Playing Catch Up

Oh my goodness. I am so behind on this blogging thing. I am failing terribly at documenting many things in the Garrison house. Let's see, since we last met the biggest thing (which is pretty darn BIG) in our world is that we are welcoming a tiny tot Garrison to the world. After a long 20 week wait, we finally discovered our little baby bean was a GIRL! Back to the tiny tot Garrison thing, she isn't measuring so tiny at every appointment. We will see though... I mean, she really doesn't stand a chance to be petite with parents like she has. I have never been considered petite. In fact, I think I skipped little girl sizes and went straight to youth/women's sizes. Oh our poor little one. Luckily, I will be able to relate to her abnormal size and can offer some "oh, wise one" suggestions.

We started our journey to get our little Avery Elizabeth a couple of years ago. We had no clue it would be so difficult to get her. But let me tell you, she has already been well worth the wait. I can't wait for her to be here! I am ready to hold her and love on her, teach her how to paint and craft, and of course throw as many bows on her head as possible. And well, Clay can't wait to teach her how to swing a golf club and dribble a ball. If you knew my basketball skills, you might agree that he should be the one teaching her how to dribble. I was what they call a "defensive player" back in my day.

We are enjoying this time before she gets here. We have been getting her nursery ready and getting some of her necessities. I've been sewing and making hair bows, tutu's, and bow holders. This little diva doll will be hard to locate amongst all of the decoration on her little body. We are reading books to prepare for her.. as much as a book can help you prepare for anything. And who knows, maybe we will need a whole other set of books to read when she gets here. And if that is the case, we will go get us some new books. But in the mean time we are trying to prepare as best as we can.

I have had many favorite memories during the pregnancy but I really enjoyed how we got to tell our family. Luckily my parents told me that they were going to come up for the 4th of July holiday. We figured this would be the perfect time to break the news because all of Clay's family would be together and now my parent's would be able to join in the fun and we could break the news all at once. What a hard secret it was to keep! We got our loud mouth-sometimes inappropriate brother-in-law to take a picture of the whole group (minus my brother who had to work ;(....) Little did everybody know that he was actually videoing the whole time in order to get their reactions. At this point in our baby journey, our family knew we had been trying to have a baby very unsuccessfully. It was a "step around" subject. So when our brother-in-law suggested we all say "BABY" instead of "Cheese" because Clay and Whitney are pregnant" the whole family sat in a confused state. Kaitlen (his wife/Clay's sister) makes some of the biggest eyes at him that speak a thousand words. The "I can not believe you just said that and I can not wait to rip you a new one when we get out of this room. That is not funny" kind of eyes. The whole group was in such a state of shock that they literally did not believe we were pregnant until both Clay and I confirmed several times. I know my mother-in-law sat and sobbed once she realized it was the truth (her reaction is really one of the bests-please watch the video twice and only watch her 1x) and both of my parents were crying. My father-in-law was very calm but you could definitely see the shock in his face. All of Avery's aunts were so excited and I think I heard Kami squeal. Once we revealed we were pregnant we had presents for all of the grandparents and aunts-to-be.. and of course CAKE! Here is the video:

http://youtu.be/IuMgvsYEuj0 

Shout out to Carmen for inspiring me to blog again..... well..... threatening me if I didn't ;)