37 Week Pictures

Look at this belly grow! I can't believe I am going to be meeting my son next week!!! I am so excited about it! What I am not excited about is that I am growing out of all my clothes. I wore a button up shirt today and the shirt was popping open between the buttons. However, I refuse to buy new clothes at this point!

I have been itching to go ahead and have this baby, but now I have come up with a few reasons that I am now convinced that I would rather wait till next Friday.

~My family will be able to make it here in time to share in the experience.
~We will have one more weekend to finish up our Christmas shopping. (L.C. and I have put off shopping for each other due to unexpected car repairs.)
~I will get paid more since I will get three holidays next week.
~L.C. will get paid more since he is scheduled to work Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
~My good friend Billye will be back from FL so she won't miss out on the whole process.
~We wouldn't be spending Christmas in the hospital.
~I could potentially get a few more things in order for my new supervisor who is taking over my caseload, but who hasn't had much experience with my program.
~Trey will fit into his going home outfit a lot better since it is a little big!

So... although I feel like this baby is ready to run out of there, there are several reasons NOT to rush him out! We go back to the doctor on Thursday. I will try to make a priority to post again after that! ;o)

Oops! Forgot to post these!!!

Here I am at 36 weeks! Tomorrow I will be 37 weeks... so there should be more loaded soon!

SAHM... kinda!

I am kinda gonna get the feeling of being a Stay-At-Home-Mom again!

I am so excited about some changes that will be made to my employment status after Trey comes! After much prayer and consideration of our family's needs and priorities I submitted a maternity leave request to BHS. What I requested was 8 weeks off and once I returned that they would allow me to squeeze my work into 3 days a week. This would allow us to keep the kids most of the time and only have to have them in day care for 2 days a week. L.C.'s 4 day work schedule would have him home on Fridays so he could keep them then. After a long delay, I finally was approached last week with a counter offer from my work. They have offered me a contract position, which won't offer benefits, but will increase in pay rate. I will have flexible hours and can work from home. My plan is to fit my appointments in 2 days and spend a third at home doing documentation. There is a lot to work out still and still a lot of decisions to be made as to how things will be structured, but I have accepted the proposal and we are now able to go ahead and reduce Pheoby's school to 2 days per week! We are very excited about what this means for our family since I will be working enough to get out of the house and stay sane, getting paid enough so that we can continue to work on reducing debt and working toward financial goals, and working less hours so that I am able to invest more in my children's lives! What a blessing!!! God certainly takes great care of us!

35 Weeks Pics

Ok... so I am 36 weeks tomorrow, but I will go ahead and post these pics just for the fun of it! I know I have been horrible about keeping up with the pics... I have a good (well, horrible) excuse. My camera has been loaded up with pics and I ran out of CDs to unload them to. So many times in the last couple months I would have to delete a few pics just to take the new ones. I know, it is pitiful since I could have bought more disks months ago. But... finally I have taken care of buying the disks, transferring the pics and clearing off the camera in preparation of meeting Mr. Trey! I can't wait! It is looking like we may be meeting our son just after Christmas!