Our Last Pregnant Day...

Well... Tomorrow is the big day!! We are feeling a range of emotions as we head to bed tonight but mostly just calm and excited! Tomorrow we become parents of a sweet baby girl, parents of two! Our whole world will change but in such an amazing way! We feel so blessed and can not wait to welcome our baby girl.

James has taken the next week off of work so we will be able to bring Lily home together and become adjusted to being parents of a newborn. Christian fell asleep super excited tonight, more than ever! He has his hospital bag packed full of goodies for him and gifts for his baby sister. :) He is determined to wake up early with James and I and accompany us to the hospital at 8:00am.

The plan is for us to arrive at the hospital tomorrow at 8:30 to get prepped and finish up any remaining paperwork. The C-Section is scheduled for 11:00am. I am to have nothing to eat or drink after midnight tonight, which will be hard for me with my constant thirst lately. By this time tomorrow night we will be holding our new precious member of the family in our arms. :)

It might be a while before we update the blog with pictures and info but we will do so as soon as we are adjusted and able...until then wish us well!!

37 Weeks, 16 days left to go!!

The countdown is officially on! Lily is growing a mile a minute and my belly just can't keep up with her. These days she practices her skills on my ribs! I'm sure you can imagine that this is not the greatest feeling in the world! However, it does help me keep track of how strong she is getting. Each day she is more and more ready to enter the world. :) It's hard to believe that in just two weeks we will be the parents of a newborn baby girl... I guess we should get in one last date night while we still can. LOL

We had a check up at the doctor's office today where they told us just what we expected, Lily is doing great, strong heartbeat (145 beats), and growing right on track, BUT....is very comfortable in mommy's belly and not at all anxious to leave her current abode. :) So it looks like we are in for the long haul. James and I went for a nice long walk this evening and we intend to keep on walking until Little Miss decides she is ready to enter the world. :)

It's officially summer today, and with school out there is only so much I can do to keep myself occupied at 9 months pregnant so I am really enjoying my creative side while I still have the time & energy to do so! I have been working up an idea for a t-shirt for Christian for some time now but the design just wouldn't come to me, until today! The trick was to design something not too kiddish and quite boy. I think it came out pretty well. What do you think??

Package of Love from GrandPam & Johnnie

Lily received quite the package today from GrandPam! Daddy sure enjoyed it! :)

Check out the goods from Quilty Pleasure

From all of us, THANK YOU! :) We love every bit of it and can't wait to dress Lily up for all to admire! :) xo

Bye-Bye Tundra

This weekend James said good-bye to his love, the Tundra, and hello to his new love, the Sorento! Ever since we met James has loved his Tundra like no other car he's had but lately the Tundra has been a little more than we can handle. The economy alone has made it hard to drive the truck with gas prices at all time highs, but the gas we had under control, the troubles came with the maintenance. So, James did some searching and absolutely fell in love with the 2011 Sorento. Buying a new car at this point was scary for us but luckily we know a few great people who really made the whole experience easy for us! We never thought we would own a Kia but you should see the smile on James' face! It sure is his pride and joy...for the next 3 weeks anyway until his little girl arrives :)

Here's the new ride! Definitely a family car and pretty luxurious if I do say so myself! :) As you can see, it didn't take long for him to dress her up! :) GO NOLES!

We will miss you Tundra...

Summer of Learning :)

So I have had this idea in mind for quite some time now...I've seen these cute little stickers all over the internet and I just had to make some for Lily! The only question was could I really do it! LOL I enjoy playing on PhotoShop but my self taught abilities only go so far! :) I will admit it was stressful, and it sure took some time, but I DID IT!!

Take a look!! I made them all the way through 12 months...

Once I got the hang of the idea I couldn't make one for Lily without making one for her cousins as well!

Now we just need these precious little babies to arrive so we can doll them up!!

Weighing in...

We had a fabulous 35 week visit at the Dr.'s office today. James, Christian, & I all got to see Lily's beautiful face one more time before she is born! :) Everything checks out great measurement wise. Lily is weighing in at 6lbs 4 oz and she still has 28 days of cooking left to do! She is going to be one healthy baby! LOL

Here's what they say...

