Shopping and a Visit from Mom

So blogger has been updated, which when anything is updated I am a super NOT fan. I have to take any kind of change at my own pace and so you are lucky I am attempting a new entry...we'll see if it even posts!

After our ultrasound, the plan was to buy a gender specific outfit....I was beyond excited about this for obvious reasons. Our first stop was Marshalls. Mistake. We came out with, oh, let's just say more than one outfit. Our next stop was an outlet mall. Mistake #2. Everything's cheaper, right?! So anyway, needless to say, we ended up with more than one outfit!

A couple days later, we decided to keep this madness going when we found out a BabiesRUs was closing nearby. We shimmied on up there and got a "few" more things! We saved over $200 on our overall bill because of the good prices! I thought I got a pic of all that loot too, but I guess it was just with my cell phone. This tech stupid girl has no idea how to even think about getting a pic from my cell phone to the computer!

This past weekend my mom came up to spend a few days. GLORIOUS. She helped me decide on a pattern for a baby blanket. I JUST finished the blanket for the baby we adopt so now I can focus on this next one! It is going to be SO cute...well, probably cuter if someone else made it...but SO cute for what I am capable of! I hope anyway...after one night of working, I have to wait until I see my mom again in a couple of days because I can't figure out the next step. I will get there, though!
We did a little shopping and running around. She also bought flowers for the pots on my front porch. Yay! I'll have to post a pic (I've been organizing all day and after sitting on the couch I just can't imagine getting up right this second).

Baby Girl moved around like crazy all weekend. She must have worn herself out because she's slowed down some over the last few days. She better get her act together by this next weekend, though,  because her Aunt Hannah is coming to see her! She will be sad if she doesn't get to feel a kick! I feel like my belly has just popped out over the last few weeks. At 17 weeks I really didn't have much to show for, but from 18 weeks on, there's definitely a belly!
Everyone is asking what her name will be...it's a secret, by the way. Funny how when I respond with that, the next question is, "what are the initials?" Why would I share the initials if we're not going to share the name? Come on, people!! Then people try to come up with a name for us. I'm pretty certain it would be easier to just share the name...not that we're having a hard time keeping it a secret, but people try to squeeze it out of you in any way they can...I don't mind so much, but then again, I do want people to respect the decision we've made and just be excited to find out in September!

I do have an update on adoption, but that is for another entry. I will fill you all in soon.

Oh, and I only had one mishap with this new blogger...I was type, typing away when all of a sudden half the post disappeared and I started typing over what I had written in the beginning. After my mini heart-attack, I finally found the "undo" button...good thing for you guys cause otherwise I would have given up...no way was I going to retype anything! Call me lazy, if you want!

I'll leave you with a few pics of yours truly...not me...the baby.

 19 Weeks

20 Weeks...you only get the belly here because the rest of what showed up was too ghastly to post. Not my best day, apparently.

-Megan

Busy FUN Week!

A week-and-a-half ago we traveled to Michigan to visit some great friends of ours. They used to live in Georgia but left us for the COLD state of Michigan about two years ago. This was our second time visiting them and I have to say, the weather was SO MUCH BETTER! It was so cold last time that my body just hurt the whole time. This past week, the weather was still cool but the air was so crisp and clean...nothing like Georgia.

This is the view from a local Amish store where you can buy homemade goodies! 

 

We stopped in Louisville, KY on our way there and back, which was great because it gave us two date nights! On our way up we ate at a little hole in the wall Chinese place and it was SO good! On our way back through we went to the Good Friday service at Southeast Christian Church. In youth we just finished a video series about Easter by Kyle Idleman...one of the pastor's at this church. We just happened to see it near our hotel the first time we drove through and decided to visit on our way back! It was an incredible service. We enjoyed every second of it. Then, we broke our rule of only eating out at new places in a new town (not somewhere we could eat around home) and picked up a pizza from Domino's and ate it at our hotel. It was a great night! ...and I'm pretty sure I ate more pizza than Daniel. I would post a picture...of the church...not the pizza...but they're all on Daniel's Ipad which I don't have with me at the moment!

We went to the sunrise service at church Easter morning. A few weeks back I wondered if I would still be wearing regular clothes and if I'd have anything that fit for Easter! Luckily, I'm still wearing regular clothes with a few maternity things thrown in...might as well start wearing them if I have them...so an Easter out fit wasn't a problem. I wish I got a pic of Daniel and Me together, but we didn't. Oh well.

This is me and baby at 18 weeks on Easter. Finally starting to show! I got tired of people telling me I'm not showing when I really was...now surely nobody will tell me I'm not showing! Even if it might not be totally obvious to some!

Monday was our big doctor appointment day!! I have waited for that day since we found out we were expecting...our ultrasound. I was so anxious to hear that everything looked great. We were going to find out the gender, as well, but I was more focused on hearing that the baby was healthy. Through God's mercy and grace, everything looked wonderful! 

We're having a GIRL!!

 Her heartbeat was 138 beats per minute and that kiddo was happy as a clam in there. When the ultrasound tech first started, the baby was sitting criss-cross-applesauce but a few seconds later she was stretched out with one arm behind her head, legs out straight! ...laying just like her daddy! This, however, made it a little difficult to determine who exactly was in there...her legs were clamped shut so we couldn't see ANYTHING! We finally caught a glimpse...well, the tech did...we basically took her word for it, HA! Daniel was proud that his baby girl was acting like a lady with her modesty!

 

 I think we've decided to have a 3-D ultrasound done in a couple of weeks just for fun. Daniel looked into this a while back but I didn't really want to spend the money. After yesterday, though, I can't wait to see her again! Everyone said that I would love the ultrasound, and I knew that I would...but words can't really express what I felt yesterday...and still do. My favorite thing...well, other than staring at my baby on that little screen, was watching Daniel look at her. God didn't have to bless us with this baby, but He did. It humbles me every time I think about it. God's grace astounds me.

 

"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, my thoughts than your thoughts." Isaiah 55:8-9 ESV

-Megan