Congratulations to Kate & Reid Sanders! (or Reid and Kate Dunaway...whichever you like to call them)

Kate and Reid's wedding day finally came!! And went :(

What an awesome wedding weekend! We started on Thursday. I arrived in Augusta around 6:30 and we were off! Kate had everything ready to go and it was fun and celebration from the first second. It was great to spend the weekend with a great friend celebrating. Of course I also love weddings because they bring back terrific memories of our big day, but this was 100% about Kate and everyone came together to make it truly special for Kate and Reid.

I was a little nervous about the dress situation, but luckily my alterterations guy came through and you could barely see the bump at all! Not that I'm not proud, but there was no need for it to be a focal point. And in additional, startling news -- I am able to have an immense amount of fun at a wedding without even so much as a glass of wine!

Congratulations to Kate and Reid Sanders! Thank you for letting us be a part of your special day!

In other exciting news, FJ got to feel the baby kick last night. I've been feeling it for a week or two, but it's very sporadic and not very hard or defined - I can just tell - so I haven't been able to grab FJ to feel it when he does it. FJ and I were laying together on the couch last night watching TV after dinner and he had his hand on my belly and the baby gave him a little nudge!! It was really exciting to see FJ's face as he realized what had just happened and asked "was that him!?!?" I'm so glad FJ got to feel that sooner than later!

We have another wedding this weekend, too! We are headed to Reynolds Plantation (where Carrie Underwood got married a few weeks ago!!) to celebrate with Jenn Davis and Andy Stancil as they tie the knot. Andy is one of FJ's fraternity brothers and very close friends. Over the past 4+ years, I've gotten to be very good friends with Andy, too as well as getting to know Jenn. We're excited for the UGA Chi Phi reunion, the party to follow and of course to celebrate with good friends as they enter make their vows.

Our schedule is of course packed the following several weeks which is how I prefer it. Hopefully this fall we can keep things a little calmer, but I doubt it. For now, I feel great. I have plenty of energy and aside from being larger and wanting cookies 100% of the time, I can hardly tell I'm pregnant. I do feel for FJ because from time to time I realize I am being a little crazy or dramatic or I'm sure his personal favorite - ridiculously controlling. But overall, things are going really well so far!

We had a doctor's appointment last week and all is well! I've gained an appropriate (and undisclosed) amount of weight. I have another appointment in a few weeks and then will start going every other week. This week marks the 23rd week. I'm not sure exactly how that translates to months, but I guess I'm about 5.5 months and over halfway through.

We haven't made any progress with a nursery yet, but we have wrapped up a few other projects around the house and have a few more on our list.

For those who have asked, I am taking about 3 months for maternity leave and plan on returning to work in mid March, but that is always subject to change depending on how everything works out in December. I get to take vacation before my "maternity leave" (which is actually disability, not specifically maternity leave) which is great because I have saved up a few days so I should be able to set a date that will be my last day at work, baby or no baby.

Those are all of my updates for now. I'm going to try to take some more profile pics to keep the site updated, but I would rather post the pics from parties, weddings, etc as they speak much more to our pregnancy and life than pics of me from the side in front of our stairs! :)

It's a BOY!!!!

The cake has finally been cut, the news is out in the open! Baby Tribuzio is now Baby BOY Tribuzio! Nope, we still don't have a name set, but we'll let you know when we do...

First off, thank you so much to Kate Petronis, http://www.andeverythingsweet.blogspot.com/ for helping with the party and providing the cake and candy buffet!! I had so much fun working on this with you!! For those who don't know, Kate and I have been friends for over 10 years. We went to Georgia Southern together (Kate later transferred to Ga Tech, but we still love her) and were not only soririty sisters, but she was my little sister in ZTA. We've stayed friends throughout the years and she has two beautiful little girls, Bailey and Olivia. Kate also has a great talent for all things cake, dessert and party related. I brought Kate the concept of the cake and the reveal party and she definitely helped bring it to life. She also helped create a monster in me! The result was an amazing party and memories that will last a lifetime.

