Baby Shower

My friends at school had the nicest baby shower for me on Thursday, February 19th. I am so blessed to have such good friends who love and support me always. Here are a few pictures from the shower. (Thanks Megan for taking the pictures)

Dusti Windham, Naomi Weems, Tiffany Hunter Ami Box, Crystal Hunt

Cheryl Farris

Finally she cooperates!

I went back to the doctor today to try the 4-D ultrasound again. She finally decided to show her face. On the way over I drank a Mountain Dew and a Red Bull hoping that it would get her moving. She weighs just over 3 pounds now. I am now measuring 34 weeks and I am only supposed to be 31 weeks. During the ultrasound they checked the fluid and growth and everything looked fine. Dr. Christine said that she is in the 44% for weight so she is right where she needs to be. She also said that I am carrying her high so that could be why I am measuring 3 weeks ahead. Also, she is now head down. Hopefully she will stay that way.

29 week appointment

I went to the doc for my 29 week appointmet yesterday. We were also scheduled to have our 4-D ultrasound but if you'll notice, I have no pics to post because she was being a little stinker yesterday. She slept the whole time and we couldn't get her to move an inch (she NEVER sleeps!) When she got tired of us shaking her and jabbing her she rolled over and put her back to us so that pretty much ended the ultrasound. (Alan says she was being a diva like her mommy) We go back in two more weeks to try again. Maybe she will be more cooperative next time. I am now measuring 30 weeks and I am supposed to be 29 weeks so maybe she will be coming early. I also gained 5 pounds over the last few weeks (oops!) for a total of 15 pounds.

Practice with a Newborn

Tonight we went to visit our good friends Grace and Chris, and thier new baby, Logan. Logan was born December 23rd. He is so sweet and so cute! Holding him made us even more excited to hold our baby girl.

27 week appointment

Today Alan and I went for my 27 week appointment. We had to have an ultrasound re-check because the baby has not shown her face (this was the third try). When we went in for the ultrasound the tech told me that I was her last patient and if I wanted, she would play around with the 4-D machine. Alan and I were super excited because we were dying to see what she looked like. Alan got to see just how active she really is. She was constantly moving the entire time which made it difficult to get good pictures (we only ended up with 2 good ones). Although we only got 2 pictures, we got to see her in action. We watched her suck her thumb, hiccup, drink some amniotic fluid, flex her muscles in her arm, wave, and touch her foot to her forehead (she must be double-jointed like daddy). The whole time she was changing positions in my tummy. We scheduled our official 4-D ultrasound in two weeks (this one we will have to pay for). Hopefully she will be more cooperative and sit still long enough to get some good photos.

You didn't know I was brave?

Yesterday afternoon Reese told Reagan that she wanted to get her ears peirced. We took her to Wal-Mart wearing her princess dress-up clothes to have them pierced. She got scared and backed out the first try. A few minutes later she changed her mind again and she went through with it! I was telling her how proud I was of her for being so big and she said to me "You didn't know I was brave?" She is so cute!

Christmas 2008

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Gingerbread Houses

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Snack Night with Alan's Family

Tonight we went to Alan's sister's house for snack night. We had lots of fun pigging out on great food and playing Dirty Santa. Samantha was our photographer for the evening. Here are a few pictures that she took.

Jordan and Hayes Jordan sleeping in her dad's lap

Samantha and Hayes

Jordan and Samantha

Me and Alan

Patrick (Alan's cousin), Alan and Samantha

"watermelon watermelon watermelon watermelon"

Hayes and Me

Hayes and Samantha creating art

More art

Go Big Blue! AND Meredith Gets Crafty

The Cordova Blue Devils made it to the state championship again this year (they won the title last year) so we were invited to attend a pep rally at the high school yesterday. I got a few pictures of Jack at the pep rally. He said his favorite part was watching the cheerleaders do tricks. The state championship playoffs was today in B’ham at 3:00 and school let out today at 11:30 so that everyone would have time to travel to the game. (I only had 6 students show up for school today.) When I got home I began a little craft project for the baby’s room and I am so proud of it. I used to be really crafty like Martha Stewart and I thought I had lost my touch until today. I got these cute letters from Hobby Lobby (50% off) and bought some pink glitter and pink and white polka dot ribbon (also 50% off). The letters were already painted white so I added pink glittery polka dots and then the ribbon to hang them on the wall.

