9 Weeks Left and Counting!

Nursery sunflower to watch over her when she sleeps!

So pink! So cute!

Her first set of sheets!

A full closet...of course!

So many socks and hair bows I already had to buy organizers!

Adorable pillow my girlfriend Brittney made for her...It fits perfectly in her rocker!

Nesting Nesting Nesting! Okay, the urge is 100% in full effect to reorganize and refold every item in the house. Now that I have all of these itty bitty little clothes and goodies in her room, I am having so much fun getting everything ready for her! I was so excited to get her mattress and bedding into her crib...it's so cute!! I actually got excited and announced to Matt "her first set of sheets are in our washer!! The first thing we've ever washed of hers...Aaaa..isn't that cute honey??!!" Every item just seems so small, it's really hard to imagine that she will fit into all of it!

At the time being, she doesn't feel SO small in my belly of course! She feels huge!! We started the first of our three "Prepared Childbirth" classes last week and although we knew quite a bit from our books we've been reading, there were some very helpful labor topics we went over. And yes, we watched two births......one was a natural birth. Looked like A LOT of fun...hahaha. I'm 100% believer of epidural for sure now. We also had to do this exercise where we received definitions of pregnancy terms and we had to match them to the correct words on the board and read the definitions out loud in front of the class. Matt offered to do all three words and I almost died when I realized the poor guy had gotten "lactation" "locchia" and "placenta" Three of those really graphic definitions that you quickly learn about in pregnancy that I don't even like to talk about! It was a three hour class, Matt had to give me a massage and do relaxation techniques for the last 30 minutes and he's such a good sport. Thank you and love you husband :)

The Bump is over 16 inches long now and weighs approx 3.3 lbs and she is headed into a growth spurt right now. Uh oh!! I don't know if there is any room for her! She can turn her head from side to side and she is beginning to plump out so her skin is a pink color now rather than transparent. We have a prenatal appointment tomorrow so I'm looking forward to hearing her heartbeat. It's definitely the highlight of my week every two weeks when we head to the doctor. I am having good days and bad days but overall feeling great. I do have quite a hard time breathing because my lungs are so squished so I try to have the best posture ever so that I have as much room in there as possible! Boy have things changed....sticking my chest out serves an entirely new purpose....breathing! hahaha

10 Weeks Left and Counting!

30 Weeks!
Grammy made these adorable personalized Hershey Bar favors!


Grammy and Aunt Lois

Hot Grandmas! And Wonderful Hosts!

Stacie, Lori, Elizabeth (a girl due in March) and Danielle

Annie Nicksick (a girl due in January!)

Stefine, Amber, Theresa and Carrie

Alexa and Taylor, my beautiful nieces!

My favorite cupcakes from The Cupcakery!

Two generations and the third on the way!

Taylor Grace will show our little one how to accessorize!

Gifts...Gifts...and more Gifts!!

Aunt Christy, Grammy and Aunt Darcy posing with The Bump!

Auntie Jennifer!

Alison made me a diaper cake with such cute goodies!

We love Rylee!! The Bump's future best friend!

What a cute outfit Rylee!

I HEART baby showers! I HEART hitting the 30 week mark!! Let me tell you, it has been such an eventful and fun week for Matt, the baby and I!

As I prepared for my baby shower this last weekend, Matt headed out to Dallas, TX to spend some much needed "man" time with a bunch of his friends he worked with in Corfu, Greece back in college. Boys don't like baby showers anyway...so off with the husband!!! hahaha He and his friends were able to scalp tickets to the Dallas Cowboys vs Green Bay Packers game. He had a blast and did all that "man" stuff they do...which he needs to get as much of as he can before the baby girl arrives and the boys will be outnumbered in our household!!

My Mom was nice enough to stay with me while he was gone...I was having dreams of waking up in labor in the middle of the night and having to hop in the Hummer and drive myself to Summerlin hospital then not being able to find a parking spot and ultimately having the baby in the Hummer. Yikes!! So, yes I asked my Mom to stay with me :)

My Mom, Patti, my best girlfriend, Alison, and Matt's Mom, Cathleen, threw me the most amazing baby shower on Saturday. It was phenomenal and was by far the best baby shower I've ever been to!! Really...and not just because it was mine :) About 55 of my friends and family came to celebrate our little one on the way and oh my goodness, the gifts!! There were so many gifts!! I was, to say the least, very overwhelmed by the generous and wonderful items they all purchased for the baby and I had a hard time keeping back my tears of happiness while reading all of their sweet cards and notes to us. It took me two hours to open them all!

Matt returned back from Dallas the night of the baby shower and he was floored when we drove up to the house....a Hummer, a GMC truck and a car packed full! Lots of stuff to put together honey!! We definitely had full intention of getting everything put together and displayed perfectly in her room, but four days later I'm still trying to find a place for all of the gifts that are covering her floor from one end to the other! The girls asked guests to bring a package of Pampers to enter a door prize drawing at the shower, so on top of the gifts we have hundreds of diapers ranging from newborn-size 3. Thank you so much to the amazing hosts for making me feel so special....Thank you Thank you Thank you Everyone!!!

