20 Weeks

Good Morning Everyone,
We are half way through the pregnancy now and doing great. As I mentioned last week, my belly is starting to round out and it is getting more difficult to do some things like put my shoes on and tie them! The baby is about 10 to 12 inches from head to heel and is moving like crazy. The baby’s movements should be big enough for Tim to feel from the outside in the next week or so.

We have been really busy lately. Tim's mom flew into town last Wednesday.




Tim bought himself an early Christmas Present, a Nintendo Wii. We had fun bowling, playing tennis, and golfing with our new toy. We were all actually a little sore after playing for the first few times. While Debbie was here we worked on preparing a lot of cute stuff for the Baby Shower she is hosting on February 9th in Michigan. It should be really fun. Tim and I are looking forward to visiting with everyone. Tim's work held their Christmas Party last week at the Omni Hotel downtown. The three of us went and had a really nice time. I had a fit of, “oh my gosh, I have nothing to wear” that night and Debbie let me wear a really nice shirt she brought with her to Texas.


Well I hope everyone is doing well. Enjoy the Holiday Season. I know I am. Love,

19 Weeks

Hello Everyone,

Sorry for the delayed post. Tim and I have been really busy this last week. I will make this entry short, but hope to have a nice lengthly entry for the 20th week. We had a Doctor's appointment last week, Friday. Tim's mom was in town and she was able to come to the appointment with me and hear the heartbeat. The baby and I are doing fine. My belly is really starting to round out. I hope all is well. I should have the 20 week entry available Wednesday evening.

Love,

18 Weeks

Hi everyone,

I know you all have been dieing to know...

It's a Girl! Yeah! Girls rock!

Tim and I had our anatomy ultrasound yesterday morning. Our baby girl is about 6 inches from head to rump and weighs 8 ounces; half a foot & half a pound. The heart was beating evenly at 139 beats per minute, which is normal. They took snap shots of all the babies organs to send to radiology for review. While the nurse was pushing on the uterus trying to get a good picture the baby was fighting back by pushing back with her hands a feet.

17 weeks

Hello All,

Happy Thanksgiving! Sorry about the late post again. I was really busy at work trying to get a few things completed before the Holiday. We had a wonderful Thanksgiving with our friends Lindsay and Bryan and her family in the Woodlands (1 hour North of our house). As an early Christmas present to Lindsay and Bryan, Bryan's parent bought them a Nintendo Wii. They brought it to share with everyone. It was really fun and easy to play. I like how you can create your own person and really make it look like you.

Tim had to work yesterday(Friday) and today (Saturday). I have been busy straightening up the house and starting to put up the Christmas decorations. I finished the inside stuff yesterday, but I still have a box full of outside lights to hang. The weather has been really bad the last couple of days. The temperature dropped over 30 degrees Wednesday night and Thanksgiving through Sunday it is only supposed to be a high of 50. Then by next Wednesday, we will be back into the mid 70's. This time of year the weather changes drastically from week to week depending on what fronts are moving through. Today it has been thunder storming all morning and it is supposed to continue all day today and tomorrow. Tomorrow night we are planning on going downtown to a Kelly Clarkson concert. It is at a relatively nice place with no smoking. It should be a good date night.
I have been feeling generally pretty well. The baby is now about 5 to 5 1/2 inches from head to rump. I can feel the baby moving more and more every day. On Monday we go in for an ultrasound. Hopefully we will get a good look at whether it is a boy or a girl. Tim's mom, Debbie, is planning to throw us a baby shower in Michigan either Saturday Feb 2nd or 9th. We should have the date narrowed down next week. Hope all is well. Love,

16 Weeks

Hi Everyone,

Tim and I had a fairly productive weekend. We decided to go through our closet and get rid of all clothes we really don't wear or don't fit into anymore. We had 3 large garbage bags of clothes and 1 large garbage bag of shoes! I was quite sad to see a few things go...like my prom dress and other dresses I had worn for special occasions. We donated everything to a local charity so hopefully someone will get good use out of them. We (Tim) also JB welded the mailbox back together. Someone hit it pretty hard and broke off the side into a couple pieces. I think it was the mailman. She gets easily distracted trying to pullout the next batch of mail and drive at record speed from mailbox to mailbox. We also ran some errands and picked up a new throw and few pillows for the living area.

