Shower for Penn

Last Saturday was my first baby shower for Penn at my sister's house, given by Megan, Amanda, Frenchy, Jordan, Jenn Dixon and my sister (and my mom). It was so amazing!! I had the best time getting to see old friends and catching up with everyone. I am amazed at the love shown by so many people during this special time in our lives. Penn received an abundance of gifts that were all needed and I can't wait for him to see them. David and I are truly blessed with the most wonderful and thoughtful friends and family!! We love you all so much and can't wait for Penn to meet you all.

Me with the best hostesses!

Diaper cake compliments of Gigi

Sunday was such a busy day too. Jenn, my sister and amazing photographer, took my maternity pics. Yes, ok, she made me freeze in 40 degrees wearing nothing but a cami and jeans, but I know it will be worth it. I am so excited have just captured this moment in pictures. I have to also say thanks to David for being such a good participant.

After pics we celebrated Gigi's (my mom) birthday with Pizza from Papa Johns and the best cake ever!! I have to tell you the story. Jenn and I sent David and Dallas out for the cake since we were with mom all day. Their instructions were Sam's cake, white cake, white buttercream icing, that's mom's favorite. They came back with the perfect cake, not only was it all of the above but it was huge, had Dora all over it and said Happy Birthday Gigi! I think they both win the award for best son in law. Not only did Gigi love it, but Reese was thrilled that Gigi had a Dora cake. So much fun.

31 weeks

I had a great checkup Monday for 31 weeks and Penn seems to be growing nice and healthy. My blood pressure, weight and hemoglobin are right where they are supposed to be so I am just going to keep on trucking. I can't say enough how blessed I feel to be having such a wonderful, healthy pregnancy. I am still able to workout and sleep is pretty good for the most part, which I am really thankful for.

We are now prepared..

We officially passed our childbirth prep class this past weekend, so I'm assuming now we are supposed to be totally prepared. Actually we are just really anxious now! The class was well worth going to and we really did learn a lot about what type of expectations to have and how to be prepared as best we can.

So, I am now 30 weeks (only 10 left). I can't believe it will be here before we know it. My first shower is this weekend at my sister's house, given by all my best friends. I am really excited to see everyone and celebrate Penn's upcoming arrival.

new addition to our home

I finally found a china cabinet I absolutely love for all of my china and silver. I know I shouldn't be so excited, but I have been looking for about 2 years and finally found something. I absolutely love it in my dining room too. It is perfect! I also now have a closet available to use for other storage. Here's a pic of my new china cabinet.

Also, I never shared a pic of my fabulous diaper bag I got for Christmas. Thanks Papa!! I love it. (It's Storksak, if you are curious)

28 weeks

I am now 28 weeks and whew it's starting to get tiring. I have actually been doing great and Penn is really active now, but working out is getting difficult. I was really feeling every extra lb this morning at bootcamp. I am going to continue to workout as long as it is safe, but I'm just having to accept a much slower pace these days. Thanks to my fabulous photog sista, I have a bump pic at 28 weeks. I will say I feel much bigger than this picture is letting on, so don't be fooled.

good checkup

I went this morning for my checkup at 26 wks and 5 days. My blood pressure is great, hemoglobin great, weight okay and our little man is growing. I will know tomorrow if the results from the glucose test were good. I'm really praying I don't have to go back for the 3hr test. Also, my back pain has resided for now, so that's a relief! Just 13 weeks left and I am praying they are all as smooth as the first 27.

Farewell 2009...

I have to say I am excited to see 2009 go. Although I have had many blessings in 2009, there have also been many trials. With that being said, it's all in the past and I'm not going to dwell. I'm excited for a New Year. David and I decided we needed to get away so we booked a room in Charleston for New Year's Eve. So much fun and a much needed change of scenery. We really enjoyed walking around, eating great food and hanging out together. We actually even stayed up past midnight this year and watched the ball drop on TV.

Here's the view from our hotel on NYE

While we were in downtown, I got the idea for pics in front of the church where we were married 3 yrs ago. Wow, how things have changed for us. David was having fun making me pose like our wedding pics.

I know God has lots in store for this year and I am looking forward to what he brings our way. I know the best gift will be our little man arriving in April. We are just getting so excited to hold him and see what he looks like.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!