Happy Thanksgivingbabymas!

This year, we celebrated Thanksgiving, Christmas, and a baby shower all in one weekend with my dad's family! It was fabulous. They threw us a surprise baby shower. It was so exciting! I have to admit, I love presents and surprises, so when they are put together it makes for a happy Jenny!

The shower was a blast! We played a game where we had to draw a baby on a paper plate while it was on top of our head! We also played a game where everyone guessed how big my belly was. Drew guessed it exactly. What a good daddy!

This cake and cupcakes were so yummy!!

Presents!!

Me and my cousin Lori, Erin where were you?? :)

Measuring my belly

This was dad's guess, it was a long piece of paper! I was not happy!

Drawing a baby on our head. 

Lori made Lizzie this amazing piggy bank. It is the cutest thing ever.

Erin painted this incredible painting for Lizzie. I love everything about it, the colors, the verse, everything! I have such talented cousins!

Pic of the guys before the Georgia game.

Cousins and Comer, we missed our Steph!!




It was a fabulous Thanksgiving!

Showers!!

I feel like I start every post with apologizing for how long it's been! Oh well! The holiday season is crazy, right? That's going to be my excuse! We have been so blessed over the last month and a half with showers, both from family and friends. We have a few more in the next month, we are so blessed!
I thought I would start putting up a few posts of the different showers. 

My first shower was in early November in Chattanooga. My aunt Pam and my cousin Betsy hosted a beautiful shower! We had a blast! The decorations were amazing and the food very yummy! Betsy made most of the decorations, they were so special and will be displayed in her room. Aunt Pam and Betsy are definitely the hostess with the mostess! Enjoy the pics...

Me and my sweet cousin Betsy

25 weeks

The awesome presents.

Mama and Mimi

The amazing painting Betsy painted.

Sweet outfit from Grandma Susan

Beautiful decor that Betsy made

Everyone guessed her weight, length, and the day she would be born.

Love these women

Elizabeth's bedding

Just love this painting!

Stay tuned for my shower with dad's side of the family!

Never Once

Hi friends and fam,

Sorry it's been so long. I promise to be better (have I promised that before?!) with posting! Today's post is a little more serious than normal. God really blessed me in church today and I wanted to share with ya'll.

We sang a song today called "Never Once", it absolutely blew me away. Let me back up a little. Yesterday, when we were shopping we came across a baby name book. Drew looked up the name Elizabeth and saw that her name in Hebrew means "God's promise". That really struck both of us. (Yes, we were the parents that named their child without looking up the meaning!) So when we read this, it was even more meaningful.

Now back to the song. In the song it talks about how never once do we ever walk alone. It talks about the trials we go through, the scars we acquire, but yet God is faithful, he never leaves us. As I was worshiping, it hit me all the ways God has been there for us through over the last 8 months.

For those of you that don't know, we lost our first baby last February. It was the most difficult time of our lives. However, God carried us through, even though we now have "scars and struggles" from that difficult time, thankfully, our hearts can still say "Never once did we ever walk alone. Never once did You leave us on our own.You are faithful, God, You are faithful".

As I was singing this song, God reminded me of his promise that "he will never leave us or forsake us". He also promised that "we can cast our burdens on him because he cares for us", and one of my favorites, that "his mercies are new every morning".  These are promises that Drew and I relied on during the weeks and months after losing our sweet baby. After, remembering his promises, I then thought about our sweet Elizabeth. How fitting that God gave us her name, and then led us to see that she will always be a reminder of his promises.

I'm attaching a link to the song, please listen, it is truly an amazing song. It's hope for those that are going through trials, and a reminder for those who have come out of trials of how far God has brought them.

Love to all,
Jenny

*Also, here is a pic of me at 23 weeks and then almost 24 week baby bump.

23 weeks!

Almost 24 weeks

"If you decide to have a baby...."

Hello Fellow Bloggers,

I'm going to try and get better about blogging. I love reading other people's blogs and often get annoyed when they don't update very often. Well that was until I started blogging and realize it's harder than it looks! However, my sister in law, Hannah, has been rocking it with all her blog posts this week! Check out her awesome blog!

Anyways, this week I've been on fall break. It has been fabulous! One of the many perks on being a teacher! I am going to miss these paid breaks when Lizzie is born! :) My cousins Erin and Matt came up for a few days and we had a blast! We got to watch the Georgia game (although it was pretty depressing), eat lots and lots of food, have our reveal party, go shopping, and just enjoyed hanging out. I can't believe they were here all weekend and we didn't get any pictures! However, I am so glad they were able to come up!

On Wednesday, my friend Holly with me to Babies R Us and helped me register. Thank the Lord for friends who had babies already! I would have been soo overwhelmed if she wouldn't have been with me! My mom went with me on Thursday to register at Target. I had so much fun both times. Little Elizabeth is going to be SO spoiled!

On Friday, my mom and dad came over and helped me get Lizzie's nursery ready. Mom and I painted and dad built me some shelves for the other bedroom. I am SO thankful for both of them. It is so nice to already have the nursery painted and now we can slowly start working on it!

