Happy Day!

i knew last night at 8:30pm when i was sipping on that sweet tea it was a mistake. and yup, it was. i was up pacing the floors till 5:30am this morning...ugh i do not like that. ive been so good about not drinking anything with caffine in it pretty much for the past few months, but last night with dinner i just had to have a sweet tea. so, yeah, at 5:30 im walking the floors, thoughts stirring through my mind, well should i just stay up or try and go to bed? i took a sleeping med and thank the Lord, i finally drifted into sleep. at 9:30am the phone is ringing...grrrr.

i had forgotten that my daughter Alexis was getting her ultra-sound done today at 8:30am. she knows that alayna and i have been openly praying for a girl. i want pink frilly dresses and hair ribbons and soft pink blankets...

so im awaken at 9:30 with a question..."Well, what do you think?" I spatted, I don't know just tell me.

"IT'S A GIRL"

(image by) weheartit.

that had me jumping out of bed with a smile plastered across my face from ear to ear! YES, thank you Lord, thank you, thank you, thank you. and more importantly, she is healthy! we are blessed. in the next 20 weeks i will be doing a lot of shopping, Target here I come. 

a few months ago Caitlin and I were at Target just cruising through the baby department (cause you know, we do that sometimes, and i spotted the creamiest pastel pink blanket. i dang near wanted to get it for me and if it had been bigger i would have, but i can promise you this, i will be heading back there to pick that blanket up for our baby girl who is due to arrive late in August. Im so excited, you cant tell can you?

and by the way they have chosen a name for her..

....Teagan.....

i wasn't thrilled with it at first, but its starting to grow on me. august cannot get here soon enough for me now. normally i dread august in the summer, its muggy, humid, and hot here in the midwest, but this year i will be dancing in the streets waiting on baited breath for her to make her arrival. and yes, of course, i will be documenting this wondrous event, for all those that want to see. i know you men are pretty squeamish about that kind of stuff, but too bad, don't look.

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at 5:30AM this morning it was raining buckets. as i sat in the dining room i could hear the drops splattering across the window panes. and still this afternoon at 2PM its still raining. and its cold. and our heat went out again. so, yeah, we have no heat. we normally wouldn't even need the heat on in April, but of course since we do need it, we don't have it. Im sick of messing with that furnace.

to replace it would be expensive because we have steam heat radiators (yeah, old school) it would cost a fortune to change it. what can you do? nothing is going to dampen my joy today. I declare it!

XOXO