Nausea is kicking my ass

Thanks to a good friend, I now have a new "must have with me at all times" item in my purse... Ginger Chews. Who knew...

I've only been physically sick once, but every morning I wish my body would just give in, thinking maybe it would make me feel better.

The hardest part about all of this is eating. I love to eat, but I have a bad problem with forgetting. But due to the little alien screwing with my stomach, I haven't had this issue as of late. It's just eating good stuff. Hopefully I only have a few more weeks of this...

I'm super tired. I basically get up, go to work, come home, go to bed. I have no energy to do anything. I'm afraid of what the house will look like when i get my energy back. Brian is being pretty good about picking up after us, but he is a guy.. and guys just don't clean "correctly". LOL

He's also being a good sport about my whinnyness...it annoys me too, but I have not figured out a way to just not bitch... LOL it just comes so naturally.

Anyways.. that's enough of that. Back to work for me.

Brian/Kristal hybrid coming to you Summer 2010

That's right.. I'm pregnant.

Along with that diagnosis means I'm also really bitchy, which is why I took a test in the first place. I figured "I'll just rule this out real quick..." Next thing I knew I was pacing the house going up and down the stairs for the next 2 hours until Brian got home.

I'm still in shock and not real sure what to think of all this. I've only had that maternal need twice in my life. Once when I was 19 and the other soon after I started dating Brian. Things with us seem to be on fast forward. Everything has gone so fast.

In those 2 hours that I was waiting for Brian to get home from work, I tried to find a fun way to tell him. I knew he'd probably be more excited about this than I was, so I wasn't too worried about his reaction. When he gets home, he makes a bee-line to his fish tanks. So, I put the test under the canopy. I had the video going, but his reaction was weird. He thought I was playing a joke on him. So, I asked if he wanted to try and read it again... Apparently, men don't know how to read these things. I think it's pretty obvious... a plus means positive. Once he got it, he was thrilled. Thank goodness someone was cuz I'm terrified.

I had no intentions of telling anyone for a while. Honestly, I was so put off by "friends" and their comments when I got engaged. I didn't get "congrats" or anything similar.. I got "Are you pregnant?"... How rude. So, I am not posting anything on Facebook.

Brian, of course wanted to tell everyone the second he found out. LOL. We spent most of last week spreading the news with select friends and family. Here's the reactions:

Liese -- squeal...
Kinnon -- You're pregnant? Congrats!
Scotty -- 'bout time
Jenny, Jen, Julie -- congrats (told through email since I haven't had much time to visit or call).. Jenny is apparently already planning a baby shower.. LOL
Jason -- non-chalant no shit?
Cecilia -- probably one of the funniest... I was holding Brayden and she jumped up to give me a hug and almost took his little head off... LOL
Meme -- WIN WIN WIN! (My reaction.. did you just say "WIN?" LOL)
Dad -- ok
Bonita -- See I knew it!
Mom -- congrats w/ a weepy hug
Robert/Karen -- crying hug/shock
Eric -- congrats
Ashley -- squeal
Grandma and Papa -- Hotdog! Although it turns out Grandma thought Papa was talking about someone else... LOL

So, here we go... My first appointment is November 19th. I'm super tired. I haven't had a lot of nausea, but I've had some.. When I do get it, it seems to last all morning through mid-afternoon... after that I'm fine, but I want a nap... the worst part so far is my boobs hurt.. LOL

5 days and counting

We've survived up to the point, so I think we're good to go. Everything is done, so we are just playing the waiting game for Friday to get here. That's when all of the chaos will take shape.

Brian had his bachelor party this past weekend. Nothing too extreme, but I definitely don't want to know. Haha! I'm having my Girls Night Out Thursday which will just be dinner and then some games. It won't be a late night for 2 reasons. 1) I am not a night owl, so staying up past 10:30 is only possible if I have a work deadline I'm stressed about.. haha 2) Most people have this thing called work that they have to do the next day.

Friday is the rehearsal and thank you dinner. That's where I think the nerves will finally kick in. Knowing that I'll be standing in front of 120+ people and they will all be staring at me makes my stomach turn.

Hopefully everything goes smoothly. The drama has come down to a mere trickle which is the biggest stress reliever for me.

Our honeymoon flight was canceled and reissued for 2 hours earlier. I'm just so excited to be waking up at 3:30 in the morning the day after the ceremony.. lemme tell ya. Haha.

Bring on this new life!

Alterations.... oh the horror....

So when I ordered my dress BACK IN JANUARY I specifically asked how long it took to get alterations done. The sales lady replied "Oh, about 2 to 3 weeks." That seemed reasonable.

Fast forward to April 16th when I called to see if my dress was in (It was... the service this shop provides is below average for sure...).

I said, "ok, well, I need to have it altered, so can I just go ahead and make an appointment?"

"Sure, May 1st is the first available day". Hmm... the wedding is only 6 weeks away and I wasn't sure if I trusted her "2 to 3" week estimate from 4 months ago.

So, I asked again. Ok, that's fine.. how long to you expect the 3 alterations to take? "Oh," she says very nonchalantly, "about 6 to 8 weeks."

Wait, what?! How does it jump that much??

Needless to say, I just picked my dress up and have been looking for a tailor ever since. In fact, the dress is still in my truck. Ugh. I think I found someone, but I am already finding that apparently, everyone expects you to know exactly what you are doing. I'm just having the dress altered, so I never thought to bring everything else. You would think they would mention this minor (huge) detail over the phone when you ask if they can alter a WEDDING dress.

Nothing has been easy about planning this wedding. Although, that was exactly what it was supposed to be. I recommend anyone who intends to marry to just elope... save your money and stress and just elope...

On top of all of this... I've been informed that some of the invitations are either coming open or not arriving at all. Stupid faulty envelope glue. Sigh.

No turning back now...

The invitations have been mailed!

The design for the cake has been submitted :)

The final 3 things I have to do is make the ring bearer pillow, order 2 more sets of flowers and reserve the stuff in Maui. Both things that I'll try and do this week.

54 days....

2 months, 5 days...

Wow how time flies when you are having fun. Things are still going pretty well. I'm getting my invitations tomorrow so I can start getting them ready to mail next week. There's not a whole lot left to do. My dress should be in soon, so I'll need to get that altered. I need to make the ring bearer pillow. I'm pretty much betting I can just give Mrs. P a picture of what I want the cake to look like and she'll be able to take it and run with it. And schedule things in Maui for us to do. I really want to say that's it! But I know something else will pop up.

I've had another bridesmaid drop out, so I'm down to two, but I may "upgrade" Ainsley to Jr. Bridesmaid/Flower Girl.

My flower girl has been having a rough month. She broke her arm/elbow and lost 3 teeth all at once. She should be well out of the cast by the time the wedding gets here, but if not, I'm ready :) Her cast is hot pink, so hopefully she'll let me make her a little cover so she can match the colors.. if not, then I guess I'm adding a color to the wedding! haha

Photography

I met with my photographer yesterday while I was in Houston. I'm so excited to have Kelly take our pictures :) It's going to be a ton of fun! We're going to try and do engagement pictures on April 4th. That was a nice surprise since I wasn't planning on really doing that. She just happens to be coming up to Austin that weekend. Woot!

Other than that, nothing much has changed. I've ordered the fabric for the flowers and ring bearer pillow. I'm meeting with Chris G. to go over the music.

I HAVE to get my lists for the showers out today... I just haven't made the time to sit and look at everything. Too many things on my plate. I also need to mail Nikki the color samples for the invitations. They are so elegant... very simple. I'm excited about them :)

Anyway.. that's it for now!