Blessing

:-) we are expecting everyone! I am officially 13 weeks and even though I am so very nervous (to be super honest I have never been so nervous and so happy in my life about a single thing well I was this happy when Jordan and I were married) about knowing how to parent and being super great like some of my friends I so admire, I feel comfort in the fact that the Lord trusted us enough to send us one of his own. So on another note my belly is definitely growing, LOL, it's weird to actually have a pooch that sticks out what seems far to me (smile). Jordan LOVES it. He always is wanting to look at me or feel it or talk about it or just comment on just how happy he is. He makes me feel beautiful when most days I don't (grin). He's a great husband and will be a great father. Heck he already is! We both just hope we have a little healthy boy or girl BUT Jordan would love to have a boy just so that his other 5 girls will have a big brother. LOL. He loves the names Liam Edward and Sarah Faye (she would go by Faye of course)...it's weird. I feel more like the guy in the relationship, maybe it's because I am sick all the time who knows. But I am not picky at all with names, I like most all...not the common common ones...and I wouldn't care to know what we were having if Jordan didn't insist that we must know as soon as possible (heehee). I hope that won't make me a bad mom, but at the same time maybe it's good right, that it brings about more togetherness and discussion then well disagreements? Well anyways we both like the name Temperance for a girl too and Hyram for a boy BUT he definitely likes the other ones more so we will see.

So how did it all happen, well we hadn't planned on trying until January of 2010 but we weren't exactly trying NOT to either. Jordan kept asking all of November if I had started and I hadn't, and so in December we thought we should take a test. Well we decided to wait a week, we pretty much knew the answer because I was so late, BUT we waited. LOL. I bought the test at Publix, took it that night, looked at it together...and wala here we are at the end of our first trimester.

We have gone to one appointment, on January 7th and got an ultra sound. We saw the babies legs, arms, head, and even SAW it's heart beating! Oh and he/she moved on his own (up and down not in a circle of course)! It was so weird because when I saw that baby on the screen it was a reality check because before then I hadn't had a belly, gained weight, or anything (other than again being super sick) so I thought well maybe it's all made up right? LOL...well no sir ree definitely not! Jordan and I were mesmerized and super excited. From what we were told by sight and blood work everything is super off the charts and looks great. So now that I am 13 weeks the baby I have learned can make a fist (and he has his own fingerprints now too) and suck his/her thumb...or so I read. It is also the size of a nutter butter. So below he/she was about 10.5 weeks or so? You can see his head, chord, and well legs and arms were there but you can't see them b/c well my scanner just isn't that great. But there he/she is! Future of us.

So as my story begins, I started to write a journal (which my dearest Kitty gave to me as part of our Christmas present) for this little one and as we raise him I will just keep focused on what I know is true and right and that is I know that the gospel will help me as a mother, my resources at this time in history on infinite, that by putting my daily tasks into the gospel perspective, I always find peace, hope, reassurance, and help with even the most mundane tasks. And through this I know that Jordan and I will have a healthy, happy, and love filled home for our future little one.