Long time no blog! :-)

Wow it's been a while since my last post!
Hope everyone is doing fabulously! Christmas is just around the corner so since we've been back from our vacation I've mostly been decorating and getting ready for the Holidays! 

Everything has been going wonderful this past month. We had a great vacation and we're just adjusting back to normal life. Farrah started hiccuping on our trip and now we can watch her move & dance around my belly :) Our princess is learning new tricks everyday :)) It's been really cool for Jamey because she's so much more interactive now.. he can push on my belly or talk to her and she'll kick and flutter around for him almost every time =]

25 week pregnancy vlog:

19 Weeks!

DEFINITELY a GIRL :]

Well we got the sex confirmed.. we are DEFINITELY having a little princess <3

We got a video of her to take back home & show our family and got pictures! She's SO big now! And still super active! She was moving all over the place and just being adorable! :)

Jamey with the ultrasound :]

The three lines that show she is a princess :)

Farrah sucking her thumb 

The back of her perfect widdle body!

Side shot!

Mid summersault haha, we have a little gymnast on our hands!

Our first shopping trip afterwards :)) haha

Farrah was happy and healthy! We never got a call back from our doctors office about our down syndrome results. They say that they only call if they find something bad so I'm feeling super relaxed! I love walking in our nursery and not having any second guesses about the sex. It's just so... calming. I've been so super on the go and freaking out this whole pregnancy... now that the gender is definite, the room is basically done, the necessities are purchased, and we're just working on the little stuff, I finally feel so at peace at like I can take it easy from here on out. I do have to say, I'm glad I started early. I used my energy while I had it and now the further along I get, and the more tired I become it's all alright because everything is in order and done!

Next pregnancy vlog: Oct. 27th <3

Hello belly & 18 week vlogggg :)

Some still shots of the nursery :]

woahhhhh :)
Baby's got belly!

Hello there little Farrah Whitley :)

She definitely decided to make her presence known this week! 

I'm going to get an ultrasound on Tuesday :)

Can't wait to see our little angel.

Everytime we go she looks SO much bigger than the last.
this time I get a DVD and pictures so Im really excited :]

We dunno if Jamey is going to get to go yet, but we're hoping. He hasn't missed an appt. yet so here's to hoping this isn't the first! :)

And here is a quick little 18 week pregnancy vlog.. after some stuff happened this week I decided to do one before our gender confirmation. Including a tour of the nursery and a little side belly shot! :)))
Enjoyyyy =]

Well.. post finding out about having a little girl life has been fabulous :)

It's such an amazing feeling to be able to call your baby by name. To day dream and plan for her, to buy outfits and know that in a few short months she'll be in our arms wearing them. I think finding out we're having a little girl was definitely a big adjustment for Jamey.. as much as he denies it haha. He completely convinced himself that we were having a boy haha. But seeing him embrace the thought of having a little girl.. and talking about how he's gonna protect her, watching him sing along to "cleaning this gun" and saying thats what his life is gonna be like in 15 years, and even stuff as simple as helping me pick out frilly pink little outfits makes my heart melt. This little girl is gonna own him and he can't even tell that it's already happening. I don't think anything can top all the joy and excitement that comes along with your first pregnancy. Not knowing what to expect and figuring it all out together... I know we're gonna remember every moment of this for the rest of our lives. So I'm just trying to make every moment count.

So... I promised that I wouldn't BUY a bunch of stuff yet, but I didn't say a thing about making anything! So these next few weeks are being dedicated to making tutu's, headbands, hair bows, dresses, and hopefully a baby blanket =]

In other newsss:

I'm starting to coupon. I've tried it a couple times but it never stuck. However, after watching a marathon of extreme couponers I feel ridiculous for not trying to get some of those savings! I don't want to be crazy and buy tons of stuff I don't need just because I can get it for cheap or free with a coupon, but I definitely think with a baby on the way not spending an hour a week clipping coupons to help us out is just plain silly. So this time I'm jumping in head first. I bought the book "Pick Another Checkout Lane, Honey" by a lady on the show extreme couponers. And I have to say, I'm a visual person.. so seeing everything written out has definitely been like an "ahh haa" moment for me. The concept of coupons is really easy, it's just deciding that you're going to do it, getting to know store policies, and building up a coupon binder so that you can really make a difference with savings. I read the whole book in about an hour and I'm so gung-ho it's a little ridiculous haha, But this Sunday I'll be collecting my inserts, clipping my coupons, organizing my binder, and starting off slow with this whole thing till I get the hang of it! I'll post updates about how much progress I'm making and anything I learn along the way to help other 'coupon virgins' :)

