Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!

We hope you all had a wonderful Christmas?!! We did have a great Christmas...Michelle's parents and brother came up to celebrate with us. Mom came up on Tuesday and then Dad and Chris flew in Christmas Eve. While Mom was here we were able to finish getting the nursery setup and wash up his clothes, blankets, socks, hats and sheets. So all that is left is to hang up the decorations, so hopefully we can do that tomorrow sometime. We had a laid back Christmas day and played Wii (thanks to Jason's Mom and Dad) most of the day in between napping and eating!! Then on Saturday we ventured out to the wild world of shopping! Saturday evening we all went out to eat and then went to see some Christmas lights and then back home for some more Wii action. Then they all left this morning to drive back down:( But thankfully we will get to see all of our parents again in a few weeks when Baby Boy Wells decides he is ready to enter this world!
Click here to see a few pictures from Christmas...there are a few from Nanny's Christmas she had at her house last weekend.
We pray you all have a wonderful New Years - WOW so many blessings to reflect on this past year and how excited we are to see what the Lord has in store for us this coming year!!

Texas Baby Shower Pictures

I have finally got a few pics up on the site of the Texas Baby Shower (Thanks to Mom W for sending us some pics!) Click here to see them.
We went yesterday to our child birth prep class (aka Lamaze class!) It was an all day class in which we were kind of dreading thinking it would drag on - but actually went pretty fast. Hopefully we will remember a few things we learned in the delivery room - but then again, that is why there are nurses around!!
We hope you all had a wonderful weekend - we got to see snow most of the weekend, so that was quite nice!!

Another Peek!!

We went to the doctor yesterday for another ultrasound due to Baby Wells measuring small at my last appointment. He sure had the doctors fooled...we are 33 weeks this week and his head and abdomen measured 35 weeks and the rest of his body measured right on time. And he definitely showed "himself" to tell us many times that he definitely is a boy! :) But on the other hand was already being a stinker and kept his hand in a fist by his face so we could not see his face fully. But he was very active and doing very well. Here is the only good picture we got of him - his fist in front of his face.

Finally...

Sorry for the "slackness" on the blog lately...we have been a bit busy since Thanksgiving. We went to GA/SC for Thanksgiving weekend and a baby shower then the weekend after we flew to Texas for another baby shower. And this past weekend we have been playing catch up and recooping. Jason got sick while we were in Texas and is still trying to get back to 100%. He was out of work most of last week but is starting to feel better.
This past week I went for my 2 week check-up at the OB and Baby Wells was measuring a little small last week, so we will go this Wednesday for an ultrasound to see him and how he is doing. The doctor is not concerned at all, but wanted and US just to take a peek - which is ok with us, gives us a chance to see him one more time before we meet in person in a few weeks. So more to come on that with some pictures later on this week.
And without further ado...click here for some pictures from the shower Nanny, threw for us over Thanksgiving weekend. We have been blessed tremendously by all of the gifts and wishes from everyone! Words truly can not express our gratitude for everyone!
We will post some pictures from the Texas shower next week after I get a copy from the camerawomen!
We pray you all have a wonderful week!!

All we can say is WOW!!!

We have truly been blessed with all the gifts for this little guy we are all so anxiously awaiting. We went to GA for Thanksgiving and Nanny threw us a baby shower for friends and family! I left GA this morning and forgot to get a copy of the pictures. I will have them posted after next weekend. But here are the blessings we received. Nanny gave us the bedding, so the bed is "half" made so you can see it. We received so many gifts as you can see in the picture and I also took a picture of the closet as we received more clothes and it was hard to lay them all out with the rest of the gifts from the shower. He will be one well dressed little man!! Thanks again to everyone for all of these blessings!
More pictures to come after next weekend!
We hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving!!

Happy Thanksgiving!!

We hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving!! So much to be thankful for...my list can be long, but my top ones would be - Jason is home this year - WOOHOO, having a healthy baby that the Lord is still knitting in my womb, our family....and I could go on, but those are to name the top ones!!
We pray your day is blessed and Praise to the Lord for all His endless blessings!!

Group Shot

Here is our group pic from our shower given to us by the ladies of our church. More pictures to come!

