It's Raining..Shower time!

My precious Aunt was so sweet to throw me a WONDERFUL baby shower! 

Everything went so fabulous, the food was good, the decorations, and the company! 

I am so grateful to everyone that made time to come to my Baby shower, it really meant a lot to me! 

I love EVERY single gift we got! The morning of my shower I woke up and looked at Tay and said, "MERRY CHRISTMAS!" It really felt like Christmas getting all these little darling outfits, gadgets, and many more useful things for my little man! I sure felt blessed to get so many wonderful things for my little baby.

Patty was so sweet to take a picture of me with everyone that came, but that would take way to long  to post all the pictures. 

Here is the amazing woman (on the right) who put my shower together:

Grace made all these candy bars for everyone to take one, so cute! 

So Excited and I just Can't Hide It!

I am so happy right now. 

I was just organizing some drawers and found an article about pregnancy which shows pictures of how big my baby is right now at 7 months and gosh he is big and squished! I can't wait to hold him and have a son with my husband!!!! Tay is so cute he will call and ask how the baby and I are doing, I love when Tay talks about our little man and us being a family. I am seriously so blessed to have the opportunity to bring this baby into this world.

 I know so many woman that are unable to have children and it breaks my heart for them. There is this one lady I know particularly that can't have kids and her husband doesn't want to adopt so they will never have the opportunity to raise children. I told Tay I wish that I could take her pain away, maybe I should make her some brownies or something. He replied by saying, "yeah make her brownies with a note saying since you can't have babies, enjoy having some brownies". He made a good point I would only make it worse by doing that but it just makes me feel so sad for her. I am sure it is painful for her to be around me and other people who have children of their own.

That just doesn't seem fair to me that someone who wants to be a mother so badly can not have her own children but yet there are so many woman that  probably are not in the "best situation" and probably just shouldn't be mothers but of course can get pregnant right away.

 Although I can't see the big picture so I guess I shouldn't judge what is "fair" we all have things that happen to us in life that just don't seem "fair".  

Anyways I have been so talkative lately. 

I love talking to my husband, Aunt, sister, Dad, and friends.

 When ever I am on the phone with them I just don't want them to go. Sometimes I will call Tay at work and just try to buy time with random conversations just so I can talk to him longer. Mm. Weird. My baby is probably well aware of my voice. 

Well I managed to snap a few photos of our awesome hike we went on. 

This photo is kind of silly but the one of us smiling is blurry and of course Tay can only handle so many pictures before he is done so we didn't get another one. 

less than 2 1/2 months to go! so excited! 

Cravings

I think it is cute when other women take pictures of the different stages of pregnancy but I must say I could care less to document myself right now. Although I am loving seeing my belly get big. Some days I like it more than others but today I was feeling extra proud of having this little man inside of me and so I snapped a shot. This is the first and will probably be the last (maybe one toward the end when I am like a giant balloon ready to pop). 

~So here I am at 5 1/2 months~

I have not bought any pregnancy pants yet..

Mostly because I don't think they are very cute and they are way expensive to only have for 4 months. All I want is dresses. I love dresses, if I could I would wear a pretty dress EVERYDAY. I hate jeans, I always have since I was little just ask my Dad and my sister (I would cry when ever they would put me in jeans, I just wanted to wear dresses all the time). I don't mind jeans in the winter but even then I prefer to be in a dress. So we will see, I am getting really big so I should probably just give in and get some.

 Anyone know where I can get some cute prego pants?

Cravings:

I have just been loving veggies like I have never loved before.

Especially broiled asparagus. 

Another craving:

homemade wheat bread with cheese and tomatoes! 

YUM! I have this like everyday for lunch.

Gosh I sure love food. If I don't eat for long periods of time well...I am not a happy individual. My doctor told me my blood pressure is really low and that is because I am either not drinking enough or eating enough but that just seems impossible, I EAT. So I better start gulping down more water. Which won't be hard to do I just hate having to go to the restroom every 20min. I was hoping that was just a myth of pregnancy.

Yeah.. Its not. 

Shocker

What has been on my mind lately...

my little man!..Shocking huh:)

I have so much fun looking for little boy outfits.

