"Ella"

Remember this post: Her.Name ?? Well, I just learned of a new special addition to this story that I thought I would share. Last weekend we went to Arizona for a small trip as a family. On our way home, we made a stop at Clint's grandparents home to visit. Well, Clint's grandma told me that there was even more significance to the name "Ella". Not only is this the name of the special person Rachel has befriended practically her entire life and the name of Her Great, great, great Grandma, but...come to find out that this special grandma of her's died on February 4th (don't know the year). Well.....the significance is this...Rachel was BORN on Febuary 4th. So..amazingly interesting and special, right??

I think Rachel's little friend has been her Guardian Angel all along...

25 Weeks

Woohoo...FINALLY made it to 25 weeks! I feel as if time is just FLYING by! I guess one of the fantastic things about being pregnant during all the MAJOR holidays :) Things are going well...I'm actually feeling MUCH better! Now I am to the point of being short for breath only because the room in my stomach is becoming crowded. I am getting quite the tummy I might say...and I feel as if the cheeks (not only the ones on my backside) on my face are puffing out. Even though Clint says they are not...ha ha.
This weeks was a bit rough...I ended up with a mild tooth ache last friday, in which advanced into pretty intense pain by Monday. I went to the Dentist only to find that I had chipped part of my tooth off and in turn had grown a cavity under one of my fillings....in turn needing a root canal to fix the problem. My first root canal! Since being pregnant...I couldn't partake of all the lovely strong drugs, only the milder ones..in turn I did feel half of the surgery for the wonderful 1 hour and 2o minutes. I survived however and am recovering well. I still can't chew on that side because my tooth is pretty tender to touch, but no throbbing pain whatsoever, thank heavens!
We have also began moving things out of my Office and bringing things home. I was a bit sad last weekend, I must admit...but being home this week has changed my thoughts immensely. I am amazed with how much I can get done that I wasn't able to before. I am also able to get in some MUCH NEEDED rest times during the day which have been so great with the lack of sleep I get at night.
I feel as if life is moving in all the right directions for now...and me and Clint are getting really excited for this new little baby that will be coming into our lives. I am doing everything I can in order to have things prepared for this little one. We have been organizing and cleaning A LOT lately. The next step will be getting the babies room ready...which I'm sure I should be starting on SOON.
I will update again...but for now that is all I have :)