It's a Girl

I went to the Doctor yesterday for my monthly check up and we were able to find out the gender of our new baby!!!! We are so excited for a little girl. The lady that was doing the U/S was taking measurement and different pictures and then she asked us if we wanted to know the sex. I said yes of course and then she asked us if we would take a Little girl. I looked at Jonathan and he had the biggest grin on is face (that didn't go away all day long). Here are the pictures that we have:

In this one you can see that she was waving at us. She also reached over to scratch her little head. It was the cutest thing

Her legs and feet

Her profile

The Doctor said she was right on schedule for 20 weeks.

We have decided on the name Audrey. We are still working on the middle name. I am in full swing planning for this little girl. I told Jonathan yesterday while we were waiting to see the doctor to be prepared that Audrey will have a bow in her hair when she leaves the hospital, and it will most likely be pink. He just shook his head.

Audrey's room is coming together. We have taken out some of the furniture and it is slowly starting to look empty. We should be getting her furniture in the next couple of weeks. My mom bought me a rug for our living room for my birthday. Since we will have little knees crawling around I figured it was time to start that project. My new hobby is looking at bedding for her crib. There are so many choices out there!! It is kinda overwhelming. I will try and update more often about the progress of her nursery and middle name!!

until next time...

Mothers Day

So this post is way past due!!!

This weekend we went to El Dorado for Mother's Day to spend it with my Mom. We left Friday and had a Wonderful weekend. I wasn't feeling well at all that weekend for some reason. I was extremely tired and had a pretty bad headache the whole time we where there. I hated the fact that I felt so bad the weekend we went home. On Saturday evening the rest of my family came over for some BBQ (which is the best by the way). This included my Grandparents, Great Aunt, Aunt, Uncle, Little Cousin, parents and sister. We had such a great time. My mom was feeling great and it was just a wonderful time of celebrating the wonderful women in our lives.

I credit a lot of who I am to my mom. She has always been the strong rock that I needed when times were hard. I always new that no matter what happened she was there for me to lean on and give encouragement (although sometimes it wasn't what I wanted to hear:) ) She is such a strong women that, when our child gets here I only wish that I could be half as good as a mom as she was to me and my sister!!

This week has been so so so so wet and dark. Today was the first day in weeks it seems like that the sun has been out ALL day!! It is sooo refreshing. This weekend I have plans on going through the house and getting rid of lots and lots of unneeded items that seem to have collected over the past year... Get ready Jonathan haha.

My next docs appt. is this Tuesday, so I will be sure and update everyone on how we are doing!!!

Lots of Love!!!!

Magen

Great Weekend

This weekend is the first weekend in several weeks where we didn't have anything planned, and I was soooo excited. I have been bugging Jonathan for months now about getting in our front yard and finishing our flower beds. The weather was so perfect to be outside. Saturday we woke up and got busy working outside. Chloe (our mini. schnauzer) joined us all day and absolutely loved being outside with us. We were able to finish the entire thing this weekend, and I am soooo relieved. Now, there are no flowers yet, but the bed is finished. Here is a picture of us and the new bed. Well part of it anyway...



Now I'm just ready for flowers. I have no idea where to even begin when it comes to choosing flowers. I do not have a green thumb and that worries me. haha We have 1 more bed in our front yard that needs to be finished. It is in terrible condition and needs major help, I just haven't even wanted to get started on it. Everything in it needs to be taken up. That will be another weekend project though.

I have had so much energy this week!! It is so great. I feel like I can do so much now. I was supposed to have a very long day of work traveling to another part of the state, but my partner called and said that she didn't feel well today. So, I am at home preparing myself to really clean my house. It has been a really long time since I have really deep cleaned. (I can't believe I just admitted that haha)

God has already blessed us so much for the baby. I have a friend that lives in Conway, about 30 minutes from here, who has 2 small girls. She is getting rid of all of her baby furniture. She has a crib, dresser, and changing table, and she is selling it to us for a GREAT price!!! Also, a friend of Jonathan's just offered to let us borrow several things, and she has also boxed up some helpful books that she enjoyed. God is soo good. One thing on my list today is to go through the bedroom that is going to be the baby's room and start to go through what is in there. We currently use that room as an office, so I have to figure out somewhere else to put all of that stuff.

Well I feel my list of chores calling me!! Spring Cleaning here I come!!!

The First

So after many people told me to do this I am officially starting my own blog. I have been very hesitant to do this because I just don't know what to say and will I have things to say that people will care about? Well we will see, because here it goes.....

Jonathan and I found out we were expecting our first child about six weeks ago. He was away that weekend for his Grandmothers funeral, and I was still trying to get over the flue (I thought). The night he came back into town I showed him "the two pink lines." The first thing out of his mouth was "Are you serious?" He was so exhausted coming in from a very emotionally draining weekend, but needless to say that night we stayed up all night just talking about it. I was in TOTAL shock!! I was speechless, and really had no idea what I was supposed to be feeling. Jonathan and I wanted children it just wasn't in the plans for us this year. Well my oh my does God have different plans for us. I am a compulsive planner!! I have my life planned years in advance. God has done things to me in the past to show me that I need to live one day at a time and trust in Him completely, but man did I fall on my face this time!! 8:00 that Monday morning I called the doctor so I could get in as soon as possible, just to make sure this was real. The nurse told me I would need to wait 2 weeks, 2 WEEKS are you kidding me!!! I even asked her if the test I took was accurate and should I be doing anything!! She politely responded to me "yes ma'am those test are very accurate." My first appointment was march 19th. I went to the doctor, just waiting for the words to come out of his mouth, and he just talked about it like I had known for ever. I was still just in shock, I'm sure I was sitting there with a dazed look all over my face. Here is our babies first picture!! I remember laying there as the lady was doing the ultra sound thinking that is not inside me. I am in a dream and this is not happening. HAHA



That evening after my appointment, we called our families who are very excited. This past Thursday I had my second doctors appointment. It was a little more real this time. Jonathan was able to come with me too. We heard the heartbeat and it is so amazing, and crazy to think about.

I am 12 weeks 2 days as of today. These past few weeks I have felt so much better. I usually am not sick during the day. If I do happen to be sick it is usually at night before we go to bed. The real thing that I just can not get over is my lack of energy:
-I can't unload the dishwasher with out taking a break
- I used to be able to clean the entire house in like 1 1/2 hr now it is like 3 days.

I feel like all of a sudden I am in the worst shape of my life!! Just this week I have started to out grow some of my clothes. It is kinda a bitter sweet thing. I'm excited about what is taking place inside me, but on the other hand I'm really not sure I like what I see in the mirror :) Also this week It has really hit me that we ARE going to have a baby, and I am really getting excited about it.

Well that is all I have for now... i am really really really going to try hard and keep this updated!! Until next time!!

Magen