Gestating, gestating, 1, 2, 3...

On Sunday, Justin and I announced our big news - we are expecting a baby! Since a large majority of our close friends and our family already knew, we decided to announce on Facebook in a fun way.  We had our friend Shannon Lee take a cute photo of us (pictured below) to tell the internet world a baby was on the way.  We are both over the moon and so excited to start this journey together!  Justin is thinking pink and so am I.  He really wants a boy, but he has a "feeling" it's a girl.  I'm completely fine with that "feeling" as I'd love to dress up a little girl in ribbons and curls and spend my time at ballet practice instead of Little League! I guess we'll see, right? We will be ecstatic no matter what and I'm sure, with time, I will find myself enjoying dinosaurs and T-ball more than I thought I would!

Baby Smith is due August 31, 2013.  I am 11 weeks 3 days today (2/12/13) and we have our next appointment on Monday.  It seems like it has been such a long time since our previous appointment and I'm extremely excited to hear the heartbeat.  We will have a gender ultrasound at 18 weeks but we might just shell out the extra money and go to an ultrasound center at 15-16 weeks to get a sneak peek.  I don't know if I can wait another 3 weeks!

I'm not showing as of yet but I wake up every morning wondering if my clothes will start feeling any tighter - so far, nothing!  I experienced some morning sickness (which is actually more like all-day and all-night sickness) for about 3 weeks, and had some pretty serious food aversion (gagging at raw meat, the smell of leftovers).  I'm happy that is starting to subside and I can enjoy life again.  I'm even getting part of my energy back which is wonderful because we have so many things we want to do to this little nugget's nursery!

I'll update again soon.
xoxo.