Sigonella Italy

Well we have arrived in Sicily, Italy. We will be calling this home for the next 3 years. Just a normal day in the life of being married to a military man.

It's beautiful here and hard to believe that I live in such a picture worthy place. When you look out our kitchen window you can see a perfect view of Mt. Etna. How many people can say that?

The pregnancy is going well and Braydon should be with us in a few more months. I've gotten to the point were I'm tired of being pregnant though. I'm sure I'll miss those days when he is around and I'm going on no sleep.

I'll keep everyone posted with new photos once I go out and visit some places.

Shower #2

My Mom had the second Baby Shower for me. This one started out with a lot less drama, which after the previous day was much needed. My Mom made a great lunch and everyone seemed to enjoy themselves. My cousin's daughter helped me open my gifts and I think she stole the show.

After two day's of shower's I was really happy to get home. I can't believe after being gone for three and 1/2 days I really missed my husband (it helped that he missed me too). Now I'm back home and we are preparing to say goodbye to Virginia. Time for the Navy to ship us to our next location, but too bad the destination is still up in the air. Hope this all works out before next Tuesday when we need to move.

Shower #1

I went home to Chicago last weekend for two of my Baby Showers. The first one started off with me waking up to the should of water dripping at 6am. It turns out the waterbed I was sleeping on at my Dad's house had busted a leak. So we spent the morning trying to drain the bed and find a dealer who still sells waterbed's. Trust me that wasn't easy. When we finally got the mattress in it was time to fill and as that was happening the company was showing up for the shower. Talk about drama!

Braydon received a lot of cool gifts, mostly clothes which I'm told he will go through quite quickly. My little puppy loved the shower because everyone wanted to hold her, I don't think her paws touched the floor the whole time. After the shower I want to watch the Colts game (trying to root for the hubby's team) and that was just a sad game. Needless to say the day started with drama and ended with a drama filled football game.

It's Going To Be A ??????

So we had our ultrasound this morning. I was stressed because we were running late getting there, traffic was horrible. And also because they made me drink two big glasses of water right before and I was dying to use the bathroom and wasn't allowed.

The baby is healthy and growing at a good rate. Right now the baby weighs 11 ounces. You would think from the size of my belly that the baby would be bigger, but nope.


First shot......profile. Look at the baby just chilling with the fist up and legs kicked back.


Second shot.......and verdict is in.......it's a Boy!!!!! (I still don't know how they could tell)


Yeah we are going to have a little boy. Braydon Michael Hughes! He got annoyed at the end of the ultrasound and put his hands over his face, basically telling us "I've had enough let me rest". We also got to see him suck his thumb. It's just too cute and so amazing.

Stay tuned there should be more updates on Braydon. I promise to get better at posting.

First Flutter

All the books tell you that you'll start to feel the baby move around week 18. I thought that was crazy since the baby is still so small. Well that has all changed now!

My little child has to be preparing to be a Ninja. I feel little chops on the right and then on the left. The baby also doesn't like when I stand up too quickly. I get kicked in the side to let me know he or she doesn't want me to be standing. Only five more months to go and then I'll get to have the little ninja in my arms.

Baby Hughes

Yesterday was my first offical Dr. visit. They did the first ultrasound and showed me my first pictures of our baby.

They measured the head of the baby and determined that I am right on track with giving birth on May 1st. Actually they estimate my due date of April 28th but we want to keep the May 1st date, since April 28th is our wedding anniversary.


Here is the image of the head of the baby.



And here is a picture of the baby's leg from the hip bone to the toe.
Now it really makes it seem real to me. As if the morning sickness and the growing belly weren't any indication!!!

12 week update

Well our first offical Doctor visit is this coming Wednesday. I'm going to have to brave it on my own since Chris can't make it. I'm 12 weeks and almost into my second trimester and barely eat anything. The morning sickness doesn't really help this at all. I'm going to have to see what the Doctor says. I've tried all the little tricks of crackers by the bed, don't get up too quickly and drink lot's of fluids but it's not getting any better. Plus it last's more then morning. Everyone tells me being pregnant is great. Well I haven't experienced the greatness yet. Maybe it comes in the second trimester. All I know is that I am thrilled we are having a child, but I wish the 9 months was up already!!!!