A Great Day

Today was such a great day! I had a doctors appointment at 10:45 this morning with an ultrasound. As always I am so nervous going into my appointments. I know its natural to be anxious and nervous but I hate it. I always pray the night before and morning of that everything will be fine and our sweet baby will be growing right on track. I am one of those lucky pregnant girls who has not had any sickness at all, not even nauseated. I have pretty much not had any symptoms except the usual having to go the bathroom all the time. Its so crazy to me to think this little baby is just a growing and kicking and moving and I don't feel anything. Every time I see the baby on the ultrasound it is just AMAZING!!! We could also see the nose and mouth. It was so neat to be able to see features. Today our sweet baby was kicking up a storm and moving all around. He/she even looked like it was trying to do a somersault. I couldn't help but smile and just thank God for our precious miracle!! I have been on bed rest for 3 weeks due to a subchorionic hemorrhage. Today I was just praying that it was gone and I could get back to my daily routine and get back to work. Today God answered my prayers, it was completely gone!! PTL. I wasn't sure how I could have handled another week of bed rest. I was seriously going stir crazy. Sure its nice for a couple of days but after 1 week, I had had enough. I have never been so excited to go to work tomorrow and get back to normal. I keep thinking how slow it feels like this pregnancy is going, but then I think about it and I can't believe I am already 11 weeks. We will find out sometime in the end of April what it is. Yes we are finding out. I wouldn't be able to stand it. I am such a planner! Its hard to think in just a little over 6 months we will be holding our precious baby.

Here is our sweet baby at 11 weeks. Heart beat was 173.
Thank you all for the well wishes and congrats.

We saw a Flicker....

Dear Baby,

(This was written at 6 weeks and 3 days)

Yesterday was the most amazing day ever, well I guess second to the day we found out about you and the day we told our parents, your wonderful grandparents. I had been waiting for this day my whole life. I have dreamed about being your mother and seeing that tiny little heartbeat on the screen. It was the most surreal and amazing feeling and moment ever. It was such a special moment for us. I almost cant even put into words the way I felt. When I saw that little heart beat flickering on the screen my heart just grew a thousand times and I was in love!! Yes it was love at first sight. There you are my special precious baby beating inside me. The one I have dreamed about and prayed about and here you are. You are still so tiny but yet you have already made such a huge impact in our lives. I know our lives are now forever changed by you. :) I love you so much already and can only imagine how much more my love is going to grow for you in the next months and when I get to hold you for the first time. I still cannot get over the fact that God has chosen me to be your mother. What a wonderful blessing it is. You are truly our little miracle and Mommy and Daddy LOVE YOU SO MUCH!! I just want to savor every moment of this precious time because I know before I can even blink you will be here in my arms. Oh how I can't wait for September to see your beautiful little face. I almost don't even know how to feel, I am just so beyond blessed and overjoyed!! I loved seeing that little heartbeat flicker and hearing it to. What an amazing sound it was, I know it will never get old. We also received our first picture of you and you are on our fridge. You daddy put you up on the refrigerator last night. He is so proud already. :) I know our lives have already changed and you will change our life even more, but it will be for the better. We will get to see your little heartbeat again in just 4 short weeks. I am so thrilled that we are getting another ultrasound at 10 weeks. The doctor wants to check on your growth and progress. This makes Mommy very happy. :) We love you very much Baby Stracener and can't wait to go on this journey these next 8 months.

Love,

Mommy

(I wrote this post because I want to document how I feel throughout this pregnancy. This is such a special time for us and I want to be able to remember how I felt all along the way. I want to be able to look back and read this and also be able to show it to our sweet baby when they are old enough. These moments are so precious and I don't want to stand by and just watch them pass. I want to soak it all in and remember every little detail. If I don't write it down I will never remember everything. I think pregnancy brain is already setting in.)

I am excited for y'all to follow us on this journey and I am so excited to be blogging about it so that my family that is out of state can keep up as well. :)

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BABY!!!!!!!!2nd Ultrasound at 8 weeks :)

3rd ultrasound at 9.5 weeks.
(Its amazing to see how fast my baby is growing)



WE ARE DUE SEPTEMBER 13, 2011!

We could not be more thrilled! We found out on January 4th and I am now about 9.5 weeks pregnant. I am so excited to be blessed with this precious precious miracle. We have seen our baby on ultrasound 3 times now. Today he/she was wiggling all around and moving its arm. Each time I go to the doctor it is just AMAZING!! I can't even describe the feeling. I am already one proud and blessed mama. Truly a dream come true. :) More details to come on how we found out, how we told our parents, etc. I don't want to forget any detail so I will be blogging until I get caught up :)

Snow day

So the weatherman had East Texas all up in arms about this snow storm that was supposedly to bring 3-4 inches of snow. Well let's just say not even an inch of snow for Lufkin. So much of a snow day. I was actually pretty excited about the snow and waking up to a winter wonderland. I love the cold weather. To me it's so much better than the heat. When I woke up to this, I lost all faith in our weatherman.


Really? This is the big snow storm. Look like it went above us and totally missed Lufkin. We have been having some crazy weather here. It was just in the 70s over the weekend and now it's been in the 20s-30s all week. For now I will enjoy the thin sheet of snow we have on our deck. Bentley is definitely not a fan of the cold, he wants outside then immediately wants back in. He has also been peeing on the deck, I guess he thinks it's to cold to get off the deck and go in the grass. Oh the minds of dogs. If only they could talk. I hope you are all staying warm!!


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