Big Sister

It still sounds so wierd to say Laila will be a big sister!

12 week sonogram/checkup went perfect!  Saw the baby move and could see the heartbeat.

I had a very good first trimester.  It went by so fast.  This pregnancy has been almost identical to my first.  No morning sickness at all.  Most of the time I dont feel pregnant, except that my pants are starting to get alittle tight on my tummy, which is sooner than I remember with Laila. 

 

The doctor (and everyone else) says that's normal to feel that way and it does happen, you do show sooner with the second.  Only other symptom are the head aches, lots of headaches.  But I will take that any day over being nauseous for months on end!

 

The weather lately has been so nice out, we've had fun playing outside!

 

Can't just put one bracelet on, gotta put them all on!

 

 

February 2013

We had our first ultra sound at 8 weeks.  Doctor confirmed everything, one baby, and she says everything looks perfect!

8 weeks

First day to wear panties, she put them all on!

Playing at Mamaw's

I got a pony tail in her hair for the first time!! Makes her look so big!

 

A new year and new beginnings

We had a great start to the New Year celebrating at home with friends.

 

About two weeks later we found out this......!!

Baby #2 is on the way, due on September 24th!  We are so excited!!

 

Laila and I got to spend a weekend at Samantha's house and go to cousin Jenny's baby shower.  Since we were close to Austin, we got to meet up with some more cousins!

 

Got to see Aunt Charlotte and Uncle David's new house too!

Las but not least, Laila started sleeping in her "big girl" bed!! She has done so well in it, doesn't get out at night or at nap time.  If she can't sleep at nap time, she'll just sit in her bed and play with her dolls.  She is such a good little girl!

 

Christmas 2012

We had such a nice Christmas morning AT our OWN HOME this year!  Don't get me wrong, I LOVE being with my family, but it was nice to be home in the morning and let Laila open gifts.  My mom and Darrell and Granny came over to do gifts with us since we were going to spend the rest of the day at D.J.'s mom's house.

Christmas Eve Service at Church

Christmas morning at home!

Got some new dress up from Grammy and Popo

Those are actually my slippers but she wouldn't accept that

 

Laila and cousin Hunter

Chasing each other, their favorite thing to do, back and forth, back and forth

Playing iPad with Mamaw

Merry Christmas 2012!

Pre-Christmas 2012

We mostly stayed home this year for Christmas.  Before Christmas Day, we visited D.J.'s dad, Julie, and little brother Colton.  Laila always has so much fun playing with Uncle Colton.

Cruisin'!

Before we got pregnant with Laila, D.J. and I took a ski trip to Breckenridge, CO.  Kind of a last trip pre-baby.  So naturally, we did the same thing this year since we knew we wanted to try for baby #2 soon. 

My sister and her husband went with us on a 5-day cruise to Progresso and Cozumel.  It was so much fun.  They are so much fun.  It was great to get away, kid free, for just a few days. 

On our way to the ship

 Leaving Galveston

 My friend/co-worker Sarah and her boyfriend also went with us

 At dinner

 They are so cute

 A natural spring fed watering hole in the Yucantan

 We are the 4 sitting and all those other people photo bombed us, LOL

 Carvings in a Myan tomb

 This sets up the next picture. We were eating lunch in downtown and we notice that people in the Yucatan are very, well, affectionate in public...see the couple in the background to the right?  There were at least 3 other couples in the park behind us macking down, like seriously. 

 Trying to be like the locals LOL

 Benjamin and D.J. being adventurous

 This is in Cozumel.  We took a picture in this exact spot 5 1/2 years ago on our honey moon.

You can't see the name of our ship, but this is the Carnival Triumph.  Yes, the same ship that broke down with all those people in the middle of the ocean.  Our cruise was about two trips out before that one happened.  As is turns out, we ended up having engine problems on our trip too, only we couldn't sail home as fast as we usually would and we got home 8 hours late.  We didn't have any power/food/water problems though thankfully! I'll take that over being stuck at sea with no power or bathrooms etc... its sad that they knew this ship had problems before and they still went out.  I'll never go on Carnival again.  

Christmas Lights!

In years past, I could never convince D.J. to put lights on the house.  It takes alot of time, blah blah. Well this year, I had help convincing him from our friends/neighbors.  So it started with one little idea to make our little circle cool with some lights around the sidewalk and lights on the house.  Justin and D.J. can't do anything "little" though so it turned into a big project. BUT, it turned out GREAT!!

Little helper 

 

 

 After the guys got done, this was the entrance to our coldesac, pretty cool!

I've known the manger scence since I was a kid. Every Christmas I would look for it at grandma's house. Now I get to put it out every year in my own. My favorite manger scene. Maybe be the smallest but holds great significance.