31 weeks

My 31st week of pregnancy has brought on many uncomfortable moments. Don't get me wrong I have LOVED every minute of being pregnant. My pregnancy has been SO easy thus far but I think it's because all of my uncomfortable symptoms have held out on me until now. The last three nights, I have not slept very well at all. My back hurts, my legs hurt, my stomach hurts, etc. Last night I got TWO charlie horses in my calves which hurt so bad I literally wanted to scream, but I held off. The dr said that the baby is head down and in position so now we just wait..... but with this turn, comes alot of hard places on my belly, I assume it's from Baby Carney's little feet or bottom but it's not always comfortable. I have made up my own conclusion as to why this is happening and it all stems from my extremely short stature. HAHA. I rub the hard places (not poke them) and the baby will move trying to get a way from I think, it's kind of fun! This weekend I am going to start gathering things for our hospital bag. I need to get a few things so that I am presentable for our visitors (after just giving birth, ya right, haha) but still be comfortable, and I will pack Buddy's things too just to make sure he is ready too!!!! Last week the baby was measuring a week ahead of schedule so it really leaves me with the anxiety of what if this baby does come a little early. Don't get me wrong I would not mind one bit if he/she came 1-2 weeks early because we can not wait to meet Baby Carney but I guess that puts the thoughts back in my mind that we need to be getting everything in place. I can not believe that tomorrow starts the beginning of October which means that our baby is due NEXT MONTH!!! haha ok really it's still like 2 months away but I can think about it as being NEXT MONTH!!!!! Ok well enough rambling I will leave you with a picture of my 31 week pregnant belly.

First Baby Shower

This past weekend we had our first baby shower! I still can not believe how many people came and how many things this tiny little "mystery" baby got! We ended up getting a TON of the essentials: car seat, pack-n-play, boppy, multiple diaper bags, bathing essentials, and even a few clothes. We got a lot of diapers and wipes too, which I know will help out a TON! Buddy and I had originally gone and picked out gender specific coming home outfits but my mom bought a few girl outfits and a few boy outfits and I actually ended up falling in love with one of the girl outfits that she got. It's not pink, it's a light purple, which I LOVE on little girls! I have some pictures of my shower but I did not get any of us posing so I will have to get those from my mom. The ones I have are mainly of me opening gifts and I look awful!! HaHa. After the shower I wanted to get everything washed, organized, and put away so my sister in law, Sarah, came over and helped. It made things ALOT less overwhelming and we actually got everything done! I even put together the pack-n-play!! Pretty soon we are going to bring this into our bedroom so that we can get used to it being in there and also the dog. We also need to get another base for our car seat for Buddy's truck and go get those installed at the hospital. I know many people do this themselves but this might be one thing that I am paranoid about it and want it to be done 100% correct! Anyways.... our shower was GREAT!!! I still have two more, one at work that is being thrown by my AWESOME team and a joint one with my sister that is being thrown by my step mom and her friends! I am looking forward to both of them and looking even more forward to the time continuing to move right along because before we know it this little one will be here!!!!

Fall

So I have always been a HUGE Christmas decorator and LOVE doing it, and this year with the baby coming and all I thought what the heck I want to decorate our new house (well not so new anymore) with fall stuff. So one day after work I headed to Hobby Lobby, who by the way had ALL fall decor 50%, and I got A TON of stuff! Well I thought it was a ton of stuff until I got home and realized I could have used more. Anyways, I wasn't feeling well the day that I got my stuff but I still wanted to get it set out (I knew it would make me feel better, haha) so my mom came over and helped me get it all set out! I LOVE it!!!! I have also already started thinking about Christmas and how I will probably need to decorate the tree in mid-November to assure that it gets put up because I have a feeling that if I wait until after the baby it might not get put up. BUT that brings me to another situation..... the fact that I put our Christmas tree out on the curb the day I took it down last year leaves us with NO Christmas tree. I looked at Hobby Lobby but they were SO expensive... so I am going to check out some other places and watch the sale ads. After Christmas last year, I got all new decor for the tree so I do not have to worry about that, we just need a tree, HAHA. Anyways.... there is so much to write about and I need to post a 31 weeks picture but for now I am SO tired and ready to just sit down (ok really lay down). Here are my fall decorations!