We are so happy to be 30 weeks...a robust and healthy 30 weeks at that! Okay...and maybe a little less patience these days and A LOT more clumsy considering I can't see my feet at all anymore. Sleeping soundly is really becoming a chore and my stomach and bladder are squished in there like sardines. I know this, because I get full after a quarter of a meal and I use the restroom every hour during the night. I have mastered sleep walking...I could tell you exactly how many steps it is from my roll off the bed to the bathroom and back. I'll be totally prepared for those 3am feedings back and forth to the baby's room!

She is kicking a bit less as she gets bigger and doesn't have quite as much room to move around in her amniotic sac with only about a pint and a half of amniotic fluid surrounding her. She is about 15.7 inches long and she weighs about 3 lbs now. Her eyesight continues to develop and when she is born her vision will be 20/400 meaning she can only see objects inches from her. Her Daddy will have to hold her close so she can recognize him right away after she's born. We can't wait to see her little face and those chubby little cheeks.

Until then....I will have to find a spot for all of her things and I think it is pretty safe to say that our little girl is already spoiled! Uh oh...we are going to have our hands full with this princess :)

11 Weeks Left and Counting!

29 Weeks!

Early Christmas for Grandpa...gardening tools!

Great Grandma, Great Grandpa and Grandma to The Bump!
Grandpa showing off The Bump!

Matt carving the turkey (how cute is the apron)!

Matt's little brother, Daulton

Hi y'all!! Well I apologize I completely bypassed my 28 week update and now we are already at 29 weeks, but we have been enjoying good ole Texas for the last week for the Thanksgiving holiday. Matthew, his Mother, Cathleen, and myself flew out early last week to Houston, Texas and then made the drive in to San Augustine to spend some quality and relaxing time with Matt's Grandparents. The flight was three and a half hours and then we had about a three hour drive, and thankfully I did just fine...7 months pregnant and all. I was definitely ready to get out of the car after that 6th hour of traveling but the baby did just fine!

I took my girlfriend Annie's advice and wore my Babyfat t-shirt just in case I needed some pregnancy sympathy from the flight crew but I zonked out and didn't wake up until we were landing. At least I can sleep somewhere...since lately I haven't been doing so in my own bed! The belly is out of control and literally hard as a rock so every time I try to get comfortable, I feel as though I'm shifting a boulder back and forth on my front side. Flip...kaboom....flip...kaboom...all night long! Oh and then there's the....flip, roll and off the bed to the bathroom for the 5th time each night around 4:30am....what's hysterical is to watch me at that hour half asleep and trying to roll "up" into bed since I can no longer seem to lift my knees to a 90 degree angle because the belly seems to inhibit that action anymore. hahaha My husband sees me in a different light these days I'm sure :)

We did enter our third trimester last week which was VERY exciting and we are really beginning to get anxious and excited with a whole separate lot of emotions that neither of us has probably every felt before. The excitement is mixed with so much of expecting the unknown and every now and then I get that petrified feeling that I'm sure every Mother goes through at some point...the "OMG, I'm going to be someone's Mother, do I even know what I'm doing?! Will I be a good Mother??!!! Oh goodness, will she even like me???!!!!!!!!" It's all a blessing in disguise because I guess I would be silly to not anticipate such a huge change in our life and it makes Matt and I really evaluate what is important and what we want as opposed to what we need in life. Health, happiness, friends and family....that is exactly what we are thankful for this Thanksgiving because we have such supportive family & friends and we, as well as the baby, are healthy and have so much to look forward to in life.

My Mother-in-Law, Cathleen, was laughing the other day because The Bump was kicking me SO hard in my right rib cage that it was really hard to be cheerful that morning. She said, "I'm glad she's kicking so hard, that's a good sign" Really, it truly is because this baby has to be the most active child on Earth!! She kicks and rolls and pushes through my skin ALL day long. She doesn't have many rest periods and I love that about her. I can't wait to see my little busy body doing her own thing once she's born and figuring out her surroundings.

She is weighing in around 2.5 lbs and is just over 15.5 inches long or so. Her bones are beginning to harden as 250 milligrams of the calcium I drink daily are deposited into her skeleton. Her head is also enlarging to make room for her brain which is quickly growing. We feel the top of her skull quite a bit since that is one of her favorite David Copperfield tricks she likes to play on me...pushing the top of her skull out of my stomach on the lower left side where I look terribly lopsided and lumpy for a minute or so!! The knees push out above and to the right of my belly button and those feet are still firmly planted under my ribs!!

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving and safe travel...we really love that all of you are counting down with us now!! 11 weeks!!! Whoa!!!

