Took six tests for me to believe it...

So, its been a month and I have been holding it in, but Derek and I are going to have a baby! Yay! I am only eight weeks along, but thanks to bad scheduling from the nurse at my doctors office we were able to get an early ultrasound and see the tiny baby's heartbeat! Everything looked good and we are really excited to share our news!!! My due date is March 29th! :)

Derek was still in school in wilmington the morning I took my first test, I was on the phone with him and of course I took one the first day you possibly could! So it took a while to show up and at first I was pretty sure it was negative, then I brushed my teeth and looked again and told Derek...."I think I see something...?" It was really faint but definitely there...but we werent very convinced. So I tried not to think about it all day at work, though that became hard when I consulted my friend Megan lol, who immediatly started freaking out!

So the next day as instructed by megan I bought a first response test, instead of the lame ones I was using. I should have known for sure that I was because I woke up at 6am the next morning just because I really had to pee. So of course it popped up quicker this time and I had to sit around for an hour waiting for 7am to call Derek and wake him up! I still felt like it wasnt real so over the next couple days i took 4 more test and it progressively got darker and darker. :) :)

Jordan is SOOOOO excited! She wants a baby so bad. She is just getting so frustrated now because she doesnt understand how long 7 months is lol Either way all she wants to do is go shopping for baby stuff. And she asks everyday when my belly is going to get big, and when she can feel it. She is so cute, i hope she is this excited when the baby comes! I dont know how she will deal with the sudden change of everyone's attention. But it will be good for her! :)

 

So stay tuned the next seven months for all our exciting new updates!! :) YAY

Patricks 19th Birthday and "Gyma-nastics"

This past weekend we celebrated Patricks Birthday. My parents had a little get-together for him. My aunt Susan and her family came and so did Patricks girlfriend, Emily and her parents. If patrick looks in pain instead of excited for his birthday, its because he is. Sadly, he had an absess tooth on his birthday and had to have a root canal a couple days before and its all a mess. Poor guy. I think he had fun despite the pain.

Uncle Chuck and Brooks eating moms tasty food

Tanner, getting so big.

Brooks cool kid face

Patricks pain face lol

Patrick and Emily

Emily and her Dad and Jordan squeeze in the middle.

Jordan's evil eyes

Aunt Susan and Mom

I snuck in, since I never get to be in any pictures

Patricks cake with 19 candles!

"Happy Birthdayyyyyyy"

Make a wish!

Then this past tuesday Jordan had her first day of gymnastics for her second year. She was super excited. I dont get to be down in the class with her anymore. I have to sit up in the balcony so my pictures are blurry. One day when i get my new awesome camera they will be great!

Doing a tumble

Jordan on a blance beam, She loves doing this part!

Thought this was a cool picture.

Happy girl after gymnastics. She got two stamps and her teacher said she did really well! She is really excited and fearless she cant wait to start doing all the big kid stuff! Although she has to always be number one, and be the first in line. So we will have to break her of line jumping but im glad she is so excited to be doing it!

Same old same old...

Well havent had anything going on AT ALL in a long time, so I again have let too much time pass since my last post. A full month actually. Since we opened the daycare it has been hard to do anything except be there all day, go home and go to bed, then do it all over again the next day. Thankfully it has started to pick up and even though it isnt a constant flow yet we have had several good days a week for the past few weeks. Even our slow days now are our old good days from last month. We are alot more optimistic and everyone seems to be interested in us even if they havent tried us yet, and so far ALL GOOD REVIEWS! :) YAY

Last week I went to my moms house one night to pick up Jordan, this little guy was hanging out right by her door frame! He was so neat I had to take a picture. Wish i had a better camera these pictures would have come out better! One day though lol

My fearless daughter decided she was going to "pet him" when she went outside, and he jump in my moms plant and Jordan screamed then started cracking up! She is crazy!

A couple weeks ago we were really bored and didnt have a birthday party on our sunday off so we decided to drive to Raliegh and go to the mall! We didnt do a whole lot but had fun just hanging out and window shopping. We walked by some new kids store and they had this in the front and Jordan ran insite ( smart sales pitch lol) even though it didnt work for them in us purchasing anything, we got some cool pictures! lol

Jordan rocking out lol I have never seen one of these Paper Jamz things but they are pretty neat.

Jordan REALLY liked beating on the drums lol

We went to that Brookstone store in the mall too, the one with all the vibrating chairs and the amazing temperpedic beds I want when Im rich haha, but Derek found me the best gift haha! Everyone makes fun of me because I am such a weird cereal eater. I HATEEEE soggy cereal it grosses me out, so instead of eating one big bowl like everyone else, I eat two or three tiny bowls of cereal in the mornings. Then, to my surprise! I am not the ONLY person in the world that hates soggy cereal. Some genius decided to make a bowl for people like me haha.

You fill the top part with cereal, then as you need more you slide it down the little ramp into the milk. GENIUS!!!!

I had to add this for Jen, I went in my moms pool and this dude came swimming by. I almost had a heart attack!

This is the rain from today. CRAZY!!!!! This is our back parking lot it completely flooded.

This is the road ....you could swim in it!