Update

I had a drs appointment yesterday. She checked me and said that I was now at a 2 and 50% effaced. So we are moving right along. I am still scheduled to be induced Friday morning at 5:30 on the 19th of September. Yuck! 5:30 just sounds way too early for all of that to happen. Seriously, I don't know how I am going to sleep the night before. I probably won't. My mom is coming in from Jersey on the 14th so I am honestly hoping that we will have a spur of the moment run to the hospital instead of waiting to the 19th. Mike, Danielle, and Lacey are going to be coming on the 18th too. It is going to be fun with everyone here. I just need to pop the kid out and then we can all play with her! Sounds easy enough. I really do hope that this delievery is as easy as having Caleb. There are times when it hurt but it was nothing like those dramatic shows on tv. I kept watching all those shows before I had him thinking oh my what did I get myself into but then when it came time for my turn it was nothing like that. Anyways, I am going to get something to eat! Ha. Speaking of eating, I lost 2lbs!

Have I mentioned...

that I love our church very much? It has been a year and a day since we moved here to San Antonio again and I absolutely love this church. The people are awesome, the worship is awesome, the Pastor is awesome, the location is awesome, etc. Everything about this church is just amazing. I am so grateful that God opened this opportunity for us to come and be youth pastors here. Yeah, it's hard sometimes not being around family but this church has so many people in it that feel like family that it makes up for the distance between our family. I am so blessed and so thankful that Caleb and the new princess are surrounded by people with such love.

Last box!

I am in my last box for the ticker!!! Yeah, she is almost here. I can't wait to meet her sweet little face. I can tell that she is getting so big because I am getting so big! Ha. This has been the most weight that I have ever gained. I haven't ate tons more but I guess with the second one around your body just does things a little differently. I don't know. I do mind all the weight gain, but if it is to keep her healthy than I know I can work at getting it off too. Anyways, I go for a check up this week, so I can't wait for that. I am sure I am dialated more! I have been having quite a few nice contractions lately. It is so not a nice feeling when you are singing up on stage on the worship team and you feel one of these start to come on. Yesterday was my last day to sing until after I have the baby and of course she wanted to be known too. I was singing my heart out and then all of a sudden I started feeling this lovely stabbing pain you know where and boy did that hurt. Not only did I have to continue singing and put a smile on but then she decided to start moving around while the pain was happening like she wanted to poke through! Oh, not cute at all. In my mind, all that I can think is that I have black paints on and if my water breaks it won't show that much and I will just walk off the stage when all the lights go down for the video announcements after we are done with our songs. It is so hard to worship God when you have thoughts running through your head about all these other things. But through it all I did worship Him and I got through it, both services!

Baby Rae's Shower!!!

Cute little shoes

Motion Glider

Little Bouncer

Baby bath bucket
So cute!!! Our friend made that for us. It had a bunch of stuff for the bath inside of it.

Truly blessed! A bunch of my friends went in together and bought the double stroller that I had registered for. I love all my friends here. God is just so awesome.

Nursing wrap material that my friend Nina made for me along with everything else.

In this picture you can see the diaper bag in the back and then burp clothes and then in front of that is a changing pad that rolls out. So cute! Made it all by herself. Crazy!

That is the cute diaper bag!

My friend Nicole made me this blanket. Two other ladies also stitched blankets for me. I didn't have good pictures though, but they are beautiful.

The Princess Cake!

Tons of presents that little Caleb kept saying "Momma, it's your birthday!" So cute.

My sweet Caleb and one of his favorite friends Leslie. She is the sweetest little girl. I love her.

Me! I didn't realize how big I am starting to get until I looked through all the pictures in my camera today! Oh my word, we are going to do some serious nursing and working out.

That was all the fun stuff inside the bucket.

I feel so overwhelmed and blessed by this shower. I truly wanted to break out in tears of joy cause of the fact that God has brought us to such an awesome place! I love it here. I have amazing people around me all the time and I feel like we are all one big family. I can't wait for everyone to meet this little girl. I am so thankful that both Caleb and her will be able to be raised around such awesome real people in Christ! I am soooooo sleepy so I am going to go to bed now. It has been a long day but an awesome one! Goodnight.

We have a date!!!

