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It's a girl..

How do you know if you a really ready for kids? We found out last Friday that Meg and I will be having a little girl come the end of October and I am absolutely thrilled about this.. Or least I think I am... Am I?

I've been trying to wrap my head around raising a little girl...

- Yes yes yes... Shopping for a little girl is so fun! (Said in womanly voice)
However.. That shopping for little cute dresses will also turn into shopping for big expensive prom dresses...

- Little girls can wear hair bows... I'm actually pretty ok with that.. Hair bows are the thing right now, and Meg likes to make them so.. I'd rather them end up on our daughter than have a confused son with a hair bow!

- Everyone will think she is So cute... However, in about 15 years others will start to think that and I will have to build a Rapunzel tower to hide her in, and then I'll end up looking like the bad guy...

- She'll want to wear make up.. No, that was the bad side.. She'll want to wear make up..

- I won't have to worry about her getting hurt playing football... (at least I hope not) But I will have to worry about football players.. And any lawsuits that might arise from them... At least when she begins to date, my gun collection will, I'm sure, see a lot of love.

- I won't step on any Matchbox/Hotwheels cars...But.. I can already envision the mass population of naked, some probably headless Barbies that will infiltrate our house quicker than a squadron of G.I. Joes!

Last but not least..
- I get to raise a little Daddy's girl, which I couldn't be more excited about... But.. One day I will have to walk her down the isle and give her to some other man.

Huh? What!? And I have to pay for it!?!? C'mon...

Yea I think I'm ready.. As long as we go slow..

It's a....

   HUMAN!!!! 

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Holy Cow...

So yea... I think the time has come to get slightly terrified. Now at 20 weeks the pregnancy has kind of lost it's initial shock factor.. That is until Friday. Yes Friday we find out if that mass of cells developed into a little boy or a little girl. While I am super excited to find out, it is also somewhat terrifying... Well not really terrifying, but still.. This will be one of the final steps in making everything seem real! Hopefully this will also be the push we need to start getting everything ready... We've been putting off... I mean, waiting, to find out what we were having before we started working on the nursery... So I guess that excuse will also now be gone. I am excited though to be able to get it all done. We have a lot of cool ideas for either situation so it will be fun!

Meg nor I have a preference as to what we have... Healthy preferably! But I think it's funny how our families have the different opinions of what they think it will be. It became rather apparent that your family will think it's going to be a little you... My family for the most part keeps saying a little boy... Megs' says a girl.. It's all perspective. There are a ton of little boys being born right now so... He'll either have a lot of friends to get into mischief with.. Or, I'll have a lot of guns to start cleaning...

Friday hear the news here first!

Making Memories on Memorial Day

Well the time has come.. Meg and I have officially been together for over a year now and the time has arrived where we must spend the weekend apart. Wow, I made that sound like we "needed" time apart, but that's not what I meant. This Memorial Day weekend myself and 5 others are traveling to Rainsville, Alabama to meet another group from our church to help out with the clean up from the Tornadoes. While I am extremely excited to be able to have the opportunity to make this trip, it will also be our first weekend apart since we were married in May of last year.

I'm pretty sure this weekend will be worse for Meg than for I. Not that I won't miss my wife, but I will have a very busy weekend, and sometimes that makes things easier. Meg on the other hand I think has to finish the Lord of Rings movies... (not her favorite by any means). But hopefully she'll have a good weekend! Maybe somewhere between Frodo and Sam she can find the time to write a blog post.. Hehe

This weekend is definitely going to be a memorable weekend, which only seems fitting since it is on memorial day weekend. I'm sure there will be many stories when we return home to share with everyone. Remember to keep us in your prayers! Stay up to date with our trip by following my new blog http://faith-in-a-small-town.blogspot.com