Let the countdown begin!!

8 weeks...can you believe it...only 8 short weeks till Autumn is scheduled to make her arrival into our world. I feel so ready and so not ready all at the same time...haha!! I can't wait to meet her and become a family...and to see Jacob with her...and find out if she got my hair color or his tiny ears *grin* I can't wait to hold her and kiss her and just fall head over heels in love with her!! I can't even imagine the emotions that will come along with welcoming her into our lives...we've been waiting so long for this, I know it's going to be amazing!! At the same time there's also the anxiety of the labor and delivery, the unfamiliarity of taking care of something so important and so dependent on me...it's scary...I just want to be a good Mom...it's the most important job I've ever had...and as the time gets closer I just pray that I can be the Mom she deserves to have!

So 32 weeks...the past few weeks have flown by...we had my first shower on March 27th and it was awesome! My cousins went all out...they made a cake that looked like a stroller, had cute little socks and clothes hanging from a clothes line, they even made a flower bouquet out of a bib, onsie, and socks...they are so creative! It was great...the best shower I ever could have expected!! And the best part was just having all my family around celebrating Autumn's life with me. It's crazy to think how far we've come! Last year this time we were still struggling through the minefields of infertily...uncertain really if we would ever make it to the place we are now. Unsure if we were ever going to be able to hold our biological child in our arms...or pass along my creative gene and Jacob's athletisism. Praying that God had a plan for us that was beyond what we could hope or imagine...and looking back I think it's these scars that make this moment and the next few weeks all the more exciting!!

I'm going to leave you with some of the awesome pictures Donna Harris captured during our maternity session last week. Jacob was such a great sport...neither one of us are fans of having our pictures taken, but he played along really well...and maybe even enjoyed himself a little! Donna was great too...she had lots of creative ideas...and I think she did an awesome job capturing some memories of this amazing time in our lives. And she's going to be taking Autumn's newborn pictures too...so I can't wait to see how those turn out!!