This is Awesome

Next year we should do something like this! - this is one of those fun things I would do that other people wouldn't :)

Great Expectations

So Jared and I always get these ideas that are going to be such FUN DATES....then we go to do them and end up just feeling like "let's just quick do this and get home". I am not quite sure why we can't just enjoy things sometimes, but we can't. At least we are on the same page when it happens. Most recently we went to Robinette's & to Postma Farms to get Pumpkins.

Robinette's is this great apple orchard place that EVERYONE in Grand Rapids goes to when they are a kid. We thought it would be fun to go get cider and donuts and walk around the orchard. So we set out with this great idea of walking hand in hand sipping cider and munching on freshly made donuts, and of course my favorite thing to do there...watch the apples being squished and the cider being made. Great idea right?

In actuality we pull up to MASSES of people, kids running and screaming everywhere, parking all over the place, a line winding out of the building and through one of the parking lots to get cider & donuts. Side note - if you know me at all I am not a fan of crowds...they just make me uncomfortable (unless I am on a mission going somewhere, but just to stand around in... NO THANK YOU!) also you would know that I am not a big "kid" person, usually I find them loud and annoying and out of control, your kids are fine from a distance, I just don't want to be surrounded by them. So immediately I am NOT loving this. We actually thought about leaving right then and there, but Jared's drive for fresh donuts made him commit to "THE LINE" Duke and I stood there for a little while, but then we headed off to part of the orchard that I am 99% sure you are not supposed to go in - but since it was the only place without 1,000 people we went there anyway. Duke and I wandered the orchard while Jared battled the screaming kids, teens talking constantly on their phones, and parents trying to corral everyone, to get his donuts. About 20 minutes later he made it out alive with donuts and cider in tow. The donuts were great and after that we even managed to walk around in the orchard for a few minutes all together.

So this past weekend we ventured to Postma Farms (or Post Farms?) to get our pumpkins. We thought we were going to a U-pick pumpkin place....turns out it was like Robinette's on crack! Starting off with parking CHAOS and driving through huge mud puddles. We somehow ended up walking in the back way - which we didn't know at the time. We saw the field of pumpkins in the distance and started to walk towards it. Noticing that everyone else was getting hay rides out there we thought "bah we don't need a ride" until we got a little down the path and noticed a mud field that we would have to walk through to get there - we headed back to the line to get on the hay ride and noticed a sign that said "wristbands must be visible" well we had no idea what that meant so we kept walking, there was a practical carnival going on, with all the screaming kids and frantic parents all over again. We exited through the entrance where is said "MUST HAVE WRISTBAND BEYOND THIS POINT" - clearly their security was not on point. Finally making it to the "front" we noticed that there was a small area of pumpkins already picked that you could buy...needless to say we did that. You would have had to pay ME at that point to get on the hay ride with all of these crazy people, walk in mud up to my knees to find a pumpkin and then BACK on the hay ride...no thanks.

I also have been exhausted lately from being prego so Jared had to double time walk back to the car in the massive parking lot with tons of mud with his pumpkin as I slowly dragged behind barely able to lift mine. Being the good hubby that he is he came back and rescued me and took me home to nap :)

I know I will have to start doing these things in the future when we have kids, but I am taking time to enjoy NOT doing them right now. I enjoy doing many other fun things that other people don't - just chaos with lots of people aren't my thing.

Hippos!

Seriously Hippos are the coolest EVER! Cute Baby Hippos and underwater shots in here!

Not Surprised

I feel like I have been around so many preggo people in my life and that when people talk I actually listen that not much is going to come as a surprise to me. Sure I am 100% sure it will be cool, interesting, eye opening to experience things myself, but I am 99.9% sure that nothing anyone says to me will surprise me. - unless it was "you're having twins!" that would be a surprise!

So far being pregnant I have realized that everyone tries to tell you things that they think is a newsflash to you. I am not one of those people who needs to talk about it all the time...I will if people talk to me or ask me questions that great, I love questions, but I am not one to bring it up. I think it is weird that everyone is like "That's what you have to look forward to" when a baby is crying or something, or "now you will get to see what it's like." Yeah I am aware of that. I am aware that my kid will cry, drive me crazy, make me uncomfortable in public, cause me problems I have not thought of, be wonderful, be hilarious, and a number of other things. I expect to have moments where I have no idea what I am doing, where I just want to cry, where I want to kiss my kid so much, when I am just exhausted, where I am so happy to see the smallest new thing.

In life in general I am not surprised by much, things people tell me very rarely cause me to gasp or be surprised by much. Everyone has their own life and lots of different things happen in those lives.

I don't even know if this makes sense, but it was something I needed to vent about for a minute.

Oh also, since I have been pregnant I have been exhausted....typical, well I am not a good tired person, I am not talkative, I do what I need and then go to sleep when I can. This does not mean that I am mad or in a bad mood. Just cause someone doesn't talk doesn't mean they are in a bad mood. Everyone has been thinking I am in a bad mood...Just tired people. It's ok not to be super full of energy all the time.

Ok...whew... sorry about that rant, but I needed to get that out!

We have a Heart Beat

We went to the Dr. on Friday and got an ultrasound. The babe is 4mm big and had a heartbeat of 118bpm. It boggles my mind that that is inside of me and will transform into an actual person. It was Jared's first time at the "Girl Dr", he handled it well. Looking around like a child trying to figure out what everything was.

So here is our little guy/girl:

I have decided that I really don't like situations where I am "supposed to" feel some way or act someway. I felt this way when I was engaged too. When people find out I am pregnant I just say, "yeah thank you". I don't jump up and down, my face isn't beaming with joy, I kinda would rather just say Thanks, and then move on to something else. Everyone then says..."are you happy, are you excited?" in an awkward way.

Don't get me wrong Jared and I are very happy, but we just don't show it by jumping up and down or wanting to talk about it all the time. As we said before it is a part of our life, not our whole life. We have plenty of other things going, and I feel like, a bazillion other people are pregnant and have been pregnant before. I don't feel like it is anything NEW and I don't expect people to be blown away or so interested in me being pregnant.

Jared and I have our own private talks about it, but we honestly don't talk about it too much yet either. As Jared said the other day, "what are we supposed to do run home and get the room ready?" There is just so much time before things happen a long way to go. I am sure as it gets more "real" - my belly grows, something that resembles a human shows up on the ultrasound, etc things will be different, but for now we are just living our normal life - with some added bland food and a little less Pepsi. :)