Christmas Night with the Principe's

Usually the Principe's come over on Christmas eve before the church service and we celebrate with them, this year since everyone is so busy and the family's are growing we weren't really going to get together. Well, my cousin Farryn wasn't having that, she insisted that we all get together on Christmas night for dessert and coffee if nothing else, so thats what we did. I am really glad we got to spend the time with them, it's hard to get everyone together these days so I am glad we got to have Christmas dessert with them even if it was only for a short while.This was the last picture i could get him to take, he was pictured out from the holidays LOLMy cousin Farryn and her boyfriend JTMe and my cousin Katelyn
Me and my cousin AshlynMe and my cousin FarrynMy mom and Aunt LoriPhillip and his girlfriend Lindsey
Me and the girls

Christmas Day at Nana and Papa's

Ever since I was a child, we have always spent Christmas day at my Nana and Papa's house, so this year was no different. We all packed up Christmas morning and drove across town to spend the day with nana and papa and my Aunt Toni and cousin Shelton. We always have such a wonderful time over there and appreciate them preparing Christmas Lunch for all of us!!

Me and John Me and NanaMe and PapaMe and my MommaJordan sporting his new gator hat!!Me and my cousin Shelton with his new puppy he got for Christmas
Dad and John playing with Jordans new puzzle's..doesn't take much to amuse them HAHA

Christmas Eve

For the past few years we have celabrated Christmas with my parents on Christmas eve. This year for some stupid reason LOL my mom and I decided we would wait until the last minute to wrap all the Christmas gifts. We went to the Christmas eve service at church and then came home and started wrapping. We finally got done wrapping around 10:00 just so everyone could turn around and open them up about 2 minutes later. HAHA. You can see below the guys waiting patiently in the living room while we finished up wrapping. I told her next year we will definentally start a little earlier. Thanks mom and dad for the gifts, we really appreciate them. John got a remote control helicopter that he has been wanting FOREVER...all he and the boys wanted to do all night was play with it, and it's not exactly the quietest thing. We also got some money (which is always nice) and they are going to pay for us to have a 4D sonogram in January. I am so excited. I will definentally post some pictures of Kaylee once we get them!! Thanks again mom and dad! Me and Mom wrapping on Christmas Eve Jordan waiting patiently for his presents to be wrapped! Me and my dad, it was getting late and I was looking a little rough!! John opening up his helicopter

Christmas with the Kirklands

Since John's dad had to work on Christmas eve and Christmas day, we decided that we would celebrate Christmas with them Sunday night. We went to Red Lobster for lunch and then back to their house to open gifts. We had such a great time with them and are very appreciative for everything they did for us. John got some new clothes, gift cards, calogne, and his dad got him a new gun...I think that was his favorite. I got some stuff from Bath and Body Works, and gift cards for clothes (which I am in desperate need of). And Kaylee got a new onesie and some stuffed animals. The batteries were dead in my camera so I don't have any pictures of our night over there, but I just wanted to tell them thanks for everything, we really appreciate it!!

Belly Buddies!!

I thought this was a cute picture so I decided I would share it. This was at our Christmas Eve service at church, since Tracy was wearing green and I was wearing red we thought we would make a cute picture with our bellies. John was taking the picture and said that we were so big that he couldn't get both of us in the picture, thats why we were laughing (we smacked him afterwards of course). She is due in February and I am almost as big as her...yikes..I'm gonna be huge!!!

So blessed!!

Just wanted to say a quick thank you to everyone who has gotten things for baby Kaylee, especially our parents who have done so much for us. When we first found out I was pregnant, my mom and dad bought us our all of our bedroom furniture and I love it. I can't wait to get it all put together and get some pictures up. Since my mom will be keeping Kaylee during the day while we work, she went ahead and bought her a set of the same furniture for the nursery at her house. Her an I are working on it now and will be done with it pretty soon. John's parents suprised us last week with the travel system that we wanted. I saw it at Target a while ago and then went back last week and we found out that the pattern I wanted was being discontinued and there was only a few left. The next day John was at his parents house and came home with it. Apparently she heard me saying that we were going to have to pick a new one and she went and got it for us. I was so excited. I can't wait to put it together. We went ahead and got the pack and play that matched the travel system for Kaylee for Christmas since I wasn't sure if that was being discontinued too, as you can see I couldn't wait to set it up. We have gotten so many outfits and other cute things for her as well. I can't wait until she gets here and can use all her new stuff.