If this little princess doesn't come before then, we have a date set for induction on September 19th, 2008. I am very excited to know that now. I had my check-up today and scheduled my appointments from here on out. The reason I couldn't have her induce me sooner than that date is because my doctor will be out for a couple of weeks. Hopefully, this little girl can bake a little longer so that we can have my sweet doctor deliver her if not I am totally easy going and as long as some doctor will come in there and pull the baby out than that will be fine too. I am very excited to meet her and can't wait to see what she is going to look like. I can't wait to put on all the little girly clothes and see her all dressed in pink. Hopefully, I can keep up with the hair bows and stuff like that. She may turn out to be a little rough girl if she tries to keep up with her big brother!

She is still baking

I go to my dr's appointment tomorrow to see how everything is going. I have still been contracting but nothing out of the ordinary. It was like this with Caleb too. When I went in for my 38th appointment check up with him I didn't even know that I was already dialated to a 4. I guess I can just tolerate pain or I don't get as bad contractions as some do. I thank God for that though! This Sunday is my last week to sing on the praise team for a couple of months. I am pretty bummed about that. I really enjoy being on the team. But I told them I didn't want my water to break in front of the whole congregationa nd figured it would be safer to just not do it anymore until after I had the baby. That would be quite a morning if that would ever happen to me! Also, the church is giving me a baby shower on Sunday. I am very excited about that and happy to get all the pretty pink, purple, and red stuff. It should be tons of fun. I love my church family!!! They are great. Anyways, just wanted to do a little update. Write again soon.

sweet moments

Last night we were all laying in bed and little sister started to move around alot. She got hiccups too while we were laying there. So, Josh took Caleb's hand and held it on my belly. We told him that his baby sister had hiccups. When he felt her, (for the first time) he looked up at both of us and just smiled really big. He whispered softly "that's baby sisar in there". It was such a sweet moment to remember. We prayed his bedtime prayer and then went to sleep.

an eventful night was had!

Well, last night was our first trip to the hospital with this pregnancy. We got home around 2:00am. A couple days ago I had a lot of things going on like a stabbing sensation in my area and I do believe that I lost my mucus plug. Can I say that without anyone feeling gross? I guess I don't feel uncomfortable to talk about it anymore because I have talked about all this stuff so much now with Caleb's pregnancy and now this one. The talk feels like normal conversation. Anyways, so I was having a lot of minor contractions and just kinda went on about my busyness. Well, last night at youth, I calmly pulled Josh aside a told him that I thought when youth was over that I needed to go get checked out at the hospital. I just have to mention the word hospital and he starts going nuts. So we get there and get checked in and my nurse came in. Which by the way, I hope that she is on duty the day or night that I actually have her. She was the nicest and sweetest nurse. She hooked me up to the monitors and started monitoring my contractions and the baby's heart beat. Then she decided that she would check me. We found out that I am already dialated at a one, my cervix was still a little long but that I was 25% efaced. I have been labeled a candidate for pre-term labor. By the end of the night after monitoring for awhile she was going to discharge me and decided that she would check me once more before I left to make sure that I hadn't done anymore. We found out that my cervix was shorter and and that I was now 50% efaced. So she called the doctor to check and make sure I was still able to go home and they said yes but that I needed to come in for an appointment the next morning. I went in this morning and my doctor said that I was to be on "bed rest", but not really that I had to lay in bed, I just can't pick anything up or do any activities. What a wonderful time to get that said to me when we are trying to move into this new house! My doctor also said that if I progressed anymore this week than they would give me some medicine to make the contractions stop, but if I make it past this week than they would not stop the labor. She said she would like to see me make it to full-term which is considered 37 weeks that way I wouldn't have to worry about a premature baby but that if I did have her after the 34 week that she should be okay. Crazy! Please just pray for the situation. Pray that if I do have her early that she will be fine and just tinsy but also pray that I can make it a little longer than a couple of weeks. I know this is all in God's hands and He will protect her and myself but I would be able to just rest easier knowing that everything will be okay. I have confidence in my doctor but most importantly I have faith that God is in control. I know this little princess will be perfect in every way.

Baby Girl's dress

the pattern Meme is going to use to make her dress

Front view of the dress and also a nice picture of Josh and I on our wedding day!

Top part of the dress

I asked Meme (Josh's grandma) if she would mind making a dedication dress for the little princess. Meme said she would love to do it and I am so excited about it because she is going to use my wedding gown. I obviously don't have a need for this dress anymore but didn't just want to throw it away or give it away and so Meme has offered to make the dress and also a few more things out of it like a blanket for her and maybe something for me. I can't wait to see it on her. Meme said she was going to take the satin trim from the bottom and put it on her's so it would look similar to mine. So cute! Thanks Meme for doing this for me. It means the world to know that she will have a piece of our special day. We will have to think of something for Caleb too.