Gestational Diabetes

One of the worst feelings while being pregnant is having something go wrong that is out of your control. After I failed the one hour glucose exam, and then having to do the three hour glucose exam (which was awful by the way), and failing it as well, I was diagnosed with gestational diabetes. It will most likely go away after the baby is born. It is just depressing, having to poke your finger 4 times a day (which makes me feel really light headed) and then having to hope your numbers are good after eating the correct number of carbs. Even when I eat the correct foods sometimes I still have a high blood sugar reading, it just makes me so stressed out and feeling blue. I don't know how other women deal with this but it has just been something that has been making me feel really sad for the last week. Having to think about what to eat is stressful when some things just don't sound appetizing anyways.

Supergoop CC Cream

I recently received my December Birchbox, and in it was a cc cream by the brand Supergoop. I think that I've previously tried possibly a sunscreen from this brand, nothing overly exciting as sunscreen either protects you or doesn't. I am pretty picky about face makeup, sometimes BB creams especially American BB creams or the ones from the drugstore, are just tinted moisturizers re packaged. I've had another cc cream from Birchbox the juice beauty one and was not impressed the coverage was horrible and it was not worthwhile trying to put it on my face. So when I received this months Birchbox I wasn't overly excited to see the cc cream in it, also it was a tiny sample size. I was pleasantly surprised, I used the cc cream and it had great coverage! It didn't take hardly any to blend on the the face and it covered redness really well basically just as well as a foundation, it didn't feel heavy or greasy and didn't have any type of unpleasant smell. I only had to use a small amount so I will probably get 3 or 4 uses out of the tiny sample bottle that I have. I really liked this cc cream, I haven't liked a product like this since the Dr Jart Waterfuse BB Cream that I first tried about 3 years ago, this cc cream had almost better coverage than that and I just used my fingers to apply. The only thing I will say is that it comes in only light-medium, and medium dark. The light-medium may be just a tad to medium for me but I can make it work. I will definitely be getting the full sized product!

It's a Girl!!

I am very excited to let everyone know that we had a 20 week ultrasound and found out that we are having a girl. I am so excited to start decorating and getting her room ready for when she arrives !!!

Amanda's Wedding

I was just recently in a wedding of my good friend Amanda. She married Andrew on October 12th 2013. It was a good time and the weather was great for the Midwest in October. Here are some photo's of the big day!

Amy's Wedding

I recently attended a wedding of my friend Amy, who I have known since kindergarten. It was a good time and some friends were there. I was about 18 weeks pregnant at this wedding so it was a bit of a challenge to find something decent to wear. The maternity store at that time I think was transitioning clothing seasons. I found nothing I could wear there because all the dresses were spandex, and it's nothing that I could even wear while I wasn't pregnant, the shape is just not flattering on me, I prefer a-line dresses. I ended up finding a dress at white house black market but my usual size didn't fit, so I ordered the next size up online and it worked great. Here are some photos of us at the wedding.

Wedding Dress Shopping

I thought that wedding dress shopping was going to be a lot of fun. It was the activity that I think I was most excited about after I got engaged. It was not that fun in actuality. My friend Liz had a really great experience at David's Bridal, and I thought that my shopping trip would be like hers, but my consultant was too busy for me and was also helping someone else at the same time, it was busy season. She kept bringing me things that I didn't like or I didn't want that style or really cheap things and it was just awful, I felt so overwhelmed and just unhappy.

I had a much better experience at a local boutique but still had a hard time even finding a dress I liked until my second time because I didn't realize what style I wanted.
I do not like fit and flare type dresses on me or dresses that pouf out to high up, I like ballgowns that flare out right after natural waist. My advice for dress shopping is to look at a lot of magazines before hand and try on a few different styles to find out what you like on yourself then go from there.

here are some pictures of dresses I tried and didn't like...

Carnival Sensation Cruise

This will be the last time I talk about a cruise, specifically, in this blog for a while at least, but I thought I would bring up my cruise on the Carnival Sensation because there is something special about your first cruise.

I went on this cruise March 2010, and I went with my 3 friends, Liz, Wendy, and Karen. Liz and I decided to drive down to Port Canaveral, and Wendy and Karen flew. We stayed at a Country Inn and Suites, that had a really good package for parking and cruising shuttle. This was our first cruise so we really had no idea what to expect. This was going to be a 4 day cruise which is the shortest cruise I've ever been on, but it was a good cruise to begin with because you could find out if you liked being on a cruise ship. 

This cruise went to Freeport and Nassau Bahamas. This inside of the ship was decorated kind of flashy and a little more neon than some of the other cruise ships I've been on but it was fun at the same time. 

Our first stop was Freeport Bahamas. Which if you haven't been to before is kind of a more industrial island. We did go to Garden of the Groves which was a nice excursion but it was really the only worth it excursion to me besides going to the beach. It was really pretty though. 

Then during the same excursion we were taken to a shopping center where we had a nice coconut drink and did some walking around.


We then went back to the ship, and had a nice formal night which we all got to dress up for, we like dressing up so this was a really nice time for us. 

  Our next stop for excursion was Atlantis which we had a really great time at, and I will do a full post on just Atlantis soon.

We went parasailing there!

The day we got off the ship Wendy and Karen went to Kennedy Space Center,and Liz and I headed back to Orlando to relax, we ate at Bahama Breeze and it was really rainy. We then checked into our hotel, and took a nap. We then got ready to go out at night to Universal Studios City Walk and Bubba Gump Restaurant which is always a good time. 

 
We went to Disneys animal kingdom, which I hadn't been to since I was a 
kid.It was really cold and rained all day. :( Oh well 
we made the best of it.


Liz and I then drove to Atlanta and the next day we went to the Georgia Aquarium, which had whale sharks which I had always really wanted to see. 

here's some more photos!