And We Are Getting Bigger and Bigger

I feel like my average post time is once a month, but it has been longer than that this time. Rogers will be 13 weeks on Thursday. People keep asking me how has it been and my normal answer is it has been an adventure!! He is so wonderful, and we keep learning so many new things about this little guy. In the past two weeks he has started to smile all the time, talk to us, play with toys, roll over, and sleeping 7 hours a night, thank goodness!!!

Here we are at our great friend Brent's wedding this past weekend.

He has started loving the exersaucer! What a big boy!! While I have been away from the blog world, we had our annual Howell/Cordell beach trip! It was great except we missed Aunt Ju Ju and Uncle Clay!! Rogers and I stayed all week, how fun!!

And last but not least, today is Scottie's 29th birthday! Look at that sweet guy with his little boy. Scott, we love you so much!! Happy Birthday, could you ask for a better gift than this little guy!!??

Seven Weeks Today

Rogers has had a very eventful first seven weeks of life. He has gotten to meet so many fun family and friends already. We made a trip when he was four weeks old up to Franklin so that he could meet a lot of my extended family and he got to meet his sweet cousin Maggie for the first time. Maggie and Rogers are a month a part and it was so fun to see them together. My sister and brother in law were troupers and drive the whole way from Dallas, Texas to see everyone!!

Last weekend Scott had a bachelor party for our great friend Brent, and so Rogers and I went to Franklin to see my parents and then headed to my Uncle Phil and Aunt Christy's lake house for the day. We had a special treat when my grandmother, Mimi and Grandsam decided to come meet us there. Here is my dad (Big Daddy and Mimi with the little guy).

Rogers LOVES the sling, thanks Liz for getting me on board with that purchase, whenever we are having a fussy time, the sling comes out, even at the lake !!

This week we headed to Auburn for the day to see my best friend Cassie, with her little ones Taylor and Grey. Here is Taylor holding Rogers, isn't she so good at that!!! I told her that I have a picture holding her just like that when she was born! Oh, how times have changed!! =)

I promise that I will try to get better at this. Just so much to do and so little time to do it. It is crazy how quickly the days go by!! I will leave you with a cute one of Rogers and his Daddy. I wonder who he looks like...

He's Here He's Here!!

William Rogers Howell came into the world on May 27, 2010 @ 7:07 am

Here are some pictures of Rogers in his first week of being with us. Pictures of the proud grandmothers and grandpapas. We have had such a laid back baby so far which had made the transition much easier. We can not wait to see what the coming weeks will bring.

Rogers's birthday was a very eventful day that I will have to fill you in on later.

More to come, but for now, I just wanted to show him off!!!

How blessed we are to have such a miracle given to us that can only come from a loving and gracious God.

Our Nursery!!

I wanted to post some pictures of Rogers's nursery. I have had so much fun putting it together with the help of some sweet friends! And Scott had to put his two cents in as well, of course. Now all we need is for little Rogers to make his big appearance. I am in at week 36, measuring at week 40, so who knows when he will get here!!

Baby Shower Fun!!

So the Howells have been very busy the last few months and it is time to update the blog. We have been getting ready to meet Rogers and I got to celebrate his coming with some wonderful friends and family. It was so humbling to have all my sweet friends put on a baby shower in my honor and lets just say that Rogers is going to be the cutest dressed little boy you have ever met!! My gradnmother was able to fly down from Louisville, Ky and my parents made the trip from Franklin as well. The only missing piece was my sister Sallie, who is about to have a little Maggie coming her way! Sal, please know that you were missed!! It was wonderful to celebrate our new family that is on the way.

Thank you so much for making me feel so special and for celebrating our little boy!! Only a few more weeks and will be able to meet Rogers! I can't wait to put all our showering to good use! Ya'll are the best!!

Some Big News

I know that I keep taking long breaks from the blogging world, but the news we received this past Monday had to be shared!!! We found out we are having a little boy!!! William Rogers Howell will be his name and we are going to call him Rogers!! William is my dad's first name and Rogers is Scott's great grandfather's name.

Now I know to some this does not seem like a huge surprise, of course the little baby will either be a boy or a girl right?! But with the type of invitro we had to go through, there was a 68% chance that we were going to have a little girl. And if you asked Scott what he thought this little one was he was 100% sure it was a girl. I really did not have a feeling one way or the other, but I would tell people that I thought it was a boy, just because Scott was so sure it was a girl. =)

When we were sitting outside the ultra sound room waiting to go in, I was getting a little restless. I was just ready to hear that everything was healthy and then of course what the baby was. I asked Scott what he would do if it was boy, because he was SOOO sure that it was a girl. Here is his anwser: "Kate, you know when you are little, and it was Christmas morning and the only thing that you want for Christmas was a pony. Well, as the morning goes on you get all of these amazing toys and it has been a great, and then after all the presents are opened, your mom turns to you and tells you to go out back because there is one more present for you to see, and it is the pony." He said that is what a little boy would be for him, his pony. Well... Scott got his pony, that is for sure!!!

I will be 19 weeks tomorow, so almost half was there.

And I don't think I have mentioned this on the blog, but my sister is having a little girl 5 weeks before us!! Little Maggie and little Rogers are going to have so much fun together!!!

Glee!!!

I think that the whole world should know about both mine and Scott's new love!!! Glee!!! The show is wonderful, and the music that you get to hear each week is incredible. The show is about a high school glee club and all of their high school drama. They sing all of these new and old songs and change them up a little bit so that their choir can sing them. The songs range from Golddigger, to Heart, to oldies. If you have not watched this show or listened to the soundtrack you are missing out. It comes on FOX on Wednesdays at 8 central time.

The volume one soundtrack came out this week on itunes, and now all I want to do is drive around listening to it. I promise you will not be disappointed!

Below is the cast, can you tell we are obsessed!!