Feeling GREAT!

Well, I thought the next time I would blog would be to tell you the gender of our baby, but I just couldn't wait!

God has really blessed this pregnancy, and I have been feeling GREAT. In fact I have been SO energetic it is amazing. On Saturday I detailed and cleaned my car for 2 hours. Then I cleaned and organized the house from about 3pm-10pm! I didn't take any breaks, except to eat... I can't starve our baby. It is just how amazing I have felt this ENTIRE pregnancy, I guess I am lucky... well blessed! According to SOME people my time is coming for me, and it will be HORRIBLE lol I plan to stay optimistic and see what God has in store. I know labor will be HORRIBLE, but so far pregnancy is better than normal life lol!!!!

We have 11 days left until we find out the gender. I can hardly wait! I have been looking at nurseries and deciding what our theme/colors will be. I have them all picked out, but I will share that more once we actually know the gender. Jordan would like to paint the nursery, but I need some volunteers to do the artwork and detailed things... anyone interested?

This weekend Jordan and I are heading to a HUGE baby sale and we just plan on looking around, possible buying some furniture for the baby! After we leave the sale, we will be going to Ikea to see what baby stuff they have. Jordan REFUSES to buy anything from Ikea. He cannot stand the instructions, since they are not in english! He thinks the crib will fall apart on our baby. So I just want to look for the little fun accessories to decorate with. 

Also, I am 99% sure I  have felt the baby twice now! At first I didn't think it was the baby, because I thought I would feel it more often. A friend described to me why you only feel it once in a while at first! It felt like these little bubbles in my lower tummy. It was the weirdest feeling. In fact, the second time I was in the middle of teaching, and I paused for a second just to concentrate on the feeling. :)

I guess I will be writing you in 11 days, and posting pictures of Laney or Carson!!!!

4 month appointment!!!

Well... Today we had our four month appointment and everything went well. 

If you read the previous blog titled "prayer request" you would know I have been having a hard time worrying and giving everything to God. Well, I have been doing MUCH better, BUT today the doctor did not find the heartbeat right away, and I about FREAKED OUT.

 She heard it for a second, but she got the ultrasound machine and did that instead. The reason we had a hard time getting the heartbeat, was the fact that our baby was MOVING SO MUCH! I couldn't believe it... we saw our baby and it has changed SO MUCH since 10 weeks. Also, it had hiccups. It was SO cute.

 So everything is great, and the heart rate was 156. I have a more detailed ultrasound (45 minutes long) where they check everything out, and tell us the gender (hopefully!). There are 22 more days until we find out the gender and Jordan and I just cannot wait.

The doctor said for your first baby you will probably start feeling baby at 18-20 weeks, well I swear today like 3 times i felt the baby! I am probably wrong, 15 1/2 weeks seems to early, but I I really thought that is what it was. 

Well I guess our next post will be telling you the gender of our baby!!!!

Prayer Request

Yesterday I found out that one of my best friends from high school lost her baby. She was only 2 weeks farther along then me. When she lost her baby she was 15 weeks pregnant, and I will be 15 weeks this Wednesday. 

While I don't know the specific details, I do know that they did lose the baby (a little boy), and they almost lost my friend. My heart goes out to her and her family, and I can't even begin to imagine what they are going through. I would love to support her in anyway possible, so if you have any ideas please let me know. 

I am not only heart broken and mourning with her at the loss of their son, but it has struck a fear inside of me. I know that I have NO control over my child's future. Worrying will do no good, and will not change God's plan. I also know that I need to trust God, but ever since I found out I am struggling with putting all my faith in him. I ask that you would pray for my friend, Terra, A LOT and just say a prayer that I would put my faith and trust in God. 

Thank you. 

And the baby names are.......

It was an easy decision for a boy, but man it took a LONG time to agree on a girl's name. Jordan has wanted Laney the entire time, but I just wasn't quite sure. After creating many poles for others to vote and asking many people I decided that Jordan and I have to make the decision, because we can't have the same taste as everyone!

 I also prayed about it, and I have been praying that our baby will be on fire for God and will be a shining light to all those around him/her.  Well when I saw the meaning of Laney... it was perfect. I really think God named her for us!!!

For a boy we have...

Carson Miles Bailey

Carson meaning "son of carr" .. get it son of CARRie :)

Miles meaning "peaceful"

For a girl we have....

Laney Brianne Bailey

Laney meaning "bright light" 

Brianne meaning "noble and strong"

Interesting Facts:

Miles was the name of my invisible friend as a child :)

Brianne was my sister's name who is in heaven. As a young child I always knew that I wanted to name my daughter after her someday.

I bet you have never heard a story like this!

Well... do I have a story for you!!!! I will ONLY tell you this one in 4 million (according to my dr) story if you PROMISE to read the whole thing. :) Here it goes....

So Jordan and I went in for our 2nd appointment and they did all these womanly test just to check everything out. It was also the same day I had an ultrasound. Well the very next day we got a phone call from a nurse... "Carrie, we got some test results back." I was SO worried. My stomach sank I thought something was wrong with the baby. She then assured me the baby is just fine, but that I tested positive for Chlamydia an STD. (they were WRONG by the way)

So I spent 5 minutes telling her there is NO way I have it. Jordan and I both saved ourselves for marriage, and we both trust each other 100%. I repeatedly asked her to retest me, but she said there is NO WAY they made an error and she refused to schedule me another appointment. I did not need to be retested. Ok... this was mistake #1 denying they could ever make mistakes. Last I checked Jesus is the only sinless one!!! 

