Abby trying to get her ball

For those of you who know Abby, she is a tennis ball lover. You would think she was a retriever, she loves playing ball so much! This time the ball is stuck and she really wants it.

Me & Baby White at 16.5 weeks

Me and Baby White at 16.5 weeks :) As of today, we have 22 days until we Godwilling are able to find out if we will be having a boy or girl. I CANNOT wait! So exciting and looking forward to the big ultrasound. As of now, baby White and I are doing terrific. I am enjoying being pregnant very much! I have no complaints thus far. Hopefully all will continue to go well! :)

Stacy & Kris' Wedding Reception in Albuquerque, NM

I missed my honey a TON, but I did enjoy being with my mom and family which made it there. I realized 3 hours on a flight is a very long time for me. A little difficult to sit still especially when one leg had the most smelly, stinky guy next to me :( Other than that I must say it was a pretty nice weekend!

This past week...

Wow, I cannot believe it has already been a week since I wrote. Last Friday we had Dinner at Riverside and met with Christine and Dylan before they headed up to Wintergreen for their long weekend. That was very nice to see them! Then we headed home and got some rest :) Saturday, Valentine's Day, we went to Short Pump and Ryan found a couple deals. I bought a few maternity shirts which was fun. Then we headed back home for our Valentine's dinner at Bonefish. We had a nice dinner and then a an added surprise, Ryan decided he would fly me to the ACC tournament for just the weekend. I was ecstatic when I heard. Never thought that would happen since I figured it would be pricey. But best of all we get to stay at the Ritz Carlton downtown Atlanta. This is the team hotel this year which I cannot wait for!

This week all has gone well with work and my prenatal classes. Today, Ryan and I got to hear our baby's heart beat at our monthly check-up. That was pretty awesome! Almost sounds like a dog panting. The heart rate has slowed down a bit (in the 140s compared to the 167), either cause he/she is growing or sleeping. Probably the latter. I think this baby is a sleeper. I will know more when I start to feel baby White moving around. Supposedly I should soon, I am looking forward to that point! In exactly a month from today, hopefully we will be able to see if it is a boy or girl. I am sooo looking forward to that point! So far all seems healthy, so we have truly been blessed. Tomorrow I am 16 weeks and cannot complain; it has been fun :)

Tomorrow I head to Albuquerque, NM for the weekend. I will be there with my mom attending Stacy's Wedding Reception helping her celebrate. It will be nice to see the family again. Ryan and Abby will be headed to Raleigh tomorrow AM. Ryan has work meetings there and also has to attend the NC State vs Virginia Basketball game on Saturday for work. I am sure it will be nice for him to see his family and friends too.

Well enough for now. Back next week, hopefully with more baby White and Kelly's belly pics!

Happy Early Valentine's DAY!

Hi Everyone!

Ryan just had 2 beautiful dozen roses delivered to my work for Happy Early Valentine's Day. We promised each other we would not buy anything just go to dinner that night, so of course I was actually shocked and I was elated to see them. Pictures are below :)

I have the BEST HUBBY EVER!!

Today, I am 14 weeks and 6 days, meaning tomorrow I will be 15 Weeks!! YEA! Tonight I am babysitting, tomorrow we are hanging with Friends and Saturday is Kelly and Ryan day ending with dinner at Bonefish! Hopefully I will have more belly pictures to post next Tuesday night or Wednesday.

More to come later :)

This weekend I went to Bernie’s wedding with Maddie. We drove up on Friday after work, had some awesome Mexican food in Gainesville before headed to Christine’s. Saturday morning we attended Bernie’s beautiful ceremony at their church in Maryland. Following we headed to Maggiano’s in DC where here reception was held and we had an amazing lunch. I have to say I think it was the biggest Maggiano’s I have ever been to and the staff couldn’t have been nicer! Bernie and Anthony seemed very happy so I am so happy for them. They are going on their honeymoon to St Bart’s and Bernie if you read this take LOTS of pictures. I want to see, sounds amazing! Not too long after Maddie and I had to head back. I got to hang out with Joshua James or a little while as Maddie and Josh went to a dinner. Joshua James and I had tons of fun! He is a ball of fun and I just love being around him!!

Onto this week, yesterday after work I had my prenatal swimming class and today I have prenatal yoga followed by Junior League Meeting. Thursday, I am babysitting which I am looking forward to as well! Saturday I may get to see and hang out with Christine, so yippee, and Saturday is V-Day! Saturday, I get to be with my HONEY all day!! So exciting; he is the best hubby ever!!!

Poppie made Abby FAMOUS

Yes, we know Ryan's parents LOVE Abby, well Poppie did want to make her famous. So of course she got a big picture on the Raleigh News & Observer. Their main big paper in Raleigh, NC so check it out! :) Hope you enjoy. Of course there was a slight typo, they thought it was his dog, but that is ok. We know who she really lives with :)

THANK YOU JIM, Abby will look at this picture every night in her crate. She is liking her crate more again. I don't know if she gets annoyed with mom, peeing every couple hours because every night in the middle she decides to jump off the bed and head into her crate to sleep.

13 weeks and 4 days TODAY!

Me and Baby White in my belly :) Ryan will try and keep taking pictures as we grow. Enjoy!

Where has time gone...

Since I last wrote, I have had book club. This month we are reading He's Just Not That Into You. Then our book club girls plan on going to see the movie together either later this month or hopefully early March. We have hung out with our neighborhood friends and have babysat a couple times. It has been a pretty nice couple of weekends. I am always enjoying all of my prenatal water and yoga classes. Oh and how could I forget, I did go to Bernie's Bachelorette night. It is always wonderful to hang with my college/sorority girls again. This weekend I will be going back up to northern va for Bernie's wedding and Ryan will be going to Lynchburg area for Stephanie's wedding. We had to split up since we have two weddings the same day. I will miss him for sure!

About me and baby White. We are doing GREAT! Feeling well and today I am 13 weeks, 3 days!! We just received test results back for the early screening and all looks good and healthy. We are very blessed to have had such a terrific pregnancy thus far. We are looking forward to the day we get to find out the sex. This month we will get to hear the baby's heart beat too which is exciting as well!

Oh and lastly, we have finally planned our babymoon trip (last big vacation before our family begins). We will be flying out to LA for a cruise to the Mexican Riviera on a 7 night cruise on the Sapphire Princess. I am soo looking forward to our vacation as I do every year. It doesn't end there; when we return to LA on the 11th of April we will then fly to Las Vegas to visit my sis. We will be staying at the Mandalay Bay which I am ecstatic to see her and stay at this hotel. I cannot wait to visit Kendra, after all she has visited us soo many times, we are overdue.

Well I think that is it for now and I will be back on sooner than the last. We hope everyone is well and hope you continue to enjoy reading up on us becoming a family.

Week 12 Tomorrow!

Yea! We just had our first ultrasound this morning!It went well! Heart beat was 167 which is supposedly good. I think he/she wanted to sleep because he/she would not move around and lay the way the ultrasound tech wanted it too. I had to cough a few times and walk around to try and wake it up :) he/she waved his hand to say hi a couple times. He/she looks like it has long legs too :) hopefully it will get Ryan's height :) Well love you all and hope you enjoy the photos; they aren't as clear as I'd like, but it is ok. By the looks all looked good, but we will get the test back in about a week to see if it has down syndrome, so hopefully all will be clear there as well.I have to say I am doing pretty well too :)

More to come later...