So Blessed

Last night the ladies of our church threw us a baby shower after service. It was great times and we were oh so blessed again with lots of gifts for baby Wells! Here are a few pics of what we got along with a picture of the adorable cakes and my mothers blessing necklace. Kim, a friend took pics with her camera, so there will be more to come once I get a copy from her. I am just in awe of all the things we have gotten thus far!
Also, just a little story behind the necklace....every shower I have been to for ladies of our church they do this at them. But there is a bowl of beads and every one takes a bead. Then each person will say something to the mother, whether it be advice, a blessing over her or just words of encouragement. Then their bead is passed to one person who is makes the necklace with all the beads from everyone. After everyone has gone then the mother has hands laid upon her and prayers are said for her, the baby, the father and whatever the person feels the Lord telling them to say. So this necklace truly is special to me and not only are all the gifts a blessing but the words spoken over me has opened doors and revealed things to me that I never thought of myself as. (sorry if that does not make sense - kinda hard to explain while trying to keep this short!)
Hope you enjoy these few pictures and we will post more when I receive them from Kim!

Happy Happy Birthday Dad W!!

Today is Jason's dads birthday...we are so blessed to have a dad like you! We wish you a wonderful day today and another year full of many blessings and great memories!!
Happy Birthday!
*Sorry our picture selection was limited :(

JackPot!!

This weekend after church we had a ladies retreat and went to Yorktown to spend the night and most of Sunday together in fellowship and studying God's word! What a wonderful time we all had together!! More to come on that later on...
While at the retreat, Jason was out fishing and found the "honey-hole" spot!! I believe he said he caught something like 30 fish or so?!! Here are a few pics of his keepers. And he was ecstatic (as you can tell by his picture!) because he finally caught a red, in which that is what he has been trying to get all along. I did not get the whole report from last night, but he and another guy went out last night and he caught about 15 more fish but did not keep any.
So enjoy his pics!! Also I threw in a couple J took during our "flooding days." This pic was only during the middle of the day and when we went back at night it was all under water....craziness!!

Baby Boy Wells Update

We had another doctors visit to check up on our baby boy! He is doing great and kicking strong. I had my GTT today, so after drinking the oh so sweet drink he was in crazy gear kicking around like crazy! All went well with the visit and we will now start going every 2 weeks until we hit 36 weeks and then we will go every week. Man has the time flown by so fast!!

Happy Veteran's Day!!

A belated Happy Veteran's day to all who have and are serving our country!! Praise God for these brave soldiers and family who are serving our country 24/7!
Check out this video.

Fishing Day

J used one his comp days yesterday and took advantage of the beautiful yet chilly day we had here and went fishing. Here are a few pics of his day!!

Nursery Pics

Click here to see a few pics of the nursery in progress. We put the furniture up tonight and will start decorating in the next few weeks once we get everything! We may have to play with the furniture arrangement some, but we will see once we get the rest of everything else in there! It is coming together and he will be here before we know it!!

Happy Birthday Poppa!!

Just wanted to send a little shout out to Jason's, grandfather, Poppa!! Happy Birthday Poppa! We hope you have a wonderful day and get to party hard later on today in celebration of your birthday!
Sorry for this old picture, and a Christmas one at that - horrible to say but that was the only one I could find on our computer of you looking at the camera!

Deployment

So one of my really good friends, Jamilia, left this week to head out for her deployment. She left behind her hubby, Mike, and soon be precious 3 year old, Caden. We were all stationed in Germany together and have MANY great memories together from there and we truly are blessed to call them our friends. They are now stationed in San Antonio. Jamilia was passing through here as she headed out so we were thankful we got to meet up with her for a quick dinner on Sunday evening. She will be deployed for 6 months...so please keep her in your prayers as well as Mike and Caden as they are holding up the fort back home. It will be adjustment for them all, but oh what a sweet homecoming it will be!!
And if you so feel led to send her a card or goodie box or whatever you may feel led to send here is her address....

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On a side note...J finished up the painting last and night we got the fan/light hung and new wall plates. So hopefully by the end of the week we will have the furniture moved in and a few pictures put up on here of the progress!!

Happy Birthday Homie!

