Packing up all our worldly belongings....

Today has been dedicated to sleeping and packing. I slept until about 1 after getting up at least half a dozen or more times last night to relieve my bladder. After waking I decided that things needed to get packed. Mom and I have been working on it along with Nathan and the living room, Zoey's room and most of our room is pretty well packed up. Hopefully we can get a closing date a this coming week and be able to move ASAP because I am not liking living in a war zone...see below.

Yeah, this is what our apartment is looking like right now. As much as I really want to meet baby Zoey...I really hope she holds off until we can get moved in to the new house. I did get a bag packed for her in the process although I still haven't packed mine and Nathan's bag. Maybe tomorrow that will be accomplished. We are definitely at the end of the pregnancy and I mentioned to Nathan that this would be one of our last weekends alone before Zoey arrives. One of the last times that we would have to sleep in for a LONG time. Sounds ominous, but very exciting to me : )

A Day to Remember

I wanted to write a post dedicated to those who have and are serving our country. 8 years ago today our country was scared and confused about what the future held. Many things, good and bad have taken place since that time which have taken over the true meaning of what today should mean to people. We should use this day to remember those who have lived and died for this great country we live in and not dwell on past mistakes. I would love to think that my little girl will be growing up in a country where hate is not more prevalent than love, but as of right now this is not a reality. Whether you are democrat or republican, you should support your country and your president. Stand behind your president and even if you don't agree with everything he is doing. I won't go on any more about this, but I just wanted to say, thank a soldier or a veteran for your life, they are currently fighting or have fought to protect it.

37 weeks and a neglectful blogger.

Wow, I have not written an entry in entirely too long and I am hoping that now that the time is drawing nearer for little Zoey's arrival, I will do better with keeping up. I am now 37 weeks and ready to meet her! There are a lot of things going on in our life right now and we are very excited about all of them. Baby Zoey could come any day, we are in the process of buying a new home (hopefully closing next week) and Nathan started a new job a few weeks ago which places him closer to home which is going fairly well. All exciting things, but it seems like things are all happening at once! Hopefully we can get fairly settled in our new home before Zoey arrives that way we can enjoy time with her and not worry about the house.

We have been so blessed by family and friends to get all the things that we need for Zoey at two wonderful showers. I was also very excited because my cousin Courtney flew in from Michigan to attend the Carter family shower, which was a great time, I just don't feel like we got to visit very much. Hopefully she can come back after Zoey comes so we can spend more time together. Here is a pic of the 3 oldest Carter great grandchildren. We are all stair steps, Courtney is 25, I'm 24 and Whitney is 23. Yes, I know our names are Courtney, Whitney and Brittany...the scary thing is that the rest of the girls in the family are Annie and Bethany, all rhyming names. Alana is the youngest and she broke free from a name ending in eeeee : )

Here is a pic of all the girl Carter cousins

I hope that Zoey understands once she is born how much she is already loved without anyone even knowing her. Another thing that our family is famous for is wonderful food. I had to share a picture of the adorable cupcakes that my Aunt Saundra brought from Richmond for the Carter shower. I was going to post a pic of the beautiful cake from my friend shower, but I can't find it in the mass of pictures I have accumulated.Like I said, hopefully I will do better about doing posts. I am going to really try now that there is lots to talk about! This is a wonderful time in our life and I want to share with everyone the journey we are going through : )

28 1/2 weeks, vacation and anniversary...

i have been terrible about posting, but i thought i would do an update since things haven't been terribly boring. nathan and i left for vacation on saturday to go to hilton head. we spent 4 nights there and we are currently in beautiful savannah, georgia. we had a wonderful time in hilton head visiting with family friends along with going to the beach, visting harbor town, south beach marina and of course lots of shopping at the outlets. like i said right now nathan and i are in savannah and loving it! beautiful city with a great history. we are staying right on the savannah river at the hyatt which is very nice, pictures to follow in another post : ) so far in the trip i have done really well other than having to sit and take breaks more often. pregnancy hasn't prevented us from having a wonderful vacation and we still have a few days left. we are getting ready to go have dinner at a restaurant called garibaldis. everyone that has eaten there has said it was amazing, so we are excited, plus it's italian which is my favorite with lots of fresh seafood which is nathan's favorite. tomorrow we are leaving savannah for tennessee where we are meeting nathan's parents for a few days before heading back to kentucky. oh back to pregnancy, i went for my second rhogam shot on friday and everything is going well with the pregnancy. i am now at the point where i have to start going to the doctor every 2 weeks! we're getting closer! my next appointment is next week at 30 weeks, we are very excited because they will be scheduling our 4D ultrasound so we can see more pictures of our little one! i will try and remember to post photos from our vacation when we get home since i forgot my adaptor. i hope everyone is having a great week!

25 weeks...going by fairly quickly now...

I hope everyone has had a good week so far, and tomorrow is hump day so that is ALWAYS a plus. It has been a busy few weeks for us. June 6th, my cousin Olivia got married and we attended all those festivities. It was a nice wedding and the weather was perfect. Love and marriage must be in the air because one of my best friends, Brittany Hamilton is getting married in August and her shower was this Saturday. The shower was very nice with LOTS of great food and it was good to catch up with friends. I am really looking forward to Brittany's wedding, she was sweet enough to have me in her wedding and it is going to be beautiful I'm sure, I just hope I don't look like too much of a cow since I will be VERY pregnant!



