Sunday, June 26, 2011

This past week~


Here's Conner when we are on our way to dinner with some friends, he's
rockin some blue gel streaks in his hair :)

After dinner in his friends, Awtry's, car. He was very excited to ride in a convertible
back to their house! This last Friday night Conner got to spend the night at Awtry's house because it was Awtry's brother's birthday party, it was his first slumber party at a non family member's house :)

The next day we went straight from Awtry's house to a birthday pool party for Conner's other good friend Will. It was an awesome party and perfect on a hot Saturday!

fun tricks!

cake time~


Will and Conner (besides their eyes being different color, I think Will
looks like he could almost be part of our family!)

The boys :)

Finished the party off with a couple pinata's!

Monday, June 20, 2011

My hubby is back - so thankful for unseen changes :)


37 weeks :)
And below is Conner with the chain we made and decorated to count down one for every day
Mark was going to be gone. ( I guess we'll save it for something else)!

So as most of you know Mark left Friday morning for his officer training camp in Washington. Well as of Saturday he was trying to get home. I don't think any of us could have predicted what a short trip this was going to be. Mark has left many times, and we have always done fine apart. I think Conner and I had prepared a lot better for him leaving, and really I was as fine as can be with him having to go for 23 or 24 days. Anyway, long story short, Mark got really home sick, and with me about ready to pop at any minute I think he was really feeling like he needed to be home at this time and for the summer. So we picked him up this morning after he flew in on a red eye, and Conner and I are of course super excited to have him back :)
Prayers for tomorrow would be awesome, we have two long separate doctors appointments. Not only will that be exhausting, but we are hoping that Lincoln has rotated and is in a head down ready to go position!



Friday, June 17, 2011

So it begins......

So today was the day that Mark left...we really enjoyed this week together. Mark and Conner got to enjoy seeing a 3D movie together and we all went to dinner and dessert last night. Our countdown begins, about 23 days till he returns. Conner will have a hard time with him gone, especially since Mark is normally home sooo much, but I know he will be fine and the time will pass quickly :) Only about nine days till one of his favorite Aunts comes to stay for 10 days!!! We can't wait to have Nicole here! Then the other favorite Aunt, Kayla, comes for a few more days!!! The Mark will be back, so it's not to bad with all the fun visitors. That's all for now, wish me luck as I'm here with this silly 6 1/2 year old, and please pray that these next 9 days fly by with ease :) I will try and post again either Tuesday evening or Wednesday and report about how my doctor appointments go on Tuesday. Hopefully this little guy is head down, but not ready to come out yet :/

Thursday, June 2, 2011

We have a name!!! (and other new things) ~

So first things first... we have finally decided on a name for lil boy number 2! We have had a lot of options since the beginning and have slowly been narrowing it down. It's really one of the only names that all three of us like. His name will be: Lincoln Woodruff Blackwood
We ALL love the name Lincoln and for short we might call him Linc, or some other made up nick name :) Woodruff was Mark's Granddad's name, who passed away when Mark was small. So that's it! It feels soooo good to finally have a name for this lil bugger and be able to call him something!
We went to my (supposed to be) last specialist appointment on Tuesday. Everything looks really great, we got some awesome 4D images of his squishy little face. He is weighing at least 5 pounds at this point, so he is definitely healthy in weight :) The only bummer is that he is laying sideways...he has been head down for a while now, so we thought he would stay that way, but I guess not. I'm doing some exercises to try and get him to flip and we are really hoping and praying that he does. We still have some time for him to make his way down so were not to concerned yet. So I will go back in in about 3 weeks (when I'm about 37 weeks) and we'll see if there's any progress. Otherwise they can try and rub/ work him down. And worst case scenario is I will need a C-section... I REALLY REALLY don't want a c-section, but as long as Lincoln and I are healthy that's all that really matters. So prayers for his rotation would be awesome!
So on a none baby related note :) Conner is enjoying his summer break so far like crazy! We pretty much live at the pool and he is growing gills. Even with high SPF he is now looking part African American :) Today we had a bunch of boys over from school for a pool party, so that was awesome for him to get to be crazy with his friends!
We are all moved into the new place, and it's great to have some more space, and to be able to set Lincoln's cute room up! Conner loves his new room, not only is it bigger, but he gets an awesome view of the pool and tennis courts from one of his windows :) And we are all three enjoying our time together before Mark has to leave on June 17th, he will only be gone for a few weeks, but I know both Conner and I will miss having him around all the time. We are so thankful though that he has been on break since May to be able to do so much for us, making it nice for me to not have to do anything, and playing with Conner and being super involved with everything he has going on. That's all for now, I'm sure more posts to come soon!!!