Drew and I cleaned out the nursery closet and guest closet on Saturday and it was a task! We felt a little like we could write a book called "If you decide to have a baby..." . It would be like the books "If you give a mouse a cookie". It would go something like this.... "If you decide to have a baby, then you will want to paint the nursery. If you want to paint the nursery then you will need to empty the room. If you empty the room you will be forced to clean out the closets. If you clean out the closets then you will realize not only do you have too much stuff but you also have no where to put it. If you decide you have to much stuff with not enough space you will want a new house! " That's all we have for now. We are working on the illustrations!

Sorry for the long post. I need to post more so I don't have so much to say! Here are few pictures to break up all the words!

MiMi was a big help painting the nursery!!

Donita Barnwell brought us our first gift from our registry! So sweet and I cannot wait to dress Lizzie in these next fall!

One side of the closet with my new shelves. Thanks dad!

Painting is complete!

We got this back in Sept. when we went to a Baylor game. Cannot wait to put her it it!

Here's our first baby, Chloe Baylor. She got a little cold this week so she needed a blanket!

Sorry some of the pictures aren't aligned correctly!

Love,

Jenny

It's a .......GIRL!!

We are so excited to announce that we are having a little girl! Her name is Elizabeth June Triplett. We will be calling her Lizzie and Elizabeth, poor girl will have a lot of names! :) Elizabeth has always been one of our favorite names and it is a family name on both sides of our family. June is my mama's middle name!

We found out Friday and have held it in till today at our reveal party! Well Drew accidently let it slip last night to my cousins and so we told my parents. Other than that we kept it a secret, which was very hard! Our reveal party was fabulous! Of course I left my camera at home, so my friend Whitney took pictures. As soon as I get pictures I will post them! Whitney and Holly did such a great job of planning such a fun party!

Our ultrasound on Friday was so amazing. We saw everything from the four chambers of her heart, to her spine, to her adorable nose. Truely incredible, I had tears in my eyes the entire time! Apparently, most of our friends and family thought she was a girl, but Drew and I were pretty convinced she was a boy. We were pretty shocked when the doctor said "It's a girl"! But we are beyond thrilled to have a sweet girl. I think I secretly wanted a girl and just wouldn't let myself admit it! We just feel so very blessed and thankful that Elizabeth is healthy and growing perfectly.

Here are a few ultrasound pictures and a belly picture of the night we found out!

Love you all!
Jenny

Guest Blogger...Andrew...aka Daddy

I'm in a little bit of trouble. I know there's a right answer, I just know it! It's just that... I don't know the answer yet.

When your wife asks you, "am I getting big?" The correct answer is, of course, "No way! You look amazing!" Pretty standard stuff. Not rocket science.

Now let's explore that same question when your wife is 4 months pregnant:

Wife: "Am I getting big?"
Husband: "No way! You look amazing"
Wife: "So I'm not 'showing' at all? You think I'm just getting fat!"
Husband: "Well, um, no, huh, you're showing a little. You look great!"
Wife: "But is it noticeable? I don't know what your trying to say."

*Freeze*

You've already lost this round. Thus, the world I've found myself living in. A world of ambiguity, uncertainty, and more questions than any one man could possibly answer.

In conjunction with these emotions, I find myself with unbridled, uncontainable excitement and joy. It's counter intuitive to think things perceived as nuisances could possibly be positive, but they are! At least, positive to me...

"I know you feel terrible, baby, but it's for a good cause!" "I know you don't fit into your favorite pants anymore, but it's for a good cause!" "I know you just threw-up in a bathroom that's usually occupied by elementary school children with questionable hygiene awareness, but it's for a good cause!"

So here I am with unanswerable questions and meanwhile trying to remind my wife of the long-term positives that are supposed to make the short-term negatives less negative in a positively positive manner. The negative side is that, sometimes, the negatives feel so negative that they trump the aforementioned positives.

But I suppose that's the beauty of the road before me. Seeing the long-term positives through the short-term negatives that aren't negative at all, but are actually wonderful.

I know I'm going to have some miserable sleepless nights, but that's great! It's a gift.
I know I'm going to get the answers to a lot of questions wrong, that's a gift too.
I even know that very soon I'll end up with dirty diapers in short proximity to my person, and that, yes even that, is a gift.

And I can't wait.

Figuring this out!

Hi everyone!

It's time for our official first blog post! I've always been a huge fan of blogs but I never realized how difficult it is to come up with something to say! I've been trying to figure out what to put on our first post for a week or so now... so much pressure :). I am not a witty person, that would be my hubby! I am sure you (if I have any followers!) will enjoy his guest posts better than mine.

Anyways, the purpose of this blog is to keep our family and friends updated on our lives as we welcome Baby Triplett in 5 months! We find out the gender on Oct. 5th and will be revealing a few days later at our reveal party. I am SO excited to find out what we are having. I have felt like it was a boy the whole time, so we will see if my hunch was right!

That's about all for now, I will leave with a baby bump picture...almost 18 weeks!