Yesterday (Friday) we went over to a friends house for a cookout, then a bunch of other guys from the unit and their wifeys came out for some beer pong. We had such a good time! All our husbands have been in Afghan together for a year so they're all super close.. I really love that all the wives get along so well too. It's becoming a weekly or bi weekly thing for us all to have a cookout & get together, plus then when the men go hunting the wives have been getting together for a girls day! Ya can't beat it! :)

I'm going to start my weekly pregnancy portraits next week!! I've been taking snap shots here and there but now that I'm getting a little bit of a belly I'm gonna start on my little project I've been waiting for! I'm so excited! :)) I've been watching some of my friends pregnancy vlogs and it's such a cute idea! I might do a couple videos but I think I'll do them biweekly starting at 20 weeks when we get our confirmation and I'm a bit bigger.. and maybe then doing them weekly at 30 weeks. It seems faster than typing all this out. 

We're (most likely) having a .......

Well yesterday (9/29/2011) we had our ultrasound and although it's not going to be 100% until our confirmation appointment on the 27th of October the Dr. said it appeared to be a.....

PRINCESS <3

He made sure to tell us not to buy any pink or go crazy because there is always a chance he could be wrong since I'm so early. So we only got one little outfit and we're waiting on the rest. I've had a feeling it was a girl since day one so I'm completely convinced but it's better to be safe than sorry! :)

Our ultrasound was SO AMAZING! I really can't even begin to describe it! The baby was seriously like doubled in size and was looking like a little human! She was so active and bouncing all over the place. The Dr. said no wonder I was feeling movement so early, she was a little jumping bean. (I neglected to tell him that it may have been the cherry coke I chugged before we went in so she would be moving around for a crotch shot hahaha). The only time I've ever gonna want my little girl spread eagle was yesterday...and the 27th haha. It was just so cool and made everything feel SO REAL. I mean with our other ultrasounds it was clear we were having a baby haha, but there is just something different seeing your baby actually look like a baby and on top of that being able to put a name to these little flutters I feel occasionally =]

As the blogging world already knows, we decided to name our frilly, prissy little princess

Farrah Whitley Rowe

Ah, so exciting! I think I'm more thrilled today than I was yesterday! I definitely had to let it sink in a little bit! 

Anyways.. thats about all I got for now! :) 

Hope everyone has a fabulous day!

15 week post! :)

Pregnancy updates:

Symptom wise, I'm feeling fabulous in my 2nd trimester! I've been getting headaches a lot recently but I think thats just because I'm not drinking enough water & I've really been on the go! 

I definitely need to step that up, not that I have a choice. Jamey assigns me how many water bottles I have to drink and is tattletaling to my Dr! hahaha. He's crazy! I usually only drink water and maybe some sweet tea during the day it's just that I don't drink a lot in general. Like pre pregnancy a bottle of water could last me all day. Its really strange. But I'm working on it!

Weight gain:

Pre pregnancy my weight fluctuates between 125-130 

I was 130 at my first OB appointment (I blame Jamey's homecoming and us going out to eat all the time haha)

and now I'm 15 weeks and 131 lbs. So I haven't been gaining much but I haven't lost any either so I'm pretty happy about it. I was blessed with a really great metabolism. If you could see the way I eat, what I eat, and when I eat it and then compare that to the amount of exercise I get... you'd probably assume I was severely overweight. I need to stop relying on that because I know at some point it's going to catch up to me.. and this pregnancy has been the perfect opportunity to start going walking at the gym and add a lot more fruits and veggies to my diet. So I'm really really realllyyyy trying, hopefully I keep it up all the whole pregnancy!

Next appointment:

September 29th!

We're getting an ultrasound and drawing blood for the down syndrome test! 

I'm pretty nervous about that

buttttttt my excitement for hopefully finding out the sex outweighs it completely!

Jamey and I are like kids on christmas just waiting for next thursday!! 

We have a babies r us shopping date right afterwards :)

Today, 9/22/2011, was the first day I felt the baby move :)

Jamey had left for PT and while I was laying in bed trying to go back to sleep I felt the little baby flutters :) I didn't know exactly what it was, but suspected the baby so I pushed on my belly trying to get him/her to do it again and it did! :))) I was thrilled! I texted Jamey and then we danced around the kitchen when he got home haha :)

This is seriously the most exciting time in our lives. I feel so blessed for this little miracle <3

Alright well that's about all of my pregnancy updates and I have a bunch of stuff to do so I'm gonna get off here. I'm gonna try to not write another one till the 29th :] wish us luckkk!!