Sonogram Pics (Weeks 10 and 20)

Here are some sono pics of Sawyer from week 10 and week 20. Unfortunately we don't have any good ones from week 29. We will have another ultrasound in about 6 weeks or so. Hopefully that will be better!

At 10 weeks. This was our first dr's visit with Dr. Doke. You can see her sweet little feet.
This is of her face at 20 weeks.

Another face shot at 20 weeks.

Her sweet profile at 20 weeks. She had her mouth open and hand by her cheek.

4D picture at 20 weeks. Her legs her up the entire time! These pics are amazing!

I think this is a great shot of her sweet face! Again, this is 20 weeks.

Sweet gift for my sweet little girl...

I know I'm so behind on my posts, but I have to share this story with you before I update my pregnancy. Monday, being 20 weeks and 4 days we had our ultrasound to find out what we are having. We were so excited to find out it is a GIRL! My school kids were beside themselves with anticipation of finding out what we were having. You would have thought it was Christmas the way they were acting, on Monday. I loved their excitement! I didn't go until 3:00 that day, so they had to wait until Tuesday morning to find out. One parent texted me about 9:45 Monday night telling me her daughter couldn't sleep because she was so excited for Tuesday morning. My sweet mother-in-law found little Hershey Promises wrapped in pink and in blue. Not knowing what we were having, at the time, she bought both. Tuesday morning I had a pink Promise on each of the kids desk. I did this twice because I have two rotations of classes. The girls were ecstatic, the boys, well...they weren't quite as excited, except for one (I'll get to his story in a minute). I even had one boy, sounding very disappointed, ask if it could change (meaning the babies gender). That made me laugh! They are funny!!

On to the sweet gift and the story about the lone boy that was excited...a parent was in my room Tuesday talking to me. I told her about a little onesie I found at Target that had a tutu around it. After she left, one of my little boys, whom is PRECIOUS anyway, came up to me and asked me what that was called that the tutu was wrapped around. I told him a onesie. He said okay and went backed to his desk. When I looked over, he was writing something on his hand, it was the word onesie. It just made me smile. Well, about 5:30 my doorbell rang and here stood this little boy, who rode his bike to my house, with a Target bag in his hand and his face beaming. Tears welled up in my eyes because I knew what he had done. I opened the door and he gave me the bag and told me it was a gift for Sawyer. I've received many sweet gifts for her already (just this week), she's going to be SPOILED, but this one gift, I know I will keep always. When I opened the bag, this is what I found...

Isn't it the cutest thing you've ever seen! It is a very special gift to me and I know Sawyer will be beautiful in it! Of course I called his mom to thank her and let her know what a sweet, big hearted little boy she has. Most 10 year olds would not even think about doing this. She told me that as soon as she picked him up from school he asked her to take him to Target because he wanted to get Sawyer this outfit. I pray that Sawyer is as sweet and thoughtful as he is. I have to say, his parents are just like him! I've been blessed knowing this wonderful family!

I'll update more later, just wanted to share this with you. All is going well and I'm feeling great, except for all of the sinus infections I keep getting. They are beginning to frustrate me!

And baby will make 3!

TJ and I are so excited to announce that we are expecting! Our little bundle of joy should arrive around September 23rd. What a blessing! One we've waited on for, what seems like, ever! I'm 11 weeks today and have not felt great since week 6. :) I seem to have a little more energy and the nausea isn't as constant. We had a sonogram at 7 weeks, which showed a little baby with a strong heartbeat. We had another one at 10 weeks (last Friday) and the change the baby has made was amazing. Herm (TJ has nicknamed our child this. It is a mix between him and her.) was moving all around. That was the most remarkable thing I've ever seen! I'm not sure I can explain the emotion that went over me when we saw our beautiful baby moving and kicking about. After the emotions, it sank in that we are going to have a pretty active kid! :) The heartbeat was 170 bpm. I've read anything over 140 was a girl, but our nephew's was 160 - 170 the entire pregnancy. So, I'm not putting much faith into that old wives tale. Although, I did pick this pick background, only because I liked it better than the others. I'm sure I'll end up changing it.

I just want to say thank you for all of your prayers, kind words, advice and support!

When I figure out how to scan the sono picture, with Herm's adorable foot in it :), I will post it.

Lincoln with the Canis' and Phillips'

I've been meaning to post this for almost 2 months now. It has been very busy around here! In between Christmas and New Year's, TJ and I spent some time in Lincoln, NM with our friends Jon and Michele, their boys, Michele's parents, brother, sister-in-law and nephew. We had the best time!! Lincoln is outside of Ruidoso and is so pretty! Michele's mom and dad bought and old school house in Lincoln and remodeled it and it is amazing! We spent some time there a couple of summers ago and loved it. It was so neat being able to spend time during the winter there. They also have some land outside of town and built a "barn" which is beautiful! We went sledding one day. That was fun. I hadn't ever been. Then we spent some time at the barn and had a snow ball fight. We went in to Ruidoso to eat some yummy pizza! The last day there, we rode four wheelers up in the Capitan's. The view was gorgeous! We had so much fun just hanging out, eating and playing cards. It was a nice time for TJ and I to just get away and what great company we were with! Below are some pictures we took.

The Schoolhouse

Walking from the Schoolhouse to the Barn in the snow! It was great!!

The "Barn". I told you it was beautiful!

Gearing up for the snowball fight.

TJ prepping...

The view through the gate at the Barn.

I thought these windows were so pretty.

Merry Christmas (early)!

