Our New House as of Mid-July
After our last post we headed to Houston the next weekend to meet my family for the Crawfish Festival! We also got a visit in with Jared's family in Beaumont while we were in the area.
The Crawfish Festival was a good time, as it always is! We had made plans months earlier for all of my brothers and sister to meet up in The Woodlands for the festival, and everyone but Ryan was able to make it. We were even able to catch up with Jared's Grandma Jean and Pa while we were there! The crawfish was spicy, and the weather was hot which is exactly what we expected!! Now if you know my mom, then you know there are not very many occasions where we don't have an abundance of pictures, and believe it or not, this was one of those occasions.... Following are the only pictures we have of all of us at the crawfish festival.
Me and Dad at the Crawfish Festival May 21, 2011
Daniel and Bre suckin' some mudbugs
Bre and Angela post chow down
We found a bench with a breeze.... Thank God!!
Dad enjoyed the people watching... ; )
After returning home from Houston, I had another visit with my OB on May 23rd that was completely routine... They sent me for my glucose test, and we have yet to hear anything back, so we can only assume that means that everything looked great! I was so relieved a week after the test, assuming that means I can avoid the nasty needles and testing that come with gestational diabetes!!!
Last week we drove to Dallas for our maternity pictures! The session went exactly as we had planned, and we were so happy with the photographer! Her work looks absolutely beautiful at such an amazing price, and we are so anxious to get a peek at some of our shoot! For those of you in the Dallas area, we highly recommend KT Photography... Thanks again to Lacey for finding the photographer!! Lacey has been such a HUGE help in so many ways throughout the pregnancy... Not sure what we would've done without her! She is definitely a Super Aunt already!! Lacey accompanied us to the session, and helped us carry around wardrobe changes and all that fun stuff! Lacey joked that I was a diva and she was my personal assistant for the day.... ; ) Thanks again, Lacey!! We love you!!! Following is just a sneak peek of our maternity session... We can't wait to get our CD with all of the images!!
Photo by KT Photography~Dallas, TX
Photo by KT Photography~Dallas, TX
While it was a very short trip, 24 hours from Abilene and back, we still managed to squeeze in a trip to the delicious Los Cucos!!! ; ) Los Cucos NEVER disappoints!! At least not in this pregnant chica's opinion....
Lunch at Los Cucos... Yummmm!!!!!!!
We are now two thirds of the way through Noah's journey in utero!! Friday, June 10th, marked the beginning of my third trimester! While I still consider myself extremely lucky, the aches and pains of pregnancy are definitely starting to make themselves known at this point. I am still trying to keep up my workouts, but I'm slowing down a good bit in order to make that happen!! I can see where this last leg will for sure prove to be the most difficult... I am keeping my eye on the prize, and just dreaming of the day we finally get to meet little Noah!!
28 Weeks 4 Days : )
On Sunday, just three days shy of our 3D ultrasound, I started to feel some unfamiliar movement.... Although it was movement I had been anticipating for a few weeks, and was just discussing with Lacey a few days earlier, it took me a few minutes to realize that Noah was having the hiccups!! I had read that around 26 or 27 weeks, you might start feeling the baby having hiccups and was wondering why I hadn't yet... Noah has been having the hiccups three or four times a day ever since!! Yet another milestone that we are happy to see Noah hitting!
Today, a year from the day that we went into our OB in Utah for an ultrasound that was the beginning of a terrible nightmare, we returned for another ultrasound in Texas that is the beginning of a dream come true!! Just a few hours ago we caught our first glimpse of Noah's face!! It almost looked like we weren't going to get to see him at first because he was hiding behind his arms, but eventually we were able to get him to move and give us a sneak peek of his cute little face! While we haven't yet decided who he looks like, we agree he has my nose, his Daddy's chin, and is absolutely adorable!!!! Today has gotten us all the more excited and anxious to meet our son in person, and kiss that sweet little button nose! ; ) Following are some of the still shots that best show his likeness...
Being shy... Hiding his face, and sucking his thumb
Finally letting us see his precious little face!!
He got his Daddy's cleft chin : )
Profile shot
His sweet tiny little hands
It has taken me all day to figure out how to load these videos, and I was determined to do it because I promised y'all I would have it!! What I didn't realize until today was that this ultrasound, while they are always exciting, isn't quite the same as the regular ones... The video is basically a record of the technician trying to get to the end result, being the still 3D shots of Noah. It is still really interesting to see how it works, and I wanted very much to share it with you despite its somewhat repetitive nature. There are some bits and pieces where you can see him moving around, and his tiny heartbeat. There are portions where the screen appears to be shaking, and that is the technician poking and prodding in an effort to get Noah to show his face! At one point she even got what she called a 'buzzer' which made a loud buzzing noise at my belly to try to get him to move... Thank goodness it all worked out in the end!! Enjoy the videos... It was too big to post in its entirety, so I had to break it up into two parts. There is a portion on one of the videos where the technician left the room for a minute or two, so it will pick back up again when she returns...
We have another ultrasound scheduled for next Thursday, June 23rd. It may very well be our last peek at Noah before we meet him in person!! I'm sure I will have some new pictures to post soon after our trip to The Woodlands for Noah's baby shower next weekend, but not sure I'll have time to get them up before then! Until next time, we love you all!! : )
