Christmas and Goin' to Kauai

We hope everyone had a great Christmas. Justin had duty on Christmas Eve so I went and had dinner with Nikki and Jeremy and then went to the boat. Then on Christmas day we repeated the process only Jeremy and duty and Nikki came over to our house. It is fun having family here in Hawaii with us. Christmas might have been filled with crying if not. I think Justin was happy there were no tears on actual Christmas and just the days leading up to it. :) It was the first Christmas I have been away from my family in my whole 24 years!!! I think it made it better that Christmas in China was a day ahead of ours so when we were celebrating Christmas they were already past the day and playing tourist with Kim.

Tomorrow we leave for Kauai with Nikki and Jeremy. We will be gone until Friday and we are so excited. It's just a good feeling to get off the island sometimes...even if the place you're going is only a 20 minute plane ride. We haven't been before and we have been wanting to go to another island so we thought why not over New Years Eve! It should be fun. We have a lot of stuff planned to do and a lot of time to just soak in the Kauai atmosphere.

Baby Update/News: Nothing exciting going on except I went and got a bottle of Vitamin B-6 which is what the advice nurse and my piece of paper that lists the medicine to take while your pregnant said. I don't think it worked though. The first day I took it was Christmas and it didn't make me feel any different. I still felt queasy all day. Boo. Yesterday I went to Babies-R-Us just to look around while Winston was getting his face and nails trimmed. I found some Preggo Pops and Happy Mama Spray. I have sprayed the HMS all over my arms and sniffed away today :) It seems to be helping.  I was able to eat a peanut butter sandwich this morning (it's one of the things I reallllly like). Hopefully this will work for awhile. If not, I will be calling the doctor/nurse who better be back from their leave next week if they know what's good for them!!!

I thought I was just about over getting sick...

BUT! I don't think so! Boo.

I tried to get up this morning without taking the Zofrain and for awhile it seemed okay. I thought it was getting better because I haven't been feeling as bad. I guess that's because I was taking the medicine before I even got up! BUT...then all of a sudden it wasn't...Lucky for Justin he was home and had to listen to me screaming...you would think I would be used it by now...but I have never and will never enjoy spending my morning on the floor in the bathroom.

I called the nurse hotline who told me the doctor (who I didn't care for and won't be going back to see, but since she is the only one who has seen me I had to call) is out on leave. Of course she is!! She said she would leave a message for the doctor who is taking her calls, but it might not do any good because they just don't hand out that medicine unless they see you. Super news. She did tell me to go get some OTC medicine that might work. Other than that "have fun on your vacation next week" was how she left it. How nice of her :)

We go to Kauai next week with Jeremy and Nikki to spend New Year's Eve. We have a lot of fun stuff planned so I really hope something works for me :)

Baby News!!!

I have had this blog set up for awhile, but haven't put anything up until I went to the doctor and made sure everything was good! As all of you know who are reading this we are having a baby sometime in the summer of 2010! I say sometime because they aren't completely sure how far along I am. Right now the doctor is going with July 7th, but that could change when I go to the doctor next month for a dating ultrasound. 

We have known since November 9th and had to keep this a secret for what felt like years!!! Justin was out to sea and I had been feeling really tired. I took one test that said negative, but two days later and two at home tests plus a blood test from the doctor said YES! 

I haven't been feeling very good the past couple weeks. About two weeks of wanting to just sleep/die I finally went to talk to the doctor/nurse who gave me some anti-nausea medicine. It has been a miracle and worked all but 3 days in the past two weeks. 

After all the waiting to go to the doctor and not feeling great I finally got to go last week. I had my first appointment at Tripler Army Medical Center. Justin was out to sea again, but our friend Kortnee went with me. Everything looks good so far and we just have to wait until January 13th to go back for our next appointment in the morning and dating ultrasound in the afternoon. We aren't sure if Justin will be able to go to that appointment, but that's the Navy for us. We aren't complaining, it's our life! :) 

We are very excited we finally got to the share the news with all of you. Hopefully we will know more in a few weeks.