in your dreams...

apparently pregnancy gives you the strangest of dreams. i'm not sure if the dreams are different than what i normally have, or if it seems weird now because i can remember them.

these are just a few of the ones i have had:

- heath was the bachelor and gave me the final rose. while on our final date we had a stalker and the restaurant we were in had mice running all over. the stalker kept trying to get him, but he gave me the rose in the end. haha.

- one of my good friends, cassie corless, was kidnapped by dean cain (yes, superman) and i saved her.

- i started selling fruit that i would pick from the trees outside our apartment. helen marshall is one of my best friends. at her wedding about 7 years ago i met her uncle. i've probably run into him two other times in my life. well....he was my main customer. her mom was also a buyer of my fruit as well.

- heath and i went on vacation with one of my childhood best friends and his wife...henry & natalie glover. we went to miami. i've never been to miami in my life. we went to some big show, but had to go to this booth to pick them up. henry & natalie had already gone in. the woman giving us the tickets was jordan walker's mom. jordan grew up with henry & me, but i haven't seen him in ages. jordan's mom told us that jordan was planning on coming to the show with grenades & was going to use them. jordan is the sweetest guy on the planet...married to the sweetest girl & just had a little baby. not sure what that's all about.

- caroline hogan is one of my best friends. we gave a baby shower for her when she was pregnant with her first little girl. one of the presents she got was the largest stuffed elephant i've ever seen. like 4 feet tall. i don't remember much of the dream, but i do remember rocking the elephant to sleep in m.g.'s nursery.

- i caught heath kissing another girl in one of the dreams. his response when i caught him was that i was better & always would be. good to know. haha!


that's all i can remember for right now, but i know there are more of them.
i'm not sure if i want to know an interpretation for any of these!


that is all i can remember right now, but i know there are more of them. the weirdest thing is that it is people i know.

lots of changes...

in addition to the new background there is lots of news to share with y'all.

we are officially back in mississippi!! we are so excited! moving while 6 months pregnant is not very exciting though. unpacking and decorating a house is one of my favorite things to do. i can usually have the whole house set up in a day or two. this time it has taken a little bit longer because i am dependent on my sweet husband moving everything for me. once i find the piece of equipment that lets me upload pictures to my computer i will be back in business with the blog.

while you wait for that i will share with you a picture of our sweet baby's crib!
which brings me to the most exciting news...
we found out that we're having a BOY!!
what a sweet and precious time it was having that sonogram and seeing our little boy!
his name will be michael gerald, but he'll go by m.g.
i know you're thinking it.....no, he's not going to be named after me.
heath's grandfather was the most influential man in his life & basically helped raise him. his name was milford gerald, but everyone called him m.g.
we are naming our m.g. after him and the michael comes from my dad.

we are so excited about this little boy & feel blessed that the Lord would give us this special little one!! we hope to raise him to know Christ each and every day of his life.

here is his little crib.
we don't have the paintings up yet, so i'll take more pictures when it's all put together!

some of my favorite things

there are some things i love right now.

flash mobs and the tv show "the middle"

ole miss just pulled off a flash mob in the union. you can see the video here. i wish they had done cool things like that when i was there.

here is another one. they danced to michael jackson in stockholm.
and i'm sure everyone has seen this one where they dance to a sound of music song in belium. who doesn't love a good sound of music sing along with dancing??

it's a worldwide phenomenon. and i'm always amazed.

the ole miss one reminds me of zumba classes that my sister & i used to take when i lived in mississippi. oh how i miss zumba.

if you don't know what zumba is....watch this. it is an aerobics class where the instructor just dances and you follow along. she doesn't call anything out. you just dance. it should be included in my list of favorite things.

my next favorite.

the middle.

i really could just narrow it down to one of the characters on the show. brick.
you have to watch this to see what i'm talking about. heath and i find ourselves imitating his whispering all the time. it comes on wednesday nights before modern family (which is another one of our favorites). just trust me. you'll love it.

our little jelly bean

this morning was a first for us! we went to oschner here in new orleans to have an ultrasound!
we were able to see our little jelly bean and hear the heartbeat!
they determined that we are about a week behind what we thought we were.
soo....our due date is nov. 20th.
i am about 6.5 weeks pregnant. i can't wait for another 5 weeks, so i can breathe a little easier!
we feel so blessed!
it is amazing that this little dot will grow so much over the next months!
love y'all and thank you for praying for our little family!


xoxo

what are you doing in november??

november 12th we will be having a party in a waiting room somewhere in nola as we welcome our FIRST CHILD!!

you heard it! the estimated due date is nov. 12th, but i'll find out more later.

this was a surprise to us, but we also knew it was a possibility considering i'm allergic to birth control.

we are beyond thrilled!! if you know me at all you know how much i love children!
to think that the Lord saw fit that we should be parents completely humbles us! we have already started praying for this sweet child and ask y'all to join us.

i know that a lot of people wait a few weeks til they announce. well....i was never good at holding things in! my sister told me that you live as if you are going to have the healthiest baby & if something else happens....then you deal with it. i'm not going to worry about that right now.
if something were to happen then i know the Lord is still in control & i would want my friends to know then too.

this way y'all can all be praying for sweet little ferguson, who is the size of an orange seed right now! haha!

love y'all!!
xoxo

because i love y'all...

happy valentine's day!

i think i told y'all last year how much i love this day. it's true. heath wasn't in the picture last year, and i still loved it! always will!

our weekend was amazing. i'll come back to it once i get our pictures up.

for now i will share with y'all what i look forward to every morning.

my favorite breakfast.

cinnamon oatmeal with strawberries and walnuts.

i have a secret though and since it's valentine's day and i love all of y'all....i'll share it with you.

if you get the weight control oatmeal it has the least amount of sugar. here's the secret....make it with 3/4 cup of soymilk. trust me on this! vanilla or very vanilla by soy taste the yummiest.
heath and my brother, thom, are probably the last people that would ever try soymilk.
they both LOVE this oatmeal though.

just a warning though. once you try it this way you will never be able to go back to water or regular milk. you will probably have to have it every morning, but at least it's good for you!

hope y'all had an amazing valentine's!!

and the saints win!!!

i'll come back to the wedding stuff, but i had to talk about the saints!

SUPERBOWL CHAMPIONS!!!

it was such an amazing game! we went to one of heath's co-workers houses to watch the game with some other of our friends. i was so excited that i completely forgot to take some pictures.
these pictures are from the weekend that my brother, thom, came to new orleans for the NFC championship game. heath was so sweet and let me go to the game with him! it was an awesome game! i've told you about my best friend, caroline. the guy painted up in gold is her husband, reed, aka "goldman."

i've known reed for a while now and he is an amazing father and husband! i'm so thankful when my best friends have awesome husbands! he is a doctor in dallas and after his God, wife and children...the saints are his true love!

here is an article about him.
i'm sure you've seen him on tv.

i am so excited for the saints and for reed, but definitely more excited for the city. this is going to be so great for new orleans, and i'm so excited to be living here during all this excitement!

WHO DAT!!!

btw...isn't my husband a cutie?