Update from the past week

So last week was Spring Break and it was so wonderful! Not very relaxing, but very productive! We got all of Macy's furniture ordered, she is fully registered at Target, Babies R Us, and Le Bebe in Midland, and her bedding is chosen and ordered!

I think that I was starting to overwhelm Cliff with all of my stress about the furniture and all of the major parts of her room. So we went to Storkland in Tyler and ordered her crib and changing table, and picked up the chair that I wanted, that they had just just ordered and unpacked!! We were so lucky that they had ordered that style chair with just the fabric that I had wanted, and they had just unpacked it that morning! I was also happy that we ordered the furniture, because they said it could take up to 12 weeks for the furniture to come in. With me being 25 weeks tomorrow, that does not leave a lot of wiggle room in the timeline if Ms. Macy decided to come early.

We also registered at all of the wonderful baby places, but it was not such a wonderful experience... Target was okay, but they don't have all of the practical things that you needed, so we ended up just registering for more small furniture items, and mostly for DVDs! We registered for all of the Disney movies and Veggie Tales that we could find. Then we went to Babies R Us. After spending two hours in the store registering our scanner stopped working, and all of the things we registered for were lost. So after another two hours spent re-registering online, we are good to go at Babies R Us! On Wednesday of last week, I flew to Lubbock, Megan picked me up and then we drove to Midland. On Thursday, we went and registered at Le Bebe! That was so much fun, because we didn't really register for cute things at Target or Babies R Us, but there was so much cute stuff at Le Bebe!!!! Hopefully that registry will be cleared out, and I told Cliff that if it's not then we should go finish it off... I don't think he was too excited about that haha!

Anyway! School has become a little more demanding, which is no fun for any of us, as well as limits the amount of blog posts that I can come up with, but all in all, we are doing really good! I don't want to post too many pictures of the things we are getting for Macy's room, but I will leave you with this little taste...

Hope you like it! Have a great day everyone, and a great weekend! More to come soon!

Lenting from Laziness

Hello again at 2:30 AM....

Yes, I made the mistake of drinking a Mountain Dew Baja Blast at 10:30, and it was even a small one, but of course now I can't go to sleep. So, starting today I decided that I would cut out my laziness. I was starting to feel really gross and so I decided that as a way to help motivate myself to get moving again I would commit to doing at least 10 minutes of cardio exercise a day. Today couldn't have been a more perfect day to start either... I started the day off eating Cooler Ranch Doritos for breakfast, it's pathetic. Then ended the day starving, and all I wanted was a Snickers ice cream bar so I went to Wal-Mart and when I made it back home I had an eight pack of Snickers ice cream bars, Ben and Jerry's Coffee Heath bar ice cream, 2 regular Snickers bars to put in my car for later, a taco pizza and two supreme chalupas, and of course the biggest culprit the Baja Blast that is now keeping me up... I had the first bite of Snickers bar in my mouth before I was out the door of Wal-Mart. Thankfully, I didn't eat all of it in one sitting... I promise you, the hunger pains you get when you are carrying a voracious child are unreal. I can honestly say that I have never been so hungry in my life, and its compulsory- you have to eat exactly what sounds good. For example, the thought of Taco Bell repulses me, but I wanted it so badly that I had to turn around and go back to Taco Bell. There were four cars in front of me in the drive through and I thought I was going to die.

The food and eating aspect of being pregnant has been so frustrating. For the first 4 months I was unable to eat most sources of solid food. I survived on milkshakes and gallons of juice. Then the last month and a half or so, I've been able to eat food but not like normal. I'm usually a pretty healthy eater, not perfect, but pretty healthy. Lately, I have been trying even harder to eat healthier because I want the baby to be getting everything she needs to remain the perfect and precious little lady that she is. However, this is made very difficult by the fact that I still can't eat a lot of meat. The meat has to be hidden inside of something else, I can't just sit down and eat a chicken breast. Salads seems like a great second choice, but I eat the whole thing and before we even leave the table I'm hungry again. I could probably live on fruit alone, but all the fruit that I want is of course not in season! All of this is extremely frustrating. So... in an attempt to stay full for more than 30 minutes, I've been eating high calorie foods that make me feel disgusting after the fact.

