Lamaze Class

Well, we took our Lamaze class this past weekend. There were 2 different class time options. One was to do a weekend class starting on a Saturday 9-4 and ending Sunday from 1-5. The other option was a 6 week class on Tuesdays from 7-9. That class wouldn't have started until September 9 though and that would have put it really close to our due date so we did the weekend class. There were 3 other pregnant ladies there. Clint was the only man though. Two of the women brought their mother and the other brought her friend. I felt bad for him but I felt blessed too, to have him there with me. I wish the other women could have had that. We watched 11 different birth stories and one of those was a C - section birth. I wish I didn't see any of those, except the c- section one because the regular birth videos made me more nervous. I already know where the baby is going to come out, and that there is pain and I will survive so why do I need to see someone else going through labor and birth? Just teach me how to breath and get through the pain and tell me what to expect without me watching some dramatic video. That is just my opinion. So besides the videos we learned how to breath when we go through contractions and how to relax ourselves when we are in pain. They made us hold an ice cube in our right hand for 1 minute while distracting us and after that we put another ice cube in the other hand while it was silent. We were supposed to see if it was better to be distracted or quiet. For me, I liked it better while it was quite so I could concentrate on my breathing. We also went over infant CPR, infant care and breastfeeding. We got to tour the OB unit too and see "the birthing bed"! Because I have been reading a lot lately, I already knew a lot of this stuff but it was still good to relearn it. So if you ever get a chance to do a class, regardless of how much you know already, take the class anyway. You never know what else you might learn and it is always good to get a different perspective. We really enjoyed our class and we got a lot of freebies too, like 6 newborn diapers!! That will last us about half of the first day home. One can NEVER have too many diapers!

Our Little Girl's Name

We have chosen a name for our little girl! Morgan Faith!

New Progress in the Nursery!

Well, we painted the walls in the nursery a couple of weeks ago and today we put up the chair rail. It looks really good in there. Just a few more things I am working on and then it will pretty much complete except for not having a baby in there yet! But we are definately getting closer to that too! I start my eighth month on Monday! Yay!

Gabi our Kitty

Our cat, Gabi loves to be wherever we are. If we are in the kitchen, she will be in the kitchen, if we are in the office, she will be in the office. She can't just not be with us. Right now she is laying on the couch next to me. Saturday when we were working in the baby's room, of course, she was wanting to be in there and normally we don't let her in there but we had to have both doors open so I didn't want to hassle with constantly trying to keep her out of the room. So we let her roam in the room. I was sitting in the rocking chair and she was wanting to find a place to lay down. Well when I got up she got in my chair and decided to make herself at home in the chair as you can see from the picture. Then when I would get tired of sitting on the floor or standing I would move her and get back in my chair but then Clint would need me to do something for him and so I would get back out of the chair and guess what? She would get right back in my chair. We were fighting each other for that chair all night. It was kind of cute and funny but also aggravating at the same time. She really is a good cat and very spoiled. Clint and I both don't know how she is going to handle a baby taking all the attention because she is used to getting it. I guess she will have to get over it sooner or later.

Updates to the Nursery!

We got our crib this past weekend and set it up. The bear is a "Build - a - bear" that we got from Clint's cousin for the baby. We dressed her in our baby's "take-home" outfit. We, well, I had to visualize what it was going to look like. So I wanted to put it on one of her stuffed animals. Now you can visualize too!

Our Baby Girl

Here are some pictures of our little girl. We had our 3D/4D ultrasound done on Monday. Later this week we will put some of her video on here too. So you will just have to check back. Click on each picture to get a closer look!

Her leg is right next to her face. You can even see her knee!


It looks like she is smiling in this picture!


She is sticking her tongue out!


She is wiping her face and you can see her little fingers!


By the end of our session she was really tired and this is her sleeping very peacefully!
Doesn't she just look peaceful?


We think we made her pretty sleepy because we got to bring our own music and it was lullabys so maybe that did it. Or maybe it was just because she wanted to sleep. Who knows? Anyway, we got some good pictures and if you ever get a chance to do something like this, do it! If I had one of the machines to take pictures like this, I think I would look at her 24/7! It is truly incredible what they can do these days.

3 Months Left! (give or take)

Well, can you believe it? I can hardly believe it! I start my 3rd trimester today, which means - exactly 3 months until the due date, that is, if she comes on her due date. It has flown by so fast. I guess summer activities make it fly by. Everything has been good so far. She is moving like crazy though. We tried getting a little video clip of her from our camera, but it was hard to see. Maybe soon we can capture something really good so you can see her move, because she does move a lot. Clint thinks she is going to be a soccer player. We will just have to see! We still don't have her name picked out yet but I think we are getting closer to having one!

Her room is coming together now. We just received her bedding set last week and used that to match paint colors. We are going to paint the bottom half of the wall a sage green color and have wallpaper border above that and then above the wallpaper border leave it the khaki color it already is. When it is done we will post pictures. It probably won't be done for a few weeks though because we still have to order the wallpaper border. We also bought her rug and a lamp. She will get one more lamp but we haven't bought that yet. Her room doesn't have any windows so we were wanting 2 lamps, in case you were wondering why we needed another lamp. Soon we are going to move the pew bench in her room and move the futon out of her room. I can't wait to get it all finished. Right now her room is my favorite place to go even though it is pretty empty. Maybe her room will be done or at least close to done by the beginning of September. Maybe wishful thinking, but there is nothing wrong with that!!

VBS Pictures

Well we helped with the VBS for the Nowata, OK congregation last weekend. The decorations turned out really well. The kids seemed to enjoy them!

This is supposed to be the Pacific Ocean!

You guessed it - a treasure chest!

These next 2 pictures are supposed to be the South Pole.

These are supposed to be in Egypt!

This girl attached herself to Clint the whole night.

As you can see he is carrying her around!

Clint is teaching! He did such a great job! He is sooo good with kids.

Now we just have to wait another week or so and do this again, but we add one more scene to our VBS - Mount Everest! This Saturday we are going to pass out 500 fliers around neighborhoods! Hopefully we will have a good turnout!

Still Working on VBS

Well, I am still working on VBS stuff! Our church is helping a church about 30 min. with their VBS. Clint and I are incharge of decorating and man, have we really been working on it hard. Most of the items are things we didn't have to make they were things people already have, like, rope, pails, tents, book bags, things like that. But there are some things we are having to make and it is starting to wear us out. Good thing VBS is Friday, because that will mean everything will be done. Our VBS is August 3 -7 so we will have a week or so to rest up before hitting it again! It has been fun getting ready though. I look forward to helping where I can. I will try to take pictures so you can see how it looked once put all together. Please pray for these VBS's. Hope everyone has a good rest of their week!

It's A Girl!!!

This is our baby girl! No we don't have a definite name picked out but there are 2 in the running. We will let you know what it will be when we know ourselves! She weighs 1 lb. 12oz. and her due date is still right on - October 25th. Please continue to pray for our baby girl and her health and that God prepares us to be the parents He wants us to be! (If you click on the pictures it will zoom in for you.)