Nathan and I had a good day on Sunday as well. Nathan's birthday was on Sunday and it was also Father's Day! My Gran and I made Nathan a homeade coconut cake, his fave. We also went to Nathan's mom and dad's house at Kimper. We had a really great time eating hot dogs and hanging out. We also drove to an area in Pike County known as River Hurricane. Nathan's dad grew up there and it was really neat for him to tell us about when he was a little boy growing up there. He showed us where the house that he grew up in used to be and showed us where the school was. Nathan got a new video camera for his birthday, some HD DVD mumbo jumbo thing that he really wanted. He LOVES it and of course he has video taped everything coming and going since he got the camera (I made sure to point out that the delivery of little Zoey will NOT under any circumstances be video taped). Nathan seemed to have a great birthday and his dad enjoyed spending time with him. Earlier in the day on Saturday, we went to my mom and dads and went swimming and after returning from Kimper, we went back to mom and dads because Gran made chicken and dumplins, YUM! It was a very nice weekend.



I am very thankful that my Gran is home. I don't get to see her often since she spends most of her time in Florida. She has been so wonderful to me and has had to fill the role of 2 grandmothers since my other grandmother was terminally ill from the time I was born and died when I was 6. I am very grateful to her and love her very much. I am so excited because she is going to be here for Zoey's birth. This is her first great-grandchild and Zoey is due the day after her 75th birthday!



I promise to try and be a better blogger. The weeks ahead should hold some more fun things to talk about. Next Wednesday I am having my gestational diabetes test which I am NOT looking forward to. Then the next week I have to have my 2nd Rhogam shot. These aren't terrible but I am not a big fan of needles. On a happier note, we are closer to having our 4D ultrasound! Nathan and I are both very excieted about getting to see Zoey again and everyone says the detail is unbelievable!

8 Simple Things

I haven't posted in forever but there isn't much excitement right now in the pregnancy. I am now 24 weeks, 16 to go! She is moving around a lot these days which is fun, but she isn't cooperating with daddy very well, she hasn't let him feel her move yet. I told him there will be plenty of times to feel her move later!

So since there isn't a lot going on I thought I would post a survey that Sarah White Gardella did on her blog that seemed fun.

8 Things I'm looking forward to:

1. the day zoey arrives
2. 4th of july
3. hilton head in a few weeks
4. my baby shower
5. my great friend brittany hamilton's wedding
6. nathan's birthday
7. father's day (same day as nathan's birthday this year : )
8. did i mention the day zoey is born?

8 Things I did yesterday:

1. gave toby a bath
2. played farm town haha
3. watched tv with nathan
4. looked at some houses
5. ate....a lot
6. took a shower
7. made the bed
8. felt zoey kick : )

8 Things I wish I could do:

1. speed up time and meet zoey
2. lose a lot of weight after this pregnancy
3. be wealthy and not have to work
4. i would love to have a glass of wine!
5. spend more time with nathan and toby
6. not be so scared about certain things
7. think sometimes before i speak
8. be a stay at home mom

8 Shows I watch:

1. Desperate Housewives
2. Brothers and Sisters
3. House
4. Nip/Tick
5. Rescue Me
6. Grey's Anatomy
7. Jon and Kate Plus 8
8. Private Practice

8 Places that I would like to travel to that I have never been:

1. hawaii
2. the keys
3. the bahamas
4. fiji
5. jamaica
6. los angeles
7. new york city
8. london

8 Places I've lived

1. poplar street in pikeville, ky
2. wolford street in pikeville, ky
3. wilana court in pikeville, ky
4. frankfort, ky
5. hilton head island, sc
6. main street in morehead, ky
7. morehead state university dorms in morehead, ky
8. sunshine lane in morehead, ky

22 down, 18 to go.

Well, as of tomorrow, I have made it to 22 weeks, yay! Some days I feel like things are progressing quickly and others seem to drag on. One new fun development is that I am starting the feel her move around more and more. I feel her now several times a day. Daddy Nathan hasn't got to feel her yet, but I feel like as much as she is moving around, it won't be too long now. Speaking of Daddy Nathan, he has been very busy as of late. Over memorial day weekend, my wonderful husband not only put together our baby girls crib (which is beautiful!) but he also finished staining her chest of drawers which belonged to Nathan's grandmother. Both items turned out great and I can't wait to start accessorizing! I will definitely add pics next post, but my computer hates me and won't read my memory card, so I will have to let Nathan try to figure it out. Well, I am fairly boring to tonight and that's all I have to report, I just wanted to let everyone know that all is well in babyland. We are all healthy and doing well. The next check up with be one day shy of 23 weeks, a week from today. I'm not sure what they will do this time, but hopefully we aren't there as long as we were last time. Oh and update since I haven't done this in a while, this week she is finally 1 pound and is about 8 inches in length! She is getting big and hopefully she'll get a lot bigger before we meet her!