A Weekend in Bend (Week 17)

Let's start with baby update!

Baby Update:
Last week was probably the roughest I had during this entire pregnancy. On Wednesday I started not feeling well about mid morning, by 3pm, I was leaving work with a fever. Two hours later, I had a bad sore throat. The next morning I woke up with a swollen throat (I couldn’t even eat!) and still had a fever. Brad took me to the doctor and thankful to hear that I didn’t have strep throat! I got some medicine and spent the next two days resting and getting better.

Being sick and pregnant was not fun to go through. I was worried a lot about the baby because I wasn’t eating as much as I should, but the doctor assured me that the baby is perfectly fine and not affected from my illness. Brad, as always, was super great with taking care of me, running to the store, getting my medicine, all while painting and fixing up our condo last week! Thank you my sweet! :)

Other than being sick, things have been going well! My appetite is somewhat improving. I'm trying my best to incorporate protein into my diet.

The baby bump has made an appearance!!! YAY!! I’ve gotten a few requests for pictures, so I’ll start posting pictures of the belly. It will be fun to see the belly grow as time passes!

We have our third doctor’s appt next Monday and our fetal anatomy ultra sound next Tuesday. This is the ultra sound where measurements are taken to make sure baby is growing appropriately. They’ll make sure that all the organs and umbilical cord are developing normally, and the amniotic fluid levels, the location of the placenta and the fetal heart rate are all normal.

We’ll post pictures of little nugget once we get them!

A pic of Week 16

A pic of Week 17



This past weekend we headed to Bend with a group of friends to celebrate Sam’s 30th Birthday! We had a good time just hanging out, enjoying the snow and eating yummy food! Here are a few pictures from the weekend!

Happy 30th Sam!

It's a Mystery

This past weekend, we drove down to Medford to celebrate Lynda’s 60th Birthday! We planned a Murder Mystery party for her that was set in the 70s! It was a lot of fun! I was the host as Brad and I have done a Murder Mystery before and know what is involved. Everyone was in character and took this Murder Mystery pretty seriously, which made it a lot of fun!

Baby Update:
Another little “mystery” in our life is what will our little one be!?!? A boy or a girl!? Well...good news is, you’ll all find out when we do! Bad news is, you’ll all find out when we do-which is when the baby is due!!! It’s been fun to hear peoples responses when we say we don’t want to find out. “How can you wait that long?” “I would need to know, I’m not that patient” “How are you going to buy clothes” “How will you decorate your nursery!?”

Brad and I talked about this before we even got pregnant and it was originally Brad’s idea not to find out. But why am I surprised? He was the one who insisted we don’t see each other before our wedding ceremony! He likes to be surprised :) At first, I didn’t know if I could do it, but then after I thought about it, I really liked Brad’s idea. So to answer the questions- am I that patient...yes and no. When we see an ultra sound of little nugget that’s when our patience is tested. It would be so fun to just know what we are looking at! As far as decorating the nursery, we’ve decided on a neutral theme and colors as we are in the process of selling our condo. And the clothing issue, well...how much fun is it to shop for cute little boy or girl clothes!! And according to Brad, baby clothes with Duck’s on them is never a bad thing! :)

Here are pics from Lynda's Birthday!

The Sweetest Sound (Week 15)

This past week we had our second doctor’s appointment where we finally got to hear the heartbeat!! It was pretty exciting to finally “hear” our little one. I wish we could hear it all the time!

Baby and I are doing great! I’m feeling pretty good although I still have trouble finding certain things to eat. We have noticed that I go through phases of certain foods and it changes each week. This past week all I wanted to eat was waffles and syrup!
My phases have included: toasted bagels with chocolate milk, cinnamon toast crunch, macaroni and cheese (this lasted a good 4 weeks), donuts, fruit snacks and chips! Oh…and lots of milk!! I can drink a gallon of milk in 4 days!
I’ve also felt pretty tired, which I’m not really used to, since I wasn’t that tired during my first trimester.

