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*Maternity Shoot*

Had my first maternity shoot July 24, Steve took some of me & amanda as well :D I'm at 28 weeks & manda is at 36! More Soon, YaY!!! :D

Name Crisis.... :)

Alright so I really wish I could say that names are 100% set in stone right now for boy or girl..... but we keep changing our minds! We've decided to just write down the names we love & see how we feel once we see our little love in person :D

I've had the name 'Sarah' on my heart a lot lately, but that could just be because God is calling me that = (Sarah was an older woman in the bible who was way past the age of having babies, but God helped her have one anyway!). It's really simple but very pretty - so I'm not opposed to that being the name for our girl if that's what we have.

I think our boy's name is pretty concrete: either James Gavin or James Xavier.... or James Alexander (hehe)... ok so we have the 1st name chosen, still thinking about the middle name :D I just think that names are SO absolutely important... I mean, Jesus is their true identity but even in bible times names were seen as a sort of 'inheritance' in themselves... I love researching name meanings... I want our baby to have a name that means something, but isn't embarrassing or awkward! Able to fit in, but still unique in a way :)

*sigh*  Lord let me know what you think, that'd make this super easy :D

28 weeks! Doing Great :D

Had an appointment with Dr. Wirtz this morning. I'm 28 weeks along, 181#, & baby is at 147 bpm. She said we're right on track developmentally so that's good news :)

Have been keeping real busy with youth camps, the alvord wagon train, visiting my friends from New Zealand, & going to a Fjord horse-show! phew! I'm 7 months pregnant with my first photo shoot by Amanda coming up this Saturday :D Oh yeah, & then my friend Danielle's bachelorette party is tomorrow with a wedding coming up soon! Never a dull moment :D Life is good :D

24 Weeks Prego Pics :D

Prophetic Words For Our Family

My journal is at home so I'll have to fill this in better later on, but basically Steve & I went with my mom & Judy to Jane & Dawn's to hear a couple speak on the gifts of the Spirit. They had a lot of good things to say and ended it with a word for every person there (around 15 people).

Lana = Gifted in Discernment of Spirits, will be a useful tool

Steve = Gifted in Healing, tender heart

Baby = Is a girl she feels! Will be a blessing to us all our lives :)

It was a great experience for us both & I'm glad we were together for it. There was an opportunity to ask questions so we took advantage of that since we had been talking about a lot of these things the previous night ironically enough :)

24 Weeks! & an extremely boring apnt.day!

Yesterday I had an 11am appointment with Dr. Sulanc to check on my Thyroid (blood drawn)... waited in the waiting room forever & then waited in an extremely boring exam room for another ever!!! lol :) My Dr. was really nice though & eventually I was able to escape to McDonalds for Lunch!

My appointment with Dr. Wirtz wasn't scheduled until 2:15pm & I didn't have a cellphone to call my sister to hang out so I wandered aimlessly around Lewis Drug for awhile then sat in the parking lot at McKennan in my parent's truck & started organizing cubby holes! Around 1:30pm I gave up on entertaining myself & decided to sit in the waiting room to read baby magazines :D

Someone finally acknowledged me around 2:45pm & told me to just go to the lab & then come back when they were done with me... so I went to a different floor to wait in the lab waiting room for a good 20 minutes listening to crazy disrespectful kids... (AHHHRRRRGGGHHHH!!!!)... I stayed very calm :) Finally I was called in & asked about my glucose... I stared blankly at her until she asked if I'd had anything to drink yet (it dawned on me what she meant then). She asked if I preferred orange or fruit punch. I got the fruit punch & she warned me that it was very very sugary & said I had 5 minutes to drink it all.

Well I just happened to be thirsty so I chugged the whole thing in less than 30 seconds & handed it back to her. She just looked at me and laughed and said wow, you handled that better than anyone I've ever seen! I just shrugged & said I like sugar :) So now I was finally on my way to see Dr. Wirtz - weighed in at 181 (was 179.4 at my morning apnt!) so I've gained around 20lbs. altogether now. The Dr. measured my tummy & we heard the heartbeat of our little mover :D asked her some questions about my cervix... (word is I will 'more than likely' deliver by cesaerean now...)  :(

Ok so then after that appointment I had to wait another 45 minutes before they could test me since the fluid had to be in my system for an hour. Had more blood drawn & had to P in a cup (woohoo). Praying I don't have that gestational diabetes crap & that everything is ok! Went on my final errand to walmart to get a prescription & some groceries... didn't get home until 6pm!!! THEN I found out that Steve had taken a half day to cut down our pine tree in the front yard & then drove 4 neighbor boys to the Inwood pool & went swimming all afternoon.... he's so sweet, but I wish I could've been with him instead of bored out of my gourd in Sioux Falls all day. oh well....