Baby Bump update- 16 weeks

I can't believe how fast this pregnancy is going so far! I guess when you don't figure out you are pregnant till 7 weeks along your perspective is a bit different. When I was pregnant with Scott we were actively trying to make a baby so we knew at 4 weeks and it wasn't that shocking. I love growing another baby I think the second time around is better just because I get to enjoy it all a bit more and appreciate everything more. At 16 weeks I can already feel this kid bouncing around in there, it wasn't for 7 more weeks with my first baby. Also I constantly worried about things outside of my control with #1 now I am bit more lade back and just going with the flow a bit more. I am still in that awkward stage where a lot of my weight and proportions have redistributed and my shape is a bit frumpy now but I don't quite look pregnant yet, which is a bit frustrating. This pregnancy like my last one has been pretty un-eventful and feels great for the most part. I had a no chicken in the house for a couple weeks, the raw chicken grossed me out and when we would go out cooked chicken didn’t taste right. The good news is as soon as I passed the 14-week mark that was over and my appetite came back with a vengeance. I really hate how obsessed dr.’s are with those little numbers on the scale. For nine months they tell you are too high/low every 4 weeks and then you have this beautiful baby and every time you come in it is the same story about weight/growth till you child is about a year old. It is just frustrating that so much is measured off a number that really is not an accurate measure of nutrition or health. It is just one of those annoying parts of this whole process I could deal without. Other then all that growing baby number 2 is going just swimmingly and I am enjoying the processes so far.

My Man and I- Our story

On Wednesday December 22 2004 my roommate and I went to our normal bar for happy hour and line dancing. We had a friend in town from NY so us girls were having some fun and enjoying ourselves. The one of us knocked one our purses off the bar and it landed standing up right, square on this tall Marines foot. He just stood there saying "maam your purse" there was no way he was going to touch a ladies purse. Then he just kept coming around so I finally cornered him and asked him if he was going to buy me a beer or not? We met up a couple more times and within a month I could expect to have him up from base almost every weekend.

Went spent most of 2005 together then we got the news he was deploying again. He was assigned to a 14-month deployment and since we had only been together for a year we decided to try and stay together through the deployment. He went home to CO for 2 weeks in the summer of 2006 and I was there. Then in the fall he called my Dad from Iraq and asked for my hand and then ordered a ring and sent it to his folks. So I started planning a wedding he got back in January of 2007 and we were married in July of 2007 and went to Disney world for our Honeymoon.

Shortly after being married we got the news of another deployment so I got a friend for this one. In October I got my bulldog and in November my new husband was gone again. That year I spent my first Thanksgiving with his family on my own in WI, not many people spend holidays with their in-laws without their spouse, but I will learn later this would be something I would get used to (good thing I love my in-laws). He got back in the summer of 2008 and we went straight back to Disney World for trip number 2, I had created a monster, who would have thought my big tough Marine would convert to a Disney nut too!! Then I finally got him home for a while which was fun but defiantly a big change and a lot of adjusting to get used to.

Then we started house shopping and never thought it was going to be a 9-month process from the first house we saw till we closed escrow on our place here in Carlsbad in August 2009. In that time I was laid off from my job and was just doing little temp jobs and we had gotten pregnant and were expecting our fist child. Once we got the house we found out another deployment was in our future, he had been home for a year and half. He left again in November of 2009 and I was 23 weeks pregnant. We got lucky enough that he got to come home for the birth of our son for 4 weeks before he had to go back out. He got back in June of 2010 to come home to a 5 month old and now I was a full time stay at home wife and mom. So again we all needed to adjust to our new chapter in our life all together, so went to Disney World for family trip #3 and the first one for the boy.

He has been home for over a year now. About 8 weeks ago I found out that very unexpectedly we were pregnant with baby number 2, we were planning on waiting till September to start trying for #2. Well God had a different plan for us and so did the Marine Corps again. A week after finding out we were expecting we got word that we had to PCS within the next 6 months. So we were given 72 hours to make the tough decision between 3 bad options. We mad the hard choice to do the 2-year unaccompanied tour in Japan, so the kids and I will stay here in CA and my husband will go to Japan for 2 years. We made that choice 7 weeks ago and have yet to receive our orders to confirm this is what is actually going to happen. So now we wait to see what the future holds for our little family only time will tell how this one pans out. I hope you enjoy our journey.

A breif history of how I got here....

Hi! I am Lisa a twenty-nine year old Marine wife and stay at home mom. I was born and raised in Orange County California. I am the oldest of three girls and my sisters are my closest friends (we got a lot of history there). I went to Chapman university in Orange and graduated with a BS in accounting. After graduating my roommate and I loved country music and more importantly we loved to go line dancing. That is how I met my husband over six years ago. I am a Disney nut and the only one of my sisters who has never worked for the mouse. I never thought that six years ago my journey so far would have looked like this. I have been through three deployments with my husband totaling two years and four months over the last five and a half years. In that time frame I have also gotten married, got a puppy, a house had a son and I am currently expecting baby number two in December. I hope you enjoy my journey through this very unpredictable life as a Marine wife. I love making my husband and my son happy everyday. I love spoiling these boys everyday it makes me so happy just to get the little kisses and hugs. My husband has a saying "move your feet and you ass will follow" this is the motto that keeps my head up when going through the hard times of this job. As we see another separation of our little family in the future I hope you enjoy reading about my journey of being a wife and mother with a husband who can't always be around like most people take for granted.