I am feeling fine. The baby is about 4 1/2 to 5 inches long. I am starting to show enough now that it looks like I am pregnant. We tried to take some pictures this weekend, but the digital camera has been acting up. I hope it is just that the batteries are getting worn out. I can actually see my belly change shape as the baby moves; usually first thing in the morning. Our next appointment is the Monday after Thanksgiving.

15 weeks

Hi Everyone,

Sorry about the late post. I have been really busy this week. The Space Shuttle landed safely on Wednesday at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. I had a doctor's appointment this morning. It was the shortest doctor's appointment I have ever had. I was in and out in less than 20 minutes. I was able to hear the babies heart beat at this visit. It took the Doctor a minute or so to find it. It seemed like forever! The heart beat was normal and I seem to be progressing along just fine. The doctor said I should be able to start feeling the baby move anytime now. I called Tim on my way home from work last night because I believe I was actually feeling the butterfly movements of the baby for the first time. It lasted for over five minutes. I described it to the Doctor and he said it probably was the baby moving. I can't wait to find out the sex of the baby in 17 days, Monday the 26th. Hope everyone is doing well.

Love,

14 Weeks

Happy Halloween,

It is the start of the 2nd Trimester this week. This is when all the books say I am supposed to feel like a new energized women. Well have to see... So far I have gained 5 pounds and 2 inches at the fattest part of my abdomen. I am supposed to continue gaining approximately 1 pound a week until the last few weeks of the pregnancy when I really shouldn't be gaining anything. I have been generally feeling fine. My schedule has been a little out of whack because of the Space Shuttle Mission I have been supporting for work. Some mornings I have to be at work by 6am and some days I have to stay pretty late. I can't wait to get myself back on a normal schedule. The mission was extended one day so far and will be landing on November 7th. Astronauts were extending a solar array on the space station when it got tangled/caught and took a fairly large tear. Discussions are still being made on how the Orbiter can help get the station into a better configuration.

The baby is about 31/2 to 4 inches long. The basic structures of the body have been formed. You can read more details about the baby here. I hope everyone has a Happy Halloween. We are expecting quite a few trick-or-treaters at the house this year. We bought the candy a little too early; I hope we have enough left for the kids!

Love,

13 Weeks

Hello everybody,

Jenny is making me write the blog this week. We have finally tackled some of the stuff off of the never ending to do list. The garage was fixed this past weekend, the one the neighbor crashed into with her car. That only took 3 months for the insurance to o.k. the repair and a day to fix the garage. At least its fixed. We had a home phone connected this week, and the installer is coming back to wire cable t.v. into the bedrooms as a side job.

We watched a lot of football this weekend since we both had the weekend off. Sunday night I went down town to the Meridian to see Gregg Allman and his band. They were really good. My guitar teacher went too. I really like the no smoking in clubs where alcohol/food is sold. They have to go outside for that. Being able to breath and not smell like an ashtray when you leave is really nice.

Jenny has been really busy getting ready for the launch tomorrow. She doesn't have to work the night shift but she will still be home at midnight. She has been feeling o.k. but still has waves of nausea. The baby is growing like crazy. It looks like a little person in there. Its about 3 inches long and has formed it's fingerprints now. Our next appointment is the big one, we get to find out if it's a boy or girl, were pretty excited to find out the sex.

Love,

12 Weeks

Hello Everyone,

We had our 2nd Doctor's appointment this past Friday. It was so awesome. We had an ultrasound to measure the babies spine. She said the baby was 53mm about 2 and 1/8 inches from butt to head and its developement was measuring for a slightly older baby...meaning its possible I could have a bigger baby. What are the chances of that! I mean, Jacquie, Michael, Lauren, and Michelle were only 9 and 10 lbs babies. :) From part 1 of the 3 step process they used to determine whether the baby is healthy, we are measuring healthly. We have the second part of the process, a blood test on the 9th of November and the 3rd part, the next ultrasound on Monday November, 26th. We should be able to tell the sex of the baby at that scan. The baby cooperated very nicely for its pictures. Below is a small clip we took of the babies movements. It was waving its right hand like crazy and streching out. You can even see it push off with its little feet.

