.: Exhaustion / Grand Canyon Pics

I have to say, I've had a relatively easy time with this pregnancy so far - in the first trimester I only lost my dinner once or twice, I haven't been gaining weight at an alarming rate, I'm still sleeping on my stomach (God bless the creator of the Tempurpedic (and my extremely generous in-laws for gifting us with one)), and I haven't really had to change my diet at all (nightly chocolate chip cookies are good for the baby, right?). However, although I haven't really had any of the typical complaints, the first trimester was pretty tough on me because I was so so so incredibly TIRED. Like zero energy, would fall asleep in the middle of sentences (...in the middle of sessions, twice), could barely brush my teeth before getting into bed kind of tired. And I was also incredibly moody. Poor Sean, he'd usually get the brunt of it. I'd find myself enraged with him and he would have to patiently refute me as I stated all of what I believed to be completely justified reasons for having such rage. Slowly during this process I would start to feel as if I was having an outer body experience where the outer me could see that I was not in fact mad at him at all but the inner me would continue to hold strong. This too was exhausting as it usually would end in me hysterically sobbing (which to Sean was likely worse than the rage), wailing, "I don't know what is wrong with me!!!"It truly felt like I was momentarily possessed.

ANYWAY all of that to say that for the last 10 weeks I have been (mostly) gloriously free of such mindbending symptoms and reactions. That is, until this week. For the past two days I have felt just as tired as those early weeks again. I heard that you get very tired in your third trimester and boy I hope that thats not what this is. I'm still 3 weeks away from the final stretch, its too early!!! I'm hoping that this exhaustion can be remedied by just getting a little extra sleep. As such, not a great deal of time for blogging. And so, I leave you with these random thoughts and some pictures from our visit to the Grand Canyon on our road trip two weeks ago. Enjoy!