Onesie Fashion Show

For one of my Baby Showers, each guest received a onesie with the invitation and was asked to design it for a Onesie Decorating Contest at the shower! Greer looks so cute in all of them! Here she is posing for the camera in all of her One-of-a-Kind Onesies!

 "Rock and Stroll" Onesie from Aunt Marilyn

Special Delivery Onesie from cousin Jennifer

Orange and Blue "G" Onesie from Miss Lisa

Tie Dye Onesie from cousin Kesha

"Newest Gator Fan" Onesie from Miss Elaine

Crocheted Flower Onesie from G.G.

 Flowers Onesie from Mimi

Pink Bows Onesie from Kelly

(I'm such a big girl, I can sit up by myself!)

Check back later! There are more onesies to wear when I get bigger!

(New) Normal

Hello!
It's the first non-holiday weekend of the year and I'm starting to feel like we are getting back to normal. Well a new normal. Bobby is golfing = Normal, Baby Greer is sleeping = New Normal. It's funny to think that now there are 3 people that live in our home!
So now that I have a little time to myself, I thought I'd try to *quickly* catch up on the blog!
The last event I blogged about was Thanksgiving and our upcoming C-section. So I guess that's where I'll start!
 We spent the last few days after Thanksgiving getting ready for our trip to the hospital. Then Tuesday morning, 11-29-11, came and we were all buzzing with excitement. Our bags were packed and we were on our way!

Me, Bobby and my Mom got to the hospital to check in at 8. Shortly after, Bobby's parents and my Aunt Shari and cousin Katy Jo came to the hospital too. Once we got to our room, the nurse started prepping us for surgery, everything seemed fine until they went to put in my IV. That's when the tears started... it hurt so badly, I just couldn't hold it in. Unfortunately, the tears did not stop until much, much later. In fact, I think I cried for about 3 or 4 hours straight. Oh dear. : /
Anyhoo, maybe we can speed through the next few parts since it's all pretty much just me blubbering... blubbering... blubbering...
...and then at 10:47 am, our little girl was here!!! 
(Still crying but a different kind of tears now)

After all of the procedures in the nursery, Greer and our whole family were back in our room and everything started getting back to normal again... well a new normal, that is!

What a journey the last 10 months has been... 

 

...and what a journey we are beginning now!

Welcome Greer Paisley!

Guys and Girls Baby Shower

Hi!
This past weekend my mom and my wonderful friends, Heidi and Heidi, threw Bobby and I a Baby Shower! It was a beautiful day and a really sweet time to celebrate with our closest friends! We got lots of fun and needed things for when Baby Greer arrives. We also got to see our friends sniffing "poopy" diapers and drinking from sippy cups, which was so fun! All in all, it was a very enjoyable day! Here are the pics we got from our Guys and Girls Shower! Enjoy!

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I also want to share a couple pics from the Shower my school threw for me! They went all out with cutie tissue paper pom-poms and a special cake!

Baby Shower Brunch

 Hello!
This weekend was my Family Baby Shower. My Mom, Aunt Julie, cousins and BFF, Kelly, helped put on a wOnDeRfUl party!!! The party was decorated with all kinds of Heidi Grace stuff, which is what Greer's room is decorated with.  Also, the invitations for the party included a plain white onesie to be decorated and brought to the party for a onesie contest!  The party was such a great time to visit with the most special people in our lives and to prepare for upcoming little bundle of joy!  Ok, now I'm going to let the pictures do the talking! Enjoy!

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Grandma Shower

Hello!
Well the end of my summer is here... I'm a little sad to see it go but also excited for a new year to begin. I'm also excited to start the countdown to our Baby Greer!
Last weekend, I went down to Dade City for my Mom's Grandma Shower. Have you heard of these? They are a pretty new idea but such a great one! It's a way to celebrate a New Grandma and to help prepare her for her up-coming Grandbaby. There are so many things that baby needs and it's nice for some things to already be at Grandma's house when traveling!  My Mom has loved owls for quite sometime now, so all the cutie owl things that are out right now made it easy to plan and buy the perfect stuff!  Here are the pics I took at the shower! Enjoy and thanks for reading!

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The Signs are Everywhere

Hello Friends!
I can't believe the summer is coming to an end... Just 2 more weeks and I'll be back at school, getting ready for another year! I hope to get a lot done during the rest of the time that I have.  But it's going to be a lot of work seeing that this is what our little girl's room looks like right now...

YIKES! Speaking of our little girl, I think it's time we start calling her by her name!
If you know me, you know that I'm a planner. So Bobby and I have had names picked out for our baby for a lOoOoOng time! All we needed to do was find out if it would be the boy name or girl name we liked. So now that we know it's a little girl we can start calling her...

