shes almost here!!!!!!!!!

okay so i'm now 39 weeks and 3 days....thought i would never say that!! Payton is due THIS Friday! it seems like a joke or something because we are sooo close and it has taken forever! i'm now done with work although it really doesn't feel like it! I really don't think this has hit me yet that i'm really about to have this baby...i guess i just grew to the fact that i was pregnant and forgot that it does end! i still cant believe it! and i thought since Theresa was here that it would make it go by faster but no it didn't!!

soo here's the low down on Payton....her official due date is October 16th which is this Friday....soo im hoping she will be cooperative and just let nature take its course and she will just put me into labor and everyone will have to rush to the hospital! hahahah that's funny huh because it never goes how you want :-/ sooooo of course we set a date for her to get induced...we will go in Sunday night the 18th and get things started and she will be here by Monday the 19th...which means Payton will be here SOOOOOON!! CraZY!

So starting like the beginning of last week i was having some cramps! which through out this whole pregnancy i didn't really feel any kind of pains...maybe it was just my head playing games because i knew that i reached 39 weeks but for real i was having some "menstrual cramps" which people say that's what labor feels like although 10 times worse...sooo of course i couldn't wait to go to the doctors because i knew that i had some changes down there sooo me and jason went to the doctor last Thursday for a check up...and i progressed a lot he said...1-2 cm, really soft cervix, still only about 50%, heads really down now, but he said that its looking great...soo i did go to 2 shifts at work after that sooo maybe i walked her down some more...now that i'm not working i don't know what to do with myself but today i walked the whooolee mall and i still do some laps around the house to keep things moving....they say walking is the best thing soo i'm trying :-/....so we did schedule another appointment for this week which will be Thursday to see Dr. V...

okay so i didn't take a belly pic whenever i hit 39 weeks buuuutt Stacey (Jasons sister) convinced me to take some maternity pics...we took them when i was ALOMST 39 weeks soo good enough...I'm soooo glad she made me because i really reallly love them and i cant wait for Payton to get older and i can show them to her because my friend was telling me that her daughter who is now 7 looveess looking at pictures of her mom pregnant with her....and although i think im just fat and ugly right now i know that later on i would have regretted not taking them sooo Thank you Stacey...and Kate haha she made me too!! Jason refused to get in them but he PROMISED to take family ones once Payton is here! aahh Cant waiit!!!
so here's a few of my favs....

big ole belly!

soo my belly grew!....I'm now 37 weeks and i feel like a balloon! i dont know where this belly came from....I'm hoping it's just Payton gaining wait and not mee being FAT! haha So I went to my 36 week check up(my first internal exam) and everything was great....i was 50%..meaning everything was "medium" i dont really know how to explain it i guess but there was no dilation or anything and my cervix was normal and not thinning out yet or anything.....theeennn we went THursday for the 37 week exam and he said that she was still kind of high although when he went inside he could reaach her head!!! ahhh thats crazyyy and I'm 1 cm dilated only 9 more to go but im still about 50% (100% is what we're trying to get to) and everything is pretty much medium...but im deff excited about being 1 cm even tho thats not much but hey its better then nothing....he also gave me all my records just incase i go into labor one day...I've gained about 21 pounds all together so far and i feel pretty good....i go again Thursday October 1st....OCTOBER!!! isnt that crazy we will already be in October...I'm due to have a baby in October! ughh CRAZY!!! i really am excited tho and i know Jason cant wait!! little Theresa has deff made us more anxious! i get to hear all of Kate's stories about being a new mommy and i cant waiiitt to share mine with her!! it's weird being pregnant without kate :-/ but soooooooooon we will be mommys together :-D

speaking of Theresa..she had her first outting at my work of employment..HOOTERS!! shes soo coool! she even got to meet Jonathan Vilma aannnddd Scott Shanle.....every thursday a Saints player comes to hooters to talk on the radio....the first thursday that she came everyone was kind of confussed because me and Jason were walking around with a newborn baby hahha they almost thought she was mine!! it was funny!

5 weeks left!!

