BOY or GIRL

Place your bets here! We go to the Dr. on Tues. to find out what baby Stone is. I still think it is a boy! I will keep you posted of course.
I am very excited to find out so we can start the nursery and buy things!

DALLAS...Luke's 2nd.....Family Time

We sure enjoyed our trip to Dallas! Thanks again to our family there for everything.
It was Lukey's 2nd b-day and I cannot believe it. It seems like he was just born.
We had a great time despite the 107 and 103 degree days we endured. I had forgotten what that heat felt like.
Here are some pictures for you to enjoy from our trip. It sure was good to see Cynthia and meet Baby Alexander too. What a little cutie pie!

Well, we fly to Dallas on Wed. morning! So excited to be going! Just not looking forward to the heat. It is so hot here today that I can't imagine what it is going to be like next week in Dallas.

It is always great to go to Dallas for a visit. It has been way too long since I have been there. Michael is not looking forward to the flying part, but is excited to go otherwise!
I can't wait to converse with Lukey and hang out with him and my family. I can't wait to take a dip in the pool (something I haven't done in I don't know how long).
I am excited to see Cynthia and Roland and meet baby Alexander! He is going to be such a cutie pie.

2 more days of work and then off on vacation! Gotta Love it!
I am 19 weeks tomorrow and feeling it! My belly is getting bigger and bigger everyday it seems.
I got my hair cut and highlighted yesterday! Sometimes you gotta just do that to make you feel a little sassy. So it is short and blonde again!

Well, that is about it, just trying to stay cool.
Oh ya, we were supposed to find out what baby Stone was this past Thurs, but Dr. Karon had an emergency C-Section that she had to do and we didn't get an ultrasound. Needless to say, It was a very disappointing day! We won't find out now until Aug. 1st when we go to Dr. Campbell our High Risk Dr. But we did hear the heartbeat (140) and baby Stone kicked when we did it and you could hear it. It was very cool. We are just excited that Baby is doing great!
It weighs 7 oz and is 6 inches long. Can you imagine!!!!
Can't wait to find out what it is though! I still think it is a boy. Grandee says that she thinks it would be neat to have a little granddaughter, but she doesn't care of course either way. Gigi says that she still thinks it is a boy. We will see, the verdict is still out! Will keep you updated for sure!

This is me a couple of weeks ago. I was 15 weeks.
I am 18 now and we go to the Dr. on Thurs. to hopefully find out what we are having. I hope that baby Stone cooperates so we can tell. We are very excited to find out what God has blessed us with!

We are really looking forward to our trip to Dallas and spending time with our family! Only 11 more days!!!!

It is like an inferno here today! 93 degrees! I am miserable.
It is days like these that I wish we had a pool to soak in.
This weekend was the 4th of July parade here in Crab Orachard. Last year J, Heather and Lukey and Mom were here and we had a great time. I missed them being here! I posted a picture from last years parade.
Things are good here. Just HOT!
We had a cook out last night at our friends house and we are going to go to another one on July 4th! The Lincoln County Fair is in town this coming week to, so too bad Yall arent here to go to the Demolition Derby with us too!
We are looking forward to our trip to Texas! Won't be long now!
We go back to the Dr. on the 13th, and hopefully we will be able to find out what Baby Stone is! Keep your fingers crossed! We are dying to know!
Michael's Diabetes is doing great. He has not had one regular soda since he found out that he has it. He has totally modified his diet and his sugars are down around 204ish. He is doing great. They put him on Glucophage so that should help too, but I am so proud of the hard work he has done!

Weddings and Christmas

Well, it was another busy weekend!
We had 2 weddings to go to...one Michael did the pictures and I did the sound for the wedding. The other we just attended. It was a couple from our church. It was an outdoor wedding (it rained all the way up to it), but it turned out lovely.
Today we had lunch with Matthew, Jennifer, Mary and the kiddos. Jennifer brought me the biggest box of maternity clothes! It was just like Christmas! There are so many things in there that I can wear! I am so gratful for them and for the clothes that Heather loaned me to wear and the ones that mom has found and sent!
We are looking forward to our visit to Texas in 3 weeks for Lukeys b-day! Of course Michael isn't looking forward to the plane ride, but once we are there, he will be fine!
We will get to stay for 5 days, so we will get some wonderful family time in! I am hoping that we know what we are having before we go home, so I can hit the great shopping that Dallas has!
We go back to the Dr. again in 3 weeks.
Michael was just diagnosed this week with Type 2 Diabetes (Cindy if you have any good Diabetic recipes, send them my way!)
We are really watching what he eats and modifying both of our lives as I am a prime candidate for it to and certainly don't want it! So please pray for him as giving up all the old habits is deeming to be very difficult for him!
Well, guess that is about it for now.

Coolest Picture Ever!

