I'm Back With A Big Announcement!!!

Well I took a little blogging hiatus after Hannah turned two. And now you will all know why.

It's because...

We're Pregnant, Again!!!

I'm 11 weeks tomorrow and my official due date is December 20th. That's right, a little Christmas baby. We're going to be busy.

So far everything is going great. I've been feeling very similar of how I felt when I was pregnant early on with HK. I have nausea almost everyday. Some days are better than others, but this whole week has been pretty rough. Every hour was rough when I was pregnant with HK. Ha!

I felt like I was pregnant the second week of April. I took a test on Friday, April 12th and saw this.

Unfortunately Brandon was out of town on a fishing trip and I didn't want to tell him over the phone. He came back the next evening as I was getting ready to put Hannah to bed. I was planning on having her wear her Big Sister shirt I bought her that morning, but he walked into the house before I could get it on her. So I just said this is a new shirt I bought Hannah today. He took a triple take and said "really?" "you are?" He was so excited.

We've chosen to spread the word by using this pic ever since. Pretty fun.

We had an ultrasound a few weeks back. Baby was really small, but it was a relief to find out early it was only one baby. After my brother's big news about twins last year I was really hoping not to find out the same news for myself.

Baby looked great so far. Heart rate was 153bpm. Hannah's was at 170bpm at her first ultrasound.

We won't find out the sex of the baby til the end of July or early August. We really don't care either way what we are having. I think it would be fun to have one of each, but I have everything I need for a girl so it would be nice to use those great hand-me-downs from big sis. Either way this is the last, I repeat last baby for the Hughes family. I'm done being pregnant. I think it's a miracle we have been able to have these babies, but pregnancy isn't so kind on my body.

We thought long and hard after Hannah was born whether or not to have a second child. I wasn't sure if I could emotionally go through it all again. It took 18 months after HK was born for me to even consider it. And another 6 months after that to really decide to go for it. In the end, we really wanted her to have a sibling. I love having a sibling and I want that for her too.

I think we are way more prepared this time around and hopefully everything will go smoothly this pregnancy and delivery. I'm planning on doing weekly or maybe bi-weekly pregnancy updates like I did with Hannah. I'll start that in a couple of weeks. Hopefully I can keep it up.

Thank you for all your love and support. We are so excited to be growing our family :)