Welcome!

So I have decided to make a blog for all of you family and friends who do not get the privilege of seeing my stomach enlarge everyday! :)  Today is October 6 and this Wednesday I will officially be 23 weeks.  The crazy part about that is that in my little "What to Expect" pregnancy book, that starts the first week of my SIXTH month!  Craziness....craziness.  I'm starting to get pretty excited about all of the planning and registering that is entailed in this part of the pregnancy.  I think Stephen is as well!

Stephen actually left this morning for his last week in the field.  He will be home Friday with war wounds I'm sure.  This week they are at MOUT which is basically an Iraq-simulated village where there are actual paid actors acting as villagers.  Basically Stephen will be using a paint gun-like weapon to capture and attack buildings in the city and take over other platoons that are trying to attack him.  The difference between this week-long adventure than all of the rest, is that they are not shooting blanks....they are shooting paintball-ish bullets which make it more real.  He was very stoked about it so it will be a fun last week in the field.

Right now, Porter has his own little bag in our room that is designated to Porter clothing.  It's very very exciting!  I have finally received Stephen's consent on the bedding that I want so all I need to do is register for that.  I'm close to finishing the registering at Target and BabysRUs.  That was actually not that bad....Stephen helps out A LOT!  Now I feel like the next step is actually picking out a middle name for Porter.  We're planning on a biblical middle name, but so far....nothing stood out.  I think Joseph would be perfect (just like his daddy's), but Stephen's not so sold.  Oh well....maybe some more convincing will make it official.  Who knows!  

Hope everything is going well with ya'll.  We only have one more month from tomorrow until Stephen graduates TBS here.  Hopefully we'll know by Friday whether or not we're staying here or moving straight to Pensacola after graduation.  Nothing like waiting until the last minute with military :)  Please feel free to check up or leave messages here for me such as....Amanda, you're not blogging enough or putting up more pictures.  I would LOVE to keep this up.  So I'm going to try to keep everyone up-to-date on our lives here.  Take care and plan and hearing from me soon!!