20 week update

20 weeks along.. officially halfway!



Things at the Myers house are going just fine. I had jury duty yesterday, so a sub covered my classroom. Fortunately, after 4 hours of being questioned along with 11 other potential jurors, they "dismissed" me (which I was very thankful about!). I'm a little curious about what the outcome of the trial will be, but I'm so glad I wasn't chosen to be on the jury and have to sit there for at least a few more days!
Tony is enjoying his seminary classes and keeping very busy with loads of homework.
This weekend we are heading up to Mountain Top Youth Camp for Extreme weekend!! So much fun! The weather here in NC has been absolutely beautiful.. so hopefully it will stay that way for this weekend also.

Nursery

Our nursery is starting to look a little bit more like a baby girl's room!







And I couldn't resist putting up a picture of the adorable onesie that my brother and sister-in-law sent us. Can't wait to put it on our baby!

All this for $20!!

I love getting a good bargain.. in fact, I have a really hard time paying regular price for things.
Today was no exception. This weekend, Harris Teeter had "triple coupon" weekend, and with the help of my sister-in-law Shannon sending me coupons and doing some "research," I took advantage of the special deals and got my money's worth!

Here's all I got for $20: (note--EVERYTHING is name brand, except for the ice cream sandwiches, and I just got those for youth group.. not for any special deal!)

2 tubes of Grands biscuits
1 tube crescent rolls
4 Birds-eye Voila dinners (each regularly $5, but I got them for $0.50 each!)
2 containers of Tic-Tacs
1 Trident gum
1 lb. brown sugar
2- 2 lb. bags of white sugar
"Munchies" snack mix
2 boxes of Quaker granola bars
2 boxes of frosted mini-wheats cereal
Caress body wash
1 bottle of suave shampoo
2 20-oz bottles of Dr. Pepper
1 container of Mayo
1 container of Skippy peanut butter
1 box of ice cream sandwiches
1 box of penne pasta
3 Clorox toilet cleaners (they were free!)

I will say that I don't usually shop at Harris Teeter, because I think their regular prices are pretty expensive, but I'm going to start saving up coupons for the next triple coupon weekend!!

To celebrate my bargains, I stopped at Starbucks on the way home and got a toffee nut latte.. yum! Even better, I used a gift card, so that was free too! :-)

19 weeks

19 weeks along.. almost halfway!



Our sweet little baby girl seems to be doing just fine.
Still not wearing any maternity clothes, but I probably will be soon!!

An Eventful Saturday...

On Saturday I was looking forward to having some time just to relax and get caught up on cleaning and laundry... well, the laundry part didn't exactly happen the way I had hoped.
I put a load of laundry in the washer and was getting ready for the day. A few minutes later I walked into the laundry area & bedroom connected to it and was horrified at what I saw. The washing machine was leaking and spurting water all over the floor and into the bedroom.. in fact, by this point, the water had made it all the way across the bedroom and almost into the closet. I was home by myself, so I grabbed as many towels as I could and tried soaking up all the water (thinking the entire time that this was a wood floor and we're not supposed to get ANY water on it at all!! So much for that...). Meanwhile the water was still running and leaking even after I turned off the washer. Finally I figured out how to turn off the water completely and continued soaking up the rest of the water.
Needless to say, our wood floor in our spare bedroom will never be the same. Our huge bookshelf just happened to be on that same wall where the water is, so to my dismay, we (mostly Tony) had to clear ALL the books off of the shelf in order to move the bookcase and check for water underneath.
Not exactly something that I had planned on doing that day... I can't complain though, because my sweet husband did most of the work!

Here are some of the many many piles of books from the bookshelf (by the way, they were very well organized before we took them off!)


My dear husband taking advantage of the opportunity to dust the shelves...


On a positive note, we will be getting a brand new washer, so that will be very nice. We just have to figure out what to do with our dirty laundry for the next 2 weeks before the new one comes.. sigh. However, I continue to remind myself that this little washer incident is NOTHING compared to the damage that some many people have had to deal with as a result of the hurricanes.

Tuesday's Happenings...

Not only was Tuesday our 2nd anniversary, it was also the "big" day for our ultrasound appt.
In the morning, I told my 1st grade class that I would be gone for a couple hours so that I could go to the doctor and have them check on my baby. I also told my little ones that we would hopefully find out if the baby is a boy or a girl. Then out of my own curiousity, I had my students vote for what they thought the baby's gender is...to my surprise (I thought it would be more even), there were 9 votes for a girl and 4 votes for a boy.
Then I told my students that it was possible that the doctors wouldn't be able to tell if it was a boy or a girl. One sweet little girl in my class asked, "Can we pray that God would help the doctors to know if it's a boy or a girl?" I said "Of course," and so they did!!

The ultrasound went really well.. although the suspense was nearly killing Tony and me as the ultrasound technician found all of the baby's body parts and then waited until the very last thing to tell us what the gender was... The Lord did answer "yes" to my little students' prayers...
So.. our big news is... that we will be needing the purple and pink clothes!!



IT's A GIRL!!! We are so excited, and most of all we are thankful that everything looks great with the baby at this point. She weighs 8 oz. and the dr. said she's right on schedule! :-)

Our Anniversary

Tuesday, September 9th, was Tony's and my 2nd wedding anniversary!

The Lord has blessed us greatly in the last 2 years... in some ways, it's hard to believe we've already been married for 2 years.




Looking back to our special day...




And here we are... I love you soo much, my sweet husband Tony!

18 weeks...

18 weeks along now...everything seems to be going fine.
This weekend I did have some trouble with "round ligament" pain and back pain because this baby is stretching my ligaments and joints! It seems to be better today though.



Our "big" anatomy ultrasound is tomorrow, so hopefully my next blog will have news about whether our baby is a boy or a girl!

17 weeks...

17 weeks along.. only approximately 23 to go!!

Everything is still going really well.. our next appt is in exactly one week.. we're really excited about the ultrasound and really hoping that we'll be able to find out the baby's gender at that time.



I think I might have felt the baby move for the first time on Sunday at church.. not completely sure that's what it was.. but I guess I will know if I continue to have that same feeling in my stomach!!

Labor Day youth group trip

On Sunday and Monday, Tony and I took our youth group to Mountain Top for the Labor Day picnic. We had a great time!

Getting ready to leave...


On Sunday night after we had dinner and played some volleyball and softball, we hiked up to the top of the mountain in the dark. Though it was a bit foggy, the view was beautiful.

We packed a lot of stuff into the 22 hours that we were there...
Carpet pool...


Swimming... (for those who were brave enough to swim in the frigid, leaf-filled, green water)


Just hanging out together...


and lots of yummy food! You should have seen the tables and tables of food at the potluck on Labor Day at lunchtime.. I should've taken a picture.