32 Week Update!

I went for my 32 week check up today. Things are good...the baby's heart rate was at 140 again. However, I have LOST 2 POUNDS!!! That makes my total weight gain......4 Pounds. What is going on?!?! I promise I am eating a lot....and drinking fluids all the time. Todd laughs at me because I go to pour a drink and empty the glass two or three times before I make it back to the living room to whatever we were doing. I'm sure he'd get a kick out of me in the middle of the night then...I just turn the jug of milk, juice, or tea up and drink for a bit. Who really wants to deal with another glass? Not me...I'm the one who does the dishes! My blood pressure was a little elevated, but Dr. Jones said it's not a big deal as of now. But if it persists, it may be. Things have gone really well up to this point though, so now we are just counting down the weeks. Its hard to believe this baby will be here in 8 weeks or so. I'm hoping less, but praying that the baby is born on Father's Day...Todd was born on Father's Day the year he was born, and he thinks that would be great.

I guess that's all for now....

Baby Shower and Nursery Stuff!!

Wow! I just cannot believe it! God is so good! Between our two baby showers, all our needs have been met! When we went to register a few months ago, we decided to go ahead and register for what we would need, both big and small, and start saving money to purchase the items we did not receive. I was certain we'd be buying our travel system (that's baby gear talk for car seat - stroller combo) and our Pack n Play. However...we've received far more than we could have ever imagined!! I am still in shock.

On Saturday, the shower was for both me and my cousin Lindsay - we are due 11 days apart. (in the photo is Lindsay, our cousin Erin, and myself) Everything was so beautiful! The shower was at Christ Church and when I got there, I was remembering the day I got married. It's hard to believe that a year and a half later I was there for my own baby shower!! All our family was there, but two of my very dear friends traveled from far away to be there - Rebecca and Kristine. And I was so excited. I didn't know Kristine was coming till Thursday night and Rebecca just surprised me on Saturday morning when she got there!! I am still shocked they traveled from so far away to come to my baby shower.








I was really really surprised at how great everything turned out! We even got a Sugar Plum Fairy Cake!!! My mom, kelly, cousin Erin and my Aunt Di, and Aunt Debbie did an awesome job! They have a talent...I hope I've got it too!! It was also really awesome to share that day with Lindsay. We did so much together growing up - we took dance at the same place, sometimes had the same hair cut - it's been really good having someone to talk to going through the same things that I am. I may hit them a week or two ahead of time, but it's been really helpful to me because people forget that you're hormonal and all that. I get upset sometimes, and she understands. It's nice.

Our Giraffe collection has expanded some more!!! This baby is going to have no choice but to LOVE Giraffes! Although, the nursery is taking on a little bit more of a safari theme. I have impressed myself honestly. Instead of buying a bedding set, I just picked different things to register for and put them together. It was a little more complicated, but how we don't have heavy quilts or items we won't really use, which was super important to me. I really didn't want to register for and receive gifts that we didn't use. Hopefully we'll have the nursery completely finished pretty soon. We are going to go and pick up

the dresser and bassinet from my parents in two weeks. Hopefully after that things will come together.

Just 8 weeks to go...I guess we're ready now. Kind of. Maybe.......Oh...and I've finally decided what I think the baby is. I think it's a boy. But, I could be wrong.

Boy or Girl?

At my shower this past weekend, everyone wrote down on a slip of paper what they thought the baby was. I want to know what you think too!!!

Name Sex Weight Date
Alline Girl 6 lbs 6 oz June 16th
Kristin Girl 7 lbs 2 oz June 7th
Becky Boy 6 lbs 4 oz June 18th
Kathy Boy 8 lbs 10 oz June 6th
Erin Boy 8 lbs 5 oz June 18th
Megan Boy 7 lbs 8 oz June 13th
Katelyn Girl 8 lbs 11 oz June 16th
Karlyn Boy 7 bls 8 oz June 17th
Stacey Girl 7 lbs 5 oz June 14th
Mom Boy 8 lbs 1 oz June 23rd
Bea Girl 6 lbs 8 oz June 20th
Fay Girl 6 lbs 6 oz June 15th
Erin Boy 7 lbs 4 oz June 12th
Ruth Boy 8 lbs 6 oz June 18th
Jenny Girl 7 lbs 5 oz June 25th

Our First Post...

So much is going on in our world right now! We are getting ready for our new arrival...less than 10 weeks to go! It seems like it was just yesterday that the stick turned blue! Since that day, we have been so very blessed. Todd was baptized about a month ago. You can't tell, but he's wearing a Coors Light T shirt turned inside out. We all got a kick out of that. We've made some great friends in our small group that we've joined at our church. It's a marriage group and we have learned a lot and made some very good friends.

Let's see, what else? Well, Todd's cousin Stacey asked us to pose for some maternity shots for her portfolio. It was an interesting experience to say the least. It was a little hard because I'm really not that big. My total weight gain is 8 lbs as of yesterday. All the ones taken of me sitting down I just look chubby - or as my mom said "a beer drinking geisha" (I was wrapped in an asian print fabric). But here are some of the other pictures.

We had our first baby shower last weekend. We are so very lucky. Our baby is going to have to many different things to wear, play with, lay in....and we don't even know what it is yet! The funny thing about that is that we heard from so many different people that if we didn't find out the sex of the baby, no one would know what to buy for us. Trust me...this baby will be lacking nothing.

we're doing the room in giraffes...hope the baby likes it!

Other than that, not much else is going on. Todd is teaching himself to play the guitar and he's doing pretty good. He wants to get good enough to play in the band at church. And I'm just playing with all the baby stuff!

Hope all is well!!