32 week Ultrasound & my first Baby Shower!

What an exciting week!!! First of all, we had our last big diagnostic ultrasound and got to see our baby girl! Debbie, our ultrasound technician said that Ella weighs around 4 lbs. 14 oz. right now at 32 weeks which is about 1 1/2 lbs. larger than average at this time. So, we could be looking at a 9 pounder!!! This is all of course just an estimate but thank the good Lord that we have a big healthy baby girl on the way!
Look how BIG my belly is!!!

Granny & Grandma!

Mommy, Daddy and Daddy's guitar! After Debbie did all the looking around she needed to do, Chris played and sang the newest version of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" for our Ella Bear! Before he started playing she was moving a lot. Debbie couldn't even get a good listen to her heart at that point because she was making so much noise moving! She said, "Oh man, ya'll are in trouble!" LOL Meaning that she is hyper! Anyways, once Chris started playing the guitar and singing, she calmed right down and was still and then started swaying a little to the beat of the song! SERIOUSLY! Momma Lowry video taped it so hopefully we'll be able to put it on the blog sometime. It was so cool and we were all in tears including Debbie (the ultrasound tech)!

These ultrasound pictures are kind of hard to interpret but here they are...
You have to turn your head to the right and this is a view of her face.

Debbie said Ella has lots of hair already! The arrow is pointing at the hair on her head.

This is another picture of her face.

Then Saturday, I had my first baby shower! It was so much fun! Alma, Brenda & Carolyn did an amazing job and I had such a wonderful time!
I am so blessed to have such amazing friends and family in my life!
Brenda made this Diaper Wreath for us to hang on the hospital door when Ella is born and then to put on the door in her room! Isn't it awesome!

My mom was right on with the "How big is mommy" game!

Granny giving Ella Bear a kiss!

Leah's was just a little too big but almost perfect!

Momma knows best!

My beautiful cake!

Favors...

The food was totally awesome!


Alma explaining that everyone went through and wrote a part of Ella's first fairy tale story...

Then she had me read it...

Look how tiny!!! It's just amazing to me that I have a little bitty life inside of me growing and getting ready to bless us with her presence in a month in a half or so.

Brock (Lindsay & Michael's baby boy born July 7th) and Isabella (Brenda & James' baby girl born July 10th)...I think those are the right dates.

My wonderful hostesses and friends!!! Brenda, Alma, Me & Carolyn.

The boys had all gone to play flag football and softball (for Chris' Dudes & Diapers) while we had the shower. Then they came back to Eddie & Alma's house for hamburgers and to hang out with all of us girls! We got tons of diapers by the way! Thank you guys so much for that!

Jim, Chris & Eddie...

My buddies! Deanna, Brenda, Me & Almita. Thank you girls for being such great friends and for all the wonderful gifts!

We are so blessed to have all of you in our lives and thank God every day for that! Thank you so much again and again for both my shower and Chris' Dudes & Diapers! We love ya'll!

Pictures of our 20 week Ultrasound!

Here are the pictures from our diagnostic ultrasound in which the ultrasound specialist, Debbie, spent more time looking at all of our baby's organs and making sure everything was normal. My mom and Chris' mom got to be there which was really cool! Debbie took this right before the ultrasound started.

And this is where we found out for sure that we were having a baby GIRL!!! You have to imagine that the baby is sitting on a glass table and you are underneath. You can see her little boodie and thighs and then in between where the arrow is you can see the little girl part!!!

The picture on the right is of her hands, forearms and elbows covering her face...she was being shy!!! And I can't remember what the one of the left was...looks like the bone in her arm.

I love this one! She is laying on her side and one of her arms is up by her face like she is sleeping on it.

The picture on the left is of her forearm covering her face again and the right picture is of her belly.

This picture is of her on the opposite side of my stomach with her hands/arms up by her face. Duirng the 30-45 minutes we were there, she did a 360 in my belly!

And then here was the amazing treat Debbie gave us at the end! A 4D view of our sweet little baby girl! It was so neat and so clear!

What an awesome experience that was and we all left with great satisfaction knowing 100% that we aer having a little GIRL!

I'll have my profile pictures up next week sometime..hope everyone has a great weekend and God Bless!

Oh and Blake & Leah's little Boston Terriers Lucy & Toby had 6 babies!!! Chris and I haven't gotten to see them yet but Mom & Dad got to visit right after Lucy had them! So, if anyone is looking to buy a Boston Terrier Puppy let me know!

