Well my last post was almost 2 years ago which is pretty lame! I have never been good at this blogging thing! There has been a lot of change to the Shelton family in these fast 2 years I can't even believe it! KC and I will have been married for 2 years in August and we will also be expecting our little baby girl Madilyn Marie! She is mainly the reason I wanted to try and get back into blogging so I can document her firsts and fun things we do as a family!
Another addition we made to our family after being married just over 6 months was our sweet puppy Harlee. She is a white boxer with a very cute fawn ear. She is such a sweet and loving dog and we are so lucky to have her in our family!
We also bought a house a year ago which was very monumental for us and we love having our own place! We bought a house in West Valley and it is a cute 2 story house and it is brand new so we could make it our own! We had never thought we could afford something like this but we are so blessed to have found such a great home. Especially which will be great for when baby Madi comes she will have her room and bathroom which will be so nice!
This summer has been a very very hot one as you can imagine being pregnant doesn't help the situation! But we are coping with the heat by going to 7 peaks frequently and enjoying the lazy river! Being pregnant has been such an amazing experience that I am forever grateful to be blessed to be able to carry this sweet angel. The first 22 weeks were rough with morning sickness and poor KC watching me puke 15 pounds off but once I hit that 22 week mark it was like a light switch and I was fine. Which has been such a relief with being able to put some weight on and to have the feeling of being hungry back is so amazing. You never realize how much food can put a damper on your day until everything you smell is repulsive! Madi has been very active and I have been able to feel her kick since she was about 16 weeks. She is always squirming and poking at me which makes her mama happy since working on the maternity floor at the hospital and seeing all of the things that can go wrong has been really hard. Luckily this pregnancy has really been perfect other than the morning sickness.
KC and I had a really hard time picking Madi's name at first. We debated for a while and it wasn't that we couldn't agree, it was just that once of us didn't like the name as much as the other. Some of the names we debated were Charlee and Addylayde. We finally decided on Madilyn because we both liked the long name nick name sort of thing. We already know we will call her Madi and hopefully she will like that. It has been so fun to see how excited KC is getting for her to come and how nervous he is to be a dad. I know he will be such a great dad and has already shown me so much and I know it will only get better once she is born.
We only have about 4 weeks left until her due date and as KC says I am already "nesting"! We have reorganized our family room and pretty much have Madi's room all ready. It's crazy I still feel like I have so much to do before she gets here. But I don't think I will ever feel like I am ready. I am so excited to be a mother and to hold her in my arms and see how beautiful I know she will be but I can't even explain how nervous I am! I want so much to be a good mother to her and show her how to live and love righteously but in this world it scares me so much. I am so grateful to have such an amazing husband who can help me guide her and to teach her to choose righteously. I feel so blessed that she also will have 2 sets of amazingly righteous grandparents who I know will teach her good things. We already love her so much and I know once I see her my heart will feel things that I didn't know that they could feel. I am so grateful for the plan of salvation and for the amazing creation of our bodies and how these beautiful children come to us. Heavenly Father truly loves his children and shows us in these tiny miracles especially.
Hopefully I can stay up on this blogging thing and try to write at least once a month! I would love to have these thoughts and memories to be able to show Madilyn one day so that she can see how her mom and dad felt when she came to us! Even if this is just a blog for me to look back on I will be glad that I have it!
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