Round TWO in Disney World!

Haley, my Mom, Melissa and I all went to Disney World for a ladies weekend this past weekend! It was such a wonderful trip and of course Haley LOVED every bit of it which makes it worth every penny! Thanks to Melissa for Haley's Minnie shirt she made and had monogrammed! We couldn't have bought a better shirt! It's been a really long day with only 3 hours of sleep so here is a quick glimpse of how the trip went. I will do a full update later! Enjoy!

We have a name for our Baby Boy!

Thank you to everyone who voted and who tried to help us think of the perfect name for our Precious Baby Boy! Drum roll please......Noah Reed will be joining the family this November! Man I didn't think we'd ever come up with a name! After much thought we finally decided that Noah was a good strong name that was under the 5 letter requirement we set. Since our last name is so long we wanted our children to be able to fit their full name on the standardized tests so 5 letters or less was a requirement :-) Crazy what you think about when picking out names isn't it?!? Noah was also Haley's favorite name and if you even tried to throw out other suggestions she would say "No Daddy, I said Noah!" So in reality no matter what we named him Haley was calling him Noah! We came up with the middle name Reed since that's my Mom and Jim's last name and we thought it would be a great way to tie the whole family together!

Here are a few pictures of Haley on the lake! She can nap anywhere and you can't get more relaxing than sleeping on the boat with the wind blowing on you. Second picture is when she woke up thirsty!

100% Confirmation....It's a BOY!!!

So much for my Motherly instinct.....boy was I wrong when I said I was 95% sure this baby was going to be a Girl!

I decided I just couldn't wait another 2 1/2 weeks for the 20 week ultra sound so we decided to go get a 3D Ultra Sound called "Gender Peak" today. It was so much fun seeing our Baby Boy again and finally getting 100% confirmation that he really is a Boy and it wasn't just the umbilical cord playing tricks on us. So now we are off to find blue things and find this baby a name! Oh and don't forget to vote for your favorite name! You can only vote once so make sure it's the one you really like :-) Here are a few pictures of him waiving to us. The first one is a side profile (head is top right) with the hands and feet really visible on the left side. The 2nd picture all you can see is his hand waiving to his Big Sister Haley who came with us to the Ultra Sound today :-)

The Verdict is.....

Well we can't confirm it 100% until the big ultra sound next visit, but the Dr. was 90% sure that this baby is a BOY!!! Unless it was just the umbilical cord playing tricks on us this baby is definitely a Boy! Oh Boy....we were SHOCKED!!! I kept telling Clayton all along that I was 90% - 95% sure it was a girl since this pregnancy has been a lot like Haley's but I guess I was completely wrong! So now we really have to get thinking on boy names since we have spent all our time previously more focused on little girl names. We will wait to paint the nursery, etc until the next visit when we have the 100% confirmation on the other ultra sound but I already have some ideas on how I want to decorate it for our little boy!

Boy or Girl???

Tomorrow's the big day.....we hope!!! 6/7/10 we hope to be able to determine if this baby is a boy or a girl! What's crazy is that on 6/8/2007 we found out that Haley was a girl! We are very anxious to find out and hope that the baby cooperates so that we can start planning how to decorate the nursery room. Feel free to take a guess at what you think this little one is. I'll try to post my update tomorrow night with the results!

It's been a while since my last post so I'll try to catch you all up. The cruise was FANTASTIC and Clayton and I are already planning another one for next year! We missed Haley like crazy of course but we were so glad that we took time away to relax and just enjoy each other especially before the 2nd baby arrives. Of course having Ben and Lindsey on the cruise with us was great because Lindsey and I were able to do the ladies things like tanning, etc while the guys headed to the casino, etc together! Hopefully they can join us again next year as well! Clayton celebrated the actual day of his 30th b-day in Cozumel where Ben and Lindsey made sure he tasted the different types of Tequila Mexico had to offer :-) Cozumel was mine and Clayton's favorite stop...it was so beautiful and the food was excellent and I hear the drinks were fantastic! A special thanks to Ben and Lindsey for making Clayton's 30th b-day a day to remember! Here's the classic picture of Clayton...always putting sunblock on :-) We also had another B-day celebration with the family over Memorial Day weekend...Margaritaville style!!! Sheryl made delicious cupcakes for the event too!

The day before we headed out for the Cruise was Mother's Day! This was my 3rd Mother's Day and it was wonderful! I love every minute of being and Mother! Of course I learned everything I know from my Mom :-) Haley couldn't have asked for better Grandmothers! As you have all seen and heard from videos she LOVES her Grandmas so much and is always sooo excited to see them!

The weekend after the cruise Mandy brought Macy and Makayla to come visit us in ATL! We haven't seen them since St. Patty's Day so we were very anxious to see these two little girls! They were crawling all over the place, saying Mama and Dada, and pulling up on everything insight. It's amazing how much they had changed in just 2 months! Haley loved seeing her cousins and they all had a wonderful time playing together. We can't wait to see them again soon. Just before Macy and Makayla left Haley agreed to pack up all her pacifiers and give them ALL to Macy and Makayla!! This is a huge event b/c Haley was addicted to these things so we were thinking it was going to be a battle once they really left with all of them. Either way though we were ready for it and Haley packed them all up and then handed the bag to Macy and Makayla and told them that she didn't need them anymore because she was a Big Girl! For being such a big girl we took Haley shopping and got her a slide! She has been playing on this thing non stop since we bought it. She likes to spin the wheel and say "Ahoy there Captain." Haley only asked one time about her pacifiers the night that Macy and Makayla left and we just reminded her that we gave them to her cousins since she didn't need them anymore since she was a big girl and she turned back around and seemed perfectly fine with it! It's been two weeks now and she hasn't mentioned it once!!! Whew...thank goodness that is over with! Now if we could just keep her in her big girl bed rather than coming out to play we'd be doing great! She loves sleeping and being in her "big girl" bed but she just doesn't want to stay in her room long enough to fall asleep.

My cousin Rachel and her husband Cory just had their first child on 6/2/10...Baby Boy....Nathan Michael! Congratulations to the new Mom and Dad and we can't wait to meet the little guy!