20 weeks preggo

Woah... can't believe we're at 20 weeks!!! My baby center weekly email says the baby is the size of a banana! Jared took my 20 week picture today. My belly is getting bigger, that's for sure! Here is the 10 week and 20 week picture...

10 weeks- January 20, 2009


20 weeks- March 31, 2009


still documenting in the awesome m&m pajamas! :)

Love this weather!

I am getting ready to start my Sunday routine of writing lesson plans, grading papers, typing a newsletter, typing spelling lists, making homework packets, and all the other school things I do! But, first I wanted to post some pictures from today. It is such a gorgeous day outside. We decided to go on a walk! Also, Stacy came up to visit and see our apartment now that we are settled. :) I LOVE this weather!!!


family photo:


we <3 Fred


me and Stacy:


Stacy loves Fred:






Hope everyone is out enjoying this pretty day!!!

Nursery in Progress

We move FAST! haha We just found out it's a boy and here we are with the nursery in progress!!! :) Here are some pictures of what we've done so far.......





(this empty space is where the armoire will go whenver it comes in!!!)









Here's the cradle for the baby to sleep in our room the first few months...


Hope Jayden likes his room as much as we do!!!!

And thanks, Aunt Stacy, for the matching blanket!!! :)

It's a.............

BOY!!! YAY! We are beyond thrilled to find out it is a boy! What an exciting day! So I have several things to post about...

First, the day before my ultrasound, I had so much fun with my class (as I do every day!). I had them make a prediction of what they thought the baby was. It was really funny to watch all the boys vote boy and all the girls vote girl. (well, except for 2 boys picked girl! ha!) I have 14 boys and 9 girls, so of course, boy won! The graph was cute and we hung it up outside the classroom door. I give my kids a writing prompt every day and that day I had them write about if they thought boy or girl and what the name should be! Some of the names were really funny! I just love my class... they crack me up! :)



Jared and I have been so excited/anxious/nervous about this appointment. Obviously, all that truly matters is that we have a happy, healthy baby with all of it's "parts." We just wanted to see and hear that everything was growing and developing as it is supposed to. The icing on the cake was finding out the sex!!! We had the ultrasound first. They were able to tell us right away, "It's a little boy!"

Everything appears to be great! Everything measured the way it should. I am right on track for the August 18 due date. The baby had all of his parts. It was amazing to see the chambers of the heart, brains, organs, etc. They measured every limb and all looks good! :)

Looking back at previous ultrasounds, I can't believe how much he has grown already! Let's see....

Here is the dot we saw at 5 weeks. :)




Here he is at 9 weeks.




Here are the 19 week pictures of our baby!!!!!





There's no mistaking....... it is a BOY! haha




So, the other big news is he has a name now! Jared and I have both our boy and girl names picked out. We will just have to save the girl name for when we get our girl! :) His name is Jayden Brady Barsanti. We are obsessed with his name. We picked out the names before we even found out we were pregnant. Now, everything just feels so much more "real" now that we call him Jayden and not "it" or "baby" - we are so excited!!!

We also already have his nursery bedding picked out! And Nana and Pop Pop (my parents) bought the bedding set for Jayden yesterday!!!!!! This is what it looks like...



It is called "Country Side" and it looks like a little barn of farm animals!!! :) Thank you, Nana and Pop Pop! Jayden will love it, too!

So, after the ultrasound, we went shopping!!! Jayden is spoiled already! We went to Babies R Us and did our registry, too! We were planning to go to Target yesterday, too, but we were TOO tired and overwhelmed so we are going to save Target registering for another day!

Buttttttttt, we did get to pick up the furniture!!!! It is all there except for the armoire, which could take a long time! (long story, another post) So, we rented a truck and drove it to Fredericksburg! :) Jared is actually working on it now. Can't you tell we are excited?!?!









I know I am probably forgetting a million things, but that is enough for now! We really are blessed! Thank you to everyone for all the thoughts and prayers... and for all the nice comments during this exciting time!!!!!!

Busy Weekend

This weekend has been very busy, but also very productive!!! It started off with Friday night Bingo Night! Yes, BINGO NIGHT! It was at my school. It was pretty cool actually. I was half joking with Jared about going to play bingo with me, but when he agreed to go, I was all for it! (he usually isn't gung ho about going to my school's extra-curricular activities!) Boy, was bingo night intense!!! There was a real bingo man on stage with his desk, popping bingo balls, the big screen with flashing numbers and everything. There were eight rounds and each with a different "basket" full of stuff- gift cards and more! We were close to winning a few times, but lost hope by the time it was the last round. The last round was "full card bingo" playing for a chocolate basket- a huge basket full of tons of chocolate and gift cards to ice cream places. Guess who won!?!? ME... almost! I was so excited to actually win, but at the same time I did, so did 2 other people!!!! So... I ended up losing in the tie. It's okay, though... I really don't like or need half of the chocolate in the basket! As much as I love chocolate, I am very picky about it. Plus, the winner was a little kid and who could be upset about losing to a kid?!?

