Prayer

Hey everyone. I just wanted y'all to keep my friend Gaitha and her family in prayer. She lives in Mississippi and I have been trying to get a hold of her by phone for the last two days and there is a beeping signal. She and her husband are supposed to be moving to Beaumont, TX by the 9th of September. Just pray that with all this madness she is okay and they can have safe travels to their new place. If you need to put a face with the name she is the girl that is in the picture with me at my wedding a few posts back. Thanks

My birthday ticker is doing something funny. It is saying that I am 25. Tomorrow I will be 24 unless I am just getting that old that I can't remember my age. Ha ha. No, really, I know when I was born and what age I am going to be. Maybe the thing just reset itself to start counting for my next birthday. It is just moving life along rather quickly.

We have decided that we are not going to Houston this weekend since Mike, Danielle, and Lacey are coming up here on Sunday afternoon. We are going to just celebrate my birthday then. It makes me excited though because then we don't have to spend for gas. We are going to Houston for the weekend of the 17th because there is going to be a huge sale for USA Baby furniture and then we will be there again on the 24th for the COLDPLAY concert! Yeah, I am soooo excited about that. It's going to be our first baby concert and he/she can hear faint sounds too now. Pretty exciting. So, this weekend when Josh's family gets here we are going to paint and put up wall paper in the nursery room. How fun! That's it.

Baby Names

Okay, Josh and I have narrowed the baby names down and unless there is just something else out there that takes our breath away these are the names.

For a girl:

Isabella Joy Allard (but we would call her Ella)

For a boy:

Caleb Paul Allard or Levi Austin Allard

Josh really hasn't decided yet which one he likes better. I told him it was up to him, but I favor Caleb Paul.

So, those are the names. I have been stuck on Isabella for a long time so if I don't have a girl this time, when we do have a girl that is going to be her name. Let me know what y'all think about them.

A fun but not relaxing weekend

Well, friday Josh and I left San Antonio to go to Houston around 3:30. The drive there wasn't that bad except for the fact that we had two stinky dogs in our back seat breathing heavily on us because they were hot. Once the car cooled off and Josh got some air freshners it wasn't so bad. When we got there to Houston we went to Michael and Melissa's house and dropped off our dogs and picked Melissa up. We got to the conference a little after 7:00pm. That night was pretty good. Josh and I got a lot from the service. Afterwards, we went to Pappasitos (I think that is the correct way to spell it) with a bunch of old friends. They are more of Josh, Michael, and Melissa's old friends considering I didn't grow up here but I knew all of them. It was a lot of fun. There were probably like 15 of us there. We didn't end up leaving until about 12:00 or close to it. Josh, Michael, Melissa, and I went back to their house and hung out until about 2:30 in the morning just watching the dogs play and get to meet each other. It was rather interesting because Michael and Melissa have a puppy female boxer and then a little toy female chihuaha (don't know how to spell those names) and then we have a 2 year old female boxer and a female bassethound. They seem to get a long for the most part if there were no toys or bones involved cause if there was then Bailey our boxer would get really mean and role her lips and snap at their boxer or other dog. We had to spank Bailey a few times cause she was being a brat. Anyways, that was fun.

Then we had to wake up early the next morning to be at the conference again. Michelle, your brother Ryan was cute. He came up to me and told me that you said to say Hello. I also saw Wade there too. Wade actually was with us all when we went to Pappasitos.

After the conference was over we went to Josh's parents house where Danielle and Mike made an awesome roast dinner. It tasted so good. There was mashed potatoes, roast beef, gravy, green beans, corn, fruit salad, biscuits, and then we had that chocolate thunder thing like Outback has for dessert. Hmmmmm Yummy. It was all very good. Josh and Jessica Long came over to be with us for dinner too. That was so good to see them. I love hanging out with Jessica. I wish we were closer to each other in living distance. After dinner, we all watched the video of our baby on the ultrasound that the doctor had recorded for us. That was pretty neat too. Later, Jessica and I were sitting on the couch and I had my hand on her belly and I could feel that little guy kicking and squirming all around in there. I can't wait until I can feel that in my belly. Right now all I am feeling is butterflies and the baby floating around. We left there house around 9:30-10:00 but the crazy thing is that we didn't get home until 3:30 in the morning! Houston started flooding because of the storm that came in and they made us take another highway to get to the other side of the highway that we wanted to be on. Oh, it was bad.

