Well, it's official. I am 40 weeks TODAY! My due date has come, yet again. I have accepted the fact that I am a 40 week-er when it comes to the gestation of my children. Does that mean I love seeing my due date come (and in the last two pregnancies go...)? Not necessarily. But, there is a level of comfort in knowing that I make it to the end and so far we have had no "surprise" early visits when we weren't quite ready.

My niece came into the world just a few weeks ago (BEAUTIFUL and tiny... 5lbs 13oz) and surprised her family by being 3 weeks early! If I had had this little man 3 weeks ago, we would have been scrambling to get those last minute things done while he was already here. So, yeah, I am glad I know I go all the way to the end.

In fact when my Dr came into the exam room last week for my last check up she said "You're still here..." I just laughed and told her I had every intention of being there and expected to see her again next week! She laughed and said "Well, it does seem like your babies like to wait til the last minute." Why, yes ma'am, they do. Just like their momma did... I was 16 days late!! Thankfully they don't let you do that anymore. I wouldn't want to know how big my children would get after being in the womb 16 extra days! Yikes!

I get pregnancy updates on my phone and the first one I got talked about the baby being the size of a poppy seed. A poppy seed! that's really not much bigger than this --> • , if any! And now... It says the baby is about the size of a small pumpkin. Wow! What an amazing journey this has been. A poppy seed to a pumpkin!

I mentioned in my first Blog Nesting post that "as far as you knew" the baby still didn't have a name. And that's true! I haven't mentioned the fact that we finally named our little man!! His name is Grayson McKinley. Isn't that sweet??? Oh, I just love it. And I cannot wait to put a face with the name!

Being able to see and feel God's hands at work in my life to grow this baby these past 40 weeks has been such a blessing. Life is a miracle and because of His goodness and mercy He allowed me to be apart of it! Now for the 4th time... Yes, I am blessed.

Another reason I wanted to post this today is because... I am actually going into the hospital tonight to be induced in the morning. So... We should be meeting little Grayson in the next 24 hours or so! Eeeek!!! I'm getting excited. The boys are squared away with Gram and Papaw, our bags are packed, the list of "to do's" is done... I'm now just needing to take my shower and we are off on a little date afternoon before we check into the hospital.

Thank you all for your prayers, they are cherished. As well as all the love and support we have received! We are excited and anticipate great things for our little Grayson as the Lord brings him into this world.

Until next time...

I hope you enjoyed my "blog nesting" as much as I enjoyed the challenge of completing it! It was fun and even though I kinda cheated by not posting what I had planned on posting for day 6, I did complete a full 7 days in a row of posting!! (even though Brandon had his doubts... I showed him!)

So, now what?? Am I finished posting the things I feel I'm a little behind at? Am I now ready to start blogging about #4 when he arrives in just a couple days?? No... Not quite. But, I did get quite a bit covered with my blog nesting that I otherwise would not have finished before this little man is born. Maybe I can get one or two more posts in before he gets here!

All 3 boys are attending Parent's Day Out this Fall! The week before school started, we made a count down so they could cut rings off each morning and count down to their first day of school.







I'm not so sure Kohen quite understood what was going on, or if he understands even now after going to school for 6-ish weeks really. But he was very excited to be doing what his big brothers were doing! Whatever that was...

Peyton, knew very well that he was going to get to go to school just like Tristan did last year. He is excited to be "so big" like his big brother. Are you catching the trend going on here?

And of course here's the Old Pro, Tristan. He was excited about going back to school but not very excited to have a different teacher, classroom and even class mates. But, he quickly got over that once he got in his classroom and lost in the excitement of it all.







T & P are actually in the same class this year. They have the boys and girls split up so they can teach based on the way boys learn and girls learn so differently. So, Mrs. Mistie is their very brave all boy teacher. Our boys just love Mrs. Mistie and have really enjoyed being in her class. They always come home telling me how they got dirty that day and how they used their hands when they got to learn about whatever they were studying. I mean, they get to get dirty at school and not get in trouble for it! How fun is that?!?


Well, that's a wrap for the First Day of School. I am headed to bed with hopes of putting up one more post tomorrow. Which just happens to be a pretty big day..... ;)

 Day 7: I will be covering our Family Vacation week! Brace yourself for LOTS of pictures of all the fun we had... It was the week following mine and Brandon's getaway weekend. And actually we met Monica and Melissa (B's Mom and Aunt) with the boys in Austin the night we ended our weekend and started off our family vacation with a trip to the CIRCUS!!!!


























And last but not least... Our last day of vacation... We got to see these two handsome men! And a whole slew of other family members!


Well, that's it! That was our week of Family Vacation for 2011. We had such a great time together as a family and are just so blessed by God's goodness in all that we were able to do. Hope you enjoyed all the pictures!