The latest....

Here are the latest happenings for those who may be interested. Well, the garage sale and project "making room for daddy in my closet" was thankfully a success! Mary Collins' room is now empty with the exception of these two additions.


At first, Ben was not really looking forward to putting together all of the furniture because he thought it would take a really long time. However, Mr. Handyman put it together in no time and was quite pleased. We are still waiting on the bedding and glider to come in so I think I will keep that a surprise until we get a bit closer to being finished. However, if you know me well at all.....you can easily guess the color scheme I have chosen:) Haha! Let's just say I was a bit obsessed with this color as a kid. Mom is helping me out with all of the decorating of course. I like the shabby chic look and so far things are falling in place rather well.

Mary Collins continues to get bigger and roll all around, which I still think is the most amazing thing ever! I love it! Oh, and as far as the glucola testing goes...I barely failed the one hour. BOOO. So I then had to do the 3 hour which was no fun....but I was told that I passed "with flying colors." YAY. One less thing to worry about:) SO glad I can still drink my sweet tea!!

As far as school is concerned.....I am DONE for the summer and loving it! Cohen came to visit for a week and I got to spend a ton of time with him. He is one active little boy!! Sure am glad they don't start off like that because I could hardly keep up with him! My sis is my hero!!! Here are a few pics from his visit....





My sis made a quick trip and I got to spend a little time with her as well. She gave me tons of great baby advice and took the time to help me register at babies R us which I totally appreciate because I didn't even know where to begin. Thanks sister! LOVE YOU.

Well, that about sums it up for now. Hope all is well with you and yours!

Happy Birthday Mom

I would like to wish my wonderful mother a very happy birthday today!! She is the best mom on the face of the earth and I can only hope to be a fraction of the mom to Mary Collins as she has been to me. I love you mama and am SO.VERY.THANKFUL. for you!

Right on track

For those of you that may be interested...my OB appointment went well today. Baby girl's heart beat was great and I am measuring right at 27 weeks:) I drank the orange drink and had my blood drawn so let's hope I passed my glucola testing! I should find out on Thursday. Mary Collins has been very active lately, which I LOVE. I think she was doing flips as I was taking my final last night and it made me smile. I can't believe we are heading into the third trimester...kinda crazy.

Project "making room for daddy" in my closet has officially begun. Our house was built in the early 70s and I love it, but it does not have much storage space. I have the "master" (haha) closet and Ben has used the guest bedroom closet since we moved in. Well, now that the guest bedroom is becoming a nursery, we are having to purge quite a bit of clothing and combine all of our clothes into our tiny master closet:) I had my doubts at first, but I think we are going to make it work. My parents are having a yard sale this Friday and Saturday so we are hoping to contribute some of our stuff and make a few "baby bucks."

I better get back to studying....one final down, one to go. Thanks for all the prayers and encouragement.

look how far we've come...

Here we are at 27 weeks. As you can see we have grown quite a bit since my last 20 week post. Things have continued to progress smoothly and for that I am SO very thankful. I have a final tomorrow and Wednesday so I am a bit nervous about that, but I keep telling myself that it will all be worth it and that I will have a nice break starting on Cinco de Mayo:) I am very pumped about finally getting the nursery together and focusing on all the fun baby stuff that I haven't had time to do thus far.

That's about it for now. I better get to studying. If you think about it, please say a prayer at 3:00 tomorrow (5/3/10). That is when I am taking my first final.