My new favorite thing!

Okay, so my friends think I'm nuts...but I'm using this...and it's helping me go to sleep! I love it!

It's the Baby Einstein baby neptune soother! It plays music or a water sound, lights up and the little fishies/turtle swim around. Then it fades off after every 10 minutes until it eventually turns itself off. It's wonderful :-) Can't wait until the baby gets here so I don't look so ridiculous cuddling with baby blankets and listening to lullabies, haha...

Anyway, it can attach to a crib and it has a remote so the baby MIGHT get to enjoy it when it comes, if I can give it up! LOL

2nd Doctor's Appt.

My second doctor's appointment was August 23rd at 9am. First I had to pee in a cup. Then talk to an LPN about family history and about what tests were offered (HIV & Cystic Fibrosis & Down Syndrome test). We declined all tests.

Then we got to meet the Women's Health Nurse Practicioner, Jyll Hopkins. She was really nice and helpful. She first used the doppler to let us hear the heartbeat again. She said it was hard to find because the baby was wiggling around in there, which absolutely freaked me out...oh yeah..I AM pregnant! Crazy, haha. Then, since I hadn't had one recently, she had to give me a pap smear and check my breasts. She said she is concerned that I will have problems breastfeeding, which made me a little sad, but I can't worry about that right now. She also had to check on my cyst on my right ovary since it had been hurting. OUCH, boy did that hurt. She had to press down on my both of my ovaries and I almost started crying...Then more poking and prodding as I had to get some blood work down. Apparently, a 'prenatal panel' blood tests...Just routine bloodwork for a pregnant woman!

I still cannot believe that we are going to have a baby and that everything is going well so far. I am in awe of God's awesome miracles. He sure loves to surprise you! :)

Great News!

We've waited a long time to write this post! We've waited three difficult years to finally get pregnant, and we've waited three long weeks to write this post to everyone. So, it's official...Wesley and I will be having a baby next year!! March 19th, 2011!!

When we found out, I was already 5 weeks pregnant. I was not expecting to see two pink lines on those pregnancy tests, but boy when I did...I was in shock! All I could do was put my hands over my mouth and gawk at those tests! Then I woke Wesley up from his deep sleep and dragged him into the bathroom to look, too. He couldn't believe it, either! The first person we told was Jodie, and then Greg. They took us out to eat to celebrate our good news at Longhorn Steakhouse, yum!


So, fast forward to today, August 9th, 2010...Our first ultrasound! Wesley and Jodie were hoping for twins, but I was going to be happy with just one baby...And that's what we have...One very healthy baby growing! The ultrasound lady said I was measuring 8 weeks 2 days (which is exactly what I thought) and that my due date would be March 19th, 2011. She said the baby's heartbeats per minute was 174. She also showed me a cyst I have on my right ovary, called the corpus luteum cyst, that should go away with time. It's just there because that's the ovary that I ovulated from!



I will have another appointment in two weeks, August 23, to go over family history and all that fun stuff. I will get to listen to the baby's heartbeat again! The entire time today I kept thinking about how unreal this all is! After trying to get pregnant for exactly three years, we are finally here! It's all by the grace of God!! We had tried some different stuff to get pregnant in the past and obviously none of that worked. I had kind of given up hope and thought "if it happens, it happens, but I don't think it will". Then BAM, here I am over 8 weeks pregnant! It truly is a miracle!!!


It was so cute to hear Wesley tell everyone at church that we are going to be a mommy & daddy. When we told my mom she started crying and saying she was so happy (kind of scaring the kids that were at the next table at the restaurant, lol).

I want to thank everyone who has prayed for us over the years. Often times I just didn't know what to pray anymore, or how to pray anymore. So thank you for praying for me, when I couldn't anymore.

Please continue to keep us in your prayers. Please pray for a healthy pregnancy, healthy mama, and healthy baby...and a healthy daddy, too :)