March

March was a hard month for me. Between the progesterone shots making me feel pretty crummy, first trimester exhaustion, and trying to get our house on the market, I didn't end up doing too much.

We celebrated Jarom's 27th birthday on March 11th with a low key evening with just the three of us per his request. We ordered pizza, ate cake and ice cream and Jarom opened his gifts from us. He got the nice leather jacket he's been wanting, Mulan on DVD (he sings songs from it constantly so it was a gift from Addie), a video game (COD), and some nice dress shirts and dress socks. I bought a few trick candles for Jarom's cake because candles come in packs of 24 so I needed a few extra and wouldn't you know it... they turned out to be not very tricky at all. I guess the trick was on me!

Addie pulls out her princess/party hat whenever there is birthday cake... how cute is she?

On the 13th we went out to dinner with the Mazanis' and Bruce's to celebrate the 3 boys' birthdays. Ron's is almost two weeks before Jarom's, and John's is four days after Jarom's. We ate at Carraba's and had a fantastic evening. Mom watched Addie while we had dinner, then dropped her off at the mall and we went and had her ears pierced. Addie had been asking to get her "head pierced" for weeks so Jarom and I finally decided it was time. They didn't have two people working, so they had to do one ear at a time, so she cried a little after the second ear until they showed her her new earrings in the mirror. She is so proud of them!

This picture was from my phone that night and I keep forgetting to get a good picture of her new earrings.

On the 14th after church we celebrated Jarom's birthday with the family. Unfortunately Katie got a stomach virus, so we quickly switched it to my house, and we had planned poorly because Scott was at the beach for spring break. So it was a little get together, but we still had a great time. Mom made steak fajitas and a homemade cake for Jarom. Jarom LOVES Mom's homemade cakes. Jarom got a really nice tie for his new suit he was having a hard time matching, shirt, more earbud covers for his headphones he got for Christmas, an itunes gift card, lots of cards from family and Breck, and a card with money from Grandma Haynie. He ended up with a pretty good loot...err...birthday! Thanks everyone!

Addie again pulled out her hat for cake! Addie had her first pedicure in March. I was in desperate need of one after winter and Addie loves to get her toes painted, so I took her along and Aunt Katie to help, and we all had pedi's. I sat Addie in my lap and she put her feet in the water too. She picked out her own paint (pink of course) and they painted her toes, rubbed lotion on her legs, and added sparkles to her polish. She loved every second of it! We went back two weeks later for a polish change and Addie sat up in her own chair while they painted her toes, haha! Everyone there carries on about how funny it is to see such a little girl act so big! I don't normally get regular pedicures, but since painting my toes is getting harder each day and Jarom doesn't want to paint them, I have been splurging a little! After getting her pedi, I got her in her pjs and pulled her hair up and she insisted I take some pictures... what a ham!


We had a fun St. Patrick's Day on the 17th. Mom took Addie to the library for story time while I worked around the house some, then I met them for lunch at Chick-fil-a followed by some shopping. Addie got a backpack to carry her library books in and she is so proud to wear it!

I had another monthly check up with Dr. Nix on the 23rd and I got to hear the baby's heart beat on the little doppler this time! Baby's heart rate was 160 this time, so maybe baby was asleep last time? I'm interested to see what this baby is! We scheduled an early ultrasound for April 27th to hopefully find out the gender! I can't wait!

Addie on her trike for one of our after dinner walks.

Jarom took a backpacking trip with Dad, Scott, Uncle Bob, and our two dogs plus Dad's dog the last weekend in March. Jarom bought lots of backpacking equipment without really knowing if he liked backpacking but he really enjoyed the trip so I'm glad it wasn't a waste of money! He'll definitely be going again! The night he was gone, Mom, Addie, and I picked up some dinner to go, rented a few movies, then ate dinner upstairs picnic style in the floor while we watched movies, and had a fun girls night. We spent the night with Mom and Katie to get Addie slowly accustomed to sleeping at Grandma's since she'll have to at least the two nights we'll be in the hospital with baby 2! It was a fun end to our month!

P.S. Check out my February post below!