Last Friday Millie Jo turned 3 ... & I still can't believe it!



Y'all, I'm being so serious when I say that my sweet Millie Jo LOVES her birthday.  It makes my heart so happy because I have always loved mine & still do!!  She's definitely one of those people that when January rolls around, she will be celebrating all month.  I mean, girlfriend still wants us to sing Happy Birthday to her :).

 

The birthday festivities started last Thursday night.  I was so excited to surprise her with this little girls night out.

 

Grammy, Mimi, my sister & I took my baby doll loving girl to ...





Our weekend was super busy & full of birthday fun!!

 

We celebrated a certain little girl's birthday ALL weekend long & she loved it.  She loves birthdays just as much as her mama does :).

 

I have so many pictures to share with you but will do so in three different posts this week!

 

First up, our weekend ...

 Always dancing.

Sunday morning we woke up to the first snow of 2016!

It didn't last long but they still went & played in it!

 



Today my sweet girl turns 3!!!

Here's a little background story about getting pregnant & my pregnancy with Millie Jo before I go crazy sharing pictures of my girl with you :).

 

We tried getting pregnant again right away after we had Cooper.  Dan & I always wanted to have our babies close together, well God had other plans.  Just so you know, God does things in His own time ... God is never late .. His timing is always, always, always perfect even though the waiting part for us is so hard.  I got pregnant with Cooper 2 months after Dan & I got married so I thought for sure I would get pregnant again right away.  Cooper was getting ready to turn two years old & we still weren't pregnant again so after lots of prayer we decided it was time for me to go to the doctor to see what was going on.  They started me on a medicine called Clomid in March 2012.  I got every side effect that medicine came with ... nausea, vomiting, dizziness.  I mean, I got it all so I thought for sure it had worked.  They had me come back in for blood work to see if it had worked ... I got a call a few days later & they said it had not.  Bummed, just bummed.  I was heartbroken.  I wasn't sure what was going on.  Were we only meant to have one baby!?   I will say though, we never got to the point of questioning God because we knew that He had blessed us so much already when He gave us a happy, healthy baby boy.  April came & went, then May came.  I can remember being at home & telling Dan that I just didn't feel right.  I hadn't had my cycle since March which wasn't unusual for me.  We were laying in bed & I told him I was just going to take a pregnancy test just to be sure ... it was POSITIVE!!! I took the other one in the pack just to make sure ... POSITIVE!  We were over the moon excited! That medicine might not have worked but our God sure did :).

We had everyone over to our house for Mother's Day & while everyone was talking I screamed out "I'm pregnant" ... I couldn't wait any longer!
Cooper came at 38 weeks so I thought this being my second baby she will come about that time too.  Nope.  40 weeks rolled around & she was still snug.  At my check up that week, my doctor scheduled for me to be induced on January 16th. Boo.  I didn't really want to have to be induced but it was time for us to meet that girl!  The night of January 14th, Cooper fell asleep in our bed & about midnight I got up to take him to his bed.  When I picked him up I felt something pull in my stomach & I knew right then that I was going to have her that day.  Sure enough, 2am I woke up with contractions & about 5am we headed to the hospital. 

Labor was hard.  My epidural didn't take so from 6cm to the time she was born I was in a lot of pain, which was totally new to me because I literally felt nothing with Cooper.  All the pain was worth it though & on January 15, 2013 at 6:20pm I laid eyes on the most beautiful baby girl I had ever seen.



 
 
1st Birthday
 
2nd Birthday


 Happy, Happy, Happy 3rd Birthday to my sweet Millie Jo!
You are beautiful, so full of life, you always make people laugh, you're so sweet with just the right amount of sassy & you love big.

 Daddy, Mommy & Coop Coop love you like crazy, Queen!
Today is your day!!






xoxoxo