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Saturday, August 28, 2010

It's a...

Of all days on my birthday, Aug. 13th, we had our dr's appt to find if we were having a boy or girl. This was probably the most anticipated day of my life, at least up until that point. We went in and the tech looked for all the things she needed to and asked if we wanted to know the sex. We told her absolutely and she said "It is a female." I almost fell off that table. Everybody had me thinking boy, mind you my husband has been calling her Eli the whole time, which was our boy name!

The appt was at 9:30, but we decided to tell everybody in person at 6:30 that night at Logan's. So at the beginning of the dinner we explained for everyone to pick a blue cookie if they thought it was a boy and pink for a girl, cute idea taken from our good friends Levi and Emily Elliott. Here is what everyone thought.


We think it's a girl!

 


We think it's a boy!

After everyone made their pick we had Mama and Daddy open a present to reveal the sex to everyone...It's a girl!!
























We did the same with TJ's family the next night!


If you don't know Jonathan, my bro n law, he's a little crazy! :)


                                                And finally the diva herself- Kelsi Shianne!!

Telling Others

I forgot to mention all the fun of telling other family and friends in the first blog. Of course that day I was just so shocked that I called all of my friends and told them. I text Shaye a picture of a bun in the oven because he was out of town. Mama and Daddy were gone to the beach so I wanted to wait until they got home to tell them in person. Below is a picture of the frame I put on the coffe table. When they walked in and realized what it was they were also in disbelief, but very excited! Of course all of the extended family were ecstatic, too!

Expect the unexpected...

In my mind I always imagined that I would come up with a cute way to tell TJ we were expecting. There are all sorts of ideas on the internet from writing something on your belly to giving them an unexpected gift- maybe I could give him a baby Bama gift? All fun ideas! Now I want to share with you what actually happened that day...It was the last day of the school year, May 21st. We had been going to the doctor and trying to get pregnant for only 3 months now. I really felt like there was no chance we would be pregnant that month, but I knew I should take a test anyway. We had just gotten our new puppy, Jetta. So I went to feed her and Sandy and laid the test down on the counter. I came back into the bathroom ready for what I expected to be a negative test that would be chunked in the trash can. I looked at it, then I brought it up inches from face, and I just stared at it. Was that a faint plus symbol I saw?! So here is the precious way my husband found out we are having our first child- I walked into the living room where he was getting ready for work, handed him the test and in a nervous panic I asked,"Does this look like a + sign to you?!" He replied that it did. I told him you do realize what that means- we are going to have a baby! We were both in such disbelief. So I did what any girl would do in this sitatuion- I called one of my BFFs- Elizabeth. By this point I was boohooing. She wanted to know what was wrong and I was trying to tell her it looked like a plus sign on there. She thought I said I found a black dot! (like a skin cancer or something) Once she finally figured out what I was saying she said go get another test to be sure and come on to work. So that's what I did, only--Winn Dixie was closed , so was Walgreen's (aren't they 24 hours?), and so were the first set of doors I try to enter Wal-mart with! Finally I got them, the ones that say the word. I went to work and took it, and sure as the world in a matter of a second- the word PREGNANT appeared! On June 25th we went to the doctor and it was confirmed. Here is the pciture of the fuzzball, our baby, that we saw that day!

Friday, August 27, 2010

New to the Blog World

Hi! My name is Ashley Jeffares. TJ and I have been married for almost three years and we are expecting our first child in January. We are so excited about starting this new chapter in our lives. I wanted to keep family and friends updated on my pregnancy and our little bundle of joy when she arrives. Enjoy!