TAGGED

Ok, so our pastor and his wife recently were tagged...6 things that were unspectacular about themselves...Jody and I laughed and laughed so we thought, hey let's do it too!

6 unspectacular things about Jody:
1. loves VW's, the older the better.
2. would rather be in the woods.
3. is bald by choice.
4. can do lots of magic tricks.
5. hates coffee.
6. companies shut down after employing him (not his fault...really).

6 unspectacular things about Sarah:
1. sucker for a sale, can we say Target clearance!
2. hates the smell of outside.
3. has to eat colored candy in even numbers as well as matching colors...the bottom of the bag is very stressful!
4. breaks toes often (not a calcium deficiency).
5. loves coffee.
6. won 6th grade spelling bee for my school, lost in the county spelling bee on the word carage...I mean carige...carriage (sp?)

Everyone who reads this has to respond in the comment section with 6 unspectacular things about yourself...I promise no matter how unspectacular you think you are, someone thinks you are spectacular!!!

Belly Shot of baby #4

So my very good friend Jessica requested a recent belly shot. I personally don't like pregnancy shots of myself, but the girls love to look back at them and see that they were in mommy's belly and how big it was and it's pretty funny to see pregnant ladies and how they change during pregnancy! So I figured I'll take one for the team. Jess lives in Florida and we don't get to see each other very often...So this is for you Jess...beware I don't have any make-up on :-(22 weeks 3 days pregnant, 4th baby (5th pregnancy)


It's been a pretty uneventful pregnancy so far. The only issue I've had has been with horrendous heartburn lately...guess the baby has a ton of hair! I am still in the negative as far as weight gain, but I was really sick until 16 weeks. My doctors don't seem very worried about my weight so I'm not either! The baby and I are measuring right on target, my next check-up is the glucose test. That's about it.

The girls love for me to read and show them how big the baby is in my pregnancy week by week book. Jody felt the baby "kick" for the first time last week! The girls have yet to feel it kick, but are always putting their hands on my belly, kissing my belly and talking to the baby! They are so excited to "play" with the baby when "it comes out"!

Football, Falling and Phone Drama but FUN

I almost forgot to post about our eventful weekend!

Saturday my mom got us free tickets to the Duke Football game, she is a Duke Health Raleigh Hospital (previously known as Raleigh Community) Employee. I am not a Duke Football fan normally, I am a Tennessee Vols football fan by marriage.

GO VOLS

The Duke pictures above are just for decoration since the real pictures are stuck on my broken cell phone! The festivities started at 4:00pm with a buffet dinner, face painting, moon bounces and a parade all before the 7:00pm kick-off. It was really hot and we were all sticky as we headed down to the stadium. Jody, myself and Lizzy stood in line for snacks while my parents sat in the stands with Emma & Anna, we realized as it started to rain that we had the rain ponchos with us...we were all drenched but welcomed the cooling rain! I was trying so hard to keep the popcorn dry that I slipped and fell straight on my "booty" (tailbone) going down the stairs to my seat and dumped all but 7 kernels of popcorn. I was a mess as I handed my mom her popcorn, laughing, crying, all the while rain pouring down! The lightning started and we decided it wasn't such a good idea to sit on the metal bleachers...just as the announcer stated we were under a weather delay. My dad had decided when I had the "popcorn incident" to go with Lizzy to get more popcorn so now we were on a mission amongst the large crowd to find my dad & Lizzy. Jody decided to look up the doppler radar on his phone to see what kind of weather we were looking at...there was a severe thunderstorm warning as well as a flash flood warning! We decided that was the end of our Duke football experience and boy were we glad we left because there was an hour and a half weather delay and the game didn't get over until close to midnight! I took pictures during the day but of course they are on my cell phone which is broken because I had it in my hand during the rain storm...we'll see if the people at Verizon can get them back?!
Sunday morning I got up and finished Lizzy's birthday cake (I had baked all the pieces the day before it just needed to be assembled). Lizzy absolutely loves airplanes lately so of course I couldn't really find anything that was a girly airplane theme. I also couldn't find an airplane cake pan so I decided to make an airplane cookie with a large cloud behind it with Happy Birthday Lizzy in the cloud and a house for effect. As we were walking out the door to church I realized there was something seriously wrong with her cake, the picture to the right is what I saw,
notice Lizzy's name....Both Emma & Lizzy were standing right next to me when I realized the missing piece, the search was on for Anna. Jody found her under her covers yelling "I didn't eat the Y"!!! She proceeded to show Jody it wasn't in her mouth, but the green mouth & tongue were dead giveaways coupled with green sprinkles all around her lips! I snapped a picture of her post discipline and crying, you can't really see the evidence from the picture, she always manages to pose for a picture?! Right after church we had a family birthday party at Blue Jay Point...(we wanted to celebrate very simply this year) where we ate pizza, chips and pop (soda as you southerners call it) the girls played with bubbles, with cousins and on the playground. Lizzy opened her presents and it began to thunder....party over, we left the park with about 1 minute to spare and it started pouring! All in all it was an eventful weekend of Football, Falling and Phone drama but FUN!!!

Lizzy's Fun Day

Yesterday we spent the day celebrating Lizzy's 2nd Birthday! My mom, sister-in-law Diana, baby Ashtyn and my girls all went to lunch at California Pizza Kitchen at Triangle Towne Center for a yummy lunch, we had a fun with all the girls!!! We then headed to Pullen Park...my parents took the girls a few weeks ago and they loved it, it has now become a favorite! The girls rode the carousel, train and played on all the playgrounds before my mom suggested ice cream! We got our sundaes and ended the day by meeting my dad and Jody for dinner in Raleigh! All in all I believe Lizzy had a great day, thanks Wanka, Papa, Aunt Diana & "baby Ashtyn" (that's what the girls call her) for making her day special! We can't wait to see what life will bring our little fireball Lizzy!!! I put together a slide show of pictures we took of Lizzy's Brithday Fun and added it to the top of this page...

Our baby is 2...

Just a mere 2 years ago our 3rd baby girl was born! She came into this world at 5:07am weighing 6lb and 4oz, 19 3/4 inches long...she's come a long way from that "lil bit" as daddy called her at that first meeting!!!

Happy 2nd Birthday Lizzy!

We had a very exciting and fun-filled day (I'll post pictures tomorrow when I'm not so tired)! Thank you to everyone who called and sent messages to our little Lizzy!!! There was some kind of power outage this morning and this is the first time I've been able to get on the internet to post!