It started with the cake. I knew I wanted to have a party around this cake and that the outside would be ambiguous and the inside would be blue or pink (icing, cake, I didn't care...as long as it was definitely blue or pink). From there, Kate came in! Between the two of us, we created an entire party built around revealing the gender, blue/pink, etc and it was a party very clearly intended for adults! ha ha! Kate made an amazing dessert table with a candy buffet, cake ball suckers and of course the cake. She also added several touches throughout and we built on ideas throughout the planning process. It was so much fun to get a glimpse into her creativity!! I thought I was creative, but I've got nothing on this lady!

Pardon Our Progress - We're EXPANDING!!!

We've had a busy past 3 weeks or so with the 4th of July, Jill's 30th birthday and a low key weekend of running errands and checking things off the to-do list. Sometime during all of that, I started showing!!

Here are a couple of pictures (taken after work, don't judge). You can't tell from the front, but the side is definitely "bumpin!"

One of the errands that I ran last week was to start our registry! Even though I realize we need unisex things in case this baby wants a brother or sister in the future, but being in the store made me really want to know if we are having a boy or a girl!

We find out in two weeks and are soooo excited. Of course I've gone completely overboard in prepping for the big announcement, but at least I have something fun to focus on without driving FJ bananas with my rambling.

Our first month of having a roommate has gone by very smoothly. Liz is a great roommate and so much help to both of us. I'm glad she's with us for this time and I'm really glad she doesn't hate unloading the dishwasher like I do!! Ha ha!

In unrelated news, Big Brother is on for the summer and FJ and I have been addicted since we started dating years ago (wow...years...) so on Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday evenings you can find us on our couch glued to our TV's! Better enjoy it while we can, right?

The nausea is mostly gone, I'm sooooo thankful for that!! I was sick every day multiple times a day for about 5 weeks and it just kind of slowed down at some point around 13 or 14. I have much more energy and can be very excited about the baby. My appetite is back in full effect...welcome back appetite!! I missed you! Not wanting to eat what I usually wanted to eat was very inconvenient. I still don't have any crazy cravings and I'll refrain from listing any other symptoms I might be experiencing for now :)

We have so much fun stuff coming up over the next few months and I'm really excited. I'm about to bite the bullet and buy some maternity clothes, so this should be interesting. It's hard not to be able to shop for a wedding or occasion in advance because I have no idea what size I'll be! I did break down and get some workout clothes in maternity sizes (I'm back to Crossfit at least 3 times a week, just modifying some of the workouts).

That's about it for now. I'm going to try to take some pictures regularly for the bump watch!!

Happy Fourth of July!

I'm one of the 4 people in the US that are at work (notice I didn't say working, I said AT WORK) the Friday before the 4th, so I thought I would stick with my theme of the day and do absolutely NO work! This means I get to shop online, play on my iPhone, catch up on personal email -- well so I don't neglect that even on the busiest days-- and update the blog.



I don't have a whole lot of new information. We have our sonogram to determine the sex of the baby on August 5 so we'll have that mystery solved shortly. We're talking more and more about names and narrowing in on a few that we really like!



I've been fortunate enough to realize more and more every day how truly blessed we are with our circle of family and friends. I had a terrible couple of days at work this week. I'm in sales so the end of the month/beginning of the next month is not an easy time and with my partner out on maternity leave (something in the water here), I'm running this ship solo. I got home Wednesday night around 7:30 after an incredibly long last day of the month and all I wanted was Mexican food and my new body pillow. FJ had laid out the mail we had gotten that day. We received two gorgeous wedding invitations for August weddings and there was a big burgandy gift certificate propped up on the counter.



I dug into the wedding invitations as though they were edible and I was...well a pregnant woman. I know all of the details. I've been to the websites, I've talked to the people getting married and asked the questions. I'm even a bridesmaid in one of the weddings. But I still love reading every word of an invitation and taking in the style and nuances, especially since I know how long it takes to pick out and design these things! It didn't occur to me that the gift certificate, which I immediately recognized as Spa Sydell would be for me. I'm not sure whose I thought it was. But FJ nudged me towards it and was so excited. I opened it up and Ollie and Anne, two of our very close friends who are actually tying the knot in April had sent me a gift certificate. It wasn't just a gift certificate, it was an invitation to pamper myself in a stress free environment! I've said it before, but we are so lucky and this baby has no idea what is in store for it with all of his or her aunts and uncles!



