Relaxing Weekend

Here are a few pics from Memorial Day weekend, just chillin by mom and dad's new pride and joy... their pool! As most of you know, my dearly beloved grandad (who Hayden is being named after) passed away a year ago come July. He and my granny put a pool in there back yard when I was 3 or 4 years old. We spent many, many summers by "granny and grandad's pool," many birthday parties, etc. It was a huge part of mine and my sisters adolescence and childhood. When my parents decided to take what grandad left them and put a pool in their backyard, I was thrilled. I knew grandad wouldn't have had them spend that money any other way. I think without it my mom would be lost this summer, and I would probably be asking myself all summer, "why am I not by the pool at grandad's?" Needless to say, I am so excited to see my parents play the role of "going to granny and grandad's" (but it won't be granny and grandad, they still haven't decided what they want to be called) They were such a big part of my life and I am so excited to see Hayden enjoy his grandparents as much as I did mine!

12 week countdown!

On monday, my beautiful mother and I went to my 28 week prenatal visit. It was so fun to see how excited she got when Dr. New was going from body part to body part pointing out everything on the screen. We got to see his little face and his mouth was moving, it was really cool. Then I had to drink that really sugary drink, which made me all jittery and then have my blood drawn an hour later for the glucose test which screens for gestational diabetes. Today the nurse called and I past the test!! Yea! Now the 12 week countdown begins. I go back to the doctor in 3 weeks and then every two after that until weekly the last month!! Thinking and praying for you Lizze, Jarod, and Carter. Can't wait to meet him. I will be anticipating a intimate pep talk from a Bradley classmate first hand to prepare myself!!

Sidenote: GO ADAM!!!!!!!

productive weekend!

This weekend we have been working hard on Hayden's room. We put up a chair rail around the room and daddy put together his furniture. I have ordered the bedding but it won't be here until June. Basically the room will be lots of bright fun colors with a few guitar things thrown in that I have managed to find.

here is a picture of the bedding from the website

daddy working hard!
I am so excited about my guitar light switch cover!
daddy being silly!


the end product! (for now anyways)

A belly shot since I have not posted one thus far
Everything is coming along great! Hayden is kicking and punching all of the time, we just lay in bed and watch him have a party! I have the glucose testing at my 28 week appointment in two weeks and then the 12 week countdown begins! Its gonna be one long, hot summer!

a week and a half late

Just a quick update from our 20 week appointment which was a week and a half ago! Hayden is looking great and just growing, growing, growing. Dr. New gave us a picture of his little, big foot. He has really been moving lately, I have been able to feel his arms and his legs poking at me. Justin has also been able to feel his moves. He is an active little fart.
Congrats to Katie and Ryan on their beautiful little boy. Our thoughts are with Andrea and Greg as they should meet little Bradley any day now as well as Anthony and Amanda as they patiently await the arrival of their little girl, our prayers are with you all.

The Wedding

Last weekend my sweet baby sista got married! Everything was beautiful. The weekend started off with a little Williams jam session at my parents house to kick off the weekend as well as celebrate Justin's birthday! Friday morning we woke up and had a day at the salon getting our finger nails and toe nails done. I had to ask for one of those mask thingys cause little Hayden was smelling too much of it! Friday night was had the rehearsal dinner at a cute little local Italian food restaurant in Denison, Texas right down the street from where the reception was located. Saturday the ceremony was held at the little Methodist Church we grew up in, in Tom Bean, Texas. We were pleasantly surprised that it held everyone, but just barely!! Ali looked absolutely beautiful and I managed to make it through the ceremony with only shedding a couple of tears as she walked down the aisle. For those of you who are wondering, yes my dress fit but just barely. It took at least 4 hands to zip is all the way up and I did not get a deep breath in all night!! The reception took place at Katy Depot in downtown Dension, (we actually had one of our proms there in high school) the building is beautiful with white tall columns that surround the dance floor, not much decorations that were needed. We ate fajitas catered by our long time family friends that own a local Mexican food restaurant and the same band that played at our reception. The night was lots of fun and everything went great and was beautiful. Here are a few pictures. A funny side note: Lots of people at the wedding and the reception did not recognize my husband and several people that have met him many times before came up to me and asked me who I was with! I had to explain that I am now married to a hippy!



After one too many birthday margaritas!!

bride and groom

those fumes were getting to me and Hayden

the family at the rehersal dinner
putting on the dress, as you can see we waited until last moment possible to zip mine!
my girls from high school!


happily ever after!

Turtle

Today we had our 16 week check-up. After several minutes of poking around and the little one moving around, the doctor finally found what we were anxiously waiting to find out. ITS A BOY!! We are thrilled! The little guy was moving all around and the doctor said everything looked good! Now the fun begins!

This is his face and hand. The eyes are still mostly
water so all you see is the eye sockets.

This picture is pretty self explanatory! The doctor
circled what he called the "turtle"

Anticipation

So along with the couple of dreams I have had that the baby inside of my tummy is a boy, I have had another event happen to me yesterday to instill these feelings yet again. I was at hobby lobby just meandering about, like I do everytime I step foot inside that store, and I came across all of the letters of the alphabet, a set in white and a set in black both in different kinds of fonts. With just a week left (God willing) to find out the sex of our baby I have had thoughts of room ideas for either. If it is a girl, it will definitely be girly, probably hot pink, black and white and if it is a boy probably some shade of green, white, and brown. So the letters in hobby lobby were super on sale and super cute, so I got H-A-Y-D-E-N in the white letters and then walked over to the black letters. I picked up A and U and went for the D and it was empty.... all of the letters for the name Audrey were there except D. So I put the A and U back and said to myself "well it must be a boy." So despite my trying to be equal and buy both names... once again my feelings confirmed. But, no matter what, boy or girl we are so excited and will love and cherish with all of our hearts! We pray that he or she continue to be healthy and continue to grow and develop into our beautiful miracle!