Jack walking into the gym for the pep rally Jack and Logan waiting for the pep rally to begin

My project! The glitter doesn't show up well and I couldn't get my flash to work properly so this isn't a great picture but you get the point.

My Husband, The Decorator

It is a tradition to drag out all of the Christmas stuff and to buy the tree the day after Thanksgiving (after hitting the early morning sales). Well this year I didn’t feel like shopping and I really didn’t feel like decorating either. My dear sweet husband decided he would have a go at decorating while I relaxed on the couch and watched (laughing because he was taking the decorating thing very seriously).

He rearranged the nutcrackers about 5 times trying center them

He hung the stockings by the chimney with care and arranged the greenery on the mantle. The greenery actually looks really good although you can't really tell in the picture. I'm not a good photographer at all!

Our 12 foot Christmas tree! He even helped me wrap some presents after all that decorating

another greenery arrangement by Alan

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Pay Backs

This week was Alabama/Auburn week at school. There was this big competition for which team could bring in the most cans for our annual food drive and which team could out decorate the other. The majority of the faculty members at school are Alabama fans and there are just a few Auburn fans. Some of the teachers (myself included) decided that we should "roll" the Auburn fans' classrooms. We got to school early one morning and rolled their rooms and had a great time doing it:) Later on in the day we hear that the Auburn fans were a bit upset that we did this (they were probably just mad that we are currently ranked #1). We apologized and offered to clean up the mess. Well today as I was leaving school I noticed that the Auburn fans were trying to get even. They decorated our car windows with shoe polish. We though it was pretty funny and we all laughed about it.

My Newest Obsession

I haven't posted anything in a while because I have been preoccupied with a new obsession--reading Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series. Now I am not a reader at all. (I couldn't tell you the last book I read. Besides children's books which I read daily to my students) Not because I do not like to read, but because I am too picky and nothing suits me. My friends at school raved about the books and that's all I heard about for weeks. When I heard it was about vampires I was like NO WAY! I don't like all of that mess. They were finally able to convince me to read the 1st of the 4 books and they said I would be hooked and they were right. I carry my book everywhere with me and I read it every chance I get. I even have to fight the urge to pick it up during the school day when I am supposed to be teaching.

I am about half way through the 4th book and it is by far the best one!!! I swear I will probably never read another book again because I know that none will ever come close these books. I have even convinced Alan to read them. He just finished the first book and started the 2nd one tonight. He dosen't care for the love story part of it but likes the vampire stuff. I am just the opposite. I can't get enough of the lovey dovey stuff :)

Friday some of my friends and I are going to the movies to see Twilight the movie which is based on the first book. We are so excited to see it. We are all taking off around lunch time to catch the 1:30 show because we just can't wait until 7:00!

It's a ...

I went to the doctor for my big ultrasound today. My appointment was at 9:15 but we got there about 45 minutes early. I went to the lab to have my iron levels checked and my levels are back up to normal. However, I still have to continue taking the iron capsules everyday. Then Alan and I went in to have the ultrasound. The baby was moving all around (probably b/c I followed some advice from a friend and drank a Mountain Dew on the way to the doctor's office). We saw and heard a strong heartbeat and saw legs, spine, arms, the head, etc. And then she began looking for female or male parts. I started to get nervous and then she zoomed in and said there was not a penis. So I said "Is there any chance a penis will grow there?" and she said "No--it's definately a girl." I know that may have been a silly question on my part but I know of two incidences recently when someone thought they were having a girl and it turned out to be a boy. I just wanted to be sure. Alan has been making fun of me all day for asking that but I just wanted to be sure. We are so excited!!!