Blessings

God is Great!!
It is amazing to watch my little baby girl move around inside of me. I can't even describe the feeling I had when they turned on the monitor and we saw Avery's face in 3D.
I literally was taken aback! It's funny because I've seen these 4D pictures many times before of friends babies. They are all adorable! But when it's yours... its just different.
I get choked up right now just thinking about that.
I will never forget a few certain things about my pregnancy with Avery...
1. The day I found out I was pregnant; June 1st, 2009
2. The first time I felt a real kick (we were at my parent's house for the weekend and I had just laid down to go to bed when, POP, there she kicked!!) I about jumped out of bed and did a little dance. I wanted to wake Jeff up so bad, but he sleeps so hard that I knew that would be a futile effort. lol) Jeff has finally felt her moving around. For the longest time she liked to tease him and stop moving every time he put his hand on my tummy :)
3. The first time we heard the heart beat and saw her ultrasound
4. Yesterday's 4D ultrasound session. Wow! I highly suggest people go do it. It's not that expensive, relatively, and it is so fun! Allyson and Tim gave us this session as a gift so we shared this experience with them. I am so glad they were there to watch it with us.

I'm sure there will be lots more memories to be made, but for now, those are the big highlights
As a part of the session we were able to get 6 b&w 3d photos, about 65 color photos, a DVD of the session (it has all of her movements recorded and put to music), and we got a teddy bear with her heartbeat recorded inside. I think it will be fun for her to have and listen to when she decides to join us.
Anyways, here are a few pictures. I just picked a few of my favorites; there's more on Facebook...

Feet

She was being shy

Yawning

Happy Day!

There are 3 things going on today that just simply make me smile...

1. LOST Season 5 came out on DVD. I will be going to get it ASAP!


2. The Biggest Loser Finale is tonight.


3. We have our first birthing class at the hospital. It's supposed to be a tour of the delivery wing of the hospital so we know where to go on "the big day". {I hope we get to see some babies :) } Also, just a general overview of what to expect from the delivery. I am a bit nervous....

Irony...

LOVE

This is my favorite picture from my session with Hillary!

Repeat of Last Year??

I hope so!! :)

More Pictures

Hillary finished my pictures from my session with her! She has posted a few on her Blog.
She did a beautiful job, but I hate looking at pictures of myself! I always feel like I look dumb, my hair is doing something funky, I'm making a funny face... you name it!
Anyways, she's sending me the whole session on a CD so I can't wait to get it and look at them all!
Thanks Hillary! I had a blast working with you. I hope we can do it again one day :)

'Tis The Season

We got all of our Christmas Decorations up last night.

This is such a wonderful time of year! You can't help but be in a good mood. :)
Here are a few pictures of the decorations:
(disclaimer: some of these pictures are really bad since I could not get the lighting to cooperate)

Our stockings... I know Avery isn't here yet, but her stocking deserves to be hung, right? lol
Jeff's first comment: "Avery's stocking is bigger than ours"... to which I replied, "That's the way it is supposed to be, dear. Santa will need to make sure to fill it up, too!" lol

A close up of one of our decorative trees... LOVE!

This Santa is my favorite piece that I have. He is hand made and his clothes are stitched from upholstery fabric. He makes me smile every time I get him out of his wrapping in the attic. Too bad he can't stay out all year.

I made this little beauty for our front door. The picture does not do it justice AT ALL!! I love it though. It's something different than the usual wreath that everyone has.

I got these reindeer from my mom and dad for Christmas at the Nutcracker Market in Houston. (that is a whole post in itself... but needless to say, if you love the Holidays and decorating your house with anything Fall or Christmas themed, this is the place to go!)

Week 30

Avery is just chuggin' along... Mommy is getting ready for her to get here already! It seems to be going by so much slower now! Good news, though, I got weighed at the doctor today and have not put on any weight since my last apt at 25 weeks. I guess the weight is just shifting around cuz I know my belly is getting bigger!

Maternity Pictures

This was my second session for pictures, but they were taken by my cousin, Tanya Pabor, so she was able to get them to be yesterday at Thanksgiving dinner. She did a great job! We had a blast. This is my favorite picture from the session.