Riley's Blessing Day!

Sunday was Riley's Blessing. It was such a wonderful sabbath day. Luckily Riley slept through the whole thing. When she is not sleeping she is a very vocal baby so I'm sure she would have baby talked through it if she was not asleep. I started with the tears before he even started. Just seeing Paul walk up there with Riley surrounded by the priesthood brought tears to my eyes. It made me think a lot about how greatful I am that Riley is surrounded by such amazing and powerful Priesthood. Growing up in my family my parents were the only members so it makes my heart swell as I look at how much our family has grown just from one single decision my parents made. I will forever be grateful to them.

It was so great to have family visit, Mom Shuman and Emily came down for the blessing. It was so good to see them. I know Riley enjoyed their visit. She has started laughing a ton and actually is rolling over like a pro now. She is getting so big. I sometime feel like I wake up and she has grown overnight. Her personality is coming out more and more everyday. I always tell Paul her hair matches her personality, crazy!

Time Flies!

Its been 2 months since I have posted and a lot has happened! We welcomed our little baby girl to our family on Feb. 13. Riley Lillian Shuman. She is already 9 weeks and is growing everyday. She already got her first sunburn when we went up to Memaw and Paw Paw's farm for the weekend. She loves to be outside and was enjoying the pretty weather. I never knew how much I would love being a Mommy. Paul just adores her and she is wrapping him around her little finger more and more everyday. She loves to sit with Daddy and watch basketball. She looks just like her daddy but I got Mama's hair, it sticks straight up!!!! She is adorable and keeps us busy. I'm gonna try to keep the blog updated more that we have our video camera and camera up and working!

Baby Shower

Sister Robin, Mom, Me, and Stacey

Yesterday my sister, Stacey, and my Mom threw me a baby shower. It was not your traditional shower! Instead of games and stuff we just had a ton of food and made hair bows and baby jewelry for Riley. Everyone had a really fun time and we got a ton of bows made! Since I have been put on bedrest we figured we needed to to a more low key kind of thing. We got a ton of cute stuff. We got our stroller and a ton more clothes and diapers.

Paul is still in Ohio and can't wait to come home already, I will admit I can't wait for him to be here either. I go back to the Dr Wed to find out how the bedrest has helped my toxemia and we might be inducing soon after depending on the results of the tests and my blood pressure. So far it has been pretty high even with bed rest but not as high as it was so that is good. I feel I am ready for Riley but we will see! We are really excited to meet her and can't wait to send out those first pictures! I will keep everyone updated and let you know what the Dr says on Wed!

Baby Update!

I went for an ultrasound Monday and they said she is measuring in at around 7lbs 6oz. I go to the Dr. tomorrow to see if we need to get thing rolling early based on the ultrasound. If I go the full term till Feb 16th she will be weighing in over 9lbs they think. She is healthy and chubby! I have everything ready and my hospital bag packed and waiting! Paul left for Ohio on Sunday, but might be making a trip back home sooner than later. He said it is really cold and he misses Texas. They had snow all day today and he said when he woke up it was 6 degrees. He is enjoying himself so far and is looking forward to learning all the new stuff. I have been battling an upper respritory infection for the past week and finally got some antibiotics so im starting to feel a little better. I think we have everything ready for Baby Riley....I spent today double and triple checking all the clothes and her crib and packed her bag for the hospital. Hope all is well with everyone else and we will keep you posted!

Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow!!!

Yesterday we got snow!!!! Good ole' Houston TX. Its been 4 years since the last snow that was Christmas Eve of 2004. It actually snowed a lot for Houston. It started snowing around 6:30pm and was still going at 10 when we went to bed. It was nice to have some cold weather around Christmas time. Well I went to the dr yesterday and the baby is still growing pretty fast. In 6 weeks the Dr. is doing an ultrasound to see how much longer till she is too big! We are excited and a little nervous that things are happening a little sooner than expected but we can't wait at the same time. Paul is finally getting to slow down a little bit at work with the cool weather but by slow down that means he is usually home before 8 now! We are getting ready for Christmas and getting our tree up so as soon as it is decorated and finish we will post some pics of that. We are looking forward to Christmas and can't wait!!!! We hope everyone is well and staying warm :)

Our Weekend in Naca-Nowhere!

This weekend we went up to Nacogdoches to spend some time with my Dad before he gets ready to head back to Iraq. Stacey and her kids came with us and we rode the 4 wheeler and Dad told scary stories around the campfire as we all had hot chocolate and listened to the coyotes get closer and closer to camp!!!! Stacey's kids spent most of the time down in the creek getting all muddy and wet........while the adults just sat around the campfire and napped and goofed off. We got some good pictures of the group 4 wheeling and just relaxing. Paul took all the kids on a hay ride. We hooked the trailer to the back of the 4 wheeler and he made sure they had a good time. We also had all 5 dogs! Princess(our baby) ,Sunshine, Tina and Baby ( my parents dogs), and Grindle (Stacey's dog). They loved it just as much as we did. My Dad has a camera we set up over night that we captured some great pictures of raccoons enjoying our leftover chili we left out as bait!!!! I'm also going to post some pictures we just got downloaded of Halloween and a few random ones of my Family. We miss everyone and hope all is going well! Love you guys!

Thanksgiving Update!

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. Paul and I really enjoyed seeing the family in AZ. It was our first trip to AZ and the weather was great and the company was even better. We miss everyone already and we just got home yesterday. We had fun playing games, eating, playing the Wii, eating, shopping and more eating! We are trying to adjust to getting back to the daily grind here in Houston. I know it was hard for Paul to go back to work this morning. I am doing well, I am 30 weeks now and man do I feel it. Only 7 more weeks till we see if we have to induce because the baby is getting so big or if we can wait it out. Time is really flying by fast. We are already starting the countdown till Christmas and can't believe how close it is. We know it will be here before we know it. Now that I got some tips from Briana I am going to try and update our blog more often! I'm really excited!!!!! I hope everyone is doing good and here are few pictures of the fam from our trip.