its a girl!

I am 14 weeks and 4 days pregnant and we found out that i am having a GIRL!!!
We weren't going to go to the fetal studio place until this friday, when i would be just over 15 weeks, but michael didnt want to wait that long, so we called today and they said they have an opening so we left right then and found out! I knew it was going to be a girl though, even before michael and I got married I just knew that when we have kids we were going to have a girl first. She was being difficult, she had her legs crossed and was sitting on her little bum so the ultrasound guy asked me to move around and lay on my side to get a different angle. It was so amazing to see her in there and it made it so much more real! She wasnt moving around too much and the ultrasound guy even called her lazy haha (just like her mom) but after i coughed and poked a bit we got to see her stretch out and yawn and swallow. it was so surreal to see her! when she made the tinniest bit of movement michael and i freaked out each time saying how cute she was! hah it was probably so annoying but we just couldnt believe that this tiny tiny person was inside me!
baby cray :)

this was her stretching :)

we still dont have a name picked, and honestly we arent even close to one because michael and i cannot agree on any of them! haha but we have plenty of time to find the perfect name for her :)
so far the second trimester is better than the first, i am not as tired and not as sick, but i still need to take my prescription to not get nauseous. now i am just so excited to go buy tons a baby clothes and bows and tutus and all that fun stuff! so far this is my favorite nursery that i have seen

I just love that its not heavily themed and i love the wall color paint and the simple white crib. I probably would not have that green chair or those curtains but i LOVE that rug. and look how cute this diaper bag is!
but its $350 and that is just not going to happen, but i can still look at it :) well that is about it! here are some baby bump pictures:
***13 weeks***

***14 weeks***

baby update

Well baby cray is 10 weeks and 3 days today!!! It is starting to go by fast which is great because I just cant wait to find out what it is! then the real fun starts and i can start buying stuff :) well symptons so far:

1. NAUSEA: holy moly. starting at week 6 I could not keep anything down. For about 2 weeks I was throwing up about 5-10 times a day. Finally I ended up having to go to the emergency room and getting 2 IVs because i was so dehydrated! which was actually a blessing because the doctor there prescribed me a couple medications which have been heavenly. Now I only get sick about 3 days a week instead of 24/7 which I never would have thought would be good news, but trust me IT IS! so far i have lost about 8 pounds but i gained back 2 since i have been on the prescriptions :)

2. fatigue: let me tell you what, i, sarah lorraine cray, have never been more tired in my life. even when i was playing soccer at byuh and we were doing 3-a-days, that was a piece of cake compared to this! getting ready in the morning is the worst part, i usually have to sit in the shower because im too tired to stand for more than 10 minutes at a time! usually i come home from work and take a nap til michael gets home (about 10:30) and then i eat a quick snack and go to bed. i get about 12-14 hours of sleep but it still isn't enough! i hope what they say is true, and that i will get my energy back after the first trimester! especially for michaels sake, who has picked up ALL of the cleaning and cooking duties (he is going to be such a good dad :)

3. my boobs are huge. HUGE.

4. constipation: ummm am i the only pregnant woman who has this? haha maybe im the only one who would blog about it. first of all i had no idea that this was a common symptom, but you definitely learn a lot of interesting facts about your body when you become pregnant. all i have to say is i took going number 2 for granted, now it is like a full out war. and that is all i am going to say about that. sorry if i grossed you out.

5. emotional: EVERYTHING makes me cry. a commercial, a pretty song that comes on the radio, anything. today i watched top chef (my favorite show) and i was bawling because a woman said she was expecting her second baby. that was it. she just said she was pregnant and i lost it. why? i have no idea. i just cry at everything.

well that is about it, my tummy is definitely getting bigger and harder, but it is probably more from bloating than anything else, i just cant wait til i have a baby bump so people know im pregnant, instead of just having a food baby!!



