Today was my doctor's appointment and we got another little peek at Baby Fields. This was my last "special" appointment with an ultrasound unless something looks fishy. All things point to a normal pregnancy, though, so it looks like we'll be seeing this baby in another 9 weeks or so to find out what variety we're getting! Today the baby looked so different. Again we could see little arms and legs, but it was SO wiggly. It's hard to believe in another month I'll be feeling this little bean move all around. We laughed so hard, it was really dancing. I guess it takes after its Big Sister! Speaking of Big Sister... she went with us today. She was a little skeptical in the ultrasound room, but once we were out of there she gave us a good recap on what happened. She was also anxious to meet ...
Friday Night Football
On Friday, we went to the Homecoming game at my high school alma mater. Did I mention it was raining? We were going early for the Homecoming festivities because three of my cousins were on the court and one was a nominee for Queen. It was pouring down rain, so we went ahead armed with a beach towel, three cushions and two umbrellas. Unfortunately, we needed them all. Jessica did win Homecoming Queen and she, Kalli and Chaney all looked beautiful. It did rain a little on them while they were on the field, but it in no way diminished their beauty! Ella and I decided to brave the line and head to the concession stand for some cheese fries and gatorade. It was a HUGE mistake. Despite how unmistakably adorable we look in that photo {wink, wink} we were a mess after this adventure. We ...
Fancy Family Photostrips
One of our best ideas for these fancy parties was setting up an area where the guests could have their pictures made. I wanted to be sure we got pictures of everyone in their "fancy attire" and this guaranteed that nobody got left out. I wish I had taken a behind-the-scenes pictures so you could see how it all worked, but we were a little overwhelmed in the midst of the parties. We hung black fabric from the playroom wall and put it on the floor, too. K brought home lights from her studio and set them up. It was like being in a professional photo studio and the pictures prove it! These were our practice shots from Friday afternoon. K took some impromptu photos of Ella in her panties to test the lights. When we told Ella to make funny faces these are what we got. We were both laughing so ...
Let’s Get Fancy… Again!
Sunday evening was our family party and WOW is all I can say. Have you ever had a party where every person you invited actually showed up? Well, on Sunday we pretty much did. There were very few people in our group of close family and friends who didn't come. Our house was filled to capacity and it became very hard to visit with everyone. Fortunately, everyone mingled all over the place and really enjoyed themselves despite the limited seating. THIS is our birthday cake. Can you say wow? A friend from high school made it and delivered it for us and did a fabulous job. We knew we wanted something fancy and sent her a picture of what we wanted. She pretty much made exactly what we asked for and everyone was amazed to look and taste it. Ella LOVED it, which made her mommy very happy. Not ...
Tea Party Time
Ella was so excited about her fancy tea party that she was ready to get dressed when her feet hit the floor that morning. We had breakfast, finished prepping for the party and took a nice bubble bath. Ella was so anxious that she convinced her daddy to get her dressed while I got ready - even though I told her to wait. I laughed because apparently she told Josh "mommy said to get me ready"! Well, if you're that excited, we'll go with it. K got here a little early so we had a little photoshoot on the front porch. Isn't the picture above adorable? She's making a funny face in almost every picture. Something about telling her to "look fancy" tickled her funny bone. Most of the girls and their mommies dressed really fancy and it was so funny to see how they all looked. The little girls were ...
Best Friends
This is Ryan. She was my very best friend growing up. I cannot remember a time in my childhood that she wasn't a part of. I'm pretty sure we were friends in utero. At the least, shortly thereafter. If it was Friday night, we were spending the night together. We might have alternated locations and occasionally invited another girl or two, but there was never a question that we would be together. We survived on the original Nintendo, eighties movies and baby dolls. We swam and jumped on the trampoline to the soundtrack of Dirty Dancing. We wore biker shorts underneath holy blue jeans. We harassed her older brother and rolled his hair with Caruso rollers {remember those?}. We almost always headed to Smith's for snacks which included some combination of chocolate chips, coconut, Clearly ...
Raise your hand…
if you threw up in the car on the way to work this morning. Anyone, anyone? I didn't think so. Well, it wasn't fun, so be glad it wasn't you. Josh said it was quintessentially pregnant that immediately following that lovely moment, I turned into Chick-fil-A for a cheese biscuit and sweet tea. What's so weird about that? Since I surprised you all with a post last night and offered very few details, I thought a proper pregnancy post was called for. Complete with gratuitous ultrasound evidence, of course! I went to the doctor for a regularly-scheduled lab appointment in late July and proceeded to tell the lab tech that I was one of the least-fertile people on the planet. Little did I know what God had in store. On August 4th, I took my first pregnancy test and wasn't at all discouraged ...
Guess what?!?!
This fancy family has an announcement to make... Ella's going to be a BIG sister! ...