Tuesday, December 30, 2014
Santa Brunch at the Club
The Sunday before Christmas we met my parents and my family at the Tupelo Country Club to have a brunch with Santa. Will was very receptive to Santa and wanted to sit in his lap without crying. It did help that Santa gave him a candy cane. Also during our dinner Will kept yelling for Santa across the table who was across the room. He kept saying "Hey Santy Clause" "Come here Santy Clause." It was precious! I did get a few good pictures of our time with Santa.
Thursday, December 18, 2014
Shopping, Parade, Seeing Santa, and more
We went to the Tupelo Christmas Parade and had so much fun. We met my sister, her kids and my parents there. Will enjoyed seeing the fire trucks, Santa, the Grinch, the dogs and the horses. He had a blast.
Will also had Pajama Party at school
And of course Will wanted to "cheese" by the tree at home
Later that week we went to go see Santa at the mall, shop, ride the horses (carousel), and eat in the food court. Will's reaction to Santa was the same as last year. He wasn't going to sit in his lap so Will stole Santa's chair and they read a book together.
Will also had Pajama Party at school
And of course Will wanted to "cheese" by the tree at home
Sunday, December 14, 2014
Baby #2 Gender Reveal Party
December finally came and we were able to find out what Baby Penny #2 was. We put my friend, Christy Whitley, in charge. She was the best party planner and could keep this huge secret from us too!
The week before the party, Christy came down with the flu. Luckily, on Tuesday she had not ran fever and was fever free the rest of the week. She was still very weak but ended up doing an AWESOME job!
We tried to do a Christmas theme but ended up doing just Pink and Blue. Pinterest got me in trouble with this party because most of the ideas came from there. We did the food and she brought all the candies and decorations! It was a perfect day we will always remember and were so happy Christy was better and able to be apart of our day as she has been since Will was born!
The week before the party, Christy came down with the flu. Luckily, on Tuesday she had not ran fever and was fever free the rest of the week. She was still very weak but ended up doing an AWESOME job!
We tried to do a Christmas theme but ended up doing just Pink and Blue. Pinterest got me in trouble with this party because most of the ideas came from there. We did the food and she brought all the candies and decorations! It was a perfect day we will always remember and were so happy Christy was better and able to be apart of our day as she has been since Will was born!
The food
Pink and Blue gumballs
Pink and Blue oreo pops
He or She hershey bars
Fruit skewers with Blue fruit dip
The cake
We did the Reveal first because the cake had the blue or pink icing in the middle depending upon the gender. We were so excited but would be happy either way. I was pulling for GIRL but gut instinct was a BOY. Doug was pulling for a BOY but his gut instinct was a GIRL. It was exciting to see who was right! We asked our guests to wear Pink or Blue and we mostly had BLUE at the party! I wonder why!!
The box with the secret
One excited BIG BRO
Opening the box
Carefully taking my time
What is in there???
Blue for BOY
It's a BOY!
We are so excited to welcome to our family Lucas "Luke" Andrew Douglas Penny. The name Luke actually came to me in a dream. Andrew Douglas is from Will's twin brother, Drew, who passed away in January 2012. If we had another boy, we definitely wanted to include his name in their somehow. We know we can't replace Drew but we sure can honor him in this way. We are so excited for Will to have the brother he always needed!
November in Review
November 2014 in Review
In November we had more football games in Oxford but the highlight was beating Mississippi State in Oxford Thanksgiving weekend! Will stayed with the grandparents all weekend and mommy and daddy enjoyed a nice weekend in Oxford eating, shopping, and watching the Rebels play!
In November we had more football games in Oxford but the highlight was beating Mississippi State in Oxford Thanksgiving weekend! Will stayed with the grandparents all weekend and mommy and daddy enjoyed a nice weekend in Oxford eating, shopping, and watching the Rebels play!
We celebrated Thanksgiving Day at my parents house and had a wonderful meal!
We turned Will's baby room into a BIG BOY room in order to prepare for Baby #2. We repainted the walls a light gray color, turned the bed around, got new bedding and curtains made, and hung new pictures. Here is the beginning of the room. Completed room will be later.
