Pregnancy Pics

Paige and Dave were sweet and took some pregnancy pictures for me. I am around 35 weeks here and feeling big :) I have loved being pregnant! Jade and I are so excited for our little Hallie Jade to come into our home. I have definitely experienced the "nesting" syndrome. Ask my poor husband. My house can never be organized or clean enough. I am getting so big it's not so easy to do anymore. Jade and I have spent our last couple of saturdays at a birthing class, reorganizing our bedroom for her bed, washing her clothes, and packing my hospital bag. It's been so fun. We are now getting nervous, excited, anxious, and as prepared as we can for whenever she decides to come.

Baby Shower

During thanksgiving week my sisters and mom put together my baby shower for me. I was so excited to celebrate the coming of my baby girl. I appreciate all that my family did to make that day as special as it was. It could not have been any better. We had the shower earlier in the morning and made Belgian waffles with different types of fruit syrups. We played a few games and I received some advice from the other mothers. I had a great time and was excited to see everyone there.Around 27 weeks

Sister-n- Laws Cassie and Janie

Second Trimester

Around 22 Weeks

It is definitely time to update on baby :) Time has been flying by for Jade and I. Currently I am
26 weeks and loving being pregnant. Baby Girl has been growing like crazy! She seems to be a night owl she loves kicking the most right before bed. I love to talk to her and have Jade feel her kick. She did kick his ear pretty good the other day when he placed his head on my stomach. I was laughing, she is so cute already :)
For some reason this year I am really looking forward to the holidays with the snow, food, traditions, and Christmas!!! I love sitting in front of the fireplace drinking hot chocolate and watching the snow fall. I am so excited to go to Walmart to hear the Christmas music going ha ha cause Jade won't let me play it quiet yet :). I am looking forward to Christmas and Thanksgiving for a different reason this year. I have so much to be thankful for but I also want to enjoy mine and Jades last holidays together before our family expands and life changes for the better of course. I am so thankful for the time I have had with Jade but we are sooo stinkin excited for our new addition!!!

Baby Girl!!

Jade and I had an ultrasound on September 29th telling us that we are having a healthy little girl. We are more then excited! I had to run to the store afterward and buy her first outfit. Well it turned out to be a PJ outfit which is fitting for me cause I love PJ's. We didn't tell our family till that night and boy was it hard to keep it in. We meet at Sizzlers and I brought a box I had decorated outside and had pink sugar cookies inside and the outfit I had bought earlier that day.
It was so fun.She will be the first grand daughter on Jade's side and the second on my side. Bella, my niece, likes to tell everyone that she has a baby in her stomach cause I explained to her about the baby and it is sooo cute. So if you see her in Eagar lifting her shirt to show you baby Hallie that is who she is talking about ha ha.
Anyway, Paige is putting my baby shower together and needs addresses! She has an invitation on facebook that you can place your address on or you can leave it on my blog. I am so excited to celebrate my baby girl and can't wait to see everyone at the shower! So please don't forget to let us know if you can come :)

Summer Crafts

This summer I was able to do more crafts then I have for awhile. Here are a few pics of what I did.

My friends and I made these cute little baby pants when we were in Tennessee this summer. My pair are second from the left :) I am not sure if I am having a girl or not but whenever I do I am going to be excited to put these pants on her.

I made this blanket at the beginning of the summer for my sister-n-law Janie for a high school graduation present. I had a little helper on this one too!

Bella loved to help me it was so funny watching her.

I made this out of paper to brighten my apartment in Tennessee my mom help me it was really fun it took some string, paper, and glue.
Fall crafts are soon to start and I am really excited!

Baby on Board!

So I have had this post ready for the last couple of weeks but didn't want to post it on my blog until I had another appointment. Yes, Jade and I have FINALLY heard and seen a great heartbeat on our baby !!! We are more then excited. I am a little over 11 weeks today . Two years and three miscarriages later I am finally able to make this post :) It has been quiet an adventure but we have learned so much. Hopefully everything goes well for this pregnancy but so far so good.

So who will our baby look like most. Below I have posted baby pictures of both Jade and I.

Jade right after he was born. Look at all the hair ha ha.

I don't know how old I am in this picture maybe around 2 months.

Jade posing for the camera cute huh!

My first posing picture as well.
Jade doesn't care if it is a girl or a boy and I feel very much the same we are just excited to have a baby. I kinda have a feeling it will be a girl but we will see. We have names picked out for either so we are good to go :)

Visitors

So a couple of weeks ago my Dad really helped Jade and I out. During the crazy hailstorm my Corolla was totaled. The bad part about it was it was also not drivable. Jade and I search and search for a car here for weeks but the problem was that all the other cars were either covered in hail dents or not taken care of inside. We couldn't find anything. So my Dad, Mom, and Seth found us a car in Phoenix and my Dad drove it out here to us. We were so thankful to my Dad he help us out a ton. He got to spend a couple of days here with us and it was so nice to see him.

Sorry my camera stinks that is my dad in front of Bass Pro Shop.

Jade Driving us to Gattinburg.

My Dad spending some time with us. We had lots of fun.

The day after I dropped my dad off at the airport my Mom came to visit it's not how we planned it, it just happened that way and I was excited. This is a picture of my mom and me at Gattinburg it started pouring when we were there it was crazy but fun. We had to wear ponchos most of the time.My Mom and I took a shuttle into the Smoky Mountain National Park. We went into the park and watched synchronized fireflies they only come out once a year and it happened to be the week my mom was here. It was really amazing to watch so many fireflies blink together it was the first time my mom and me have seen fireflies. I was so bummed Jade couldn't go he has been so busy working and he gets home so late at night.

Pigeon Forge is before Gattinburg and it's a huge tourist attraction. Pigeon Forge is focused more on little kids. Go Carts, Dinner and a show, and all sorts of fun stuff.
It was so nice to have family here it made things feel a little more like home. It makes me homesick just to think about it.