17 Week Check-up

Today was our 17 week check up and all went well. If you are like us it is hard to believe that we are already 17 weeks along and at the very beginning of our 5th month of pregnancy! We met with Dr. Olson this morning and heard the babies heartbeat...154, a good strong heartbeat. I find myself struggling a little bit and craving confirmation that everything is okay because I am one of the very fortunate expectant mother's that feels really pretty good, so hearing the heartbeat is a great feeling of relief for me that everything is well with Baby Eddins! Today's appointment was a routine check-up, I was told I would have to get a flu shot, so other than that minor prick, all else was painless!

We are certainly looking forward to December 18th when we are able to find out the sex of the baby! Mike is pretty certain it is a girl, friends of ours are predicting a girl, Jason & Jen believe it is a boy, as well as a few other friends and I am completely on the fence, one minute I think it is a boy and the next I am certain it is a girl! I consulted one of those Chinese birth charts online and it said boy, so I then proceeded to check another link to see how consistent the charts are and the next one said girl! SO...needless to say, it is truly a 50/50 guess and we will be blessed either way the coin drops! We are both so anxious to get going on the nursery and I have been patient, if you can believe it, and haven't bought much of anything for the baby yet!

I would like to take a moment and wish my Grandpa Harvey a Happy 72nd Birthday! We hope you have a great day and love you very much!

Galena Getaway

This weekend we headed to Galena to celebrate our 2nd Anniversary! We had great company along with us our two great friends Monica and Brandon. We decided sometime earlier this year that we wanted to go to Galena to celebrate our anniversary and Brandon and Monica had the same idea, since they were married up there a year ago on the 10th of November, so we decided to do a joint trip!

We rented a 2 bedroom villa at Eagle Ridge and stayed Friday and Saturday evening. On Friday night we had dinner at Backstreet Grill, which is the restaurant that catered Monica and Brandon's wedding...YUM! Saturday morning the girls had spa treatments while the boys watched football and caught some ZZZ's! Saturday afternoon brought Hawkeye football for the guys and some shopping downtown Galena for the girls! Monica and I were able to get back to the bar and join the guys for the last quarter of the Iowa game and were happy we were able to see the Hawks squeak out that win against an undefeated Penn State! GO HAWKS! Later that evening we got cleaned up and went to dinner at One Eleven Main, a relatively new restaurant downtown, where lots of laughs took place!

On the way home today Mike and I were discussing how lucky we are to have 2 great years of marriage under our belts, to have a baby on the way, to have a great family and to have amazing friends. We want to thank Brandon and Monica for a great weekend, we look forward to carrying on the tradition! Happy Anniversary on the 10th, we wish you a lifetime of love and happiness!

Our 2nd Anniversary

It is so hard to believe that it was already two years ago that we were in Galena, IL getting married! It truly was the best day of our lives so far! We were surrounded by family and friends in a beautiful location vowing our love to one another, it couldn't have gotten any better than that! A special thank you to my brother and sister-in-law Jason and Jen for sharing their anniversary with us...Happy 8th Anniversary today, we love you both!

This year to celebrate we are going to spend the weekend of November 7th-9th in Galena at Eagle Ridge with two of our very best friends, Brandon & Monica Hahn, who also happened to get married in the Galena area on November 10th!

I would like to take a minute and recognize my husband, Mike. Thank you for the past two years. Thank you for being my companion, my partner and my best friend. You truly complete me, without you my life wouldn't be the same. Happy Anniversary! I love you!

Here are a few memories from that day!

A Blog is born...and other things!

It is official we too have jumped on the blogging bandwagon! Thanks to all of our friends for having their great sites we decided it was time for us to join in on the fun! There is a multitude of reasons to start a blog, but we figured what more fitting of a blog than to announce the fact that we are expecting!

We had an exciting Labor Day weekend this year and it started off with a positive pregnancy test! The past few months have been somewhat surreal with us trying to let the good news sink in. We were blessed with an ultrasound on Monday, October 27th and were told that Baby Eddins is doing well and very healthy! Our next ultrasound is on December 18th when we will be able to determine the baby's sex, we can't think of a better early Christmas present!

The pictures to the right are of the ultrasound, the first one is the baby on its back with his/her hands up by its face. The second one is the 3D ultrasound, which was totally amazing! It still gives us both goosebumps when we look at it! The bottom one is a view of the babies back and bum!

Keep checking back as we will have many updates as we go on this adventure together!