Let the countdown begin.........

First: Please go and pray for Baby Stellan. I have a link on my page for him.



I have decided to make myself feel like the days are going faster than they really seem to be going to keep everyone updated on the daily things going on with us..........

1. The countdown to Math TAKS has begun and is going well
2. YEAH for the reading TAKS scores coming back
3. We go to the doctor every week now and each week I feel like he might just maybe say something great that will make me either have a baby or feel much better (so far no luck)
4. I just can't seem to get enough advice on the fist couple of weeks of new mom life. So fill me on what you think are some of the most important things I should know for getting through the first few weeks, days, mins etc.
5. I started having these horrible mind wrenching pains on my left side that last about 1 min and bring me to tears and then they are gone and I usually have 2 a day. Prob. nothing but that is where I am at!
6. I need to finish things in Carter's room BUT I am just so tired after I get home from work that I can not seem to do anything. NOTHING AT ALL!!!!

So this is where I am at :) Where are you this week?

Baby Carter

We are still here and waiting for Carter's arrival! We had an apointment yestreday and we are looking at about the 9th or 10th. I have been feeling pretty bad and due to asthma issues spent all of last Monday in the ER to help get that under control. So we are really ready!!!!!

I hope all of you are having a good week sorry I have not called and updated latley I promise I still love all of you but the past couple of weeks have just been crazy!

Love to you all!
JEN

Just a picture post!

Mom and I


Tristen and Me



Me and Nana




Mom and I

loading pictures

I have had a very busy weekend but have tons of pictures of Carter's room to show you all! I am so excitied and can not wait to hear what you all think :)

I will get it done by tomorrow PROMISE! How was everyone's weekend? Any crazy weather going on around you?

Question of the day: Do you need to get a head rest thing for the car seat when they are newborns?

Baby Carter

Here are some pictures from Carter's room! It is not done by any means but I wanted to give you guys a sneak peak :)

What a DAY!!!

(just a side note: this is the 2nd time that I am having to type this because the first one got deleted somehow!!!!!!!!)

This weekend we went to Austin to Matt's, Ryan's brother, wedding and it was great! We love Monica and can not wait to share in their lives! As always we got to hang out with family that we don't get to see all the time and had a blast.

Today was a wonderful day! My team at school through me a surprise baby shower and invited my mom, Ryan's moms (Judy and Pam) and Leslie Ryan's sister. It was great! We got such amazing gifts. Go to Target and Babies R-Us to see what all we got and send any ideas of things we did not put on this list that you would if you were registering now. Advice always welcome.

Question of the day: Swaddleing- why do it and how do you do it

Sick in bed............

I have been sick since Saturday night and just can't seem to shake it! I thought that it was just my asthma until it just would not go away even with using my machine for asthma. I have not slept in 2 nights and finally decided to go to the doctor. I can not get into my doctor so I am going to CareNow. They have this really cool web checkin on line so now I just wait at my house instead of the 2 plus hour wait there. Hopefully they will be able to give me something that will make me feel better and I can stop coughing!

Please pray for me to get better soon!

Needing a New Week!

I am in need of a new week to begin! I have meant to come and post a new blog this whole week but I have not gotten home any night until after 6pm and then I am so tired that I pretty much just go to bed. Work is very hectic right now and with TAKS coming so soon I am having to crack down on my 110 kids and the not so fun part of being a team leader kicks in! I hate having to get onto or correct my team mates! HATE HATE HATE IT! BUT this is part of the job and right now I feel like we are going to pull this off if we all work together! I HATE SCHOOL RIGHT NOW! (next week is going to be better I just know it:))

Update on baby carter- I have begun to feel how heavy he is all the time! I have also started to have this numb tingle pain in my left thigh and down my leg all the time. Dr says it is normal but it hurts and I just don't like it. I have not been sleeping very well. I constantly am worrying about something or someone and have been having dreams where people around me are dying SO please pray for that because it is bad.

I hope everyone is having a great week and will update again soon :)

Tag your it!

My friend Lindsay tagged me my first blog tag! Thank you Linds! This is fun to see what picture ends up here so go join in the fun!!!!! :1. go to your 4th folder where you store your photos.2. select the 4th photo (no exceptions).3. post the picture with an explanation and link it back to your tagger.4. tag 4 people do do the same.

I tag- Natalie, Tiffany P, Stephanie and Monica

This is me and my friend Karlene at a party called the White and Black party! Everyone wore Black and White. It was at the opening of a store in Uptown Dallas and we had a great time! This was a few months after Ryan and I had just met so this brought back some great memories! Lets see what you come up with!!!

Ice day!

Today was an Ice Day for us and while I was happy to have the day off I was upset because I only have so many days before the reading TAKS test and my kids need to be at school! Once I got over that this morning ,at 5:15am when both Ryan and I got phone calls from school, I was planning on being very productive.

We got all of the clothes from our family and friends that were pass downs and all of the new stuff that we have bought for him so far put away!!!! We went by size while hanging things up in the closet and I put all the sleepers away in a drawer. The only thing is every sleeper we have been given from others is long sleeves. Is this normal? Should I be getting him some with short sleeves? Then I got all his socks organized and put in a tub that I will eventually put in a basket when I get them and put them in one of his drawers. I will take pictures tonight of his room so far and post them for you guys tomorrow! Let me know what you think!!!!!