Just a thought that is weighing heavy on my heart

Sometimes unexpected things happen that you are not at all prepared for. Most people step up (grow up) and take responsbility and realize that there is nothing they can do to change these things, but sometimes people choose not to face the facts and choose to continue living life as if nothing has changed. It breaks my heart but all I can do is pray for them. The end.

Lots of stuff....

Peyton and Me rooting on the Cowboys

Let's see where should I start???? Well I guess I will start by saying that we are completely 100% head over heels in love with our niece. I know it sounds cheesy to say but we love her so much that we can not imagine what it will be like when our little one makes it's entrance. This little girl has made us SO ready for our little one to be here and we often find ourselves just talking about her over and over. Yesterday we were so excited that they came over to watch the Cowboy game... well the boys watched it and us girls passed the baby around, looked at her, watched her, etc. Little Miss Peyton has already turned a new leaf for my husband..... he went from not wanting to hold a baby to asking if he could hold her (yes, I caught him asking yesterday). He ALSO fed and burped her and changed her diaper. I believe this was his first diaper ever. After they left we just sat here and talked about everything and we are just SO excited and ready (I know I keep saying this but it's just so true....) Ok, so here are a few pictures of the little one yesterday and some of the mile stones that Uncle Buddy hit (they make me smile)

On another note, we did a lot of nursery work this weekend.... well as much as we could considering our first shower is not until this Saturday (which I am SO excited about)!!!! Here are a few sneak peeks of the nursery

******NOTE- the paint and fabric are NOT that color..... everytime I take a picture it turns out a different color. I was very nervous to pain the wall that color (which doesn't truly show up here) but it turned out so cute!!!! *******

Ok and onto my weekly belly picture.... THIRTY weeks!!!! As I write this I can not believe that I only have 9 weeks and 6 days until my due date (I would be happy if maybe this baby made an entrance in 8 weeks or so, but we will see....)
Ok, well i think that is all. I hope you enjoyed the 100 pictures that I posted, haha.

Just wanted to share something beautiful!

My niece who is now 10 days old got her newborn pictures taken this morning and the sneak peeks that the photographer has put up are BEAUTIFUL! I just can not express the love I have for this little girl and she isn't mine, hehe. Take a look here. I will update more late on, I just needed to show that off!

Feel like my energy has been stripped from me

I guess the third trimester of this pregnancy has literally stripped me from ALL energy I had in the second trimester. I felt SO good in the second trimester and I still feel really good but I am just SO tired, like I am reliving the whole first trimester over again. This has all come about in the last week and the only way I can describe it is as if I wake up in the mornings feeling like I have not slept a wink and then I get home in the afternoons and want to be in bed by 8! My sister in law (who got to bring Miss Peyton home Tuesday) said to enjoy this while I can because not much sleep is to be had once the baby comes, haha.

This post is short but sweet haha, Just thought I would document this huge energy change that has come upon me this last week!

29 weeks and a new addition

Last Sunday, the 11th, marked my 29th week of pregnancy. This for some reason has been a HUGE marker for me because that means that in just two short weeks I will be in the SINGLE digits of the number of weeks left. We are both getting EVEN more excited and ready for this little one to make its debut! If we knew that the baby wouldn't be underdeveloped we would be really wishing that it would come on and come out (yes we are VERY anxious), haha. Although, the nursery isn't done and we haven't even had our showers yet. I keep thinking about how this Sunday will mark only 10 weeks left and then Monday will officially start my 9 week countdown... ok so it will be 9 weeks and 6 days BUT hey it's still in the single digits right?!?!?!

We (the whole family) had a very unexpected but WONDERFULLY precious surprise last Thursday night/early Friday morning. To try and make a long story short my best friend (who was due October 5th) since sixth grade who also happens to be my sister-in-law fell Wednesday evening and hurt her ankle. So Thursday she went to Care Now but in order for her to get an x-ray she had to have consent from her dr. Well her dr. sent her to the hospital to be monitored to just make sure that the baby was ok. Long story short, the babies heart rate dropped in that time so they ordered a sonogram in which they found that her amniotic fluid was low. They told her that she would be delivering THAT DAY! Totally unexpected!!! They started her on the drip and she was in a labor for a short while then the heart rate dropped again so they took her back from a C-section. Our little niece was born Friday morning at 12:59 weighing 5lb 14oz with a head full of hair! Due to her being early she had to learn how to eat so that took a couple of days but we are so proud to announce that they are on their way home as I type this!!!!! She is the most beautiful baby girl and we both love her OH SO MUCH! Buddy and I think that it is neat that our child will have a cousin (actually two) so close in age. Which brings me to another point... My sister is due in less than two months so we are getting anxious about that precious addition, ANOTHER NIECE!!!!



