Happy Birthday to Us! (Long Time, No Blog)

Well, after being reminded on a daily basis by my mom to update the blog, here we are updating the blog. I apologize on behalf of Christina and myself for not updating this more often. It is now coming to a close for Christina's birthday and about to begin my birthday. People are always amazed to find out that we are just hours apart, and I always pick on Christina for being the older one out of us. We are now at the age of 25 and it feels great. Life right now for us is awsome. We are so excited about our 11 week old beautiful daughter, Amelia, and ministry is good right now for both of us. We are truly blessed. So that's enough about me and Christina, I know all of you want to know how the little one is doing. She is just growing up and getting so big. She is almost getting to the point where she can hold her head up all by herself. One other thing is that she is eating like a cow, it's like every hour on the hour. I guess that what all growing girls need, good nutrition. Included on this post is some updated pictures of us and the baby, so I hope you enjoy and look forward to our next post, which will definatly be a lot sooner than the last. Good night and we will talk to yall soon.

Happy First Father's Day!

It's hard to believe that 2 years ago I married the most wonderful man in the world! We celebrated our 2 year anniversary this past tuesday and now we are about to celebrate another milestone...His first father's day. I never imagined that he could give me any greater gift than his love, but I was wrong. He gave me all his love through the gift of a child. Watching him love her is like watching a reflection of God's love for us. It's something so special. Watching him become a dad has been so beautiful! He is a natural! I never thought I would get so much pleasure out of watching him rock her to sleep or even change a dirty diaper! I thank God everyday for giving Matt to me. He is my rock, my love, my support, and my friend. I know many dads will be given the title of #1 this father's day, but who's counting? Matt is the hero of our home! He is the strong arms that his girls will always run to! Happy Father's Day honey!! I love you!!

Amelia says: I love you daddy!! Your the best!

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Amelia Grace Donley is here!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, to all those who have been waiting for a while, we have a new post. This one is the one we have all been waiting for and that is the arrivalof Amelia Grace Donley! She was born May 20 at 12:27pm. She weighed 6lbs. 10oz. and was 20 1/2 inches long. Everything is going great and she is so wonderful. We are working on getting adjusted to having a newborn in the house and learning what to do. This is wher the true adventure begins and we are so excited about it. I apologize for slacking on the blog, but I'm going to do better now that Amelia is here and everyone wants to know how she is doing and see pictures. We look forward to sharing this adventure with you and hope you enjoy it as well.

Doctor Visit for Week 35

We are now into the phase where we go and see the doctor every week from here on out. This was the first visit in a while where they have actually done something besides take vitals on Christina. Now one thing I can say for myself is that I have been with Christina for every doctors appointment this far and boy can I say that this one was the most interesting of them all. This was the first time Christina had her cervix checked out. INTERESTING!!! I definatly felt a little akward at this point, but as a first of many to come, I just grinned and beared it. And boy did Christina come away after that one saying it was one of the most uncomfortable things she has had to go through. She was calling her mom and wondering why nobody gave her the heads up on how the cervix check was going to go. Enough about that, on to what the doctor determined from the cervix check. Christina is now 1cm dilated and 50% thinned out. For those of you who are like us who don't know what that means, it means this, we are on our way or should I say, Amelia, is on her way to the world not to long from now. The doctor was excited, we were excited, and now we just wait and see if Christina progresses any further when we go next week. We will keep you posted. Also, we hopefully get to tour the labor unit this Monday for our labor and delivery class. We will keep you posted on that as well. We love yall and will talk at you soon.

Labor and Delivery Class - Part 2

Well it wasn't as bad as what they made it out to be. The video was fine and I think I'm going to make it. If I can watch 4 women give birth, I think I'm going to make it through Christina's time. I wish I could have taken pictures of all of the guys in the class. The tense, uneasy look that they had. I do admit this was me at different times in the video. The teacher told all of the guys to eat a good meal and drink a coke to keep from passing out. When I tell you as all of the guys entered the room, they all had a coke in their hand. I tell you it is quite amazing to see the birth of a child. It's like, how do they get out of there. It's really neat to see the amazing process in which a baby is born. Next week we get to tour the labor and delivery part of the hospital. I can't wait for that. It'll be a lot of fun, more fun than watching other women give birth.

I'm also posting the most recent picture of Christina. This was taken at the beach and she is a little over 34 weeks in the picture. We go to the doctor on Friday for week 35 check-up. We will be sure to keep you posted on how things are going, until then hope you are having a good day. Talk to you soon.

April Showers Bring May Babies

Hello everyone. I know yall have been waiting for the next post. I apologize for the delay, but things have been busy with baby showers. We had awsome showers both at our church as well as Christina's home town shower. We recieved a lot of what we had registered for. We also had an abundance of gift cards to get some of the bigger items on the registry that we didn't get like stroller and ect. I don't know if people thought we were having triplets, but it seemed like that's how much clothes we got. Amelia has more clothes now then me and Christina combined. I want to be a baby again. Not really, just kidding. We definatly feel better prepared now for the baby after the two showers. The only thing we don't have that we need is a dresser/changer combo unit, but we ordered one today from JC Penny's. The only thing is that it is back ordered until the end of June. We're alright with that because that's the one we wanted, so we thought it would be better to wait then to settle with something else. We do want to say thank you to everyone reading who gave us a gift for the baby, without you we would be freaking out right now trying to figure out how we would get everything, so THANK YOU!!! You want to make sure you tune into the next post because we have labor and delivery class tonight and it's "movie" night. We'll see you next time.