Jessica, Date, Sugar, Sugar

Sean and I got our 7 hour date yesterday yippie!  We both needed it and feel quite refreshed.  It's neat to see that the kids need to be away from us a little, too.  They seemed quite refreshed and had an awesome time with the sitters, including building a pretty cool fort that I will have to take pix of another time.  They were so excited to see us last night and have been all over us today!  lol  

We pre registered for baby Jessica.  It's official!  We are having a baby!  :)  Then we went to OB app.  They found a bunch of sugar in my urine for the first time ever.  Did a sugar test 147.  Not terrible, but she said to lay off the Starbucks Frappes, and of course just sugar in general, and breads, etc.  So now I am rethinking everything I eat.  It has really made me realize some of the junk I still put in my mouth and I tend to think I eat fairly well. Well, except for my 10 PM chocolate fix in bed most nights with the hubby lol!  They also drew an A1c, but I won't get that back till Monday.  

Any way, after that we went to Starbucks (Sean still had a Frappe - what support he is ha ha lol), but I had just a plain coffee.  Then we just tooled around.  It was fun.  Ended up in a used DVD/bookstore, a gun shop, Tractor Supply, Karm, a place where Sean does biz with thru his work so I could meet them, and then dinner at Calhoun's.  

It was nice.  Very nice.  

Have a great weekend!  

More Addison pictures

All bundled and ready to go home in the snow!

Oh and one other thing, I had gone to a teen/ladies dinner at church last weekend and got to hear my sweet friend Kim's testimony, which was encouraging.  However, I did feel the need to really seek God and ask Him if I was indeed saved because of her testimony.  I got a clear answer during our delivery day.  Praise be to God! 

FL Trip Pix and Others

Frenchy's in FL.  It's a must when we visit to eat here!  Our friend Linda drove up from Naples to see us and stayed with us a couple of nights.

Outside of Frenchy's on Clearwater Beach.  We braved the spring breakers!!!

We took the kids to the park down on Clearwater Bch afterwards

Picnic and playtime on Honeymoon Island

First time on the beach for our little Hailey bug

Random picture of the Little Miss

Hailey and her Great Grams

Hailey smiled sooooo many times for her Great Grandma!!!

We visited my friend from nursing school who is the assistant fire chief and we got to go for a ride around the block in the fire truck!

So tired!  On the way to Pappy's after beach fun!

Pictures of Hailey's Birthday!!!!

Getting rid of the meconium

First time holding her!

The Creech Family - our sweet friends who watched our boys and they have 7 children of their own!  I think their job was harder than ours for those few days!!!

It's a Girl!!!!!

God blessed Sean and I with a baby girl!  She was born on February 25, 2014 at 142 p.m.  She weighed 8 lb 9 oz and was 21 1/4 in long.  We are so grateful to have had such a safe and quick labor and delivery and a healthy baby girl! 


I went into labor around 9 a.m. on Tuesday morning (the 25th).  We were actually getting ready to drop our boys off at our dear friends' house because we had an ultrasound appointment to go to that morning.  God's timing is perfect!  So, instead we dropped them off there so we could go check into the hospital and have the baby!  We got to the hospital and checked in and I was checked around 1130 in the morning.  I was 100% effaced and 7 cm dilated!  I was amazed and surprised!  They moved us to a room and broke my water around 1.  After that, I went through transition, which is when I really started to feel like I was in labor, and began pushing around 135 p.m.  She was born at 142!!!! 


They had to take her and I wasn't allowed to hold her right away because she had meconium from in the womb, which they had seen when they broke my water.  The nurses were awesome, though, and got that all taken care of, and praise God she has been totally fine and healthy!


We were discharged yesterday (Thursday) and we were so excited to go get our boys and bring home our new and slightly larger family!  They LOVE their new little sister (2 olders) and have been kissing her and petting her head and want to show her the kitty and feed her cookies!  :)  Andrew isn't quite sure what to think yet. 


She has been nursing very well and is such a love.  She had her first pediatrician appointment today and she is already back up to 8 lb 4 oz from (8 even) and got a clean bill of health. 


Sean and I are on cloud nine and we are overjoyed!  All of our church families have been amazing and the love and support and prayers from family and friends has been amazing, too!  And today we get to see my MIL......she will be here until the 9th!  Hooray! 


I will post pictures later! 


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New Baby Blessing!!!!!

Due February 17, 2014!!!!

8 weeks along today! 

Psalm 127:3-5Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.  As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth.  Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.

Sweet Moment

Not a very good quality picture....taken from cell in a dark room....but had to capture this sweet father/son moment.  Now is the time to enjoy every cuddle moment with this little guy.  We love this stage!!  He is such a cuddlebug and so we take every opportunity we can to just love on him.  He takes los of naps with us and sleeps with us through the night and in the morning while I shower, Sean gets some sleep time with him.  He doesn't like to not be in our arms very much.  He loves being in the carrier.  Not a huge fan of alone time.  That's OK with us.  :)  He is getting heavy though.....10 pounds 14 ounces at the doctor yesterday!