Sick...BLAH!

Yeah, that's right I'm sick. :( I'm pretty sure it's just a cold, but with how miserable I've been you wouldn't be able to tell. Let me tell you, getting sick while pregnant is NOT fun at all! For many different reasons. First of all I don't want to take anything to help me be less miserable because I'm afraid I'd take the wrong thing and end up hurting the baby. Second all the extra blood flow and such makes my nose run even more than it would when I'm not pregnant. Therefore the intensity of my cold has been intensified by 10! YUCK! So moral of the story? Just don't get sick when you're pregnant. I'm pretty sure I didn't get any sleep the first night (Sunday night). I'm just glad that i didn't keep Jon awake all night with my tossing and turning.

The only upside I've seen in the past 2 days while being sick is that the baby's kicks and other movements are getting stronger. While I've sat around feeling pathetic the baby has tons of energy and is moving around quite a bit. My mom even got to feel the baby. :) It made me laugh cause when the baby kicked her hand moved too! I'm so excited for the baby to continue to grow!

On an even happier note...we get to find out TOMORROW what we're having!!! :) And more good news? The Dr's office called to confirm and told me that since I'm over 20 weeks pregnant I don't have to drink the 32 oz of water and hold it for an hour before the appointment! YAY! I was really anxious about that. My bladder is small enough as it is. Give me 32 oz of water and tell me I can't go to the bathroom until after my appointment? I'm going to tell you that you're crazy! :P

Adventures with Luke

Last week Luke and I decided to go get some fresh air. So we went to the park. :) Luke had a blast! I did too, but racing him to the end of the street did me in. Needless to say I was ready to go home for a nap before he was ready to leave. We took some pictures while we were there. Note to self: don't ask a 4 1/2 year old to take a picture of you.

Luke riding his bike. He's quite the little speedster!

Luke and I on the playground.

I asked Luke to take a picture of me and my tummy...he missed my head. :P

Yay! He got my head in the picture! :) Can you see my pregnant belly?

Halloween fun

Jon and I decided we wanted to have a Halloween party this year and get together with some fun couples. I only wish Natalee and Kyle were able to come too! And of course Jess and David. Utah is just a little too far away for a random invite to a party.

Here are some fun pictures from the night. (I put all of them up on facebook as well). We had pumpkin carving. We had candy, salsa, pumpkin bread, and pumpkin pie! So much fun!

Just carving pumpkins!

Cute little family :)

My gangsta husband

The nerd family! Aren't they cute?!

And of course Clark Kent and Lois Lane

The gangsta couple...Jon pulled it off much better than I did.

The brothers.

October

We finally remembered to take a picture yesterday! I wish we were able to get the huge piles of dirt that are just out of the right side of the picture. :) It's so much fun to drive by and see them working on the temple! Can you see my little belly growing? :P

Boy or Girl?!

We get to find out what we're having within the next two weeks! (No I haven't gotten my appointment set up, I need to get the number from my mother-in-law so I can do that.) We're so excited! Well...I am. Jon is still quite convinced that it's a girl and won't listen to me suggest otherwise. Oh how I love him!

So I wanted to get some input from you. What do you think we're having? A boy or a girl? I'm excited to hear what you have to say.

Other fun stuff, Jon and I decided to take a picture at the Gilbert temple site last month. Our goal is to get a picture every month to kind of document the progress. :) And while we're at it it will document our growing family as well. For the next 5 months you can watch my tummy grow and then after that our baby! Here's our picture from September. We're still working on remembering to take a picture for October.

Weekend fun

Have I ever mentioned how much I absolutely love General Conference?! It is absolutely amazing and I always welcome any chance I get to listen to the Prophet's voice and counsel. Now I have come away from a whole weekend of being spiritually fed!

I discovered something yesterday. I can no longer see my hips! Yes, that's right, my tummy has become so round that my hips no longer stick out! I am now 15 weeks pregnant. Well 15 weeks and 5 days. :) Here are some pictures to show you that I'm starting to show! I'm pretty excited!

This is a better picture of my pregnant tummy, but I look funny.

A view of how I see my tummy :)

So we will get to find out what we're having within 4 weeks! :) We're so excited! Well, I am. Jon is still completely convinced that we're having a girl. We've got names picked out though. :) Veronika Ann Zuniga if it's a girl. We'll call her Veja (said Veya) for short. If it's a boy we want to name him Joseph. But we're, well I'm having a hard time deciding on a middle name. We want to give our children family middle names. Here are our options for boys:

Jacob

Jonathan

Noel

David Lehi -or just David or Lehi

Hiram

Isac

Simon

Ammon Seth - or just Ammon or Seth

Caleb or Kaleb

Benjamin

Nathanael

Joshua

Chiam

Jaedon

Jaron

Terry

Briscoe

Cecil

Teancum

Justin

Brandon

Luke

Dirk

Charles

What do you think? What middle name goes well with Joseph Zuniga?

Lots of news...that's not so new

So...I decided to finally write another post! I know...it's about time! But hey in my defense those who I know do/have read my blog already know all of the events that have transpired between the end of May and now. For one, Jon and I got married! Sealed for all time and eternity in the Mesa Arizona temple on June 5, 2010! It was simply amazing! A beautiful, very hot (110...the hottest day so far in the summer), summer day! Sarah and Jessica came over to do my hair and take pictures of me getting ready to get married! :) Then my mom, dad, and I all got in the car and headed to the temple. We were going to pick up Jon, but he decided to meet us there. Which ended up being a good thing because he would have left our marriage license in the car and would have had to go a lot farther than the parking lot to find it. :P The ceremony was beautiful, and what made it even better was that Jon's Grandpa Cardon preformed it. :) After that my day kind of turns into a blur. We took pictures of course, had a luncheon, I packed for the honeymoon, Jon "started" packing (which consisted of realizing he didn't have any clean clothes and starting a load of laundry), then we headed to the church for the reception. It was beautiful! My grandma had done an amazing job with the flowers and thanks to a lot of help from those who came to set up the night before everything looked beautiful!

We spent our honeymoon in Wyoming and then slowly made our way back though Utah to Arizona. We stopped in Brigham City to visit with some of Jon's mission buddies. Made another stop in Provo to visit some friends. Then we went up to Lindon where we were fed an amazing dinner by the Heath's (Zuniga's family friends). Then we finally made it all the way home. However we had to stay at Jon's family's that night because we didn't exactly have the keys to our apartment yet. But that's where my birthday comes in! :) You see we got back on Saturday in the late afternoon/early evening, opened wedding presents then went to sleep. On Sunday we got hold of the Boyle's and were able to get the keys from them after church. Then we moved in! :) Wonderful birthday present!

Fast forward to mid July. I went up to Idaho with my mom and three of my little brothers for the Terry family reunion. This is where I became highly suspicious of being pregnant, however I didn't know "for sure" until after I took a pregnancy test when Jon and I were finally reunited. (Yes, I know I was brave for leaving my new husband for a whole week...I missed him terribly). That's when the real fun began. I wasn't sick, just tired and kinda weak in the mornings until I ate something. From Idaho we went to Wyoming for the Roberts' reunion, then Utah for Jon's mission companion's wedding. And then finally home!

I am now 15 weeks pregnant and getting so excited to have a little one of my own! I know I still have a long way to go, but March 23rd is 6 months away! :) Jon is completely convinced that we're having a little girl. I don't know what to think yet. I guess we'll find out in 5 weeks or so. :)

I think that's all for now... hopefully I won't be too incredibly slow at writing the next post. :)