35 weeks!!!

I made it another week... Yesterday was 35 weeks! Now we just want them to come. To be honest this pregnancy has been pretty easy but I am starting to really have a hard time getting around and would love to have them now. Also, my stomach has reached its maximum stretching capacity and has started to split my skin (sorry if that is too much info) a little. I am blessed that it hasn't done this until now but I have to say that it has gotten me a little discouraged. I have had to pray a lot and just ask the Lord to forgive me for getting upset about something that is so superficial. He has been so good to me and I am so blessed and I am glad He is such a forgiving Father. With that said, I can't wait for them to be here. I am off bed rest totally and they have told us that the babes can come anytime! HOPEFULLY that is soon. Well Clay and I are off to his parents for a Labor Day dinner and I will leave you with the 35 week pic...

P.S. I was really wishing I would go into labor on Labor Day... there are still a few hours left...

34 weeks!

We made it to the mark... 34 weeks! This whole time the doctors had said that they just wanted me to get to 34 weeks and anything after 34 weeks was just icing on the cake! Well, we made it! They took me off of "real" bed rest and just are telling me to take it real easy until the 35 week mark. They said at 35 weeks I can do whatever I would like. It makes me feel like we are so close but then I get another feeling that these babies are not going to want to come out when I want. I am hoping that they will come at or right around 35 weeks. I am just not sure though if that is what they are going to want...

Here is my 34 week picture. Maybe, just maybe, I wont ever post another week again...

Sweet Little Baby

When you are pregnant with a baby (or babies), you wonder all of the time what they must look like? Will they look like me? Will they look like Clay? Will they look like our siblings, or parents, or uncles or aunts? But of course, we won't know until they come.

Then the day they come, everyone has their opinion of who the baby looks like... You will hear... "Oh he looks just like ____ as a baby!" Or... " No, no, no he looks just like ____ when he was was born." Well to avoid any confusion in the future, I wanted to share a few of Clay's baby pictures. This way, when the boys come out, even people who didn't know Clay as a young babe will be able to tell if they look like him. I have one from in the hospital and two others that are of him a little older.

I couldn't believe this was Clay as a newborn. Nothing like

what I pictured he would look like. I would love for my boys

to come out with so much hair!

So now you can be the judge when the babies come...

33 weeks!

Since we are getting so close to the finish line, I decided that I would post weekly belly pictures because we might not make it if we go biweekly. So here is week 33 in all her glory...

And I don't know if I mentioned this, but I am on bed rest now :( They want to get me to 34 weeks and since I was showing signs of pre term labor (contractions, dilating just a tad, and a positive pre term labor test) they decided to make me be on bed rest. I am actually very fortunate I have made it this long with out having to go on it AND I won't be on it long so I am thankful for that.

We are pretty much ready for these babies to get here now. This past week we put the cars seats in the cars and washed all of their newborn clothes...

Clay with all the clothes off their hangers and ready to be washed.

(Thank you Walt Farrell for the head light you gave Clay. He was

able to get all his work done so much better since he had that.)

NOW, we just wait. We talk about when we think they will come a lot and I am nervous they may be stubborn and decide not to come out when I want them to. We will see...

P.S. I want to say that I do not really re read my posts and when I go back I see tons of grammatical errors... Sorry.

The Big Reveal

Okay, so maybe it isn't that BIG of a reveal, but I have been looking forward to the day when I could say that we have the baby room done. And now here it is! I always said the babies could come whenever I got the room done (but I now realize I want them to stay in just a little bit longer).

SO HERE ARE THE PICS!

Clay's sister Jaime help me make the boards above the babies beds.

They are canvases covered with yellow seersucker fabric then we use white pique

fabric for the appliqued initial.

This is the covered canvas up close.

Another angle. We definitely need some more things to go on

their shelves.

And now the other side of the room.

Here is one of the prints that is above the changing table. Clay insisted

that we have something Clemson in the room. Well I knew orange and purple weren't

quite going to go with the rest of the decor, so my WONDERFUL husband

found vintage Clemson football programs from the 1950's. We got them printed

and we think they look great! Go Tigers!

This is Rocky (my mom and I named him after driving back from Charleston

to Gainesville with him). I LOVE him. I always talk to him when I am in the

babies room to get his opinion on things. He was a great find at a thrift store.

And this is just looking from the other side of the room.

And lastly, this is hung on the wall of Clay's nursery when he

was a babe. It just says everything important about Clay's birthday: how much

weighed, how long he was, where he was born, ect.

In maybe a few short weeks they will be in this room!!!

32 weeks!

We are 32 weeks and getting closer to when we will see our boys! Both Clay and I feel like we may see them sooner than we thought we would after what happened yesterday...

At 32 weeks, they wanted me to start getting non stress tests (basically they hook you up to a machine and monitor your contractions) so yesterday was my first one, and low and behold, I was having contractions every 1 to 3 minutes. They then checked me out and I was one cm dilated and 70% effaced. They sent me right to the hospital where I was in Labor and Delivery for the next 7 hours to get my contractions under control. I am on bed rest until tomorrows appointment where they will recheck me and hopefully I will be able to go back to normal activity. I will keep you updated.

Here is my 32 week picture. It is a rough one because I had been in the hospital all day and just needed to come home and take a shower. No hair and make-up here!

Next post... the nursery!

30 weeks!

Can you believe our babies will be here in the next 4 to 6 weeks (hopefully not any sooner)!?! We are just so excited to meet these little buddies! We had a baby shower BBQ that Clay's mom and sisters threw for Clay and me and our friends and it was so wonderful. We had a great turn out and it was so nice to see all of our friends from college. Everyone was so generous and we just about have everything we need for these boys. Their room is almost done and then I will be ready to have them in there! Well I need to run to a doctors appointment, but here is my 30 week pic!

Whoa... and it continues to grow!