***9 weeks***


***5 weeks***


i will be better at posting baby bump pictures soon :)

the BIG news

well if you are reading this you are probably already my friend on facebook and know that i am pregnant, but i am going to announce it again anyways and explain how it happened!

Ever since my friend karlie had her adorable twins i was seriously considering trying for a baby (yes call me crazy, but i had baby fever like no other) but i knew that my life would be a billion times easier if i just finished school first. i only have like 2 years left and i am only 21 so i have pleeenty of time for babies. so for a month or so michael and i were going back and forth trying to decide what we want to do and what our goals are. well we finally decided to wait to try at least a few years because michael is thinking of getting his PhD or some sort of higher education so we have a long road of schooling a head of us. thus the decision was made to go in that week and get an iud (which will last like 5 year.) one day i got home from work and i had to go to the bathroom and i started to go, and i stopped myself because i remembered i had a random pregnancy test that i should take to make sure i am not pregnant before i make the dr. appt. so i finished piddling on the stick and set it on the counter. i was a couple weeks late but my cycle is WAY random and i am usually always sporadic so i wasnt too concerned. well i went out into the living room and totally forgot that i took the pregnancy test! i ate dinner, watched a movie, cleaned up, etc and about 4 hours after i took the test i got a call from michael. so while i was talking to him about his day and what we wanted to do that night i was walking aimlessly around our apartment and i went into my bathroom and i spotted the stick. i TOTALLY forgot i took it, so i took a look, not even worried (i really did not think i was pregnant) and there was a plus. a faint little plus. and michael was in the middle of saying something and i said "michael i took a pregnancy test a few hours ago and i just saw it and its saying its positive, im seriously not messing with you there is a plus sign" well we both started freaking out and i had to run to walmart to buy some more pregnancy tests to make sure!! so i got dressed super quick (i broke the zipper on my favorite pair of jeans :/ ) and i ran across the street to walmart with michael on the phone. so i bought one, ran into the walmart bathroom and took a little wiz. within a minute a big YES popped into the screen. so i went out to my car, called michael and we just sat on the phone crying with happiness and complete shock. I then called my sister and continued to sit in the walmart parking lot in my car, crying. it was such an exciting moment and i just couldnt believe it was real!
well after a couple of scary dr.s appointments where we weren't sure if i was going to miscarry or if i just wasnt as far along as i thought i was, we finally figured out that my due date is January 5th, 2012 and i will be 8 weeks on thursday! so far our little bean is developing perfectly and our next appointment is in two weeks! i cant wait and i hope that everything goes ok.
so far pregnancy is SO much harder than i thought it would be. i am tired ALL the time, even though i get at least 10-12 hours of sleep a night i still want to take naps all the time! that is all i think about when im at work! not to mention i am not holding anything down and am running to the bathroom at least 3 times a day. i have no idea how woman do this, especially if its not their first and they have to take care of other little kiddies! i dont know how i am going to do that when that time comes. but i have heard that by the second trimester i should be feeling back to normal and i am crossing my fingers that its true! i will definately keep this updated and start posting picture of my baby bump! (not that i have one yet, but i will!) michael has been SO amazing. he does all the laundry, all the cleaning, all the cooking...basically everything. so all i have to do is go to sleep and go to work. i am very lucky :)

running

this last saturday (march 26, 2011) a few co-workers and I ran the antelope island buffalo run, which is a 25 k. which is 15.5 miles. yes, 15.5 miles. first of all this whole thing was not my idea, i caved into peer pressure. i have never liked running, ever, even though i have played soccer all of my life it was not the same as just running for miles at a time. but i have some crazy fit people at my work that sign up for this kind of thing allll the time, so when they did, they asked if i wanted to do it. i hesitated (i could barely run 3 miles at the time) and then brandon (co-workers) some something along of lines of dont be a pansie. I, Sarah Lorraine Cray, am a lot of things, but not a pansie. So i accepted this challenge with full confidence that i would kick this runs butt and at the same time show how hardcore i am to my fellow friends. If for future reference you decided to do a race/run of any kind let me give you a little advice:
1. train and train hard. i did have a training schedule, but i would take weeks off at a time, and when it came down to it i only ran 6 miles at a time before the 25k. Thats not even half! needless to say i was not prepared.
2. make sure you check out an elevation map, and that you understand what it is saying. Here is the map of my race:

