New Date

Hey everyone,

We had our first baby shower on Sunday the 11th. Taylor received so many nice things. She already has so many people that are going to spoil and love her to death. The shower was all pink and brown (which are the colors of her room). Clay and I are so grateful for everyone involved and that came. Just having our friends and family there meant more than any gift that was brought. Although the gifts were nice and will help out, the fellowship was even better. Clay and I don't really get out much anymore therefore we do not get to see our friends that much. The shower was a chance for us to hangout and just relax. I wish I could name everything Taylor received but it was so much that I would probably leave some things off. I'll try and get some pictures up of the shower if deddy can remember to e-mail them to me.


So now for the news. We went to the doctor Friday the 16th. We thought we were going to miss the visit because there was a wreck in the tunnel so traffic was backed up. We always leave in plenty of time so that we will arrive a few min. early or if anything like a wreck were to happen we would still have time to get there. Well yesterday when we left we did not realize until we were in the truck that we needed to put air in the tires. I was thinking this is going to put us cutting it close to our appointment time. But we stop to put air in the tires (better to be safe) and then we are on our way. We get on the bridge and get about half way across and we come to a stop. For those of you who have driven across this bridge its long and typically if you are at a stop then something is wrong way up in front of you. I think again, now we are going to be late. We decide instead of going through the tunnel we are going to go downtown Mobile (keep in mind neither of us know how to get to the Dr. office this way). I decide to call the office to let them know if we are late we are only going to be a few min. late and to get directions. (We have a GPS but do not know how to use it.) Ok so we have our directions and we finally get to our exit and we have a little more than 10 min. to get there. Oh yeah the operator I spoke with told us if we were not there by 11:20 we would not be able to see the Dr. because she had to go to surgery. This upset me because these visits just give me a peace of mind and irritated Clay considering every time we go we have to wait on the doctor. We decided to be optimistic and not let it get to us, if we don't get to see the Dr. then we will just trust that everything is ok (Taylor moves so much that I know everything is ok) and we will go and set up our appt. in two weeks. We were not going to let this become a bad day. We finally arrive at the doctors office and yes we are late about 15 or 20 min. to be exact. We did get to see the doctor. While we were waiting we saw on the news the wreck that put us back. I say all that to say this its crazy how the Lord works, if we would have left earlier we would have still be in traffic because we would not have been able to take the exit we took. If we would have left later we would have been in traffic still because by the time we saw it on the news the traffic was backed up across the entire bridge. Finally, if there would have not been a wreck then we would have taken our same route and would not have learned a new way to go. The good thing about knowing another way to go is that if there is backed up traffic the day we have to deliver then we have an alternate route. So our crazy starting day ended up being a very good one. While we were talking to the doctor she told us "I wish you would have called to let us know you were running late because then they could have told you I was backed up with patients and to take your time getting here." Clay and I looked at each other remembering what we were told when we called and just laughed.

Now for the news. We are inducing on Dec. 1 if of course Taylor has not decided to make her appearance yet. I will go into the hospital at 5am that morning. If anything changes I will be sure to let you know. It is a possibility it could be the Sunday before that. We will know more after our next Dr. visit on the 30th of this month.

Hope you all enjoy these things....


Ashley