The results are in...

Before I tell you what the sex is here is a little picture of our sweet baby...

Everything went well at the ultrasound. The tech check the baby head to toe and said everything looked wonderful. About ten minutes in she said that we are having a little GIRL!!!! We are so excited. My mom and Ryan's mom were able to experience this with us and they were so excited too. It's about time for a girl on both sides of the family. Also, I dont' know how I was the only one watching but I saw her flip butt over head on the ultrasound. It was so weird. I can't wait to fill her moving.


Her name will be Payton Grace, however the spelling is still an issue. We told the youth this morning that we were having a girl and that they were going to be the deciding vote on the spelling. I want Paetyn and Ryan wants Payton. The youth voted for Paetyn. We didn't tell them who wanted which and my spelling won! Ryan said that we would go with what they picked but it's looking like he won't budge. Which ever way it's spelt we still have a wonderful gift from God.

News to come

Just wanted to share that we do know the sex of the baby but I can't say until it is announced at youth sunday morning so that news doesn't leak out. Will post Sunday afternoon!!!

19 Weeks

Not the best picture but there's the belly picture. Wednesday I made it to 19 weeks. I'm feeling good and everything seems great. I go the 30th for a sonogram, finally, and hopefully we will be able to find out what the sex is. My mom is coming down to go with us and Ryan's mom is going too. I'm so excited to finally see what's been growing inside of me. Pray that everything goes good and that the baby is perfectly healthy.

It's a....

Baby!

Had our first appointment this past Friday, finally! I didn't see the doctor, it was just my enrollment appointment so I only saw the nurse. She said that I am 12 and 3 days as of today. The due date is December 17. Which is really cool because my birthday is the 9th and my dad's is the 16th. So either one of us could share a birthday with the baby. I go back to the doctor on the 2nd. This visit we got to hear the heart beat! I was worried that they wouldn't do anything and I would have to wait four more weeks to make sure there was actually something in there. haha It was really neat to hear the heart beat. It took her forever though to find it. I don't know how long she actually searched for it but it seemed like a lifetime. Finally she went lower and she found it. Our insurance will finally take over on July 1st. So next visit will be covered and I will have to do the lab work that I was suppose to do Friday.

On a side note, we are trying to train the dogs to stay off the furniture. I moved their bed into the living room and make them lay on it if they try to get on the couch. They were doing pretty good until I went to Artesia Friday and Saturday. I came home and that was the first thing they did. I don't think Ryan made them get off while I was gone. So pray that training goes well and that we won't have too much trouble with them. They, well mostly Dakota, still sleeps in our bed. It's hard to work on that when we don't even know that she ends up in bed with us. She's like a deer and can jump high standing right by the bed. These dogs have no idea what they are about to be in for.

Good News

We got good news this morning. We are going to have insurance!!! It will hopefully go into affect Wednesday so that I can get an appointment set up.

God is so good!!

Blog-worthy!

Well it's been a coons, as my Mema would say, age since I've updated. However, I finally have something to blog about....









I'm PREGNANT!!!


I found out last Tuesday but knew that I was before I took the test. We had to keep it to ourselves until we had a chance to tell my parents first. We couldn't think of a good time to go so we decided just to head to Crane when I got back from the women's retreat. Boy was that hard to be surrounded by a bunch of women and not be able to say anything. So late Saturday night we told my parents, Sunday we told our Truth Project group, Monday we told Ryan's parents, and then the rest of the world.

So far I haven't gotten sick, but it seems like every since we told people I started feeling icky at night and then some in the morning. Really the only symptom I have is peeing every two seconds. I already went to the bathroom a lot before and now it's twice as worse.

Now for the not so good news. Wednesday we found out that our insurance does not cover pregnancy. All this time we were under the assumption that we were covered but we aren't. So I went and applied for medicaid but won't find out anything until three weeks from now. However, I've been told that Ryan makes too much and most likely I won't get approved. We also have someone looking into other insurance companies to see if I can't get on with any of them. I know it will all work out but the waiting sucks.

I'm thinking I'll be due somewhere around mid December. Mine and my dad's birthdays are in December so that will be cool to see if I have the baby on one of our birthdays. I won't get to go to the doctor until I know how on earth we will be able to pay for doctors visits. I've called a few offices to see what their cash pay out play is so I'll at least know somewhat of what it's going to cost if we have to pay out of pocket.

I am so excited but yesterday threw a kink into the perfect pregnancy.

Job...

There once was a girl

Who graduated in December.

She worked so hard

For her parents to please.

She has a degree

That's being wasted,

Because she doesn't

Have a JOB!!!!!!!

Since the stupid economy has gone to poo my parents aren't going to be able to help us like they have. My mom even has to go back to work because her check from her dad's oil company is like 75% less that what it was.

I feel bad that because I'm subbing but not like I should be. I might even have to go get a job somewhere else to make more money, but I've already told a teacher I would sub for her for a week in may.

I don't know what to do! So I am writing for all (3) of you that read this to pray that the answer becomes clear and too that I will get a teaching job in the fall.