Forever pregnant (it feels like)

I feel like I've been pregnant my whole life. I can't remember what it was like before growing a human.

Do I have toes? I can’t remember.
I must still have toes…I’m still walking about (more like waddling).

36 weeks!! Whew, this is tiring.

Early on in my pregnancy I would hear ladies talk about how uncomfortable it was to sleep and how they were having such a hard time sleeping while pregnant.

Of course I did the nice thing and showed sympathy toward them. But in my head I was laughing evilly.
I just thought to myself, Mwuahaha, I don’t know what you’re talking about. Please excuse me while I go sleep for 18 hours.
Yes, I was slightly uncomfortable, but I didn't care because I was sleeping like a log.
The key word is was, everyone. WAS.
I don’t know what it is, but sleeping is incredibly hard nowadays.
It’s just what I get for laughing evilly at those poor women. And I apologize to all of them.
It may be because I’m a little antsy for baby Hamann to arrive, buuuut I seriously doubt that would stop me from sleeping. Especially since I know I won’t be getting a lot of it after she gets here.
Oh boy.

I think I have been sick more times while pregnant than in my entire life.
But this past week has definitely been the worst. I've been hacking like I've smoked for 50 years.

And Chris needs an award (like always), because he has been the greatest!
Everyone needs a husband like mine (just kidding, he’s mine, and I’m sure your husbands are awesome too). He is always trying to make me the most comfortable as possible!
Where did he even learn that?? Husband school??

One of the many things that really attracted me to Chris when we were first dating was the way he played with kids. Seriously, that’s like the Golden Ticket to any women’s heart. There is a tip for all you bachelors reading! Ha. Ha.
Anyway, back to Chris; it was just a sign to me that he wanted to be a father and what a good one he’ll be!

My sister-in-law just had her baby girl (child #3), and that really isn't helping with MY patience. What is it with precious little newborns? They are so cute! Where is mine?!

We can’t wait to meet her, and I am sure you all want to too.

Ah! My pregnant brain has my thoughts in a jumble and I lost my train of thought. It seriously flew of the track with a toot toot. Haha, train. I’m so funny.

And I hate posts without pictures, but next time, okay? Okay.

Thanks for reading. 

I love you all!

Sabrina

New year, new blog, new life

Good morning everyone!
It has been an incredible 2013 year with SO many blessing!
1. Chris and I got married.

2. We moved into our house.
And like those weren't life changing events enough;
3. We're having a baby girl!!

I cannot even express how ecstatic we are!
You should hear Chris talk about her, there is nothing more attractive than seeing his excitement about being a dad.

I am in the middle of my 35^th week and getting pretty anxious. We’re so close, but still so far away.
I get all those songs that say that now.

I feel a lot like a rolley polley. Roll out of bed, roll into the shower, roll out to the car, roll to work.

Roll round roll round roll round.

But it’s cool though, because we get a lot of mother-daughter time.
She surprises me with a quick kick, and we laugh about it later.
She is very convincing too…
When I look at a tub of ice cream, she tells me its broccoli and that it is good for me and I must eat a lot of it. Which is kind of evil…she must take after her mother (;<

Back in July I started working at the Cordova Recreation and Park District. If you ever call to complain about a park in our district, we've probably talked (:
And no, we won’t help you try to “relocate” a coyote. Call the animal control, they can better assist you.  Or the insane asylum.

It is the best job I have ever had because 1. I work inside the Rancho Cordova City Hall and 2. I have the most amazing co-workers in the WORLD. I think it comes with the job though…you have to be a certain kind of person to work for the District.
I almost want to put off having a baby just so I can work there longer.
I’m afraid they might fall apart without me!!

Chris started working the day we got back from our Honeymoon at the end of April (check out our honey moon post here). And Him getting this job to provide for our new family has been such a blessing! I tease Chris all the time about how he is going to have this job forever until he is old (which is not what he wants to do). SO that is why is he is going to school this semester.

We had a Hamann Family Reunion in July, which was wonderful because I got to meet ALL of Chris’ siblings and their kids. I see why Chris is so amazing! He’s had so many great examples!

Chris has already met all of my siblings and their kids. You can ask him about that (;

For Thanksgiving we went to Utah to visit my Grandma D and my Mom’s siblings.

Next time we see any of our relatives in other states we’ll have a baby (or two)!

Now that you’re pretty much caught up on everything, I will blog more frequently so you don’t just have “yearly” updates.

Thanks for reading,
I love you all!

The Honeymoon!

If you didn't know, we went up up up way north of California to the gorgeous Crescent City.
It is like a magical land to me.

This is us in the car getting ready to leave Sacto.

I decided to let Chris drive...

Ooooh waaaait! Before I go any further I have a story to tell you all.

As Chris and I were driving to our hotel after leaving the reception, a cop car honked at us!
We looked at each other pretty confused.
I asked Chris, “Were you in his way?”
“I don’t think so…” He replied.
Not long after that while we were stopped at a stop light, the car next to us honked!
I looked over at the car, hoping it was someone we knew, but it wasn’t.
As I tried to see passed the writing on our window, I saw two Mexican boys waving at us.
I smiled and gave them a thumbs up.
“What the heck is going on??” I asked.
“I have no idea!”

Again I looked over at the car next to us through the writing on our window…
The writing on out window!!
We forgot all about the window paint that was all over our car!
I started to read the backwards writings on my window.
Honk…4…baby…

Please let this light turn green!

Clever, clever family of mine. Thank you.

