Horton Happenings: March 2011

Monday, March 28, 2011

Mr. and Mrs. Stell

My "Twin", Big T or Tor (whatever you chose to call her) tied the knot with a man who stole her heart and moved her to North Carolina! :( I have never seen anyone who has made her happier and quite giddy when she talks about him. Their wedding was beautiful and I am so thankful I was a part of it!! I love you guys and wish nothing but happiness in your new life together. Don't forget to come back and visit!! :)

Monday, March 21, 2011

No break in this Spring Break!

Last week was Spring Break for me and boy was it busy!!

I knew it was going to be my only "free time" until after school is out (which is a week later now, Thank you Blizzards 2011!) So I rallied my mom, Kiki and Cara together to help me paint Harper's room. Don't worry when it came time for the chair rail Daddy put his blood, sweat and choice words into her room! :)

Her crib is together and her dresser and stroller will be here sometime this week. I can't wait to get her dresser in her room and I can start to put all her clothes in drawers. Speaking of clothes...lordy this child has so many clothes already and I think I've personally bought 3 outfits! Chloe has been so sweet to let "Baby Harp-er" have all of her clothes. Harper will be just shy of 3 years younger than Chloe and I pray that they are great friends! I asked Chloe what she was going to teach Harper and she said "I teach her to pee pee in da potty and scoot way back!" You can tell mom has repeated that Chloe scoot back! :)

During Spring Break we rolled over week 21!! As Aunt Nenna says..."Only 18 more weeks!!"

Pregnancy Highlights:

How far along: 21 Weeks

Size of baby: 10.5 inches (a carrot)

Total Weight Gain/Loss: I went at 20 weeks and I have lost a pound.

Maternity Clothes: Jeans & Tops

Gender: GIRL!!! Harper Jane Horton

Movement: Nada! But I'm hoping it's any time now!!!

Sleep: I'm currently sleeping very comfortably. Stay tuned...apparently that changes!

What I miss: Not really anything yet.

Cravings: Not really anything specific!

Symptoms: LOTS of sneezing, reflux & acne! :(

Best Moment this week: Getting her nursery started!!

Monday, March 14, 2011

Babes & Bachelorette's

This has been one busy weekend! I traveled to OKC on Saturday morning to celebrate Mackenzie and soon to make his world debut Baby Noah!! Katie was a FANTASTIC hostess and the food was de-lish!! It was so fun to see Mackenzie open all her gifts and it made me more excited (if that's possible!) about Harper! Mackenzie is graduating from Med School less than one month after Noah is born!! If there is anyone I know who can handle being a resident, wife, mom, daughter and doctor Mackenzie can do it!! I can't wait to meet little Noah Tyler, he is going to be one loved little boy!!

After we celebrated Mackenzie and Baby Noah, we celebrated Torri!! She is getting married NEXT saturday and then moving 22 hours away to Raleigh, NC. :( We had appetizer's at Torri's High School friend Audra's house where Torri opened her gifts (which are not going to be shared via the internet!) and then we went to Zio's for dinner and drinks, no worries I had Tea! :) It is so fun for us to all be together (Chelsea and Jaime we missed you!) and just talk weddings, babies and our futures. As we walked out of Zio's there was a Pink Limo waiting for us!! We took advantage of us all driving together and made a few pit stops! We made our first stop, which was fun, embarrassing for some people but very educational ;) our next stop was at the Purple Bar for some fun drinks and a toast to Torri! I think Torri had a great night and it may have been a little educational but nonetheless it was a great night for us all to be together one last time together before she moves away!

Sunday, March 6, 2011

Gender Reveal Party

Michael and I found out last Tuesday that we were having a precious baby girl! BUT the hardest part of it was keeping it a secret from everyone until Saturday. My sister was in a program in Stillwater and couldn't be home until Saturday.

So we decided to have a little party to reveal to all of our family and friends what our baby was!

I made cupcakes with a pink jelly bean in the middle and iced them. So when everyone bit into the middle they would see the PINK!! (well I need to give all the credit to Cara, she put all the pink jelly beans in the cupcakes and iced them all!!)

Once everyone got there we passed out cupcakes and on the count of 3 everyone bit into them!! Needless to say my sister (Aunt Ninna) broke hers in half so she could be the first person to see what color was on the inside!

As always my sisters reactions are PRICELESS! She was jumping up and down and screaming!! She is sooo excited to have a niece!

We had picked our names out before we were ever pregnant. We really like the H thing. I am am and was an "HH" and my sister is an "HH". So why not keep the trend going! We decided on Harper for the girl and her middle name was going to be Marie (which is mine and my mom's middle name) but the more I ran it together I didn't feel like it flowed. So we pulled all the middle names in our family to see what we liked and Jane was the 2nd one and it stuck! We loved it!! My grandma's name is Mary Jane (my mom's mom) and I felt like if we had a little girl naming her Harper Jane was a great way to honor her (she is still alive). My grandma has given soo much to my sister and I and even to Michael and I. I pray that Harper has a heart like her Gigi!!

We could not be more thrilled for our precious little girl!! She is going to be the first Grandchild and Great Grandchild so we know she is going to be extra loved!!!!