The Beginning of the 2nd Trimester

Belly Shot #1: 12wks 0 days.

Carolyn's belly seemed to pop a bit this week! Nausea comes and goes, but thankfully is only present in the evenings, so Carolyn's days at her clinical have been a lot easier!

We've been making big plans for the move back to VA. We've signed a short 3 month lease on a small apartment in Herndon, VA and hope to find a home to purchase before the lease expires. It seems like there are a lot of good options in the area, so we're hopeful we'll find a good home.

Carolyn has applied to several jobs in the Northern VA area and has been checking in occasionally on rush hour traffic to see what commutes could be like. It seem like Carolyn may be spending a lot of time in the car in DC, but at least she's applying to part time positions so it hopefully won't be a daily adventure!  We're prayerful that all will work out.

**Hopefully, by the time you're reading this blog post the Ranger's have won the World Series!! We're watching game 6 while we're typing this..... GO RANGERS!!

10 week Appointment

We visited our OB for our 10 week appointment today. No pictures to share but plenty of good news! We had a Doppler first thing today to finally really hear the heart beat for the first time. We were able to see the heart beat at our 6 week ultrasound and were able to hear a very faint noise but this was the first time we would hear the real deal!

The doctor was able to find the heart beat right away. We were so relieved and excited to hear the loud and strong 167 bpm heart rate! The doctor said it sounded fantastic and "impressive!" Everything else seems to be going great as well, so we are breathing a little easier now. Carolyn's daily nausea seems to slowly be subsiding a little more each day. Both of us are VERY thankful for that. Carolyn's tired of feeling terrible and Sean's tired of Carolyn's complaining :-). Next appointment isn't until 15 weeks so, unfortunately, we won't have much more news to share for a while, except maybe a belly picture here or there.

In other news, we had a fantastic time at Virginia Tech this past weekend with both of our families and a huge THANK YOU to Mike and Kelsey for their wonderful hospitality, it made the trip very memorable. Our first real VT experience surpassed all expectations. We are starting to make big plans for the move to Virginia! Soon!! The home search is fully underway in the Reston area and Carolyn has started her job search in the area as well. Many exciting things are coming our way and we feel more and more blessed each day!

Congratulations Sean!

Sean received some wonderful news this week! He was selected for a position as a Facilities Engineer at the US Geological Survey in Reston, VA!!! For the past several months we have been looking for opportunities to move closer to friends and family on the East coast and once we got the news of our new addition we became even more serious about our search. This has definitely been an answer to many many prayers. We couldn't ask for a better situation. However, at the same time, it is very bittersweet. We are extremely sad that we will be moving away from our awesome Dallas friends, our great church, and especially Bruce, Stacy, and Miss Cameron :( but hope and pray that many many visits will be in our future! Our peanut and cousin Cameron are going to be best friends, of course, so they are going to have to spend a lot of time together! :)

We're now in the major planning stage on when and how we're going to make the voyage across the country and where we are going to live. Carolyn finishes her final clinical on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving and then graduates on December 11th so we're trying to coordinate! It's going to be quite a puzzle but we are excited for the challenge. Now, Carolyn gets to start looking at jobs in the DC area!! Hooray, for leaving the seemingly eternal student role and entering into society as a productive working woman!