Christmas Dinner at Mortons

This year my mom and dad took us to dinner at Mortons as one of our Christmas presents. It was me and John, my mom and dad, my brothers Phillip and Jordan, and Phillips girlfriend Lindsay. My parents had been there before but none of the rest of us had ever been. We all really enjoyed the food and hope we will be able to go back soon. I didn't remember to take any pictures of all of us there, but I have a few of us from when we got home.
Looks like I may have eaten a little too much! HAHA!

20 Weeks...Halfway there!!

Well I am officially done with the first half of my pregnancy. I just hope the second half goes as quickly and as smoothly as the first. This picture is a little old, I am actually 22 weeks now, and it's a little blurry. But I just wanted to let everyone see how big Kaylee has gotten. HAHA!! The doctors said I am doing great with my weight gain, but I feel like a house HAHA. I am hoping I have no problems getting it off. I am feeling her moving all around now and it is such an amazing feeling. John and I are having such a great time preparing for her and are anxious to meet her.

This picture was taken by our tree at work. Sorry it is not clear, I'm not sure what happened!!

Happy Thanksgiving

As I reflect over this last year, I realize that I have so much to thank God for, He has provided me with a wonderful husband who loves me more than anything, a healthy baby growing inside me, and friends and family that are always there for me no matter what. I know that sometimes during the holidays we get so busy that we forget that Jesus really is the reason for the season, but I pray that as we finish out this year we will remember to thank him for all he has done for us and will continue to do for us in the future.

This Thanksgiving was very nice and relaxing. John and I both got to take a few days off from work and just hang out. This year we spent Thanksgiving at my mom and dad's house. It was My mom and dad, my two brothers, my grandparents, my aunt, and John's mom and brother. His dad had to work and we were bummed he couldn't make it. My wonderful husband did all of the cooking and it was delecious. Of course I ate way to much HAHA. I don't usually go shopping the day after Thanksgiving, but my mom and I decided we would give it a shot and we got our Christmas shopping started. Saturday John and I spent the day hanging out and just enjoying eachother and Sunday we were able to go to the Jaguar game. We had lots of fun and really

enjoyed our time off. Here is a few pics of us on Thanksgiving day!!

John and I

Me and my Nana

Me and my momma

Me and my daddy

Papa taking a snooze after all that turkey

Kaylee Elizabeth Kirkland

Kaylee Elizabeth is what we will be naming our baby girl. Many of you have asked so I thought I would share. We have had her name picked out from the time we found out I was pregnant but couldn't decide on a boys name, thats another reason I was sure it would be a boy. haha. We are having a great time buying things for her and decorating her room. I am feeling wonderful and really couldn't ask for more :)

Christmas Lights

Okay, I know your supposed to wait until Thanksgiving but we already have our Christmas lights up and they are beautiful. My mom has wanted to put lights up since they have lived here and dad always said we will next year HAHA. Now that John and I are living here we decided we would just take matters into our own hands and get the lights up a little early. We had such a great time decorating the house, and we are very impressed with how it turned out. I can't wait until others start putting up their lights so we can go around and check out everyones houses. This is definentally my favorite time of year.

John hard at work!














Me acting like I am helping..HAHA

It's a.........

girl!!!!! Thanks for everyones prayers and sorry it took so long to post, but we found out on Friday that we are having a baby girl. We are very excited and have already started buying pink. John was suprised because there are no girls in his family so he thought this one would be a boy too. HAHA!! Now that I know she is a girl I feel like I can actually start planning things. I have posted one of the sonogram picures below. It didn't turn out great, but maybe you can get an idea!!

