Mother's Day

On Mother's Day, May 10, for the first time since they were born, I held BOTH of my babies.  

To say that I was happy was a total understatement.  I snuggled them up tight and did not want to put them down.  

While I was holding them Lonnie showed me the video of my c-section.  I had not watched it and I did not want to watch it until I was healed because I just hurt so much I didn't want to watch myself be cut open (kinda thought it may make me faint!)  Well when I was holding the babies Lonnie just put the phone in front of my face and started the video.  

I got so emotional.  I was caught up in the difficulty we were having breastfeeding and watching that video made everything clear.  My babies were here.  After everything we had done to get pregnant.  After such a difficult pregnancy and worrying about them constantly.  After the immediate concern over Emery's breathing.  My babies were here and they were healthy and they were going to be just fine.  It was all put into perspective for me.  If learning to breastfeed was the hardest thing we had to overcome then we were the luckiest.  There were plenty of parents in that hospital that would love to be in my position.  There was ugly crying but I needed that.  

We are so so very lucky and I am thankful every single day for all of my babies.   

Oh yeah! I have a blog!

Hey peeps!  I have been totally absent from this little space of mine for a while haven't I?  

Life has been going full speed ahead.  We just got back from our annual beach trip with my family.  I kind of unplugged while we were there.  I didn't have my phone on me at all times and I didn't even turn my computer on once.  I only got on Face.book twice the entire week.  It was nice to just relax and not feel so connected, ya know?  I did read your blogs from my phone but I can't comment that way (WHY!?!).  

We had a great time and I will recap that in another post.  Today I'll just share with you how I spent Mother's Day and also what a fun night Lonnie and I had last night.  

Since Mother's Day was our first day home, we didn't have any big plans.  Blakely got up way too early so we snuggled in bed for a long time before getting up.  Then Lonnie asked me what I would like to do and my answer was PLEEEEEASE let's go for a boat ride.  It was a glorious day outside.  We put B down for an early nap while I packed our bag and some snacks.  We spent a couple of hours out just driving around and waving at other boats!  

The second we got on the boat she went to the steering wheel and starting saying DRIVE over and over.  

Once we had enough sun we came back to the house and Lonnie started up the Jeep.  We strapped B in the back seat and took a VERY SMALL DRIVE.  Please don't freak out.  We literally drove out of our driveway and down our very secluded subdivision road about 100 yards.  Not a big deal but so much fun!  B loved having the wind in her hair and was so happy the whole time.  

After the ride we hung out on the deck all evening.  It was hard to come inside that night after such a great day spent outside.  

I have mentioned on this blog before about our wine and gourmet club that we are a part of.  We get together twice a year (once in the spring/summer and once in the winter) and enjoy a great meal and even better wine with a bunch (50?) of other couples.  We went last night and it was a blast, of course.  It gives us a chance to get fancy and drink too much super good wine.  

Hi Blakely!

When we went to our very first wine dinner with this group we realized that we should never drive home!  We do a tasting of four different wines so BOOM 4 glasses of wine means BOOM Kelly should not drive!  My bestest Sarah came and picked us up and dropped us off at the dinner.  How awesome is she for that???  She also brought over a plethora of jewelry for me to choose from.  Lovehertopieces.  We took a cab home.  We live in a pretty small town so getting a cab here is not normal.  We had fun though and I am pretty sure we became buddies with our cabbie!  Now that I think about it I should have taken his picture.  I felt like I was back in college taking a cab home...HA!  

Lonnie and I use to wish we had the wine dinners more than just twice a year.  Well now I am glad we only do it twice.  I have been popping advil all day and I am still in my pajamas....

COMING UP!
adorable baby on the beach pics....
someone turned 19 months....
how to cloth diaper on vacation...

We're back!

I wish I had time to do a long and thoughtful Mother's Day post, but I just don't!  We got back from the beach last night and I am still recovering.  We had a great time but it was definitely exhausting!  

Today has been wonderful.  I have just been spending time with my sweet girl and soaking up every second of her.  I am so thankful to have her in my life.  She makes me a better person.  Speaking of the sweet girl...she is 7 months old today!  How has this happened?  That sounds old!  She will be turning 13, like, tomorrow or something...GAH!  

Full beach post and seven month post coming this week!  But just to tide you over until then...here is some cuteness!!!!

What you've all been waiting for!

So I have kept you in suspense long enough, right?

Well I didn't do it on purpose.  I just wanted to look again to double check and make ABSOLUTELY SURE we were right.  


I'm going to share a few things first.  


The Chinese gender chart said it was a girl


The Intelligender said it was a boy


The ring on a string of your hair test (some call this the needle test) said it was a girl


The heartbeat has been high...according to the old wives this means girl


The old wives also say that it should be a boy because girls should steal your beauty.  I haven't had any acne or anything like that.  


So are you ready???

Can you believe it?  Because I was surprised.  I had been thinking boy the whole time!


It is still sinking in that we are going to have a daughter.  It is so cute hearing my husband talk about HER.  Crazy!  We were at dinner the other night and of course people are giving us all sorts of advice.  One man told my husband  to just wait until she was a teenager and boys started coming around.  I thought he was going to pass out.  He was white as a ghost!  Heart him....


For Mother's Day my mom and Jenni (aunt) got me a few things.  I took some pics to share with y'all.  

beautiful gowns...

I was in Belk the other day buying stuff for me when I wandered over to the little girl section.  I can't even focus when I am there.  It is all just so cute.  I wanted to buy something but I felt like my first baby purchase needed to PERFECT.  I couldn't find anything that I just couldn't live without so I was about to leave when I came across the sale rack.  I got each of these for $7.  Each set has two onsies (one short sleeved and one long sleeved) and the pants.  Ummm....that is PERFECT!

This says daddy adores me...and how cute is the flower on the booty!!!!!  I love it!

 mommy says I'm purr-fect...

 This one says one of a kind on the other onesie that I didn't get a picture of.  

So there it is.  We are having a baby girl.  Now she just needs a name.  That is going to be tough.  We have had a few names that we have liked for a long time but now that it is real the list seems to keep growing instead of getting shorter.  I think it will be a while before we decide.  


Oh and guess what?  My sister in law (married to my husband's brother) sent me an email the other day with some excellent news.  Her grandmother has offered to make the bumper pad and bedskirt if I want her too!  I am so excited!  My mom and I went to look at fabrics yesterday and I literally can't stop thinking about it.  I had dreams about little girl colors all night long.  There is so much to choose from.  I am off today and I think I will spend it online researching!  Fun Fun Fun!