Some other pictures we snapped are below.

Here the baby has turned to look at us...you can see the eye sockets...scary! Until next week...

11 Weeks

Hello Everyone,

We are still doing good. It is getting harder to get up in the morning for work because it is so dark outside so much later and I feel like I could sleep for ages. The baby now measures a little more than 1 and 1/2 inches long and weighs about quarter of an ounce. (1/2 of a large paper clip). Some of its bones are beginning to harden, and tiny tooth buds are starting to appear under its gums. The baby's fingers and toes have separated, and it may soon be able to open and close its fists. The baby's already busy kicking and stretching. Because it is still so small, I can't feel any of its workouts. The books say I probably won't be able to feel the baby's movements for another month or so. We are looking forward to our doctors appointment on Friday. They will measure the spine and we will get to hear the baby’s heart beat. Hopefully we will have some new ultrasound pictures to post next week.

Love,

10 Weeks

Hi all,

Well nothing too exciting happened this past week except for the fact that I still feel pretty good. I forgot to mention, that when I was back in Michigan the other week, I chopped a little more than 10 inches of my hair off. Yes, I did actually take a ruler and measure it :) It feels really good to have it out of the way. Friday I went to a Halo 3 party with some friends from work. I think they invited me because "everybody likes a lamb for the slaughter, except for maybe the lamb, but who cares about the lamb." At least thats what they told me after I came in last place every time. They were sorry though when we played teams and I actually was killing people, too bad they were my own team mates :) Tim didn't share in my fun though. He went to see Alice in Chains and Velvet Revolver with some guys from work on the other side of Houston.

When I am not catching up on my Z's, I have been reading the pregnancy books Danelle and Renee have so graciously let me borrow. I have made it halfway through my stack. Tim on the other hand hasn't bent a page... at least that I can tell. He promises me he will get the reading done...whats the hurry he says... you're reading it and you can tell me. We will see... I've started to look into all the kinds of pregnancy/birthing/and baby care classes that the hospital offers. Depending on the times, I hope to sign Tim and me up for as many as possible. I hope all is going well. Love,

9 Weeks

Hello Everyone,

I had a really nice time in Michigan this last weekend. It felt so good to share the news with our family and friends. I was really feeling bad last week, I think it was the worst yet. I was nauseous from the moment my bladder woke me up in the morning until I managed to get my uncomfortable body to sleep at night. I was really worried about making it through the flight to Michigan on Friday, but then a miracle happened. I woke up and actually felt pretty good, still a little nervous/excited about seeing everyone, but generally feeling 'normal'.

I am so glad I was able to make plans to come last minute and see everyone. I had a nice lunch in Royal Oak with Jacquie...sorry I couldn't taste the wine :) I went to see both Lauren and Michelle play soccer, (they both won). I surprised Tim's family that I was in town and went with them to our friends Jay and Heather's wedding. It was a beautiful ceremony and reception. On Sunday, my Dad took Mom, me, and Michelle sailing at Kensington. It was quite relaxing except for the musical seats we played to turn the boat around :) All in all it was a great trip. It was nice to see the leaves changing and feel the cooler fall air. When I returned home to Houston the heat index was pushing 100 and the only leaves turning color(brown) were the dead ones from lack of water.

Love,

8 Weeks

Hello Everyone,

We had an exciting first prenatal doctors appointment on Friday. We didn't know we were going to have an ultrasound, but they said they wanted to see if we were having multiple babies. Only one baby...whew. It was really neat to see the heart beating so fast. At first it just looked like a wiggling blob, but then the doctor pointed out the heart. Tim said he thought it looked like a gigantic tooth! On Friday the baby was 13mm from the rump to the head and by the time we come back for our next appointment in 4 weeks, he said the baby will be the size of an apple. The doctor said we are right on track. Giving 5 large test tubes of blood was really painful for me, since I really, really don't like needles, but I guess they need it to run all kind of tests to monitor mine and the baby's health. We will have another ultra sound in October to measure the spinal cord and possible determine the sex of the baby.


