Wonderful Sunday

This past Sunday I had my 1st baby shower thrown by some of my most favorite people in the world.  I thought there was a great turn out and was amazed by everyone's generosity.  Times like these show you how amazing those close to you are! Baby Sadie got some really great stuff.  I couldn't wait to get it home and go through everything.  Only 6.5 weeks left until she makes her grand arrival, unreal.

Getting my corsage put on by my mom

Mommy to be :)

Food Layout, it was YUMMY 

Sweet cake :)

Opening gifts!

One of my sweet helpers, Hannah

Another sweet helper, Anne Cambria!

She decided one of Sadie's toys was going to be hers!

With the Hostesses, love these girls!

The next few weeks will be extremely busy.  We have a shower for Vanessa the next 2 weekends and then my shower at my church the next.  The following weeks after that I hope to do nothing and rest to prepare for little miss' arrival. I had my 32 week check up on Tuesday and everything is still going fine.  Just one of those in and out type of appointments, I spent 5 times as long waiting to see the doctor than actually seeing him.  I'm going every 2 weeks now and after my next appointment I will start going every week.  Crazy! I'm still feeling good except for the normal aches and pains.  I have been so blessed to have such a great pregnancy (except for the nausea but all in all, it wasn't TOO bad).

The past month all in one......

Lots of updating to do!

Lets see, I guess I'll begin around Christmas.  We had a great Christmas.  Lots of food and family time! We started off Christmas Eve with going to my mom's parents early that morning and finished off the day with going to my dad's side of the family.  Christmas morning we woke up, ate breakfast just us 2 (for the last time!) and opened presents with each other.  For lunch we went to Tyler's parents and ate lunch and opened presents with them.  Around 4 or so, we opened presents with my parents followed by dinner! It was all fabulous!

Our little tree

Santa came

my wittle punkin

Buster and Spade (my brother's dog) at my parents house

This is the only picture I was willing to take during Christmas..and I may regret putting this up...the infamous belly shot.....

I was 29 weeks here...

Moving on! I got a new lens for my camera and we played with it a little bit....

angel

The day after Christmas we loaded up and went to Gatlinburg with Tyler's family.  There was no snow so they boys were able to ski like they had planned.  One night it ended up snowing just a little bit and they were able to drive about 2 hours away and ski.  So it ended up being no so bad. We went to Cade's Cove one day and drove through the park.  It's pretty much a deer reservation.  We didn't really get to see much, matter of fact we see more when we go to Greenwood, but it was still a neat experience.

We came home on Thursday and left for Greenwood for New Years on Friday.  Tyler hunted and I just laid around.  Nothing too exciting or special but I was just fine with that.

The following Tuesday, January 3, I had my 30 week check up.  Everything looked great! Everything was measuring right on...except for her belly...which is measuring over a week ahead of schedule! Wittle fat girl! That afternoon we headed over to Baby's Kickin to get a sneak peak of what little Miss Sadie looks like.  We are even more in love now than we were before!

look at those cheeks! 

we think she definitely resembles me as a baby

We all thought they turned out so good! It just makes it that much more real now after seeing her.  I just love her so much already.  I can not even imagine what it will feel like when she gets here.

The next day was my birthday, January 4th! Tyler and I went to dinner at Outback because I was wanting some cheeesseee fries, YUM!! It was delicious. Thursday night I went to dinner with my besties to Mt. Fuji.  No pictures, but we had a really good time!

Chip and Vanessa went to Baby's Kickin on Thursday to see about getting some pics themselves.  I don't have any copies of them but they got some really good ones too.  I did make this though.....

Sweet Cousins :) 

Once again we headed back to Greenwood for the weekend so the boys could hunt.  Saturday night we went to Giardina's for my annual birthday dinner.  I haven't eaten steak this entire pregnancy because the thought of having to chew it has make me sick...well that changed! I ate an entire 20 oz ribeye by myself.  I never even eat ribeye! I am a filet type of girl.  I topped it off with a piece of butter cake topped with vanilla ice cream. De. Lish. As always.  It is definitely one of my top 3 places I have ever eaten.

All of us at dinner.  Please excuse the fat face. 

We set up the babies bed in Greenwood.  The crib is the one my mom used with Chip and I, surprisingly enough it works just fine.

Simple and Sweet 

I have added a few things to her nursery too...

I have since added fabric into the 2 black frames and it looks much better

She got 2 piggy banks for Christmas, we love them!

I believe I have updated everything now! We are starting to get back to "normal" from the holidays...we just know once we get settled, our lives will change (for the better) more than we could ever imagine! I just can't believe how close it is getting! I can't wait to meet her but for now I am trying to rest as much as possible :)

Preview

Here is a preview of Sadie's nursery thus far! (I just got an iPhone the other day so I am still learning how to use all the picture editing on it!)  I ordered all the fabric online and my Aunt Phyllis, the wonderful seamstress that she is, has sewn it all together (bedding and curtains). The piece above her bed is part of the fabric used in her bedding and the monogram part I found on Pinterest.  It is cut out of a piece of wood and then I painted it black.  It is still a work in progress but I think it is coming along nicely.  I really, really like it. 

I'll update with more pictures again the more I get done.  

I can't believe Christmas is only a few days away! To say time is flying is an understatement.  10 and a half weeks from this Friday (that is if everything is still going fine) she will be here.  March 9th.  Unbelievable. We are officially on the countdown! 

Hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas!!

This is the last week...

