Christmas...

Well I have to say I don't have much to report and I especially don't have many pictures because I am finding myself hard to look at these days!! :-) I know it's probably hormones, but here lately I when I try to get dressed or get dolled up, I find myself in an awful mood. However, I know it's totally worth it and I can handle it for a couple of more months. Actually about 7 more weeks! Or less!
5th
First I want to report that when I went in on the 21st of December for my check-up, my fundal height was measuring 35cm and I was only 31 weeks then. That's 4cm bigger than it should be. So Dr. Hopkins said that on January 5th he wanted me to come back for a sonogram so that he could check the weight and amniotic fluid. Basically this could mean not much, or it could mean my dates are off, or it could mean Baker is getting on up there in his weight/height. I might possibly just have Baker early for this reason. Obviously not be induced TOO early if that should happen, because we want to make sure his lungs are developed and he has plenty of time to get ready, BUT a sonogram will tell us more! I am very anxious for this appointment! :-0 I decided I would let you all know just how BIG this belly is and how much I am feeling it! I have been in constant pain lately in my back area and my legs.


This Christmas I just felt overwhelmingly blessed! I feel like that every Christmas, but this Christmas I got to carry little Baker around with me! I stayed swollen the ENTIRE time, but it was great to see all of our family! Or most of them anyway! We spent Wednesday with dad and them in Muleshoe and spent all day Christmas Eve with them! Then that night we headed on to Friona to have Christmas with the King's. Then Christmas morning we woke up LATE and both commented on the fact that never again would we be able to sleep until 10:30 on Christmas morning because this is our last year without kids! :-) For lunch we headed over to Nate's parents house and stayed most of the day! Mom and Kaleb went to the lake and we will be seeing them sometime this week! Actually we may only get to see mom. Kaleb will have to stay in Muleshoe and work! He is in the real world now! So we get to have one more get together with mom and then we will be done! I can't wait to see her!!
WHITE Christmas

Jenner rocking out on the guitar I got him...Aaron and Amy will love me I am sure!

I love Christmas Trees!!

Stocking that I never got around to filling :-(


Last but not least. I hit my 32 week mark on Christmas day! Whew!


Maybe I had more to report than I thought! :-) Hope everyone enjoyed their Christmas Holiday! It always creeps right around and then it's gone in a flash! I can't believe how quick it all goes by these days! Seems like in grade school that it lasted for so long! Now that I am grown up it just FLIES by!

Merry Christmas...

I can't believe Christmas is almost here! One week to be exact! It always creeps right around and then in a FLASH it's gone. It never lasts long enough! I love this time of year!! I hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas! I am usually sick this time of year and this year in no different. I got sick during Thanksgiving (the day after) and now I find myself much sicker right before Christmas. Usually it's always strep-throat, but this year who knows what's going on! I was pretty sure it felt like a bad sinus infection at first, then I was sure it turned into Pneumonia or something awful because I got up Wednesday morning and when I stood up my chest felt like it was being squished and my throat tightened up all the way to the bottom of my chest. I wasn't sure what that meant, but I could hardly breathe and my breaths were catching. I had no voice so I texted Nate and he called my doctor. Doctor said to get to labor and delivery asap and he would meet us there. Well I get there and they hook my stomach up to monitor to make sure Baker was okay. We then find out I am having contractions. GREEEEAT! So they hook me up to an IV and start dumping fluids and medicine in me. Then I get sick to my stomach. LOOOOVELY! So I have to be treated for nausea too. Well after figuring out that my temp was just at 100 and my lungs sounded okay, they ruled out Pneumonia and gave me a breathing treatment for asthma. It helped me out a lot. I finally felt like my lungs weren't being so squished. I have had asthma since I was younger, but I haven't had a problem with it in years. Pregnancy has a funny way of bringing up old stuff and introducing new stuff as well. Finally got my contractions to quit, my lungs felt better, I was able to breathe again, and I was completely hydrated. Felt a little better as I left there from being in there ALL day. Nate was more worn out than I was, poor thing. Anyway, I got some meds to help me sleep and to help my cough, which is hurting my rib that I still think is whacked out! However, I am alive and well and Baker is doing great so I can't complain! Everyday is a little better and I am hoping and praying that we will be well for Christmas and well into his birthday! I can't wait to meet him! Not too much longer and I have a lot to do like put up all his stuff. It's all piled in his room waiting to be tended to! I got sick right after the shower so I haven't even left my bed. :-( I am anxious to get it all put up and washed and all that fun stuff! I also haven't gotten ANY of his furniture in yet! NOTHING! I always have this type of luck but I am seriously getting upset. It better arrive SOON! Or else! :-)

Hopefully my card makes it out SOON! Yikes!

