It's a . . .

GIRL!!!!! We couldn't be more excited!!! Thank you Jesus for such a wonderful blessing and that she is growing and forming just as she should be. The sono today was wonderful! Mark is on sono this week during his ob/gyn rotation so our sono tech let him tell me if it was a boy or a girl. It was so sweet. I'll never forget that moment! This little baby girl is quite the busy body :) She was moving all over the place throughout the whole sono. Her hands and feet just simply melted my heart and when we saw/heard her strong heart beat I realized truly what a miracle this is. We have a bunch of sono pictures (mark put them on facebook if you want to see) but here she is...

We already love her more than we thought possible!

TOMORROW!!!!!

Tomorrow, Tomorrow! I love ya, Tomorrow! You're only a day away!!!!!!!

We've literally been counting down the days and cannot believe that tomorrow is finally here! It's the day we find out if Bean is

a boy or a girl!!

We're so excited. I made a little chart of who thinks it's a boy or a girl and I must say the girl side has now doubled the boy side :) We are absolutely blessed either way and pray that the Lord is ultimately glorified through this little baby's life. Thank you Jesus for your goodness! We pray that you continue to form Bean, for he/she is fearfully and wonderfully made.

I doubt I'll be sleeping much tonight :) I feel like it's christmas eve.

deeper still

Beth Moore. Priscilla Shirer. Kay Arthur. OKC Dec. 4th-5th!! I. cant. wait. thanks mom for putting this all together! it's going to be such a fun girls weekend :)

(once again, can't figure out how to get the video on here... but here's the link)

http://www.emedialink.com/video/8571/Deeper-Still-2010-Extended-Promo

leaves!!

While the Amarillo trees weren't quite as amazing as I was hoping for this fall, they were still fun to watch the colors change and we definitely had millions of leaves in our yard. Last weekend Mark raked them up and we made Gunner jump in.... and he LOVED it. It was hilarious!! I wish I would have had my video camera but here are some pictures.

After playing in the leaves for a while we gave him a little bone and he just sat there and ate it for a long time. It was great! Thanks for always entertaining us little Gunny!

names

We've been having lots of conversations about names we like/don't like for little Bean.... Our conversations aren't quite like this but I keep thinking of this scene from Friends and it makes me laugh every time!

KN root beer

Mark took me to KN drive-in for lunch yesterday. I asked the carhop girl how long they had been here and she had no idea and really didn't care to find out.... i'd say around 40ish years. Mark claims they frequented KN at least once a week in high school. Why? you might ask.... solely for the root beer. I think Mark said they brew their own root beer - and seriously, it's amazing. Overall, we gave KN a "B" yesterday. The service was ok, the burger was ok (way too much mustard), the fries were a little cold but all of that was forgotten when we took a sip of the delicious root beer in a fun mug with a little frothy ice at the top! Oh and they even put the trays on your widow with the food while you eat (I realize that sonic does this too, but it's something different when the trays are 50 years old, made out of tin and are so beat up and dirty that you feel like you might get sick after eating the food off of it). Not sure we'll be weekly visitors, but it was a fun experience!

in YOUR hands

absolutely loving this christy nockels song! so much truth in the lyrics. thought I would share... (ok can't figure out how to post a song - any ideas?)

Here's my life, I give it to You
I place it in Your hands
I place it in Your hands

Here's my heart, You're dwelling inside
I place it in Your hands
I place it in Your hands

For so long I have held on to all that I am
When all You want is for me to place it in Your hands, in your hands, Lord…in your hands…

Here's my thoughts, I want to think of You
and place them in Your hands
I place them in Your hands

Here's my time, take it as You will
I place it in Your hands
I place it in Your hands

For so long I have held on to all that I am
When all You want is for me to place it in Your hands

Here's my life, I give it You
I place it in Your hands
I place it in Your hands...

catch up...

I've been a horrible blogger lately... so here's a quick version of what's been going on in the past month.

We went to Branson and spent some wonderful time with my family! It was such a blast and I really seriously didn't want to leave them. counting down the days until I'll see them at Christmas. While in Branson we took a beautiful walk through Dogwood Canyon (a beautiful "tourist-y" place that our family has never gone- not sure why) it was amazing. Here are some pics from the trip:

Anne Marie came to visit and stayed in Amarillo for a week, which was super fun! and Grace turned the big 18!! I can't believe how grown up she is and that she's heading off to college next year! Can't wait to see where she ends up!

The weekend after our Branson trip we drove to Waco to celebrate the 100th Baylor University Homecoming. It was great to see friends and continue our homecoming traditions which consist of the big bonfire in the middle of campus, late night pigskin show, getting up early to make it to the parade as it arrives on campus, Common Grounds, football game (someday we'll win a homecoming game, i just know it!) and of course a trip to Spice unfortunately this year Mark got really sick while we were there so we left after the game to head home.

I left the next day with my Math Recovery team to go to Albq for our last three long days of training. The training was so good but unfortunately I got sick the last day we were there and spent the rest of the week and most of the weekend in bed. God is good and the mason household is now healthy and back to normal. But it was pretty rough there for a while.

Halloween was extremely uneventful, we didn't dress up or even carve pumpkins. It was pretty sad. We do have some pumpkins, we just never got around to carving them since we were out of town and then sick. We did, however, have a million trick-or-treat-ers come to our house! That was super fun. Since I live down the street from my school a lot of my students came by. It was pretty funny to see their faces as they recognized me outside of school haha. They were so cute!!

Tonight we finished painting one of our bathrooms. I love it. Lots of other house projects have been finished these past few weeks as well. I'll post some pictures soon.

I am now 17 weeks along in the pregnancy and I feel like I'm growing by the day! ha. I go to the doctor tomorrow and hope to schedule a sonogram to find out the sex in the next three weeks! yay! We can't wait to find out if Bean is a boy or a girl!!!! What do you think it is? I want to put together a poll :)

ok thats all for now.