It was so easy to pick the name Greer! Bobby's Grandmother's name was Virginia Greer and his sister, Melissa's, name was Melissa Greer (before she took Wynns as her middle name)! We loved the name for our little girl and it was done.  In case you're wondering, her middle name is Paisley which I have heard a few different times as a name and love that it adds a little creative flair! So, the weird thing is that I just knew that when we went to find out if we were having a boy or girl, it would be a girl. I didn't really let on, because I didn't want to jinx myself or be embarrassed if I was wrong. How did I know, you ask? Well, it was just a feeling but also, the signs were EVERYWHERE! Let me explain...

We started "shopping" online and created a registry on amazon.com pretty early on, just to kind of get a head start. Of course, we had boy things and girl things on our list. As we started shopping for strollers, I found one that I really liked, the Graco Alano in pink and black... in fact when I looked closer at the different color choices I noticed the actual pattern is called "Greer!" Ok, that's really funny!

Then, a few weeks went by and we finally spilled the beans to our families and put the news on our blog. After the news had been up on the blog for a while I went back to look at the post I had written and I noticed someone from Greer, SC had been on our blog... Um, ok. Kinda weird!

Then, I called my Mom-- who was heading to our family's cabin in NC for vacation-- to tell her about that and before I could get it out of my mouth she said, "I just turned the t.v. on at the cabin and there was a commercial for a car dealership in Greer!" I just couldn't help but laugh!

Then, last but not least, when we were in Destin for 4th of July weekend Bobby noticed the beach house around the corner from us had a sign on it... guess what it said?!?! "The Greers'"

Now, if that's not some crazy stuff, I don't know what is...

It's a...

...GIRL!!!

Last Monday we had our 19 week Ultrasound and after much speculation, we found out we have a little girl!  We are so very excited! We wanted to share some of the pics from the appointment. Enjoy!

Here are her little feet that like to kick!

 This is her profile, notice her little fist above her head! "YEAH!"

This is my favorite picture of her... I love how she looks like she's just lounging... It also looks like she's got my long, skinny legs!

Boy or Girl?

So, just to have a little fun we've tried all kinds of different methods to predict if we're gonna see a little boy or a little girl on that sonogram screen on Monday! The first thing we did was check out the Chinese Gender Chart...

According to this ancient legend we're having a BOY!

We've also put out a poll on our blog to see what our friends and family are feeling... Although we've only got 18 votes, the results are GIRL by a lot!

This predictor was a little more "in the middle." I found this "Old Wives Tales" test online and it says we are having a GIRL!

 

Our last predictor is a tradition in my family. Whenever someone is pregnant in our family my Uncle Johnny does the Nail-on-a-String Pendulum. Hold the nail over the belly. If the nail swings in a circle-- it's a girl. if it sways back and forth-- it's a boy. His record is pretty impressive-- correct 18 out of 20 tests!

So we had him perform the pendulum predictor on me and our results were circle! GIRL! 

As a little side note my Uncle usually hangs the nail over the person's head to show that it will swing in the correct motion. So I did the test over Bobby, and sure enough it swayed back and forth. Funny, huh!?!

So those are the results of our silly predictor tests... We know that they could be tOtAlLy WrOnG. But luckily we'll find out the real answer tomorrow! 

Maybe a Girl, Maybe a Boy, Definitely LOVED!

A Big Announcement

I know I'm really behind on posting these pics... to be honest I kinda forgot about them! But I have to share how we announced our pregnancy to our families! I had been reading up on creative ways to spill the beans but none of the ideas really impressed me until I came across this idea! Get all the people you want to tell the big news to together for a picture.  Then have the person who is behind the camera say, "Alright, everyone say _______'s pregnant!" So that is what we decided to do.
The perfect opportunity to tell both families was Easter weekend. So we got together with some of my family on Saturday and broke the news... Here's how the pictures turned out.

They're a little blurry from the movement, but still funny :)

 That's me giving Bobby a thumbs up!

Another exciting event that evening was my AwEsOmE cousin Johnny's graduation! We were all so proud of him! Here are a few pics...

 Proud Mom and Dad with the Graduate!

Mini Graduation Cap!

The Cake

The next day we headed to see the Wynns side of the fam. We decided it would be good to use the sport mode of the camera because it takes multiple pictures in a row. So here's how those pics turned out...

I added a few arrows to point out some reactions!

So that's how we spread the word of our exciting news! As you can see, I was jumping for joy!
Thanks for reading!

We're BaaaaAAAACCCKKK!

Have you missed us?....
Well I've missed blogging!
I've just been trying to keep a secret that I knew would be too hard to keep...
Also, I've been a little sick and very tired.
All this because I'm growing a BABY! YAY!
Yep, I'm preggers, got a bun in the oven, with child, expecting, etc.

This past weekend we hit the 12 weeks mark so I'm looking forward to the "great" 2nd trimester I've been hearing all about!
We went to the Dr. on May 10th and got some pictures of the little Bambino. Here are some of them. Enjoy!