Well I'm offically 35 weeks...which means i only have 5 weeks left...although i could come earlier or later so we'll see...but my first "internal" exam is this coming Thursday...I'm nervous but excited because its always good to know whats going on down there but im a little nervous because well duuhh "internal" exam kinda explains it.....i started getting those Braxton Hicks Contractions which are just small contractions where your belly tightens up for about 30-60 seconds....they dont hurt which is good although its a weird different feeling....soo my uterus is getting ready for the big day!! aahhhh cant wait....

well little miss Theresa was born Tuesday, September 8, 2009.....she was 7 pounds 12 ounces and 20 inches long...shes beautiful!!! i love her soo much!!...If im not feeling well or aggravated i just think of her and she makes me smile!.....i mean she had us waiting at the damn hospital for like 9 hours i think but it was welllllll worth it!!! when i finally saw her i couldnt help it i started cryingg!!! haha its just soo amazing!! i guess because i was there with kate for a lot of things and i guess because im going through it right now that to know that she made it through it and we finally got to see her little face i just got soo emotional!!

this is me and Beckham waiting for Theresa!! he was such a good boy the whole timme!!! my little monkey man!!

Theresa makes Jason and I sooo anxious!! Jason keeps telling me "babe i hope Payton is as beautiful as Theresa"

This picture is right after she came out.....we thought maybe she would have light skin although just the next day she was darker already.....

this is the next day me and Jason stayed there for a few hours visiting....

this was the day Theresa finally came home from the hospital.. me, jason, jack, robin, and kates friend Ashley were waiting around for her.....she had on her pretty little pink dress....shes sooo pretty!!!...see how dark she looks?!?!? and dark hair too....

okayyy soo back to Payton.....her letters finally came in....the colors match really well with everything...we also got the light switch plate cover that matches the letters....and as you also see Jason just HAD to get the huge giraffe.....we named her Eliza...she is Almost as tall as me....we strapped a monkey to her back...thats what those little pink arm things are...Jason swears Payton will love it....the lady at the store said that alllll this kids would try to ride it haha i didnt think it was necessary but now that shes in there i like it...

so sad my showers over :-(

okay....ssoooooo its been a while....where do i begin?!?!? okay ill start with my shower.....I had a great turn out!! i feel bad because i couldnt talk as much to everyone as i wanted because there was soo many people there....therefore sooo many presents!! aahh it was crazy....im sooo thankful tho!! we have EVERYTHING we need and more!! So first off thanks everyone!! I have a lot more pictures from the shower with the cake and with family members but they were not on my camera...they are on grandpa Jacks and im too lazy to wait for them to download....maybe one day..."maybe" ill put them on here.....but for now i have these few of me opening presents.....the monkey bank from mawmaw.....goes great with Paytons room...this balloon matches the little monkey from my invitations and the monkey on my cake....i kept her of course and she is in one of the scrapbooks that my friends caitlyn and sharon gave me....oh this is just me and Alex reading cards and writing down names and gifts...which by the way i am almost done my thank you notes....i had to write about 70...sooo as you all know i take forever to do things and i love to dilly dally...but im almost done i promise....so this is just one of tyhe piles of gifts....its kinda hard to tell what everything is....sooo this is an extra bed room in the house...it stayed like this fro a few weeks...untill one day i decided to go through it...Kate came over and we cute the tags off of everything and somewhat seperated it....

ggooo Saints!...these are the little Saints outfits that we got and my favorite part is the little fleur de lis booties that match them...i cant wait to put them on her!!! okayy so i had to take a picture of all her nunu's....i think maybe it's because i was a nunu baby...i love all of them!!....and a lot of them have little sayings on them...and some have her name!...aww i just love the nunus!

this is the "bath" pile....it looks A lot bigger in person!!! the basket is huge!!!

this picture is kinda small but i just wanted you to get a little look at her new hamper...we used gif cards to buy it...thanks again everyone!!

this picture is small too sorry...but this is just the clothes that we received from the shower....doesnt look like as much as it does in real life! so this is mommy and daddy diaper bags.....mine of course is already packed! i couldnt help myself....i sometimes carry it around the room...seems easy now...and ive seperated each little compartment into its own section....like diaper things...then feeding things...then of course extra clothes and toys :-D...Jason has yet to pack his but i'm sure as we get closer he will!this is our new safety gate...we use to have one at the bottom of the stairs because of the dogs...but now we took that one down and got this cool little gate and its at the top of the stairs...soo as you can see Mrs. Lola and Mr. Elvis sit up here and cry because they want to be by us....only sometimes if we are watching them we let them come in...and some mornings i let them run in our room and wake up Jason haha they don't really like the new gate too much but i think its pretty nice this is the feeding pile...highchair, bottles, etc.
this is the big stuff....her lovely swing, travel swing, car seat, stroller, bouncer, and pack n play....like i said we got EVERYTHING and more!! THANKS EVERYONE!!!
this is the inside of Payton's carseat...i actually did this myself this morning....i put the new born headreast, the pink starp cover things, and i also hung the carseat toy thing..i dont know what its called....but it looks comfortable....and fun...hopefully she likes it :-)