Will then decided it was fun to hang out in mommy and daddy's room since he was a Big Boy now!
We had a play date with Anna Grace and Peyton, our cousins, while their mommy and daddy were out of town. We met at the mall and played on the inside playground, rode the horsies (carousel as Will calls it), rode the train around the mall, and then had lunch at Chick-Fil-A. It was a fun day!
Update on Baby Penny #2 for November
We finished our last visit with our doctor in Memphis on October 30th and began seeing our OB regular doctor in Tupelo in November. Baby Penny #2 was doing well and progressing as should be. We took a genetic test on the baby the end of November and all the results were slim to none of Baby Penny #2 having any genetic problems. Thank the Lord! We also found out the gender the Monday before Thanksgiving (we didn't know but my friend did) and had to wait to find out what the Baby would be in December.
October in Review
October 2014 in Review
We spent several weekends in Oxford watching the Ole Miss Rebels play. The highlight of October was beating Alabama which was huge for our football team this year! We watched the students also tear the goal posts down!
We spent several weekends in Oxford watching the Ole Miss Rebels play. The highlight of October was beating Alabama which was huge for our football team this year! We watched the students also tear the goal posts down!
We had a few good games for some awesome tailgating in the Circle too!
We found out on my birthday, October 8th, we were expecting another sweet baby which in turn made for once a week trips to Memphis to check on our little peanut!
The firetruck came to Will's school for Fire Safety Week.
In Oxford we also visited our favorite place, St. Peters Church Pumpkin Patch.
We ended October by celebrating Halloween with our Batman in Oxford. Unfortunately we didn't Trick or Treat because it was freezing cold and Will was being to get sick. Oh well!
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
There's another Penny Baby on the way
God is SOOOOO Good because there is another Penny Baby on the way. We are so excited to announce that Will is going to be a BIG BROTHER!
The Lord has been good to us and he sure has a sense of humor. Let me just tell you the story!
About a year ago we decided to start trying for another baby. We prayed and let God take care of the situation and decided to not do fertility treatments again and to see what God had in store for us. So I was put on Femara to help me become "regular" again. (Some of this may be to personal but I don't care, it's our story and our blog!) I was on Femara for a while and was having off the wall cycles. I lost a few pounds and then started to become a little bit more regular but nothing was happening. In mid August we decided to see the new doctor with Fertility Associates of Memphis's, Dr Brezina, who makes 2 visits to Tupelo a month for a consult to discuss our options. We had gone with this clinic before to get pregnant with the boys so we decided to go back to them and just talk about everything. During that appointment Dr. Brezina told me that I was different than most women. He told me "As I get older it's going to be much easier for me to get pregnant" whereas it's the oppposite for most women because it's easier for them to get pregnant when they are younger. God just made me different. He urged me to stay on Femara and Metformin. So off we went with that advice and scheduled a follow-up appointment in late September to discuss our plans if I was not pregnant by then. We were worried because his plan was for us to try our best NOT to have a twin pregnancy and just to have a single pregnancy so we were placed with different options for that.
Doug and I both decided to give it to God and let him be the decision maker. We studied his word, prayed every day and just literally gave it all to God and put it in HIS hands. We both decided that if it was God's decision for us to have another baby then he would make it possible because "HE knows the plans he has for us!"
During this waiting time, we scheduled a time to meet with Dr. Brewer who is the new Maternal Fetal Specialist in Tupelo. We would talk to him to see what he could do to help us carry a baby full term or possibly tell us if it would be wise for us to become pregnant again. He told us based off the last pregnancy and that after reviewing my records that it was more of a growth problem for the boys and that if I got pregnant there are procedures and shots we could do to decrease the risk of preterm labor. It would be easier to decrease my chances on a single pregnancy but that we would work together if I did get pregnant with twins again. That appointment was on September 19th which was my husband's birthday and the day before the NICU reunion in which we saw all the girls preparing for the reunion and they started getting excited because they thought we were pregnant.
Here's where it gets funny and God's humor shows up.