She has big feet like Christian (which makes him very happy!)

She has big cheeks like Daddy...

and she's BEAUTIFUL

Only 28 more days until we meet Little Miss Lily and we sure are getting excited!! :) Another doctor check up to come in 2 weeks!

From Clothes to Bows!

My creative side has been running wild lately with ribbon and transfers... :) As a stress relief I have turned to creating clothes and bows for my little one and all the little ones in coming soon to our family! It's been quite fun and I am having a blast teaching myself how to make things for the babies. James loves that I am making them, and not buying them! :)

Here is a little peek at what I've been up to!

One Year Anniversary

Today James and I celebrated our one year wedding anniversary. :) What a sweet day it was and so precious to think about where our lives have gone in just one short year. To think that in 6 weeks we will welcome a baby girl into our beautiful family is an amazing thing. We had a delicious dinner at Shula's 347 Grill and enjoyed the best apple cobbler we've had in a long time! James loved his anniversary gift, a new tailgate handle for his beloved truck. I can't get enough of my beautiful Willow Trees :)

We have been dying to dig into our wedding cake all year and let's just say it was well worth the wait! Just as delicious as it was a year ago :)

I couldn't be happier to be married to my best friend and love, I know the future holds great things for us and I couldn't be happier to live out my days with such a wonderful man. <3 Two really is better than one and today our wedding song has so many more meanings to us.

To many more years of love like this <3

Mommy's Growing Belly

Fetal development in pregnancy week 32

Approximate ~length 17 in | 43 cm ~weight 4 lbs | 1.8 kg

In the latest womb reports, our amazing baby has now developed sensitivity to temperature! Which means I'm likely to get a swift kick if I put a hot pad or bag of ice on my ginormous belly.

For the Elton John lovers out there - baby’s got blue eyes.

Actually, even if you're too young to know who Elton is, all babies have blue eyes at this point. This could easily change after birth (or even between now and labor), but for the time being, blue it is.

Thanks to their recently matured lungs and a strengthening immune system, over 90% of babies born in their 32nd week survive!

So - go ahead and throw a mini-party right now because it’s pretty much a done deal - we've got a human-bean that's going to make it!

That's not to say we actually want our wee womb-squatter to pack her bags and move out now, because she'd still end up in the ICU for a good while, rather than in our arms at home.

Babies are best when fully baked! Only 7 more weeks to go!!! :D

Daddy Practice

At dinner with family friends tonight James was able to hold a baby for the first time!!! Can you believe he has never held a baby before? He was very nervous at first but he did a great job! :D

Just a little practice before baby Lily gets here...

Lily Bean

I just can't wait to meet you already!!!!

Two new Nephews :D

We found out today that my older brother and his wife are having a baby boy!! Colin Michael Tracy

And my little brother David is also having a baby boy!!!

We can't wait to meet our new little nephews!!!

A Scheduled Birthday :)

Today I got the final word from the doctors office on Lily's scheduled arrival. We are scheduled to deliver via c-section on July 7th, 2011 @ 11:00am. We will arrive at the hospital at 8:30am to begin the process and are told not to eat or drink anything after midnight on the 6th...This is of course if we actually make it all the way to July 7th! According to James, he is waging his bet on the third week in June. Lily has been quite active lately with not as much room as it seems she would like to have so he is not thinking we will make it all the way to 39 weeks. My thoughts are as long as she is happy and healthy she can come any time after June 3rd when school gets out. :) Here's to meeting our new baby girl in just a few short weeks!!! :)

Oh yeah, and that Pepcid AC...not all the doctor cracked it up to be! I still end up supplementing it with Tums throughout the day. The bigger she gets the worse the acid feeling gets...

This one is for you Celeste!!

James was so excited when we opened the package from his sister Celeste to find his prized Baby Bjorn that he opened it right away. Once it was on his mission began... James could not wait to see how it would double as a beer holder, his mission, to fit a 6 pack into the Bjorn...and YES, he sure did! :)