It's Turner Time!

38 weeks and ready for Turner! Instead of stork, it's a hummingbird bringing Turner! :)

Well! It could happen at any moment. I'm getting excited and like every pregnant woman for nine months, ready! I'm not ready because I'm miserable or uncomforable, I'm just ready to meet our little guy! These past months have been a true blessing and whirlwind. I truly cannot believe it's time. It has flown by with nothing but wonderful memories! We have been so grateful to be surrounded by so many family and friends who truly show us unconditional love each day. I can't wait for Turner to meet all these wonderful people! I was thinking the other day about everything I will miss about pregnancy and what I won't miss. As I was journaling, I didn't really have that many on either side. I feel God gave me this time to cherish and I soaked in every moment. (I do feel like I slept half my pregnancy, but oh well!) I have been truly blessed to have such a wonderful pregnancy (I know it's not over yet, so I shouldn't speak too soon!:) I have had many funny memories that I look back on and smile. Addison says I need to write a book about my pregnancy,...we may think they are funny, great memories but to others it's just a typical day for any preggo. Today a student asked me if PoPo lays on my belly--it was so cute! And yes he does. PoPo has been great and only chewed up one of Turner's toy so far--I bawled for the maybe 3rd time since I've been pregnant, but he was sorry for what he did. Qucken just loves to sit in Turner's room staring at me. She will be such a good sister! PoPo..we just need to pray..real hard for him.. OR have rotation months on who will keep him! He's a great dog!!
    Addison has been amazing through it all! He even says I have not been that emotional or 'moody' for being pregnant--at least to my face:). I can't believe we have been a family of 4 (PoPo and Quicken) and we are now about to become a family of five! (or to normal people 3:). We have been together for 8 years this June and I can't wait to start this new journey with him! We are going to have so much fun!!! We've already talked about all the places we want to take Turner and then those simple days of going out fishing on a Sunday afternoon. We already know he will help Turner in Math and Science, and I will help him in organization, writing, grammar, spelling and READING!
   We are now just waiting for what's yet to come. I pray to God Turner will simply be a healthy baby boy who will have the world waiting for him to start his journey!

Wanted a picture with my other babies before the 'real' baby comes.

Michelle and Shannon from work hosted a Book shower for me and Addison. The best thing was it was at the Wine Cellar!! I can't wait to visit there real soon.

Virginia and Katie from work!

I officially have four more days of work. I can't believe I don't go back until August!! I have the best work family and GREATEST kids. So excited! Work is my home away from home and I will miss it BUT BUT I will cherish every second I have with Turner.

 I am truly blessed my mom is watching him when I return from work. I thank her every day because it is truly a blessing she is doing this!! I think she will have her hands more full with trying to handle Quicken and PoPo than Turner. She is so wonderful for doing this! I love you mom!!

Alright Turner..it's time for you to make your debut!!

Love,

Mom and Dad

Room Update!

Lydia and Sonya have been my interior decorators for Turner's WONDERFUL room! We are going to finish it up this weekend, but here's some previews. I am SO SO SO happy with his room. I seriously go in there everyday and just look around, sit in the chair, play with his clothes. I started playing with his shelves, but know they can look cuter. I need some more 'cute' stuffed animals. I just can't wait!!

Lydia is available for any rooms to decorate! She has that keen eye needed. :) Love you Lydia!

I have decided on this to bring Turner home. It says 'Brand New' on it. The blanket was made by my grandma.

Lydia made the signs. They look so good!

This is the quilt my grandma made for Turner to always remember what his baby room looked like.

The frames were all Lydia and Sonya. I did have this as a vision, but they made it happen and look 10 times better.

What great memories!

I've been so crazy busy lately I haven't had time to post and I also have been dreading sitting at the computer. It's been couch time with feet up many nights. (so I apologize for bad editing and lack of detail)
I have had such an amazing three weeks! I truly thank God for all the wonderful people he has placed in my life. There have been times the last three weeks I simply have just stopped and was in awe by all the amazing family and friends we have. Turner is going to be such a lucky little man and I'm so happy to be bringing him into this world surrounded by such love!

 We have had four amazing showers the past three weeks. My girlfriends did such a wonderful job for Turner's shower. The food and decorations were amazing! Thank you Marcy, Jenny, Katey, and Rachel for being so great to us! They had the best idea! Each person gave me advice on a diaper. What I love is how in the wee hours of the night I'm going to look forward to putting a diaper on Turner because I get to read some advice! Great idea! You can tell by the pictures how wonderful it all was.

Marcy is quite creative! The diaper cake was adorable! I love the diaper wreath with his name cut out! She also made me THE CUTEST burp cloths. I don't have pics yet, but lets just say it includes daschunds.

Rachel handmade the cupcake toppers and cake plates. She also made the cutest frame for Turner's room. It's perfect!

Family and friends! love them!