Anyways...bingo kept me up late on Friday night. Then it was Saturday and we had a lot to do! As you know, I was really sick last week with the flu. What some of you don't know is that it started on Tuesday night when I was driving home from work... and I got sick in my car. And I don't mean I started feeling sick in my car. I mean I threw up in my car... on my way home... no time to pull over... no bag to throw up in... ALL over me... ALL over my car... HORRIBLE ! I called Jared just after it happened. I was crying and said, "I'm in trouble..." He thought I meant I was in trouble with the law! ha! Jared must love me a lot. When I got home, he spent like an hour cleaning it up. He also had to bring a sheet outside to cover me up with so I could come in. (We live in an apartment complex, not a house with a private driveway!) He did a good job cleaning it up, but not good enough... the smell was terrible and would not go away. After several days of torture driving in my car, we had to take it to get it professionally detailed. That's what we did yesterday. We took it to this nice place, but to make a long story short, when we went to pick it up, the co-owner walked us to my car and said he was not happy! We thought they damaged something or something like that!!! But nope, he just said that the odor-counteractant did not completely work! He has been doing this job for so many years and only TWICE he said the odor counteractant did not work the first time. My car has to go back for a second treatment on Tuesday! I set a record! haha Honestly, the car smells so great to me. All I smell is cleanliness new car fresh clean nice smells. It looks so great!!!! But the man says to do one more odor treatment (no charge) so that's what we will do!

*Jared was jealous of how clean my car was so we took his to get done too! We went to a different very nice place. He had everything done to his car like mine, but he did not get carpets shampood.

Last week, I started having trouble sleeping. I bought a body pillow on Friday night and it helped a lot! It was so comfortable!!! I fell asleep all curled up with my new body pillow. Next thing you know, I was waking up in the middle of the night to pee and my body pillow was missing! I turned around and Jared was facing the other way ALL CURLED UP WITH MY BODY PILLOW!!!! haha I don't even know how he got it from me. He claims he doesn't remember taking it from me either!

*Needless to say, Jared was jealous of my body pillow so yesterday we had to go up to Target and buy him one, too!

I was wondering how the heck we would fit Jared, pregnant me, and 2 body pillows in our full size bed. But it worked! We were nice and comfy last night!

We also went out to lunch yesterday and this really cool place in downtown Fredericksburg. Then after both our cars were so clean, we came home and cleaned our apartment. It was really a productive day! This blog is getting long and I am getting hungry for breakfast....

P.S. Wednesday, March 25, we have an ultrasound!!! We will soon find out if baby Barsanti is a BOY or GIRL! I was so sure it was a girl, until recently. Now I think it is a boy... or maybe that's just because everyone is telling me it is a boy! :)

email from Stacy

So the other day I get this email from Stacy. The subject line said, "I did some calculations..."

I am wondering what the heck she calculated... and this is what I find...


"This is probably what your baby will look like..."

"Cindy"


"Jared"


"Cindy Junior"


"Jared Junior"




HAHAHAHAHHA... let's hope not! :)

pretty day!

I am finally making a post! I have not had time lately. As I've said before, I (and another teacher) are co-chairing the yearbook committee at our school. We are FINALLY finished! We have worked so hard and countless hours and it is finally finished! All we have to do is click "submit" for each of the 64 pages tomorrow after school. I am so glad that is over... and, if I do say so myself, it looks pretty good!

Besides working on the yearbook, I have had plenty of other things keeping me busy. We moved and love our new apartment! I was SO SICK last week! I had the flu and could not stop throwing up. I was sick Tuesday night and was not truly feeling back to normal until the following Monday! I had to miss 2 days of work and lost 6 pounds of who knows what from throwing up so much! (I have gained 4 of the 6 back though now that I am actually able to eat and drink fluids again!)

Today, it was BEAUTIFUL weather. Jared and I decided to take a walk on this cool path near our apartment. We took Fred....


Here's Jared walking Fred...



I love Fred!



I need to go do the dishes and catch up on shows on the DVR. I need to watch the last few American Idol performances from last night... I could not stay awake for the whole thing! I'll leave you with this 18 week picture. There's definitely something growing in there! And we will find out if it is a BOY or GIRL next Wednesday!!!!!! 1 week!!!!!!!!!

new apartment!

Soooooooooooooo we have moved!!! It looks so much like our old apartment, but it is different. I am too tired to type out a blog about it, but here are a BUNCH of pictures!!!