SHE'S HERE!!!

Kilee Anne came to us at 1:59 on December 23rd!!! She weighed 6lbs 7 ounces and was 19.5 inches long! Isn't she beautiful!!!!

Fun With Icing

Scott and I decided to employ our amateur icing abilities on some sugar cookies and a gingerbread house tonight. We had so much fun! I'm afraid to say, I believe Scott is much better than me. He's the one that wrote "Welcome Home Kilee Anne" on the gingerbread house roof! I teased him because his icing penmanship is more legible than how he regularly writes! We got the gingerbread house in a kit from Mandye and Lee, my cousin and her husband, 2 years ago and we're just now getting around to making it. Oh well -- better late than never!

No Action on the Homefront . . . Yet

Hey -- just offering a pregnancy update! As of today, there have been no contractions that have made any progress towards labor. I'm having lots of Braxton Hicks contractions and Kilee Anne is really starting to get cramped for space, but nothing productive. It was so funny -- right before bed last night, I whispered for Scott to turn over and look at my belly. It was a really weird shape as Kilee Anne had gotten herself into a funny position and seemed to be trying to get herself out of it. We could literally see her arms and feet moving across my belly. Scott said it looked like a scene out of "Alien". I told him that it felt like a scene out of "Alien"! We'll keep you posted on all the latest with Kilee Anne right here on the blog . . . unless, of course, we're at the hospital!

Pictures of Kilee Anne's Room

Hey family and friends! Thanks so much for all of the precious gifts you have sent for Kilee Anne. Her nursery is complete -- it just needs a baby in it! Here are a couple of pictures of the finished nursery. We are so excited to bring her home!

Our Gorgeous Girl!

Here are the pictures from Kilee Anne's 35 week ultrasound. They did this ultrasound to measure her size, specifically her weight. She's already a 6-pounder! My doctor says if she comes around her due date (January 12th), she could weigh between 8.5 to 9 pounds. The ultrasound technician took lots of pictures of her face because she said it was rare to get such good pictures of a baby at 35 weeks since they are so cramped for space in there! The one at the top was taken with a 4D ultrasound machine and the other was taken with a 3D ultrasound. Enjoy the pictures -- we are so proud! God is so gracious!

The Big One

Well, it's official. Scott has officially killed the big one! Early this morning, Scott put a shot on a 10-point buck at 200 yards and dropped him. Here are some pictures of the beast. I'm sure you can tell that Scott is pretty pumped and Racer can hardly contain himself! Racer just kept running circles around the deer, sniffing him and barking at him. Congratulations, Scott!

The nursery is finished!

Here are the pictures of Kilee Anne's finished nursery! Scott did a wonderful job, didn't he? To paint, he also had the help of David and Matt from work. She is going to love this room!

She's so pretty!

We had our 6th ultrasound today! They've had such a hard time getting Kilee Anne to turn her face forward so they could get a good look at it to look for abnormalities, but today . . . success! And let me say, even if she is mine, she is GORGEOUS! She is getting so big. I hope to be able to post her picture from today sometime in the near future if I can figure out how to scan it in. She has the cutest little pudgy face, fuzz on the top of her head, and I think her mouth looks like Scott's. Her heart rate was 150 which my doctor said was "perfect." It was so amazing, she gave us the perfect view of her little heart. We could see each chamber of the heart as it was working! We go back in 4 weeks for our final ultrasound and monthly appointment, and then I have checkups every week until she's born! I can't believe how close it's getting to when she will arrive. We can't wait!

Nursery: Phase One

Scott has been hard at work on Kilee Anne's room! She's been excitedly kicking around all day today as if she knew her room was getting spruced-up! In this picture, the cracks (that we cut out of the walls because of the wallpaper) have been mudded and sanded. It was a nasty job! Poor Scott looked like a ghost when he came out the room after sanding it -- he was white from head to toe! He says we only need one more coat of mud on the walls and then we can prime and paint! I am so excited!!! Okay, so I am obviously in the "nesting" stage of this pregnancy. :o)

Kilee Anne's First Baby Shower

We have officially been "baby showered"! We had a wonderful day today with our Sunday School Class and family at Ryan and Jane Stacy's house as we celebrated the upcoming birth of Kilee Anne! We received so many nice things. Now, we've got to get going on her nursery so we'll have a place to put all of these nice things!
We had breakfast casseroles, fruit, mini-muffins and cake. It was so delicious! Jane, Kim and Val did such a nice job putting everything together. It's amazing how much the body of Christ blesses one another through things like this. As I said at the shower, there were times in the past 2 years when I thought a day like today, having a baby shower, would never happen -- but God is so faithful. He has truly provided for her and protected her and we will be meeting her very soon!

The nursery is underway!

We've started on the nursery! I have been so excited about starting work on Kilee Anne's room. Scott and I thought it would be easy, but we were wrong. Since we've hardly used the room for anything since we've lived in the house, we didn't notice a very important detail about it. . . the previous owners had painted the room on top of a layer of wallpaper and border! Scott and I have been using boxcutters to scrape the wallpaper seams, border, and loose wallpaper spots off of the wall so that he can use drywall mud to recontour the wall. It's going to be a big job, but I think the room will look great when we're done. We'll be posting before and after pictures on the blog to show the changes! The first before picture is shown. Eew . . . yuck! Wish us luck! We're going to paint it two shades of pink, a darker shade on the bottom half, then a chair rail and a light shade on the top half. Her bedding will be floral patterned in pink, blue, yellow and green. I am SO excited!!

It has begun . . .

Well, our family blog is officially under construction. I figured I might as well join the masses and start sharing what's going on in our family with everyone! (Plus, it just sounds like a lot of fun for me since I'm 7 months pregnant with Kilee Anne and have less and less to do every day as I get bigger and bigger!) Hey- Scott's the website man, I'm just trying to catch up technologically with him. We'll see who has the better website at the end! :o) Ha. More to come!