Asher Paul Mullet-our son was born on tuesday November 23rd at 3:22pm weighing 7 lbs 1 oz ,19 inches long.2 weeks early:)He has already lit up our world..as i told my husband..these are the best days of my life:)

His name means Fortunate; blessed; happy.in the bible Asher was the 8th son of Jacob and was promised a life blessed with abbundance. someday i will post the story of how we knew his name was sapoesd to be this..but as of now..i just wana cuddle him in my arms and stare at hs perfect little face:)

week # 37!!!! i can hardly beleive its only 3 weeks away...thinkin back over the past 9 months..it seems like forever.it went fast!it really did yet it feels like its been sooo long since ive been un-pregnant:)last week i went to the doctor for my first "check" and got some exciting news..i am dialated 1 anda half and i am almost 60 percent effaced:)good signs i thought..but it could also stay that way for a while..soo i am super excited about what shel say wen i go again on thursday-im hopeing for some real good news!a friend of mine said that her friend who is a doula said that being 60 percent effaced i could so much as sneeze and taht could send me into labor(i tried,it didnt work!:)) so hopefully this meens that it really could be any day-even though i stil have 3 weeks.
the past week has been crazy-unexpected and simply wonderful!!!thursday morning at 530 am someone POUNDED on our bedroom door....my first though was oh my word were being robbed..but why would robbers knock??i sat up so fast(told matt i havent moved that fast in 9 months:))and standing at our door was my 2 sisters and some of there kids..i was soooo shocked..they definately got me good:)we had the most awsome relaxing fun weekend!!thursday my sister karen went with me to my dr appointment-that was so fun..first time that i had someone other then matt go with me.and i was so glad it was someone in my family(what a treat!)..after that we of course ate at the famous mexican place out in town:) then my sister rosa took me out grocery shopping and taught me all her fun couponing tips:)or some at least-:)i was coordinating a wedding over the weekend so i was gone a few hours for rehearsel thursday evening and a couple hours friday for the wedding..but they mannaged fine without me..wen i got home friday night from the wedding..they had reaaranged my living room and cleaned:)they always work wen they come down here./matt thinks i tell them to but its so not true..they just always do..i love it!:)karen dipped all kinds of things in chocolate so we are set on sweet stuff in this house! saturday night we went down to spartanburg,hit up the target and then got wild wings cafe wings for supper..we took them back to the house which was really nice-cause we continued relaxing:)it was so fun sitting around my house all weekend-and every now and then we'd get the urge to do something in the house,we'd do it and then get back to relaxing:)karen kept making me do squats to try to move baby mullet along:)it was so fun and definately made weeks #36 go allot faster!i have the best most thoughtful sisters:)they left early sunday morning...now im back to waiting:)my prayer every day is that i would go early and that i would have a smooth delivery and a healthy baby...i dont ask for much do i :)haha i had a rough day yesterday..ive been gettin major heat flashes lately!and yesterday it was an all day thing...i threw up in the morning and the rest of the day just felt yucky!i was hopeing this was signs of labor...but obviously not..i told matt wen he got home that we have to do something that night cause i got to get my mind off of this baby coming...soo we ended up goin ot his sistters house-she just had a baby..so we sat tehre all evening and held her baby:)it was great!today went much much better..i felt fabulous!energetic and not nearly as worked up about the baby coming early...sooo we wait patiently!:)everything is ready..bags are packed,carseat is by the door ready to be put in(were waiting for the rain to stop so matt can instal it)baby room is looking good-sheets are cleaned for mom to come and sleep in the spare room,now all that needs to be done is christmas decor..which i am not allowed to put up till after thanksgiving..and if baby comes early-that will be mom and matts job:)whether i do or do not go early...we have allot goin in the next 2 months,thansgiving,my job asked me to come an extra day this week and possibly next,baby,hartwell georgia for a christmas dinner with some friends,pa for family christmas,christmas,possibly florida..and all the in between stuff:) weve got allot to do:)thats the way i like it
i will try to post after my app thursday if there are any changes:)
here are some pictures i wanted to put up..my sister did an incredible job of capturing some baby belly pictures...i was soo glad we got some cause i was wanting to take some before bellys no longer there-matt didnt get in on any cause we were goin to the wedding and ran out of time..but at least i have some good shots of the belly so i never forget:)







my little neice payton wondering where her baby is:)