Baker's Baby Shower...

What a HIT the shower was! I have to be bias again and say it was the BEST ever! It's only fair for every girl to think her showers are the best and that's how it should be! I was so blessed to have such a great group of hostesses who loved me so much and put together such a beautiful shower! I had quite a few hostesses, one being because this was my only shower, I am having no more! We had a packed house I have to say. This is one reason I chose to do it at my mom's house, which might be a little non-traditional but we needed room and of course she had it looking cute as can be. I am so so so thankful for all my girl, my mom, my family and my friends who showed up and spoiled Baker and I. What a humbling experience. The entire time I was just thanking God for everyone there. It was fantastic I could go on all day! I'll just post pictures now and have a story-book. :-)
NELLIE AND ZONA

FUTURE KING BOOTIES

BAKER'S BASSINET FROM MY HOSTESSES

MY DAD SNOOPING AROUND...HE COULDN'T STAND TO BE AWAY HE IS THE MOST EXCITED GRANDPA TO BE AND IT'S SO CUTE! BAKER IS SO BLESSED TO HAVE THIS MAN AS HIS GRANDPA. HE IS IN FOR A LOT OF FISHING, CANDY, DR PEPPER, HUNTING, HORSE RIDING, ETC.

WE DECIDED BAKER DIDN'T GET ENOUGH STUFF...I AM KIDDING OF COURSE

MY AUNT SHARITA TALKING TO BAKER AND GIVING HIM A KISS. I LOVE THIS WOMAN SO MUCH.

NATES SWEET GRANDMA'S THAT I CONSIDER MY OWN

MY SWEET GRANDMA'S THAT I ADORE! I HAVE LEARNED A LOT FROM THESE WOMEN.

THE MOMS. BAKER IS BLESSED TO HAVE BOTH OF THESE WOMEN IN HIS LIFE AS WELL. TALK ABOUT TWO EXCITED WOMEN. MY BABY WILL ALWAYS BE IN PERFECT HANDS WITH THESE TWO. I AM ESPECIALLY EXCITED FOR MY MOM, THIS IS HER FIRST GRANDBABY AND I KNOW BAKER IS A LITTLE PIECE OF HEAVEN FOR HER.

SOME OF MY WONDERFUL HOSTESSES! WE ARE MISSING A FEW. TISH WAS SICK BLESS HER HEART, AMANDA HARD AT WORK IN THE KITCHEN, A COUPLE OTHERS HAD LEFT, AND ERICA AND DANIELLE WE MISSED YOU. THANK YOU FOR HELPING FROM AFAR! YOUR PARTICIPATION DID NOT GO UNNOTICED BY ME!

MY SWEET NATE. HE CAME TO LBK AFTER THE SHOWER, LOADED UP, AND WE HEADED STRAIGHT BACK HOME BECAUSE I WAS SO TIRED AND HE WASN'T FEELING THE BEST. WHAT A GUY! HE WAS LIKE WHERE ARE WE GOING TO PUT ALL OF THIS. I AM STILL TRYING TO FIGURE THAT OUT.

MY BEST FRIEND AND LEADER OF THE PACK. THANK YOU X ETERNITY. I REALLY CAN'T FIND WORDS FOR YOU BUT YOU KNOW HOW MUCH I LOVE YOU AND APPRECIATE YOU.

DON'T THINK THIS CAKE COULD HAVE GOTTEN ANY MORE PERFECT!

BABYMUM FOR MY HOSPITAL DOOR FROM AUDRA DEE. MY INSPIRATION TO MAKE ALL MY GIRLFRIENDS THE CUTEST DOOR DECORATION FOR THEIR HOSPITAL STAY

PERFECTION! I LOVE MY TABLE!


I NEED TO SAY ONE MORE THING. I HAVEN'T GOTTEN THE PICTURE OF ALL THE BOOKS I GOT FROM MY HOSTESSES BUT THEY WERE ALL PILED ON TOP OF EACH OTHER AND TIED TOGETHER BY RIBBON. I HAD NO IDEA THEY HAD MESSAGES INSIDE OF THEM UNTIL I GOT HOME. I READ EACH ONE AND CRIED THE ENTIRE TIME. NATE WAS LIKE HERE WE GO AGAIN. BUT I TOLD HIM TO READ TOO BECAUSE IT WAS ALSO TO HIM. IT WAS SPECIAL BECAUSE HE FELT INCLUDED AND AS HE SHOULD! THIS MIGHT HAVE BEEN ONE OF THE MOST SPECIAL GIFTS OF THE DAY BECAUSE IT WAS SO PERSONAL. THAT ALONG WITH THE SCRAPBOOK AMY MADE ME. SHE MADE ME A SCRAPBOOK OF MY ENTIRE PREGNANCY THUS FAR AND HAS RECORDED EVERYTHING PERFECTLY SO I WON'T FORGET. IT'S VERY SPECIAL TO ME.

