8th Favorite thing

8) One of Addyson's ultimate favorite things to say is:

Number 7

7) She LOVES playing with her My Little Ponies!

Addyson's 6th favorite

6) This is Addyson's favorite stuffed animal. One day I was getting ready for the day and Addyson dragged me into my closet and pointed to the top on the shelf. I looked and it was a Valentine stuffed animal that Stephen had given me years ago. I pulled it down for her and from then on she has loved him. Ryan helped us name him and so he now goes by Beethoven.

Addysons 5th favorite thing (in no particula order)

5) Honestly I'm not sure if you turned this on and held up Fruit Snacks as to which one Addyson would choose. Somehow she would get both at the same time.

Four of Addyson's favorite things

I wanted to start a post for everyday for the whole month before Addyson's 2nd birthday. I got this inspiration from Jenny and thought I would do a whole month instead. Things have been crazy around here but I was sitting here thinking of Addyson and what a sweet angel is she to us. So I thought this is as good as anytime to start. Since I missed 3 other days I will start with 4 of Addyson's favorite things.

1) Welch's Fruit Snacks (all you have to say is fruit snacks and she giggles and makes us go get them)
2) Her Pink Butterfly blanket (this is her ultimate favorite blanket of ALL time)

3) Swimming in her pool (she swam twice today)

4) Her Pacifier (it's actually orange and green) (This has to accompany her pink blanket) The pacifier fairies will be taking it away when she turns two.

I will be posting again, and with a picture of her! Less than one month and our baby girl will be 2!

Hope Now by Addison Road

If everything comes down to love
Then just what am I afraid of
When I call out Your name
Something inside awakes in my soul
How quickly I forget I'm Yours

(PRE-CHORUS)
I'm not my own
I've been carried by You
All my life

(CHORUS)
Everything rides on hope now
Everything rides on faith somehow
When the world has broken me down
Your love sets me free

When my life is like a storm
Rising waters all I want is the shore
You say I'll be ok and
Make it through the rain
You are my shelter from the storm

(PRE-CHORUS)
I'm not my own
I've been carried by You
All my life

(CHORUS)
Everything rides on hope now
Everything rides on faith somehow
When the world has broken me down
Your love sets me free

(CHORUS 2)
Everything rides on hope now
Everything rides on faith somehow
When the world has broken me down
Your love sets me free
You've become my hearts desire
I will sing Your praises higher
Cause Your love sets me free
Your love sets me free
Your love sets me free

This is the last picture we will see.....

This morning when I woke up I never thought I would be posting this post today. I thought it would be a happy 12 weeks post. I woke up and had some spotting so we went to the doctor a couple days early just to get some reasurance for the weekend. We found that we had lost our precious baby just shortly after our first appointment. So this sweet picture is the last picture we will see of our third child. I go in Monday for a D&C because we opted to not have to go through the emotional pain/physcial pain of what happened last time. If you could say a prayer for us today, tomorrow, next week we would appreciate it. It is so hard for a mother and father to lose not one but two children before they got a chance at life.

Thank you for your prayers in a advance.
Stephen, Michelle and Addyson

UNDER 200

I just looked at my ticker and realized it said
198 Days left

We are under 200 days. WOW
Time is flying

Keep the names coming, I love some of your ideas! Also they don't all have to be boy/girl names. Just anything you have heard that is unique but fun.

We pretty much have the first name for a boy, just looking for a middle name and we pretty much have a middle name for a girl but looking for a first name.
We might just have to see this little one before we can make it final. This is so much fun!

Thanks for your prayers, I'm feeling them!

It's a GAME

Alright I am proposing a game, it's called the Name Game.
We need help with finding the right name for our new addition coming in November.
I want you to post your ideas of the names that you think we would like.
The names have to be cute but unique, I like names that can be boy names but also girl names, or vise versa. Or just plain cute. ;)
The catch is you won't know if we are choosing your name until the baby is born. That means no family, friends and so on. We are keeping the name a secret this time around.
For those that know a couple of our ideas please don't post on here what those are. You have to come up with your own.
Also we have a couple names on our list, if those names are given by anyone and we go ahead with our ideas there is no winner for that name. That will cut out those that do know our ideas and try to "cheat" LOL
There is a reward, whoever's name we use and after we announce we will be sending you a gift card to your favorite place/restaurant.
So let the game begin!!!

We made it to 11 weeks!!

To some 11 weeks is not a huge milestone but to us its a HUGE accomplishment. We never made it to 11 weeks with our last pregnancy so making it to 11 with this one just takes some of the nervousness away. Almost, give it a couple more weeks when we are into our 2nd trimester and I will be on cloud 9.
Anyways here is our little sweet pea at 11 weeks, he/she is the size of a FIG.
I had a cute conversation with the 5 year old I watch before school every day.

Lesly: "You are having a boy"
Me: " Oh really you think it's a boy?"
Lesly: "No it's a girl-boy"
Me: " Well I can't have a girl-boy".
Lesly: "Yes, you are a girl and you are having a boy".

That made me chuckle. Looks like it's going to be a boy ;)







And because my daughter is the cutest thing on earth. LOL

New baby items

I was very proud of myself this past week. My friend told me of a garage sale that was going on in our neighborhood that had a bunch of baby items. We went to check it out and I picked up two baby items and only spent $25. These items looked fairly new and I knew I needed them for the new baby coming. I hope to find a few more things!

Easter 2009

We had a great relaxing Easter. Our little girl was so dang cute!! I found this dress and new it would look great with her hair color. She is so much older this year than last. Last year I still had a baby, this year I have a toddler. I hope everyone had a fabulous Resurection day.

Addyson- Easter 2009

10 weeks on the 10th

The size of our baby at 10 weeks

I'm a little nervous this time around at posting belly pictures. It seems that the second time around my tummy has grown so much faster. So I'm not too sure if at 10 weeks I should be looking like this. LOL
It could have a little to do with eating so bad last week....BUT I haven't gained much at all.

I am 10 weeks today....only 30 weeks left. This pregnancy seems to be flying by. I'm not sure why, probably because I have an almost 2 year old running around all the time. My days are filled with busyness. But here we are at 10 weeks already.

I appreciate the congrats and the prayers, they mean a lot to me.
I have a couple more weeks until I can really feel at ease so if you could please keep the prayers coming I would really be thankful.

I guess since I have posted pictures in the past I will continue to do so. But will make them smaller. lol
Plus side I have not started wearing maternity clothes yet. I can still fit in all my clothes and they are still somewhat loose on me. Probably because I lost 13 pounds before I got pregnant.

Oh and maybe poking out more means I'm going to have a boy????

6 weeks

10 weeks

Being Pregnant

Thanks for all the congrats! We are really excited AND a little nervous. he he

Let this be a little memo to myself when having baby fever next time:

Things I have forgotten about being pregnant.

Day in day out of being nauseous
Nauseous if I eat, nauseous if I don't.
Having to go to the bathroom every 30 min to the hour.
Waking up 4 - 5 times a night to go to the restroom
The tiredness
No bad indigestion YET Praise the Lord!
Giving up my coffee

These are just the pointers, the beginning. I'm sure there will be more to come later on. LOL

I'm ready for the 2nd trimester THAT'S for SURE!

Oh the JOYS of being pregnant ha ha ha
But you can be sure that I am LOVING having these symptoms, it gives me GREAT HOPE that things are moving right along.