Uncomfortable.that is the key word i have for my starting week #35...no matter where i sit how i lay or how i put my feet up,its just not quiteee where it needs to be for me to be comfortable.even walkin is uncomfortable these days cause i never know when that child is gana push down on my bladder or just push on my belly and make it extrememly difficult not to waddle!..i have decided not to worry about the amount of sleep i get in the morning(for some reason thats the only time i can sleep without waking up-probably cause i aint hardly gotten any sleep during the night) so i have been sleeping in very late-and i have decided it is ok!cause at night i cant sleep either because i cant get comfortable,the babies moving around,i have to pee,my husband is snoring,or im snoring and i think its my husband snoring,both of which i wake up,or im thirsty and i dont wana get out of bed so i lay tehre and think about how thirsty i am...its a mess really:)poor matt..hes had few nights that he gets a full nights rest as well due to my wiggleing around or my grunting while tryin to get out of bed or my jumping back into bed or my snoring:)no worries folks i am not complainnig-i find it quite humerous!:)
i do feel as though i have been super grouchy lately-i think just cause of how i feel...ive been on edge quite a bit-0my husband would be the first to agree with this.i try not to take it out on him..btu by not taking it out on him i just dont talk and thats just as bad i think he would say...maybe not:)
the baby has gotten hicups every night for the past i dont no how long-and they just go on and on and on...its such an odd feelingat first i enjkoyed it,now i usually try to make it stop...
ive been getttin odd little pains here and there and everytime im like oh my what if this is it(given the fact that i dont no what "it" feels like) but so far no trips to the hospital..mom says its just getttin ready to come out,tahts why i keep feeling these things.
yesterday i made a list of who all to send birth announcements/christmas cards to this year..now i just need to get all the adresses typed out and put in the computer.which will be a good feeling once i can get that done
ANY DAY NOW my sister in law wil be having her baby boy..oh i cant wait-i think just being able to see him wenever and hold him and all will make the next month go by super fast:)
5 weeks-and every night i pray "lord prettyyy pleeaasseeee let the baby come out early:)" im not planning on it,but boy would that be nice:)
i keep thinkin of little things that need to get done before baby arrives...yesterday i cleaned the baby tub i bought on ebay:) matt needs to hang up a shelf by the changing table ad id like for him to fix the closet door in the baby room,i wna clean out the truck like its never been cleaned out before-and then store the stroller in there,and put the carseat in there as well....and things keep popping in my head...
on another note..i thought my dog was in heat a few weeks ago but i beleive i was wrong..im prety sure she is NOW in heat..and it is the most anoying discutsting thing ever...she is constantly licking herself:( yesterday she started humping my slipper!! it makes me sooooo angry!!this to shall pass..i hope!!!

well this blog is kinda gone everywhere-so im gana go start on the truck...
5 weeks...5 more weeks-remember my prayer Lord:) lets make it 3:)

today was a wonderful day-my mom my gramma and my aunt stopped in at my hosue for lunch on there way to florida:) i woke up this morning and cleaned up my house ,lit all my candles and made the house smell real cozy for my gramma and aunt who were seeing it for the first time-i love showing off my house:)and am soo proud that my hubby did all the work in it to make it as lovely as it is:) so they came got the grande tour and we sat down for lunch-they brought me all kinds of yummy pa food(Thats the food i cant get down here) it was so much fun to look through it all-my sister sent some cheese down for me:)and mom just brough all kinds of stuff and my aunt brought me food from the place i used to work at(i worked for her and my uncle for about 3 years) and beleive me food from there is THE BEST!:) so now i am in my glory with my fridge fully stocked with my pa food and baby mullet is more then tickled wen i send that food down his.her way..haha!:) having mom and them here was just ..alli can say is..good.it seems everytime my mom or any family member comes its right on time..u no..right on time as in..i dont think i could go much longer without seeing family..sometimes that "time" is a few weeks,sometimes a few months...sometimes a few days after the last time..but everytime i see them-its right on time..and then i feel "recharged" for a little while.although im never ready to see them leave..and tehre may or may not be tears shead when they leave.sometimes i feel like i have tried to hide my homesickness so much that even i dont really know when im homesick..my husband says he can always tell...but i think most the time i dont even realize thats what it is cause i so badly try to stuff it in.and alst night he said something to me that made me realize..its that time.soo for my mom gramma and aunt to come today u see why im sayin it was right on time:) but definately not long enough-but its ok cause once baby mullet is born my mom is coming to spend a week with us...and oh my word how excited i am!!!whenever i think about the baby being born-i think ab out my mom being here for a week and its just double the excitement:)(yes i AM a momma baby )
anyways...this post is very random-i wanted to post pictures of my baby room and baby stuff for my sisters to see:)since they wont be here for a while yet i figured id do it this way..so here it goes..
baby/spare room...a bit crowded but the stroller carseat etc is about to go out in the truck..

crib:)

my hobby lobby buy(on the right) and my own making on the left:)

car seat and diaper bag with one boy outfit and one girl outfit..all rady to go to the hospital:)

baby mullets closet:)

changing table is in our room since theres not enough room in babys room.the shelf sitting on the changing table is saposed to be hung up above it and i wana hang baby towels and babys robe on it:) what will go on top..im not sure yet..we shal see.

a view of all the "stocking up" weve got :)

im borrowing my sister in laws basinet which we have set up beside my side of the bed:)conveniant isnt it..