Happy Birthday to the best hubby ever - Jason!! He is finally "catching" up with me and is 29 today!! The Lord truly blessed me with a wonderful, supportive, loving, caring, forgiving, understanding (and the list can go on and on) husband! I hope you have a wonderful birthday today and look forward to many more birthday celebrations with you!!

Baby Shower #1 Pics

Click here to see the pics from the shower. I have not had time to weed out any of the "bad" pics...so please excuse those, as I am in a rush to at least get them up for all to see who could not make it. Also, some people are missing in the pictures that actually came to the shower...we were a bit late in pulling out the cameras :(
A HUGE THANKS again to Mrs. Farrow for throwing us this shower.

Shower #1

We made it to GA/SC and back safely...we left VA with a pretty empty truck and came home with it full of blessings! We left last Thursday night and were able to stay through Monday. It was definitely a fun filled weekend. Friday, Jason, mom and I went to the baby stores there to see what they had and to tweak and make a new registry and then of course had to visit Hobby Lobby in which we found some decor for the nursery. Then that night, Jason played in a softball tournie with Chris until 1am...needless to say, dad, mom, Erin and I left about 10 as it was freezing cold outside. Then Saturday, Teresa Farrow, our families dear friend, hosted a fabulous shower for us. It was wonderful to see so many friends that I had not seen since our wedding. And we were definitely blessed with soooo many things for the baby! Then Sunday we went to church with the family and then were able to meet up with some friends of ours that we all went to church together when J and I were dating - although I was a bit bummed I forgot my camera :( But hopefully at Thanksgiving we can all get together then and give some others a bit more notice so they can come too. Then that evening we had an early celebration of J's birthday and Nanny and Ed and Dee were able to come over to help celebrate. So we had a wonderful trip and as always so hard to come home. We got home around 6ish and had to unload the truck with the help of Jason's supervisor who lives down the street from us. My parents and Nanny gave us a crib, dresser and hutch...WOOHOO! Jason will start the painting soon and so there will of course be pictures to come with the progress of the nursery.
Here is a pic of mom and I at the shower...more to come after I have time to sit down and put them on the site...hopefully tomorrow I will be able to do so!

"Swine" Flu Vaccine - I will let you decide....

Here is an interesting article that my coworker gave some of us today at work...I will let you make your own decision. And I will leave it at that......

Check out the link here.

Or copy and paste this link
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/10/06/Why-You-Should-NOT-Vaccinate-Your-Children-Against-the-Flu-This-Season.aspx

The Letter

This is and excerpt from my devotional this morning.....

2 Corinthians 3
1 Are we beginning to praise ourselves again? Are we like others, who need to bring you letters of recommendation, or who ask you to write such letters on their behalf? Surely not! 2 The only letter of recommendation we need is you yourselves. Your lives are a letter written in our[a] hearts; everyone can read it and recognize our good work among you. 3 Clearly, you are a letter from Christ showing the result of our ministry among you. This “letter” is written not with pen and ink, but with the Spirit of the living God. It is carved not on tablets of stone, but on human hearts.
4 We are confident of all this because of our great trust in God through Christ. 5 It is not that we think we are qualified to do anything on our own. Our qualification comes from God. 6 He has enabled us to be ministers of his new covenant. This is a covenant not of written laws, but of the Spirit. The old written covenant ends in death; but under the new covenant, the Spirit gives life.

We have been chosen to carry the message of hope from the moment we received Christ, we became one of his "greeting cards," bringing good news. God cares enough to send the very best. Where is he "mailing you" today?

Spoiled Rotten

Yes, I truly am spoiled rotten by the greatest husband ever. So I dedicate this blog to my homie, J!! Most nights out of the week I come home to dinner being finished or almost about to hit the table. He gets home about 1-1.5 hours before I do, so usually he has dinner started or almost finished by the time I get home. And some weeks he will have the grass cut and edged during the week in that that is one less chore we have to do on the weekend! Not to mention that we usually share the chores and do it all as a team (to include vacuuming and lovely laundry!!) Can't say I know too many husbands who share in all the chores. There is no man's job or woman's job in our house...we both do them all - mow the grass, wash the cars, clean the house, cook, etc!!! And he has been like this all the time, it did not start once I got pregnant - it just has continued!! So THANKS Bud for being a wonderful husband!!
I added a pic of my HUGE belly on here..people have been asking to see it, so here it is! We went to the fall festival here today, so I look a bit rough and excuse my expression on my face!! LOL

Happy Birthday Mamo!!