So as we can all see, the shower was a success and I thank you ALL again and again for making it wonderful. Even to those who couldn't show up but wanted to be there I thank you. This is a busy time of year and I am just thankful for everyone who could make it! :-) I am a very blessed girl. Baker is a very blessed baby. Nate is a very blessed daddy. God is GOOD and let's not forget it!

THIRD anniversary...

Well back on December 2, Nate and I celebrated our third anniversary as a married couple! I can't believe I have been married for THREE whole years! It's hard to believe! Just three years ago we were getting started and have done so much in that amount of time! We have been through so much, but I am so HAPPY to be with Nate and to call him my own! When things get tough and I think I have had enough of him, I just think back to the very first time I met him. Then I let my mind take me back through the dating years and all the reasons I fell in love with him in the first place! Never in a million years would I have thought back then that he would be my husband and that I would be having babies with him!! I mean never! God sure knows what He is doing! Right? I know I can't be the only one who feels like this.

This year we obviously didn't do much and that was A-okay with me! We were going to go to this place called BL BIstro here in Amarillo to eat because it's SO good, but the guys at work talked Nate into going to this place called Marty's Steakhouse. Well, Nate makes reservations and we get all dressed up. When we get there we walk in and it smells like a Vegas casino. Then we notice we are the ONLY people in this place. So the lady is going to seat us and Nate says, "Oh we have a reservation." I died laughing! I mean really, we were the only people there! So she's like um, okay. She takes us to the back of the place and sits us down and I mean basically we are like what is this place? So things start out good with the bread. We eat like 10 pieces each and then get our salad which was also good, but something I can totally make at home. Our steaks come out and I got a filet and Nate got the NY strip. Well Nate's steak is gray. Not even kidding. It looks disgusting! He was like should I eat this? So we are both laughing and he is taking a picture of it on his cell phone! We are so mature I know. It was just hilarious! His steak was indeed disgusting and things go downhill from there. Not so great. We basically went to eat bread and salad. It makes for a good story though! On our way home we both develop stomach aches and complain the whole way home. Typical us. :-) Next year we will NOT be going there. So thanks guys at work for setting that up!!

Blurry picture and it's hard doing it yourself...This was the best I could do!

Nate got me a LV for my gift...Basically I am speechless. He is the best gift giver of all times. This is also my Christmas present I was informed. :-) I can totally handle that!



Anyway, happy anniversary to us and may there be many more for our happily ever after!

Third trimester...

Well I cannot believe I am already a week into my third trimester. I never thought I would get here. Time is flying by SO fast. It's almost Christmas and my shower is a week away! By then I'll be 30 weeks!!! 30 whole weeks!! AHHHH! That means only 10 more weeks of being pregnant. Give or take a couple. Which means it could be like 7 more weeks! That to me is just crazy! I am going to be giving birth (let's not go there about how freaked out I am) and then holding my sweet little Baker in my arms! I might not be able to let him go! :-) Love that little guy so much and he already makes me laugh! I already have laughter spells where I can't stop laughing for no apparent reason, but he just makes me laugh! He is very very active! I had an appointment today and his heart-rate was in the 150's which doctor said was good. His heart rate has always been fast, he likes to get after it in there. He has been moving like crazy lately and I can now tell where his head, back, and booty are. I every so gently can press on my stomach and I know just where he is and sometimes he will even nudge me either to say what's up or to say stop doing that. The doctor today was amazed at how much he was kicking and squirming because he was running the doppler over my belly to get the heartbeat and we were just laughing because he was making my stomach look like an ocean. It was so crazy! Finally we got him to be still so we could find his heartbeat. My belly measurement is on schedule expect for instead of 29 I am more 30. Which means it's about an inch bigger. I've already been told that he's measuring about a week bigger than "normal". Which is totally fine and that means I feed my baby GOOD. He is growing growing growing! Great reports! I'll see the doctor I think two or three more times and then it's time to see him every single week until birthday time! :-0

I am finally just about over the sickness of what I think was a sinus infection. I never had to go into the doctor he gave called in a Z-Pack over the phone. I took that medicine as quick as I could get my hands on it because I was MISERABLE! I am talking sick! My tonsils were bleeding and the left one was HUGE! All I have now is a cough which likes to get crazy at night time of course but I'll take it over a sore throat any day. It just takes time. I am pretty sure my rib on the right side has misplaced itself just a tad. I can hear it clicking and catching to where I have to really readjust myself often because it feels jammed. Doctor said that happens a lot and it will be okay as long as I am not in awful pain. It's more of just a discomfort.

