Can Anyone Help Me...Pimp My Blog???

Lol...it's a little on the plain and boring side and since I'm still trying to figure all of this out, making it look "pretty" is out of my realm! ;o)

Random Thoughts

So I'm going to forewarn you...though this blog might seem totally random it all makes perfect sense in my scrambled prego brain! I just got home a bit ago from this amazing Bible study that I've been going to every Wednesday entititled Jesus in the Old Testament. Let me just say major props Amanda! God has blessed you with some truly amazing gifts and not only do you do a bang up, unbelievably amazing job with the children's ministry at Providence, you also teach a pretty stinking good women's Bible study! :o) So, anyways, I get home from Bible study and have this overwhelming urge to blog and share with all of you or one of you or however many of you actually read this my thoughts from tonight. We had the most amazing and open discussion tonight about God and how He works in our lives and how He teaches us and disciplines us and most of all how He's a good and loving God. There were lots of tears but the revelation I came away with tonight is how blessed I am to have such wonderful girlfriends. You read the emails and of course your mother tells you how important girlfriends are but you don't really realize just what a wonderful gift they are until you're older. I don't really think there's a lot we do appreciate until we are older. So really, that's what blogging tonight was all about. Lord, thank you so much for all of the blessings in my life. You have given me so much that I don't deserve, but Lord, tonight I thank you for gracing my life with beautiful, godly women that along with your help mold and guide me through being a good wife, friend, servant and soon, a good mother. Thank you for reminding me of all of these blessings when I lose perspective.

Can I Get Any Bigger???

This is a question that I ask myself...usually several times a day and I've finally come to the conclusion that YES I can get much bigger! This actually amazes me as I haven't decided exactly how it is that my skin seems to be able to stretch any tighter however I do think that Sarah has a hand in that as she spends most of the day ramming her hard little head into my left ribs along with the punches and kicks I receive at random and frequent intervals. I believe that she believes she's "helping" to create more room in there though I don't think that either of us is quite convinced of that at this point. Also...I have to wonder and am I the only one who has ever wondered this but do you think it's possible that her finger nails and toe nails are approximately 3 inches long?! This is another question I ponder frequently throughout the day as she seems to find great joy in digging them into every tender part of my insides. Is it actually possible to bleed to death from your unborn child's Elvira nails??? So if anyone is actually reading this you're probably wondering why, why is Allena blogging about her ginormous belly??? Well I'll tell you why. As I sit here squirming around in my chair...both Sarah and I trying desperately to get comfortable and truth be told I think she's the only one who might possibly be accomplishing this...my belly looking like a yoga ball implant is shoved just underneath the skin and cankles the size of telephone poles I think to myself...no one probably cares that I'm stinking miserable right now and it's my blog so hey, if I want to write about my misery then I will! Lol...so here you go...the mindless ramblings from a crazy pregnant lady!

Our Big Girl

Well, I was 31 weeks yesterday. For those of you who don't want to do the math, that's 7 months, 3 weeks pregnant. We had a doctor's appointment this afternoon along with a sonogram. The sono tech was running behind so we had to wait about 30 minutes. My adorable, charming husband talked her into throwing some 3D pics in for us. Unfortunately you can't tell too much from the pictures because our little princess decided to not cooperate for her photo shoot. I think she's beautiful and absolutely adorable but then I'm biased! I really can't tell who she looks like but I kind of think she looks like Scott. She has hair which looks like it might be curly...yay! I hope she has Scott's beautiful eyes too! The first picture is of her with her hand on her face and in the second picture, she has her face pressed up against the uteran wall..."pretending" to be sleeping! Ornery little stink gave us a few hearty kicks but she just did not want us to get a good look at her! As most of you know, Dr. Greebon has been telling me how small she is almost through my entire pregnancy. Wellllll....he got a bit of a surprise today! Miss Sarah Jean weighs 4lb. 5oz. and is 16.6 inches long!!!! I laughed because he's already talking about inducing me because he's worried she'll get too big if we allow her to go full term. For those of you who don't remember, my due date is December 15. I really don't want to be induced but I want what's best for Sarah so if the doctor thinks it's necessary then I'll bite the bullet. Ultimately, she's in God's hands. Psalm 127:3 I go back to the doctor in 2 weeks and we are supposed to come up with some "birth" dates for Sarah. She'll start gaining approximately 1/2lb. a week from now going forward so we're going to have one big girl! Here are some belly pics from tonight as well.

The Belly and More

Well, I've had some moaning and groaning from a few of you because I haven't put anything out there recently so I apologize and this is for you. I'll have to add pictures of the belly later but I've got some new ones to add to the blog too. You'll see when I post them but the first set of pics is at 28 weeks (7 months for those of you who don't want to count) and then I'll have Scott take some this weekend to post along with those. I'll be 30 weeks (7 1/2 months) on Monday. By the way, one of the pictures from the 28 weeks session is me standing next to the yoga ball and I think it looks like a yoga ball is actually stuffed inside of my belly! Holy cow I can't believe how fast this pregnancy has gone!!! Is this normal?! So this weekend Scott and I are going to try and get some more done on the nursery. I'll do another blog for that along with pictures to show our most recent progress. We honestly haven't worked on the nursery since the last post. Don't worry, I'm not holding out on y'all! We've just had so much going on over the last month that every single weekend has been completely full....much to our dismay! Well, Scott and I finished up our child birth classes last weekend...thank goodness! Don't get me wrong, they're very informative but Scott wanted to do the all day Saturday class which was 9-5 the first Saturday and then Sunday from 1-5 and then this last Saturday from 9-11:30. Hello...I'm 7 months pregnant! Sitting still for that long is beyond uncomfortable! Oh well, it's over now so thankfully we just have it out of the way. So I'm starting to get a bit panicky about everything we have left to do before Sarah gets here but I know it'll all get done eventually. Well, I'm sure you all pretty much know by now but Scott passed his emergency certification test!!!! He's been working on his IteachTexas stuff so hopefully before the school year is out he'll have his official teaching certificate! Well I guess that's pretty much all for now. Look for pictures this weekend and hopefully a new nursery post!