34 weeks!

Well we are on our final stretch! We have about 5 more weeks until this little girl arrives on March 2!! After seeing our ultrasound yesterday, it has really made me excited and ready to have this baby! Not that I wasn't before, but it just made me more ready! :)  We always love being able to see what the baby is going to look like and yesterday we got just that! Yesterday was probably the best ultrasound we've ever had!! The ultrasound lady really spent a lot of time allowing us to look at her face and just watch her move around.  It was such a blessing!! It is just so amazing seeing the miracle inside! God's handiwork is simply amazing!

When we first started the ultrasound, we weren't really able to see a whole lot.  I was getting a bit disappointed, but everything turned out amazing! The ultrasound lady kept switching the pictures to 4d and that gave us some amazing shots of Brynna! We never had any 4d pics of the other two and so this was just incredible to us. We were also very shocked when the ultrasound lady told us that it looked like Brynna had quite a bit of HAIR! We know nothing about our kids having hair when they come out.  Brynna also had her feet up by her face pretty much the entire time.  We even got one picture with her big toe touching her forehead.  It was pretty cool.  She sure has a long big toe. The ultrasound lady said that she is very squished in there, so we'll see how the next few weeks go. As of right now they are estimating that she's about 4.25 pounds.  So if it's true that they gain about 1/2 a pound a week she might actually be a little bit smaller than my other two.  The other two were 8lbs 10oz and 8lbs 5oz.  So we will see :) Can't wait to meet this little one!!!

 That thing to the right of her nose is her BIG TOE!!! :)

 All three of my kids will have the exact same shape of their chin!

 Those puggy lips and chubby cheeks!! I can't wait to kiss them!!

 This is so crazy to me!!! All those floating lines are HAIR!!!

Such a great picture of her toes and foot!

And finally a couple pics of me.  I haven't documented this pregnancy very well with pictures of me, but oh well.  I've pretty much looked the same with all three pregnancies.  I actually think that my tummy is a little bit smaller this time around than with the previous two.  Who knows.....maybe it's just me hoping :) 

Daddy-Daughter Date Night

Layne and I have talked about him taking Ryleigh on a date for a while now.  We tried planning it one other time, but something came up and they weren't able to go.  So the other night, something got cancelled and I asked Layne if he wanted to take Ry out instead. He of course wanted to! Ryleigh was super excited when I told her she was going to be able to go out with just her and Daddy.  Jayce was of course very devastated that he wasn't going to be able to go too.  He and Daddy always go and do things together, so he just figured he was going to get to go too.  But we really wanted Ry to feel special, so it was just her and Daddy.  I'm so glad that Layne wants to create that special bond with his daughter and teach her how special she is to him. 
Ry and Daddy were heading out to Chick-fil-a, but it was super duper packed....so they had to detour to McDonalds.  The McDonalds here doesn't have a playplace, so they just ate, had some great conversation (I'm sure :) ) and then came back home.  It wasn't too eventful, but Ryleigh thought she was the most special girl ever! And that's the point. 

 Waiting for Daddy to get home.  So excited for her First Date!!

Getting ready to hit the town. If you can't tell, this was one VERY excited little girl!!!

 Just her and Daddy on their date.

Yay for date night! I'm sure they both can't wait till the next one!

Visiting a new park

The neighborhood that we now live in is filled with parks, trees, trails and much more.  I think that we are really going to enjoy living here.  So last week, it was cold outside but the sun was shining.  So we decided to go to the park closest to our house and have a picnic and play.  This park is close to walk, but we had just picked Jayce up from preschool so we decided to just drive.  I'm so glad that we did, because after we got done eating, Ryleigh had to go potty.  So we hopped into the car, drove home, went potty and then went back to the park for some play time.  The kids loved it and then afterwards they both took great naps :) We have hats and gloves on, but with the sun shining it was really nice out.

                            

 The only thing missing on this beautiful day at the park was DADDY! We sure enjoyed some wonderful time outside! And Jayce has a mouth full of grapes :) HA!

 Here's a pic of Ryleigh swinging for the first time in a big kid swing!! She was very proud of herself! And then the next one is of course my growing belly.  I attempted to take a self portrait.  Not the best, but ah well. More belly pics will come later this week after we have our final ultrasound.

Kids Pics

Oh, I've been meaning to post these for a long while now....but for our Christmas card, I had Layne take some pics of the kids.  They did a great job and so did Layne :) Here's just a few of the ones that I really liked. 

Strange to think that in just a short 5 weeks, we will be adding one more to the pics! I hope you enjoy these pictures as much as I do! Oh how these two just melt my heart! We are truly blessed beyond measure!!

Christmas Day

This year we spent Christmas day with my family.  The kids were so excited this year about Santa coming to visit.  We had been talking about it for a while and so when the night came they were ready.  They left cookies and milk for him to eat.  The next morning they were so funny looking around the room seeing how things had changed.  It was a fun year.  After opening presents, the kids made a killing from Grammie, PawPaw, Uncle Jeff and Caitlin! They have loved every bit of it :) Can't wait for next year when we get to add one more to the craziness.

 Ready for Christmas morning

 Excited and checking everything out!

 Woah, the cookies are GONE!

 Seeing the loot that Santa brought

 Time to hand out all the gifts under the tree. They loved this part too :)