The baby is 4 inches long and is beginning to grow eyebrows and eyelashes. Although baby's eyes are sealed shut, little one is now able to sense light!

Brad was out of town this weekend down in LA for the PAC-10 Basketball Tournament and I took advantage of that to drive down to Eugene to visit my good friend Jeanette who has a three week old baby!

Brad got back in time for Sunday’s annual Shamrock Run. Just like last year, he ran with Jim, Joe and Maureen Weber and after, we enjoyed a delicious donut from VooDoo Donuts!

We're Pregnant!!! (Week 14)

As most of you all know, Brad and I are expecting! We are over the moon excited!! Today marks the 14th week of our pregnancy and our Second Trimester!!! Woo Hoo!

We decided to wait to blog about it until we reached our second trimester. Mostly it was my decision, Brad would have told the world the night we found out. The chances of miscarriage drop significantly and we have now had two ultra sounds to conclude that little baby is perfectly healthy and growing!

With the new little addition on its way, it only made sense to include little punkin in our blog, since I’m assuming that’s all we’ll want to talk about and that’s all you’ll care to know about, we aren’t really that exciting-haha! We decided to change our blog name to be The Fetrow Family.

I’ll try to recap the past 12 weeks in a few short paragraphs (most of you all know this, but this is to document for ourselves as well!)
Brad and I found out we were pregnant on December 28th. I took three tests and still called my doctor to be sure, only to receive the response “Honey, if you took three tests, then you are pregnant!”

Brad was doing cartwheels and squealing like a girl (okay, not really!) but he was so excited. And so was I! We’ve been trying for several months to get pregnant and when you finally see that positive sign, it’s still a shock and hard to believe! Baby is due Sept. 5th! But it is possible the baby will make its way into this world on 9/10/11 :) The next day, I came home to flowers and a card :)


For the next 6 weeks from that exciting day, I felt like yuck! I had some serious nausea, but luckily, I bypassed the physical part of getting sick. I struggled most of the time to find something I could eat or that sounded good. This was especially fun for Brad, who would offer up many suggestions and when I select something that sounded good to eat, by the time he made it and served me, my mind had changed. I got a lot of practice of giving him a cute smile, a kiss and apologizing and then blaming it on the baby!

My only real symptoms were nausea, food aversions, going to the bathroom every 5 minutes, and that’s about it. I was never really tired or exhausted. But I did enjoy relaxing each night after work and taking it easy on the weekends.

We’ll be sure to keep posted on this very exciting time in our lives! Thank you to all our wonderful friends and family for support and love!

We cannot wait to meet our special little baby in September :)
Here's little baby at 9 weeks!


Little nugget at 13 weeks!

A Night for Charity

Brad and I attended the American Cancer Society Fundraiser the last weekend of February. We attended to support our good friend Kelly, who is on the Board and Kelly's mom Barb, who is the Event Director for the Portland Chapter and planned the entire evening.

We planned on attending the after party for the Fundraiser, but at the last minute, a table became available and Barb/Kelly invited us to have dinner and we all enjoyed the entire evening. We even participated in the live Auction. :)

Dad's Visit

A few weekends ago, my dad came out to visit all of us! He had not been out to Portland since our wedding, so it was fun to have him back.

On Friday night, Travis, Tracey and Dad met Brad and I at Big Al’s, where I work. We had dinner, showed him around and spent a good part of the night playing almost every arcade game!
Saturday, the men went golfing and then we all met up for dinner at Red Robin :) and then went to a Winterhawks game. It was a lot of fun. I’d never been to a hockey game and it provided great entertainment.

Sunday we just hung out, had some dinner and played some games! It was great to see dad, and can’t wait to see him again, come September :)

Birthday / Whidbey Weekend!

The whole month of January seemed like a whirl-wind for us. After we got back from the Arizona trip, we had one night at home before we took off for another weekend getaway to Whidbey Island, WA. The following week, my mom visited and we were able to finally celebrate Christmas. The last week of January, we decided to just take it easy and relax, since we’ve been on the go!

