It's finally time!!!

So I'll just do a quick update today.  I'm 27 weeks and 3 days pregnant today.  That means that I'm in my 3rd trimester!  I can't believe how fast this pregnancy is going!  So how am I feeling?  Pretty good for the most part.  I still have sciatic nerve pain to deal with.  Most of the time it's pretty mild, but I have my days where I can hardly walk.  My hip pain is not nearly as bad as it was with the girls (thank goodness!), but it is getting harder to roll over in bed because of it.  My heartburn is killer.  I can't believe how much of it I have!  It's almost a constant thing.  I will not miss it...lol.  Little man moves around all the time and it's getting much much easier to see him moving on the outside.  I like to sit and watch my tummy bouncing around :o).


So the big news...we leave for the beach tomorrow morning!!!  I am so stinking excited!!!  We've been waiting so long for this.  It was starting to feel like "we're going to the beach" was just something to say...it had almost lost all meaning.  But I can't say that now, since I've been packing and preparing today and we leave tomorrow.  Just pray we don't get lost...lol.  Of course I'll have tons of pictures to share sometime next week, so be on the lookout for those!

Great newborn posing guide giveaway!

Like the title says, here's a contest for a chance to win this awesome newborn posing guide.  Follow the link and enter for your chance to win...woot woot!

http://inspiremebaby.com/2010/07/27/giveaway-newborn-posing-guide-by-jacqueline-ends-81/

A new place for pictures

A friend of mine wanted to show me the location she picked for her daughter's 1 year photo shoot, so yesterday we braved the 100 degree weather (well, 97 or so, but I may as well round up, right...lol) and went to this "park"  It's not really a park, but I'll use that for lack of a better word.  There is a beautiful pavilion with a kitchen, bathrooms, a fireplace, and ceiling fans.  The pavilion is surrounded by a large grassy area with lots of trees.  There's a creek, too.  It's just a really pretty location.  Anyway, I figured we were going there anyway, I needed my 24 week picture, and I've been wanting to get a print worthy shot of Ashlin, that I'd get dolled up and see if my friend would take a couple pictures of me and I'd try and get some good ones of my girls.  I'm really pleased with the outcome.  I took some of miss K (my friend's daughter), but I'll post them in another entry.  So without further ado, enjoy some pictures!

Little Miss Kelsie...this is her trying to give me a natural smile...lol.  Lately if I tell her to smile she hams it up a lot, so I told her to just smile pretty and she gave me this-

And a gorgeous smile-

Miss Ashlin (processed with AMPs kick the can)

Mommy and her girls (thanks Kelsey for taking these next few pictures)-

The focus is weird in this next one, but I just love it so much.  I told the girls to kiss my belly and they would take turns so when I told them to kiss it at the same time, they both kissed my legs instead...lol.

Last, but not least, 24 weeks pregnant-

 

I love having little girls!

I really love having little girls.  I had to take a picture for my next entry in the contest I'm in so I decided I wanted to do something super girly.  I made Kelsie and Ashlin a tutu and got out the fairy wings, necklaces, flowers, and feather boa.  They had a blast, of course, and I couldn't get their tutus off after...lol.  I'll post a few pictures from the shoot, but the first one is the one I entered in the contest.

My entry:

 

Contest Entries

There's an online photography contest I entered a couple weeks ago and I've been meaning to post the pictures I've taken for it as I move on in the contest.  Well I keep forgetting, so I'll just make one post with them in it.  The first picture I took for it was "a little green bug" (see past blog entry...I placed 5th out 26).  Round two was to take a picture of one of the elements (fire, water, wind, or earth).

Fire (I got 2nd place this round out of 17 entries)-

Round three's theme was song inspiration.  We had to take a picture that either the song described or something it inspires (I placed 3rd out of 11 entries).  My song was In My Daughter's Eyes by Martina Mcbride-

Round four's theme is abstact.  There will be 10 entries, but it hasn't gone to voting yet(ETA: voting is over and I got first place this round).  Here's my entry-

It's a...

Most of the people who read this probably already know this, but It's a BOY!!! We found out on June 23rd. I've known since my morning sickness started that this was a boy and that was only confirmed for me when my moodiness started days later. With the girls, I was hormonal-emotional. With this pregnancy, I was hormonal-angry. Everything made me mad...I had the shortest temper. It was awful! Since I knew it was a boy, I'm a bit surprised by my reaction. I was completely shocked. It was as if I'd been telling myself "boy" for so long that I didn't believe it anymore? Maybe it was because Daniel was dead set on it being a girl. The gender was one of the first things she looked for. Unfortunately the umbilical cord was in the way so when I didn't see boy parts, my first thought was "oh my goodness, it's a girl"...lol. Luckily, she was able to wiggle him around to move the cord.

It was really important to me to tell my mother-in-law in a special way so for anyone interested in the story, here it is:

She really wanted it to be a boy. (Back story: Daniel thought it was a girl and his mom and I joke about him being wrong about things cause he's stubborn.) We were on our way home and she texted asking if we knew yet, so I texted back and said, "Well...at least we don't have to worry about buying clothes cause she'll have plenty of hand-me-downs. Don't you hate it when Daniel's right". She didn't see it before we got there so I had to repeat it when we came inside (she said we looked like we were about to cry...lol). She looked a bit disappointed, but she said she was happy anyway. I said, "do I get a hug anyway?" and while she was hugging me, I whispered "It's a boy" in her ear. She screamed. In my ear. Then jumped around and ran and told everyone and then ran to her mom's house( behind her house) to tell her...lol. It was really special. This will be the first boy in the family in 14 years! We don't have a first name yet, but his middle name will be Daniel (after the hubby).

Here are some ultrasound pictures :o)

A little green bug

I decided to go to my mother-in-law's the other day to take some pictures in her garden. I've been meaning to get over there for a while, but it's been so hot and trying to watch the girls in the heat and focus on getting good shots wasn't very appealing. I finally bit the bullet and did it. Unfortunately, I missed some of the nice flowers I wanted to get. I don't know if they wilted due to the heat or if it was just the end of their life. Since I couldn't take pictures of those, I had to keep my eye out for something interesting to shoot. I got super lucky when I saw this bug sitting on this leaf. I've always wanted to get a really good macro shot of a bug, but bugs typically don't like to cooperate...not the bugs I see anyway. Without further ado, my bug picture! (Just click on the picture to see it full sized.)