November Fun

I can't believe it is already November...Thanksgiving is almost here.  I love Thanksgiving.  It has been a fun and busy month so far.  We had another appointment at the OB where we had an ultrasound. Everything went really well and the baby looks good.   I was 11 weeks when I had the ultrasound but the baby measured 11 weeks, 3 days.  There is a big baby in there.  I think it is a boy.  Savannah always measured so small, so the fact that this baby is measuring big makes me think it is a boy.  My doctor said he would do an ultrasound to find out the gender of the baby on December 23rd!  I am so excited.  I will only be 17 weeks, 0 days but he said they will probably be able to tell.  I am so glad we will know before Christmas.  We didn't think we would know until January.  Anyways, back to the ultrasound.  We were looking at the baby, and it was apparent that the baby was sleeping.  The baby's head was facing down (on the screen.)  Here is a picture of that.

The baby was moving a little but nothing to write home about.  So, my doctor poked my stomach a few times and the baby started moving all over.  It looked like it was a little annoyed that we woke it up.  It stretched out it's legs and turned it's back to us.  (If you know our dog Aspen, you know that she does the same thing when someone wakes her up when she is trying to sleep.  She usually lets out a loud groan while stretching out her arms and legs...usually to let you know you are being too loud.)  I'm pretty sure if we could hear inside the womb, we would have heard a loud groan saying please let me go back to sleep.  haha!  Here is a picture of the baby's legs stretched out.

At the beginning of November, we went down to Black Rock Mountain, GA for a reunion with my college girls.  (We invited the husbands this time.)  We rented two cottages for the weekend on top of the mountain.  The drive up was full of hairpin turns.  We were driving up it in the dark and I was so scared.  I kept telling Eric he was driving too fast around the curves but I realized that he was only driving 15 mph.  haha!  While there, we played games, ate, hiked, had Thanksgiving dinner, talked, prayed, and just had a good time.  We try to get together atleast once a year.  We usually are able to get together more because of weddings and babies.  I love these girls so much (and their families).  Here are a few pictures from our trip.

 We have also been busy getting ready for the holiday season.  I started working on Christmas decorations (sometimes I feel a little crafty) this week.  I turned our refrigerator into a snowman.  I have a few other Christmas crafts in mind, so hopefully they will turn out well.  (I am not very good at crafts and I am ok with that.)  I think the holidays will be hard this year with out our little Savvy G but she is in Heaven now, so we can be joyful even though we are sad and miss her.  There was a lady talking about a miscarriage she had 10 years ago.  She was telling us how her oldest son found out that she lost a baby and he told his mom, "I wish there were seven of us."  (There's only 6 b/c the miscarried baby is in Heaven.)  It was kinda cool to think about how the boy missed his brother or sister even though he had never even met her.  It was not the point the lady was making with her story, but that is one thing that stuck out to me.  I wonder if our future children will miss Savannah too even though they didn't get to meet her.

One more really fun thing I did was attend a sleepover with my friends I used to work with at Chatham Middle School.  We really wanted to play games like Dream Phone and Mall Madness, but none of us had those games with us.  We ended up playing an Office trivia game and watching movies.  It was super fun.  We will have to save our fun early '90s games for another time.  I think I might have Pretty Pretty Princess as well. 

I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving!!!