1st Ultrasound!!

I could barely sleep last night I was so excited about this! We scheduled the earliest appointment they had at 9:30. They tell you to drink 32oz of water 1 hour prior to the ultrasound and not to empty your bladder till after the ultrasound...ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! Do you know how torturous that is for a pregnant woman? I needed to go like 30 min after. But then since I was still a little too early (8 weeks 5 days) for a regular ultrasound they had to do one for the inside.  The ultrasound tech was hilarious! She had this really cool accent that we couldn't quite place (Sean guessed maybe New Zealand?) but she was making me laugh the whole time! When she finally showed us our baby...oh man was that cool! Of course I started crying! It is such an unreal experience seeing a little human growing inside of you and to be able to hear it's heartbeat! It was a strong heartbeat too, 158 beats per minute! Then she was trying to measure the baby and she said you need to measure from it's butt to it's head...so she pointed to it's butt and then started singing.."I like big butts and I cannot lie!" hahaha!! She said I was measuring at exactly 8 weeks, but since it is still hard to measure the baby cause it's all curled up, they are keeping my original duedate at May 1, 2013 :)

Here is our precious baby!!

The doctor said everything with me looks healthy too, even though I've lost 4-5 pounds. She said that was perfectly fine and not to stress about it. Eat when I'm hungry, rest when I need to, and just make sure to take my vitamins and drink lots! We asked her when it would be okay to tell all of our friends and she said everything looks perfect and we are past the point of miscarrying if it was going to happen, so we can tell as many people as we want! Which is good cause after hearing that little heartbeat, we just wanted to tell everyone! Sean said he didn't think he could keep it a secret any longer either :)

 Luckily I already had it planned out how we were going to announce it, so we called up his sister and asked if she would be our photographer for a few minutes, and this is what we ended up with!...

 We looked all over town for a sign like this that we could take a picture by, but they were nowhere to be found! I even tried googling where signs were, but apparently they don't post that stuff haha. So then I looked into buying one, but those babies are $40+! No thanks...So Sean suggested I just make one...DUH! Why didn't I think of that? So with a poster board, permanent marker, scissors and letter print outs, I went to town! Didn't really take that long either! And the building we took it in front of was just this huge barn looking building out on the main road that just had random businesses in it, but I think (after just a little editing on Instagram) it ended up being the perfect spot to take the picture!
Oh also...I found out that here in AZ, they tell you the sex of the baby between 16-18 weeks instead of 20 like a lot of other places...WOOHOO!! We may only have to wait 7 more weeks!!