Baby Girl

Thinking about our precious baby girl inside of me brings me back to my first baby girl, Kaelyn Annalise. Wow, not such a baby anymore. She is growing up so fast! She keeps us smiling & laughing, and brings so much joy to us and everyone around her. While we were in Charleston visiting Papa in the hospital, she said the funniest thing. She looked at his mom, my Great Grandmom, and asked, "What's on your forehead?" We knew what she was talking about but poor Grandmom had no idea and started rubbing her forehead and said, "Oh I don't know...Nothing I don't think... Gene (Great Granddad), what's on my forehead?" Kaelyn keeps asking and at this point we are kind of ignoring her hoping she will give up because I don't want her to embarrass Grandmom. But she just can't help it... and she looked up at Grandmom and excitedly asked, "Is it stripes or somethin'?" And made one of her funny little Kaelyn faces. hehe We died laughing!! I still don't think Grandmom ever got it, so thanks Kae for one of the funniest moments ever! I need a video camera rolling on you at all times girl! ;) Love you!
Here she is below looking all grown up on the way to pick up Nana from the airport on 8/10/09.

 

It's a GIRL

Well we didn't even make it until the 29th! We went and did something special at a 4d Ultrasound Office b/c if we plan to do a 4d late in the pregnancy, it was no extra cost to go ahead and find out the sex. :) So here she is in all her glory (pics below)... Miss Kalli Grace. She was so sweet, waving at us and rubbing her little eye.
I must admit, I thought this was a boy. Things were so different and lots of people thought the same way I did so I had pretty much convinced myself and given my poor husband false hope. lol I was completely shocked when they said girl! Especially since when the first shot of her came up I thought I saw a male part, but it ended up just being the cord. hehe I will admit to you all that it took me a few hours to get over the initial shock ... all I had been thinking about were boy things. But I soon got in girl mode and got excited about sweet sisters. I've never had that and I'm excited for my girls to have best friends for life. :) It took Kaelyn a little while to accept it as well. Nobody told her we thought it was a boy, but she insisted she was having a baby brother. She came to the ultrasound with us and after leaving we asked what she thought about having a baby sister and she still said she was having a baby brother. I tried to tell her Kalli would be pretty and sweet just like her, but she said she wanted a boy just like Daddy. ;) Finally a couple days later she got excited about her baby sister and talking about all the clothes, shoes, and toys she will give her. I can't wait to see them together. Poor Daddy...our house will soon be even more dramatic, but I know he loves his sweet little girls. Thank goodness our dog is a boy! ha!
But on a more serious note... We are so thankful and blessed with this tiny miracle and so excited God decided to give us this precious gift!

 

 

 

We are Still Alive...

...I promise! Okay, so I have been MIA lately. As most of you have probably gathered I wasn't feeling too hot for a few weeks early in the pregnancy and just could not do anything but make it to daycare, work, daycare, home, snack, bath, sleep. That's right.. that didn't include making dinner. My poor hubby for all those weeks! LOL He was good to me though and made me bowls of cereal and pb&j's...the only thing I really wanted. Finally at the end of May I started feeling better and cooking again. :) And then life has just been a whirlwind! Kaelyn went to Michigan with Nan and Pop for 2 whole weeks, we went up for a visit and to bring her back, then we went to FL to visit Brian's family for the 4th, and we have just been so busy and exhausted! I do plan on back-blogging about all of this... and I will date them when they happened b/c I like to document it that way for memories. ;)

As for the pregnancy... all is well. We are 16 weeks right now and will be finding out boy or girl on July 29th! In the past week I have started feeling the little flutters and very small kicks...definitely not strong enough for anyone else to feel right now, but such special moments. We are very excited! :)

Bring back my Kaelyn to me...

Kaelyn often sings this song, "Bring back by Mommy to me..." and puts Daddy, Brewer, etc.. in there. Well after 2 long weeks we finally got our precious Kae back! We got to Michigan on Friday the 12th to spend the weekend with my family and take our baby girl home. We were so excited to see her and she was excited to see us too! We had a great time and celebrated Father's Day a little early with my Dad, and also had a late birthday celebration for me! Woohoo! =) The weekend definitely went by too fast! :)

 

 

On the way home we spent the night in Gatlinburg to get up early and take Kaelyn to Ripley's Aquarium the next morning... June 16th. It was our 4 year wedding anniversary! I am a little embarrassed about this, but we both were trying to get everything out of the hotel and get to the aquarium and didn't even remember the special day until we got a text from my mom. hehe Funny how life changes after kiddos. :) We had a great day together though and time is just flying. I love you babe. Here's to many more! <3 Here are a few pics from the trip!

My Birthday!

Today is my birthday and my honey surprised me with some beautiful flowers at work! These were my favorite flowers so far. I still don't really know what they are but they created such a nice fragrance for our whole office area. :) I worked today and then met Brian for a Dr. appt where we got to hear Baby Sneed's heartbeat. It was in the 160's... strong and fast. And then we headed to Charlotte for Cheesecake Factory... my very favorite!
I got a few cards/gifts in the mail, but the most special was one my mom sent from Kaelyn. I am missing my baby girl, but she is having a blast!

 

 

Kaelyn's 1st Big Trip...

....without Mommy and Daddy! Early this morning Kae headed off to Michigan to stay with Nana and Pop for 2 whole weeks! She was so excited about her new Princess suitcase Nana got her and we got it packed and she pulled it around everywhere. She had no hesitations, she said "Bye Momma, Bye Dad" Dad, she said Dad, not Daddy, wow... she is growing up. I know we will enjoy our alone time, but we are already missing her. I know my mom and dad are thrilled and they will have a blast though! Here is my baby when she left this morning and when she arrived with her suitcase at Nan and Pop's. Pray I can make it these 2 weeks!

 

 

 

 

Women of Joy '09

This past weekend my friend, Lindsey, and I headed to Charleston for Women of Joy. We had such an amazing time! Charles Billingsley led praise and worship and it was so anointed every time... so very powerful to hear around 6,000 women singing praises to God! We were also blessed with anointed speakers... Kirk Cameron, Nancy DeMoss, Angela Thomas, and the hysterically funny Chonda Pierce. They all had touching words from the Lord to share with us. I loved that they were all so real and transparent. Each one was so different, yet all were sharing such relevant truths. Then that wasn't all...we had a concert by Casting Crowns. WOW. They were amazing. Back to real and transparent...that was them to a T. I love listening to their music, but getting to see them and hear them speak was awesome. This was one of the best conferences I have been too. It was so nice to get away for a weekend and be refreshed with the Word of God and such wonderful times of praise and worship. To see more pics from our weekend (I know you ladies want to see Kirk haha) click HERE!