Here we go!

Well, I have officially joined the wonderful world of blogging!  I absolutely love following my friends' blogs and thought this would be a great way to share information about my pregnancy with family and friends, particularly those who live out of town.  Here's to hoping I'm able to remain consistent with it!

The past year has been a crazy, yet wonderful, one for Eric and I.  Eric proposed last Thanksgiving and we spent the entire winter and spring planning our wedding.  A wedding that, I must say, went off without a hitch thanks to all of my mom's hard work!  After getting married in June, we took a fabulous cruise throughout the Southern Caribbean for our honeymoon.  Needless to say, if we weren't so dang close to all of our family and friends, Eric and I could happily live in several of the locations we visited.  We ended our first summer as a married couple by buying our first home. 

At the end of October, we discovered Baby Moore was on the way!  Eric and I decided to wait to share the news with family until the holidays.  We originally planned on making the announcement at Thanksgiving dinner, which was held at our new home for both of our families.  However, since I hadn't been to the doctor yet, we decided to wait to make sure everything was okay with my pregnancy.  The Sunday before Christmas, we had both Eric's parents and mine, as well as Eric's brother and my sister and brother-in-law, over for dinner.  While dinner was cooking, we gave each set of parents a present (below).  It took a few moments for everyone to realize what they were looking at, but once they had, it was pure chaos!  After lots of tears, hugging, laughing, and catching up on my pregnancy, we had an awesome night of great food (prepared, of course, by Dunn) and games.

So far, I have been blessed with a pretty smooth pregnancy.  Other than a few pesky side effects and being very tired, I have felt pretty good.  At my last appointment, I got to listen to the baby's heart beat, which was incredible!  We will be scheduling an ultrasound at my next appointment in February to find out if this sweet baby is a boy or girl.  Eric and I can't wait!!  I will do my best to periodically post pictures and pregnancy stats, but must warn you, it is unlikely I will be disciplined enough to do it weekly!  I will end this post by saying how very blessed Eric and I feel to have awesome family and friends to share this experience with.  Can't wait to see what this next year holds!