6 Weeks

This week I started developing a strange sense of smell.  I always thought that the heightened sense of smell would just mean that I could smell everything a bunch more.  That may be true for some people, but not for me.  Instead, most things smell fine, but I am super sensitive to some certain smells.  The kitchen smells like rotten food.  Our car smells disgusting.  Strong food smells like hummus makes me feel sick.  My favorite meal, Costa Vida enchiladas, smell a little different to me now.  I didn't realize that things wouldn't just smell stronger, but also different.  I am starting to feel so nauseous.  I think I'm in for trouble.

No picture this week as I haven't felt up for getting out of bed for a few days.  My belly looks the same anyways.

5 weeks

I know it's silly to take these pictures so soon.  Try to get over it. :)

We told my family today!  When my mom got pregnant for the first time, she told my dad by taking a stuffed rabbit that she had made and putting it on it's back on the table and drawing x's on it's eyes to make it look like it was dead.  For those of you who don't know, way way back in the day they used to have to kill a rabbit to do a pregnancy test.  Not sure why.  But, that's why the dead rabbit.  So, last time I was at my parent's house I snagged my old pink stuffed rabbit that I was given for Easter when I was a kid.  I cut out little x's and stitched them over it's eyes and put the bunny in a bag.  We were going up to Logan that day to see my dear cousin Haley give her mission homecoming talk in church.  My brother lives in Logan and so I knew it would be a good time since the whole family would be together.  After sacrament meeting, I made all of my family come outside.  They kept asking 'why?' and 'what are we doing?'  They are not good little sheep.  But I finally got them all there and told my dad I had a birthday present for him (his birthday is close to what I think the due date is.)  I handed him the bag and he opened it up.  They were so surprised!  My mom kept saying, 'You stinker!' which I'm not sure what she meant by that really.  Haha.  My brother and sister didn't quite get it so mom explained about how she told dad she was pregnant and about the rabbit-killing test.  It sounds really morbid when I write it down, but it was cute and fun in real life, I promise.  I know most people probably wait longer, but I'm glad I didn't.  It made me a little more excited and I am so happy I get to talk to a woman about my pregnancy now.  I'm still having a hard time believing that I'm really actually pregnant.

Put a Bird on it! An Easy Way to Decorate a Throw Pillow

 Before we get started, if you haven't seen the Portlandia 'Put a Bird on it' sketch, please feel free to watch it now.  Portlandia is one of those shows that are totally dumb but I keep going back to for some reason.  I can't tell you how many times I've quoted the Sacajawea sketch even though it's the most annoying thing in the world to watch.  


If there's anything I love, it's super easy crafts that you can use to decorate your home.  Today I'm going to show you how I put a bird on a throw pillow.

1. Get a plain throw pillow that you like.  I bought two apple green pillows for my couch.

2. Draw or print out the shape you want and then cut it out.  I wanted a bird on a branch, so I sketched it out on a piece of paper.

3. Pin the paper on felt and cut it out.  Don't make the mistake I did, buy non-pilling felt!

4. Hand stitch around the edges of the design onto your pillow.

5. Done!  See how easy that was?