Then, we woke up for church on Sunday and had a normal church day. Sunday, we were blessed by this couple that we had met a couple of times out at youth events because they wanted to take us out to eat. It was so nice of them. We didn't have to pay at all. I love it when God does little things like that to let you know that if you bless Him, He will always take care of you. Well, I think that is it. Ha ha. That is probably one of the biggest posts ever. Have a good rest of the day! On to work now.

On the brighter side

Last night I fell asleep on the couch around 9:30. Josh woke me up around 10 and brought me into bed. He got the dogs and got them up on the bed too. So, it was me, Bailey, and Sidney all in the bed around 10:00pm. I slept for awhile and then the good ol routine of waking up a million times to go to the bathroom kicked in. I woke up around 12:30, 2:30, and 5:30. But I did feel a little better this morning because I got like 8 hours of sleep. Normally, I go to bed around 12:00 and have to wake up at like 6:30. Not a good thing. So, I feel a little bit more rested today which is good because we have to go to Houston tonight for a conference this weekend. Pray for us though because I am beginning to hate car rides and we have to travel with dogs this time since we don't have a house guest to watch them. It will be quite interesting to see how it all ends up. Saturday night I am pretty excited because Danielle is making us dinner and invited our friends Josh and Jessica over too. I haven't seen Jessica since our wedding. We don't get to see too much of each other but when we do get to hang out I have a blast. I get to leave work early today because of the fact that we have to be on the road by like 3:00 or earlier. So, that is exciting to me too. Okay, well I am gonna get to work now. I hope everyone has a good weekend.

Not a good day

Today is just not a good day unless there are hopes for the afternoon. I am so sleepy, nausious, hot, cold, headache, and anything imaginable. Funny how everyday I just want to crawl back into bed, clothes the curtains, pull the covers back over my head and fall back to sleep. It's pretty sad that when I am typing all of this my eyes are going cross-eyed. What is wrong with me? I have never in my entire life been this lazy. Maybe, I'll go visit the coffee the closet and grab me some fresh wake me up. I don't want to be at work at all. Okay, enough said. I just am cranky and needed to let it out. I wonder if there is anyone out there that is as miserable as I am. Well, I am going to attempt to wake up and will try and post more later.

Oh my oh my

Okay, so I am sitting at my desk here at work not wanting to step foot into that file room to start filing and I can't get into one stinkin comfortable position of sitting. I just got done a little bit ago eating my lunch which consisted of Tuna fish sandwich, bbq chips, and a coke and water. My belly is hurting and I feel like my head is going to drop any second now. A big, huge, ginormous sleepy wave just rolled over me and all I want to do now is curl up with all my pillows and fall asleep in my bed. That time will come around 8:30pm tonight. I have to go from work to church. Not so fun but that's the breaks. I think what I am going to do now is just go file and pray that I don't fall asleep while filing. Well, the big guy of the company that I work for just walked in and everyone is freaking out. I don't understand why. Some people get so worked up over nothing and they get all tongue twisted. Chill out. Okay, well I guess now I really need to wake up. Ha ha. Okay talk to y'all later.

Whooo hooo

Well, today I can freely walk around my house however I want to. I can go in any of my rooms. Heck, I can get naked and run around! Our house guest leaves to go to college today. Isaac is attending a University in Austin and today is orientation for him. I sometimes wish that I was going back to college. Anyways, he has been staying with us for the summer and now he will be living in Austin. It is going to be an adventure for him. I pray that he takes God with him to school. He has really grown up alot in the year and a half that he has been here at Shift youth. I didn't get to see him in the beginning but I heard Josh talk about him. He has grown spiritually and musically. Also, what is really exciting for me is that we get to start turning the room that he was in into a nursery! Yeah. Josh and I are going to paint the bottom half of the wall a green color like the color I had in my wedding. You can see it if you look at the picture with Gaitha and I from my wedding. Anyways, bottom half green separated by "Classic Pooh" border from Target and then a soft white off white color on the top. Josh is also going to paint a mural of Winnie and all his friends on the wall where the crib is going to be. Oh, I can't wait to get started. I have been anxiously awaiting this moment. I want to be able to do a lot of it now so that I don't get too fat and I can't help out. I want to be as much as involved as I can with decorating it. That's it for now. I will update more later.

Quiet

Seems like life in the blogging world is kinda quiet today. Not much to read up on and no comments to check out. Hope everyone is doing good. Talk to ya soon again

Awww..Here we are "Bride and Groom" 

Going through wedding pics. This is my good old friend from college. I love this pic. 

