Big 20!

Morning!

I am excited to say that we have officially made it through the 20 week mark! So, now just 20 weeks to go before we get to meet our sweet Elliott Swaydan Campbell! Unless she decides November 14th is too late or early....let's hope not!

I decided that I wasn't going to be one of "those" people who take pictures of their belly every week and place it out there for everyone to see. It is just kind of weird to me. Besides, I really don't want my hugeness being forever documented! But, I will tell you that you can now see for sure that I am pregnant. I look like I swallowed a pillow! The experienced moms tell me that I am carrying high because it is a girl?!

We have picked out the baby bedding and are now onto shopping for paint. Our friends were kind enough to give us their hand crafted nursery furniture and Jeremy is now glazing it to give it that southern and antique look. I can't wait to get it in the house! Shaun has been so kind and he even cleaned out his closets and moved his stuff out of the baby room.

Church is busy as always. I am in super work mode as we are gearing up for our summer event, Extreme Week. I am in the middle of ordering inflatable sumo suits, processing registration forms, and writing lessons. I always seem to run out of time! I can't wait to see Steph as she is coming to lead the band! It is going to rock!

Shaun is home safe from his mission trip to Texas and his official duties as youth pastor have been passed onto our new youth pastor. This leaves Shaun to be freed up to serve all of our community groups and assist Dustin. My title has changed to family minister and Ashley is now the full time children's minister. This frees me up to help families and to lead all of our ministries for children ages birth- high school. Summer is typically lower in attendance and this is no different for us.

Of course, we are all concerned about the oil. We had been untouched by the oil until this week. Now the oil has made it through our barrier islands and has hit our beaches. We are praying that a hurricane does not come because that would be even more devastating to our Coast.

That's all for now! Thank you for your prayer and encouragement! Oh yeah, and for those who remembered my birthday.... THANK YOU!!! Somehow birthdays just are not as fun as we get old!

Much love,

Jess

That's right... Baby C is a Girl!!!

Hello All!

I am excited to share that Baby Campbell is a Girl!!

I went to the Dr. today and had a sonogram. Great news is that she weighs 9 ounces and looks to be right on target. They did move my due date to November the 14th.

Natalie went with me today because Shaun is in Texas with the youth doing their mission trip. I was sad that he couldn't be there but had to do it this week because the sonogram tech is on vacation next week! Natalie was so supportive and gracious. I am blessed to have her for a friend. Now, no worries about Shaun seeing the baby because they made me a video of the sonogram too just for the Daddy to be! I have a few of the pictures below. Here she is sucking her thumb.

Here you see just her legs and they are crossed. She was VERY active during the sonogram and moved constantly! And then of course here is the evidence. This is a picture of her bottom and thighs from below and you can see that she is a girl!

Thank you for your continued prayers and encouragement. I feel great and I am looking forward to meeting our little girl soon. I was just amazed at how clear the sonogram is in person and what a better gift for my birthday than seeing our baby!

Now, the fun stuff..... getting the nursery ready!!! No pink for this Baby Girl though, that is too plain and boring!

Love,

Jessica

Happy Hot Monday

Hello All,

Can I just say Summer is here? Ughh.. We have had so much rain and now the heat and humidity is crazy! I've heard that it is really hot back in Texas too. I am thankful that we have beach and wind here. It helps a little!

Shaun is gearing up for his youth mission trip next week and I am looking forward to visiting some friends and being there for Rachele's baby shower this weekend! It will be a really quick trip but I am so excited!!

Extreme Week is July 12-15th and I am busy working on all the details for this huge event. Registration has begun for kids and I still need 100 volunteers to make the week work. Our theme is Lost: the wait is over. Think Lost meets the Incredibles with a dash of pirates of the Carribean. It will be great!

Baby Campbell seems to be growing and we are almost in week 18. The testing results came back on Friday and the baby is negative for downs syndrome and spinabifida. I have an appointment next week and I will know more then. I am feeling less tired, but the weird cravings and inability to withstand certain smells is still here. I've had to buy maternity tops to cover the belly and am trying to get comfortable in the awful stretchy belly pants. Shaun and I took our first trip to Babies r us last week and created our baby registries. We are registered at Babies R Us, JC Penny, and Target. All of the registries are available online. We went ahead and registered as several people have already wanted to help us. Our church family here has been so supportive!

That's all for now!

Love,

Jessica