Introducing.....

The Sweetness! *

She was born on Thursday August 23rd at 1:28pm. She weighs 8lbs and .05oz and is 20 inches long. Mom is on the mend... Dad is loving being a dad. (and he's great at it too!) I can't wait for him to remember his password so that he can blog!!!! Should be some real good ones coming up!
Ok ok, I'll stop rambling and attach the pictures.....

oh and if you are a blogger user and you blog and sometimes I leave comments for you..... (rochelle and faith) something seems to be wrong with blogger and they haven't been letting me leave comments for a few weeks now... but I have been reading! Just wanted to let you know that.

Here she is... The Sweetness




We are a family of three now.




He's totally whipped!






This is what exhaustion looks like after two nights of VERY LITTLE sleep. Someone has her days and her nights mixed up.



* for security reasons... name has been edited. Thanks for understanding!

I'm having a BABY!!!!

So, I just got back from my dr appointment....
evidently my body is creating a 'hostile environment' due to rising blood pressure and roller coaster blood sugar levels so I'm being admitted tonight at 6pm and they scheduled the baby for a 1pm exit tomorrow! AAAAAKKKKK!!! PRAY Saints, pray! I'll be sure to have C update and include a picture asap!!! I'll be back in a few days! :D

I'm sorry

I'm here and I'm fine. No baby still. I don't blog so much now b/c of this stupid tingling/numbness stuff going on in my right hand. It was absolute TORTURE trying to get all the thank you cards written and addressed. But they are done and in the mail. Now I'll only have to do one or two at a time.

I thought I'd have shower pics for you but well, they aren't pretty. So maybe not.

On the baby front, all bed linens, clothes, and bottles are washed and ready to be used, the monitors are charged and ready to go. I just need to pack my bag for the hospital. Today I plan on making spaghetti sauce and a ziti to freeze for 'future use'. I'm also making a cheesecake for one of the ministers at our church who has been 'on my list' since Christmas!!!

Oh if you are looking for an update on C's blog... keep looking! The doofis forgot his password. He thinks it'll come to him eventually. He also thinks it starts with the letter R and that it might have a number in it. Can you tell I'm rolling my eyes!?!?!?

Ok, well, that's all I've got for now... I'm gonna jump off of here before I lose too much sensation in my hand.

Oh look here's a shower pic.....

We've been showered!

Last night C and I went to a shower that some of the ladies from church hosted for us. There was a great turnout and an amazing outpouring of love for us. We wound up staying up until 4:30 in the morning putting the baby's goodies away. I'm sure there are pictures on my camera, but I haven't even seen them yet. I'll post them tomorrow or one day next week.

We had a bit of a scare regarding C's job situation. The project he was working on was ending, and they gave him a release date of August 31st. But he got 'unofficial' word that they had gotten a new contract for at least another year. This week it was made official. We are breathing much easier now.

I'm totally done being pregnant, but so not ready to have a baby in the house. I can't wait to be able to move without it being a huge ordeal, and I so can't wait to sleep on my stomach again. I really can't wait for this numbness/tingling in my arm to go away. The dr said its from the extra fluids pushing on my nerves and causing carpal tunnel like symptoms. It's at its worst when I'm on the computer so that may be why I haven't been blogging much.

~til next time!

Here's your update!!

Last weekend, I was at a scrapbooking crop. I'm a member of a message board online that I am pretty much addicted to... it was decided that the TX girls needed to get together. Well, this TX crop turned into a very big event. It was held up in Lewisville at a scrapbook store, and ladies (and some spouses) flew in from as far as Canada and California!!! It was so awesome to meet everyone! These awesome ladies also presented me with a baby gift. We received the play yard that was on our registry. I was so overwhelmed by their generosity. Its so amazing, I mean they had never even met me before and here they are being so thoughtful and caring to a stranger (practically). I must say that it was totally weird for me to be recognized by everyone. I had to keep asking people who they were and what their screen name was... and yet they all knew exactly who I was immediately. The belly was the dead give away! LOL!!! I was so exhausted from the weekend but it was so totally worth it!

Saturday night, we (C drove me to and from the event both days) didn't get home til close to midnight and Friday night it was close to 1am. We were both so excited about the play yard that we stayed up so that C could put it together. Then on Sunday, he was so excited about putting the furniture in the nursery that he didn't even wait for a friend to help him get the stuff up there. He somehow maneuvered all 3 pieces upstairs by himself. My idea was that he just take the parts to the crib upstairs individually. But once he got the crib together there was no stopping the man! The room looks so great! And yes, I took pictures and I will share them here with you now!






I had a dr appt on Monday... she did an exam... said my cervix was 'up in china' but that she thought I'd be doing 'this myself' and not in the distant future either.
My counter at the top of the blog is a week off... it's going by a 40 week schedule and the dr said that no matter what I wouldn't be going past 39 weeks. So if I don't 'do this myself' before 39 weeks comes, she wants to do a c-section. I told her about the contractions I had last week, she said that I'm building up to something. For now, we are still playing the waiting game. I'll definitely keep you posted!

~Till next time