just waiting for baby:)6 more weeks:)

and thats all i have...hope you guys enjoyed and karen and rosa can picture it now:)
heres a taste of today :)

thats alll:)good week to you

33 weeks down...7 more to go.its so close i can almost feel it.the past week or so has really gone slow:( probably because i thought last week that i was 33 weeks with 7 to go only to find out i was 32 with 8 to go-so now i just feel like im 33 weeks for a long time:(my prayer everyday is that ill go early:)im now at the point where im very ready for this to happen-sunday i had such a rough day-for some reason i was EXTREMELY emotional..i cried most of the church service and the rest of the day it came and went-course it didnt help that i threw up sunday morning at church:(also didnt help that someone(inocently) asked me over the weekend in a sincere concerned voice"are u expecting twins?" me-"no why" "cause your getting really big" quite conforting isnt it:)bless her heart she had no idea how upset it made me.bless my husbands heart then as well cause that night wen we went to bed(which was the first we were alone all day) i cried and gave him an earful about my twin like body:) anyways after sunday was over i looked at matt and just said "make it end...im so ready for this part to be over with!!!"
last night they had my baby shower here in nc..i got so many lovely gifts and now have almost everything i need..so today i spent the day washing baby stuff and putting it nicely away-also got my babies hospital stuff together..1 boy outfit and one girl outfit,along with a few snuggly blankets and a little beanie:)all this did not help my antsyness:)i spent the day thinkin about holding the baby-what its gana be.who it wil look like and how matt will react:)7 mre weeks ony..7 more weeks(or as i tell matt..7 weeks but it could be 5:))
i keep wondering what on earth am i gana look like after this child is born...not right away of course but in a few weeks/months...please Lord give me that youthful look back-i feel like i look like a very aged women..the stretch marks..oh the stretch marks!!!!i continue to lather on the lotion,bio oil ,cocoa butter and whatever else i can get my hands on that i think or have heard works.yet still those little suckers continue to pop up.
i have had terrible pressure in my baby outcoming area:) to the point where just turning over at night just aches!after sitting for a while or laying,getting up is awfully painful!the dr says this will only get worse..lovely!but ive also heard taht since i had it so bad now..maybe that meens i will actualy go early:)ill take the pressure if thats what it meens:)
the baby is carrying super high-which has made it hard to breath at time,and sitting here at the computer dont always work so well either-the baby gets kinda annoyed with my slouching..usually wen i sit here he/she feels like it just cant get confortable(which it pry cant) feels pretty funny
me and 2 of my best friends and tehre hubbys are goin camping..im talking hard core camping,tents food over fire cold as winter camping:)im so excited..best part..were all 3 pregnant:)talk about troopers!!!its gana be a blast:)
well i think thats about all i have to share for now...
one picture just for exciting sake:)
matt cant wait to see our baby reppin clemson:)

i dont have much to say but i had to write about this cause it made me so happy-last night matt and i actualy went to bed at the same time(very rare since im always tired allot sooner then he is) and as we were layin there baby mullet was soooo active so matt had his hand on my belly and for the first time the baby stayed just as active as it was before..it seems as though everytime i tell him to put his hand there the baby stops and will hardly move..but last night he/she was kicking and flipping and wat not all...it was so fun we layed tehre and just talked about how i was feeling and how anxious were begingin to get(or im begining to get) while baby mullet was just hangin out under daddys hand:) the one time it kicked really hard that we were both like whoa:)matt usually doesnt have much patience with waiting for he/she to move...but maybe after last night he will cause it was pratty cool.anyways-last night was something i wana remember-whether we have more nights lke that or not..i wanted to type it out so its never forgotten...
yesterday i beleive i felt my first of braxton hicks:(stephy and i were out wlking and about 5 times i got this sharp sudden pain in my lower belly... i wasnt to amused by it..

you have to excuse this post..i no its random and probably nothign to exciting for anyone reading-but this blog is all about moments i want to be able to read about later in life..things i dont want to forget...therefore sometimes my posts may seem a bit strange..but this is for me..not really for you:)(although i love all my readers) anyways..heading out to pa tonight and am sooo anxious to go...last time i was up there-mom kept wanting to feel the baby move but it never did..and now its sooo much more active so im hopeing it gives gramma a few nice big kicks:)

