Drum Roll Please

So, I know everyone was waiting until next Thursday to hear what I was having, but I have an announcement! I ALREADY KNOW!

Since my parents were in town and I had a normal appointment, I asked my doctor if there is anyway we can find out the sex of the baby while they are here. GOOD NEWS!!!

She told me that we can do a gender check! So with Mom, Dad, Adam, Katie, and me in this little room we searched my little uterus to find the baby! And GUESS WHAT!!!!!!

We have a baby.....





what do you think it is?






Do you have a clue yet?






It is a GIRL!!!!!!!!!!!

Who would have thought that a Reese-Rankin combination would come out as a little girl. The Technician told us she was 95% sure it was a girl, so I trust her!

I am SOOOO EXCITED!!!!! I didn't care if it was a boy or girl, but I am sooo happy to know!

My mom and Katie and Katie's mom all went shopping for little pink clothes the next day! YAY FOR LITTLE BABIES!!!!

Just thought I would share this great news!

Baby Bump

So my mom happened to ask Katie (my sister-in-law) tonight if I was getting a baby bump yet, so I promised her that I would put up a picture tonight. I know I will see her in only 2 more days YAY!!!, but I will put up a picture for all who care to see. Sorry for the grunge clothes, but I am on my way to bed. Here is what I look like at 18 weeks. It is weird how fast it goes by.

PS. Sorry I haven't blogged in so long. I promise I will blog this week to catch up on my great spring break. Did I mention I am dreading having to go to work tomorrow. I just don't know if I will be able to get back in the swing of working period. I am getting used to this break!

So here is the picture!

It feels a lot bigger than it looks right now!

HALLELUJAH CHORUS...BEGIN NOW!

I think I am more excited than any of the kids here at school. In 20 minutes, I begin a week long spring break. I am not doing anything exciting besides NOT WORKING and packing up our apartment so we can basically move everything out, but I am soooooo happy. I don't know if I will be able to come back after a week of sleeping in and enjoying myself. I guess we will have to see when next Monday comes along.

I just thought I would share my elation with everyone who is reading.

YAY FOR SPRING BREAK!

Is Anyone Else Excited?

This is supossedly the weather for the next little bit out here in UTAH!!! Is any one else excited to actually see some warm weather coming our way. It has been SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO COLD!!!! But now things are looking up. I can maybe even start to think about putting my heavy winter coats in a box. YEAH FOR WARM WEATHER!

By the way...the most exciting thing is that next week is my spring break, so I may have warm weather for a wonderful spring break. The only sad thing is I will probably be inside packing boxes so we can get out of our apartment.

KATIE...just rememeber when we come to live with you...we will just be ONE BIG HAPPY FAMILY!

The strangest dream!

Last night, I had a really weird dream. By the way...I have had very vivid dreams and numerous dreams every night for the past few weeks. I don't remember the last time I had dreams like this. But last nights was crazy!!!!

I was A LOT further along in my pregnancy....like due any day...and well I went into labor at home and couldn't get to the hospital. Adam was gone with the car and I didn't have a phone. So I basically had the baby at home and Adam came in about 30 minutes before it was over. The funny thing is it went really easy and I was really calm. Everything turned out great and there were no problems at all. (Yeah, I hope I will be that calm when it really happens). But anyways we had a healthy little girl that we took to the hospital afterwards to make sure everything was ok. I haven't even had a chance to tell Adam about this dream, but I just thought it was really weird!!!! So as far as I am concerned we are having a little girl according to the dream! haha.

I just thought you would enjoy the crazy thoughts of a pregnant woman!

PS. The baby is the size of an avocado this week. SHE is growing soooo big!!!!!!!

15 weeks and DYING TO KNOW!

Ok, this is getting ridiculous. I just can't wait to know what this little child is! Boy or Girl? I wish they could tell you earlier than around 20 weeks. I am just really impatient, but I finally have an appointment for my ultrasound. We will be finding out on May 1! Is anyone else excited? I am putting up a poll to see what you all think the little one is. So it will be open until May 1st!

I just want to start buying fun baby things, but I don't want to until I know what I am having...Their are just too many cute things to choose from! And yellow and green just get boring when there is sooooo much more blue and pink!

Just to give you a little basis on which to guess...

My family...

-I am the only girl of 4 kids.

- On my mom's side their is about half and half boys and girls with the cousins.

- On my dad's side there are TONS of boy cousins and then only 3 girls.

Adam's family...

- He has 2 brothers and 3 sisters, so it is half and half.

- On his dad's side there are basically only boys (except Adam's sisters).

- On his mom's side it is pretty even I think.

So take your guess on what you think our little one is!

If my lil bro Cameron answers...he is probably right because for some reason when he has dreams about ANYTHING with people he knows...such as what our baby will be...he will be right. It is kinda freaky...just ask him about his visionary dreams!

PS... I am going to take a picture of me soon to put up here so you can see my little growing tummy.

Wendi's Assignment

So I was given an assignment, and have put it off until today. I have been meaning to take pictures so I could post, but it just hasn't happened.

The assignment is for me to reveal to contents of my purse. I am in the category of "the expectant new mom". Yes, she gave assignments to those with kids, those expecting, and those "hip" people without kids.

You are actually all going to laugh when I inform you that I do not use a purse. Never do I carry one, unless I am feeling overly ambitious. I do however keep a few things on my person at ALL TIMES!

I ALWAYS carry numerous cards in my back pocket... (yeah it kinda sounds like a guy huh)

The cards are as follows:
-License
-Debit Card
-Personal Credit Card
-Work Credit Card (for the apartments)

Then in my coat pocket (since it is STILL SO COLD OUT HERE) or in my front pocket of my pants I have...
-Chap Stick (Burt's Bees of course)
-Change (Adam hates carrying change so I always get it) Today, I have exactly $.27.
-Keys
-Cell Phone

Yes, I know I will get grief about not carrying a purse, but I just don't like carrying extra things. I like to have my hands/arms free.

I do, however, carry a GIGANTIC bag to Church full of lesson things for our Primary kids, a coloring book and crayons incase any of them come and sit with Adam and me during sacrament meeting (which happens every so often), snacks for this pregnant woman, a bottle of water, and pens, etc.

I also have a big bag that I carry to work. This has all the papers I need to carry back and forth, keys to my classroom, books to read in case I get bored, and my journal that I try to write in. Adam wanted me to let you all know that the work bag isn't one I purchased though...it was a free bag from a conference that he went to in October (you can go back and look at his New Orleans trip). Yeah I am pitiful like that.

Now don't get me wrong...I love a cute bag!!! I have a million, I just don't really use them. I use them more in the summer, but I guess I always felt that I would use them when I had kids, to keep all their "stuff" in. Until then, sorry I don't have a purse to take cute pictures of. But at some point I will unload the boxes of cute purses that I do have and use them every day. It just takes too much effort right now to change all the stuff out of one and put it in another that matches your outfit.

So there you have it...another thing you may not have known about me!