fell off the bandwagon

Well that didn't work out too well. In the midst of having a baby, I forgot I had a blog. Don't know what happened to my priorities. ;)

Update:
I had a baby. She's precious. 4 months old today.

 3 days old. Diva from the start.

 1 month old. Such a happy baby.

 2 months old. Rocking the bow.

 3 months old. Moving to our new home.

 4 months old...or pretty close. Hanging with daddy.


She is such an angel, and we are having a blast.
We moved into a new apartment. We needed more space, and the management at our old complex turned for the worst.

We are soon to start rice cereal with Bug. I'm very excited.

And in even more exciting news...I'm leaving behind my teaching career at the end of this school year. If I ever go back to teaching in public education, it will be in higher education. My 3 years of tutoring high school, and 4 years of teaching jr high have been eye opening and enjoyable, but I have been called to stay home, and I am ready to embrace the calling. :)

If we ever needed the Lord before...

...we sure do need him now. (I love Take 6)

32 days of 100+ heat in North Texas. Oh. My. Word. This is getting ridiculous.

Doctor appointment and sonogram today. The little squirt is 4.6 lbs, and I'm measuring at 33 weeks. I've even finally gained some weight! I'm a pound away from my pre-pregnancy weight. I certainly don't want to jinx anything, but I haven't had morning sickness the past 3 days!

My mom went with us to this appointment to see the sonogram. Baby girl is getting so big. We got to see her face really well this time. Her feet were nice and jammed up near my ribs as usual.

In other less-exciting news, I go back to work in 9 days. I'm looking forward to the routine and seeing work friends, but not looking forward to the hectic start of the year. I'm very ready to go set up my classroom for the year. That is probably the most stressful time for me.

We went to Milano this past weekend to visit my grandparents. We went to the jamboree on Saturday night and played at church on Sunday. It was so nice to see my grandparents, aunts and cousins. Granny went nuts with shopping for baby girl, so she now has many more outfits.

Backtrack: Before we left for Milano on Saturday, Crystal threw a shower for baby girl. It was so cute. Good group of our friends, and such enjoyable conversation. I'll post pictures when I load them from my camera.


Thankfully, I think that's about it in the way of updates. The wiggle worm and I are going to Lowes in a bit to find window film to try and cool off the living room from the daily sun beatings.

roll with the changes

I cleaned out some old posts so now it looks like I never update. Although this is close to the truth, I decided I wanted to repurpose the blog. Sticking with the family info. Speaking of family: our little one is due in late September. We found out in January, and the journey began.

Pregnancy is not at all what I expected, though I'm still not really sure what exactly I was expecting. I'm apparently one of the gloriously blessed women who experiences morning sickness for all 9 months! I won't complain though, because I have NO leg cramps, headaches, back aches, swelling, numbness, skin problems or anything else typically associated with pregnancy.

We found out in May that our little bundle is going to be a girl. We decided to be surprised with the rest of the family. So we had the doc write down the gender, and we took it to our favorite bakery and they colored a precious cake. We gathered as much of our family as possible and cut the cake! (Thanks to the cousins for capturing a video for us. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AVxxvx-S10)

Summer is going well. I've been nesting quite a bit now that I have time. The nursery basics are almost ready to go. We still don't have a name for baby girl, but I'm sure we'll come up with something. :)

Right now I'm just enjoying the last few weeks of freedom before school starts again! Hopefully I'll be a little more diligent with the updates and pictures.