thats all i got for now people

Today is the kind of day i have been waiting for..the kind when i wake up in the morning and i know..i just know "today im gana get allot done!" and i did:) wioth all the energy i could muster upi took on cleaning my whole house..all at once!!since i been pregnant i will clean one room..and then do antoerh room the next week n so on-so my house has never felt "all clean" at once:) until today:)and let me tell you how good it feels-dispite the horrible ache in my back..its a great feeling:)
fall has FINALLY arrived here in the south!!and it came with a bang!!suddenly it is super cold around here...but i love every bit of it!:)weve had our windows open for the past week or so..no matter how cold it gets we leave them open ..we both get warm quickly so we like a cold house..then we bundle up if need be:)electra on the other hand is constantly finding a blanket to snuggle up in..she seems a little cold:)
week #31 has arrived as well:)and were still kicking:)i loveee tthis part of my pregnancy..my belly has become quite a distraction for me:)i find myself staring at it waiting for it to move from one side to the other-or a little bump to bulge out so i can push it in ..thats my favorite part..ill feel the babies foot or knee or something sticking out and then ill push it in and feel it go..and in a bit it turns up somewhere else..so ill push it in again....we could play this game for hours i thik..every dnow and again baby mullet will finally just"stay in":)i can often feel its little butt sticking up too..its awesome to be able to feel exactly where the baby is..last weekend we were camping with our church and i told matt to feel the left sideof my belly then feel the right..he jsut laughed.the right was hard as a rock and the left was a pile of mush:) so matt scooted baby over to the left side..but it quickly went back to the right:)it seems to like the right side a bit better:)matts neices get sucha kick out of feeling my belly-and i get a kick out of them tryni to find it or little sophia puts her ear to my belly to ttry to hear the baby:)oh yes i love being pregnant...its so fun all the new things that happen inside of you...but i am sooo ready to get this body back into shape..i have gained an enormous amount of weight and it bothers me soo bad yet at the same time i am pregnant..i did hope that wen i would get prego i would keep my body and just pop out the front..this soooo did not happen-i HATE taking pictures of myself cause i cant stand how puffy my face looks or how flabby my arms are..and PLEASE dont get my ancles on the picture!i have none!:) i can laugh about it now..but in 9 weeks once babies out of my tummy..i will not be laughing!! i pray everytday that God will give me energy to work off the baby weight and that i will be happy with how i look..cause we all know how you feel about yourself is what matters the most:)dnt amtter what others say.i ahd to take my rings off today-it was hard work getting them off..but with the help of butter and cold water..they came off..my fingers are so swollen that my rings left a bold red mark around my finger..so im guessing i wont be wearing them for the next 9 weeks..i hate not wearing my rings..for a few reasons btu the main one..i dont want people thinking that i got knocked up and have no husband to take care of me:)so i might make matt go get me a bigger ring that you can buy at walmart:)
i get to go "home" (my other home:))to see my family this weekend!i am sooo excited!this will be the alst time ill go to pa before baby mullet arrives..that itself is pretty exciting:) but i cant wait to meet my latest nephew Carson Miles..my brother raym and his wife jo had there baby a few weeks ago and it tears me up that i stil havent met him..but soon enough..i plan on holding him all weekend:)thursday wen i get tehre im spending the afternoon with my cousin/best friend..and this is sucha special thing for me..her birthday is on wednesday so im soo glad i get to hang out with her for her bday:)and since shes goin on vaca for 2 weeks on friday im glad im catching at least one day to be with her:) SUPER excited to hang out with my sisters(including my sis in laws..they are my sisterS) and my mom i know they already have a few things planned and i am beyond excited...wen we all get together you KNOW theres gana be a good time..i adore my sisters n mom...there is no other women who i id rather spend my time with...being away from them is the hardest thing..and also the best thing..the best thing because wen i come home..were together alllll weekend:)that wouldnt happen if i lived there:)i often wonder what it would be like if i lived 5 minutes from them...i cant let myself think about it too much or i could getg really down about it..but for a little ..its a super fun thought:) the BEST part about going "home" is staying with my mom and dad ...it feels nothing like it did before i was married...sure back then it was just the 3 of us as well...but i didnt appreciate them then like i do now..i didnt "drink in "every moment i had with them at the thouse then like i do now...and i defninately didnt have that thought that this is only for a few days like i do now..oh i am always ready to come home (my home..here in nc)no doubt about that...but its nice cause wen i go to pa...i know that this is only for a few days...therefore i find myself just bathing in the time i spend with my family...i find myself looking at each one of them a little longer cause i know it will be a while before i see them agian-i find myself doing things like watching a movie at my sisters late at night dispite the facet taht i am getting up early because i jsut cant do that any other day..or picking my neices up from school cause really how many times will i be able to that before they graduate:) or laying in bed with my parents and watchin deal or no deal cause next time were together matt will probably be with and i know he wont wana lay in bed with mom and dad...or take a nap with mom in her bed in the middle of the afternoon cause in a week ill be napping alone again....a year ago..all these "small" things became big to me...all these things are no longer just something i can do but something i GET to do:) some of you might think this is sad...but for me its not sad...i love the way i feel wen i go back to pa now...the feeling like i wana do all i can while i can cause im goin home in a few days and it will be a while before ill get to do this again...its a good feeling..its a live like ur dying feeling..only im not really dying..its just not everyday that i get to be with my family:) and this weekend is especially special..cause it is most likely the last time i go "home"(to pa) alone...after this weekend i wont get to go to pa just like that-cause ill have child... which will probably make my trips to pa that much more exciting but also probably allot mroe limited.:( but thats ok-ill just make my fam come to see me:)
enough of my rambling...i wana post some pictures...
this is week 30(i had just scratched my belly..those are not stretch marks on my belly)

last week one day stephy and i went out on a drive and picked some berries to make wreaths with-we were sure if we were allowed to pick them so we did it very sneakily...and then the next day we made thee beautoiful fall arrangements

so proud of ourselves:)

even though its pretty much dead berries hangin on my door now..it was pretty for a few days:)and it brought many smiles to my heart cause i made it with my own hands :)

matt didnt have any games last week and by thursday evening i ws really bored..so we played jenga..i love this game..and get quite into it:)

we laughed so hard everytime it would fall..well i would laugh so hard matt just laughed at me laughing..i dont no why i found it so funny..btu i did.

