The very Beginning.......

In November of 2011, I was happy to find out I was pregnant with baby number 3!! Josh and I were very exciting to start preparing for our newest family member. For a little bit of background on me, I've been very blessed to have a very fertile body and beable to plan out my pregnancy's for the most part. Others I know don't get that oppurtunity and it's not always that easy. My older sister was pregnant at the time with twin boys, it took her 4 years to get pregnant with her boys and they were her first. During her pregnancy there were complications, one of her babies for a time we didn't know if he would make it to delivery or live after delivery for with other complications we wouldn't know till he was born if he had the extra chromosone defect which I believe is called T13 (forgive me Traci if I get any of this wrong). But I'm happy to report these boys are now 5months old. The baby we worried most about is such a fighter and so strong and though he keeps his mommy and daddy extremely busy and will always have his own trials and struggles, he's doing great and were thrilled to have both him and his brother here with us and they have both been such a great blessing not only to my sister, but to our whole family. Through my sisters experience it opened my eyes to how getting pregnant and creating a life is truly a miracle. I learned so much through her trial and it helped me grow more love and compassion for my own kids and family. 
But also through seeing what my sister went through with this pregnancy, even though it was the third, it almost felt like a first all over again. I was more conciously aware of every little thing and always had butterflies in my stomach for fear something was wrong. I didn't know why I felt this way and often just brushed the feeling away. I went in for my first Dr visit around 10 weeks. I remember I was excited, nervous and my heart was racing as all I wanted to do was hear that heartbeat so I could relax. Then the Dr. reminded me it may be hard to pick up the babys heartbeat with the doppler. And it was so he did a ultasound and then we saw it, our little peanut and I saw her heart beating on the screne. That was an indescribable moment. It made me think to my self , "see amber you had nothing to worry about" It was one of the best days. My due date was then set for August 10th 2012.

Following the next weeks and going through the first trimester and into the second I went through much of the fun morning (all day) sickness. Though this is a common pregnancy thing, it was still new to me for I never got sick with my 1st and 2nd child. It's definately been a different pregnancy though each of my pregnancy's have been very different from one another. I feel it's true that every pregnancy is truly unique.

At Christmas time was when we made the announcement to our families that we were expecting. What we did is at the family christmas party I wore this shirt (shown in picture below) and to the family that wasn't there we texted them a picture. It was a really fun way to make the announcement so I wanted to remember and share it.....

Shirts a little PG-13, but it say's "It looks like Mommy gave Santa more then just a kiss" with the arrow pointing to my belly" :)