Pregnancy Dreams...

Ever since I got pregnant I have been bombarded with crazy dreams.

Crazy.

-People I haven't thought about in years(!) are showing up in random nights.

-Things that are better fitted in sci-fi movies are regular showees.

-But my favorite has been popping every month or so...

I am pregnant in my dreams and I get a lil curious/worried/interested in how the baby is doing so I unzip my stomach and pull out the baby and I show him off to Shawn;

a) the first time I unzipped myself and checked out the baby and realized it had ten toes but twelve fingers that were fully functioning... I wasn't too upset...

b) the second time I unzipped I made sure the baby was doing okay, and when I was sure that it was I gently put him back inside but not before putting back on his teeny, tiny nasal prongs for his oxygen... 

c) last night was the third dream I remember and this time when I unzipped my stomach, now that we know it's a boy I guess my dream knew too, cause when I pulled him out he was fully dressed in a blue onesie outfit. 

And the weirdest thing is that in my dreams... This all seems normal to be pulling out my fully-dressed baby and then putting back on his oxygen prongs and then zipping him back in for the rest of the pregnancy.

Yep my stomach has oxygen capabilities...

For fun I googled it on the internet, and apparently I am not the only who has had the same unzipping dreams. Who knew?

Four Months and Then Some...

In two days I will be 20 weeks pregnant... Almost half-way there! 


This whole thing has been kind of surreal. I have been extremely lucky during my pregnancy thus far. The only thing that tipped me that I am actually pregnant is occasional headaches and EXTREME fatigue in the first trimester and the blessing of no period for the last 4 months... Love that.

But then we went for our ultrasound two days ago. I felt almost sick as I drove to meet Shawn for our appointment. All I wanted was to hear that the baby was normal and healthy and everything was okay...

And then I saw the baby move and kick and squirm and it hit me that that was all happening inside me. I tried to close my eyes and see if I could feel what Shawn and I were seeing on the screen but nada... but now I know that the lil guy is moving inside me and before long I will be feeling him squirm and kick.

We had our doctor's appointment today, found out that I've gained 8 lbs so far and then we heard the words that every will-be-parents want to hear, "Everything is normal".  Such a relief, and then he said...

"It's a boy!" Maybe Shawn is right after all, maybe Bevans boys only produce more Bevans boys...

He's little, but he's in there!!!

Surprise...

When Shawn and I got married, I was dead set on waiting years to have a baby.

But things changed and Shawn and I decided to go off birth control in late August thinking it would take 6 months or so to get pregnant.

It took 2 weeks.

I was down in Portland, visiting my sister Tamara with Chelsey, when I bought a pregnancy test due to paranoia. It had only been 3 weeks since my last period so I wasn't thinking I was ACTUALLY pregnant, I was just being paranoid. So when the lil stick came back as "pregnant", I swear the world started spinning madly. I was able to keep the secret for about, oh, an hour before I burst into tears. 

The next 24 hrs I had a mini-meltdown. 

"I'm not ready"

"What did we DO?"

"Maybe it's wrong" (I seriously considered having my non-married sister pee on the stick as a comparison.. maybe the test was defective)

"How on earth is the contraceptive out of my system already??? It's GOTTA be wrong"

"We can't have a kid... We don't have a plan.. at all!"

"We haven't even gone on a honeymoon yet!"

"What did we DO?"

Tamara talked me down from the ledge and reminded me that nine months is a looong time...

Then I came home and told Shawn and he has been nothing but ecstatic about the pending arrival of Baby Bevans... 

And you know what? After a week or two, I was used to the fact that I was pregnant and by the end of the first month I found myself actually excited...

...to meet this lil guy

No, I'm not carrying a Mermaid baby,
apparantly they can't take a full picture of the baby
so they take photos of snippets of the baby...
How cute is he????

3C Christmas Syle

This is a little late but....

When I came to work one day around Christmas I saw a Christmas tree had been put up.

But this isn't any regular christmas tree, this was decorated nurse-style...

Who needs ribbons, bows and regular ornaments when you have saline bags, gauze,  tape, saline packs, and a gorgeous urine hat for a tree topper? 

Only 3 Months More...

I don't remember exactly who introduced me to "The Hunger Games", probably one of my sisters as they are the ones that I hear most book recommendations from, but I have been in love with the books since day one.

When they announced they are making a movie I was a little skeptical mainly since I remember a little book-turned-into-a-horrible-movie named "Twilight" but then I saw this preview.

I was sold.

Then one boxing day I came across this lil late Christmas present on the internet... 

The first official song off the soundtrack sung by Taylor Swift.

I was a lil wary at first, as much as I love Taylor Swift, cause I wasn't sure how the two fit together...

Gorgeous... 

You can bet that this is one movie that I will be fighting the crowds on opening day to see... 

Booking off March 23rd right now. 

Where Have You Been All My Life???

Ahhh...

Cafe Rio.

This is a restaurant I have heard ALOT about. Everyone knows and loves it and my amazing mother-in-law even recreated Cafe Rio salads for our wedding reception. It was amazing and it solidified my desire to one day become a patron of the restaurant.

Cue our current trip to Gilbert, AZ.

We were all going out for dinner and someone suggested it. 

"Cafe Rio"

Finally! After all this time, I got to go to the Restaurant.

I am sold.

How do I bring this restaurant to Lethbridge?

GIngerbread Dreams

Making Decorating gingerbread houses (I don't saying making because there is NO way I would make the house from scratch. I am all about the kits) is something that always sounds like fun and a way to get into the Christmas spirit.

Ah... I love being tanned... but I digress

 The Bevans clan decided to whip out our Christmas spirit and have a traditional gingerbread-decorating-off; the houses were bought, the teams were made and it came the time to actually make them.

Three problems:
1) It is inevitable that someone is gonna bow out and disappear come gingerbread house time *cough* Todd and Matthew *cough*
2) There is NEVER enough candy given in the box. I would LOVE to see the magician who decorated the houses on the box cause how did they make that candy stretch that far? I am pretty sure they only decorated the two sides that are shown in the picture.

Supplementing the candy supply is a MUST

3) The IDEA of decorating houses are sometimes more fun than the actual event and I was a lil weary about wanting to do it this year

But I am glad we did... Because we KILLED it...

Okay, not really, but we pulled a decent result.

 

Alright, who am I kidding, we were dead in the water till Shawn pulled out his secret talent.
Shawn can make a legit candy Santa. We all laughed when he suggested it but he made us believers.

This lil guy helped keep us in the decorating race

I learned that Jenny is a freakin star of decorating. Martha Stewart should hit her up for tips.

Apparantly the key is to decorate BEFORE arranging the house.

Pure Martha Steward talent

 

Kyle and Shadolyn win the slow and steady award. We were all done and they had only the walls done but they came through in the end.

But the best part is afterwards, when they are all done and I get to take pictures, celebrate the Christmas-y-ness and think "Yep, just another memory to store away for a fantastic lil Christmas"

 Love how every group pulls out something different. Aren't the hollies on the middle house adorable?

p.s. if anyone has actually ever been brave enough to actually try and eat the gingerbread house from the kits I will salute you cuz that stuff can't even be classified as food in my books.