our little pookie hangin out with us:)as she always does:)

n last but not least-my hubby and i ..in 9 weeks we wil be parents:)could life get any more exciting?! matt is not a fan of taking pictures obviously..and me..well heres my puffy face:)


enjoy your week!!!!:)

third trimester already!!i cant hardly beleive it!i never realized how long people are actually pregnant until now that i am-it feels like im been prego for forever and i have forever to go!!!....im soo ready to feel normal again-have a decent sized body-have normal feet and ankls(there so chubby!!)to bend over easily:)and im ready to be able to walk without the prego sway :)not sayin im not enjoying this cause i am-but its gettin to the point where im like ok im ready now..i dont wana get any bigger... 11 weeks yet...WOW!
ive been sleeping so terribly the pat couple nights-last night i slept ok..but i have so much "lower body" pressure goin on that everytime i turn i have to do it slowly and carefully cause it hurts. my back pain kicked in again yesterday :( im babysitting for a friend from pa thats here for tbyl and im constantly picking him up etc so i think tahts why..time for another massage-which im so not against..just wish it came free:) im starting to feel tired again:(i could sleep till 12 everyday-course that could aslo be from not sleeping much at night..?who knows.
lately ive ben thinkin so much about what our baby will look like...will it be tiny or chubby,will it have my eyes or matts,what shape face is it gana have will it have lots of hair and what color wil it be...oh i cant wait to meet this child!!
baby mullets kicks get stronger every week..its crazy how it dont matter how many times he/she kicks its always so incredible for me..matt thinks i need to get over it now..but it just amazes me everytime.:)
i feel so bad for my husband..the more time goes on the more im just like this poor guy..suddenly his wife just changes..my body,every inch of it has changed,it would seem as though my personality has changed,since im tired often and i cant do as much therefore im unmotivated allot..i often wonder what he really thinks about all this..but oh when i mention it he about flips through the roof.he doesnt like when i ask him things like"am i still attractive to you" or "do u feel like ive changed allot" or anything like that...soo those questions usualy go un answered and i just assume hes ok:)bles his heart-sometimes i thknk pregnancy is probably jsut as hard for the men as it is for us women...ok not quite!
God has been so faithful to me..reminding me again and again of the strength he has placed in me,the "mothers heart"he placed in me and he has given me joy...a joy that cannot be touched...a joy that even on the hard days..remains.cause he lives in me.i love this song...and it is my prayers for today...
There's a cry in my heart
For Your glory to fall
For Your presence to fill up my senses
There's a yearning again
A thirst for discipline
A hunger for things that are deeper

Could You take me beyond?
Could You carry me through?
If I open my heart?
Could I go there with You?
(For I've been here before
But I know there's still more
Oh, Lord, I need to know You)

For what do I have
If I don't have You, Jesus?
What in this life
Could mean any more?
You are my rock
You are my glory
You are the lifter
Of my head
Lifter of this head

today has been an exhausting day-it was one of those days where everything seemed to happed just a little late-so all day i was "running late" and i dont even have time to be sitting here right now-but i need a break-just a tiny one-before i continue this late day-

my brother and his wife had there 3rd child today-a little boy Carson Miles 8 lbs 6 oz. :) i thought hearing that right away this morning would make me anxious about babay mullets arrival-but about 5 minutes after i got the call taht carson was born my pastor text me-and told me hes rpaying for me today that i will be patient in this waiting for the baby to arrive...it was exactly what i needed-we are so blessed with a pastor who does so much more then just preach at church on sundays-he genuinly caress about each one that goes to FCC and he makes sure to let them know:) i went to my cleaning job-which i was running late for cause first i spent a little bit of my gettin ready time to talk to my brother and then wen i finaly got out the door about 5 minutes late i had to put steering fluid in our car(something we have to do every day cause we dont have the money to get it fixed!) so i got to work-left work a little early which was perfect cause i had an app i had to leave for at 1245 i left work at 12-and what normally takes me 10 minutes to get home from today took me 30-they were doin construstion on the main road-so then instead of coming home and making myself lunchn i stopped at wendys-rushed home-stuck some laundrey in the dryer and in the washer-had a few bites of my food-changed-finished my food-and once again left late for my app.. i got there about 10 minutes late-i had to get my rogam shot today-this is a shot anyone with rh negative blood type has to get-and unfortunaltly i fall in that category- so i gto the shot then had to wait for about a half hour to make sure it didnt have any effect on me.finaly i got out to my car-had to put more steering fluid in my car...i wwas soo tired at this point.but i pressed on..to walmart-Matt and i are goin to a ball tourny in panama city florida early tomorow morning,wont get back till sunday ight sometime-and sometime sunday afternoon some friends from pa are coming and stayin the week for conference next week and are staying at our house...soo i had to go grocery shopping..for us this weekend taking snacks etc...and a bit for next week...goin thru walmart the whole time i was thinking..why cant some one else do this for me-or at least push my super anoying cart that kept wanting to go to the left and i wanted to go to the right...left walmart rushed down the mountain(my dr. etc is all up in hendo-up the mountain:)) i finaly got home around 4-switched my laundrey over..showered..remembered i need to pack so i quickly did most of that(cosmetics still need to be packed) i folded some laundrey and while putting my laundrey away i looked at the computer and thought..i need a break:)HERE I AM:)..in about 20 minutes we have to go to gville to pick up our rental car since our car has issues...then at 8 he has a ball game and i still have a big list of things to do...matts home so thats my q..he says we got to go ..and im not ready---BITE ME DAY!

