17 Week Bump Date

How Far Along: 17 Weeks as of yesterday.
 (You can check out my 17 week post from when I was pregnant with Jackson here.)

Size of Baby: (According to babycenter.com) 17 weeks: Your baby is about the size of a turnip. Your little turnip now weighs about 5 ounces and is roughly 5 inches long from head to bottom.

Total Weight Gain/Loss: I had a doctor's appointment yesterday and found out I've gained 10 pounds so far! Yikes!

Maternity Clothes: Yes, all maternity clothes.

Gender: A sweet baby girl!! (Still working on a name.)

Movement: I've felt a few flutters here and there, but nothing regular yet. I'm hoping to feel it more often soon.

 Food Cravings: No real cravings yet.

What I miss: Being able to sleep through the night and wear my wedding rings. They are already fitting tight. :-(

Sleep: Sleeping okay, just having to get up several times a night to use the restroom.

Symptoms: Having to use the restroom often.

Best Moment this week: Hearing our baby girl's strong heartbeat at the doctor's office yesterday.

What I am looking forward to: Thanksgiving dinner this Thursday and getting to spend time with family. I'm also looking forward to our gender scan sometime in the next week or so. We already know its a girl, but I always look forward to anytime I get to see her and this will more than likely be the last time before she's born.

A New Blog Design and Some Randoms!

-  Last week I decided to give myself a little blog design update! I've been loving the colors Navy and Yellow together and thought that would make a great color combo for a blog design. So I started putting it all together and I'm so happy with the result! I hope you all like it too. :-)

 - So, there must be something up with Blogger. :-( All of my posts in the last couple of weeks have been coming out way late for some reason. I've done a little research and it seems that some other people are having the same problem. Have any of you had this problem, and if so, is there a fix for it? I can't seem to find a way to fix it. :-(

- Last weekend, I had three photo sessions and they were all so fun. I feel like the more sessions I have, the more comfortable I get with it, which is great! For the longest time, I've been pretty nervous with each and every session I shoot. The lack of confidence and the fact that I'm not the most outgoing person, have been a bit of a challenge to overcome. But these sessions went so well and I seem to feel a little more confident with each session I have.

 Here's a little sneak peek of one of my favorite photos from each session. I'll have a more detailed post of each session once I get all the editing done. :-)

The Waltman Family

The Fitzpatrick Family

The Jacobs Family

- I'm so looking forward to Thanksgiving this year! We have the first of 2 family gatherings this Saturday. Bring on the Turkey and Pumpkin Pie!! :-)

I hope you're all having a GREAT week!

Project Life 2013: Week 36

Ugh, I'm so far behind, but I'm determined to get caught up! So here is my week 36 page from the first week of September. 

I used the Gratitude Full Kit Freebie from Word Art World.

16 Week Bump Date

How Far Along: 16 Weeks
 (You can check out my 16 week post from when I was pregnant with Jackson here.)

Size of Baby: (According to babycenter.com) 16 weeks: Your baby is about the size of an avocado. Your baby now weighs 3 1/2 ounces and is about 4 1/2 inches long from head to bottom.

Total Weight Gain/Loss: I go to the doctor next Monday, so I'll have a better idea then what my weight gain has been so far. At my 12 week appointment I was up 4 lbs.

Maternity Clothes: Yes, all maternity pants and some maternity shirts.

Gender: A sweet baby girl!! (You can read about how we found out here.)

Movement: I've felt a few flutters here and there, but nothing consistent yet.

Food Cravings: I had a yummy snow man sugar cookie Saturday morning from Starbucks and ever since then, I've been wanting another one.

What I miss: My wedding rings fitting. They are already pretty tight so I haven't been wearing them.

Sleep: Other than getting up multiple times to use the bathroom, pretty good.

Symptoms: Having to use the restroom often and a sensitive gag reflex.

Best Moment this week: Doing a little shopping for baby girl, getting to take a nice long nap yesterday afternoon and dinner out with friends this past Friday night.

What I am looking forward to: Feeling the baby move more, planning the nursery and deciding on a name.

5 on Friday

Yay for another Friday!!

I'm happy to be linking up with the fabulous girls above for another week of 5 on Friday!

For those that may have missed our Gender Reveal post earlier this week, we are having a baby GIRL and we're so excited!!!

My mom bought this Essie "No Chips Ahead" Top Coat and told me about it. She said it was great and she was right! I painted my nails on Saturday and have had no chipping in almost a week!! Amazing. I highly recommend it.

I'm excited to be spending this evening at dinner with friends tonight! There's 5 of us couples who are all looking forward to an "adult only" night out. Last time we all got together for dinner with no kids, was back in July, so this evening is well over due. We are going to Elephant Bar! I can't wait.

I'm also excited because tomorrow I have 3 photo sessions lined up!! November is turning out to be a busy month for Storybook Photography and I couldn't be happier!!

Jackson can now do all the actions to "The Itsy Bitsy Spider". It is so cute, I just have to share. :-)

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!!

A Storybook Photography Photo Session - The Smiths

Here is the second photo session I've done this month. This is my Brother-in-Law and Sister-in-Law and their family. :-) We had a really fun time taking these pictures and it was a beautiful Fall day!

15 Week Bump Date

How Far Along: 15 weeks + 2 days.
 (You can check out my 22 week post from when I was pregnant with Jackson here.)

Size of baby: (According to babycenter.com) 15 weeks: Your baby is about the size of an apple. The future apple of your eye now weighs about 2 1/2 ounces and is 4 inches long from head to bottom.

Total Weight Gain/Loss: Around 4lbs. gained.

Maternity Clothes: I'm wearing all maternity pants now and a mixture of maternity shirts and regular shirts. I did some maternity clothes shopping over the weekend which was fun. :-)

Gender: We found out Monday that we are having a little baby GIRL! We are so excited! (You can read about how we found out here.)

Movement:  I think I've felt a few flutters here and there. Can't wait to feel it more often though.

Food Cravings: None yet. Just whatever sounds good at the time.

What I miss: Nothing at this point.

Sleep: Sleeping fine other than getting up a couple times to go to the bathroom.

Symptoms: Frequent trips to the bathroom and still pretty tired most days, but most other symptoms are fading away, thank goodness. My gag reflex is still so sensitive. It seems like when I was pregnant with Jackson it was really only sensitive in the first trimester, but with this pregnancy it's still very sensitive at 15 weeks. Brushing my teeth is a chore and not very fun.

Best Moment this week: Doing some shopping over the weekend and then finding out that we're having a girl Monday evening!

What I am looking forward to: Feeling more movement and hearing this sweet girls heartbeat at my next doctor's appointment on the 25th. I'm also looking forward to doing some shopping for baby girl, coming up with a name and planning her nursery. :-)