Christmas Cheer...Now Time To Move....

We had such a great time this Christmas Holiday. We really missed our family and were excited to go home and visit. We continued with our many traditions of making Christmas Cookies, Christmas Eve Pajamas, Orange Rolls and Christmas Captain Crunch. This Christmas was extra special because of Baby Barton. She was moving so much and everyone was able to feel her. There was so much excitement about her and her arrival in March. This week is the first week of my Third and final Trimester, and I am really pregnant. I still feel awesome but I am moving a little slower than normal. I am really excited about the New Year and all it has to offer. I end this blog with this thought…“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”- Mark Twain.
More to come about our future plans….???

Make a HOPE BASKET THIS YEAR.....

Dear Friend s and Family,
The Count Down starts now. You might think I mean until the baby is born but actually I mean until Christmas. This season is making my pregnancy fly by so quickly. Many of you have been asking me how I am doing and how I am feeling. I wanted to tell all of you that I am doing awesome. I do feel pregnant though, I have to sit on the couch in a different way, I can’t really run any more, and well I get out of breath a lot faster than normal. I feel our baby moving all the time. However, every time Reed try’s to feel here she stops kicking. I think she thinks it is funny! I do not know if it is the baby or the Mother coming out of me, I just really feel thankful this holiday season and just want to give back. Reed and I worked at homeless shelter last night and it was so awesome to serve the community and give back. I am also making my dad a really cool gift for Christmas. It is called the HOPE basket. For Christmas, My dad asked me to give him clothes to give away to a homeless shelter that he works at. I decided to take it a little further and make a HOPE basket for him. The idea is to create a basket that is out all year that reminds me to give back all year. I am going to put it somewhere in my house to fill all year long to give back. For example, when school starts buy school supplies for kids who need help. There are so many things that we can do all year to give back to our local community. I think this is a great idea to give to people this year. It is also a really good way to get your kids involved in being aware of injustice. I would love to challenge all of you to make a Hope Basket for yourself and make one to give away. If you really do go forward with it I would love to see your HOPE BASKETS. Post them to FACE BOOK and I will share it with everyone!

Holiday Cheer....

Six Months along and the baby girl is growing like crazy. It is really neat to feel this little girl move inside of me. She is kicking and tossing and turning.I am so excited about the holiday season. We are very close to having a name picked out.. More to come later..

I think this was one of the greatest days of my life! We are so happy to be having a healthy baby girl. She was moving the whole time! She touched her face and brought her legs to her chest. I was speechless!!! Having a baby is so neat...

ITS A GIRL....

We are five months...

I am really showing now...
I am at the five month mark and it is going by so fast. I am starting to feel the baby move, well I am feeling movement, that is really unfamiliar and I think it is our baby saying hello.... In November we will find out what we are having. We cant wait. We love all of you and cant wait to share with you more soon...

Autumn Love

This week is the first week of October and I am so in love with this Mountain Weather. It is so beautiful. Good News, I am out of my first trimester and feel 100% like myself again. The last three months were actually not even that bad. I had some nausea but nothing unbearable. I did feel really tired in the beginning. I could have slept all day, however, that is all over. I wake up and I am ready to go. The only major sign of pregnancy I have is that my clothes are getting tighter.

Me and Reed have heard the heart beat and it was so neat. I can’t believe that I am creating a little human inside of me. It really is a miracle. The funniest thing that happened to me was in the first trimester, at Target, my favorite place. I was all the way in the back of Target, in the home section, and I felt a crazy sensation that I was going to be sick, and then it came. I went RUNNING to the Target Bathroom, which was full. I got sick three times in all of these women were tending to me. I said I am pregnant and they said, OHHHH.. It was so funny. That was the only time that I was sick, and I think that was actually new vitamins that I was taking.

So to sum it all up, Pregnancy is fun and crazy all at the same time… Right before Thanksgiving we will find out what we are having, and yes we are going to find out.. More to come….

Update

Just to get everyone caught up. I am two and half months along. Yesterday we went to the doctors and heard the heart beat. It was loud and clear and so neat to hear. Reed and I left the appointment realizing that we are really going to be parents. Hearing the heart beat made me connect even more with the baby. It made me really excited. At this point everyone knows about the pregnancy and we are trying to prepare ourselves for the changes that will occur in the future. We want to thank everyone for the encouragement and support. We are surrounded by love and prayers. Thank you….

Telling the family about the baby...

We told the family that we were having a "GRADUATION PARTY FOR REED"....however that was just fake. We told everyone that we wanted to thank them for all of the support that they gave us the last two years... and that we had made them all something. We passed out boxes, and made everyone open them at the same time.... SURPRISE, they were blue and pink baby cupcakes. Everyone is thrilled and it was a awesome moment in our lives!!!!

Our Next Season

Hello Friends and Family,

I am starting a blog to journal about our next year, our hopes plans and goals. Right now I am a happily married woman, who is having her fourth year anniversary this summer. I can’t believe how fast time is going by... In just a couple of weeks I will be moving to Charlottesville, VA. I am really excited about these changes and what we will be doing there... However, it is late and I have a lot more to say. Stay tuned and I will tell you more!!!!! However, here are a few pictures to keep you on the edge of your seat!....