Class Baby Shower! :)

My cute little 4th grade class that I did my student teaching in surprised me with a baby shower on my last day!!

It was so so cute, and I was totally surprised! So many of them brought gifts, or donated money to help with a class gift. It was so sweet...

.. And I totally cried!

I got everything from adorable pink baby clothes, to a "Teach Me How to Jimmer" shirt, a National Guard coin, baby blankets, baby wipes, and hand-made origami for a baby mobile!

It was so so cute!

Since I totally wasn't expecting it, I didn't have my camera ready.. so I had someone take pictures on my phone!

So... please don't judge me for some of my random faces in these pics!!

They're candids... ;)

.... It's probably illegal to have pics of my students on here, so just pretend like you don't see their faces. I don't know how to blur them out.

A cute little pink outfit that one of my students got me! This baby is definitely spoiled... and will definitely be rocking the pink! ;)

And... the rest of my pics have LOTS of students in them, so I won't post them.

but it was so so so sweet that they threw me the shower, and they were SO excited to do it!!! When I started opening gifts they even broke out into a very enthusiastic rendition of "Happy Baby Day to You" (You know the song, right? I'm pretty sure it's a classic. ;) It's the one in the tune of "Happy Birthday"... hahaha!! They're so funny)

I've seriously been like 4 days without being in class and I miss them terribly... I want to go back and just keep teaching, or at least hanging out with them!

.....

In other baby news! I am 23 and a half weeks!! That leaves me with like 16 and a half weeks til the little lady gets here.

Holy dang!

Hopefully now that I'm done with student teaching and all of that fun junk I'll have more time to start preparing for her...

Also, today I realized that I hadn't taken a belly picture in a while, and since Ammon wasn't here I decided to take one myself. On my phone. Mostly cuz I had my phone with me, and I was too lazy to go find the camera.

So.. You can see me in all of my pregnant, camera phone, mirror pic glory!

(don't mind the pissed look on my face... every time I tried to take one smiling I just looked like a homicidal maniac. Definitely not the look I was going for...)

So as far as the belly goes... I sorta feel like I mostly just look like I've been eating too many cookies rather than being pregnant. So, I'm mostly just fat! haha!

Oh well... Just one more joy of pregnancy!

I'll try to get a better picture when Ammon gets home.. with the real camera... and preferably without a homicidal maniac look on my face (no promises on that one though).

SURPRISE!!!

Well, sometimes surprises happen in life.

And sometimes those surprises happen in the form of a baby.... And you realize that holy crap, you are not anywhere near prepared in any way, shape, or form to take care of a small human.

But then.... even with all of the throwing up, exhaustion, and fear it's all so much fun and worth it when those little flutters happen! (although I could do without the expanding waistline... yikes!)

(don't mind my awesome appearance... it was a long day of emotions...)

So, one night I couldn't sleep because I couldn't shake the feeling that I was pregnant... Even though I KNEW there was no way that I could be... A baby was definitely not in 'the plan'. So, that morning I found an old pregnancy test (I think it may have even been from a gag gift wedding present), and took it.

Then refused to look at it.

Finally I glanced at the test and could barely make out a second line. It was so faint I almost thought I was making it up. But, tears immediately came, and I immediately had to wake Ammon up to come look at the test.

Of course Ammon took one look at it and just said "I think it's only a positive if the second line is as dark as the first one"... and immediately went back to sleep.

Ha!

But after a few more tests there was no denying it.... Baby Cunningham was on his/her way!

(Ammon thought it would be funny to take a picture of his "cute little pregnant wife" while we were at the pumpkin patch using the pumpkins as the stomach.... surprise surprise! I really was his "cute little pregnant wife" when we took this...)

Then, at 10 weeks we finally told our families at Christmas!! Woo-hoo! This baby will be the 3rd grandchild on the Cunningham side, and first on my side! :)

Then yesterday we had THE ultrasound. You know, the one where the super important stuff is discussed. ;)

And....

It's.....

A....

(If you can't tell by the tutu and pink... it's a girl!!)

We are so so so excited! And I am honestly shocked! I really did sort of think that it was going to be a boy.... Like a lot. Although Ammon claims to have thought it was a girl the whole time.

Apparently his maternal instincts are better than mine. ;)

So, baby GIRL Cunningham will be joining the family around July 21st!!

Yay for being super pregnant during million degree weather! Woo!

:)