Happy Birthday Raleigh Belle!

39 weeks, 4 days, and still cooking! I am trying oh so hard to enjoy my last few days of pregnancy. I know that the future days, months, and years will never just be about myself again but the anticipation of meeting this little one is killing me. I have indulged in baking, watching movies, and snuggling with Raleigh this week, although, and I won't complain about that!

In fact, Miss Belle enjoyed her very first birthday on Monday so we were able to celebrate her before her little brother joins the world!

This was RB when we first picked her up last October...I think she was about 8 weeks old at this point.

miss this tiny face

And here's our princess at 1 year! Still as sweet as ever...

As an "only child", I told her not to get mad next year if mommy and daddy forget to get her a birthday cake as our priorities may have shifted slightly by then but this year, she made out well. Matt would kill me for blogging about this but we used to take RB to doggie daycare once a week while we were both working. Since I finished teaching in June, she hasn't been back to see her friends and only gets to hang out with me most days. She LOVED going to daycare so for her birthday, I dropped her off and she was able to play with her friends all day which also gave me some relief of having to exercise her...so it was a win, win. I then picked her up and we went to Hairy Winston, the pet boutique by our house, so she could pick out a toy and some treats. We also picked up this...

Puppy Birthday Cake made with all natural ingredients...and yes, I did eat some of the yogurt icing!

After dinner, we let her enjoy half of the cake...

She put the entire cake in her mouth and moved it from her bowl to her bed. She didn't want to share apparently.

Lastly, I hope this is the last pregnant photo that I'll be sharing and the next will be of our little boy! Let's pray...

39 weeks

PGA Tournament Weekend

(iPhone) photos from this past weekend...I never took my real camera out once :( #regrets. Nor, did I get any pictures with my pops!! #doubleregrets

the kitchen in our beautiful beach house

living room

 

low country boil dinner

38 weeks pregnant family photo...although you can't really see the belly

dinner at Husk

Waller women on the joggling board (I think that's what it's called!)

Jennygirl and her brothers...not sure where Luke was?

soon to be Wallers!

Jenny's awesome photobomb

Stevo & Matthew

 

Raleigh and Auntie J bonding...

Brothers. Dressed exactly alike. Clearly still competitive.

two years down & forever to go

I met Matt almost 10 years ago now...seems hard to believe. We were both in high school and meeting for the first time on Halloween as our two groups of friends joined together to go to a haunted house. My side of the story will always be that Matt tried to hold my hand in the haunted house, which I let him for about 10 seconds, and then pulled away thinking "who does this guy think he is?!" Matt's side of the story is that I tried to hold HIS hand which we all know isn't true...let's be honest with ourselves here. Regardless, I'm grateful that we met on that night and little did I know how the next 10 years would unfold thus far but I'm more grateful for this man today than ever before. From high school to college, and college to Seattle, and Seattle to Charleston (exactly one year ago today!), Raleigh Belle, and now the greatest gift, our sweet baby boy who we will meet next week...I couldn't ask for a better life. I love you, Matt...you are the best husband and are going to be one amazing daddy. Happy Anniversary!

37 weeks & 4 days

I decided to switch up the blog a little bit. It's slightly confusing but just know that the upper left hand corner always has the most recent post. Well, it's officially a week into August and hopefully can be considered Baby Boy's birth month...I pray that he is not born in September as he would be over a week late. The entire Waller clan shows up tomorrow in Charleston as well as my dad and I'm really looking forward to that! It gets a little lonely from time to time all the way out east here as it's not exactly easy to see your friends and family as much as we'd like. I tend to struggle with this but Matt reminds me to be content in knowing that living in Charleston is probably only for a short season of our lives. I need to find the joy in every day that we live here because I know when we leave, I will miss it. Today, I am grateful for family coming to visit, a weekend in a beach house, my pregnancy coming to an end (slowly but surely), and a husband who remains such a constant. Pray for my sleep in these last few weeks. It is basically nonexistent at this point and I actually am starting to dread the nights as they last forever while I'm lying awake in bed. It's probably God's way of preparing me to be up taking care of a little one but at least I would have a purpose for being awake if he was here now!

 

 

 

36 weeks

37 weeks

our family of 3...soon to be 4.