Good Times with The Gray's

Josh and I are laying in bed watching t.v. about to go to sleep, and suddenly I feel Cooper move. I put my hands on my stomach where I felt him move and sure enough I felt a push back. I immediately told Josh to give me his hand, so that I could guide him to where I felt the movements. Cooper gave us another good push and we were both able to feel him at the same time! Such a sweet moment for us! We are looking forward to many many more of these miracle moments!

On Friday I will be 23 weeks pregnant. Time is flying by, but you can bet we are treasuring this whole entire pregnancy experience. I know my hormones may be a bit out of whack, but I have to say Josh melts my heart every day. He is a fabulous husband and he is SUPER excited about this pregnancy and the arrival of our son! The look on his face when we talk about Cooper is just adorable! He does anything and everything for me and I know he will do the same for our little man! I am so blessed to have such an amazing man in my life! Sorry for the sappy post but I don't brag on him enough for all that he does! Love you babe!

I can't believe I am telling on myself, but I can't help but share the totally dumb stunt I pulled tonight! Josh and I decided to go to a movie at 4:30, we saw Brooklyn's Finest. I thought it was a good movie, but I do not think the typical girl would enjoy the sex, drugs, violence and just plain gore that this movie entailed.

Now to the point of the story, we planned to cook a frozen pizza after we returned from our movie. I preheated the oven and read the box for directions, it said remove plastic from pizza and tray and place on bottom rack. LOL, I removed the plastic and the tray and placed the pre-sliced pizza on the bottom rack. A few minutes later I checked on the pizza and noticed that the pizza was falling through the rack. Yes I placed the pizza on the rack with no pan or tray!! OH NO! I yelled for Josh to come help me! We desperately tried to save the pizza...and we did however, it did not look like the picture on the box anymore. It was a doughy mess. I then let the pregnancy hormones get to me as Josh was laughing hysterically at me in the middle of the kitchen. I began to cry, storm off to the living room and tell him that I will just order us a pizza. It took me a few minutes but I then saw the humor and started to laugh at myself. What a moron! As I look back at the box it clearly says place frozen pizza in TRAY on LOWER RACK. DUH!! We carefully put the pizza back together and finished cooking in on a pan. It turned out to be delicious! I am normally a decent cook, but I guess the frozen pizza was too complicated for this fake blonde.

Today I am 19 weeks pregnant with Baby Cooper! I cannot believe how fast time is flying! I felt just a little yucky at the beginning, definitely had some food aversions but all is well now! I feel great! My energy is back for now and I am just enjoying being pregnant! I have been feeling him move for about two weeks now. It feels like a muscle twitch...this week I have noticed a little different feeling like a push or a nudge. We go back for our 20 week appointment on March 3. I will be almost 21 weeks at that time, and we will have a sono! Can't wait!

I am somewhat of a numbers person, I think this is solely because of my mom. She always comes up with a connection to dates. Anyway, the day we found out it was a boy our appointment was on 1/30 @ 1:30...our next appointment is 3/3/10...3310 is mine and Josh's "number" and today is the 19th and I am 19 weeks pregnant!. Oh the irony.

We have decided to stay put in our house for a while! So Cooper's nursery is well underway! This past weekend we moved out some furniture that was in the room, and we put up black chair railing! By we I mean Josh, his dad and some sweet friends! The room is going to be decorated in a pirate's theme. It is precious!! The bedding, crib and other nursery furniture has been ordered! Here is the link for a peek at the bedding. http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2615625

That's all for now!

Much Love,

Bronwyn

Boots it is! Josh and I are elated to announce that we will be welcoming a baby BOY this summer! About a month ago I made an appointment at Stork Vision (which I highly recommend) to have an ultrasound to determine the sex of our little one.