We are headed out on Saturday afternoon to visit one of my best friends from college (and since!), Janna and her fiance Michael AKA Travis. They bought a house last year and we haven't been able to go see it yet so I'm really excited to see them, their pups and catbaby and to go to their pool party and to the river with them. It's going to be a lot of fun! I've spent the past 2 4th of July with Janna and Michael so I'm happy to keep it going! I'm finishing off the weekend with another tradition that has nothing to do with the Fourth. I'm going to see the third Twilight movie with Jill who has of course already seen it. She previews them for me so she can give me a heads up on what's coming next since I've never read the books. Much candy and processed nacho cheese will be consumed that evening and I'm prettttttty excited for that!



I hope everyone has a great holiday weekend and is safe. I promise to have more news or at least more entertaining stories soon!

I'm BACK...and quite possibly with a bump!

Not that anyone is following closely, but I've been neglecting the blog for a few weeks. I was so excited to share the news and everything upcoming that I somewhat wore myself out! With sharing the news came a new level of reality. We are having a baby. In a few months we will have a baby. These seem like simple ideas or simple realizations, but they are really much more profound. I stop at the gas station to get gas and I run inside to grab a water or a coke (yummmmmm...I quit Diet Coke before I got pregnant, but I figured since I'm ALLOWED to have coke and don't drink coffee, it's a fun treat...don't mess with my logic). This seems like a very simple task, but now I realize that I can't do that in the future. Even the smallest things are going to change. Over analyze much?!

We had our housewarming party last weekend. It was a lot of fun and it was great to see so many of our friends. Everyone was very complimentary of the house (not like people would say "thanks for the invite, the house looks like crap, but the buffalo chicken dip was astounding)! It was great to get the house in order, too. Even after the party, the house was cleaner than it's been in weeks! It was also a great way to make sure the to do list got done for the shower for Kate and Reid this coming weekend.

We moved some furniture around to accomodate Liz's move, which also accomodates having an empty room for Mini T later this year. This involved my least favorite activity outside of yard work - throwing things out. I donated 4 bags of clothes to Goodwill, threw out a few bags of trash and gave away some clothes to friends (good cute shirts shouldn't go to waste just because I can't wear them!).

And as the title of this entry indicates, I guess I'm starting to show a tiny bump. I know people who said they showed before 12 weeks and people who didn't show till month 5, so I'm not sure if there is a normal or what it is, but my pants and skirts don't fit anymore and I'm wearing a lot of loose dresses or using the Bella Bands for pants. It's an interesting phenomenon to see the growth. I'm sure I could eat better, who couldn't, but it's really weird to go from working out and eating healthy to growing in my belly! I don't exactly look pregnant by any means, but if you know me, you can see my little bump :) and apparently, you can also see some growth a little further north! ha ha ha!

We're hosting a shower this weekend heading to the lake with friends for the 4th of July. Then it's Jill's birthday and then we get to calm down for a little bit. One of FJ's cousins got engaged (congrats Mike and Leslie) so I'm really excited to get to Chicago this summer to celebrate with the family!!

Things are going well, I feel sick less and less often and have been able to start cooking (with Liz's and FJ's help) again! My energy is starting to come back and so is my focus. I'm still working out a few times a week at Crossfit and next week is my last week training :(.

We have a doctor's appointment this Thursday and actually have some sonogram pictures from a few weeks ago that I need to scan and post... I knowt it's hard to see what's what in those things, but it's still so crazy how far technology has come!!

Cat's outta the bag!!

We've been able to start sharing the news and it's been great! Our friends and family have been so supportive and excited about the addition to our family. Of course I enjoyed playing with some folks as we revealed the news. You only get to tell people you are pregnant for the first time once, so why not have fun with it?