We didn't end up washing our car until about Thursday. Almost a week later!

So we get to the place we were staying at (The Lighthouse Inn) and I get out and immediately take this picture:

I just realized we didn't actually take a whole lot of pictures...soo...

here are some more!

Chris and I are not fans of sea food.
He knows that. I know that.
We both know that!
But sometimes I forget. ):
So I came up with the idea that we should go to this restaurant and try sea food, just in case our taste buds have changed or something! I'm such a genius.
We get to the restaurant and there were seals! Or sea lions...I'm actually not sure.
But they're hanging out behind me like villains.

 This was also outside the restaurant...just in case you couldn't tell, haha.

Moral of the story?
We still don't like sea food.

I have never in my life had such a hard time eating a meal before! I made the mistake of getting oysters too, oysters of all things!
We did figure out that we liked cod though! (:

We did a little hiking around some rocky hill things on the shore.
I actually styled my hair this way. It wasn't windy at all.

But hey! Look at that view!

This is Chris being...Chris. Ahahahahaha.

If you know Chris, you know he loves food. With a passion.

So it was his lucky day when we decided to go to Red's Diner!
They have this burger that has five patty's on it. FIVE!

It was so big they had to stick a giant knife through it!
I present...the Tsunami burger!

Chris was so incredibly excited!
They have a challenge where if you finish that Tsunami burger, a basket of fries, and a basket of fried jalapenos (on your own) in 13:45 (I think) then it was free!
I talked Chris out of doing the challenge though, I didn't want him getting sick. (He thanked me later:))
I promised him we could go back another time (when we weren't on our honeymoon) so he could do the challenge.

The fried jalapenos were surprisingly tasty!

We went to the beach of course! Though the outside weather was nice, the water temperature was ice. So we didn't really hop in the water, though we tried! It literally hurt our feetsies.

In case you couldn't see the ocean, here. Let me point it out for you, haha.

We went to go see a lighthouse too!

We cannot take a couples picture to save our life, ahaha.

 I just feel like we are just the most awkward couple in the world.
See those things off to the right? They were next to the lighthouse hanging from a tree. Pretty odd...just like us, hahaha.

The last day we were there it started getting pretty cloudy, and while we were leaving we ran into some fog!

Just looking at this picture makes me want to pee my pants. Like, if you stare too long one of those scary faces are going to jump out.

And this is a giant lumber jack!

Thanks for reading and keeping up with us!

I'm married, I live it, I love it!

One of my favorite things about being married is...
being married to Chris.

He's definitely the love of my life, and a mild weird.
I say mild because I'm fully weird, and I feel that he is just...mild.
Like the sauce you get at Taco Bell that says funny things on it. Gosh, those are happy making little packets.

Anyway, Chris is just full of surprises!
For example, this:

Chris works from midnight-8am and usually has breakfast for me in the morning (because he is so wonderful).
Well, just the other morning he had breakfast and this baby yellow rose bush waiting for me!
I laughed. Chris will soon find out that I don't have a green thumb. And this unlucky little bush will most likely not survive ):
And by not survive I mean it's gonna die.

Oh! Our honeymoon was a lot of fun!
We saw cows, which is pretty exciting:

And I think the cows made Chris...hungry?

I have more pictures of our honeymoon on my camera (these are from my phone) which is somewhere near...I hope.
We are still in the process of unpacking in our new house, and I am trying to organize everything.
Trying.
So I don't know where anything is...except the vacuum. I found that (:

Chris and I are still not use to any of this.
Actually, Chris is handling everything just fine. I think it's just me with the issues.
We were out and about the other day, and I had said something and then said immediately afterwards,
"Oh, I almost called you my husband!"
And Chris and I stared at each other for a short moment.
He was just waiting for my slug of a brain to process...like a dial-up internet computer.
"Oh, just kidding! You are my husband!"

Pretty much every time I say "my husband" or just the word "husband" I look over at Chris in bewilderment and I'm like, "You're my husband?!?! I have one of those!?"
I really do. Ask Chris. He will testify.

Thanks for reading, I love you all!

It's over!

I'm a married woman!

I don’t know what I was stressing about in the first place! That was pretty easy, everything magically worked out just fine for the reception!

During the engagement I kept asking myself, “Why doesn’t everyone elope?! This planning a wedding thing is hard!”
And now I see why.
I cannot tell you how much fun it was to party and see everyone, and meet Chris’ friends and family.
I’m sure Chris was a little overwhelmed by MY family and friends, haha.

Just so everyone knows, if you need help with a wedding don’t hesitate to ask.
I cannot tell you how grateful I am for everyone that helped out!

People keep calling me Sister or Mrs. Hamann, and I keep staring at them like, “…hm, that’s a nice name.”
After getting sealed (for time and all eternity!), I walked out expecting to feel...well, married!
But it felt like just another day hanging out with Chris…

There were a few things that day that kept reminding me that I was married:
1. I was wearing a wedding dress
2. Everything was about me (not that that's too unusual ;)
3. I have never worn so much make-up in my life, and I could feel the layers of it on my face.
And I loved every minute of it!

As we were driving down from the temple toward the luncheon, I think I was sort of freaking out.
I thought I was pretty calm, but Christopher insists that I was not.
I kept looking over at him and saying, “Hi, I’m married.”, “You are my husband.”, “We’re married!”, “I’m Sabrina Haaaaamann.” Repeatedly.

Still trying to wrap my finger around it!

Hello, my name is Sabrina Hamann.