A Day That Will Change My Life...

Today is the day that I am going in to the hospital to be induced. Please pray for me! The real labor probably will not actually begin until tomorrow. Anywho...below are pictures of Sophie's completed nursery and various activities of the week :0)! Next time I post I'll have pictures of Sophie!!

These things are the only items that we added since I posted last

I've been eyeing this pink Christmas tree since the beginning of the season...it finally went on sale for $5!!! Every little girl needs a pink Christmas tree :0)!

This picture does not even do the tree justice! It lights up the room so sweetly!

Christmas Eve

Grandma and I making home made biscuits

This was the same shirt that my mom wore while she was pregnant with me. She actually had it on the day she had me. **Please excuse the lack of make up** And the short shorts :0}!!

Joe and Grandpa hanging out

Pay Back

I have always been an early riser - with the exception of college, but who is an early riser in college? However, when I was younger I was always up by 6:30am and ready to eat right away. This meant that I had to wake my mother up to feed me. When I was old enough she would tell me when this hand on the clock gets to the 7 then you can come get me, but until then play in your room if you wake up. Well, I didn't think this was such a great idea so I would go and stand over her until she woke up. I didn't 'wake' her up I was just standing there. However, one time I did try literally pulling her eye lids up, ha! Well, I think that I am about to get paid back for this!! I can count 2 times in the past 5 months that I have actually slept later than 7. Even on my days off I'm usually wide awake at 6-6:30. My mom suggested one day that this might be the time that Sophia will wake up. She said she hasn't heard any scientific research backing this theory, but she has heard that the baby's 'clock' will start waking you up even when she is in utero. This makes sense - unfortunately! I will try to lay there and go back to sleep, but I'll be SO hungry that I HAVE to get something to eat. A good part of the time once I eat I can go back to sleep for an hour or two. Anways...I thought this was a good story for a day that I woke up at 5am :0).

Now for a little updating...
Last week I had a stomach virus...it was horrible. You know when you lie there and try to not move AT ALL because you are so nauseas? Well, that was me except I have these little legs and arms that were moving all over the place. I was miserable. Thankfully, I didn't have a fever, and the doctor gave me some medicine to ease the nauseousness. I am feeling SO SO much better!!!

I went to the doctor yesterday and she said that everything looks great and that I am progressing very well for this being my first child. I will go in on Sunday night and they will start to induce me. I probably won't actually deliver her until the next day though. The next time I write I will probably have a baby...YAY!

Good Ol' Dave

Joe and I have been taking the Financial Peace University class by Dave Ramsey. It has been a huge benefit to us! Especially since we are having to make cuts with me staying home! After going through the class we have decided to sell my car since we have a payment on it. Fortunately, that is the only debt that we have with the exception of our house so it would be great to actually pay that off!! Once we sell my car we would purchase a car that we could pay cash for. Anyways...I'm hoping that posting this will help me sell it. We've actually been trying to sell it for a couple months now, but we haven't gotten many bites. If you live in the Tampa Bay area and need a new car or know someone that does please email me at saraquesenberry@gmail.com. I would post pictures, but I have yet to transfer my files that I took off my work computer to my home computer. My car is a 2004 Honda Accord EX which is the top model for accords...it has a 6 disc CD changer, satellite radio, leather seats, sunroof, wood paneling. It has around 130K miles. GREAT GAS MILEAGE :0)!! We are asking $10,250/OBO.



**DISCLAIMER...some how my ability to catch grammatical mistakes is out the window lately! Please overlook them...pregnancy brain is real :0)!

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I have completed my first week of unemployment. It's been interesting and very unproductive. For some one that feels they always have to be doing something this has been a weird week. I have not felt like doing ANYTHING! I went through a period where I was going every where and hanging out with every one that I possible could because I knew that once the baby comes hanging out with friends would never be the same. I was running around like crazy at our house trying to get everything just so. Now, however, I feel as if I am "settling in" as Joe described it last night. I think that because the house is just as it needs to be to welcome our bundle of joy home, and the realization that Joe and I have a limited time left with just the two of us has made me long for quiet times. I want to spend as much time hanging out with Joe in our home. Obviously, we did not have much time as newly weds and it does sadden me to some degree. So now quiet nights is what I long for! Luckily my dear friend, Erica - who stayed the week with us - was such a great house guest and went along with out complaining. Poor girl, she was probably bored out of her mind and thinks we are the most uninteresting couple out there! I have to admit that this doing nothing thing has been wonderful! I have read that right before labor a baby will be less active because they are storing up their strength for coming into this world. Maybe that is what is going on with me. I am getting ready to bring a baby into this world so I'm storing up energy. We will go with that...it sounds better than just being lazy :0)!

Officially Unemployed...

Yesterday was my last day at work. I am officially unemployed, well, at least until Sophia makes her arrival. Then I'll have a 24 hours a day/ 7 days a week job. And I thought camp was long hours :0). It was actually very sad to leave work yesterday. I LOVED my job! It was the perfect job for me! There was event planning, ministry, and tons of time at my beloved camp Wimauma! I feel so blessed to have been given the opportunity to have had this position! It was the most rewarding job I could imagine! During youth camps I would go out during the altar call and just look over the crowd at what God was doing in the students lives. It completely gave worth to the 20 hr days, being chewed out by unhappy people, and life being totally consumed! I can not even describe just how blessed I feel that God allowed me to work at this job for the time I did! I am going to miss it terribly! Especially when it comes time for camp meeting and youth camp!

I went to the doctor on Wednesday and he said everything looked great. Sophia has dropped, known as "lightening", and is in the correct position...YAY!! I'm 50% effaced and 1 cm dilated...sorry if this is too much information :0). We also scheduled for me to be induced. I will go in around 5/6pm on December 28 and they will start inducing me, and she will be born the next day (December 29). Not too much longer!