i feel the need to blog about my praise for today-2 weeks ago i went to the doctor for my check up-once again i had gained a pretty large amount of weight and the dr seemed a bit concerned...we discussed that i had not yet had my glucose testing thingy done-so we ended up doin that right away-the nurse said i may have gestational diabetis..this scared me and ever since i have been praying that the test would come back normal that i wouldnt have to go back in for a 3 hour testing.i have also been praying that baby mullet is not to far above the weight he/she should be cause taht was something else my dr had mentioned,that the measurement seemed a bit big so i have to go in for an ultra sound 2 weeks later(that would be this week) this concerned me as well-she jsut mentioned that if the baby is above its saposed to be weight-theyd just have to keep watching me to make sure i dont have a 10 pound baby-wether that meens theyd have to induce me or have a c section i dont no-but neither of those would be on my list of things id wana do-i wanna have this baby natural so bad..last night as matt and i were praying i prayed "in jesus name the tests will come back normal and i will not have gestational diabetis"anyways-this morning they called me and said my glucose testing came back NORMAL!!!thank you GOD!!!!i could have leaped through the roof:) wednesday is my ultra sound and i am praying that the baby wuoldnt be too big for this time of my pregnancy-and i no God is in control of all things-so i have nothing to worry about:)

yesterday matt and i celebrated our one year anniverary-what an awesome day!! i left him a card by his tooth brush:) we went to church and he even got to sit with me(normally he runs sound so i sit alone:() for lunch we had burgers on the grill and then we watched football for a bit then i took a nap-then last night we went to red lobster for supper and wen i got in the car on my seat there was a card from my dear husband:)it was the sweetest card and it about brought tears..after dinner we went shopping and then we went to STARBUCKS!!!!:)my favorite place!and a craving i have had for the past 6 months and hve not been able to take care of it:) we came home and watched the braves(p.s. yes this is soemthing i wanted to do..i do not like to miss watching the games-if tehres a game on-were watching it:))wen we went to bed last night i told matt every day should be like today-not the goin out and doing special things but just the part where it seemed that we both set out that day to make the other person feel special,every moment of the day just seemed like we had our eyes on each other-we havent lost the spark we had wen we got married,but it seems like wen you live together at times you almost forget to really look at each other and drink in each others presence... so that was a challenge to me-to remember to do that all the time-not jsut wen he gets home from work or when were goin to bed-but all the time:)
thinking back over the past year-we have gone thorugh soo much...weve learned so many new things about each other and weve come to love each other on a deeper level.its crazy how much he completes me....i think about this often wen we go away-wether it be his ball games,church,or just shopping,i can feel wen hes near me,that sweet feeling of knowing that my other half is there,that security of knowing hes around..the way i feel with him protected,cared for,loved so deeply i cannot even understand,submitted,the feeling of being under him and knowing he is under God its so powerful and strong. the bond we have is a bond only God can give...and im so thankful for that.i know that God joined us,matt is all the things i am not,and the things i am not very good at are the very things that he exceeds in and is helping me to be...patient:) i lack in patience so very much,but he is the most patient person i know.its easy to excite me,or for me to get upset about things,but he always seems to calm me down-and to show me the reason why i dont need to be upset.he is not a man of words,he isnt the type to throw out compliments unless he really meens them,but the people he loves...you know he loves them,the way he acts towards them,his family,his mom:),my family,but most of all..me:)and this child of ours that im carrying..its so beautiful to see him love this child already...and to think of how he will be with this baby in his arms-im in tears thinking about it.i could go on and on about how wonderful he is and how much i love and appreciate him..but even all those words..would not be enough...i pray that God gives us many more years together on this earth-because as long as were on this earth,we will be loving each other more then we did the day before...a year ago i made the best decision i ever made aside from becoming a follower of Jesus,i chose to spend the rest of my life loving my husband.:) the nest year holds so many changes for us,but im so excited,because ive seen how weve handled changes in the past year,and it has brought us closer then we ever were..and i know thats what the coming years holds for us:)

onto other things...pictures:)here they are..
saturday we went to a clemson game-our friend derrick overholt who plays for presbyterian college was playing against clemson-although were big clemson fans-we rooted for derrick a little bit to:)

college football games are soo fun to go to..sucha party:)

derick didnt get any playing time except as the holder and since they only scored twice(maybe 3 times..not sure) he wasnt out to much..but here he is:)right after the kick!