Happy Birthday to our vivacious, energetic 91 year old Mamo!! You are truly an inspiration to us all. We hope you are all rested up from your busy week last week in that you can party today!!

First Movements

I have been feeling Baby Boy moving a bit for the past few weeks and has mainly been when I am about to go to sleep. I told Jason, I am sure if I sat still enough during the day I may have felt his settle movements, but I am on my feet a majority of the day. Anyhooo...the past few days I have been feeling him more and more. I have been trying to see if I could feel him on the outside as he has been fluttering around but finally felt him last night. Jason was able actually feel a kick or punch with his hand on my gut too. So that was a bit exciting. He is one active boy already - but he has plenty of room now, I am sure it will start to get crowded in there real soon.
Last night I started my first prego aerobics class. I have been working out here at home with the ol bowflex and J and I walk some evenings and then we walk at work during lunch but last night I started my first prego aerobics class. It was fun and was very low impact, but better than sitting on the ol couch in the evenings. And I actually knew some people in the class that I did not know were going, one of the doctors i work with and then one of my patients. So it was fun, but told my patient, not to be laughing at me because I am so not coordinated!
In other news Jason is getting excited because his kayak is suppose to be here this afternoon!!! I know he has had the itch to get back on the waters around here again. And his buddy, Jeff, has "missed" him on the water too. So hopefully all went well with the shipping and it gets here today in that he can hit the waters this weekend after the church golf tournament. So hopefully some pics will be posted after his first trip back out or if not at least of the new kayak!!

Happy Birthday Kara Faith!!

Today is our niece, Kara's, 2nd birthday! We hope you have a fun day today Kara and have a blast at your party on Saturday!

It's a BOY!!

We found out this morning that we are having a boy! He is looking healthy and according to today's measurements we may be a week "ahead of schedule!" But we know this will fluctuate throughout the rest of the pregnancy and he will make his arrival when he is good and ready!! :) Here are the pics from today! We got some 4D ones...we walked in and the tech was like it is your lucky day, we got a brand new machine and you guys are the first ones for us to try it on - so they were training another lady and showing one of our doctors how the machine works and how much better it is and all that - so we got some extra time in seeing our little boy! We are elated that he is healthy and the pregnancy is going great! Enjoy the pics below! On the second set of pics is where you can tell it is a boy!

Back Home!

J made it back on Saturday evening safe and sound! He had a great time getting a bit of hunting and fishing in. Unfortunately, they did not get anything hunting but at least got to see some elk passing through. And despite the bad weather they had at the coast they had a little bit of sun come out in which they were able to catch a few fishies. Here is a pic of J and Brad with one of their catches. And a pic of the oil rigs they went out to! It is good to have him back and now back to the "grind" of working!
Only 2 more days left and we will find out if we have a girl or boy baking in this big ol oven!!

Thank Goodness for 3 day weekends!!

It has been one busy week here. Jason left Tuesday morning for Texas for the guys trip. He made it safely and the guys are currently in New Mexico huntin' for some elk. I spoke with him yesterday and they have seen several, but they have been either not in a good range to shoot or either been a momma or a baby. He said a baby got within 10 feet of them yesterday - so I know they were excited. It definitely makes it worth while that they are at least seeing the elk. So hopefully in the next few days they get something. Not too sure what the rest of the plans will be but it sounds like he is having a good time hanging out with the boys.
Since Jason has left I have been working some long days. One of my coworkers has been out sick and then she is on vacation all next week. Our whole office is already short staff, but that is another whole story in itself. So there have only been 2 licensed nurses on my hall working and it has been crazy. So I am very thankful for this 3 day weekend.
It was a bit of a challenging week as well with the patients. I will just tell of one that continues to stick out in my mind since I met her a few days ago. She came in for a new OB appointment and all was going well. Next thing I know the doctor comes to me all proud to show me the picture (aka sonogram) she got of the baby....the patient is having twins!! The doctor was ecstatic of her picture and of course for the mom. So long story short, please be praying for this mom, she already has an 11 yo, 2 yo and now preggo with twins in which she is leaning towards to aborting them. When I heard this, my heart hurt and my stomach just dropped. The population that comes through our office you would not believe or I can not believe how many want to use abortion as their birth control. I just want to slap them and say don't you know what causes pregnany -well stop doing it!! And maybe say a few other things. But nevertheless, I have seen this time and time again with my patients. It always hits me a bit hard! So please pray for this lady - sorry can not mention any names or anything due to privacy.
Well I better get going and get some chores done....I did my errands yesterday, so now time to mow the grass, clean the house and wash the truck! Then I will spend the rest of my time catching up on some scrapbooking!!
I pray you all have a wonderful Labor Day!!