now when i saw this before my race the irrational part of my brain thought "ah there is no way it is that steep, it has to be really gradual, i got it." wrong. it was exactly how it is pictured. it was that steep, in one word: death.
3. have someone to run with. and make sure they dont flake out on you (cough michael cough)
So i know that i should probably say "oh it wasnt that bad" and "it was fun" no that would straight up be a lie. I am going to be honest here, when i was doing it i was so pissed that i signed up for it. i told myself that i would never ever ever do something like this again, and i have never been in so much physical pain in my life. ever. half way through i wasnt even concerned about running the whole time (which i didnt) or my time, i was just focusing on not passing out and putting one foot in front of the other.
Now here comes the crazy part. Even after all of that, and all the things i told myself, 2 days later i signed up for 2 more half marathons. After i finished, the next day all i could think about was going running again! i am now addicted. and i dont get it. but i have a feeling that this new terrible thing is going to now be apart of my life.

9 fun facts

1. I don't like the number four. I just feel like its too perfect. its just too even, its too easy to divide, add, and multiply. the idea of having four kids makes me cringe for some reason, irrational? completely. coincidentally michaels favorite number is four, because its so perfect.

2. Im not sure if you are supposed to tear toilet seat covers to make the hole. I used to do it, and then one day i realized that i usually really have to go to the bathroom if i am going in a public place, and i don't have time to individually rip each one. so i just lay it down and go for it. I, of course, thought it was weird that i didn't rip it anymore so i brought it up to my sister and apparently she doesn't rip the thing either, and that it wasn't that uncommon. Maybe the slits are there so it does tear easier when you poo, instead of tearing it before. I don't know what one is socially acceptable. and i dont know if i will ever know.

3. it makes me uncomfortable when there are a group of people out to dinner and multiple people order the same thing. If i am out to dinner and have picked what i want to eat, then hear that someone else is ordering the same thing, i will change it. even if i want that other dish so much more, i change it. my brother is the same way. i have no idea where this came from.

4. i always brush my teeth right before i leave the house. it doesnt matter if i just brushed my teeth an hour before, or if i am just going out to eat. doesnt matter. i always brush my teeth right before i leave.

5. i always have the same routine when i take a shower. i get in, wet my hair, shampoo it, rinse the shampoo, then i squeeze most of the water out of my hair, then i put in conditioner. while the conditioner is still in i wash my body and shave whatever i feel like shaving, (but i do shave my arm pits every shower) then i rinse most my hair and last but not least i wash my face. every single shower.

6. when i am in my car and i have this huge booger in my nose that i have to get i always go through the same dilemma. what am i going to do with the booger after i get it? harvey isnt around so i cant feed it to him... by this point it is too late and the booger is on my finger, so then i wipe it under my seat. and then i feel bad for whoever will own my car in the future because one day they are going to reach under to adjust the seat or feel for the cell phone they just dropped and they will just get a handful of a bunch of crusties. and then i always think that i will clean it all up before i get rid of this car. and i then i laugh at how ridiculous that is. clean my car? me? no thanks. maybe the future driver wont think its my old boogers when they feel it? im a glass half full kind of person

7. whenever i go to the bathroom in a public restroom that is mostly empty i always have the same flashback
...im little (not sure my age) and my parents are watching a movie and on the screen is this woman going in the stall to go to the bathroom, and she sits down to do her business. then you see this creepy ginger guy peek over the edge of the stall with a wire cord, lowers its, and somehow wraps it around her neck and starts to choke her right then and there! that is the only part i remember from the movie, i have no idea what movie this is and i have yet to see it since.
so whenever i go into a stall to do my business i always wonder if there is a creepy ginger guy in the stall next to me, waiting with a cord.