1 year anniversary date:)

we foiund these lil onezies at tjmax for real cheap-so we had to buy them:)

STARBUCKS!!!!:)

and one belly picture---28 weeks:)

i just thought she looked so cute as she watched me blog:)


well thats all for now folks:) matt and i made a deal last night-he wont play his xbox for a week if i dont go on facebook for a week....so since i have nothing else to do on the computer-it looks like imight be blogging allot this week:)

my sweet little babies kicks-i think i post about them everytime i post-but i cant get enough of them-and how magical they are-last night matt felt it kick for only the 2nd time(nhe never leaes his hands on my tummy long enough to feel it) and the baby kicked twice pretty hard:)ive noticed that every time i put my hand on my belly the baby will go to wherever my hand is and kick:) i told matt i think that meens the baby knows my touch already:)i dont ever wana forget what these moments are like-which is why i have this blog-to remembered-for some reason its so much easier for me to sit here and type then for me to write it in my cute little baby journal i bought..soo i intent to print all of these out so someday i can read back over them and remembered:)im goin to the dr on wed. my tummy measured a bit big last time i was there so were having another ultra sound to ,as my doctor says" keep track of the baby and make sure i dont have a 10 lb baby!"..im very anxious to see what baby mullets gana measure at!Lord please let it be a normal size:)
this weekend is out 1 year anniversary-crazy to think that a year ago i was flying around tryin to get stuff in order for the big day and now here i am with a big bulge out my belly waiting for this baby to make its way into our world:)its awesome how God works-his timing is perfect and i couldnt be happier with where were at in life now.
matt and i have been discussing our ways wed like to parent etc...the other night i was telling him i no a daily struggle for me will be patience..something i lack in so much already.. but i no my husband and his prayers for me always amaze me-n i no this is something he will remember to pray for for me daily-i love that about him..he has so much of his mother in him...him mom is a prayer warrior!soo encouragine to see that in her and more and more im seeing how much time matt spends in prayer and its incredible.and its so awesome for me,because of his prayers,i know,were goin to be just fine...no matter what:)God is good all the time!

well the commercial thats been goin through my head all week and drove me to the store yesterday to buy these things is goin through my head..so im off to the freezer to nibble on one...."what would you do for a klondike bar" :)in case u havent seen it...

good bye all

mm its another beautiful day here in north carolina!!fall is being more consistent then i though it was gana be right now and i love it!i have my windows open and my candle burning once again-perfection!
this week marks my 27th week!!!next week is the start of my 3rd trimester-its sooo crazy!!!last week i went to the doctor for my regular checkup and afer she measured me she said i was measuring a bit high so she wanted me to come back in in 2 weeks for another ultra sound to check the babys weight and make sure im not gana be having a 10 lb baby!!!she said that depending on the ultra sound they might just have to keep check on me .she also said im retaining allot of fluid so that could have allot to do with it.. she also noticed i hadnt taken my surgar test yet-soi had to that right away-and im just praying i passed it!!so next week i go in for another ultra sound...and im praying for that as well that baby mullet isnt on the road to being a 10 pounder:)
babys kicks keep gettin stronger and stronger-he/she does not like wen i cross my arms and prop them on the top of my stomach and he/she lets me no it:)yesterday i declare my wholke upper body "jumped" as it kicked:) still just as amazing as it was the first time:)

last week i went to a road side stand close to my house and bought this little southern fruit called muscadines...

they taste allot like grapes(The kind you make wine with) but better id say...oh i love them!!!there only in season for about a month:(but i tried to stock up pretty well on them and were eating them up!:)
im thinkin since today is labor day-il have some people over for supper tonight-just not sure who ill have yet:) well thats all for my post...happy labor day everyone!

Fall and baby.

In order for me to be able to get up early(when i say early i mean 7 am)i HAVE to go to bed no later then 11.normally if im goin to get up early i try to be in bed by 10 or 10:30-that way the next day im not dragging as i get out of bed.well im so glad that last night i decided i'd get up to make my hubby breakfast before he goes to work,i got up at 6:50 and i stepped outside to let the dog go potty and WOOLAH!it felt like fall-i was so excited!!i made us both breakfast ,got him off to work-got myself dressed and headed out to the porch with my bible and a cup of hot peppermint tea that my mom had sent to me in the mail during my first trimester when i wasnt feeling so well.i always think of her wen i drink the stuff cause this is what i read everytime i get myself a little bag of tea...