The nurse then spent 15 minutes telling me Jordan was having an affair (he obviously did not). YEP.. can you believe it. She spent that long telling me he had to be cheating on me. She even said, honey I know this is hard for you and this is a really bad time, but that is what is happening. So yah... Jordan wanted to kill this lady.

That same day Jordan and I traveled to 3 clinics trying to get tested just to prove what we knew was true. We couldn't find a place that took both our insurances and tested men as well as a pregnant lady. So I think about 15-20 actually heard our story, and just think about all the people who they told that day!!! It was SO embarrassing getting tested. Jordan and I KNEW they would come back negative, but everyone was looking at Jordan like he was cheating on me and everyone was looking at me like some poor naive girl who is pregnant and just found out her hubby is cheating. Anyways it was so embarrassing telling the story... one of the rewards of saving yourself for marriage is that you don't have to deal with that kinda stuff.

So... it was a LONG 3 days waiting for the results. Guess what... they both came back NEGATIVE!!! What do you know! So I called my OB office, and told my OB. She apologized again, but I still don't think the nurse got in big trouble. Jordan and I plan on filing a complaint. We have been told to hire a lawyer from a few friends just to threaten them. The reason for that... my OB office turned my name into the heath dept and the guy won't leave me alone until I fax the negative results. Now my name is in the database as having an STD. Soo... a lawsuit would be sufficient for Defamation of Character and Public Embarrassment. So if you know a lawyer.... j/k. I just want to do the God honoring thing, which is probably not filing a law suit. We will be filing a formal complaint, and we are hoping to meet with a big wig from Multicare.  I hope you enjoyed our crazy story!!!

Second Appointment and Ultrasound

Yesterday we had our first ultrasound. It was very exciting. Jordan and I thought we would spend an hour looking at the baby, since that is how long the appointment is, but that was not the case. We got to look at the baby for maybe 15 minutes. The rest of the appointment they look at all of your organs and measure them. They are making sure that you don't have any large masses or anything.

The technician said that everything looks great, and our baby has all the right measurements and is just the right size. Our due date will remain the same, March 11. She called our baby Curly-Cue a few times, because "it" kept curling up into a ball. We also got to hear the heartbeat. That was SO amazing. Our baby's heart rate is 171, which is perfect for it's age.


Here is our baby!


The only bad news, well at least for me, is that I have to get a shot in my hip at 27 weeks. I found out that my blood type is O negative, and Jordan's is A positive. The reason for this is that we do not know what type of the blood the baby has. If the baby's blood is negative I wouldn't need the shot, but if it is positive I need the shot, because protein can build up in my baby that is not healthy for them. So I will not be looking forward to that! The good news when you are O negative is that I can donate blood to ANYONE, BUT the bad news not anyone can donate their blood to me :(.

Florence, OR

Wow! What a trip we had. We headed down to Florence for our annual 10 day vacation to the sand dunes where we ride our quads. On the positive side it was very relaxing, time went slow, we had SOME days with beautiful weather, and we became Sudoku experts! Well, for the rest of our vacation we met some really interesting people.

1. Upon arriving at the campground there were three tents in our campsite. When we were about to ask them to move their tents, a lady came up and asked if they had to move their tents. She wasn't very happy with us, but our response was YES :) There wasn't even a place for our tent.

2. For two days children and adults walked right through the center of our campsite. For all of you campers out there, it is just COMMON knowledge you don't walk through or into others campsites. Not only were kids walking through, the adults started to as well. THEN, one lady was walking around our tent in circles as she talked on her cell phone! COME ON PEOPLE!!!

3. We put up a rope as our "drying rope for towels", but really it was just to keep them out. Well they just picked up the rope and walked under it. Then the camp host talked to them, and we just got dirty looks the rest of the week.

4. New camping neighbors arrive. They seem to be very friendly, BUT as Jordan was walking our dog Daisy went to the bathroom. He didn't have a bag with him so he was walking toward the bag dispenser when this 11 year old girl comes and begins yelling at Jordan, " Hey what are you doing, you better clean up your dogs crap!" Later we find out her parents sent her over. Those parents sure are teaching their kids to respect adults wouldn't you say?!?

5. Jordan and I woke up Tuesday morning, and there was a tent two feet from our tent! It again was on our campsite. We just couldn't believe it, we only had one night left so we decided to just let it go.

6. Later that night about 10pm we are sitting in my parents motor home. While sitting there we saw people standing right in front of the motor home. We looked outside and our lovely neighbors were now putting two tents on our site. NOT ONLY that, but they were building a trench with sand so the rain would not go in their tents, instead it would be heading toward ours! Jordan decides to head over there and ask them what is going on. Well he could hardly get two words out of his mouth, and the wife and husband started SCREAMING at Jordan. After about twenty seconds the husband held up a shovel and said he was going to hurt Jordan and that he is a 5th degree black belt. Well that was enough, so we headed to the camp host. LONG story short, the camp host said they have to move, but Jordan was nice enough to let them stay. The rest of the night and next day Jordan was called many interesting names.

So, we have decided that everyone (on our trip) only cares about themselves and that the rules don't apply to them.