Belly Pics!

30 Weeks! I really wanted to take some belly pics but I have NOT wanted to post any! So we finally did some more professional pictures just for fun and they didn't turn out so bad.

We have decided to name our little angel Lillian Paige! So this next picture makes it more official for sure! I had little panties like this when I was a baby so I wanted them for Lilly as well, Luckly my mother in law was able to embroder them!

I have gained about 35lbs.... UGH! Im so full of water its not even funny, my feet look like a balloons and my little fingers are so stuby :(

This is the LOVE our lives... we are just waiting for her to come meet us!

These are just a few I wanted to share! I'll blog more later!

Everything is better in 3D

Last Wednesday we got to have a 3D sonogram done. Let me just say that it was AWESOME and if you have to pay to have one done then I think it is worth it!!!!! We paid $125 and I will never regret it. I was really wishing they would telll me how much she weighed but because it was for entertainment purposes only they couldn't, I guess incase something is wrong who knows. But we did get to hear he heart beat and it about melted my heart. Lilly was being a little turkey and wouldn't move her hands so we could get a good look at her plus I though she was sucking her thomb :/ So the lady moved to a side view for a minute to show us that she was NOT sucking!!!!! :) She also put this noise to my stomach that sounded light the horn on a tug boat to me, She didn't like that much either so she started moving!

Im amazed at how much you could see. We could see little peach fuze on her head and dimples like her momma! Where it looks fuzy is the fluid and she stayed cuddled up next to the placenta for comfort the whole time!

Me, Chris, my mom and sister all went and we got a ton of pictures to bring home plus a DVD. So when Lilly gets bigger we can show her how beautiful she was before she was even born :)

They Grown SO fast.

I can not believe how fast this dog has grown. It seems like yesterday all he did was sleep and he could even fit in my lap. Well the lap is getting smaller and the dog is getting bigger! This picture was taken when he was about 7 weeks old and probably about 9lbs or so.

This picture was taken today and he is 18 weeks old and weights 29 lbs! He is quite the rowdy thing, While he does love to take his naps during the day. He doesn't realize how big he is though, butter and Allie run from couch to chair, and even sit on top of the couch so Knox thinks he can to! He does LOVE to sit outside though so when the time comes for him to be a "outside" dog I think he will adjust well! One of the biggest differences between him and the other 2 are eating habits. We used to feed the little ones once a day in the afternoon and that was fine for them, but with Knox we are feeding him 2 times b/c he is SO active and growing SO fast! For the most part he is completely potty trained with the exception of being an excited pee-er. Hopefully we can break that habit soon.

28 Weeks

Time is moving by faster now it seems, praise the lord. A lot has happened in the last few weeks, I had a breaking point and thought that I had lost my wedding ring, 2 promise rings and grandmothers wedding ring for good. I can not even begin to describe the amount of pain and emptiness I felt. Thankfully I only had to know what that felt like for a week because by the grace of God I found them... In plain sight :( Onto this week, we received a notice on our door that the horse trailer parked next to the house was in violation and needed to be moved. That meant that we got a new fence gate... It was in die or need of repair and looks fabulous! On Sunday I was in the cleaning mood and asked Chris if he would help me... He agreed so I tried to press my luck a little more and ask if we could rearrange the living room. Thinking I would get a quick NO he was all for it and wanted to get ride of our couch.... So needless to say we have less furniture but it feels so much more "homey" and livable! The best part is we have room for Lilly and her massive amount of STUFF! The best part of news this week had to be in the mail yesterday... UGH! I got a letter addressed to Whitney Nichole Horton- not my name! So surprise, Jury Duty! This should be fun, I'm not excited but I will make the best of it and let you know how it goes! I think that pretty much sums things up! Chris's' aunts and cousins in Michigan are on top of it and already mailed there gifts for the shower but let us open them early... :) Lilly has her awesome high chair, a wagon to go for walks in, her smell good and a book! So it looks like things are beginning to take way... I can not wait!!!!

• How far along? 28 Weeks
• How big is Baby? About 14.8 in and 2LB 9OZ
• Total weight gain/loss: A little Shy of 30lb. Yikes... I'm ready to work it off.
• Maternity clothes? Oh you bet... the best invention yet! I had to buy another pair of scrub paints due to my LG butt
• Stretch marks? Sadly yes... a few on my sides.
• Sleep: I feel like I'm back at week one where I can't get enough sleep... But when I'm up, I'm up.
• Best moment this week: Chris get butter barking and Lilly kicks... just about every time! She is ready to meet her family.
• Movement: ALL THE TIME.
• Food cravings: UH... nothing big... Drink a lot of water, apple juice, and tea is a treat. And I love me some Taco Bueno. I'm gonna make this girl Love her Mexican side.
• Gender: Girl
• Labor Signs: Nope
• Belly Button in or out? In, But really Flat and feels kinda funny to rub LOL. I think it will stay in.
• What I am looking forward to: 3D Sono, and Meeting our Jelly Bean
• Weekly Wisdom: I didn't receive any this week
• Milestones: Into our 3rd trimester....

