5 Weeks.

Your pregnancy: 5 weeks
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How your baby's growing:Deep in your uterus your embryo is growing at a furious pace. At this point, he's about the size of a sesame seed, and he looks more like a tiny tadpole than a human. He's now made up of three layers — the ectoderm, the mesoderm, and the endoderm — which will later form all of his organs and tissues.The neural tube — from which your baby's brain, spinal cord, nerves, and backbone will sprout — is starting to develop in the top layer, called the ectoderm. This layer will also give rise to his skin, hair, nails, mammary and sweat glands, and tooth enamel.His heart and circulatory system begin to form in the middle layer, or mesoderm. (This week, in fact, his tiny heart begins to divide into chambers and beat and pump blood.) The mesoderm will also form your baby's muscles, cartilage, bone, and subcutaneous (under skin) tissue.The third layer, or endoderm, will house his lungs, intestines, and rudimentary urinary system, as well as his thyroid, liver, and pancreas. In the meantime, the primitive placenta and umbilical cord, which deliver nourishment and oxygen to your baby, are already on the job. **copied from babycenter.com**

So I probably won't be good at keeping up weekly on what my baby is like.. but i figured I'd try. I'm 5 weeks. AND TIRED! Luckily (knock on something) I'm no longer feeling sick. Hopefully this will continue throughout the rest of the pregnancy.
This pregnancy is already different from my last two. I had morning sickness for at least the first trimester with the other two. I also had to have Caeser salad all the time.. What do I want right now? Meat. Steak. OH! and Cheesecake. But I figure out.. I don't really like the cheesecake all that much, but I really like the crust on the cheesecake!

Let's see. What else is going on in our life? I get to do sharing time in Primary next Sunday, and I'm kind of excited about it. I have a good idea.. So hopefully next Sunday I'll be telling everyone how good it went :-D.

Well I think I'm going to go take a little nap. I really love how independent my girls can be sometimes. It's nice that they can play together without to much interference from me. Makes sneaking a nap in so much easier!

To Daniel, From Wikipedia.

Carne asada is a roasted beef dish, literally meaning "roasted meat"[1][2]. The dish mainly consists of pieces or thin cuts of beef (e.g. flank steak, skirt steak), sometimes marinated, sometimes lightly salted or rubbed with salt, pepper and/or spices, and then grilled. It can be eaten alone, with side dishes, chopped and eaten as tacos, or chopped and used as filler for tortas, burritos, etc. It is commonly accompanied with guacamole, salsa, beans, and grilled scallions and tortillas.


Melissa's thoughts.. Aka.. It's also the name of the dish. So I guess we were both right!

Carne Asada

One of my favorite things to do is try to make the dinners i've tried at resturants...
Tonight's Special Carne Asada. Bryan's Grandpa taught me how to make it.. though i forgot and tried to recreate it tonight. It was okay. Sadly our meat was to thick...

Does anyone know a good place to find good meat for Carne Asada?!!?!? I might have to run down to Utah just to pick some up!

Lisa.. Lisa... Lisa...

(No i didn't take a picture of it silly! You can find a picture of EVERYTHING on the internet!)

So after I told Lisa I was pregnant.. I explained that I wasn't sure at first.. Because it didn't show up and then it barely showed up, on the home pregnancy test, that I indeed was pregnant. She was like "wait, how long did you wait?" and it was just like a minute... And the line was soooo light.. So it got me thinking and worring the tiniest bit. So I waited it out a few days.. Wondering.. Maybe I wanted to be so bad that I saw the faint line and decided it must be true...

SO! Instead of waiting until my first Prenatal Appointment, I decided that I should take another test. Wouldn't that have been bad.. Showing up to the appointment and not actually being pregnant.. And then I would be in even worse shape because after being sick for so long and not treating it the right way... Yes that would have been HORRIBLE. So I took another test. This time it showed up VERY dark and RIGHT away...

So... Yes.. I really am pregnant. Yes, I've already started morning sickness.. Though, I've decided I'm having twins.. WHY? because I feel nauseous if I don't eat... and I feel nauseous if I do (though a lot worse if I do) Maybe I'll just not eat the whole first trimester... I'll get the lesser of the two nauseousnesses. I keep reading how morning sickness normally doesn't start till like week 8 or something. But that has NEVER been the case with me. The day I took the test.. I went to my parents house.. and before I had even boughten the test I exclaimed: "i'm pregnant." 3 days of feeling icky. Yes. I knew what that meant.