We celebrated Christmas with my side of the family early this year. We had a great time! Everyone came to our house, except for Tony and Eric. They had to work and were missed! We ate, unwrapped gifts and played Chinese Christmas. It was a lot of fun! The boys played outside most of the day, it was a beautiful day! The neighborhood boys had fun playing with them as well.

We celebrated Christmas with the McClure's this year. It was so much fun! I'll post with pictures and details later.

Riley

Coltyn

Ryan, Mel and Twylah

Anthony

Ryan, Mel, Twylah and Lacretia

We also were able to meet Megan's boyfriend, Terry. He was a trooper hanging out with our loud, crazy family! :) He's very nice and we were glad to meet him!

Mark

Mel, Lacretia, Steph, Meg, Twylah, and Mom

Justin, Lacretia, Coltyn and Anthony

Steph and TJ

McClure Christmas

Christmas, this year, was spent at the McClure's. We had the best time eating, visiting, watching movies and of course, playing with Thayne! He is a blast!! TJ and I left Midland on Christmas Eve. It was so cold and had snowed earlier that morning. Jeremy, Allison and Thayne drove in from Amarillo. It took them 4 hours to get from Amarillo to Lubbock. Needless to say, it wasn't an easy trip for them. We were glad to see them pull up! TJ's grandparents got in later that evening. We ate and visited for a while. Of course Santa had come when we woke up Christmas morning. Once Thayne realized this, he had a blast playing with his gifts. We did too! :) We had a nice relaxing day enjoying each other's company and opening presents.

Santa visited Thayne!

He liked his work bench!

What a cutie!

Granny opening gifts.

TJ and Jeremy got John a guided fishing trip for 3 for his 50th birthday. John, his dad and brother went. He's commented before on the boys going with them. So, TJ got his dad, Jeremy, his PaPa, his uncle, and himself a guided fishing trip to be taken when the weather warms up. They are all excited about it. They will have to do it again when Thayne gets older!

John and Jeremy opening their fishing trip gifts.

PaPa opening his fishing trip gift.

TJ watching them open their gifts.

Debbie watching Thayne open a gift. Isn't she so pretty!!

TJ opening some tool I got him.

Thayne loves to be read to. It warms this Aunt, who teaches, heart! He got several books and wanted them read to him. He loves Elmo!!

Christmas was wonderful! We are so blessed with great lives, a wonderful family and fantastic friends. We hope you all had a wonderful Christmas as well!!

The rest of the weekend was spent hanging out and visiting. Twylah and Mel came in to visit and we shopped a little on Saturday. That was fun! TJ's grandparents went back Saturday and his uncle came in Saturday. We don't get to see him very often so it was nice being able to spend time with him. We all left Sunday. TJ and I made it to Midland long enough to unpack, repack and head off to Lincoln, New Mexico. I'll post more about that later.

It's been a while...

since my last post! Not a lot has been going on. The end of August we started school. I'm teaching Reading, Writing and Social Studies in 4th grade and have 2 great classes! I love it!

I celebrated my 32nd birthday in October and my sweet husband took me to Cibolo Creek Resort, south of Marfa, to celebrate. This is the 2nd year we've gone there for my birthday and I absolutely love it! It is a gorgeous place and so relaxing! My in-laws went with us which made it more special. We went 4 wheeling around the beautiful ranch. It was a lot of fun until my mother in law went down the side of a mountain on her ATV. She hit a rock and down the side she went. She drove her ATV like a pro though and thankfully she wasn't hurt! It scared us all to death though! She got back on and continued the ride. The food at the resort was amazing! Dining was family style and we met many interesting people. One being an author, Leila Meacham, from San Antonio. She's written a book, Roses, that will be out in January. I've already ordered mine from Amazon and can't wait to read it! The rest of the weekend we just relaxed. It was so nice!

My birthday was a big celebration this year! The Friday before a group of friends took me to dinner. TJ was in Houston and was missed! Then that Saturday, Twylah, Melonie and Ryan came in for lunch and some shopping. We had so much fun!

In November, the Melbourne's, Terra and Josh came in. We took the kids out to Fiddlestick Farms for some fall fun. They had a blast and so did the adults! :) It was fun being around their kids and being able to visit! Then we headed back to our house for some pizza and more visiting time. The kids had fun picking up leaves and acorns. After they left, TJ asked me where the bags of leaves and acorns went, we were going to throw them away. They ended up going home to Snyder! I thought that was too funny!! I can't wait until the next time we all get together. Hopefully it will be soon!

We went to Thanksgiving in Ozona this year and had a great time visiting with everyone! I actually didn't take pictures this time. We were too busy catching up! I will make up for that at Christmas. :) We hope you all had a great Thanksgiving!

We have the house decorated for Christmas and have most of the gifts bought and wrapped! Actually, I better wrap this up so that I can get out and finish our shopping. Then we're off to two Christmas parties tonight. I'm looking forward to them!

Baby making update: After my HSG test, the doctor wanted to track my ovulation pattern. So, we did sonograms to show that I am producing eggs and am ovulating. After this though, I've noticed that I'm ovulating much later than I normally do. So, I'm not sure what is going on. I wanted to give it one more month, which makes it 3 months, before I call the doctor. Our next step is artificial insemination and aren't ready to go there yet. We are hoping that we will have a Christmas miracle! That is, after all, all I want for Christmas! :) Please continue to keep us in your prayers! We appreciate those so much!

Have a very Merry Christmas!

Until next time...