Ugh... so back to the main reason for this post. I was feeling so disgusting, struggling with something to give up for Lent, and had wanted to be motivated to get on the elliptical/treadmill for a while now. So today I took it super slow and only did 12 minutes, and it's really sad because that was kind of a feat. After that I went to yoga, my first time in a week and a half which probably added a lot to feeling disgusting, and it was so wonderful. Katy Shelton is a miracle worker people, trust me. So all of this activity may have contributed to the starvation that I was feeling...

Well, I think the Baja Blast may be wearing off. So please forgive me for my caffeine-induced rantings, and probably typos and ill-constructed sentences! I believe that I'm off to bed now, but everyone please keep my wonderful husband in your prayers. He was not feeling well at all this evening, but he got to bed really early tonight so hopefully he will feel much better in the morning! Through this whole process he has been so wonderful, supportive, and willing to do whatever to make me more comfortable. All of these aspects and so many more make him the amazing man that I cannot wait to raise our beautiful daughter with. I think that's a wonderful way to end tonight's post. Until next time, ADIOS!

Our Little Lady

Oh my goodness, we are having a precious, beautiful and perfect DAUGHTER! What a whirlwind this week has been! We found out on Tuesday about our precious, little lady. The appointment took two and a half hours, so it was quite unnerving. Apparently all of 4 doctors were in the office on that one day, and it was one of the two days a week that they do sonograms. I was literally like a bull in a china shop, the nurse called us back and I jumped out of the rocking chair so fast that it slammed really loudly against the wall. No damage, thankfully, but it was really loud. Then we get back to the nurse's station to do all the vitals and everything and I COULD NOT stop talking. I was doing the talk so much because I'm nervous kind of thing that I do, and a verbatim quote, "Personal pronouns have never been so important to me." Really, Emily?! You have got to be kidding me... The nurse just looked at me and smiled, and I couldn't tell if she was just humoring me or if she couldn't remember exactly what a personal pronoun is.

But anyways, we finally got back to the sonogram room and the technician put the gel on my stomach and before she even got the machine on my stomach I was crying, more like weeping. Here are some of the pictures she took:

Fist

Waving

Side profile

Picture of her face. Clayton said that she looks like she has a pig nose, lucky for him he had taken a step away from me before he said it. I promise it doesn't look like this in real time, I think she was moving or something...

Foot

She was not very happy about being poked on Tuesday morning. Her head was down and legs up, but she was balled up and her legs were literally crossed. My modest little girl! It took the technician 30 minutes before she would definitively tell us it was a girl, and you may be asking us the same question as Terri McGraw, Tim McGraw, and Wanda McGraw asked, and the answer is yes, we are sure, it's a girl. I told that technician, check, check and check again lady, because we have to be sure. We were so shocked, and as soon as she said "girl," I cried even harder and I was beyond excited. Cliff and I were squeezing each other's hands so tight, and the moment was something I have never experienced before. The doctor kept on saying how perfect she looked and how perfect she was progressing. She just kept on using the word perfect, and I was like yes, my perfect little girl! Afterwards, we got in the car, and we literally sat in silence for a minute or two. We were just shocked, thankful, exuberant, overwhelmed, and just feeling so unbelievably and incredibly blessed. Then we started the calls and mass texts, it was so much fun sharing our news! Cliff and I were still just in awe, we kept on saying, "I can't believe it's a girl, but I'm so EXCITED!" I think we said that at least 100 times during that day.

I just can't believe that all happened on Tuesday, because it seems so much has happened in the last 5 days. Since then I have been furiously planning for Macy's nursery and trying to make it as special and incredible as Macy already is to me. I think I had Cliff reeling for a little bit talking about bows, headbands, shoes, and all the wonderful things little girls should have, but he's getting used to it all, I think... We already have three showers for Macy planned, I made about half of the hostess gifts yesterday (they are so cute!!! But I don't want to post any pictures in case the hostesses are reading), picked out color chips for the walls, picked out chandeliers, bought some fun things at Target, and got some closet organizers. We went to Baby's R Us, and got all of the information about registering and of course this is what happened....

Yes, I may be going a little crazy, but it's our first baby and she is getting the safest and best crap out there!

I CAN'T BELIEVE WE ARE HAVING A GIRL, BUT I'M SO EXCITED!!!!!!