Brantley Baby #2.......

Brantley Baby #2, or "pecan" as we like to call him/her will be joining our family sometime around April 15th!!!

Sam was peanut before we met her therefore we thought we'd stay in the nut family with pecan. We will hopefully find out in November whether Sam will have a baby brother or baby sister. I will finish the first trimester on Thursday and feel great! Around 8 weeks I had the tired and nauseaus phase but I seem to be past that and feel wonderful. Not really showing yet, just very emotional right now!! :)

We are very excited and curious to see how Sammie will feel about a little sibling. She loves babies right and and enjoys playing with her own but we wonder how she will feel about sharing her Mommy and Daddy with a baby that doesn't go "home"?? Should be interesting!!

The timing will work out perfectly so that I'm only out the last 6 weeks or so of school and then Chuck will be home for the summer to help with the little one.

Below is a picture from our 8 week sonogram, when we got the sonogram my Dr pushed on my stomach and we watched little pecan wiggle all around - is was amazing!! Now at 11 1/2 weeks little pecan is about the size of a fig, almost fully formed, and working on tooth buds and hardening of his/her bones. I am amazed at God's wonderful work each time I think of the miracle he is working on right now!!

Each night as Sam and I say our prayers we pray for the baby in Mommy's belly. God has blessed us with such a wonderful gift and we pray for safety, strength, and health as pecan grows. Please keep our growing family in your prayers as we embark on this next chapter of our lives!!

Love - Brantley Bunch

By the way - since this is our first private post, if there is any one you can think of who I might have missed and would like to read our blog please send me their address. Thanks!

Game Time HUH......

Today is the official game day for the Dallas Cowboys! We celebrated with Philly Cheese Steak sandwiches, corn on the cob, and cookies! Yummy!

As a pre-game warm up Dada and Sammie practiced some key moves for the Cowboys :)

Stickers, tents, and Grandparents....

Over Labor Day weekend we got to enjoy some quality time with "Papa" and Grams (Grams sounds a little like Gross right now so we'll hold out for Grams!! :)

We enjoyed some story time, "The Three Little Pigs".....

Grams and Papa also spoiled her rotten with several girly gifts including a pop-up pink tent!! A total HIT!! It was out every evening and Sam had Papa in and out of it the whole time! She has asked for him several times as she heads to her "house" since they have left!!

Grams also brought lots of stickers for Sam to play with including stickers of bugs..... which Sam is obsessed about lately!! We see bugs in EVERYTHING..... our food, our bath, our bed, on toys, in Mommy's eyes.... etc etc. Needless to say - the bug stickers only encouraged this new obsession :)....... hours of fun and entertainment though!! (I plan on taking stickers on our plane trip next weekend to keep her entertained!)

This evening, in memory of Grams, Sam pulled out these stickers that Grams left. She would point out the stickers she wanted and then place them all over her body!!! I had to snap a picture :)

Hope everyone has enjoyed their short work week - looking forward to Friday already!!

Lots of Love - Brantley Bunch

About to go private......

The Brantley Bunch is about to go private so not just anyone can come check out our baby. I started to change the settings tonight and then realized that I don't have everyone's updated e-mail. Once we go private I'll have to e-mail you an invitation so please comment on this post with your e-mail address :)

Thanks!!

Reminiscing....

I was just sitting here reminiscing as to what we were doing this time last year and how much our little girl has grown and thought I would share!

Nothing has changed here - Sam loves her Doc just as much and he is still just as tolerant :)

Thank you God for such a wonderful year and we look forward to another to come!!

Yummy, yummy in my tummy....

Chocolate Cookies are DELICIOUS....

"Nummy...."

"My Favorite!!"

"All done??"

"More peez!!"

Happy Hump Day :)

Breath......

Our summer is officially over and we've hit the ground running!!! We've now been back to work for 1 week and 2 days, and it's been that long since my last posting so I thought I was due :)

Here's Sam doing some of her silly faces at lunch :)

Here is a picture of us at the cowboy's stadium (again!)

It's been difficult for me to go back to work and drop Sam off at daycare each day but I'm trying to remind myself how truly blessed we are......

We have a healthy baby girl

We both love our jobs

We have an AMAZING daycare provider for Sam who loves her very much!

We have an awesome and supportive group of friends and family!!!!

and so on and so on!!!

Lots of love is sent to all of our wonderful friends and family!!!

Brantley Bunch