As some of you may have noticed, I have failed to update our
blog anytime recently. This isn’t
because there’s been nothing to post about—there’s actually been a lot going
on! My excuse for being so behind is
that I’ve been trying to figure out how to best deal with this whole
mommy-to-be-constantly-sick-and-tired self of mine! All that aside, Logan and I couldn’t be more
thrilled to announce the anticipated arrival of Jorgensen Baby #1 in late
January! We feel incredibly blessed and
grateful for the opportunity to become parents and wish the New Year could get
here quicker! As of today, I am 12 weeks
and officially done with the first trimester—Yahoo! Not only does this mean we’re 1/3 of the way
there, I hope it also means some of the sickness will start to fade. (Anyone out there with advice on how to help
ease this fun pregnancy symptom, I’d love to hear it!)
Backtrack to 8 Weeks Ago:
Logan and I found out I was pregnant pretty early on—around
4 ½ weeks. It was such a joy to take the
pregnancy test together and see the double pink lines! We enjoyed the realization that we were
parents-to-be for a couple days with just the two of us before telling either
of our families. We knew they would be
ecstatic at the news but decided to enjoy it alone for a short time first. I was dying those two days waiting to tell
them! As expected, we visited our
families separately and told them the exciting news and they were
overjoyed! This will be grandbaby #4 for
Logan’s parents and #10 for mine so it will be fun to add to the cousins!
Around 6 weeks the fact that I’m pregnant really hit me
because that’s when the nausea hit me as well—yuck! Each time I’m feeling crappy I remind myself
how fortunate I am to be pregnant and how excited I am for this opportunity and
that usually helps me feel a little better :)
The major highlight definitely came last week at week 11
when I had my first appointment and Logan and I were able to hear our sweet
baby’s heartbeat for the first time! That
was such a neat experience and major relief to hear that everything sounded
fantastic.
Today, week 12, is another moment we’ve been looking forward
to very much so we could tell everyone else! (We decided a while ago to wait
until now to tell anyone other than family members.) I am so excited to share this time with the
many wonderful moms and moms-to-be that I am lucky enough to know. Send any tips and tricks you might have my
way because I’m sure I’ll need them!
As far as our preference/hunch goes as to whether it’s a boy
or girl, we genuinely don’t care and don’t really have much of a guess either! (We’d love to know what you think, though, so
let us know over on the right!)
Obviously this is our first baby so we will both be extremely happy with
whichever comes first and in the end would love to have at least one of each
:) Half of my family is adamant it’s a
boy and the other half “know without a doubt” it’s a girl so it will be fun to
see who’s right.
Although I love my job and am so grateful to be able to work
full time, I couldn’t be more excited to fulfill one of my life-long dreams of
becoming a stay-at-home mom. It will be
such a neat experience to raise and nurture our children and be a full-time
wife to Logan who I know is going to be an incredible dad! I can’t wait to see him with his first little
baby and I know he can’t either! Let the
countdown begin!
Update on the rest of our lives:
Since I last posted about Memorial Day, several exciting
things have happened that I would like to quickly document rather than write an
individual post for each.
-At the beginning of June I was able to go with my parents
and grandpa (unfortunately Logan had to stay
home to go to school and work) to Minnesota
for my nephew’s baptism. My sweet Will
had a fantastic day and I was lucky enough to share a quick talk on the Holy Ghost
so it was a very special time. We loved
spending a week with them and can’t wait for them to visit us here in Utah in a couple days!
-While we were in Minnesota ,
my brother’s wife had their 4th baby the day before we got
home! We were super bummed we missed the
delivery but were able to see her the next day and she is adorable! Welcome to the family, baby Amelia!
-June 30th was a very exciting day for me and
Logan! We celebrated our 1 year
anniversary that day! We thought it
would be fun to stay in the exact same room at the Grand America that we stayed
in on our wedding night so we did that on Friday night and went to breakfast and
did some shopping on Saturday. It was so
fun to talk about the last year and all the amazing memories we’ve already
made! I can’t believe it has been a year
and can’t wait to see what year 2 brings to the table!
-The 4th of July has always been one of my
all-time favorite holidays. It’s a
little sad not having my brother Paul and his family here with us because his
kids love the parade and it’s my brother’s birthday but we still had a ton of
fun! We went to the parade with my
family in the morning, saw the new Spiderman movie with Logan ’s
family in the afternoon, had a BBQ for dinner with my family in the evening and
then capped the night off with fireworks at Logan ’s parent’s house. (Thank goodness our parents live about 2
minutes from each other!)
As far as the rest of the summer goes, we don’t have too
many major plans. I can’t believe it’s
already the middle of July! My brother’s
family gets here on Friday from Minnesota and will stay for about 2 weeks so
I’m sure we’ll do lots of fun things with them while they’re here. It will be a lot of fun to have all the
cousins together again because it only happens about once a year now. Logan and I are going camping with a group of
friends in August so we can’t wait for that!
I can’t believe the summer is going so fast! I hope everyone is having a fantastic summer and enjoying
this HEAT!
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