One Week & Four Days Old

She is here!!!

Miss Gwynn Marie arrived this past Friday, June 6th at 3:53 p.m. She weighed 6 pounds and 9.6 ounces and 18 inches. The Lord answered our prayers about asking her to be a healthy baby. She is steadily gaining weight and actually slept almost 5 straight hours last night! Not to say she's perfect...the first night we did not sleep at all. We are all doing well and enjoying the trials of being new parents. We have receieved encouragement from many family and friends and we are thankful for the Lord's blessing us through everyone. The Lord's words are always spoken to me and to Ry right when the discouragement begins to settle in. Ryan has been an amazing daddy so far and I think Gwynn has stolen his heart. She will surely be a daddy's girl. We thank everyone for the prayers!

Baby Update!

Hi Everyone! Today I had my 36 week appointment (I am going every week now). Long story short, everything is okay with me and with the baby. But, the doctor couldn't find her heart beat for a few minutes, then after prayer, the doctor found the heart beat, but it was found really high on my belly meaning that the baby's position might not be head down. So, she wanted to do an ultrasound to be sure she was head down. All is fine with baby, she is head down so no having to have baby turned or anything like that. The ultrasound did show that she has bunches of hair!! I told the ultrasound tech that I knew she did because of all of the heartburn I have had throughout this pregnancy. The hair is all that white fuzzy area around here head that the arrow is pointing towards.

Nursery!

Hello All! Here are some photos of our nursery at the moment....probaly a few more additions may take place before she acuttally arrives. We have been blessed with an abundance of stuff for our baby girl. She will not be lacking. Please continue to pray for strength and perseverance in these last few weeks. Also, for my sister, Crystal, and her hubby, Jason, who are both awaiting the arrival of their baby girl too!! Should be any day now!! I was supposed to go into "sympathy" labor when she has her baby, but....I think that won't be happening.

32 weeks!

Ryan said to me today, "do you realize, you still have a month or so of growing to do?" I said that I was aware of that fact. She'll find more room to grow though believe it or not.

Hilarious aren't they?

Yes, these are my parents. They are on a cruise in the Caribbean. They sent us a few photos and I thought that these we funny so I wanted to share. I love my parents.

Windy...Windy Gap

Boy or Girl?

On January 14th, we ventured to the doctor for our half way point ultrasound. We were both excited. Ryan said that he told everyone at work before he left that he thought our baby was a girl. I was set on thinking all boy. I was shocked and Ryan was not too surprised when we found out that our baby is definately a girl!!! It was so neat to watch her move on the ultrasound screen. Here are some of the ultrasound clips and a short slideshow that Ryan put together...he's going to be such a great daddy! Thank you all for your continued prayers as we only have maybe less than 20 weeks left!

Christmas and New Years

Well, I know I haven't posted anything in long time so to catch all of you up. Here are some photos. Ry and I weren't very good at taking photos...kind of slacked on that over the holidays. But, we enjoyed our time with both of our families and were blessed with bunches of stuff for the baby too...

Nursery Beginings

Here is a sneak peak of our nursery thus far. With the generosity from our Lord through family, we were able to go ahead and purchase a crib and diaper changing table! Still some modifications need to be done to the nursery, but we have plenty of time....well time is going by quickly too though. I am, today, 13 weeks or 3 months or the first day in my second trimester!!! The Lord has blessed me and Ryan by allowing me to be free from much sickness also known as morning sickness. I do have the occassional, "get that away from me," or "or that food smells disgusting," moments, but other than that, I am enjoying pregnancy and we look foward to June!!!

Zane Rustin Ransford has arrived!

My brother Shawn and his wife Elizabeth welcomed their new little boy in the the world last night at 7:12 p.m. He weighs 9 lbs. 1 oz. and is 21 1/2 in. Ryan and I can't wait to go to Charleston to see our new little nephew!!!

We're pregnant!!!

The LORD has blessed us indeed. We went to the doctor this morning and were blessed to see an ultrasound with a tiny tiny baby. We heard and saw the heart beat! Only 8.7mm long now and a heatbeat of 140bpm. I am seven weeks and six days (eight tomorrow) along. Our expected due date is June 11th of next year! We praise the LORD!!!

The Ransford Family Fall Festival

Yesterday was our Annual Family Fall Festival out at my parent's house in Chapin. This is only the third year of this new tradition. We have do crafts with the kids and have a few contests. This year the only contest we really had was a pumpkin carving contest. The winner this year was Elizabeth...well, she actually painted her very pregnant belly as a pumpkin. Shawn carved Yoda on his pumpkin and he really came in "first" place overall. The kids all dressed up in their costumes. Linnea as cowgirl, Ellie as a princess, Adrian as Spiderman, and Reese as a shark.