Flashback Friday... Sort of

Holidays around the world at Epcot, one last outing before baby.

Well its not quite Friday but I figured since we are only 1 hour away it will be ok :) we are going to flash back 11 and a half weeks ago when I was as big as a house, completly miserable, and had some pretty scary looking ankles! Let me pop the bubble for all you super moms who love being pregnant, I hated it! now dont go getting all judgemental just yet, I didnt hate all of it. I loved the end result and I loved feeling her move and kick! However, I hated being large (lets just say me and the scale were fighting and still arent that great of friends anymore...) and swollen boy was I ever swollen! All of my beautiful shoes that I could barely squeeze my fat little piggys in let alone let alone walk in just sat in my closet lonely and collecting dust. but then 11 weeks ago to the day my beautiful baby girl got here and she was worth all 41 weeks of swollen sleepless nights and countless bathroom breaks!

Evie a couple minutes after she was born!

 I couldn't have asked for a better baby shes absolutely perfect and I think she will end up with a shoe collection that will rival my own!  I am so very excited to start the next chapter of my life with her in tow! We have some pretty big journeys ahead of us and they are sure to never be dull!

Leavin on a jet palne

So I'm laying in bed still (calm down it's only 8 am) and Evie has her face securely nuzzled into my elbow (that's how she likes to sleep) and I figured I'd update this, get excited!
Well we successfully went on our first cross country trip and it was great, Evie did wonderful on the plane she slept though the whole thing there and back which is more than I can say for myself! I thought that maybe, you know since I had an obvious newborn with me, that the person assigning the seats would think " I'm going to sit her next to a really skinny person who doesn't stink!" but no, they didn't think that. So I got to sit next to large marge who was a little smelly and spilling over into my seat. I still have dents in my arm from basically rapping the window I was so close to it!
But it was worth it to spend a week with my family and to show off my beautiful baby girl! Evelyn and I had a great time, even though her cousin Gavin got sick a few days in and we were forced to find alternate accommodations for the rest of the week but we still had fun! And we got to go to my nieces 3rd birthday party. I have to admit I have a really poor track record of attending my sisters kids birthdays... But I do honestly try to make them it just doesn't pan out sometimes! I can honestly say that I have one amazing family, I mean how many people can say they have the amount of love and support from their families that I do? Not many and that makes me a little bit sad.
Anyway our flight home was another story indeed! There was one other person in my row, a skinny business type man who smelled nice! So I had the freedom of both arm rests!

 Evie and Pepaw

 she was worn out after all that partying!

almost natural labor!

So December 22nd at about 7 pm I was admitted to the baby place at my hospital for what was sure to be a routine induction, right? Wrong...  but lets not get ahead of ourselves! Everything started out normal I went in they sent me straight into my ever so luxurious labor and delivery room and nurse came in and introduced herself and gave me a quick run down of what the next 8 hours would entail, (however what neither of us knew at that point was that my little princess had plans of her own that didn't include waiting until the morning to start the pitocin!) So I slipped into my fashionable hospital gown snuggled my feet into my hello kitty slippers and turned on the tv and waited for the nurse to come back with the meds that were supposed to "ripen" my undialated cervix. She gave me the meds at 9:30 and told me she would check my cervix again at 1:30am to see if we had made any progress... and as luck would have it when 1:30 rolled around my cervix was still "a dimple" as she described it, I was sure at this point that I literally was never having my baby and was doomed to a life long pregnancy! so she went on to do whatever it was that she was doing and I decided to at least TRY to sleep, but then at about 1:45 my back started to hurt really bad and so i asked the nurse if i could have something to help with the pain not thinking I was in labor  then I went from 0 centimeters to 10 in 45 minutes!  I did get my epidural but not until I was already at 9... it was a very intense hour and a half but then at 3:22 am on December 23rd my peanut was here!

It has now been a week and 4 days and I still can't get over how pretty she is! I am VERY biased but I really do think shes a pretty baby!  She is so alert and awake more than she is asleep which is odd for a newborn but I don't mind because she has the most amazing eyes and I like to see them! We are going to get her newborn pictures done tomorrow with Amy Robertson photography and shes amazing so I am very excited to see how these turn out! Alright I could go on for days about how in love with my little girl I am so I'm gonna stop here and bid you all adue!