How many SO's did I use in this blog? He he eh.

Pregnancy quote of the day: "You ate the baby and now it's in your tummy?" -Emily trying to understand how the baby got in my tummy.

6 quirky things

I was tagged by Kaitlyn. It's my very first tag on blogspot.. (though i've been tagged a million times on my other site)I am suppose to write 6 quirky things about me...
It's taken me a while.. because.. I have to narrow it down to 6 things.. I'm very quirky..

1. I HATE fancy or mixed food. My philosophy with food: keep things simple. I love fruit.. but gosh put it in a fruit salad and i can't eat it. When I go to nice resturants I have a problem because they over do themselves with spices and such.. I just want it simple! I decided this was the reason I would have died on a mission.. I am soo picky about food.

2. I never think of anything the way an y of my friends do.. Like one time in Young Womens the teacher asked us to tell her what we thought the Celestrial Kingdom looked like... Everyone answered the same thing.. but me. That's when I knew I thought different..

3. My best friend and I have almost nothing in common. It's weird but it works for us. We are just completely different. She's tiny skinny, i'm.. not. She's like a genius.. I'm just average, I love egg nog. She doesn't like it.. Though our husbands are remarkable the same.

4. I make up my own words. Bryan calls them Melissa-isums. I think my words usually describe things better :-D.

5. I get way to excited for things. Like on my third pregnancy I was so excited to find out if i was pregnany, right after buying the test at Haggens.. I went it the bathroom there and had to take the test.. I just can't handle suspense. I can't buy people's presents to far in advance because I get so excited that I either give it to them or tell them. (each year for christmas bryan usually gets a bunch of extra gifts because I buy them and give them to him right away because I'm so excited.)

6. I'm a visionary. I have tons of creative ideas.. And normally they are difficult. Like I started sewing.. and for my third project I decided to do a tie, and then a pair of jeans. Or like for church activities I like having fun announcements.. and bryan is always saying "why do you always think of things that take so much effort." I just have so many thoughts in my head... It's kind of fun!

Okay so i have to take some people...
Andrea B., Michelle J., Sarah Y., April L., Lisa L., and anyone else who wants to!

The best part about the Holidays..

So a lot of people are talking about their favorite foods and such from this time of the year. Mine? Egg nog. I hope this year to try making it from scratch! I honestly go through a ton of Eggnog, due to the fact it's not sold all year long. I love egg nog with sprite, egg nog by itself, eggnog shakes, eggnog icecream. I just love egg nog! We normally always have egg nog while we put up the Christmas tree. I just love the taste and all the memories.
What's your favorite holiday food or drink?

(i was tagged.. i haven't forgot.. i'm still thinking :-D)

The good stuff....

(stole this picture.. not actually mine.. but thinking about making something cute like this)

So.. We pretty much suck at having FHE weekly.. Mostly because Bryan works the 1-9pm shift at work.. And doing it will out him is not nearly as fun... BUT! He has had a few more day time shifts (hopefully this continues for like ever), and it's been really nice. So yesterday we talked about it, and decided he would come up with something for FHE. So we were saying opening prayer.. And we decided to first have a lesson in being reverent during prayer due to Emily and Hannah being a little silly during prayer. So we had the lesson.. .And Emily really caught on... Hannah understands it mostly too! Anyways after the lesson we played a game bryan kinda made up. We each took a turn acting like an animal and then the rest of the family had to guess it. It turned out to be HILARIOUSLY funny.. At first Hannah was pretty nervous, she isn't use to doing things without Emily and she had to stand infront of all of us (the three of us) and act out an animal. After a few stage fright tries I told her that she need to at least get up infront of us and then she could sit down.. Well.. It started becoming really fun.. And Hannah couldn't help but start acting like the animals she could think of.. She went back and forth from a dog and a cat.. and then decided to also try being a seagull.. It was the cutest thing... I just love my family.. And I'm learning more and more how much I love them... and truly enjoy being a part of our family! So.. I think we need to do FHE more often.. I wouldn't doubt that Emily and Hannah ask to do it tomorrow night again.. it was just soo much fun!!