A Birthday Wish Come True...

My birthday flowers and breakfast made by Meghan and Jess Mearns

Monday was my 25th birthday. Other than it probably being the first birthday ever spent away from my parents, it was one of the best! Danny had been sneaking around making surprise plans with some of my friends from home and two of them came to surprise me. It was an awesome surprise and we had a really great weekend!

Its a Girl!

Well, tomorrow I will be 21 weeks! Other than the gender reveal, there isn't too much news since we haven't been to the doctor since my last post. I will say that I have really started to feel bigger ...

20 Weeks tomorrow!!

Enjoying our new ride :)

Its been a crazy few weeks so I haven't gotten to post in a while. During these past few weeks, Danny and I
had a fun trip to Cincinnati, got a new car (our first family car), had family in for Easter, and went to Knoxville to celebrate my niece's first birthday and Danny's 26th! It has been a whirlwind with long weekends and short work weeks and its looking like every weekend of April is following suit. In fact, tomorrow I fly out to Texas along with my mother-in-law and Aunts to visit my sister-in-law!! I am so excited! She is getting married 8.3.13 so we are looking at wedding gowns and bridesmaid dresses.

Weeks 17...well 17ish :)

I was 17 weeks last Thursday. As I mentioned in my previous post, my clothes have been uncomfortable since week 15ish. Over the weekend we had a wedding to go to in Cincinnati and we were going to meet up with some of Danny's close friends and their wives the Friday night before. We had dinner plans and such and I was frantic about what I was going to wear since I have been hardly ever wearing "real clothes". Friday morning when I woke up I immediately remembered I had a gift card to Macy's and there is one 10 minutes from our house! I went and had success!

Weeks 6-16

Baby O's first photo shoot

The first few weeks I was pregnant we stayed in a Residence Inn in Morgantown, WV. It was one of the nicer rooms I've stayed in but because the morning sickness (which should be called ALL DAY misery) was setting in, I was ready to get out of there when we picked up and moved about 2 weeks after settling in. Our first appointment with my doctor back home in Knoxville was at 8 weeks. It was surreal to see our little baby for the first time! It was tiny, but it was our baby nonetheless. Made in full my God's goodness, in part by the love Danny and I shared. It was and still is such a beautiful miracle that life comes from love.

Our First Time Hearing the News

Danny and I found out we were expecting on New Years Eve. Although, I had been thinking about babies a lot and dreaming of the day when we had some of our own we were quite terrified when we first found out.We weren't even in the privacy of our own home so that made everything a little bit crazier. Instead, we were getting ready for a big night out with two good couple friends of ours. We were going to a concert. My friend Cory had listened to me complain about some changes in my body all afternoon and finally she said "Charley, have you taken a pregnancy test??".