It is hard to believe but I am already 15 weeks and 4 days!
Hello World! We are happy to announce our itty-bitty baby! Today was my first midwife appointment and we got to see our little one which is measuring at about 2 cm and 3mm and has a strong heartbeat of 174 beats/min!!!
Baby Allen is due on August 11, 2016!
Happiest girl in the world!!!
O
So I have been officially on my Winter Break! It was going lovely– catching up on my Russian show, reading, sleeping, meeting up with friends… until I woke up this morning with a horrible ear infection! Yikes!
I do not like going to the doctors– they are kind of useless sometimes… So I decided to take it upon the home remedies to clear this up! I know that heat and oil can help, so I mixed up some nifty drops that so far has been helping me to feel better. I used a few drops of each– tea tree oil (natural antibacterial), olive oil, rubbing alcohol, and grapefruit seed oil… because why not? After mixing it up, I warmed it up and dropped a few drops in my right ear… and took a nap.
My go to tea when I have a cold is peppermint with honey.
I feel a bit better. I hope it goes away before next week..
Stay warm,
O
The weekend after Frederick and I came back from our European honeymoon, we decided to go CAMPING!! Of course, I choose something further away from home (Boulder, CO) and 4.5 hours later we were at the Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve.
Colorado never fails to surprise me… like how do we get giant sand dunes near the mountains? Disappeared body of water that left huge piles of sand?? Different wind patterns? I’m not a geologist so I had to look it up! Pretty interesting explanation of their formation. Anyway I will stop my rambling…
We stopped at Piñon Flats Campground which has an amazing view of the dunes. The sites are pretty amazing too– large enough to put a couple of tens and each has a fire pit. NIGHTS are so cold! Brrrr
TIP: Get to the campground early (preferably before 10) as it gets full by lunch time.
Murï has his own breathtaking view… HAHA
A few weeks ago at work, one of my coworkers and I were talking about hikes close to Boulder, CO. She mentioned a couple but the one that intrigued me the most was the Gross Reservoir. So weeks later (after hiking the Flatirons and the Boulder Falls) it was time to check out the reservoir.
The best thing ever happened to me a little over a year ago.
I met my soulmate, my other half, my best friend, my everything…
I often think about how my life completely turned around upon moving to Colorado last year. Like when I look back I just sit there in awe, probably with my jaw dropped and my eyes all in deep thought…But I’m serious life is a crazy thing and takes you to places where you have never thought you would be or expected it any time soon…
Can I just say that I am the luckiest girl in the whole entire universe? So many things have happened for the past few months… a reason I haven’t posted in a while.