PS - only 10 more days until we will find out if we are having a boy or girl!!

Baby Wells gettin Big!

Here is a few more shots from last week of Baby Wells!

Happy Birthday Dad!

Today is my dad's 51st birthday...HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!
Here is a poem I found for you today....

I find myself wondering...
Did I give you your due..
For all that you've done for me
Did I ever thank you?

For all of my childhood memories
For helping me deal with life's stresses
For helping me accept my defeats
And celebrate my successes?

Or for teaching me the value of hard work,
Good judgement, courage, and being true
The laughter, smiles, and quiet times we've shared
Did I ever thank you?

If I have forgotten, I'm thanking you now
You taught me right from wrong....
I hope you know how much you're loved and appreciated
I hope you, instinctively, knew it all along.

Thanks Dad for all you have done for me and taught me throughout life. I can only pray that as we dive into this new chapter of our lives, parenthood, that I only take the lessons I have learned and the parenting style you and mom had and carry that on with our child.
Love ya Dad and I hope you have a Happy Birthday today!!

Good Times

This past Thursday I had my graduation ceremony for LPN school. So we had a bit of the family come in to celebrate with us....Nanny, Mom W, Dad and Mom B. They all came in on Wednesday and left Saturday. It was good times and good memories. Graduation went well despite it being EXTREMELY hot in the auditorium. Also, while everyone was here we celebrated my dad's birthday one evening, even his birthday is not until Tuesday, but hey, we have to take every opportunity to celebrate birthdays with any family in person seeing how it does not happen that often.
Also on Thursday, we had our OB appointment in which all the family came. The mom's and Jason went back first and we heard the baby's heartbeat and then the NP was very generous and did an ultrasound in that all the family came back and could see baby wells moving around. Although the baby was being a bit stubborn and would not open its' legs, we will have to wait until the next visit to see what we will be having. Our next appointment is on September 16 (22 more days away!)
You can click here to see pics from this past weekend. I have not labeled them, sorry :( Also, pics of the baby will be posted later on today as well!
Hope you all have a good week!!

Happy Birthday Katelyn!

Today is our niece, Katelyn's, 5th birthday!! We hope you had a wonderful birthday party and have a fun filled day ahead! Sorry we could not make it to your party but hopefully we will get to see you soon.

Finally had to do it!

Well I finally broke down this weekend and started wearing maternity clothes. I have been putting it off...well maybe not putting it off, more like dreading it. It is amazing how fast your body changes. I have 2 pairs of my own pants left that I can still wear and well let's just say my shirts are not so attractive any more - kinda shows an extra roll or 2 now. So Saturday night to church I wore an actual maternity shirt and then Sunday wore maternity shorts and shirt. It felt nice, but just looked like I had on a big tent, as Jason said! He knew I was dreading it, so he had to make fun with it...but of course would say I looked nice afterwards :) LOL! Too Funny! So Thanks to my parents and to my sister-in-law, Kelly, for starting out my maternity wadrobe.

New Ride!