Seriously..SO CUTE!!

My problem is everywhere we go I feel like they have WAY more girl stuff then little boy stuff.

I am pretty picky with clothes, I don't care for the little boy clothes that make them look like walking billboards. Although on the same note I know there are WAY more important things then dressing my kid nice and I will dress our kid with what ever we can afford. They grow out of their clothes so fast anyways so I don't believe it is necessary to dress them in $80 clothing.

These following outfits..I JUST LOVE! Mini man clothes:) 

Cute huh!? Well now that finals are over and I am feeling pretty good about the semester, I am going to celebrate by doing some spring cleaning! I am actually way excited, I enjoy organizing our things so I know where EVERYTHING is all the time. 

Oh and one more thing (I am like that lady that you want to just get off the phone with but I keep talking and talking..but in my defense I am home alone so I can't talk to Tay) ...have I mentioned that I love  watching my belly grow (I don't think I would ever say that but since I have a little man growing in me it makes it all okay)! 

Lastly...

Last weekend we celebrated Tay's B-day on his B-day. I decided to throw him a small party with some of our close friends. I think I out did myself..I was so exhausted by the time the party started. I spent hours making his Happy Birthday sign and decorations by scratch. Also getting everything made and ready for the chocolate fountain was a mess and time consuming. I thought it wouldn't be a big deal but doing it by myself really took forever! The thing is Tay is so simple he really doesn't care but I couldn't help myself! I wanted him to have a nice B-day!! I was proud though with the turn out and how everything went..thanks to all our friends that came!

I unfortunately did not take 1 picture. Really sad. Thanks to Mandi she captured one picture for me so I appreciate that. I really am going to start taking tons of pictures from now on, I love pictures they can capture some memories that other wise end up being forgotten.

The Next Chapter

As many know now..Tay and I have been blessed with the wonderful opportunity to bring a little person into this world.

 I have always look forward to being a mother.

 I feel immensely blessed that the Lord is entrusting us with a sweet baby boy.  

Me at 20 weeks- half way!

We waited the day anxiously to find out what our baby was.

 Tay was so cute the morning we found out, he hugged me and said, "HAPPY SEX DAY!" 

 Tay and I decided to find out privately, I didn't want to share our special moment with the doctors that I don't even know. I am so glad we did because I was so SHOCKED! Tay and I were very positive the little person in me was a girl. Most of our family also thought it was a girl. Tay's mom had made me a few baby GIRL blankets and got me some girl outfits. We just all had a feeling it was a girl. 

So my mind set was on baby GIRL.

When Tay and I  looked at the picture and saw it was a BOY I was speechless. 

I thought, "no, I am supposed to have a girl"

I had dreams about our little girl and I "knew" that she would come to us. 

Well I guess that our little girl will come just not this time around;) 

After seeing how ecstatic Tay was about having a son, it made me very happy and excited to have our first child be a BOY. 

I love this sweet little boy of ours so much. 

I have always had a special love for my children that are not here on this earth yet. 

Now being pregnant I love feeling the little movements of him, knowing he is healthy makes me feel so GRATEFUL for this miracle that I get to witness happen in August with my husband by my side. 

My perspective of things have really changed. I realize as Tay and I pray to prepare ourselves the best way we can for our child is to bring the spirit into our home. I want my baby to feel our love but also the peace of the spirit. 

We have decided to do this by listening to uplifting music (When I thought we were having a girl I used to sing, "Walk  Tall Your a Daughter of God" EVERYDAY, poor little man..now I have changed it to..SON of God). I know music effects me so I am sure it affects my little man. 

We also have started back up on FHE (Family Home Evening) 

I made it official by making us a chart. 

FHE has been such a blessing to Tay and I. My favorite part is singing hymns together. 

I can already tell the difference this has brought into our lives. Taking time out from our busy Monday to spend time with each other and focus on God and his teachings. 

I look forward to the blessings, hardships, rewards, and joyful moments that will all be entailed as being a parent.  Most people think we are giving up "freedom" but I believe we are opening the next wonderful chapter of our lives.