Baby Shower

Last weekend we had our baby shower. It was hot, sticky, and eventually wet. Chanda took charge and did great with everything! It was great seeing old friends and family, thanks to all who came and participated! You made it really special for us!


Benton and David


Chanda



Cake!


Bottle chugging contest... half of them cheated.

Guess the candy bar in the diaper!

So happy Aunt Kindra and cousin Elsa made it!

Getting ready to open gifts. I never take pictures of "the belly," so here's a profile of it.

Between hand-me-downs from family and gifts from the shower, I'd say we are all set and ready for baby Sawyer to come!

While I'm on the subject, I will give an update on how things are going. We just had a doctor's appt. today and things are going great! We are 37 weeks and the baby is a normal size according to the midwife. We learned that he has dropped after she felt for his head. Apparently the baby is supposed to come two weeks after it drops for first time moms (so says our midwife). If this is the case, then he's set to be born a week before his due date.... wishful thinking? Probably so!

Smithville Lake

Smithville Lake is about our only option for a cheap thrill around here in Missouri, but we love it! It's so much fun taking friends and family out on our little boat! Nate wanted us to take him out to the lake for his birthday, so we did. Here are a few pictures...

This is actually a photo of Slade from last year. I would have taken some of him during this trip... but someone's gotta drive!

Nate


Caleb doing tricks...


The boys :)
Later that night we ordered our favorite wings from Pizza Hut: Wing Street... all in all a great night!

Definitely a Thackeray!

Sawyer was quite stubborn throughout the whole session. He DID NOT want to move his hands from his face! And when the technician thumped on my stomach to get him to move this is was his response...



....Hint: His hand was still in front of his face.

I guess we'll let the gesture slide for now.

Sawyer Slade in 3D

Sucking his thumb



has Daddy's nose







long fingers :)



scrunched nose











Big yawn. They had me eat and drink caffeine before coming in to make sure he'd be active during the session. You'd think he'd be bouncing all over the place after a huge chocolate bar and Mountain Dew, but he wasn't. The technician had me jumping and skipping around all over the room trying to get him to move, and all he did was mock us... yawning the whole time :)

Baby Thackeray

These are the ultrasound photos that were taken when we were 19 weeks. There's really only one that turned out well ("well" meaning one in which he doesn't look like a fish or extraterrestrial).

New Family, New Blog

Slade and I live in Liberty, Missouri. We were married last year and couldn't be happier! I wanted to start a blog because we enjoy looking at others' all the time and would like to keep family and friends updated without having to post on Facebook for the world to see! Now for the update...

Warm weather is finally here and we are so excited! Our favorite thing to do when it gets warm is to take friends out on the lake in our little boat to go tubing and wakeboarding. We've already been out once even though the water was still quite cold :)

We are 24 weeks pregnant now, due August 18th! Expecting a boy and his name will be Sawyer Slade Thackeray. It's been a great pregnancy so far (not that I would know differently) and he's kicking up a storm in there! Slade and I are really excited to meet him, but won't be getting baby stuff until the last minute because I know I'd drive myself crazy having the stuff and no baby to go with it yet. I will post ultrasound pictures soon!