On September 18th I wasn't feeling quite well so I decided to take a pregnancy test and of course it was negative but the lines weren't showing up well so I went and got a digital test. I went on about my day and decided to take the test again the next morning which so happened to be Doug's birthday. I was thinking to myself wouldn't it be great to have a positive test on Doug's birthday. Wishful thinking I was doing, huh! Well I took the digital test that morning and proceeded to get ready for work. Doug was still in the bed when I looked at it. When I saw the "pregnant" results I couldn't believe my eyes and thought I was still asleep. SO I raced in the bedroom to wake Doug up and said "here's your birthday present" and showed him the test. He looked at me, started crying (we both were actually) and said "I had a gut feeling God was trying to tell me something yesterday." What an awesome gift he had on his birthday. Just an FYI we found out about 3 years ago on Doug's birthday that were having twins so I guess God has a sense of humor. September 19th is a day that is very special to us from now on.
On this same day, September 19th, was the day we were meeting with Dr. Brewer to talk to him about our possibilites, plus we had to go confirm the blood test at our OB's office. Well I got the results later that day and of course it was confirmed positive. So on Saturday we had the NICU reunion and we were dying to tell our sweet friends the good news but couldn't. Then we had to keep the BABIES on Sunday in the church nursery and then we had a follow-up appointment with Dr Brezina in Memphis on Monday. Well, I had to of course cancel and reschedule our appointment with Dr Brezina to October 8th (My Birthday) for an ultrasound. If God was trying to tell us something he SURE was making a large statement and fulling his purpose and plan for our lives. He definitely has a sense of humor and was teaching us patience and that our plans are not always HIS plans.
So on October 8th, MY BIRTHDAY, we went to Memphis and heard and saw the most precious gift God has given us again. Baby Penny is measuring about a week behind schedule which the doctors are not concerned about it and had a great heartbeat of 119 bpm and was just perfect all around. Please remember that we had NOT done any fertility treatments and were just on a simple medication to help the process. God decided for us that we would have only ONE baby and that he didn't want us to make that decision on which treatment we needed to do to get pregnant with just one baby and not two! I've never seen any doctor so shocked and with the biggest smile on his face like Dr. Brezina had when we saw him and he didn't have to do anything to help us.
We are still early (I'm around 7 weeks right now) and have a long way to go so we covet your prayers for Baby Penny and ask that you pray for a healthy and full term baby. Even though we LOVE our Nicu friends, we really don't want to be back there. We ask that you pray specifically for the doctors that will monitor me and the baby and that they will have the wisdom and knowledge to do the right things and make the right decisions to help us go to 40 weeks. GOD is SO GOOD and he is in control and his plan is far more perfect than ours! We are lifting our hands to HIM and praising HIM for this glorious news. We ask that God will use this pregnancy to Glorify HIS name!
The Lord has been good to us and he sure has a sense of humor. Let me just tell you the story!
About a year ago we decided to start trying for another baby. We prayed and let God take care of the situation and decided to not do fertility treatments again and to see what God had in store for us. So I was put on Femara to help me become "regular" again. (Some of this may be to personal but I don't care, it's our story and our blog!) I was on Femara for a while and was having off the wall cycles. I lost a few pounds and then started to become a little bit more regular but nothing was happening. In mid August we decided to see the new doctor with Fertility Associates of Memphis's, Dr Brezina, who makes 2 visits to Tupelo a month for a consult to discuss our options. We had gone with this clinic before to get pregnant with the boys so we decided to go back to them and just talk about everything. During that appointment Dr. Brezina told me that I was different than most women. He told me "As I get older it's going to be much easier for me to get pregnant" whereas it's the oppposite for most women because it's easier for them to get pregnant when they are younger. God just made me different. He urged me to stay on Femara and Metformin. So off we went with that advice and scheduled a follow-up appointment in late September to discuss our plans if I was not pregnant by then. We were worried because his plan was for us to try our best NOT to have a twin pregnancy and just to have a single pregnancy so we were placed with different options for that.
Doug and I both decided to give it to God and let him be the decision maker. We studied his word, prayed every day and just literally gave it all to God and put it in HIS hands. We both decided that if it was God's decision for us to have another baby then he would make it possible because "HE knows the plans he has for us!"