I am now fully enjoying the full on slot of pregnancy symptoms. It has been really hard this past week; especially at work. I thought I was going to be lucky and not experience the nausea/stomach ache part. Tim already has had to pick up some of my slack at home. I could only cut half the yard on Saturday before needing a lengthly(rest of the weekend) rest. I plan to fly home this weekend and spend some time with the family, especially Lauren, and let them in on our little secret. I can't wait to share the news. The baby is due April 29th, 2008.

Love,

7 Weeks

Hello Everyone,

All is well. Tim and I have been picking up around the house and taking care of those "piles to do later." We had a contractor come out to the house to give us an estimate to fix our garage. A few weeks back the neighbors across the street lost control of their vehicle and it rolled across the street, up our steep driveway and rammed the third car garage, breaking bricks and a piece of the foundation off. We weren't really expecting to have to deal with something like this.

We are looking forward to our first doctors appointment on Friday. Right now the baby is the size of a bulging raspberry at about a half an inch long. Both hemispheres of the brain are developing and it is moving its webbed fingers and toes to wiggle around.

With Love,

6 Weeks

Hello everyone,

Tim and I both had today off work for Labor Day. It was nice to take the day and just relax together. It has been raining here the last few days, almost non-stop. The new bright white sections of the driveway have been poured; they covered it with a tarp leaving an interesting design in the new pavement.

Tim and I are doing well. We filled out the genetic history questionnaire from our doctor today. It was really hard to talk to the family about it without letting them know we were pregnant already…so exciting. We started researching baby cribs online this past week and made a trip to Target and Babies R Us to take a look at at few models.

The baby is now the size of a lentil bean (4 to 5 millimeters) and its tiny heart is now beating. It is starting to build muscle fibers and by the end of the week will likely start moving its tiny limbs. We are counting down the days to our first prenatal doctors appointment next week.

Love,

5 Weeks

Hi Everybody,

Tim and I are doing great. We just had two sections of the driveway removed by the home builder today. They were in really bad shape; cracked all the way across and oozing rusty liquid. The builders should be returning in the near future to pour new cement.

This week the baby is about the size of a sesame seed! Really tiny, but the brain is beginning to grow. I am still feeling fine, just a little more tired than usual. It is really hard to keep this a secret.

Love,

4 Weeks

Great News! This week Tim and I found out we are pregnant!!!!

This was definitely planned…our first try. We are thrilled that it happened so quickly. We are waiting to tell the family until after our first prenatal doctors appointment on Friday, September 14^th (at almost 8 weeks). We can’t wait to share this exciting news with everyone.

Right now I am feeling fine. I am just a little more tired than usual and I am having to empty my bladder what seems like every hour or so; even in the middle of the night! Tim and I are thinking of switching sides in the bed so I don't have to walk around the room in the dark.

We are going to try to post weekly to keep everyone up-to-date on how the family is doing.

Love,

Wedding Photos!

Hello everyone,

Our wedding photos have just been loaded on-line at www.pictage.com. To view our pictures type in our names, Jennifer and Tim or the event # 348994. I think their are some really great ones. We have a DVD of all the images so let us know if you want us to burn you a copy. We still have to develop pictures from the honeymoon. We will try to post those on-line too.

Love,

We're Married!

Well, Tim and I finally got married on Friday July 6, 2007. We really enjoyed having our friends and family in town for the wedding. The activities started Saturday night with a guy’s night out at the Firehouse downtown to see Stoney Larue. On the fourth of July we caravanned over to watch three sets of firework shows from the Boeing building on Clearlake. Thursday the guys had an early morning out in Galveston Bay fishing for anything they could catch! The girls relaxed at the house and tried on their dresses and practiced their hairstyles. That evening was the dress rehearsal at Bay Oaks Country Club followed by the Rehearsal Dinner at Babin's Seafood on the Kemah Boardwalk. Friday was a 'Survivor Man' marathon for the guys over at the hotel while all the girls went and had manicures, pedicures, and their hair done. Thank you so much to Trina and Daena for all their help in getting me and the girls beautified for the occasion. The wedding ceremony and reception went by so quickly that evening. The best man and maid of honor speeches brought tears to our eyes. We love you two! Saturday we had our friends a family over for barbeque and swim at the house. Thank goodness it stopped raining for a while. Tim and I are so happy to have shared this special moment in our lives with our close family and friends. Pictures from the wedding should be available on-line within the next week.