thrifty

We bought quite a bit of stuff for Grace this past weekend and made some decisions. There is a HUGE consignment sale that is done north of Nashville twice a year and this weekend was full of yard sales, so we went a little crazy. Grace now has her crib, bouncy seat, swing, stroller, changing table, bassinet, and lots of other little things. All for extremely cheap!!! My favorite purchase was her stroller. I had discovered this stroller called a Bob, which is a jogging stroller and is pretty much awesome. Brand new, it retails for about $400-500. Of course that is a tiny bit out of our price range. I knew there was no possibility of getting it, and had decided to get a much cheaper version by Baby Trend that I liked. For some reason, with all the yard sales, I still had this slight hope of a Bob. We were at a small consignment store in Spring Hill and we were asking the lady about the cheaper version to see if they had any/would get any soon. Of course they didn't. A lady overheard us asking and mentioned she had a friend who was trying to sell one like we were describing and wanted to know if she could have our number for the friend to call us. I was thinking it would be some crappy, used, bad stroller, but it wouldn't hurt to see. The lady calls Avery and describes it and says that is a BOB!!!!! and they are only asking $150. I'm trying not to get my hopes up, but that's exactly what I wanted!!! We go to see it and we end up getting it for $100!!!! I could not have been more excited! Definitely made my day!

We have a lot of work to do on the nursery. Wait, let me reword that, avery has a lot of work to do on nursery stuff. He has to paint the room and furniture because I'm not supposed to be inhaling paint fumes at this time. poor thing. Grace is moving all over the place now and all the time! There are times that she kicks pretty hard and I can see my belly poke out. Definitely a weird but awesome feeling. I am feeling good, just still exhausted all the time. It is difficult to sleep because I have to stay on my sides and I normally sleep on my stomach. I wake up every 1.5 hours or so because my arm goes to sleep and then of course I have to pee and reposition. I dont remember the last time I slept more than 2-3 hours at a time anymore. not fun. but totally worth it. Hope you all had a fabulous weekend!!!

It's a GIRL!!!!!

Sorry it took me soo long to post but we are having a GIRL!!!!!!! and not just that, but a perfectly HEALTHY girl!!!! I could not be more excited b/c I love all of the little girl stuff, the clothes, the headbands, bows, room stuff, everything is going to be so much fun! We have decided on the name Grace Levis. Grace is Avery's grandma's name and I love it. Levis is my grandma's name and I wanted to carry on her name as well. Now we get to start buying stuff and going even more broke than we already are. All of our family is super excited also, this will be one spoiled little girl! We are so blessed. I can feel her kick and move around now too! I've tried to see if Avery can feel it yet, but I think she doesn't quite kick hard enough yet. He'll be able to feel it soon, im sure! It is the coolest feeling knowing that there is a life growing inside of me and that I can feel her moving!

Anticipation

So tomorrow is the big day. The big ultrasound where we find out gender, but most importantly the health of the baby. I am extremely nervous. We have both prayed endlessly about it, but we've hit a rough patch and had some pretty bad luck lately and typically with me when it rains it pours. So I'm nervous. Our appointment is at 8:15 in the morning, which is good b/c we'll get it over with but we'll have to wake up suuuper early to get to nashville in time. oh well. it'll be fine whatever happens.

On a sad note, Avery's grandpa passed away last week, so we were in Texas this past end of the week and some of the weekend. I didn't get to know D-dad well, b/c he already had Alzheimer's before I met him, but it still breaks my heart to watch other people cry and be upset. His whole family handled it much better than I would if it were my grandpa. Avery performed the funeral and did such a good job and I am so proud of him. I know they were all relieved (not in a bad way) about his passing b/c the real D-dad was gone several years ago, but it's still obviously hard to lose a husband, parent, grandparent, etc. So please pray for Avery's family.

I feel like this post is a little dreary, but I promise the next one will be better and we'll know the gender of our precious gift from God!!!!!