This weekend I have declared it a "nursery working weekend!" I really want to get the nursery set up as much as possible. So far we have not been in any kind of hurry but I think that the whole incident with our sister-in-law has kind of opened our eyes that something could (hopefully it won't) happen and this baby could be early, you just never know. Which brings me to my next freak out moment, maternity leave, HAHA. I did meet with the benefits office yesterday and everything they had to offer was a huge benefit for us, so I am very thankful for that.... but then I think about the dreaded lesson plans. I do not even know where to begin thinking about that. HAHA. It's so hard for me to leave MY students in someone elses hands anyways but to know that I need to have everything clearly laid out for someone else to walk in my room on any given day in November and be ready to teach for me for 6 weeks is a scary thought. The questions start going through my head :what if I am a month early, what if I Have to have a c-section, what if, waht if, what if.... what if I do not have my lesson plans ready in time. SO, this weekend I will be starting this process. Not really sure where to start but I have to start somewhere right?

Anyways.... enough of me freaking! It will all get done and in almost two short months we will be enjoying our beautiful gift from above!

Hello Third Trimester!

So today marks my 28th week of pregnancy. We are starting to get that "HURRY up already" mind set but I am trying to remember and remind Buddy that the baby is still cooking and that 12 weeks will hopefully FLY by. I remember the first time I put on a maternity shirt I felt like it was swallowing me but it was SO much more comfortable then wearing one of my regular shirts. So, as I was getting ready this morning I remembered taking a picture of the first time I wore one, I had barely any belly/bump and I thought that I looked ridiculous wearing the shirt but I just couldn't stand the fact of going being at an outside event in tight clothes. Well here is the picture of the first time I wore that shirt, I was 12 weeks 1 day pregnant and then the second picture is of me wearing the shirt at 18 weeks pregnant and the third one is of today at 28 weeks pregnant (It's a pretty funny comparison):

Baby Carney has some clothes!

Every since we found out I was pregnant and that we were for sure going to not find out the gender I have wanted to go shopping for a few girl outfits and a few boy outfits. This way when the baby gets here he/she will have something gender specific to wear. Most places have a return policy of like 30 days with the receipt so I thought that I was going to have to wait until WAY closer to our due date, but I was wrong. I went to Carter's one day to pick a few things for my nieces and they informed me that as long as we had the receipt we can bring it back, no matter how long I had the item. SO, yesterday was the day we decided to go shopping! If we knew the gender I imagine we would have picked out the "going home" outfit together for whatever gender the baby was, but since we do not I thought that it would be fun for Buddy to pick out the boy outfits and me to pick out the girl outfits. So before we went in I gave Buddy a very short list of things that the outfit needed (newborn size and it needed to have pants since the baby will be born in winter). I didn't want to be the over picky person because I really wanted this to be something that HE picked out! So, we went in and went to the opposite sides of the store and I found my two outfits very quickly and I looked over and he was looking at EVERYTHING (it was so precious). So I got my two outfits and went over to see what he had and he had picked out the cutest little outfits. This was a very short and simple shopping trip. So we got in line and he looked over and saw this outfit on the wall that had a little jacket and on the hood of the jacket there were bear ears, so we got out of line and we put back one of his outfits and got that one. Here are the two outfits that he picked out for Braxton:

And here are the outfits for Hayden:

These clothes are SO precious and we are beyond ready for our little one to be here. Buddy makes comments about me hurrying the process up or hurrying up with the baking process all the time, but I Just remind him that I would if I could but I can't. When I went in to get the outfits this morning from the baby's closet, here is what I saw:
Now I know it sounds silly to say that I actually teared up when I opened the closet this morning but I just think it is so cute for those little clothes to be hanging in this big closet. Since the day I found out I was pregnant I have been filled with pure thanksgiving that the Lord has entrusted us with a child. This baby is purely a blessing and I can only imagine what it will be like to see him/her for the first time, here him/her cry for the first time, hold him/her for the first time, FIND OUT IF IT IS A HIM OR HER!!!, etc. It makes me cry to just think about it, haha. Yes I might be a cry baby but they are tears of joy!