birthday & beats

monday the 21st was my birthday! i love birthdays. i only had one class, and the girls in my class remembered it was my birthday and brought me a birthday treat. they even gave me a pink candle to put in it... they know me too well :) that night we had my sister carissa and her husband kyle over for dinner. jared made some yummy ziti and we had some cake. i got a new swim suit to fit into with my belly when we go on our family boating trip in august to flaming gorge. and carissa made me a very cute craft to put in my living room, and i got lots of cards from family and friends. it was a great birthday.

today we had our 2nd doctors appointment! they had to draw my blood but i survived. when they went to listen to the heart beat all they could hear was mine cause it was so loud! so the doctor told me we would do an ultrasound to find the heart beat and make sure everything was going good, but that all the ultrasound rooms were being used at the moment so she would come get us when one was open. that was the longest 15 minute wait of my entire life! but the baby popped right up on the screen, and oh man has it changed and grown SO much... it's little legs and arms were just moving around everywhere. im so glad we got to see our baby again so soon! everything is moving along just fine. it is still pretty unreal to me that i am having a baby, but im so excited!

here's baby ruck's at 13 weeks! it does have legs and arms i promise...i saw them! this angle shot just got its upper body!

COLORADO!

back in the beginning of june jared went to colorado to talk with some accounting firms and to see if he could get an internship with any of them for tax season next year. well today he got a call back from one of the companies and they offered him a place at their company! he will be working in denver colorado and his building sits right on a golf course! he starts february 1, but he has to take a few classes from denver university in january (which the company is paying for) so as soon as this little one decides to come we'll be off to colorado! i couldnt be more proud of jared and i know he will be great!

we have our 2nd doctors appointment on wednesday and we get to hear the heart beat! i cant wait but im also really nervous! i hope everything is still moving along just fine. i still feel great! ive been sick twice but both times i took my prenatal vitamins on an empty stomach, and medicine in my empty tummy never sits well, pregnant or not pregnant! im not really showing quite yet. i can tell i have gotten a little bigger, but no one else really can.

we only have 5 more weeks left of school and i couldnt be any happier to finish and GRADUATE in 34 days! i have made some really good friends this semester in my education classes and ill miss those girls but i know they will all make great teachers! jared is doing good in school also but i know he is looking forward to the semester ending too.

things are great in the rucks home, now if we could just convince the weather that it is JUNE and not OCTOBER things would be perfect! :)

Cinnamon Bear?

looks like jared and i are going to have a BABY! i am 11 weeks along and due december 26! when we showed my parents the ultrasound picture, we told them we thought it looked like a gummy bear, and they all said it's bigger than a gummy bear now, its the size of a cinnamon bear! for journaling purposes here is our story so far:

on friday may 21, in my 5th grade class we got to watch the "maturation" video. i started to think, hmmm... its been a couple months since i last had my 'gift'. This happend last year too, but it was just stress and i figured it was the samething this time around, but i couldnt get it out of the back of my head all weekend, so sunday i took a test and sure enough, it popped up pregnant! i couldnt believe it. i had no signs of pregnancy besides the obvious one, and i thought i had to be sick cause i only hear horror stories of how sick girls were, and how they couldnt eat anything because it sounded too gross to them, and i was (and still am) the complete opposite! i scheduled an appointment for an ultrasound and sure enough there was this little peanut inside! and they told me i was already 9 weeks along! i am so glad i have not been sick. and i can still eat what i want.

at our next appointment we get to hear the heart beat which i am very excited for but is it normal to be worried there wont be a heart beat anymore? or am i just being overly paranoid?

anyways, we are very excited, a little nervous, and have absolutely no idea what to expect! but we are hoping it comes before christmas so we can enjoy the best christmas gift ever!