Mommy Days

So it's been awhile, a bit has changed. I am NOT pregnant any more (I didn't realize how yucky I was starting to feel until I wasn't pregnant anymore!!) and we have a wonderful little darling girl peeing and pooping and sleeping around the clock at our house!  We're all doing good!  Mommyhood has taken a little getting used to, my mama has been around alot trying to "wean" me into it I guess. Today is our first real day just me and Nola.  Big plans: lay around, finish up some laundrey, pay some bills, lay around some more, nurse, nurse, nurse! :)  Just thought I'd try to keep the blog up to date.  BTW...Nola has her very own website so you can see and read all about her!! Enjoy!

  Just wanted to post some updates on the nursery, We're making some good progress. If ol' Nola Faye came tonight, she'd have a place to call her own.  Still have to do some decorating and final touches.  We've got the crib up and working on the changing table today. I'll put pictures up of the finished product soon. :)

Updates

So according to most people that I see, I am officially HUGE! how nice! i don't mind, atleast most of it is just belly..so I'm taking it as a compliment. :)  The docs say things are good, just measuring a little ahead so they've scheduled an ultrasound for 36 weeks (in another couple weeks) to just check and see just how big she might be.  I guess they'll decide some things from there. I would love for her to not be too big to deliver, I'd really rather not have a C-section. So please pray! Of course, whatever needs to happen to keep Nola Faye safe is what I want but I've just always wanted to be able to deliver a baby. Anyway...


Well....the nursery is painted. My wonderful husband spent all last weekend painting his heart out. When he showed me, I cried. Surprise huh? It's just beautiful!!!  We've got to clean the carpets and then decorate, decorate, decorate. I'll post pics soon, when there's actually something to take a picture of!                                                                                                                                                                                


 We're pretty busy for the next few weeks, like we're squeezing in all this stuff before Nola Faye makes her appearance.  We're off to Caswell, Camping and then 2 more baby showers.  Also we've got some massages sceduled, Buie gave me a gift card for a pre-natal massage, so it's now or never!

Our Cozy Robbins Nest: Encouragement for Wives

This is a link to a friend of mine's blog. What she's reading and comments about goes along perfectly with what our Women's Group at Oakdale is discussing, Biblical Womanhood and our roles as wives. Enjoy!

Our Cozy Robbins Nest: Encouragement for Wives

Big Week for Baby

So all in one week we have our Birthing Class, a doctor's appointment (including the dreaded sugar test-pass ____ or fail ____), and a 3D/4D Ultrasound.  Not to mention working on the nursery which means working on and reorganizing the den.  All of the stuff from the current "guest room" has to be moved and squeezed into a 12x12 room that's pretty much already full.  This one room will be a computer/workout/craft/sitting room.  Sounds pretty easy huh? :) My mama is on Spring Break this week so I'm enlisting her help and my super friend Lizzy may come down and help some too.  The only bad thing is we can't do but so much to the actual nursery because it has to serve as a guest room one more weekend because we have visitors coming in for a church event. Whoa! Anyway.  We are however pretty stoked about the 3D Ultrasound.  I'll post pics and stuff as soon as I can. We're even getting the DVD of it so we can watch it anytime. CAN NOT WAIT to see what my little Nola Faye looks like!  Check back for updates!

updated "Cradle Mania!" :)

Shopping Day

We finally registered! Yay for Target! It was a lot of fun! You should have seen Buie trying to open and close the stroller we picked out with one hand, because supposedly that's how you should be able to do it! We were all "gun-ho" (get it...scanning gun!) at first but Buie's energy kind of waned after a couple of hours, but I sure was proud of him lasting that long out shopping.  Of course we took turns using the scanner but he kept updating me on just how many items we had added: "We've already added 85 items!!!" etc...  Now I just have to edit some things and maybe add a few more we might have missed.  What's crazy is, we thought we already had a lot of things, like hand-me-downs, but we still seemed to "need" so much when we were at the store. Oh well!  So, yay, now we're registered and all the fun with the baby showers can begin. :)  Our first one is April 24.  A girl from Buie's office is giving us and one of the other employees whose pregnant a shower together. I just think that is so sweet!