Well J has sold one ride and has a new one on the way....nope not a car - a kayak! He has been wanting a pedal drive (I believe that is the term) for a few months now and found one for a great deal in Texas. He posted his for sale on Sunday and sold it last night -Praise the Lord!! He will be heading to Texas for a guys week with his Dad and brother..they will go elk hunting and get in lots of fishing at the coast while he is there! I think it was Brad who found the kayak for sale in Texas and it was like the one J wanted, and was a great deal, so Brad will be picking it up sometime and J will use while he is on his trip out there and then have it shipped back! So needless to say it is a bittersweet time in this household right now...J is a bit bummed because that means no fishing for a month, yet excited because he will have a sweet water whip waiting on him in Texas!

In the nursing world, I was officially accepted in the RN program at the school i just graduated from. I chose to start next September. The bridge program will be from September to December in which is all online except 2 week of clinicals and then I will be in school full time January - June and then that will be it and hopefully pass my boards to be an RN!! WOOHOO.

Also, this week I applied for a job at Fort Eustis that is near our house to work in one of their clinics. I love the job where I am now, but in the long run is not a good option for me. I have been wanting to go back civil service because of all the benefits not to mention the pay is better. But the big ticket that sells me into to going back civil service is that everytime we move, all my benefits go with me (that is,if I continue on as civil service at the next destination we head to.) But if I stay in the civilian sector, I have to almost start all over at the bottom each time we move. So if you think about it in the weeks to come, please say a prayer that all the decisions if any, that need to be made are the right ones. And if I do not get this job, it is ok too, because I have a great job right now!

That is about all going on around here this week!

Pics of BabyWells!!

Here are the pics of BabyWells being busy as ever!!

Another Baby Update

We went yesterday back to the doctor to get my cervix length measured. Back in 2003, I had a LEEP procedure done to take out some abnormal cells on my cervix. So to make a long story short now that we are pregnant I have to have it measured to make sure it can hold the baby in (sorry - only way to put it in layman's terms!) So we went yesterday and I don't think the ultrasound tech looked at my chart first because she just did a regular ultrasound at first. She was an awesome tech and was showing us every little part of the baby and took a zillion pictures in which we came home with about 5. And boy was the baby just a moving around and waving at us. Then the tech was like, why are they asking for another sonogram at this time and I said to measure my cervix. So then she proceeded to measure the cervix and asked if we wanted to know the sex of the baby and we of course said yes. She said she would try even though it is sometimes a bit early in the game to tell....and she could not see anything because the baby had its legs bent the whole time. So we left with a several more pictures we were not expecting and with a good report this time for the cervical length. We will have to wait to see what the doctor says and probably get checked a few more times just to make sure I do not need a stitch or 2 to hold it closed.
Unfortunately, I we do not have a scanner at home to put the pics up, but I will do so first thing tomorrow morning when I get to work.

BabyWells Update

Not too much new from todays OB visit...we got to here the heartbeat for the first time and that was about all for the visit. BabyWells was doing well and heart beating strong. No ultrasound pics were taken, so it may be a few more months before we get to see the baby again!
We will continue to keep you posted! ;)

Birthday Weekend

This past weekend I celebrated the BIG 29. My parents, Nanny, Chris, and his girlfriend Erin came up for the weekend to celebrate. They got in Friday night and then Saturday we went and ate at the fab Five Guys then of course while in Williamsburg could not pass up Yankee Candle or the outlets. After shopping/walking off our "healthy" lunch we came home to fire up the grill with some steaks. The guys had went and did all the grocery shopping that morning and came home with balloons and cake for me, so we indulged after our wonderful dinner on some cake and ice cream. Then Sunday, J cooked his masterpiece, breakfast burritos and then we headed to the VA Beach for stroll on the boardwalk. The guys did do a little "wave surfing" and then we headed back to the house for a fish and chicken dinner, caught and prepared by JWells!! And everyone left yesterday after J and I headed to work. We had a wonderful time just hanging and relaxing with the family and of course was sad to say goodbye on Monday morning. You can click here to see some pics from the weekend.
I am officially finished with school for a little while, well at least until Baby Wells arrives. Only by the Grace of God did I pull a B out of my microbiology class. I thought I was barely going to make a C, so I was totally suprised to see a B on my transcript yesterday...but I will definitely take it. Now onto RN school next year - Lord willing!!
J is finishing up his softball seasons this week. He finished the church league a week or 2 ago and tonight is his last game for his base team. And he is still playing intramural golf! Unfortunately I only made it to 1 of his games this year due to school :( But hopefully next year or if he plays fall ball, I can make it to more games. So now he can hopefully get more fishing in now that the summer sports are wrapping up.
BabyWells is doing swell...as you can tell by the birthday pics my stomach is poking way out there - I am just waiting for my gut to round up vs just looking fat. This is definitely a hard thing for me right now and J just keeps telling me it is ok, this is suppose to happen - in which I know, but still is hard to accept...espeically when the scale only says 3 pounds heavier than normal yet you look 20 pounds heavier (which I know too not to worry about the numbers - but hey, it is my downfall and has been most of my life!) We have got 12 weeks down and only 28 or so more to go. I think I have passed the hurdle of "morning sickness" so all is well! But we go on Thursday morning for our next appointment and hopefully another pic of BabyWells - so more to come on that!

