Sweet Things

I wanted to write some of the sweet things Jeremy has done during the past few months before I forget:

• When I was only about 8 weeks along he bought me one of those ginormous maternity pillows. It's great, especially now that my belly has grown so much.
• He brushes my hair just about every night after I take my relaxing bath (my two favorite parts of the day).
• I catch him smiling every now and then at my ever growing belly.
• How he comforted me and I felt his love so strong at our 10 week appointment. (The Doctor couldn't find the baby's heartbeat and had to do an ultrasound, I'm told it's a common thing, but very scary)
• Most nights he will come to bed early with me and lay there until I fall asleep. Lately, he has been staying falling asleep early and blaming his fatigue on "sympathy pains".. ;).
• One night I kept waiting and waiting for him to come to bed until I couldn't keep my eyes open. The next day I asked him what he was doing up so late (I assumed gaming or looking up some kind of gun stuff on the Internet), to my surprise he was looking up baby names and nursery ideas. He even saved some images from the Internet and found a saying for our nursery -"What a big miracle from such a small child". Man he's cute.
• Every week we lay down together and he reads the baby's weekly changes to me and then we listen to it's heartbeat.
• The alarm on his phone is a recording of the baby's heartbeat. You just can't wake up angry to that sweet sound.
• Jeremy and James came home about a week after our 10 week appointment with the baby's first stuffed animal

It's about 6 ft tall :) Justin had to push it in his cart around Costco and ran into an old lady because he couldn't see where he was going. haha

• Lastly, Jer helped me make a receiving blanket and it's as square as can be.

Our Baby

We can hardly believe it, but baby Rowsell is on it's way. What a wonderful feeling. Jeremy and I are so excited and so thankful to be blessed with our little miracle baby.

We first found out we were pregnant at the end of January. Jeremy somehow knew we were pregnant for at least a week before I would even consider the thought. He finally talked me into humoring him and we bought a pregnancy test. I wasn't looking forward to being let down again, so I decided to wait until the next morning to take it. When I saw the positive result I couldn't believe it. I remember first feeling a little annoyed, a false positive, really can't they make anything reliable these days? lol But, when the second test was positive I. About. Died.

This is our beautiful baby at our 10 week appointment. The love we feel for our little one is so strong and amazing. I can't even begin to explain how thankful we are to be on this journey!

Playing Catch Up...

I just read some of my old posts and I'm feeling a little sentimental. I sure am a lucky girl. I love my husband and there is nothing better than to be loved by someone the way he loves me.


Now to get back to whats been happening lately: The third trimester of the school year started at Sho-Ban and I couldn't have been more excited! Man, I was so frustrated and defeated by the end of the tri. Although, it was a great learning experience and I am thankful for the lessons I learned (hopefully, I wont have to relearn those ever again:). Along with my full time job and online schooling, I coached the Sho-Ban cheer squad. What a great bunch of girls. Two of the girls cheered the entire year and it was great to see them stick with something and really excel! I am so very very proud to say they went to the Treasure Valley Cheer Competition and placed first in their division! They also outscored the winning 3A team (we are a little 1A school). It was an awesome experience to say the least! The Sho Ban squad only consisted of 3 girls by the time we went to competition, and the gym they preformed in had to have well over 700 people in it. The girls were so nervous and scared but they didn't let it get the best of them! To tell you the truth I felt myself get a little teary eyed as they ran out on the mat! I don't think I was able to take a breath the entire performance! :) Jeremy and his mom were so good to the girls and I, they not only came and supported us but brought us balloons and flowers. I really appreciated their support and I know the girls were glad to have them in the crowd. Here are some pictures throughout the year: (Yes, can you believe it! Jer actually let us use Blacky for the parade! What a good guy. He even washed it for us. The girls loved it!) This is my favorite picture of them. This game was all of the way in Jackpot. And yes I drove them four hours there and four hours back. But, it was so much fun! Some of their lives have changed so much... it makes me miss those days.

The end of 2010 and beginning of 2011 were rough on both of our families. Jeremy's Grandmother Zelda Avery Rowsell and my Grandfather Floyd Rammell passed. “If there ever comes a day when we can't be together keep me in your heart, I'll stay there forever” -Winnie the Pooh
Both Jeremy and his brother spoke during Zelda's funeral. I thought they did a great job. My sister and I spoke during our Grandpa's funeral and I had no idea exactly how challenging it really was to get up and share your thoughts and memories of someone you love. Meagan and I weren't quite as strong as Jer and Just but we made it thorough okay. We are so fortunate to come from such loving families, created by such amazing people. I will never forget that.