Fingers Crossed for Tomorrow!!

We are having another sonogram tomorrow morning at 8:30 a.m. Please pray that the baby cooperates for this one because I might go crazy if I don't find out. John said if we don't find out tomorrow we should just wait until the baby is born. I said ABSOLUTELY NOT!!! lol. I am so ready to buy something that is not green or yellow!! Keep your fingers crossed. I'll update tomorrow!!

Disappointed!!

So...all we found out at our sonogram last night was that we have a very stubborn baby. LOL. It wouldn't show us what it was so we have to wait until the 16th to find out. I was disappointed because I was really looking forward to knowing, But at least we only have to wait 10 more days. I am trying to put one of my sonogram pictures up but am having no luck so far. If I figure it out I will post it later.

Today is the day...

...we find out if we will be having a boy or girl. We are so excited. Originally we were scheduled fo find out on November 20th, I was determined to find out before Thanksgiving and scheduled it for then. About a two weeks later the Dr's office called and asked if we could move it up to November 16th, even though that was only 4 days sooner, I was thrilled. Then, to top that off, Beth Miller from our church (who is a nurse) asked if I wanted to be a model for students to practice giving sonograms on and that I could find out what the baby is. Of course I said YES YES YES!!! So we are going tonight at 6:45. Now we just have to hope that the baby cooperates. LOL. I will be sure to update tonight or tomorrow and post sonogram pictures. I know I haven't been too good about putting pictures up, but my digital camera isn't working, so as soon as I get it fixed I will update everyone with some pictures.

Update

Okay, I had my doctors appointment yesterday, everything went well. I got to hear the heartbeat for the first time which was pretty amazing, it was short and sweet because the baby wouldn't be still. LOL. I felt it move for the first time on Tuesday and have only felt it once more since then. It felt like a little butterfly. Our next appointment is November 20th and we will get to find out what we are having. This is going to be the longest six weeks EVER. I am just dying to know. haha. So anyways, this is our last week at our apartment. We are moving on Saturday. Most of the small stuff is already moved and now we just have to get the furniture. I didn't realize that we had so much stuff until we had to fit it all in one room, But we are very grateful that my mom and dad are letting us stay there and we will cram everything in if we have to :) I am going to try to put some pictures up as soon as we get settled in, so keep checking back.

Second Trimester!!!

Okay, so I have made it to my second trimester. Time is flying by. This baby will be here before we know it. I have been very blessed so far with this pregnancy. I have barely been sick and haven't really had many of those first trimester symptoms. The only thing was that I was EXTREMELY tired. Everyone says the second trimester is the best because you get your energy back, start feelilng the baby move and get to find out the sex of the baby...we can't wait!! I have my next doctors appointment next week, so I will let everyone know how it goes. We have one more week to get moved out of our apartment and John is pretty much having to do everything since I can't really lift heavy things. Please pray for us that everything goes smoothly.

1st Doctors Appointment

So...I had my first doctors appointment on September 13th, well actually it was my second appointment, but my first appointment all they did was ask me some medical questions. So anyways, we got to have our first ultrasound and we were able to see our little peanut. I was so nervous that they were going to tell me it was twins, but thankfully she said that she saw just ONE little heart beating away! We were thrilled. We could see the legs moving around, and the heart beating, it was so cute. It was to early to actually hear the heart beat, but we will get to at my next appointment in October. We are hoping the we will get to find out the sex of the baby in November. I am almost 99% sure that it is a boy...but I guess we will have to wait and see. Neither of us care either way, as long as it is healthy. I just can't wait to know for sure so we can start buying cute little baby clothes!!!

Update

Hey everyone, I am going to try to use this website to keep friends and family updated on things that are going on in our lives. We'll see how good I am at keeping it updated. As most of you know, we got married in April and found out in August that we are expecting our first baby due April 18th. We were a little suprised, but are very excited and can't wait to meet our little bundle of joy. We have decided to move in with my mom and dad so we can save money and get a house when the baby is born. Please pray for us as we start this new chapter in our lives and begin our little family.