Off to cook dinner! ham and cheese roll yummy! Have a great night!

Change of website address: PLEASE READ!

I changed the website of our blog and now I realize that if you have us linked to your website you have to change on yours too!! I am so sorry!!! I did not know that would happen. Please change your website link for us. :) I promise not to do that again!!!!

This weekend!

This weekend Ryan and I were the parents of 3! We babysat for my Aunt Connie who lives in Southlake while she and her husband went out for the weekend for their anniversary. This is the 3rd year in a row we have done this for them and let me tell you each year it gets a little easier!!!! Her kids are Allie who is in 3rd grade and Twins Katie and Max who are about to be 4. This year I think was my favorite. Maybe because we are so excited to see Carter soon or maybe because this was the first year Kaite did not wake up in the middle of the night. Either way both of us had a great time!!!! Ryan and I would both like to have 3 kids (spaced somewhat out of course) and by the time we went to bed last night we actually thought ok we can do this! It was so great seeing how my wonderful husband interacted with the twins. They loved him and would both sit in his lap and watch him play their DS Mario brothers ( which we both loved from back in the day!) and yell for him when he did good and say that's ok you try again when he would mess up! Yes I can say he is going to be a great dad!!!!!

On another note.......
I have become aware that I need to use this blog to document the rest of my pregnancy and to later use it like my friend Jill as a document of Carter's life! This way people I love who do not get to see or talk to me everyday can (if they want) keep up with what is going on in our little family. So this is my new plan. I hope that you all will read and comment on what I write. I love advice and yours is greatly appreciated :)

I have been reading on Kelly's Korner and praying for her little girl Harper! I can not even begin to imagine what she and her husband are going through. Please go to her site and pray for her baby and her family. It has been so emotional for me since she had a great pregnancy and then all of the sudden when Harper was born things went wrong. God creates miracles everyday lets pray for one for Harper.

Have a wonderful Sunday!

Where have you been?!

I know I know! I have been gone for a while! The past two weeks have been very hectic for us. To make it short. They thought there was something wrong with either me or the baby and they had us coming to the doctor A LOT! Through lots of prayer and only by God's grace when we went to have an ultra sound yesterday she said Carter looked great and I was doing just fine. Yes he would prob. be coming early because he is going to run out of room because my torso is to short and my pelvis faces inward BUT he is great right now! He weighed in at 2 pounds 2 ounces! It was such a blessing to see him again since I feel like it has been forever since we have gotten to see him move. He was so active and you could even see him moving on my skin WEIRD!

So that is what we have been up to. What about you? Are you having a great week!?

Pictures!

This is our Christmas Tree!

1 Year since we got Married!!!!

Quick update until later....

Hi all! I just wanted to give you all a fast update on what has been going on. Ryan and I went to celebrate our 1 year anniversary and had a great time at the Hyatt Regency downtown. We went to dinner at Chamberlains and that was super yummy!!!! I will post the pics this Sunday!

Carter has started moving A LOT! It has been super crazy! Fun except when I am trying to sleep. We go for our 6 month check up Monday so more to come on that.

Yesterday was very icy and I ended up slipping and falling. I was having a lot of cramping so Ryan came to work and picked me up and we went to go get checked out. Praise God everything was ok!!!! They said everything was normal after a fall. Some bruising and discomfort but besides that I am feeling much better.

This weekend we are going to have Christmas with Ryan's Family in Temple :) We are excited to get away and spend some time with family! Much more to come on that.......

Hope everyone is having a great week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Baby on the brain

I am just so excited about Carter's arrival! We both just can not wait! I bought him some outfits on the biggest shopping day of the year and it was so much fun. We went to dinner with Stephanie, Ryan's sister and the family last night and it was so much fun watching her son. He is just so cute and just LOVES his mommy. I am looking forward to having that with Carter. Every day I get more and more excited about him.

Ryan wants to do his room in Peter Pan...... I just want to do it in two colors. So this is what we will be discussing for the next few weeks. That is until I just go buy the paint. :)

Hope that you are all had a wonderful Thanksgiving

Carter Keith Harrison

IT'S A BOY!!!!!!!!!!!! Yes, we were a little shocked BUT we are really excitied and look forward to Carter's arrival!

Off to look at baby bedding :)

Boy or Girl

Today is the day! (hopefully ) Ryan and I tried really hard to talk to the baby and tell it that it was time to uncross it's legs! Hopefully it is not stubborn like me and we will be able to find out! More to come later!!!!!!!!!!

Off to Waco!

Playoff Game #2! I am so torn. If they win A. Ryan never comes home because he is still working. B. I have to make another trip out of town and back for a football game. C. RYAN IS NEVER HOME!!!! D. Ryan is happy and football goes on. So do I want them to win or not? I have no clue. Off to Waco I go! Oh and by the way it is going to be FREEZING!!!!!!!!!!!!

BLOG HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am in need of some help! I am trying to fix a friend of mine's blog page and I am having trouble getting the middle of the page to not be WHITE! I went and added the Gadget to HTML the background from cutest blogs is animal print on the sides and pink in the middle BUT the animal print shows up and the pink does not! CAN YOU HELP! If you need to see it go and click on Diane on my page under friends. Could it have anything to do with Minima your template? I don't know what that means but I have seen it a lot when looking for blogs.

Please any advice would be so helpful!!!!!!!!!