I know it may not look like much to you but that is a side view. I honestly cannot fit in any of my clothes any more. The first time that I went to the doctor's back when I was 4 weeks along pregnant I weighed in at 123. Now I am weighing 130! I haven't even got to the point where the baby starts gaining a pound like everyday. I am scared out of my mind. I have gained 7lbs within the first 10 weeks. What to do. I am too fat for my clothes but to skinny for maternity. I look funny when I put maternity clothes on cause then it just looks like I am trying to be fat and pregnant. I am not sure what to do. If they are any suggestions please let me know. I have went and bought some bigger sizes but I don't want to buy too many because I am hoping that after the baby comes that I can get back to where I was.

Baby belly at 14 weeks 

Okay, yesterday was an exciting day. First of all, to clear everyone's mind, we didn't find out yet what the little bambino is. It is still just "the baby". The doctor said she could see something but she didn't want to make any guesses because it was unclear. So we are schedule to go back September 13th. Hopefully, we will be able to find out then what the baby is. Okay, onto the whole story though. Josh had told me that he needed to meet me over there because he had to go visit someone in the hospital and it would be pointless to drive all the way home and then back again. So I thought that is fine. Well, me not knowing San Antonio yet, I got lost, stuck in traffic, and then was behind an accident. You can just imagine my mood by the time I got there to the office. I walked into the waiting room and saw Josh sitting there with two people that had magazines in their faces. Then the magazines came down and low and behold it was Mike and Danielle or I guess I should say Pappy and Grannelly. They were trying to think of cute names to be called and those were one of the choices. They drove all the way from Houston to be with us to experience that moment. Anyways, we walked in and I had to be weighed in. I lost weight. Crazy, cause I still can't fit into any of my clothes. And then we went into the sono room. She got me all lubed up and started rolling the thing around on my tummy. There HE/SHE was! Wow, the baby had grown so much. We all could see, the face, nose, mouth, eyes, legs, knees, backbone, ribs, and the little heart beating. Oh it was so cute. Then one of the hands was up close to the head and the little fingers were moving almost like it was waving hello. :) Oh my, I was so excited. It was so amazing to see how much that little baby is growing in there. We saw the spot where the digit was, as Josh would call it, but it was still a little unclear to see it. But the doctor was able to record it on video for us and then when we come back the next time we can just add to it. After that we went to Outback and then to Target to look at the classic pooh stuff. It was a fun day. They had this all planned out since our last appointment. It was so much fun. I can't wait till our next appointment. The baby will be even more bigger. What a miracle!

Why Women Cry

A little boy asked his mother, "Why are you crying?" "Because I'm a woman," she told him.
"I don't understand," he said. His Mom just hugged him and said, "And you never will."
Later the little boy asked his father, "Why does mother seem to cry for no reason?""All women cry for no reason," was all his dad could say. The little boy grew up and became a man, still wondering why women cry. Finally he put in a call to God. When God got on the phone, he asked, "God, why do women cry so easily?"God said:"When I made the woman she had to be special. I made her shoulders strong enough to carry the weight of the world, yet gentle enough to give comfort. I gave her an inner strength to endure childbirth and the rejection that many times comes from her children. I gave her a hardness that allows her to keep going when everyone else gives up, and take care of her family through sickness and fatigue without complaining. I gave her the sensitivity to love her children under any and all circumstances, even when her child has hurt her very badly. I gave her strength to carry her husband through his faults and fashioned her from his rib to protect his heart.I gave her wisdom to know that a good husband never hurts his wife, but sometimes tests her strengths and her resolve to stand beside him unfalteringly. And finally, I gave her a tear to shed. This is hers exclusively to use whenever it is needed." "You see my son," said God, "the beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman must be seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart - the place where love resides."

Leave work early!

Yeah, I get to leave work early today. I have overtime and right now our facility can't afford to pay overtime due to budget sake which is fine with me as long as I get paid for what I am suppose to work. So, today I will be leaving at 2:00 instead of 5:00. That also means that we will be able to get into Houston at a decent time. Sounds good to me! We are going to Houston for Danielle's birthday. That should be nice to see family. I just am not thrilled all that much for the drive, but oh well. Josh will be driving so that is good. Well, if I don't get on any more today, have a good weekend! God Bless

Here are the babies

Karen will probably post more pics on her blog. That is if she gets a chance, but my Aunt sent me a couple last night and this was one of them. Their names are Sophie and Olivia. They are so cute. They both weighed in at 7lbs except one was a little bigger with 10 ounces added on. Not sure which one though.