8. i think it is unfair for me to make michael put the toilet seat down after he uses the bathroom. i mean to be fair we both use the bathroom the same amount. couldnt he get mad at me for not leaving it up? not to mention i am completely capable of putting the seat down myself when i have to go, i am in my 20's. frankly i find it selfish when girls get mad about it.

9. when my co workers go to pick up lunch for us and i give them my card to pay for it, i have this irrational fear that it will be declined. even if 2 seconds before i check my account and see that i have plenty of money,even if i know i was paid that day, even if its only a $4 meal, i still have this dark feeling inside. so i choose to hand them my whole wallet, and i then point out which cards they can use just in case it wont go through. i would rather avoid that embarrassment, so i take precautions.



the end

9 things i could live without

1. girls who wear backless/sleeveless shirts with regular bras.




2. girls who wear backpacks AND purses to school...is it necessary? can you not fit your phone and wallet in your backpack also? are you really trying to make a fashion statement with a huge a backpack? I DONT GET IT!! someone please explain it to me


3. chubby girls with belly button rings. I am not a fan of belly button rings in general, but if you have a hardcore stomach i can let it pass....but if are all flab, just say no.




4. wedge or platform flipflops. im irritated that these thing were ever invented and that girls are dumb enough to wear them.




5. people that have a MILLION profile pictures on facebook or albums that are dedicated to just pictures of them....uh are you kidding me?

... no picture because i didnt want to point some of my friends on facebook out...but they are out there!


6.when people crop themselves out of an original image and post BOTH pictures...just choose one! if you just like you in that picture that is totally cool, crop the shiz out of it! just dont put both pictures..i feel like you are saying f you to whoever didnt make the cut in the second picture! i made one as an example :)





7. everything on this list
http://funnycrave.com/the-5-worst-possible-facebook-status-updates/8117/



8. duck lip pics as profile pictures...

confession: i had to go through my profile pictures to make sure i didnt have any...so no harsh judgment if you do...


9. this woman



...alright that is all for now...feel free to add your own!!!

The future Mary Cray

So a word to the wise. Don't volunteer to do anything, unless you have done it before. Let me explain. My friend, Karlie Jean Cornell, is pregnant with twins. TWINS! (a boy and a girl) and i was trying to think of something I could do that would be fun and special for her baby shower. Well michael's mom is straight up jesus christ at making/decorating sugar cookies, and i always thought it would be fun to do something like that. So silly little me told karlie that i would be making pink and blue giraffe sugar cookies for her shower (please note that i have NEVER tried decorating sugar cookies before, but i guess that didn't matter to me at the time) so i was getting all excited about these cookies because, in my head, they were super cute and so i was telling everybody! so then karlies mom (who is also my boss) asked if i could make them for the work baby shower as part of the shower decorations/food (sure! no prob)...and later in the week she asked if i could make them for a separate shower that their family was doing (uhh maybe i should try to make these things before i say yes to all this)
so that weekend before the shower i tried to make them. two words. EPIC FAIL. they were awful, i mean truly atrocious. i tried decorating five of them and i was getting so frusterated with them being ugly that i ate them all (hence no pictures)

So i went into work the next day and i was just like...uhh i cant make these cookies, like seriously i suck at this. but i was comforted by very nice co-workers that had some faith in me. so i took the day before the shower off so i had all day to try and make these suckers. it took over 18 hours, but i did it.

this was try number 1:


this was try number 2:


ok so obviously neither of these looked good...so i made a decisions...no backround frosting, just outlining

ok this is not too bad:



hey this might work!



so almost 100 cookies later...and a very messy kitchen






Voila!






maybe one day i will be ask good as my mother in law...one can dream anyway :)