Until next time, au revoir mon cherie!

Frustrated and fat!

Well I'm halfway through week 39 and im still pregnant, and if one more person asks me " have you had the baby yet?" I think im going to go insane! Obviously I have not had her yet and I promise, if I don't do it, someone will post something somewhere so you will all know! Today the Doc set an appt to induce me on the 21st... so looks like another christmas in Flordia away from my family. Let me tell you how excited I am about that, but I guess there isn't much I can do about it. I really detest living in another state and plan to change that as soon as humanly possible. I wish this was a more positive and up beat post but I'm not really in a positive or up beat mood so this, unfortunatly, is all I have for you!

Just the two of us: Over the bump

Just the two of us: Over the bump: "It's official... I have reached the point where I do not want to be pregnant for one more day! these last couple weeks have been a little bi..."

Over the bump

It's official... I have reached the point where I do not want to be pregnant for one more day! these last couple weeks have been a little bit rough for me to say the least but I think everyone, aside from the stepford wives, feels this way when they are at 37 1/2 weeks! So to take my mind off things last weekend my mom and I finished all our Christmas shopping on saturday then Sunday we visited Epcot to see the candle light processional with my friend Nicole, we had such a great time and I got lots of walking in to help little Evelyn in her decent to the birth canal! If you have never been to Epcot I highly recomend going around Christmas time it's a little bit busier but its so beautiful with all the decorations and especially all the lights at night. Also the new bakery in Germany has the best chocolate covered strawberrys in the world showcase. We visited the bakery twice, one strawberry for me and one for Evie thats only fair, right?  

 Here are a few snapshots from our day! 

making calls in Canada

Visiting Tigger and Pooh in the UK

Classic Epcot snap shot!

The Lights in the German pavillion.

Well readers I can honestly say that I hope my next post will be introducing my little princess to all of you, keep your fingers crossed!

-Sheree

My own little monkey!

Today I had my 36 week check up and my Dr said Baby Evie is about 6 pounds and all arms and legs! Now this is obviously a rough estimate since she doesn't have X-ray vision to see through my uterus, but still it was interesting to hear! I like knowing that my little princess is big enough now to come when ever she likes ( hopefully sooner than later, her Mommy is impatient ). All of Evies things are washed and set up and waiting for her, I have my bags packed for the hospital, car seat strapped in the car and all the paper work filled out! I only have one thing left to do and that's to find a pediatrician. Its probably one of the more important things and I shouldn't have waited this long to find one, but honestly time just seems to fly by and all of the sudden there is no time left! I guess that's what I get for procrastinating.
- Sheree

no longer a blog virgin!

I know what your thinking! I must be the last person on earth without a blog, but I'm sure there is someone out there who still has a dial up Internet connection and perhaps lives in a hut who doesn't feel the need to blog about their life! I never really felt the need to bore the world with the ramblings of a girl who simply did nothing but shop and go out with her girlfriends... Sex and the City already did that! Now however, I am finally being a "grown up" at the ripe old age of 25! I am expecting my first child in a matter of weeks, crazy how fast time goes by I feel like I just peed on that terrifying stick yesterday. Evelyn Reese, that is what I'm naming my baby girl, no reason at all I just liked it and now its hers. Evelyn's Father (lets just call him the sperm donor) is out of the picture, typical story you have all heard before. Boy meets girl, sweeps girl off her feet, girl gets pregnant, boy gets on the first plane back to Deutschland... oh I forgot to mention he is from Germany. Honestly though, I couldn't be happier and the last thing a happy girl needs in her life is someone who doesn't really want to be there! Maybe he will come around one day and maybe he won't but I wouldn't change any of it for the world! I never would have believed it if someone told me this time last year that I was going to be a mom, life certainly does have its way of turning upside down when you least expect it! For now It's just the two of us, and I couldn't be more ready to start this adventure or more excited to have another pair of feet to buy cute shoes for!