Lilly has a home!

So after a lot of hard work Lillys nursery is finally looking amazing! To be quite honest when we found out that we were expecting I never would have imagined us to have a nursery like this, we are blessed! It took chris about a week to paint the stripes, I wanted them finished before they laied the new carpet so we didn't have any messes! I found the fabric for the curtains at canton and it works perfect.

Here is the awesome shelf that Chris and my dad hung today! it is exactly like what I wanted and really makes a statement in the room. The diaper bag was one of my obsession buys at canton as well! The changing table was all plain at one time but we found the knobs at hobby lobby for fairly cheep so we added them on and Im glad we did because they really make the hutch pop!

And here is where are little princess will lay her head at night :) You can't see it very well in this picture but Chris's mom made the bedding and she did a REALLY good job on it! I deffinatly do not have the time to sew like this! Our bed converts to a toddler bed and a full size bed, so if she wants to grow with it she can or we will just use it with the next kid! Oh her travel system is also sitting in the floor, its the Deco pattern from babies r us, It is a little boy like but I wanted something that we could use forever and I really liked it so we will have to find some way to add some frill to it!

Surprise

Well incase you didn't already know, I have a awesome husband! While I was gone to Colorado he was going to finish the nursery. We had a little touching up to do, a shelf that needed to be hung and some other things. Well since I had spent some money going to colorado we were going to just wait until we got paid again to finish it up! So i didn't expect to come back to anything at at all. Well I pretty much love just laying in the nursery floor and doing what ever, to me it just makes this whole process seem a little more real or something. So after I got home I headed down the hall to get my feel of the nursery that I had been deprived of the last week and as soon as I opened the door I was surprised with this:

This is the chair that I have been dying to have for our room for quite some time now. As soon as I sit in it I fell like im in heaven :) Its just that awesome! So chris had come up with this master plan to sell our our junk around the house on craiglist to come up with enough cash to surprise me! He really sacrificed a lot, Im not sure if it was really for me or more for our Princess! He sold ALL of his paintball stuff, a tv, his Foseball table and my bike that he got a awesome deal on (he was most excited about how much he got for my bike!). Needless to say I sit in here a whole lot more now and I know that those late night feedings and all the bedtime stories will be very comfy in our new chair!

Knox

I just had to post this picture because I love it so much! Knox is our new addition and I have to admit that I was a little scared when we first got him that we had gotten ourselfs into a mess but he has proved us wrong. He sleeps in his crate every night and doesn't cry at all (well unless her REALLY needs to potty) He has picked up all the basic comands such as NO, SIT , EAT, OUTSIDE.... I think that butter really tought him most of this because it didn't take much at all! We also got new carpet not to long after we got him and I thought that I was never going to allow him on the carpet so we didn't have to worrie about any accidents but it doesn't look like that is going to be a problem at all! He seems to be our little angel!

The Journey to Colorado

Well I just got back from a LONG trip to Colorado. Let me first say that it is such a beautiful state. When Corrie and I were much younger I can remember her mom driving us to Wet~n~Wild (yea back when it was still called that :) in this old brownish gold car that they had bought in Colorado and moved down here with them. I thought that it was SO odd that they didn't have AC in this car.... come on who didn't have AC its like 110 degrees here in the summers and that particular summer day im sure it was blistering, lol! Well I know know where that old little car came from.

So Corrie, Jennifer, Lilly and I set out at about 5 or so for Colorado, we made a little detour that we will never forget :) but got back on course very quickly. So needless to say after 14 hours of ridding in the car my feet were KILLING me. But we had finally met our destination and the next 6 days we would spend making Corrie fell at home. Here are a few pictures of us in Texas and us in Colorado.




Thursday Corrie and her family went white water rafting which I would have loved to do as well but I didn't want to cause Lilly any pain so Jen and I opted to go into a small town called Salida that sits down in the mountains and shop and enjoy the beauty of Colorado. We ate at this little Quant resturant for lunch and it was delicious! then we walked around for a bit til we found this coffee shop with free wii fii and Very comfy couches to relax in. Aunt Jenny got to watch Lilly moving around like crazy and I bought a very cute bag to match her nursery (everything I buy seems to match her nursery). Friday corrie's dad was flying back home so Jen and I went and got some Chic fl a and went to barnes & nobles since Corrie had gotten jen hooked on the new serious why were were there, then later that day we finished unpacking miss Corrie. Saturday was Stephanies wedding shower which was VERY nice! Sunday we went to church with Steph and I really enjoyed it :) then later on that day we meet up with Josh Holcomb for a late lunch! Monday was our last day to see eachothe for a while and we had planned on going and doing something fun but with all that we had done already we were all content with just hanging out doing NOTHING! It was so nice to! Although I love Corrie very much and Im gonna miss her greatly I was SO ready to get back home to my wonderful hubby! We hadn't been apart that long ever and being out of my normal routine was wearing on me! So tuesday morning we boarded the plane after a very confusing airport adventure in Denver but we made it to Dallas and as soon as we walked outside I could feel the reason that I love Denver so much... the humidity here is HORRIBLE!