Josh and I asked our family to accompany us for the special occasion since they are a HUGE part of our lives! However, the family did not immediately join us in the sonogram room, Josh and I wanted to share the moment together first before we invited them in! Baby Gray quickly revealed himself to his mom and dad! Yay! Now it was time to share the good news...Josh gave everyone the go ahead and they anxiously waltzed in! Josh and I chose to keep the news a surprise until they saw the boy parts for themselves! It was so fun to hear them say..."It's a girl....no that's a boy"!! Baby Gray definitey got a little camera shy when the family came in! He had turned over and was lying with his tiny hiny in the air! So sweet! It was a little more difficult for the family to see him and all his glory! But soon enough they were able to get a quick glimpse! Everyone shouted in excitement! What a beautiful moment it was!! Tears filled my eyes and the look on Josh's face was priceless! Baby Gray quickly became Cooper Jackson Gray. He has a name!! It makes this wonderful experience even more real now!

I will post a few sonogram pictures soon!

Thanks for all of the love, prayers and shared excitement! We love you all!

With Love,

Bron

I splurged and bought myself a brand new beautiful pink Juicy Couture handbag! I normally would not spend this much money on myself, but I had some Christmas cash just waiting to be spent on something fun! Juicy was feeling generous for us after Christmas shoppers- they had a no shipping promotional code! Woo Hoo! Even better! I just had to share my purchase with you! Look how cute!

Yes...Crazy I know! We have lived in our home for just over two years now and we love it! So why are we selling you ask? I do not know... ask my husband!! LOL I am serious. He has just recently decided that our home is too small for us, especially upon the arrival of Baby Gray. I am perfectly happy in my home in our very wonderful neighborhood, but I am not going to argue...a new home would be nice! We knew this would be a great starter home and I guess Josh is already ready for bigger and better things. A few weeks ago he and I discussed buying a new house and we drove around looking at subdivisions. I did not think we were serious as of now! Last week to my surprise, he decided to make it official by putting our house on Craigslist. We have already had someone inquire about our house and wants to see pictures!! He has also purchased a For Sale By Owner sign to place in our yard.

I can see it now...our house sells and we will be living in the pool house at my mom and dad's. Not to mention I will be very pregnant living out of boxes.

I don't think it will happen that fast, but I have to say it scares me a little just thinking about it.

Wish us luck,

Bron

Oh how I love the holiday season! The past two weeks have been filled with family, food,parties,friends,gift exchanges,laughter,card games,cold weather...even some SNOW! My Christmas break began on December 18 and is quickly coming to an end :( Josh had some extra vacation days saved up this year so he took off the entire week of Christmas to spend time with me! It was great! We started off the week by visiting the ICE exhibit at the Gaylord Hotel in Grapevine. My sister in law Amy went with us and we ended up spending most of our day there. We had a wonderful time especially me...I can't help it, it's the teacher in me!












Aunt Jackie, Uncle Jack, and Miss Clarabelle (their dog)came into town from Houston on Tuesday. They have been spending Christmas with us (Brandon and I) our entire life. It would not be Christmas without them!! I still get so excited the morning they arrive!

Hadley just turned 4 months old and he celebrated his first (white) Christmas! What a joy it was to have him with us this year! His uncle Josh is already trying to teach him how to ride bulls. OH NO!!




Ellie, our daughter I mean dog, just turned three years old. She is such a great dog! I think she already knows that their is something going on with her mom. She normally sleeps on the foot of our bed, but the last three weeks she has positioned herself right on top of my stomach. I wonder what she will do when my belly grows?!! Her cousin Tye will have to tell her what goes on when there is a baby around the house. Tye and Ellie are best friends. Here is a picture of Ellie at Christmas. She had had enough excitement so she crawled into the gift box and went to sleep!



On December 30 Josh and I celebrated our third wedding anniversary! My friend Jenn and her husband Keith got married the same day and year as us so we decided to double date. We had a blast together! Lots of laughs!! Good times, Good friends!

We had yet another blessed Christmas. I hope you and your family did too! The year 2010 is now upon us and I look forward to all that it brings.

With Love,
Bronwyn