Mallory 3D/4D

We went to the city this weekend and did the 3D/4D at Stork vision, it was amazing! They recommended I drink a fruit juice one hour prior to our session and that I come with full bladder which I did, but of course our little girl is not a fan of the photo-ops! Of course she was moving like crazy on the drive down and even while we sat and waited to get started, but as soon as I lay down for the ultrasound she is sleeping and taking a break. She was head down with all her limbs all down there with her. She even had the cord in front of her! I sat up to get her moving but no luck! The sonographer kept shaking my belly to get the fluid moving to make her mad to move but she did not care just covered herself up more and kept sleeping. We did get a couple of good looks at her face and even saw a smile! We got a DVD and CD with it which we already watched and loved! We got to hear her heart beat too! So amazing seeing her sweet little face and those gorgeous chubby cheeks! I am so excited to see her in person! Gets me all choked up thinking about it, amazing how much you can love someone you have not even met yet! We also got to pick up her furniture this weekend too! yay! It was pretty easy putting everything together and her room is coming right along! I am trying to figure out the best way to organize everything and I am sure I will change everything anyway!


30 weeks and 5 day pregnant belly! Getting bigger and bigger!
Sending all our love~G, J and MJ

29 weeks

We are now going to the doctor every 2 weeks, we got to see her this past Tuesday. I got done with my patient early so we got to eat this time before we went. I was hoping me eating lunch before her ultrasound would stir her up a bit so we could get some good pics! But she was still content for her photo shoot just chillin' in a ball with her limbs all over her face. She had her leg over her head again and was holding her toes over her head with one of her hands- completely covering her face for any good pics to be taken!:) silly girl! But the doctor said everything is continuing to look good- the heart beat was 141 beats per minute and the placenta looked good he checked the coloring and said it was good. I tried to blame my weight gain on Mallory but no such luck just lying to myself on that one! But we have gotten back at the work out and walking the dogs regularly so hopefully that will get me back on track! It has just been ridiculously hot here these past few weeks so no motivation in the evenings but we have been doing everything early morning again while it is cooler- (using the word cooler loosely of course!) Our bedroom has been horrible at temperature control way hot in the summer and freezing in the winter. We had a guy come look at it last year and give us an estimate on how to fix it and we finally got it fixed today in preparation for Mallory to be in our bedroom those first few weeks. The guy just finished installing another air duct in the room and he had to order a new grate to cover the hole in the ceiling. So we are glad that is finally done and feel better about the room being able to be a constant temperature for her. I have so enjoyed washing and putting up all of Mallory's new baby clothes getting ready for her to be here. It is so fun seeing those tiny clothes and just picturing our tiny newborn will be here in just a little over 2 months! yay!! We are so excited to meet you Mallory! We have our child birthing preparation class tomorrow to get ready for her big debut. I am looking forward to it and excited to see the hospital and stuff! Let you know how it goes! Hope everyone has a great weekend and we send all our love to you!! xoxo~G, J and MJ

Mallory Houston shower

My best friend Laura threw Mallory a shower this past weekend in Houston. The trip started off rough it was a long trip down there last Friday, I had to retake my glucose test that morning so there was a lot of sitting and waiting for the 3 hours and then we did the drive down south. All my numbers came back good though so no gestational diabetes- I was so nervous! But we had such a fun weekend to look forward to and were so excited for Mallory's shower on Saturday! I was so touched by Laura's thoughtfulness! She did such an amazing job which she always does with parties! The decorations were cute little baby girl clothes hanging on a clothes line. She made such a yummy spread of goodies to munch on from chicken salad, hummus, and the most amazing cake balls ever! Thank you again Laura!

