Zipper-less

Maternity pants are zipper-less. I can't count the times that I have looked down thinking I forgot to zip my pants when there is actually no zipper... haha. This is a habit about a quarter of a century old, and it is driving me crazy! I continue to freak out, look, and then think, "what a dummy I am". Anyway, there is my two cents about maternity pants :) For awhile all my regular pants would still zip and I could "rig" the button to make them work. Well, not anymore! There is no button and no zip, so maternity pants it is. My friend, Crystal, gave me several pair of pants and that has been so helpful. Other than that I have been sale shopping around (not that I don't sale shop all the time anyway) I was also presently surprised last weekend to find out that Ross has a small maternity section. I got a few things for such a good price! Also, last week we had our 12 week appointment. We got to hear the baby's heartbeat for the first time (at 8 wks you can see it on the ultrasound but can't hear it). That was very cool and felt so surreal that this thing on my belly was hearing a heartbeat. It was awesome.

On a note other than "baby", soccer season is officially over for Nathan. He (along with every other teaching I know) is counting down the days until summer! They are all so ready, and I don't blame them one bit. They definitely earn their summer break! I got to spend last weekend with my parents, and that was great. We had a yard sale at the daycare, and at a whopping $50-something I was the yard sale champ. The rain was not good for us... It was a fun day though. I'm almost done with night 1 of 3 and then it is off to my sister-in-law's graduation at UGA! It will be great to spend the day with everyone, and I even got a cute little dress to wear :) Now I just can't wait to get home and crawl in bed for some good sleep. There is nothing like crawling in bed after you have been up all night :)

Love :)

I love this... being at home with this man. When I used to dream about the "fairy tale life" as a little girl - well, this is it. I was probably wearing a little makeup in the fairy tale though... haha!

I, too, love this. I love that he loves the belly, I love that he rubs it, and I love that it makes him smile :)

Here is the "official" 13 week picture. Wow, I feel like this looks huge compared to the 12 week picture! This is also a little tighter shirt so you can see all the belly in all its glory, but I still love it :)

Second Trimester

We are officially 3 days into the 2nd trimester... wahoo! Here is a little pic of the "3 of us". (Yes, my Christmas plates are totally still on the wall... haha) I actually forgot they were there until I saw this pic! Anyway, we are so excited, and we can't wait for October but are ready to enjoy the summer together before the baby comes! I am so ready for the school year's end so we can just have fun and "nest" together soon!

You can kind of see the belly in this pic :) All the ones we have taken from the side look weird... haha. They are safely saved on my computer but won't make it up here just quite yet. This pic was a week ago - so 12 weeks pregnant. More to come soon :)

Belly Bump :)

I think this is the only time in a woman's life where a little extra tummy just makes you smile :) Everytime I look down I'm like, "Ah, I love it!" Nathan is loving it too. My thoughts on Nathan's love for the tummy is this... I (obviously) feel pregnant, but I think now that there is a outward sign of this incredibly special inner change he is just all about it! And it couldn't make me feel more amazing that he is! I've always known he is the best, but he just keeps showing me over and over.

Anyway, now that I have you all lovey-dovey'ed up I will be 12 weeks tomorrow! 1st trimester is almost over! On another note, I am one of 4 women pregnant in our small group at church. WOW! It is so amazing to be able to go through this incredible experience with them so far. 2 are due before me and 1 after so I am right there in the middle. We might need an extra babysitter or two for our group come 2011! As soon as I get a chance I will take a little pic of the little belly and show my newfound "pudge" to all of you... haha! I am happily embracing it!

WOOHOO!!!!

So... I think with this the blog may just be back :) Hooray!!!

We are now coming up on 11 weeks! Seeing the baby's heart beat for the first time was amazing, and equally amazing was watching Nathan as he saw the baby's heart beating for the first time :) We couldn't be more excited, and so far I have had an amazing pregnancy. Other than a stomach virus for a couple days I haven't been sick at all! WE ARE SO BLESSED!

New Site

Hello all! I was trying to upload some pictures of the cruise for everyone to see, and the easiest thing to do was to make a "Share Site" with Shutterfly. Since I use them for uploading all my pics anyway, I am just going to move everything over there. Enjoy the new site :)

http://lifewiththecoggins.shutterfly.com/

Amazing...

my life - it's amazing. Nathan and I have had a great few weeks! It's been awhile (again, I know) since I've been on here, but we've been amazingly busy :) We spent Columbus Day weekend on Weiss Lake with some friends from church and had a great time. We were able to ride around out on the lake and go to SandRock, which was so fun. Last weekend we went to the Yellow Daisy festival at Stone Mountain. It was so neat to go again. I grew up - from age 5 to college - going to the Yellow Daisy festival every year to dance, and I haven't been since my last year before college! We - Nathan, me, and his mom and dad - had a great time, and we stayed for the laser show, which I also haven't seen in forever, and it was great. It's so cool to see all the amazing, and sometimes crazy, talents people have. I love it.

I had a great birthday, including the Stone Mountain trip, and a surprise visit from my mom and dad at work. I was on nights this week, so they totally surprised me and brought goodies too. Needless to say all the staff up there on CSU love them now since we all had great goodies to eat all night :)

My fam came down last night to "officially" go have dinner for my birthday with Nathan's fam and Margalena came too! Great fam and great food. Tonight we had dinner at our house, and Edie helped me with everything for SaraBeth's shower tomorrow! It took us all night with two so I'm glad she was there to help. The shower tomorrow will be lots of fun, and I get my bridesmaid dress tomorrow too! Hope it still fits... oy :)

Well, off to another great weekend full of people I love