BIG NEWS!!!

So as some of you have already heard we are going to be having another baby!!! I am 8 weeks and 2 days today. The baby will be coming in September. We are very excited that we are finally able to tell everyone that we are expecting again. It has been a rough year of trying and some loss but we know God has everything under control and that he has a plan and a purpose for everything.

Kaylin is doing really well so far with the idea of there being a new baby. Everyday she askes if she can see the baby and she doesn't understand that she can't see it right now. I told her that mommy would bring home a picture for her to see on Tuesday after I have my appointment. Our biggest concern about having another baby was having Kaylin potty trained before the new baby came and that is one less thing we have to worry about. Yes that is correct our two and half year old is fully potty trained. She sleeps in her underwear at night with no problem and it has happened soon enough into this pregnancy that I don't think there will be any backstepping when the baby comes. She is pretty funny when it comes to talking about baby stuff. Before we found out that I was pregnant I was talking to Kaylin and asked her if she wanted mommy to have another baby and she said yes, so then I asked her if she wanted mommy to have a baby boy or a baby girl and she said "No baby turtle!". I thought that was just the cutest thing!

Also, we were in the car on our way home from eating dinner on Friday night and we asked Kaylin what she wanted to name the baby and she just said "Um....., booger". Jon and I started laughing and said you want to name the baby in mommy's tummy booger and she said "No the baby in Kaylins tummy...Booger." It's amazing how since mommy has a baby in her tummy now she thinks she has one in her tummy too. She told me the other day that her tummy hurt and I asked her if she felt sick and she said " No baby in tummy!" It has been very cute so far and we can't wait to see how everything goes for the next 7 months.

Keep tuning in regularly and we will try to keep you updated with every appointment we have!

Christmas Picks

These are pictures from our family Christmas.

Okay

So it has been a long time since I wrote anything. Life gets so busy with work, family and all the holidays that fall so closely together in the winter. We had an awesome Christmas, we went to church Christmas eve and then spent the rest of the night with Jon's family. Kaylin loved Christmas this year, it was her first year that she really got the concept of it all. Before we went to sleep we put out cookies and milk for Santa, and her face the next morning when she saw that Santa had eaten all the cookies was priceless. The next day we drove down to College Station and spent time with my family. It was really nice to get together with all of the family.

So not much else went on, we have just been busy with work and life. Kaylin has been potty training and it didn't really seem to be going anywhere until recently. Kaylin is now in big girl underwear. She has worn them for the last three days, and wore them last night to bed as well. She has only had one accident and that was the first day she wore them. She slept through the night last night and didn't wet the bed! We are so excited that she is doing such a good job. Everyone kept warning me that potty training is difficult and it has been really easy for us and for Kaylin. She is growing up so fast, I wish it would slow down!

Botanical Gardens

Kaylin and I went to the Fort Worth Botanical Gardens on Monday, November 19 and I took some pictures of Kaylin in her Christmas dress that Kay got for her. My mom and dad also came and I took some pictures of her with them as well. I have been playing around with the photos in a photo editing program and i hope you guys like them.

Oh how I miss her!

On Friday November 23, Kaylin (along with Tim and Kay) got on a plane to go to Minnesota to meet her great-grandparents for the first time (Tim's mom and dad). We are now going on day three (last time we saw her was Thursday) of me not seeing her and I am miserable! I am so in love with that beautiful little girl, and I am so greatful that God has placed her in our lives. We are so undeserving of such an amazing child. I've spent a lot of time lately being upset with God, as some of you know we are trying to have another baby and have yet to be successful. Some days I am okay with everything we have been through this last year and other days I am out right MAD! It has been hard for me to comprehend why people who either aren't trying, or teenagers, or people who can't afford it, or people who are just sleeping around with whoever are getting pregnant and we aren't. It is in these last few days that I have realized how truly blessed we are. We were able to have a beautiful, healthy little girl and at the time we had her many people could have said the same things about us as I have been saying about the people above. We were not trying to have a baby, and we definitely couldn't afford it, but God knew what he was doing when he blessed us with Kaylin. Many couples go their entire lives and are unable to have children, so I should be thankful for the one that we were given.

Kaylin comes home tomorrow night and I can't wait to hold her in my arms, hug her and tell her how much I love her and how she is our greatest gift that God has given us, aside from the gift of everlasting life!

I hope you all have a fabulous week! And remember to be thankful for all things in life whether big or small!

Happy Birthday To ME!!!!

Okay, so I was going to save all my money from my birthday and christmas to buy a new camera. A Nikon D40, it is a small, cute, digital slr. Well, Jon surprised me with it for my birthday, so played with the camera some on Friday night (since Friday was my birthday), and then we went to the park today and took some pictures of Kaylin. So here are some of the photos I took. Some of these we are going to send in as head shoots to try to get Kaylin into modeling and maybe even some tv.......we will see what happens.

Halloween

Okay, so as a lot of you know Kaylin was sick all week during the last week of October. So we didn't get to go to Trunk or Treat at our church. We were really sad (more me than Jon and Kaylin) that Kaylin wasn't going to be able to get dressed up in her flapper costume and show everyone how cute she was, but Jon came up with an awesome idea! We would just go trick or trerating on another night. So we got my mom (dad was working), jon's grandma, the chapman family (friends of ours from church), and jon's mom and dad to play along. We got Kaylin all dressed up in her costume and went to all the houses and did our trick or treating. She got a ton of candy and had a blast. She didn't really get what was going on at the first house but picked up on what was going on and she loved it!!! So here are some pictures of Kaylin in her costume.