so i tried to get some new things in this picture...like the awesome sign above her closet that Stacey got us....i absolutely love it!! i should have taking a close up of it to put on here but its got a monkey, a giraffe, and an elephant surrounding "Payton" and the colors match the room sooo good!! we also hung up the little picture frame things for her foot and hand prints...theres alot of new things in the room...you will just have to come over to see it alll....

i know i havent been keeping up with belly pics....heres 2...haha sorry not much

31 weeks and 4 days...

front view
33 weeks....TODAY!! :-D

side view

big ole belly!

We went to the doctor yesterday..Thursday August 27....Everything looks great...that appointment was actually my last monthly appointment soo i go now in 3 weeks for an "exam"...ahh im nervous but excited!! I gained 3 pounds this past month...so all together i think ive gained about 20 pounds so far....7 weeks to go!! 49 days...i cant beleive it!......

She looks like her Daddy!!

so here's a few pictures from the 4d ultrsound...Jason and I want her out NOW! she is soo fricken cute!! i just want to kiss her alllll up!! Everone thinks she looks more like me although i can see Jason all over her little face! just the shape of her face and the position of her eyes remind me soo much of Jason...she does look like she has some lips on her and Jason doesn't have much haha soo maybe she got my lips...
When Icalled to schedule my appointment they asked if I wanted to wait untill I was 28 weeks because that's when they open their eyes..sooo as you can see she opened her eyes a lot for us!....it was kinda scary looking but it's so amazing!! I mean just look at her little face..can you believe she's in me RIGHT NOW?!?! aahhh i love her!!
This one makes me smile every time I look at it!.....i hope she has dimples!!
When Jason saw this one he said he just wants to bite her lips!! haha I just want to kiss her and hug her alll dayy!!!! I can't wait to see her!!

WHATT???

soo im exactly 28 weeks today! can you beleive im already 7 months pregnant??!? still have a little ways to go but with everything going on its going by a lot faster! you saw the pictures of the closet, the window, and the glider in the baby's room...welllllll when we ordered the furniture they told us it would be 8 to 10 weeks to come in...well while we were on the beach last week the place called and told jason it was in sooo when we got back jason and my dad went and picked it up while my mom occupied me...they went and set it all up in the Payton's room and then when i got home they suprised me!!! i opened the door and saw the smaller dresser...then the tall dresser..then the crib and i said "what the f***???" hahah it was funny...i was very confussed and also suprised!..soo then we all started putting the bedding on etc....its sooo cute!!

and little miss Payton is already spoiled! shes got herself a big flat screen tv in her room....
jason was sleepy after all he did....

as you can see we've done alot to the room and im very excited...its all starting to come along for little Payton...everytime i go upstairs i go look in the crib haha...were also going to order the wooden letters that say "Payton Jo" to hang above her crib...Kate(jasons sister) had jason working hard for the past 2 days hanging all the things in Theresa's room and the letters above her crib are soooo cute sooo i cant wait for that!

this is us on the beach...it was a nice little vacation ot get away for a little while..i didnt like the part when i had to put my bathing suit on though because its just not the same when your pregnant haha...no one wants to see that if you know what i mean...i must say that this trimester sucks!! i love it because im so close to the end but i hate it because im really fat now, im soo tired all the time now, and lazy!! ive noticed im a lot more aggravated then before....i seem to bitch at jason a lot and i dont mean to i just cant help it!! i feel bad because im so moody now...i just want her out! haha...i can tell now that shes getting bigger and she kicks a lot harder! its so amazing to think that this 15 inch child is inside of me!.....

Tomorrow we go to the 4D ultrasound!!! YaY!!!! hopefully she's still a she! hahah soo i will deff post those pictures maybe sometime next week because i will be too busy and excited after tomorrow...and because its Kate's birthday soo we will be busy!!