Back from training

Well, I just got finished with training. All the employees at my facility had to have training in a portion of the medical to be able to access kids when they are ill or attention seeking. Anyways, I do hope this weeks moves a little faster than what it is going at. I have been trying to do things to pass these next few weeks along but it seems like my mind is focusing on so much. I can't wait to find out what we are having. Hopefully, the baby will be in a good position to be able to see. Also, I can't wait until we can start working on getting the guest room into the nursery. I am going to keep the twin bed in there so that way we can still have a guest over. Plus for the first couple of weeks and months we are going to keep the baby in with us. We are going to have to do some moving around in our room with the furniture. Josh will be doing that, but I will help with all the decorations. Anyways, I just can't wait to start making some of these changes. I'm just really anxious. I think you know what I am talking about Jenny! I would love to throw out all my feelings on here but I think some times thoughts are better left unsaid!~

Babies...

Hey everyone! I don't know but I think that some of y'all have been keeping up with my cousin's blog too that is pregnant with the twins. Well, she had them today around 11:00am. She didn't have to have a c-section either. Praise God! Just wanted to let everyone know because she will probably have little time to update her blog now that she has 6 kids!

What a weekend...

Well, we had a good weekend. Friday night when I got off work, Josh and I went to Sam's Club and picked up all the food and drinks for Saturday. Then we went to Taco Bell for dinner. After that we went over to Toys r' us and just looked around. That was fun. Josh and I checked out all the baby stuff. We haven't registered yet, but we have plenty of time still. There were so many cute things that I just wanted to buy right then and there. As soon as Isaac goes to school we are going to start putting the nursery together. Josh is going to paint Pooh and a few of his friends on the wall. We haven't figured out totally what we are going to do in there but we will for sure have a plan before we start. I would rather have it done way a head of time than to be in my later months and be struggling to do things. I don't have a big belly yet so now is the time to do it. We are doing the nursery in Classic Pooh style. I love it so much. It is so soft looking and it fits well with my personality too. I like the earth tones rather than bright colors. I like it to look more natural.

Okay, well back to the weekend, after Toys r' us we went to Petsmart and looked around for a bit, left there and went to Baskin Robbins. We got some ice cream and the flavor that I normally get didn't taste the same to me. Normally, I use to love it, but this time I couldn't even finish it. It was butter pecan. My taste buds have totally changed. We went to blockbuster on our way home and got the movie Hide and Seek. That was pretty good but Josh knew everything 20 minutes into the movie. He always figures movies out.

Saturday morning we woke up and took the youth group to Lake Medina. Brent took his boat out for us. He made several trips for all of us to be able to go on the boat. We anchored his boat in the water when he found a place that we could go swimming at. The last time I went in the lake to swim was when Josh and I first met and he took me to Lake Waxahachie. That was not very pleasent. There was creepy crawly things and seaweed and junk going up my legs. I did not like it at all. Me, being a Jersey shore girl and going in the ocean all the time with sand and crabs and shells, was not use to all this lake stuff. I'd rather swim in the ocean than a lake any time. Although, I must say that this lake was much more nice than Lake Waxahachie. I did like swimming in this one. Brent also took everyone tubing but obviously I didn't go. I just video taped Josh and Isaac when they both went. It looked like a lot of fun, but I don't think the baby would have enjoyed all that bouncing around. We ate sandwiches and hot dogs and played volley ball for part of the day too. All in all, it was a nice day. We got home around 7:30 and was pooped! We came home and went to bed.

Sunday morning is quite the obvious one, got up and went to church. After church the youth had a servant sale (aka Slave Auction) but some people thought it would be politically correct if we called it something different so there a "Servant Sale". Anyways, the youth raised about $700 for Speed the Light. That is some more money we can put towards our goal. Went to double dave's for pizza, came home and cleaned part of the house, and then went to church all over again. That is it! Now, I am sitting in front of my computer at work, procrastinating to get to work because I need a day of rest from my weekend. Gotta go work now. Write more later.

