week 14- Pregnancy Update

Life as a pregnant woman has begun to settle in. I have not gotten over my nausea completely as this morning when I woke up with Brandon I was greeted by a familiar gurgle in my tummy, a cough in my throat and then the inevitable… unpleasantness. I have been trying to take life easy as, many times, baby is not allowing me not to.

My baby bump is becoming more visible to Brandon and I. And while I am quick to express that I am excited to get a big tummy, many Mom’s experienced in the pregnancy department tell me that, for now, it is much better that I don’t (something about sleeping with a watermelon or two in your tummy isn’t comfortable apparently).

Other symptoms are including frequent trips to the bathroom, as well as heartburn. My emotions are quite stabilized, to Brandon’s delight. Throughout the first trimester I was very quick to tears and now I am feeling like I can go a day or two without salting my cheeks. 

Work has been a challenge as it involves many odors and tasks that my head and tummy aren’t agreeing with. But the hope that things will now start to get a bit easier in that area keeps me positive.

Our baby is growing. How exciting! Our love for our baby is growing everyday!

Mini Adventureisms

Katie and I have been somehwat busy as of late. We haven't really had a whole lot of a ton of time to do much adventuring, so every here and there we try to get done what we can. we've been playing a bit of tennis, but that's just for our fun (and health), not for adventures. But a few days ago Katie was at work, so after dropping her off at work I went home and finished my sleep, then I had a pre-afternoon nap, and then I ate, and then I took a post morning lie down, and then I figured it would probably be wise to finish off the day with a pre-evening clean up around the house, and some post nap writing. Then, after I got the important stuff overwith I figured i could waste some time shopping for food. And I know what you're all thinking, "That's quite the adventure, Brandon." Well, you just wait. the adventure hasn't even begun. Not even close. No adventure will ever start until I have my beautiful sidekick, code name: K-Star.

When I picked up my sidekick from her work, I presented her with a gift of orange flowers. She then accepted my invitation to accompany me to our lair where we would prepare for the mini caper we were to embark upon. We grabbed our supply's: picnic backpack, food, water, sense of adventure, and our daring personalities. Then it was off to the infamous Cultus Mountains.

We tried to travel as far as we could by car, so as to minimize how much time we have to spend on foot, leaving ourselves open for attack from the zombies that lurk in the shadows of the forrest. We then had to trek for 45 minutes along an eerie path, lit by only the blistering sun. We had nowhere to run to if we were attacked. The steep incline of the calm forrest of doom to our right, and the peaceful lake of hate to our left. We were sitting ducks.

Well we were walking ducks.

Well not really, we were still people.

ADVENTURE PEOPLE!!!!!!

Eventually we arrived at our destination and had a lovely picnic right beside the lake. Some dragon boaters rowed past us while we ate our chicken, pickles and macaroni salad. It was delightful. Then we walked back to the car and decided we would have to do this again sometime. So keep your ears open for the next story. Or, keep your eyelids peeled to read the next story. Well don't actually peel them, that's not necessary. Just keep reading our blog to see if we do it again and actually get attacked by zombies.

Does anyone actually read this stuff?

Newest Sallenbach

Well, here it is. We are pleased to announce that we now have real proof of the soon-to-be newest addition to our family. What is his/her/it's name going to be? We are going to keep that to Gummy-Bean Sallenbach for now. And we will announce the name upon the birth of this little Gummy-Bean only to the doctor.

Yes, we will be finding out the gender of the baby as soon as we can, however, we will not tell anyone the gender unless they give us money or something else we can use or sell. This goes for even after Gummy-Bean is born. We will dress it in neutral colours and call him/her/it Gummy-Bean around anyone who has not adequately compensated us for our troubles.

For a temporary time only, we will hold the classic Turkish Family Fighter Games round robin involving many very difficult trials, such as the eating competition, the shampooing our carpet competition,the "where does that belong?" competition, and the free taxi for a week competition (just to name a few). The over all winner of said competition does not have to pay us to find out the sex of the baby.
*Turkish Family Fighter Games entry rates may apply*

So, in conclusions to this here update, we would like to thank all entries to the games and to those who have the generosity to give us all their material possessions and/or money in advance. Also, if people are unable to compensate us in such ways, then we would like to say that we would be happy if you could just celebrate our new family addition with us whenever you get the chance, or just celebrate on your own, and let us know how the party was.