here's a link to the registry: Nola's Stuff

Something pretty cool I read:

Once upon a time a Cave lived under the ground, as caves have the habit of doing. It had spent its lifetime in darkness. One day it heard a voice calling to it, "Come up into the light; come and see the sunshine." But the Cave retorted, "I don't know what you mean. There isn't anything but darkness." Finally the Cave was convinced to venture forth. He was amazed to see light everywhere and not a speck of darkness anywhere. He felt oddly warm and happy. Turnabout was fair play and so, looking up to the Sun, the Cave said, "Come with me and see the darkness." The Sun asked, "What is darkness?" The Cave replied, "Come and see!" One day the Sun accepted the invitation. As it entered the Cave it said, "Now show me your darkness." But there was no darkness!

"The Lord, my God, lights up my darkness." -Psalm 18:28

Cradle Mania

Buie is taking a furniture making class at the community college and his project is....making a cradle for little Nola Faye and hopefully all our future bambinos. :) It is well underway, after a rocky start (dificulty finding good plans and good wood) but I am just so proud of him for doing this. He's always wanted to learn how to do woodworking! He really enjoyed class this past time, made his first cuts using a something saw and glued his boards together. He even worked so hard he got sawdust and glue all over him, can you tell?? We'll keep you updated!

I added a new picture showing some new cut outs my cool husband made for the cradle. So now we have the headboard, footboard and one side panel ready. Next class he should be able to get the rest cut out and start assembling. It's just really neat to see it coming together, and it makes it all the more real that there will be a baby to put in this thing. :) Yay!

Biblical Womanhood

I have been introduced to a great site: truewoman.com

My women's group at church is planning on hosting a brunch soon to discuss the topic of biblical womanhood and what that looks like. I've signed the "True Woman Manifesto" and am participating in two challenges their site offers. I'm already loving it, the husband challenge might be a bit difficult, but that's ok! :) I'll be posting the links for each day, if anyone is interested. I definitely recommend joining and taking the challenges too. They offer other ones at their sister site.

True Woman Make-Over:
Day 1 Day 12
Day 2 Day 13
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5
Day 6
Day 7
Day 8
Day 9
Day 10

Ta Da!

I'm so excited...Spring has sprung in my yard. I looked out today and poof, a couple of cute daffodils were right there. Yay! Just want to say I love perennials....you do the work one time and you just reap the rewards over and over each year. And it's just so neat to see all that new growth poking through all the dead leaves. Happy Spring!

"Truth springs up from the earth, and righteousness smiles down from heaven." Psalm 85:11

From Oswald Chambers, March 11:
"The only way God plants His saints is through the whirlwind of His storms. Will you be proven to be an empty pod with no seed inside? That will depend on whether or not you are actually living in the light of the vision you have seen. Let God send you out through His storm, and don't go until He does. If you select you own spot to be planted, you will prove yourself to be an unproductive, empty pod. However, if you allow God to plant you, you will "bear much fruit" (John 15:8)"

Thank You Cards

Well not only is my tummy and sweet Nola Faye getting bigger everyday...so are my poor ankles. But that's ok, Buie's learning how to give a mighty good foot rub! :)

Well it has begun...the thank you notes. Yeh, I know, already people have been so sweet and are giving us gifts. I am just overwhelmed at how nice and thoughtful people are. I found some super cute thank you cards, with daisies of course! I'm just so excited! I love sending snail mail!

Until next time...

Welcome to blog world

I got inspired to start my own blog by reading and seeing all the cool stuff on friend's blogs. i was totally "jeal-y". So i'm gonna give it a try. I'll still keep my photo site, I guess, for now. I figure with Nola coming, more people might be interested in the goings on at the Holder Mansion. :) So here we go...