Today was amazing! Baby Stone is amazing! Motherhood is going to be amazing!
Check out the picture we got today from our ultra sound! How incredible is that. We are going to have to wait 3 more weeks until we go back to find out what it is, but how amazing is this picture! Perfect profile! Things were great, He said that everything is going along fabulous and the baby's heart is strong and 148 beats.
Days like today make it all worth it! Thanks Heather for the support last night when I didnt think that I could make it one more day! I love you dearly!

P.S. Notice the words- Profile and foot on the picture! To help ya out, the baby is straight up and down and facing the left!

Daddies

Leave me alone you Nazi's I don't feel good!
Guess I better update before I get kicked out of the blog club.
Went to the Dr. this week. 14 weeks, things are good. Baby Stone put his/her (sure will be glad when we find out what it is) hand up to it's face. It was soon cool. Very active too!
I hear that you are supposed to feel this big burst of energy in your second trimester, but so far, I don't. I feel like crap today.
I am in the stage where my regular clothes don't fit, but I don't fill out maternity clothes in the stomach all the way yet, very akward stage. Thanks Heather for the clothes you rummaged up and the book is awesome and for mom for sending them to me and for the shirt you sent too. I was in the rut of wearing the same thing. I sure don't feel very trendy anymore.
I go to my high risk OB on Monday. We should find out in the next 3 weeks what we are having.
Happy Father's Day to all the daddies out there! Jason-thanks for being the wonderful dad you are to my Lukey. He loves you very much and I am thankful you are such a great dad. I love ya too, Mistah Walkah!
To my sweet hubby who is going to be the best father! I can't wait to see him hold our baby for the first time and just watch his heart melt. What a wonderful, gentle man that God has blessed me with and I can't wait to see how he will be as a daddy. He has gone to every Dr. Visit with me and I love to watch his little face when they do the ultrasounds. He gets the biggest smile on his face! I love you!
I pray for our friend Jimmy as this is his first Father's day without his father and for my friend Cynthia who is having a rough time right now with her daddy and the Alzheimers. Also for James' stepdad Dave who was in a motorcycle accident and is in ICU. I pray that he recovers soon.
Thanks to my mommy to, who was Mommy and Daddy as well. I love you dearly so much and miss you tons.
Well, I guess that is about all for now. chat at you soon!

Dishwasher, Sinus Infection, VBS

Sorry again for the long period of time between blogs!
Things are hectic right now.
I had a wonderful anniversary! I got a new dishwasher and beautiful flowers! I am so excited about my dishwasher!!!
I am blogging at 3:30 in the a.m. because I can't breath! I have a severe sinus infection! I never realized how when you are prego your immune system is so susseptible to everything. I am so completely miserable. I got some antibiotics, so I am hoping that they kick in and bring me some relief!
Michael and I go back to the Dr. on the 12th! I will be 14 weeks. Soon we will find out what the baby is. I am very excited about that!
This week has been VBS at church. Michael is the official photographer and my friend Jac and I have been doing the puppet shows. It is exciting to see kids so excited for the Lord!
I had Michael a b-day party cookout last weekend. It was so much fun. We had about 20 or so people. He is becoming quite the horseshoe player!
Work is busy. My boss got fired last Friday, so it is a little disorganized as of right now, but he needed to go, although I hate it for him and his family.
Can't think of much else, so I will wrap it up and see if I can lay my heady down and catch some Z's!

Anniversary II

Monday is our second anniversary! Happy Anniversary Sweetie! I love you so much and these have been the greatest 2 years! Just think, by next anniversary we will have our sweet baby Stone to celebrate with! Thanks for being a wonderfully sweet husband!

It has been a while. I am so super busy at work.
The morning sickness stage has hit the last 2 weeks and it is awful. It is all day. Please pray that my sickness subsides and for strength for Michael and I.

I had a good Mother's day. I got the Willow Tree Figureine of the pregnant woman from Heather and a very sweet card. They meant so much to me!
Michael made me the sweetest card. He is so tenderhearted and wonderful. I can't wait to see him with Baby Stone.
I wish I could have been there to celebrate it with Mom and my family.

Michael is very busy with his new role as Worship Leader at church. He has recruited me to be on the praise team, so that keeps us both busy.

That is about all, short and sweet today.
Thanks for all of your prayers thus far... keep em comin!

Baby Stone

Another exciting day in the Stone household. Baby Stone's heartbeat is strong as can be and beating oh so fast. Everything looks great. My blood pressure is right where it needs to be and I have only gained 1 pound.
Dr. Karon said everything is perfect thus far! Baby Stone was moving around a little too. What an amazing miracle! I can't wait to find out what we are having! I love Baby Stone so much already I can't imagine what it will be like when he or she gets here!

