Janie and Jack

So, Forrest being Forrest...he's told everyone that he knows about how great the place he bought my engagement ring from is. (P.S. Genesis Diamonds and if you go ask for Cassandra and tell her we sent you! :) They really do give great prices for great value and they're all really friendly and we just love them in there. Ahem...it's called a 'Push Present' Forrest...Ahem...hehe) Anyways, because of how many people he's sent there, they gave us a $100 gift card to Cheesecake Factory. We decided to have a date night last weekend since we've been running all over the country telling family about our baby girl and we know that date nights are going to be few and far between come January. Of course we get there and there's a 30 minute wait so we decide to go walk around the mall to kill time. Well, we ended up in Janie and Jack, this cute little baby/toddler clothing store and I thought I'd have to drag Forrest in and he'd drag me back out in .2 seconds. However, we started looking and then came across the sale rack and then one thing led to another and 7 outfits later, Harper Marie's wardrobe had begun! It was so much fun! It was great too because it was a sale rack, thats Forrests "safe place" so he was just as into looking as I was! Everything on the sale rack was spring of course, which is perfect because it will probably be feeling like spring by the time we really start getting her out a lot. Here's two of the outfits we got - Forrest even found the little white pants.

I can't wait to buy her more!! :)

Surprise, Surprise!!

Forrest and I found out over Memorial Day weekend that we're going to be parents! We told our parents right away, but waited til the end of my first trimester to tell extended family or friends but were at 15 weeks now so just about everyone knows :) It's been a lot of fun to tell people! I think the most shocked of anyone were our parents so that was fun!

I'm due January 30th and we found out this past Wednesday that we are having a girl. A long time ago (like...back in college) Forrest came across the name Harper for a girl. He fell in love with it right away but at 19 I wasn't ready to commit to the names of my children yet! :) However, over the years I've really begun to like it, so unless we do something crazy, we're expecting Harper Marie in just a few months time. I know it's going to go much faster than either of us realize.

I'm not really showing much yet. You can sometimes tell but it really just looks like I've been over-eating more than that I'm pregnant! So it will be nice when you can actually tell that I'm pregnant so I don't have to narrow my shirts to all loose fitting items!

Here is our first picture of little Harper taken at 8 1/2 weeks...she's upside down :)

We went to a place in Franklin that you can have ultrasounds done whenever you want to find out the gender last week. I haven't scanned the pictures from that ultrasound yet but I will post them when I do. I'm actually getting to go back tomorrow just to confirm the sex since I was only 14 1/2 weeks when she did it and she usually waits til 15 weeks, so I might have some more from tomorrow that I can post as well! I did get a DVD of the whole ultrasound but I have no idea how to get that onto a website - I'll have to contact Uncle Craig for that :)

Ok, well I really am going to try to be good about blogging now that we have a baby on the way, but my track record is really bad. I'll give it a shot though!