This is the last week of my second trimester.  Can we say time has FLOWN by??? It does not feel like I have been pregnant for almost 7 months now.  Things lately have been going really good.  The only time I ever really feel nauseous is if I let myself get hungry (which I try my hardest to never do!) or hot.  I get hungry a lot more often now and even though the temps have been fairly low lately, I rarely ever get hot.  I think my body temp has risen at least 5 degrees ha.  I had my 26 week check up last week, everything went good expect for the fact I failed my 1st glucose test.  This is where they check you for gestational diabetes.  You drink a horrid sugary drink in 5 minutes, sit there for a hour then they draw your blood.  You blood sugar has to be 130 or below and mine was 133. Seriously! I failed by 3 points.  So two days later I went in for the next test.  This test involves an even more horrid sugary drink to be drank in 5 minutes, sit for an hour then have your blood drawn and check it, sit another hour...check...then another hour and check.  That totals up to be 3 hrs of sitting.  Did I mention you can't eat anything from midnight the night before?? I was starving and sick to say the least! Luckily I passed the 1st and 2nd hour screenings so I didn't have to sit for the third.  So all is well.  Now we are just counting down the days until little Miss makes her arrival.  I'm feeling pretty good these days and not too huge yet so I'm comfortable and not rushing this time away.  Once she is here...she is here and sleep is O-V, so I'm not rushing quite yet.  I am in the process of finishing her nursery, I am LOVING it so far.  All the bedding and everything has turned out perfect, exactly how I wanted it. As soon as I get a little more of it done I'll post some pics.
It is also the countdown for CHRISTMAS!! My favorite time of year.  I love giving gifts! The shopping part of it isn't my favorite, especially since I tire out so easily these days and my feet ache horribly.  Oh well! Lots of exciting things coming up in the next few months! Cant wait for all of it :)

No news is Good news

I don't really have any new news to post or anything particularly interesting to post so I'll just ramble a bit.  Dr. Webb always tells me that "no news is good news". I like that. Anywho,  I haven't been sick since my last post THANK GOODNESS.  Well nothing other than the occasional nausea, headache and growing pains (yes, growing pains).  We haven't been doing anything too exciting either.  Last week I went to a friend's, Ashley Lamb Bowles, baby shower.  She is having a baby boy in December! Corbyn Bowles! Can't wait to meet the little man.  Sadie and him will for sure be friends.  I can't wait for them to all play together.  There is a whole group of us, 6 to be exact, that all get together sometimes that are pregnant right now! Ashley (boy, Corbyn) and Kelly (girl, Lakelyn) in December, Brittany (boy, Hunter) in January, Chip and Vanessa (girl, cousin, Eliza), me (girl, Sadie) in March and Courtney (don't know yet!) in April.  Isn't that insane.  All of our husbands are close friends and have "guys night" to watch Sons of Anarchy on Tuesdays.  So it's kind of funny to all of us that it has ended up this way.  It wasn't planned either.  Lots of exciting baby times on the way! Sadie already has so many friends that she doesn't even know yet! Its so comforting knowing that she will grow up with some of my best friends children, Anne Cambria, Danielle's little angel and Molly, Mary Frances' little pumpkin.
Did I mention we are officially over HALF WAY THERE!? Scary.
Oh yeah, at my last appointment he told me that if we hadn't had a baby by March 9th, that's when we'll have her! My official due date it March 11th and he said he was on call that weekend any way, so that is the date.  He said he just has to keep me pregnant for that long, so pray for us that she stays in there that long!
Symptoms as of now:
Food Cravings: none
Food aversions: steak, shrimp (the thought of eating either of those makes me gag)
Weight: none of yo bizness.  It is on track though, not too much, not too little.
Nausea: definitely better but not all gone by any means.  If I get hungry, it is O-V.
Movements: The "flutters" have turned more into "thumps" lately.  I definitely feel them more often now but not a whole, whole lot yet.  I enjoy them :)
Memory: Pregnancy brain is NOT a myth.  It is a real thing.  I have lots of moments where I feel "special".
I just ordered a pizza and cheese sticks and they should be here any moment, so I'm going to sit and wait for them now.  Happy Halloween!!

Stomach Virus

I. HATE. YOU. 


I got the stomach virus Monday afternoon.  I hadn't felt too good all day at work then around 2, it really hit me.  I was writing a report and starting getting extremely queasy.  I stopped and walked to the bathroom, nothing happened so I figured it was the normal pregnancy nausea. Then, it hit me, while I was sitting at my desk.  (I don't need to give any details here) I headed straight home only for the same thing to happen over and over again for about every 30 minutes until 10:15 Monday night.  It was HORRID.  I felt like my body was going into seizures every time I was getting sick.  I called the on call doctor around 8 and he called me in some Phenergan and told me if it didn't work to come up to the hospital for fluids.  Poor Sadie.  I bet she was wondering WTH was going on! Tuesday was recovery day.  I stayed in the bed allllllllllll day long.  Literally.  Today though is a new day! Feel so so so much better! I think I will survive again.

Latest Update

I went to the doctor yesterday for my monthly check up.  We are now at 18 weeks.  I swear this time is flying by! It is unreal.  Everything was great! Couldn't have asked for a better check up.  Her heart, brain, bones, kidneys, bladder everything looked perfect and she is measuring to the day of my due date (March 11th).  Dr. Webb said she is "not too big, not too small, just right" :) Love him.  I also found out that he is on call the weekend of my due date and if I don't go before March 9th, he will take me then! Yippeee! Nothing much else went on, just a "normal ole pregnancy" (Dr.W said) and I am 100% happy with that.