Don't ever put your dreams to rest

My beautiful baby girl, Julianna Kathleen, was born on March 28th (yes, my birthday!) at 12:31am. She was 20 inches and 7 lbs 10 oz.  Most importantly she is perfectly healthy! 

She is a very good baby and only cries when she needs something. She wakes up about every 3 hours at night. She is beginning to have longer wake periods during the day now. Katie and I took her to church for the first time today and she slept through the entire service. She had a beautiful little dress on with stocking, shoes and a bonnet all from Steve’s mom!  

We are so excited to finally have her here! Our lives are completely different, mostly just sleep deprived haha. Our lives are totally complete now that she is here. I couldn’t ask for anything more!

So the Yankees need to win 2 more games to advance to the World Series!! I stole something from my boo…

“Our father, who art in the Bronx, baseball be thy name. Where hot dogs are on buns, and championships are won, on earth as they do in New York. Give us these games, so we can flip off those who root against us. And lead us not, into elimination, but deliver us to the World Series yet again! AMEN!….LET’S GO YANKEES!!!!”

This accurately describes how Yankees fans are feeling at the moment!!

On a totally different note…We finally got married!!! It was an excellent day with all of my favorite people. Nothing went wrong and I was 100% satisfied with everything. I couldn’t have asked for things to go any better. Our honeymoon was awesome even though I was deathly ill! I was just so excited to be somewhere so nice with my new husband:) He is such a great man and I am so excited to spend the rest of forever with him!!

We are moving into a new house at the end of November, the same week his work is sending him to Orlando for the week:( I start my new job on November 4th which I am really excited about but it’s such a long drive which is going to suck a lot.  

I am 17 weeks pregnant today, almost 1/2 way there!! I am starting to feel the baby move more and more.  It is mostly awake when I am trying to sleep and it sleeps when I am awake. We will have to change this schedule!! On November 2nd we go in for our first ultrasound to find out if it is a boy or girl!! I will be excited either way but lets face it….I really want a girl!! We did get to hear the heartbeat a couple weeks ago and that was the most awesome thing in the world!! Steve is still way to freaked out to touch my stomach. He is scared he will hurt the baby haha. 

I am watching Nana’s dog, and he is crying up a storm because he doesn’t like to be alone…

This year has been such a whirlwind for me and anyone that knows/knew me!! I have been through so many ups and downs! I have gone from having all the friends in the world, to being judged and accused of wrong doing and coming out in the end with only a couple good friends but have made such a deeper bond with those girls!  I lost my best friend along the way but again in the end, it only proved to be the best thing for me.  

My wedding is almost here!! I have been planning and preparing this since last August and it is finally here!!! I am so thrilled to marry my best friend! I know that sounds so lame but seriously. Steve and I have been through sooo much together, things others don’t know about and things he could only be there to pull me through. I am so excited about the cruise! I really think he will love it! He is finally on board with the pregnancy situation.  I think he was just scared about how his father was going to respond and worried he was going to have to sell his new truck!!

I am so thankful for Katie and all that she is done for me with this wedding and just keeping my life on track in general. She is like my little life bookkeeper! We have grown so much close over the last semester of college and into summer, I Just don’t know what I would do without her!!!  Thank you so much!! 

Literally.  I feel like I could die from the nausea that has been stricken upon me by this child that doesn’t even resemble a child yet. My head never stops pounding, I never stop peeing and I cannot stop eating. Somehow I have to learn to get used to this for the next 8 months! I switched OBGYN’s so our first appointment is actually next Tuesday now! I am really excited but Steve feels no need to come. He said he just wants to see the baby not hear the heartbeat.  He obviously is not the one carrying this baby! Yesterday, Katie and I went the the Maternity store and spent entirely to much $$!! But they have the cutest clothes in there, even Yankees shirts! 

My wedding is in 3 weeks and that is just so crazy to me! This has been in the making for a year now and it is finally here! I think I am actually more excited for the honeymoon though, cannot wait!!!  I am so happy all of my best friends are in my wedding. Steve and I are so thankful for the friends we have in our lives. They are such amazing people and so supportive! 

After 5 years of dating and our wedding being less than a month away, we find out that I am officially 100% pregnant. I am beyond ecstatic of what these next 8 months will bring and of course all the years following that.  I have never been so happy yet scared all at the same time.  I’ve been talking about wanting kids forever now but I never thought the day would actually come.  When I sit down and think about how drastically my life is about to change, I am excited and sad.  While all of my friends are out drinking and celebrating birthdays, I am going to be sitting at home with my huge pregnant self.   While everyone else is comfortably sleeping, I am going to be awake changing diapers and listening to my baby scream bloody hell. While this scares me, I know my friends (aunties) will be supporting me and helping me along the way. Being a mother will be completely rewarding. I have always decided to do everything before everyone else…why would having a baby be any different?!  As I lay here in bed, my stomach is already saying to me, “Eat something or I am going to make you wish you did”…Yeah I have 8 months left of this!! We have our first doctors appointment on September 7th, almost as soon as we get back from the honeymoon. I am excited to hear my little babies heartbeat.  I think it will make this all hit home 100% more!