I was really pleasantly surprised with how excited a lot of our male friends are about our news. I guess I just assume boys aren't as excited about weddings or babies as girls are, but everyone seems genuinely excited...if they aren't they all get points for putting on the show!

The past 6 weeks have flown by. I know I willed them to, but I still can't believe how quickly it's gone! We'll know whether we are having a boy or girl in the next 7-11 weeks so I can only imagine that will be here before we know it, too.

As for everything else - life is good. Work is a bit more stressful than normal since my outside partner left early for her maternity leave, but I'm slowly getting things organized and running how I like them and I'm sure I'll enjoy the total control over the next few months!

The painters have started on the house. They pressure washed first, which actually pulled some of the paint off, so the house looked pretty rough. Then they started pulling the boards that needed replacing off of the house. Now our house looks like that scary house on the block with exposed insulation, flaking paint and absolutely no landscaping in the front (FJ pulled it all out and we are replacing it after the house is painted). Of course I will be taking pictures for the comparison!

I'm excited for our housewarming party which kind of doubles as a coming out party! That's coming up on the 19th of this month. Hopefully I'll have my culinary skills back in check by then. I miss my kitchen.

The house warming is just a dry run for Kate and Reid's couples shower that we are hosting at the house the following weekend. I'm so excited for them and glad we're able to host the shower and have so many people come together to celebrate for them! Their wedding is right around the corner in August and I can't wait for the festivities to begin (see Kate, no short jokes, just pure excitement).

Liz is moving in next weekend and we are glad to have her around for the summer...and not just because she cooks! Liz's arrival and Kate's shower actually sparked some of the projects we started with the house and the timing was obviously perfect.

This will be our first year not going to Hilton Head for the Fourth of July but we are still planning to celebrate with some friends, a body of water and fun! We're just staying a bit closer to home. And of course July brings Jill's birthday and pregnant or not, that must be celebrated... Jill this is our 12th Jill's Birthday together and I love every one of them!

I guess I'll wrap this up before it comes the shout out blog post. I'll start sharing the blog link soon, though I'm sure there's way too much to read on here!

Happy 1 Year Anniversary!

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!

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For our anniversary, we enjoyed a long weekend at FJ's parents new place in Myrtle Beach. It was sooooo relaxing and the weather was perfect. Of course they all lucked out with a permanent designated driver, but I actually had a great time and along with foregoing any beach cocktails or cocktails with dinner, I also passed up the hangovers and foggy heads!

We left Wednesday night and stayed through Sunday. We ate a ton of food and spent some time in the sun each day whether it was bocci ball on the beach or one of the pools at the resort. FJ actually ate some seafood and liked it and we got a lot of much needed rest.

We broke the news to FJ's parents that we wouldn't be able to join them on their 20th anniversary trip to Europe. We had all planned a Mediterranean cruise and our tickets for the boat and the airfare were already booked. Luckily we are canceling in time to avoid fees. The trip is scheduled for mid September and while I should still be early enough in to travel, we figured that going to a foreign country for a week and the costs associated were not smart decisions given our situation. I was so excited about the trip so I was really sad that we had to cancel.

Before we left we also started planning a housewarming party for June so we're really excited to have people over to see the house and also about the chance to see some of our friends that we haven't been able to see in awhile!!

We have our second doctor's appointment tomorrow and I'm so excited and so nervous all at the same time. Even though everything should be fine and we got rave reviews at the last appointment, there's a small nagging fear that this has all been a dream. If my physical condition is any indication, we are moving right along! Ha ha! I've gained about 4 pounds so far which is in a good range. Especially considering I've slacked off on working out or eating right. The past few days I have had terrible nausea and sickness (not limited to the morning at all). I read an article that said this week (the 10th) is probably going to be the worst as far as feeling tired and nauseas. I hope that's the truth but unfortunately there is no definitive information out there.

Our appointment is at 9:40 tomorrow morning so if everything goes well, we will start spreading the news shortly after! I'm really excited to share the news with friends and family. I'm even more excited to stop being so noncommital and flaky when I'm invited to wine tastings, happy hours and things I would normally jump at! I'm actually pretty proud of myself for keeping the secret for this long. I didn't think I had it in me.