I am so thankful for everyone that came to celebrate Mallory's arrival and shower her with love! She and I are the luckiest ladies ever to have such amazing friends and family! I really appreciate everyone coming by and sharing that day with us! I am so grateful for everyones support, love and encouragement as we prepare for Mallory's arrival. We are so excited to meet Mallory and it melts my heart to know we have such great family and friends that are just as excited to know her too!

xoxo~G, J and MJ

we're in the third trimester

We had our doctor appointment today! I get so excited each time getting to see Mallory!!! The doctor said everything is looking great and we have a beautiful baby in there! Her heart beat today was 145 beats per min. It is amazing how big she has gotten the past 4 weeks. I keep getting this pain at the upper right of my belly- when I told him that he said it was probably her pushing against that spot. He looked in that area today and sure enough her hiney was up in the air- she had her legs tucked up by her head and arms over her face. So we did not get good pics of her again but that is ok as long as she is healthy pictures can wait!:) Our What to Expect phone app says she is the size of a head of cauliflower- 16in. I had to do the glucose test today. I drank the orange drink which at first I thought 'huh, this is not too bad' and which it was not that bad at all but it sure did upset my stomach for sure! So hopefully the results will come back all good tomorrow!

Nursery is painted

Justin finished painting Mallory's nursery yesterday. It went so much better for him this weekend with us having AC!! It looks so good and he did such a great job! Now we just wait for her furniture to come in so we can start getting everything ready for her arrival in 13 weeks! Yay!! We have a doctors appointment on Tuesday so we get to see her then and will post the pics as soon as we can! I have to do the glucose testing that day too so hopefully that all goes good! Yesterday she was on the move in my belly- felt like she was jumping around in there and now she is getting stronger so you can actually see her moving! It is very fun having Justin being able to feel her more and more now!! This week she was very quiet and we did get scared that something was wrong. Now that her eyes are opened we read she would respond to light. So Justin shined a flash light on my belly and she immediately kicked at the light! Huge sigh a relief for us but I am sure she was thinking like what the heck guys!?! Sending all our love! xoxo~ G and J

And the fun begins...

Justin started to paint Mallory's room this weekend. He has been researching how to paint so her room will turn out better than ours did! He found a nifty tool that dispensed the tape with paper for the edges of the room to avoid all the problems we had getting paint on the base boards no matter how good of a job we did with just the tape! He is done with 2 walls of the first coat and very frustrated with it all ready as you can see in the picture!! Hopefully the second coat will go smoother for him! Thank you Justin for all your hard work on her room this weekend!!! I love you so much and appreciate you taking care of that for us!! xoxo!!! Our air conditioner has quit working so it is pretty toasty in our house! The dogs just keep looking at me panting like I am choosing to make it this miserable in here. The air conditioner service ad said 24hrs so I got very excited but that is only to business emergencies it turns out- residential has to wait until Monday morning! They need to update their ad to be more specific! So hopefully we can get in tomorrow for someone to come out for a repair!We did go have some fun and see Dispicable Me yesterday in 3D which was such a cute movie, we both really enjoyed it. xoxo~G and J

Kynli's 2nd bday

We went to Dallas this past weekend to celebrate Kynli's 2nd birthday with the Galindos! Summer did such a great job decorating a luau theme, super cute! We drove down Saturday morning for the party in the afternoon. It ended up raining that afternoon so the swimming luau was rain delayed for a bit but it stopped a couple hours later! The kiddos all hopped in the pool and had a great time, so cute watching them! We sat out only because it was still cloudy and windy so perfect weather to sit outside and socialize by the pool without having to be wet to survive the Texas heat! We ate pizza and Kynli had a very yummy cake with lots of icing- yum! The Galindos let us stay the night at their house so we did not have to head home until Sunday. Thank y'all again!! We ate yummy Pappasito's before we got on the road- Mallory was doing flips of happiness after the queso and fajitas! Is there anything better than mexican food- I think not!:) We had such a great weekend and wish that we were surrounded by friends and family like that all the time! But we are blessed that they are only a drive away and we can not wait until the next time! Sending all our love to everyone!!! xoxo~G and J