27 Weeks And Counting!

27 Weeks!

The Birthday Boy!

29 Wishes!

Pictures of her face...Look at those cheeks!

Her upper torso and rib cage!


Rub the belly for good luck!

Happy Birthday Daddy! This week we celebrated Matt's 29th Birthday. All of our good friends, including Beth in from San Diego and even our new Mommy Alison, joined up at Sapporo to celebrate his big night and the last Birthday he'll be enjoying in his 20s! haha Just kidding Matthew....what a great year to look forward to though! This year will, I'm sure, be a huge learning curve for both of us. But I'm sure it will be the best year of our life getting used to being parents and growing up...a lot more :)

We've been both been so busy during the week with work and running around that we really enjoy our nights that we get to do nothing! Next week we will be coming to the end of our 2nd trimester...my how time flies....and I am feeling a bit more lethargic and running of gas a lot faster than before! She's getting much bigger and I really have no idea where in the world she's going to fit by the end of my pregnancy! Matt and my friend Stacie just look at me and chuckle a lot of the time because I'm ALL belly at this point. I really look like I'm about to pop sometimes when she starts rolling around doing her stretching in there!

We had a great 27 week prenatal appointment with Dr. Spoon and all of our measurements are right on track. My uterus is measuring all the way up to my rib cage which explains how she keeps assuming her favorite position...knees and feet either kicking or firmly planted under my rib cage. Not comfortable. And she's only 2 lbs right now.....that little girl packs some punch in those little feet of hers! She can open and close her eyes now and, if you double click and enlarge the pictures, you can see her iris and lens in the ultrasound pictures above. Although she would not wake up, we saw her tongue moving inside her mouth during the ultrasound as she slept. She is prone to hiccups at this point as well which should be interesting! The other night I fell asleep on Matt's lap and he was amazed at how active she was in my belly as I slept. She didn't wake me the entire time, but Matt said she was dancing all over the place. She just needed some Daddy-Bump time :)

There's so much to look forward to still and it seems as though the pregnancy is just whizzing by! Her room has taken shape and we have even received some wonderful gifts to fill her little dresser drawers. We still have so much to do, and not enough time, and I really need to figure out how the heck you fold those itty bitty clothes!

26 Weeks And Counting!

26 Weeks!!

Lily & our adorable nieces Alexa & Taylor

The Devil!


The Nun!

The Day of The Dead

The Devil Made Me Do It!

Nacho Libre!

Margarita Cheri and Seniorita Stacie

Matt's Devil Face

Chrisa, a Corpse Grandma Channel, & Steven

Sweet Dreams!

Beau helping Dad...and of course sticking his tongue out at the camera!

He's really excited about a baby sister....No really.

Future site of itty bitty clothes and...stinky diapers :)

Okay....so I'm really late on updating the blog this week...sorry y'all! I, for the first time, since my morning sickness have had the roughest week of my pregnancy. I unfortunately came down with a cold that feels like the worst cold I have ever had, but it probably just feels that way since I'm restricted to children's cold meds that really don't do much! The baby would not be very happy with me if I tanked up on Nyquil and Theraflu...she's be seeing double floating around in there!

Prior to getting sick though, Matt and I had a busy week filled with everything from my Uncle Bobby's 65th Bday hanging with the family to Halloween dress up and lots of laughs.

Our good friends, the Harvey's, put on a fabulous "Day of the Dead" party at their home where Matt and I attended in our questionable couple's costume....none other than Satan and his pregnant nun! It was hysterical to see people's faces when I turned to the side and they saw The Bump. We had to include the baby girl in our costume of course :)

We were so excited to put together the crib. Really, ever since it was delivered I've been chomping at the bit to get it set up! It wasn't THAT difficult to put together....if the directions had been right. Rule #1: the directions need to be in the correct order! Yep, that's right we got the "special" directions that they put in the crib box to play a practical joke on expecting parents. After realizing this, the remaining construction of the crib was a breeze! It's so cute!! And of course, I had to immediately put on the crib bumper and crib skirt just to see it all together.

Then, Monday night, as I was laid up in bed with my cold, Matt (and Beau) surprised me and put together the changing table/dresser. We love them both...thank you Grandma Channel! I keep walking down the hall and peeking into the nursery just to look at her room, having the furniture up makes it much more real for some reason. My excitement doubles every day...I can't wait to be peeking in on her sleeping in her adorable little bed!

She's weighing in at about a pound and two thirds and fourteen inches long from head to heel. The nerve pathways in her ears are developing which means her response to sound is growing more consistent. Her lungs are developing now, and she is taking small breaths of amniotic fluid at this point.

We are really hoping to get some great shots of her this upcoming Monday. We called into our doctor to request another ultrasound to celebrate her Daddy's 29th Bday. What better way to spend your Bday than checking in on your baby girl!