I had a great birthday overall. I got into work and my desk was completely decorated with balloons and flowers! Thanks to Stephanie and Amanda!


We were headed up to Whidbey Island, WA that evening to have a fun friend get-away weekend! Once we got up there, I was surprised by a little birthday celebration that my friends put together! It was super sweet and I had a great time celebrating my 29th birthday! I got a lot of fun and neat gifts! So thanks friends for making it special! Can’t believe this is my last year in my twenties! Crazy to me, since I still feel at times like I’m in my early twenties- don’t we all I suppose :)

We spent the weekend creating fun memories, playing an abundance of games, dancing to Michael Jackson on the Wii, excellent food, a delicious crab fest, reading by the fire, shopping in the harbor towns and of course, lots of good wine and beer :)

We had a wonderful time! Thank you to Genny and John for inviting us up and can’t wait to do it again :)

Arizona Trip

It’s been a while since we blogged, I know....

We started this blog in January to update you all on our trip down to AZ for the Duck game. Sorry it’s taken us this long to finish it. So here it is, enjoy :)

It was a dream come true...a once in a lifetime chance for the Oregon Ducks to head to the National Championship game. It was the trip we’ve all been waiting for! And after all was said and done, we were so happy to be able to experience the ride of one spectacular Duck Season...and walked away so very proud to be a Duck!!

We were all packed, sporting our Duck gear and boarded a plan to LA. As we landed in LA, with a plane FULL of Duck fans, the pilot played the fight song over the intercom…and in unison, the plane erupted with applause and pride!

We rented our kick-ass minivan-The one and Only “Town & Country” (this was our inside joke for most of the weekend). We “ducked” out our super cool T&C and hit the road to AZ. We were styling and got several looks, stares and honks on our way. We even saw passengers of cars taking picture of our “ducked” out T&C. One stop at In & Out, 2 movies and 6 hours later, we pulled in to our grandparent’s house where Travis, Tracey, Brad and I stayed.


On Sunday, we got up and headed to the Stadium to scout things out. Then headed to Scottsdale where the Ducks were having their Pep Rally. We were in the newer part of downtown Scottsdale and grabbed a bite to eat, watched
a little of the Eagles game and met up with Mike and Lynda. We then headed out to see the Duck Pep Rally. The Rally was fun, not as inspiring as we thought it would be, but we did get to see Joey Harrington, Chip Kelly, On the Rocks and Supwitchugirl perform “I Love My Ducks!” After that, we headed home to get a good night’s rest for the big game the next day!






On Game Day, we got up, got “ducked” out and headed to the game. We grabbed a few snacks and beverages and tailgated at the T&C.





It was game time and we headed into the stadium. The atmosphere in the stadium was incredible. Unfortunately, duck fans were to few and far between compared to Auburn fans. Auburn had significantly more fans in attendance. Those SEC folks really do love their football to an extant we have never seen. We love our Ducks, but Auburn's fan support was impressive. The Auburn people were very friendly and we had a great time talking to them and finding out that they sure do hate the University of Alabama.




The game was incredibly stressful; I do not think we were relaxed the whole time, but in a good way. I assume you all watched the game or heard about it so there is no need to rehash it and open wounds that are still closing. Regardless of the outcome, we had a great time and would do it again in a heartbeat.....with hopefully a different result. The ups and downs of the game were very memorable.
Tay and I are now 0-2 together at Duck bowl games so maybe it's best for the Ducks if we stop going to.....nah.

Even though the outcome was not what we wanted, it was still one hell of a game. We all walked away still proud of the Ducks and just so happy we got to experience a National Championship Game...as they say...”There’s always next year!”

Go Ducks!
Can’t wait for the 2011 Season

And a big thank you to Dad (Warren)for helping make this trip possible! Thanks Dad. And thanks to our wonderful grandparents for putting us up for a few nights :)

Brad and Tay