It's A...

…long time since I’ve written a blog! (ok – only a week, but considering ALL the stuff happening this week…it’s been a long time since I’ve written a blog…posted a blog…posted a post? Blogged a blog? Blogged a post? What is the correct terminology for this?)

So, I found out what we’re having! Ok, well Jer knew but I found what we’re having!!! I made it till Sunday (barely) and had so much fun finding out that my first baby is going to be an angelic darling little...well, you'll have to keep reading to find out. (hee hee) Saturday night was VERY hard to sleep through. It was like being 5 years old on Christmas Eve. I kept waking up every 2 hours. Finally, at 6:45am I woke up and waited for Jer to wake up. At 7:45am I couldn't take it anymore so I woke up Jer up and we began the present opening ceremony! Jer bought 3 presents that were supposed to hint at what gender our child is. As you can tell from the pictures, Jer got me: Toy Story 2, Hymn book with a spiral binding (to lay on the piano to play), and a really cool Loofah (with a handle so I can get my back AND my feet…it’s getting really hard to bend over!)

How was I supposed to guess from these?!? Finally, Jer told me I needed to “look deeper” into the presents…I figured out that meant I needed to flip through the Hymn book, page by page, to discover some hidden message about our child. Here’s what I found:
WE'RE HAVING A LITTLE GIRL!!!!!

(insert immature, non-mom squeal here – I would have jumped up and down except I can’t)

Jer explained the presents.
Hymn: song #309 – Sisters in Zion (see above picture)
Toy Story 2: everyone has a girlfriend & the cowgirl is Jessie
Loofah: he had to shop in the girl section at Walmart…

After the presents (and the crying and the excited squeals) we watched the DVD of our ultrasound and I got to look at the pictures showing the gender. Let me just say, our ultrasound lady was not kidding! Our little girl is an exhibitionist! I have never seen ultrasound pictures quite this indecent!

Profile picture again just because she’s so cute! Ok, here’s the indecent ones…

Her little tushy is so cute! (I know, I know…proud mother!)

And a new skeleton baby picture...

So excited and so happy to be having this darling, darling little girl!

Here are some more birthday pictures from last Sunday.

Jer cooking my birthday brownies (he uses a recipe from my mother-in-law…this is my favorite favorite favorite favorite dessert ever!)

Me licking the bowl of my birthday brownies…




Those brownies are SO DELICIOUS!

I LOVE the homemade frosting! I LOVE the man who made and is spreading the frosting!

When we came home from church, some of our very good friends had decorated the door!

Finally, before we went to Jer’s aunt and uncle’s house for dinner, we took the traditional weekly pose: Week 22 - can you see how tired I am? She's getting bigger and so am I!

I had a great time on my birthday and I'm grateful for my husband who made it fun.