During this waiting time, we scheduled a time to meet with Dr. Brewer who is the new Maternal Fetal Specialist in Tupelo. We would talk to him to see what he could do to help us carry a baby full term or possibly tell us if it would be wise for us to become pregnant again. He told us based off the last pregnancy and that after reviewing my records that it was more of a growth problem for the boys and that if I got pregnant there are procedures and shots we could do to decrease the risk of preterm labor. It would be easier to decrease my chances on a single pregnancy but that we would work together if I did get pregnant with twins again. That appointment was on September 19th which was my husband's birthday and the day before the NICU reunion in which we saw all the girls preparing for the reunion and they started getting excited because they thought we were pregnant.
Here's where it gets funny and God's humor shows up.
On September 18th I wasn't feeling quite well so I decided to take a pregnancy test and of course it was negative but the lines weren't showing up well so I went and got a digital test. I went on about my day and decided to take the test again the next morning which so happened to be Doug's birthday. I was thinking to myself wouldn't it be great to have a positive test on Doug's birthday. Wishful thinking I was doing, huh! Well I took the digital test that morning and proceeded to get ready for work. Doug was still in the bed when I looked at it. When I saw the "pregnant" results I couldn't believe my eyes and thought I was still asleep. SO I raced in the bedroom to wake Doug up and said "here's your birthday present" and showed him the test. He looked at me, started crying (we both were actually) and said "I had a gut feeling God was trying to tell me something yesterday." What an awesome gift he had on his birthday. Just an FYI we found out about 3 years ago on Doug's birthday that were having twins so I guess God has a sense of humor. September 19th is a day that is very special to us from now on.
On this same day, September 19th, was the day we were meeting with Dr. Brewer to talk to him about our possibilites, plus we had to go confirm the blood test at our OB's office. Well I got the results later that day and of course it was confirmed positive. So on Saturday we had the NICU reunion and we were dying to tell our sweet friends the good news but couldn't. Then we had to keep the BABIES on Sunday in the church nursery and then we had a follow-up appointment with Dr Brezina in Memphis on Monday. Well, I had to of course cancel and reschedule our appointment with Dr Brezina to October 8th (My Birthday) for an ultrasound. If God was trying to tell us something he SURE was making a large statement and fulling his purpose and plan for our lives. He definitely has a sense of humor and was teaching us patience and that our plans are not always HIS plans.
So on October 8th, MY BIRTHDAY, we went to Memphis and heard and saw the most precious gift God has given us again. Baby Penny is measuring about a week behind schedule which the doctors are not concerned about it and had a great heartbeat of 119 bpm and was just perfect all around. Please remember that we had NOT done any fertility treatments and were just on a simple medication to help the process. God decided for us that we would have only ONE baby and that he didn't want us to make that decision on which treatment we needed to do to get pregnant with just one baby and not two! I've never seen any doctor so shocked and with the biggest smile on his face like Dr. Brezina had when we saw him and he didn't have to do anything to help us.
We are still early (I'm around 7 weeks right now) and have a long way to go so we covet your prayers for Baby Penny and ask that you pray for a healthy and full term baby. Even though we LOVE our Nicu friends, we really don't want to be back there. We ask that you pray specifically for the doctors that will monitor me and the baby and that they will have the wisdom and knowledge to do the right things and make the right decisions to help us go to 40 weeks. GOD is SO GOOD and he is in control and his plan is far more perfect than ours! We are lifting our hands to HIM and praising HIM for this glorious news. We ask that God will use this pregnancy to Glorify HIS name!
Doug's birthday present
My birthday present
Saturday, October 11, 2014
Baby Tucker's shower
Mary had her first shower for Baby Tucker last Sunday. It was hosted by her sister in law, Brandy, and mother in law, Mrs Janice. Everything was decorated so cute and Mary got a lot of great things for Tucker.
And the stroller. I believe she's ready.
The food table
The mommy to be
Mrs Janice, Mary and Brandy
Momma, Mary, Alecia, and me
Tucker got some Ole Miss apparel
A safety kit
Lots of hangers for all the clothes he's going to have
A high chair
The car seat
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