Washington DC Trip

We are back after a quick trip up to DC this weekend. We had a WONDERFUL time and looking forward to going back up there to see more. We saw the highlights of the city atop a double decker bus in which were could get on and off any of the stops and stay as long as we wanted. We were only downtown for just Saturday, so we were able to get just a glimpse of the city, so we are going to head back again sometime in that we can go see more things up close. We did spend a bit of time at Arlington, and words can not describe this "hallowed ground!" You can click here to see a few of the pics J took.

Please Pray for the Kunze's

I heard earlier this week that one of my teachers from nursing school, Mrs. Patti Kunze, and her hubby were in an auto accident on July 2. Her husband had minor injuries and she is in CRITICAL condition. There are more specifics to her condition but due to good ol HIPAA, I can not disclose them at this time. But I just ask for prayer for her and for her family. Click here if you want to ready just the news article about the wreck itself....rumor has it that the teenager was drunk. Thanks so much for praying for her...all of classmates and my teachers have become part of my second family - we all spent so much time together and shared so many memories. Mrs. Kunze was the one pushing me, well actaully all of us, into the delivery rooms on our labor and delivery rotation - she only wanted the best experiences for us during that rotation.
On to the Wells news...not too much new going on. I have finished up my microbiology class this week and I take my final next Thursday - so that will be a HUGE relief to have that over and done with. Jason surprised me on our anniversary with a trip to Washington DC, so we are leaving tonight to make a quick trip up there for the weekend. We are totally excited...it will be our first American trip since we have been back stateside. Hopefully we can travel a bit more and go and see things around here now that I am finished with school for a little bit. Almost every month or every other month in Germany we were traveling somewhere and we miss that so much - so now on to explore our own country!! So hopefully we will have some pics up within the next week!

Happy 4th of July!!

May we not forget why we are bbq'n, off of work, hanging with friends,watching fireworks,and hanging at the lake today....Freedom!! Freedom is never given it is won. We hope you all have a wonderful 4th of July!!

More Fishies

J went fishing yesterday with a buddy from church and they hit the jackpot. I think this is the best fishing he has had yet. He said between the both of them they probably caught 16-17 fish. They only brought home 6 fish. So they definitely had a good day out on the water. Jason cleaned and gutted and all that yucky stuff to his 3 and will cook them up sometime soon.

Another First...

Here is our first glimpse of Baby Wells...in case you can not see
anything in the actual picture....if you look at the black circle near
the top and the baby is in there. Looking at the picture, the left is
the head and you will see a little arm sticking out and the babies tail
on the other end and see its big belly. The baby is facing downward. (Hopefully that helps some to see a few details!)

Happy Father's Day!

Happy Fathers Day to our Dads!!
We hope you both have a wonderful day and know that we are thinking of you 2 today and celebrating what awesome examples you are to us!!
We Love you both very much!
And it would not be a celebration without a quote...
"He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it." - Clarence Budington Kelland

Happy Birthdays!

June is a full month of celebrations for our family! So Happy Belated birthday to my (Michelle's) grandma's...Nanny and Grandma!
And also today, is Jason's brother and wife birthday, Brad and Kelly!!
We hope you all have had a wonderful birthday week! And may this next year be full of more blessings!
Love you all!!
Sorry B&K, I think I am missing some pics and could not find any from the last year and facebook would not let me copy them?? :(