First-Trimester Bump Progress.

So it is likely that I will find time to head back here periodically and share pregnancy-related news for a while, then perhaps it will become a place to keep in contact with family & friends as our little girls arrives and grows. Not sure how frequently this will happen, although I do hope to try and make it a regular occurrence. I share that sort of as a disclaimer as I don't want writing here to become an interference with living life so if that starts to happen, you will see me here less again. (Although hopefully not with a 6 month+ break like last time)

A couple of people have asked for bump updates, and even though I've irregularly kept track with an app on my phone, I haven't shared many on Facebook for example. (I'm back and forth on the security of the site due to the ever-changing terms and conditions) So for now I think it's fine to share more here in this little space, but I do reserve the right to change my mind :) 

The day I found out. Andrew was actually at work, I had been feeling off all weekend & I had previously taken a test which was negative, but after the 'stomach bug' was lingering on Monday, I opted to take another test in the middle of the day. Not really sure why, well I found my little 'stomach bug.' So I texted Andrew at work to tell him. 

Most of the rest of the first trimester seems like a fog. Morning sickness hit pretty hard around 5-6 weeks, so other than working and then coming home and sleeping I really didn't do much else. It improved some around 11ish weeks but stuck around occasionally until recently (maybe even until 20 weeks). 

So here's the progress, I wasn't super regular with pictures since there really wasn't much to see in the first trimester. I have been a little more regular in the second since you can actually see the change. (sorry for the quality, most of these were my phone) 

(I promise our bed does actually get made....as much as these pictures would suggest otherwise)

That pretty much wraps up the first trimester, at the end we got to head to LA for a sweet friend's wedding which was beautiful!! I was so thankful we were able to go!! :) 

More bump progress coming soon! Much Love! 

How to have an epic blog-friend adventure.

I Love the friendships I have made through blogging.

Seriously, I can't even begin to explain how much they are an answer to prayer.

Before I started blogging, I was desiring friendships with sweet girls who love Jesus with their whole-being. Girls who were a similar age, the kind of friends a lot of people seem to make in college.

Well I went to a secular college the other side of the world and struggled for a while there to find sweet friends (I did eventually btw).

So when I moved to the states, I was unsure where to meet girls my own age who loved the Lord.

I met a few through my hubby's friends, but not anyone I really immediately bonded with.

Then I started blogging and met multiple girls who were the same age who just loved Jesus, who wanted to use their blogs to share their journey with Him.

I have been so blessed by this adventure.

It was even more exciting to find out I lived 20 mins from one of these girls too.

So for the last few months, she and I have been meeting up on a regular basis and spending time together....which has just been such a huge blessing in my life. 

So since I have shared the background and how I am thankful for these sweet friendships.....

I thought it might be hilarious to share with you the adventure that

Annie from what she saw

and I 

had today.

{Via}

Probably not the first thing you think of when you picture meeting up with a blog friend.

And that is definitely true, because we usually go to places more like the first picture.

However let me explain how we ended up in such a place.

So my plan for the day was to meet up with Annie for lunch at a Mexican place (can I just add a yum in there) and there was a pile of junk I needed to get rid of for a friend who had asked me to pile it into the back of his truck and take it out to the landfill. Now I thought I would be really cunning and load it up and meet her for lunch, then since I was only a few miles from the landfill.....I would continue on from there.

So first of all....I decided I only needed like 2 mins to load it from the garage into the truck.

Umm really not sure where my brain was on that.

Plus I had put on cute clothes to meet a friend, so yeah my nice jeans and a nice top with cute accessories.

So I start loading things out of the garage and into the truck and discover like an entire extended family of crickets in the pile of junk.

I'm not really a bug kind of girl.

So once I had recovered a little, I strategically maneuvered the container with the crickets into the back of the truck without getting super close.

Then added a few more items like a toilet?

I'm sure by now any neighbors were wetting themselves while watching me attempt this task.

Then climbed into the truck and headed out to lunch.

We enjoyed a nice lunch together laughing at my gross cricket encounter.

Then I mention I am heading to the landfill and does she want to join me for the adventure.

She said yes.

So Annie and I pile back into this awesome ghetto truck and head down to a dirt track

(which really needs resurfacing like there are potholes the size of kids)...

and find the landfill! 

Yes neither of us knew it was there.

Then we join the back of a long line of smelly trucks.

At this point we are laughing super hard at the attempts of trying to make the scenery look something like this:

{Via}

And Annie pulls out her camera laughing at how awesome this will make for a blog post.

So we continue to drive the truck into the landfill,

yes even across a weighing scale. LOL.

And dump it into the civilian area, so we didn't get to drive up the epic roadway

that really did look like that picture.

Then we proceeded to throw all the trash into the landfill.

The car smelled a ton better on the ride back just FYI.

I supposed the rest of the afternoon was more normal.

We made ourselves at home in the christian inspiration aisle at Barnes and Nobles hanging out on the floor talking for 2 hrs then buying nothing.

Then heading to Trader Joes and laughing so hard at random things.

All in all an epic adventure.

Blogging friends truly are the ones that will help you carry out your trash 

and won't judge you if it includes a toilet. 

I am so thankful for the awesome adventures and encouragement these friendships entail.

Stay tuned to see how our epicness continues as we adventure to Indy in October for the Influence Conference.

(yes, we are road tripping and detouring to pick up friends from an airport on the way)

Much Love,

L

P.S. I bet you didn't know Pinterest had pictures of landfills either?