around all day apparently your body does not like that, so I developed a wonderful neck and back ache. Not being able to take any IB has been horrible. :(

We stayed at the Maui Westin and what a pimp hotel that was. It was beautiful with 4 pools, several cabana areas, water slides and was only about 3 steps off the beach. I would highly recommend this place to anyone with kids. Apparently we did not do our research so this is a very friendly kid hotel, so TONS of kids running around. They have this special where kids under 5 all eat free when a parent eats, so you get your moneys worth there for sure!

Well I am off to boring meetings now that I am back at work. Trying to walk around as much as possible so this constant neck ache will go away. GRRR.
Have a wonderful week to whoever maybe reading this and enjoy the pix!

1st trimester sucks

If you have not been through a 1st trimester let me tell you, this is the worst. I know that people keep saying oh but look on the bright side in a few months you will have a baby... but seriously i am just trying to get from day to day at this point.

I realized early that this was not going to be any fun when I started to gag at every smell. Not just bad smells but everything. I have a really good nose and that is causing major issues for me now. Poor Andy cannot have any kind of food that smells bad when he is heating it up or I am making a mad dash for the bathroom to hurl.

The other big issue is that I have not been able to cook Andy dinner at all and poor guy is probably losing weight! :( I seem to get sicker as the day goes on, usually night time is the worst of the worst.
I am still at the stage where i cannot smell or even look at certain foods. The site of chicken has me turning green and food commercials on TV are the death of me.
The first run in was with this nasty $5 Taco Del Mar platter-0-food they have been showing. The first time I saw it I was soooo sick. Ever since I have to quickly change the channel whenever a nasty food commercial comes on. UGH.

Things are getting a bit better, I have been able to diversify my intake of food to other items other then cereal.
Check out the list of foods i can eat!

1. Cereal with milk
2. milk
3. Bread
4. soup
5. tea (not green or anything fancy tasting)
6. donuts (this is a new one)
7. bananas
8. water
9. ginger ale
10. cheddar cheese
11. crackers

Can you say yum?? :)

well this has taken me about 10 mins to type and i have to eat every 10 mins or i get sick. So off to eat some crackers.

Our Little Peanut

In following with the Van Inwegens we decided not only to get a blog, but to also get pregnant. ;)

We are about 9 weeks along and just had our first appointment today. Baby is doing fine, healthy and very, very active in there. Attached is a picture of the baby that we are referring to as 'Peanut' for now. Due date so far is May 5.