anyways-back to my morning-wednesdays i babysit for my sisterinlaw so once she dropped her daughter off we both headed out on the porch to read books and drink "tea" lexis version of tea was chocolate milk..:)

i opened all my windows inside and lit my 5$ walmart candle,which is the best fall smelling candle ever,its called "mulled cider" for anyone who wants a great smelling,cheap candle:)

yes indeed it is a BEAUTIFUL morning,and im soo glad i woke up early enough to enjoy it:) in about an hour or 2 ill close my windows,blow out my candle and turn the a.c. back on..but for now..were just gana pretend fall has arrived.OH ITS SO CLOSE WHY CANT IT JUST GRACE US WITH ITS 3 MONTHS PRESENCE??!!when it does i ill be soo gratedfull-somthing about this time of the year gives me energy and that is something i NEED these days!this summer was ao misserable for me im so ready to be able to go outside without breaking out in a sweat!
on another note-im trying to put back within me that self determination i once had..i ahve gained so much weight with this pregnancy but i refuse to let it stick around after baby mullet is born-so im working on a plan...here it is :)
http://www.halhigdon.com/5K%20Training/5-Knovice.htm
this is the training i was doin last summer and it worked pretty well:)so im excited..i AM gana get back in shape and i AM gana be thin again:)..speaking words of life here:)
this past weekend i went to PA for my moms side of the familes christmas dinner(i no i no christmas in augugst..my grandma goes to florida for the winter so we always have it in august...)and aslo for my baby shower:)what a great much needed weekend!!my sisterin law and hubbys cousin drove up with me to be with my other sisterinlaw..we had a great weekend-i got to start it off by spending all day friday with my best friend/cousin Tonya and her baby girl Aisha-it was ssoooo good to sit down with my best friend and pour out our hearts to each other-laughing,feeling sad about different things each other has been going through but most of all just enjoying each others company..i felt like i was being recharged:) she made me a wonderful breakfast...brakfast wraps and biscotti!!and since its pretty much fall up tehre we sat our on her back porch ..PERFECTION!


i was so worried Aisha wasnt gana know me,but she loved me as much as i did her:) shes more like my neice then my 2nd cousin:) so thats what we go by..neice and aunt ony:)


my beauitful cousin tonya who you cant tell she just had a baby 4 months ago!!!!i couldnt get over how good she looked!

introducing Aish to her soon to be cousin:)

saturday mornign i had breakfast with another old friend of mine-Kayla and i grew up together..we were always more like relatives then just good friends...she had her baby 6 weeks ago and i couldnt wait to meet her..Addison...shes so perfect!!


and then tehre was the christmas dinner saturday night-KAren got some belly pictures for me..but i have yet to get them..so once she sends themt o me i will be posting..but heres a few i got with my own camera..
my addoarble little neice-if i would be a good photographer this picture would have been perfect..but i no little about taking pictures well...

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i do beleive my sister is getting great pleasure out of being so much skinnier then me:)shes been loosing weight and is looking FABULOUS..and i am heading the other direction:)but for a good cause!!


my sisters-2 of the most important women in my life...

the one person i spent the most time with and love the dearest,my mom,i didnt get any pictures with:(but mom and i had the best time together-i feel so spoiled whenever im with her-there definately are perks to living out of state!when i come home-i get as much time with her as i want:)and boy does she spoil me silly:)rubbin my feet,my back,takin me places,and just loving on me:)i think she enjoys my company as much as i do hers-or at least i hope so..we always have sooo much fun-so many laughs,a few tears but always a good time!!its ture i am a momma baby:)i love my mom sooooo much..i pray my child has the same kind of relationship with me as i do with my mom...she meens the world to me.my dad as well!!he wasnt feeling the best over the weekend-btu it was soo good to see dad again-seems like i hardly ever get to see him-but we always try to keep in touch-my dad always is looking out for me.and i hope he knows it never goes unnoticed!!

sunday was the baby shower.i was thrilled with al the presents i got and i loved being in one room with some of the most special people to me!!baby mullet got a "kick" out of it too:)
our beautiful cake...

my sisters did sucha good job with the food-it was delicous!!

me as a baby...wonder if he/she will look any like this???

and one last picture of sunday night-the kids went swimming:)and little peyton..well shes just too cute for words!

now for a few of baby mullets last ultra sound..i cant beleive how much he /she is growing its just AWESOME! kicking is pretty common these days-every morning i turn on my back and the baby goes wild:)its such a great way to start off my day:) only 14 more weeksn before babies expected to arrive...Matt said last night-its definately more exciting now then it ever was:)and the excitmement only gets bigger!!:)
just hangin out in mommas belly...

waving to mommy and daddy "HI GUYS!!":)


i ahve a thing with babies feet...weird cause i cant stand feet..but babies feet..tehre just so perfect..its always the first thing i look at on a baby-i just love them..so wen they showed me this i cried..baby mullets feet.:)


sweet child of mine,i think about you all the time.theres not a moment of each day that i dont wonder what life will be like wen your in ours.you will never know how much your lovced,nor how long your daddy and i have loved you.we cant wait to meet you!keep growing little fellow:)in no time at all youll be in our arms:)