Lazy Sunday

Well today has been moderately productive. We slept in until around 10am and then puppy was ready to get up. Having Gizmo is perfect practice for when we have a baby one day lol. I colored my hair and Brian has been working on projects around the house. This sinus thing I have going on is getting really annoying. I finally broke down and took a Mucinex this morning. I hate that stuff, but I had to try something. Brian and I went to dinner with his sister, her husband and the kids last night. It was a nice visit. We went to Sweet Tomatoes. It was alright, they were crazy busy. After that I talked Brian into going to Babies 'R Us. I wanted to show him the different things we would need to get when baby time comes around. I pretty much just wanted to go look at all the cute stuff :) I have been super tired all weekend. I feel like I want to take a nap right now (here's to hoping there a reason for it!!). I have been downloading new tunes for my iPod a lot lately. My fav thing I have downloaded lately is the Ben Folds cover of Tiny Dancer. SO good!

Well, that's all for now. I need to run out to Walgreens and pick up some pictures that have been waiting for me for about 2 weeks, oops!

I look at baby stuff too much lol

I really love this fabric! I think it is so cute! I found a really cute bedding set online, but it is way expensive. My mom is crafty -- I think she could make it! Who knows though, I see so much stuff online that I like. There are just some great ideas out there. I'm not really into the babies 'r us pre-packaged look. Don't get me wrong, there are definitely some cute themes. I just want something different when we have a baby. I have a lot more ideas for a girl nursery than for a boy nursery. I can't imagine how tricky it will actually be to pick when we get to that point lol.

Current Playlist:
Summer Day - Coconut Records
Time of No Reply - Nick Drake
Melt My Heart to Stone - Adele
Sex on Fire - Kings of Leon
Desire - Ryan Adams
Electric Feel - MGMT
Psychotic Girl - The Black Keys
The Killing Moon - Grant Lee Phillips
White Mystery - Minus the Bear
Sideways - Citizen Cope
It's Not True - William Fitzsimmons

Guess what???

We are trying to have a baby! The decision to start trying came out 6 weeks ago. We have been seriously talking about it since January and finally decided that the time had come. Why were we waiting anyway?? I have been doing a lot of reading over the last few months. Both online and in actual books. My reading list has consisted of:

- Getting Pregnant by Neils Lauersen
- Taking Charge of Your Fertility by Tony Weschler
- Plan to Get Pregnant by Zita West
- Before Your Pregnancy, A 90 Day Guide by Amy Ogle & Lisa Maazzullo

I liked the 1st and 3rd books the best. The 3rd one was really great. It had a lot of good information laid out in quick-reference tables. I have gone back to it quite a few times. Of course there is plenty of repetitive info in these books and online, so you can really only read so much.

Another "fun" thing I have been doing is trying out different prenatal vitamins. Believe me, it was far from fun, haha! The first brand I was taking I just picked up at the grocery store. They were just the generic Publix brand. I had a lot of nausea with those if I didn't eat directly after taking one. When I went to my OB-GYN to have a check up and talk to them about trying to conceive the midwife gave me samples of a few different vitamins to try. Natelle Plus DHA was pretty good. I didn't have any nausea, but I didn't like that there were 2 different pills to keep up with. Natelle Ez made me super nauseated and it smelled terrible, so I only took that for 2 days. Prenate DHA was by far the best. It had the same benefits as Natelle Plus DHA but in one tablet and the coating on them actually smells good (for a vitamin). I had my doctors office call in a prescription, I just have to go pick them up.

I have also been doing a lot of looking at names online. Brian is such a good sport about me showing him a million names every night! We are agreeing for the most part, so that's a good thing. We have a boy name picked out and a few girl names that we like too -- I won't share those until we are actually pregnant :)

Well that's all for now! Brian and I will be updating this page as often as we can!