So much for 3 weeks!

SHE'S HERE!!!

Emma Gabrielle was born on Monday, November 28th at 5:47 PM...
She weighed 7 lbs. 1 oz. and was 19 1/2 inches long!

I will post details about the whole birth in a few days...We are just enjoying her too much right now...

But feel free to call us:
706-678-2954

Here is at least a teaser picture!!!















Love to everyone!!!

Jen and Tim

Less than 3 weeks to go!!!

I can't believe we're almost there! Everyone is so excited around here, especially Chloe... Although she doesn't understand why we can't tell her EXACTLY what day and time Emma will arrive!
The weather has been so wonderful lately, staying in the low 60's and then dropping at night...
We have been enjoying our fireplace...
Timmy had a friend over yesterday and they chopped a bunch of wood and stacked it perfectly. When his mother came to pick him up, he gestured largely toward the fireplace and wood stacked on the shelves around it and said, "Mom, we need to get one of these..." (Their family lives in a mobile home, and don't have a fireplace...)
It was so funny...
Anyway, thank you so much to those that have sent gifts for Emma, we truly appreciate every single thing...
God has really been providing in so many ways. He is so faithful.
I had a wonderful birthday last week also...
My son planned a surprise birthday party for me, he was so funny.
He conspired with a friend of mine and with Tim, and had a whole dinner planned at her house...
We had chicken parmesan and garlic bread, YUM!
And then a hot fudge cake, YUM, YUM!
Anyway, I felt very honored...
Well, I guess I'll write more another time...God Bless...
Jen

Registry Problems...

Babies-R-Us is having technical problems for the next few days, so to access our registry, you must have our registry number:

#86839316

Sorry for any inconvenience!
Love, Jen

Not too long now...

First of all, after much advice, prayer and deliberation......we have chosen a name!!!!

Drumroll, please...... (scroll down)

















We chose this name for several reasons:
For one thing, we wanted a very strong, but feminine first name that did NOT end in the "eeeeee" sound like Timmy, Nini, and Chloe.... ha, ha...
And we wanted the meaning of the name to have some significance...
The name EMMA means "all encompassing"
and GABRIELLE means "hero of God"
We also like to use family names as much as possible, and chose to honor my late cousin with our choice of Gabrielle. She was a special lady, and will be remembered for always...


I also thought some of you would enjoy seeing a scan of my baby shower invitations. My two best friends, Audrea and Noelle, are throwing it for me in November.
After getting advice from several people regarding the couthness of the following, I finally decided it was o.k. to post my registry info online, for those who would be interested in helping us get ready for little Emma.
We had kept some things from Chloe, but in 2003 when we had the mold insurance claim on our attic, most of what we had was ruined. We used the reimbursement money at the time to do other stuff around the house because we didn't think we would be having any more kids at that time....we were wrong :) ...
So, anyway, I have created online and in-store registries at Target and Babies-R-Us... here are the links:

http://www.target.com http://www.babiesrus.com
(make sure that you choose the Jennifer Bailey in Washington, GA)
Each site gives you a place to click on "baby registry" and then type in either mine or Tim's full name.

We really don't want anyone to feel obligated to buy us anything, but felt it was not in poor taste to let our needs be known for those who desire to.
We are so excited about this birth experience and meeting our newest little girl... We are planning on having a friend that is an excellent photographer attend the birth, so we hope to have some really incredible (modestly taken) birth pictures... Tim's mom and dad are going to try to be here around the due date, so we are so thrilled that they can be part of it all...

We can't wait to share the experience (through the blog) with all of you that can't be here...

Love to every one of you....

Jen and co.

Workin' on the house...

These are some photos from the work day that we
had a few weeks ago.





We had 4 or 5 guys from church come and help get the walls up in the attic room.













One friend rebuilt the stairs leading up to the room. They all worked so hard and we appreciated every bit of it.
The only mishap was when one window completely fell apart as they were "temporarily" removing it to get the drywall into the upstairs.... So, now we have to find a window....
Par for the course....






Sheetrock is all up! Next we mudded and sanded... That took a whole week!











Is this a tired man or what?







We have just last night finished sanding the floors and are getting ready to start staining and applying poly tonight.
We are actually staying with our friends, Jon and Noelle for the week, because we are doing all the upstairs floors....
We ran into all kinds of snags with the rental floor sander and our stubborn old varnished floors in the other rooms, and big stairs, so we finally decided to just paint the floors in those 2 rooms, but do the stain in the new room...
We are soooo exhausted....
I will probably add some new pics in the next few days as we progress closer....