Family: Part 1

With our new addition we've been really blessed to have a lot of family come out and help. Jason's parents and his brother and his wife were able to be here right after Javen was born. Besides feeding, changing diapers, and tummy time, here's a little bit of what we've been up to:

Scott and Sue at the mississippi river walk

Kelsie about to devour an amazing cheescake. We are convinced this is one of the best parts about Memphis. The cheescake factory doesn't stand a chance against this place!

(sorry Kels, I liked your face the best)

And of course, as Jason would say..we tortured Javen with A LOT of picutres..but we got some really really cute ones :)

Thank you guys so much for all the meals, dishes and laundary done, and "night shifts" taken so we could sleep and everything else you did!

A few close ups

Javen Jace Kowallis

He's here! We love this sweet little guy so much and can't get enough of him already!

Born: July 30th at 2:37 a.m.

Weight: 6lbs. 10oz.

Length: 19 inches

Everything is great and he is healthy and perfect! We'll post more a little later but everyone is doing great :)

How to stress out your husband....

-Start off by being about 37 weeks pregnant for the first time. This really seems to be a good stress inducer, especially if the doctor tells you the baby could come any day.
-Then, instead of cleaning and getting ready for the baby and family to come like most do, tear apart and re-do and crucial part of your house. I have chosen the kitchen!

(Jason took this because he said he needed proof of how crazy I am going....and it's too hot outside and in the garage,
forcing our living room to become our work area!)

(We've painted the cabinets green...don't worry the wall color and trim are changing too)

-This all works really well if like mine, your husband wakes up at 5:30 to go to work, so when he comes home he is exhausted, but see's the giant mess you've created and decides he needs to help out of fear it won't get done. After all of this, I have warned Jason he may need to think really hard when he wants a second one...who knows what project I may pick up next time!

I do have to admit, Jason has been VERY patient with me and helped out a lot...(he's probably done more on it than I have!)

I'll post some before and afters when it done!

A little sneak peak....

We have been SO curious to see what this little guy is going to look like and today we got a little preview...but not quite what we were expecting. Long story short we were only able to get good pics of his legs, feet, butt, ....and other parts in that area. We are confident he is a boy!

His thighs are huge! These will definitely come from Jason, but....

long skinny feet?? (like me) We're still not sure what we are

going to get and definitely still guessing!

Atlanta

We were feeling a little overwhelmed with the fact that we are soon going to be responsible for a child. So, we did what any poor, married college students about to have a baby would do...we took a vacation....


Atlanta we discovered is an awesome city. We saw so much, but I'm just posting a few of the things we did and saw


This is from the Bontanical Gardens...which was incredible! (I risked my life taking a picture of this giant bumble bee....so I hope you enjoy it!)

I know you have all been waiting for this one....I feel huge! 34 weeks....wow!

The next few are of the Coca-cola factory. I never realized a soft-drink could be advertised as something so life changing....you need to go to see what I mean.

So, I just realized yes, the coke bear has his "paw" on my butt!

This is my favorite! They had tons of fountains from different flavors of Coke all over the world and even after trying a ton of them I still hate Coke! This was Jason after some strange tropical mango Coke mix...bleh.

One of our other favorites was the Aquarium. It is the largest in the world and was really pretty amazing.

Jason loved the

Beluga whale

The Jelly fish! One of my biggest fears....but they are amazing to look at when you are separated by THICK THICK glass.

Look at the giant Manta-ray behind us!

This is a horrible washed out picture...but we were in a hurry. The steeple coming out of our heads is the Atlanta temple. It was beautiful.

One of life's lessons

When you are almost 7 months prego most of the clothes in the women's section become off limits! ...here is my proof:

(about 26 weeks...I'm 28 weeks today and have definitely grown since here...more pics to come)

Believe it or not sometimes I forget I have this growing belly. While I was shopping with my sister I saw this cute jacket and it hit me when the third button that goes around my ribs...not even my stomach...would barely come together! I guess it's good self-discipline, maybe I will just stick to shopping for shoes until my feet swell!

Here's some funny...and not so funny changes I've been experiencing:

1. Little old ladies at the grocery store give me this cute little adoring smile....it took me a while to figure out why all of the sudden people were smiling at me. Now I at least don't feel so uncomfortable.
2. My stomach will randomly "pulse" outward when he decides to kick me and I'm sure I look like a crazy person because I start laughing to myself everytime even when I'm in public somewhere.
3. Some nights I wake up with horrifying leg cramps and I get angry Jason doesn't feel the pain so I make sure to make enough noise to wake him up so he will massage my calves for me....sorry Jason!


One more thing....we just got back from visiting family and I have to say thanks to them! We had such a good time and miss you guys!