Little Man...27 weeks..

My little man.

About three weeks ago.

He is BEAUTIFUL! 

I am a humble mom, as you can see :)

Super exciting to know that when I drank the diet coke last night, and he flipped out and kicked me to death, that I can savor and enjoy every kick.  Knowing there is a little PERSON in there.

So hard to believe.

But the ultrasound makes it seem more real.

SO EXCITING.

Baby Finn, we cannot wait to meet you!

PS. Please don't judge this one way or another, but we are trying to decide between Finn and Finneus Finneas.  We will call him Finn, but we just aren't sure if we want him to have more of a FULL name.  {what if he is a lawyer? He needs a nice tough name....you can't just be Attorney at Law Finn Whitis....}  Plus, we're naming him after Phinehas. (I think I have shared before, where he goes after those that are not obeying God...)  

**Edited to take out something I didn't want to come across wrong...and it might to some people, I was just seriously considering if the Lord could be showing me through meaning that we should give this name to our other boy** I am just having trouble deciding on these names, and sometimes I think this baby should be Eli, but that it is "too late" to change because I have already said it out loud.  I guess that is why next time I probably won't tell names at all until the end...because I want to be able to change them around if it doesn't feel right.  All that to say that I am pretty sure his name is Finn...possibly with an ending...

We might not get our sweet adopted baby for a LONG, LONG time (or, prayerfully, things will speed back up and we will get him soon!)....at the rate Ethiopia's adoptions are slowing down.  And we might LOVE his given name...in which case we would probably keep it.  So maybe we should give this baby the name Eli, and then wait and see.  I love both names...  But now it almost seems wrong...

That's why I tell people not to get too wrapped up in these names.  They aren't final until the boy arrives :)  But...for now...he is Finn :) 

And I'm in LOVE with him.

And praying for my sweet boy in Ethiopia...and longing for the day we will meet him.  It feels so far away.

P.S. I will always (as long as it's not hateful) keep your comments up if you comment with a name,  but if you comment anonymously, I reserve the right to remove..okay? Write me a note instead...

The summer so far...

This pregnancy seems to be flying by! I am 27 weeks already!
We are going to childbirth classes on Tuesday nights and I feel like I am learning a lot.
Our sweet friends Josh and Kelsey are coming with us, which is AWESOME, because with this life, it helps to have BUILT IN time with friends. If the time is not intentional, I feel like we never see anyone!!
And poor Brandon has been sleeping all day (for about 5 hours a day) and then going back to work. Poor guy. And poor me. I don't like being alone, b ut it does give me some time to catch up with some of my introverted self. My summer goal is to get photos put in albums from our high school/college years. I want to be able to look back on them in an album, but I am slowly sucking it up and realizing that I am not going to be scrapbooking them anytime soon. And since kids will just make everything crazier....well...it's time!

I haven't been doing much crafting. Pretty much all my time is spent editing photos. It is like my full time job right now....the full time job that pays minimum wage :) Luckily I do love it!

We have spent a lot of our summer on the boat. We took Emma Jane out for the first time, which we all LOVED.



She wasn't sure about the life jacket. She loved it until we put that on.


Uncle B liked the life jacket a little too much.

He loved introducing EJ to the lake. SHe wasn't sure she liked it with Uncle B in the water, but she had fun with her momma!!

She clung to Amy most of the day, which was super sweet.

She thought Jordan was so funny on the tube...

We got Bella on the tube, which momma did not like (me...)


Off to the gym for spin class....and then editing photos and going to the pool.
This summer life is pretty rough...