20 week visit!

We had our 20 week visit at the doctor's office yesterday which was quite different than we expected. We were expecting to have a thorough ultrasound with the specialist and both of our mommas took off work early to be there with Chris and I. Well, when we got there the nurse said "No, you're not having an ultrasound today...we will schedule your ultrasound for tomorrow or next Wednesday with the ultrasound specialist." So, needless to say, we were all a bit disappointed because we have been so excited to find out the gender of our sweet little baby! So, the doc went ahead and did a "quickie" ultrasound, especially since our moms were there, to look around and see if he could see anything regarding the gender of the baby. He said he was 90%-95% sure it was a GIRL even though the legs were closed and the umbilical cord was in the way. So, this is us before going into the hospital for the appointment.
Here's a picture of me getting my quickie ultrasound.

And then here are a couple pictures I took in my pj's the other day to show how much my bebe bump has grown since the last pictures at 16 weeks! Look, I already have that line underneath my bellybutton!!!



We are going back tonight 7:30pm to have our "thorough" ultrasound and to confirm that it's a GIRL! We'll let everyone know tomorrow and of course we will take the progression pictures with the black backdrop...LOL

16 Week Pictures

Happy Monday to all of you! Last week I went to my 16 week appointment and the Doc did a quick 5 second check up via ultrasound in a different room on a different really tiny screen in which I got to see the baby for a couple seconds. I saw his/her spine, head, belly, legs, arms and it's little heart beat flickering but didn't get a picture to take home this time. I guess I have been spoiled the last two times because we got to see the baby on the ultrasound for a lot longer and got two pictures to bring home. Oh well, as long as the Doc says everything is ok, that's fine by me!
We have our next appointment on July 22nd in which we will find out the baby's gender and our mommas will be coming with us too!!! We can't wait!
Chris has still been reading to the baby every night and he gets really into it too! He makes sound effects and is very animated with his voice! LOL
He's going to be such a great Daddy!
Here is my 16 week baby bump picture that Chris took of me. He insisted we use the black backdrop this time to make it look better.
Thank you for all of your continued love, support and prayers!
God Bless and have a great week!

12 Week Visit!!!

We had our 12 week, second doctor check up Monday, May 27th and here are the awesome ultrasound pictures from our visit. Chris and I were totally amazed looking at the screen with what we saw! The baby, which Chris calls "Little Body, Big Head" or "he/she Miller" was just hanging out in the first picture below looking like he/she was chillin in a barcalounger and then all of a sudden it's legs started going to town kicking and it's arms too! That's when Doc got the the picture of baby's profile.

Then, baby turned towards us and started waving! I know most of you are thinking, "Yeah right...it's just a movement the baby made" but, seriously we could see it clearly turn towards us and then it's hand started waving back and forth. Doc even said, "Oh look it's waving at ya'll" and that's why he wrote "HELLO" next to the picture.

Anyways, that was a totally amazing experience for the both of us and I hear it only gets better from here! Chris was so excited afterwards when he called his mom she said that he was talking about it to her going 90 miles an hour! LOL
So, my next visit will be in 4 more weeks and they will check the heart beat and do some more blood work. 4 more weeks from then we will find out the sex of the baby at week 20's visit which will be mid July as long as the baby is cooperating.
We have made it to the 2nd trimester now and they say I should start to get a little more energy and not feel as nauseous anymore which I have already been feeling a little better when it comes to the nausea.
I'll be posting my baby bump progression pictures in a couple of days...until then, hope everyone has a wonderful weekend and God Bless!

Here's one of my 12 Week pictures...

I'm Pregnant!

OK...so most of you know that Chris and I are going to be parents in about 7 months!!! We are so thrilled with this recent news and were so happy to share it with our friends and family. We had our first appointment with my Doctor and also had the first ultrasound which was really neat! We saw the heart beat flickering and my Doctor said everything looks good. So we go back in another 4 weeks to have another check-up and ultrasound and I will of course up date you again then. Chris took a couple pictures of me last night...you know the side view...and I'm not really showing from being pregnant or anything but I do have a little belly which looks like I am pregnant. That was there from before! LOL. So, I will be posting some of those pictures either tonight or tomorrow.

Thank you for all of your love, support and prayers! We really appreciate it and look forward to updating you again soon!!! God Bless!