Week in review

Well, another week has come and gone.
Things here are going well. We have had an unusually wet and cold May thus far. Maybe we won't have a crazy hot summer... I will keep my fingers crossed.
Our weekend consisted of our friends J and Jac's son's birthday party at KC's Gymnastics. Man was it hard for me not to get back into my gymnastics mode and start doing it all over again. But I refrained. I didn't think a prego woman doing flips on the trampoline at a 2 and 3 year olds birthdays was oppropriate!
God has blessed Michael with a new endeavor. For the past several months Michael has been in charge of all the Powerpoint presentations for the sermons and songs etc. Plus he plays drums too in the worship band. Well, Vola our pastor has approached him and asked him to come on staff as the Music and Technology Leader.
It is such a blessing, and the extra income will take care of baby Stone's daycare needs.
God is so good!
On that account, I found a great daycare in the town that I work that we are going to check out for baby Stone. It is a WONDERFUL place. You have to have a code to get in and out and they have cameras so if you want to review the tapes of the day, you can. They have so many activities that they do. I guess that is why there is a 10 month waiting list.
Thank you for all your prayers for Lukey. I am sure you have all read my sister's blog on the process, but if not, he came out of his surgery great and is on the mend. Hopefully soon his meds will be gone and he will be back to his old self.
Please pray for my dear friends Annie and Mike. Their son Dillon is having surgery on his little man part as well, and we pray that God will place his hands upon him and guide the Dr's thru this.
Work is going good. Just very busy for both of us. I love my job though and am thankful that God brought me there.
Well, off to eat a bite and get ready to turn in for the night.
Cindy I miss ya and hope you had fun in Vegas.

Pray for Lukey

Please pray for sweet Lukey as he has surgery tomorrow.
I know that he will do great. He is having tubes put in his ears and also having some work done on his little man part.

Oh Lord, I pray for Luke. I pray that you would bless him tomorrow. I pray for wisdom for the surgeons. I pray that everything will go great. I lift him up to you and pray for a wonderful recovery. Thank you for modern medicine to fix things when we need it. I pray that you would comfort Heather and Jason tomorrow as Luke is under your care. Thank you for your faithfulness and your love. Amen.

Not much really new to report.
Michael and I had date night Friday night. We went to the drive in movie. That is the coolest experience. You get in for $5 and get to watch 2 movies. We saw Scary Movie 4 and the other one was Benchwarmers, but we were too tired by the 2nd one, so we came home. But it is a very cool experience. And just think, we can take the baby when he/she comes, and still go to a movie.
Michael went fishing yesterday and they caught close to 80 fish. They brought home 37! That is a lot of fish!
Today we went to church and I took a long power nap this afternoon.
There are 2 new babies at our church, and soooo cute. I was holding Pierce this morning, and just cannot wait to be a mommy.
Well, I guess that is all for now. Adios!

Baby's Heartbeat

Baby Stone's heartbeat was heard and seen today. What an amazing day for us!!!!
Baby's are such a miracle!!
I am 7 weeks 1 day and my due date is Dec. 11th. The baby is perfect to this point! Praise God!

Same ol stuff going on here.
I have my 2nd Dr.'s appt. this morning to hear/see the heart beat, so hopefully it isn't too early.
Things are good. Just very tired and the nausea is kicking in. But other than that I am doing great.
Not really much else to blog. I know, super boring lately.
Work is going good. Just busy, we are putting in a new payroll system, so that has consumed the majority of our time. But I love where I work and what I do. I am blessed to have found this job.
I will post more later after my appt.
Hope all of you are doing well!

Things are great! Spring is in the air and our Easter visit with Mom was bunches of fun! We had a busy weekend, but had a wonderful time with mom.

Things with the baby are good. I go Monday to the Dr. again and will see how Baby Stone is doing. I am feeling good, just tired all the time.

Short but sweet blog for now.... hey at least I updated! :)

BABY!!!!!

Well, there is some exciting news to share with you all. I AM PREGNANT!
I had my Dr. Appt. today, and Baby Stone is right there smack dab in the Uterus where he/she needs to be! Dr. Karon says everything looks great this time. It is NOT an ectopic pregnancy this time and I am 4 weeks and 2 days.
I have an appt. in 2 more weeks and hopefully by then I will be far enough along to hear the heartbeat!
Praise God. What an answer to pray and such a blessing!!!!!
The picture is of the ultrasound she did today of the gestational sac! Such an exciting time for us!

I have so not been the best blogger lately. I just have not taken the time to update it.
Things here are great! Just working and making purses and Michael has been fishing a lot. He loves this time of year where he can get out on the water and fish.

Mom is coming next weekend. Sure wish The Rice family was coming with her. Sure would like to see Lukey easter egg hunt. Love that boy.

We had a bad storm the other night that ripped thru and our huge pear tree out front got struck by lightning. It fell over in our neighbors yard. So, our friend Jimmy came over and helped Michael chop it down. That is both trees in the last almost 2 years that have been damaged. The front of our house looks so bare now with it gone.

I guess that is all for now. Hope everyone is doing great.
Cindy I hope you are doing good in TX. Glad your house in LEX sold! That is awesome!