My school and church shower were great! I got the cutest onesies that Turner will look adorable in!

My girls! They treat me so well and can't wait to be Grandmas! Jan did such cute decorations and Gail made wonderful punch!

I seriously have the best people to work for. We have too much fun at our job!

Charity got me the cutest onesies. Love this one! You can tell how exhausted I was. My eyes could barely stay open. The play is over with now, so that is all behind me!

Church shower:

Nanny made Turner this toy.

Natalie was sweet and wrote down all the gifts.

(looks like mom and I were rooting for a girl!:)

and then a typical Katy story! ......

So after all our showers Addison and I were curious because we still hadn't recieved our stroller/carseat/pack-n-play. I checked the registry and it said it was fulfilled. The mystery began. We couldn't figure it out, so I even called Target to complain. They said that someone could of accidently bought it off of yours and gave it to someone else. IT kind of became a joke on how we can have Turner they just won't let us leave the hospital! Addison and I were even going to go buy both of them this weekend.

Well, that sounds about right for us. Little did I know.....

A few weeks ago my parents and students started planning a surprise baby shower for us. This morning we planned on going to the cafeteria to work on the Inventor speeches. I stopped by the office to get a drink and talked to some people. I just happen to be the last person down there. All of a sudden I hear 100 surprises. I burst out in tears. I could not believe it. They had Rick's sugar cookies, sprite, a mini cake and of course... our stroller, car seat, and pack-n-play. I was so shocked! They kids were so cute that even many, many of them wore blue. (I had pink on of course :) They laughed! I simply love my job, students, and parents.

I am starting to get uncomfortable sitting in the chair, so more to come later! I can't tell you how much this all means to us. I can't wait to meet our little guy!!! Getting VERY excited!!

Oh, the Places he will go!

Valentine's Day weekend was an eventful one! Friday night Marcy, Jackson, and Cameron came over. Marcy and Addison hung the saying, "Oh, the Places You'll Go!" over the closet door in Turner's room. It looks great! I received my diaper bag in the mail as well. I was VERY happy--like a new purse! :)
Nothing makes Valentine's Day weekend more romantic then attending our full day birthing class on Saturday. I was glad we went. It did answer many questions and somewhat too much information from time to time. It got me excited for the big day! Luckily, the lady was highly entertaining. We then went home to enjoy a very relaxing, wonderful meal of steak, potatoes, and asparagus/green beans. We topped it off with a movie and cheesecake! (I even made it through the entire movie!) Addison even lit candles and we used placemats :)! It was very nice to just spend time at home. Today, I had a lot of errands to run in order to get ready for the week. Turner bought Daddy a John Deere book to read to him! Addison has been hinting on wanting some John Deere things...like there's not YEARS of all of that to come. I bought Turner a little Hoot Owl for Valentine's Day while we were out and about!
Looking forward to the next six weeks...I can't believe it's only six more weeks!! Yeah!

My diaper bag hanging from the crib ready to go!

Cried when I walked in the room!!

The big showing was today with all of Turner's curtains and bedding in the room!! It looks SOOO good!! You know how you have a picture in your head about what it will look like and this exceeds any expectation I could of ever imagined.
   I can't wait to start adding accessories! I was in awe of how cute it looked. Sonya and Lydia greeted me at the door and as soon as I walked in I cried because it was so cute! Addison loves it!

Target Disclaimer :)

I got home from work and Addison said he read the blog today. He had NO CLUE where the Black and Decker set came from. He promises he did not register for it. He thought I made it up. It was on there, but my dear husband said he NEVER went near the tool section :) Gotta love it! He greeted me today with flowers and the eggs I needed to bake cookies for Haiti tonight. Even if he did register for the tools, he probably deserves them for what a great guy he is! :)

32 and counting!

If it wasn't for babycenter.com, I would probably never know what week I am in. I will be that mother who has to stop and figure out how many weeks Turner is. I will probably be a more 'month' kind of mom :). I am still feeling great! Since Friday I've been off work and it's been SO nice. I love not feeling dead to the world around 3:00! I got so much accomplished on my days off. We did have a beautiful snowy hill that never got used because Addison was stranded in Baltimore until Sunday, but it will get plenty use for years to come with Turner!

Addison and I registered tonight at Target. I have been trying to prepare myself for it, but we really had no clue what we were doing. Luckily, Marcy knows me and made a list for me! (She's the best!) I brought it and my highlighter--I still am not sure if I did everything correctly. When I got home, I did notice Addison registered for a Black and Decker home tool set. I took it off. He also wanted to register for Tupperware ?? I was trying to just figure out what was the difference between the three bouncer things that seemed different but couldn't find out what they did. I mean, I've been to my round of baby showers, but I still had no clue. I kept on looking at Addison on what to get and he would just stare at me blankly. Towards the end I started getting REALLY hungry and I was ready to go. Hopefully a car seat is on there somewhere... :)