Our gift...

I received one of the most precious gifts from Adam today.  When I got home from work he had a beautiful gift waiting for me.  It was a beautiful pearl necklace and a card with the most thoughtful message to me.   

Mommy and Marley's Necklace

Then he had also written a beautiful note to Marley.  In it he explained that he had given this necklace to her “mommy” when she was pregnant with her, but now it was hers to wear on her wedding day.  I cannot believe how lucky I am to have him not only has a best friend and husband, but a daddy for Marley!

I love you Adam!

A Special Delivery...

Today Marley received her very own package in the mail!  

Marley's First Box!

 As much as I wanted to open it I waited patiently on Adam to get home.  Adam’s Aunt Penny had sent the most adorable hooded towel and burp cloths with her name monogrammed on them! 

Marley's Towel!

 We are so very thankful for our families and all they are doing for Marley!  Thank You Penny!!

Marley Scout Cain

It’s a GIRL!  She is beautiful! 

 Marley Scout Cain

 I think Adam and I were both in a little shock when the doctor told us she was a girl.  We both had just assumed we would be having a boy.  

 

 It's a girl!

Everything was perfect!  We got to see all 4 chambers of her heart working perfectly, all the sections of her brain were developing perfectly!  The measured her little bones and she is measuring exactly 18 weeks; so right on target.

A foot!

 

A little chicken leg!

Boy, GIRL, are we in trouble!

A Very Merry Christmas

This Christmas was very bitter sweet.  It is weird to think that this is our last Christmas without a child.  Although…you would NEVER know there wasn’t already a baby here!  How can someone who isn’t even here yet get more than we did?!  It was almost comical, and I’m sure a sign of things to come.   

Of course Adam and I couldn’t wait until Christmas to exchange gifts so somewhere around the first week of December we gave each other our gifts.  After 8 long years I finally received….my KITCHENAID MIXER!

We spent Christmas Eve with my family.  Someone in our family definitely wants another Baylor Bear!  It was funny the amount of Baylor stuff considering neither of us graduated from there!

 On Christmas morning we got up early and drove to east Texas to see Adam’s family.  Again we received a ton of baby stuff.  (Don’t get me wrong…I’m not complaining!)  His grandmother even bought our stroller and car seat!  We are so excited!

 Then to top it off we drove home in a wintery wonderland!  It sure made the long drive a lot more beautiful!

 We can’t wait to see what the next Christmas has to hold.

A sign of things to come...

So let me set this straight.  We have bought nothing…I mean NOTHING for this baby yet.  But my mother-in-law bought us a really cute Pack-N-Play on Black Friday.  It’s been sitting in the room that will be our nursery since then, and we decided that maybe we should at least put it together to make sure it had all the parts.  (Our luck we’d wait 6 months and then it would be missing the whole bottom or something!)

Well, let’s just say that if you’re planning on having a child anytime in the next few years you should run out right now, buy your Pack-N-Play and begin putting it together!  Our intention was to put this together quickly (HA!) and then just pack it back up. 

We definitely had fun and laughed a lot, but if this thing was truly meant to be able to pack up and take with you…then it would have to be easier to put together!  First, the directions were in 4 different languages and it took me a good 5 minutes to find English.  Then, they aren’t very clear so nearly everything we did…3 steps later had to be reversed.  (Sammy finally gave up on us and went back to the living room!)  Adam then found the storage thing that clips on the side to hold diapers, wipes, etc and asked, “What’s this, my drink holder?”

Oh, geez!  If this is a sign of things to come, we better get everything else that needs to be put together ASAP!

The final product!