That's the update on the start of the third trimester. Small rough start but I can't complain. I am very blessed!

A Great Time For Thanks...

What a Thanksgiving! Not that we did much this year, but seriously I am surrounded by such awesome blessings I just can't contain it! I have SO much to be thankful for! This year of course we went to good ole Morton, Texas on Thanksgiving day to be with the Bakers. This is one my most favorite days of the year! I think my family is awesome! We are all so tight knit and have always been this way! We always all keep in touch and have all been the best of friends! My aunts ShaRita and Tusi were most excited to see the belly as well as my cousins! They just all thought it was something else to see their little Kenley Jill pregnant! Baker got to hear the voices of the people that are going to just love him to pieces and spoil him rotten. I left with gifts galore for the little guy from Leaha and Tusi already.
The girls in my family loving their baby kicks...


My cousin Leaha is a FABULOUS photographer and I always envy her photography and work she does but she lives in Dallas so of course that makes things difficult. Well bless her sweet heart, we spent the majority of Thanksgiving Day having a photo shoot. Her day of rest and relaxation was turned into work. But I have to say it was fun work! Leaha, myself, Meagan, and Lacy all packed up her photography gear and headed to Lacy's house for a maternity photo shoot! We had a BLAST! It was just us girls all together again laughing and having a good ole time. I am having my pictures made into a book for our purposes. I don't really think too many people want to see pictures of my belly but for Nate and I it's really special so this book will be a momento for us both, especially me. If you are in the Dallas area and looking for an upbeat and wonderful photographer, please consider Leaha and tell her I sent you! www.popography.org She also had a blog click HERE. Anyway, here is a small sneak peak of a picture that made all of us cry. GIRLS will be girls!


She also got a good shot of Nate and I for our Christmas card and my 28 week belly. HELLO THIRD TRIMESTER!
I can't get the picture to work so I will post it later!

My third trimester finds me sick. I did well through Thanksgiving and then Friday night I had an allergy attack. A serious one! Ever since then things have gone down hill and I am now diagnosing myself with a sinus infection because I am no stranger to these and I am almost positive that's what it is. Going to the doctor tomorrow so we shall see. I am about ready to rip my tonsils out, they hurt SO bad and I can't talk, eat, or sleep! Not cool. I hate taking medicine but obviously desperate times cause for desperate measures. Tylenol and Benedryl have been my friends. Not that they help any. I need pain pills! That's out of the question though so it's time to tough it out! Hope everyone had a great holiday!

Holiday Happening and Invitations...

I am having a two for one blog here. First thing is first...

MY INVITATIONS ARE THE CUTEST THINGS EVER! Am I being bias, maybe but probably not. My great, great friend Monica made the invitations for my baby shower and I have to say they fit me to a "T". She had all my colors in there with a fabulous background and topped it all off with a CROWN my most favorite thing! When I saw what they looked like and read what they said I started crying! The wording was so sweet and it was just so precious! I could go on all day about these! It also is making everything so much more real. I just can't believe I am having a baby shower! I thought the same thing about all my wedding showers, but now it's a whole new ball game! I am pumped! So Monica, thank you for being awesome! To everyone reading this, if you need invitations made or know of someone who does, she's your gal! Monica I stole your pictures because you already had some info blacked out so yes, these are your pictures, thanks for that too :-)



Secondly...Holiday Happening! One of my most favorite days of the year! Amy and I went on Wednesday the opening night to see what we could get ourselves into! I have to say last year we did a lot more damage than this year, but we still made it home with some wonderful stuff! My plan was to get others on my Christmas list some great items, but looks like I only made it out with stuff for me and Baker. Ooops! For those that are having girls, this place is like shopping heaven because around every corner there is a TuTu or something else for a girl. However, I found Baker some really cute Tech stuff and baby stuff! I know people think that having girls can get you in a lot of trouble but I have to say, shopping for little boys is JUST AS FUN! Anyway, the event lasted from 6-9 that night and we met my mom, Liz, and Taylor up there to shop! It's our tradition! I think we might could have used 4 hours, but 3 was enough! I was exhausted and tired by the end of this and was ready to get to bed. However, Amy and I drove back to Amarillo after it was all over and got home at about 11:30. We were so tired and my feet were begging for rest! In the picture below you can see my swollen puffy feet! Yikes!