Went to the Doctor's

I had to go to the doctor's yesterday due to the fact that I was running a fever a couple of days in a row. I am feeling better now, but for a couple of days there I was feeling really bad. The doctor told me that there was a virus going around and that I probably was experiencing a little of that. Well, hopefully I won't get any more fevers. It is a bummer feeling like your head is just going to explode. While we were there at the doctor's we got to hear the heartbeat again. It was beating at 149. That little baby is pumping really fast in there. Hopefully, by the 16th we will be able to see what the little baby is going to be. Time is going by fast but I think since we found out so early on that it feels as though it is going a little slower. I guess I am just anxious. Well, onto another subject...this weekend on Saturday, we are taking the youth to Medina Lake. We have two people in our church that offered to take their boats out for all the youth to use. I don't know if I will be doing much of the water stuff because of my stomach but I will be hopefully catching up on some sun rays on the side lines watching everyone. It should be fun. Hopefully the weather holds out for us too. Gotta go catch up on some filing and grab some lunch. I plan on eating Chili from Wendy's today with the hot sauce. Mmmmmmmm I love spicy food. Okay, talk to ya later.

AUGUST 15TH!

On August 15th we go for our 14 week check up and our doctor said that we are going to try and see if we can find out what the little bean is inside. We are very excited. Josh and I really don't care what we have, but I do know that I would like a boy sometime. I grew up having a sister and I always wondered what it would be like to have a big or little brother. Whatever God gives us is more than we can imagine!

Footsies

I found this really cute image on the internet today while I was checking in on my daily updates of the development of the baby. I thought this was so precious. I can't wait till I am able to do that with my little bean!

A new week

This past week and weekend was pretty busy. We had Michael and his youth group in town doing a ministry tour. They did a great job! I had fun being able to hang out a little bit with Lacey too (Josh's sister). We don't get to see them too often beings that we live in San Antonio and they all live in Houston. Sometimes I wish we could just pack up our things and move to where family is. It is very frustrating sometimes. I guess God is trying to teach us something while we are here in San Antonio for the time. Well, Sunday was quite embarassing. Before I tell you about that, I need to build the story for you. Friday Josh wakes up in the morning and works all day. Friday night we have a lock in for the youth. So therefore Josh is up all day and all night into Saturday. Saturday he has to attend this men's breakfast for the church. So he couldn't go home and rest. Saturday afternoon after the men's breakfast he had to work on Isaac's car because it had been broken down in the HEB parking lot since last Tuesday. So Josh is working outside under the car in the hot air meanwhile hasn't had any sleep. Then after he gets the car fixed he has about an hour to do whatever then he has to go back up to the church to unload chairs and put them up on the balcony. Heavy chairs with no sleep! Not a good thing. Saturday night after that was all said and done he came home and I made him a salad to eat. He said he didn't want anything greasy and that a salad sounded good to him. While he was waiting for the salad he ate some chips and green sauce. I tasted the green sauce and it didn't taste good to me. He said it tasted fine to him. Saturday night-Sunday morning around 4:00am he woke me saying that he was throwing up. He had it bad on both ends. So from 4:00 to about 8:30 we were up on and off. I told him that I thought that he needed to stay home from church because he looked and felt so bad. He was running a temperature of 102! That is a good enough reason to stay home and relax and get better. Anyways, getting back to embarassing...I went to church. I ran out of the house with only drinking a cup of juice. I need to eat some sort of breakfast or else my sugar will drop really low due to hypoglocemic. So I am up on stage singing in the praise team and about the 3rd song in I started feeling really funny. I had to stop singing and only lip sing. It doesn't matter that I do that because you can't hear me anyways when I am singing so I played it cool for awhile and then about the 6th song (which there were 8 and no way would I have made it) everything started going black. It was like I was in a tunnel. I started sweating really bad and getting very very shakey to the point where I couldn't stand up or hold the microphone any more, so I did what I could and put the microphone down and got off stage. At that point I went out into the hallway and leaned over and basically fell into the wall. A lady that is a nurse at our church ran out to see if I was okay. She said she could see my colors changing when I was onstage. She quick got me some juice and cookies from the nursery. There were 3 ladies that came out of service to see if I was okay. That felt good to know that people care enough to come see if I was okay. After that I felt better. I told Janet after service that I was sorry for just getting off stage and she said she didn't even notice. Hmm. Well, it was quite embarassing for me. I seriously thought that I was going to pass out. I may have to step down for a little bit. We'll see. Anyways, what a long weekend. After church I came home and just layed around all day and all night. It felt so good to just relax and not have anything to worry about.