Registry and Showers

We have finally completed our registry.

So for those of you who live out of town and wanted to know, we registered at Target and at WalMart. If you order gifts online, they will ship them to us so that you out-of-towners don't have to worry about shipping it twice.

Our larger items are on an online site at www.goores.com


www.target.com

www.walmart.com

You can go to Target or WalMart and print the registry in the store. If you shop online you will have to click on registry and then type in our names.

Caution: there are multiple Andrea Yates' so make sure you choose Jeremy and Andrea Yates

So far the only confirmed shower is the Morrison Shower which will be held August 18th.

Thanks for your thoughtfulness during this time in our lives!!

The Name: Adalynn McKinley

We always liked the name Addison. However, Addison seems to be kind of trendy and a name with growing popularity. So we decided to look at some related names. The name Adalynn or Addilynn came up. I loved it instantly, Jeremy was not so sold on it.

Jeremy's middle name is Lynn and his dad's middle name is Lynn. I don't hate the name Lynn but it was never a name that I thought we would use. So when the spelling Adalynn came up, I thought that was a great way to have her name have meaning without actually naming her after someone. There are actually a lot of family members with similar names. Jeremy has a great aunt named Addie. He also had another great aunt named Ada, his other great grandma's sister.

Then there comes McKinley. McKinley originally comes from Jeremy's great grandpa, Oscar McKinley Yates. Jeremy and his dad, Don were both very close to grandad Yatesy. We have always liked his middle name. This is also the middle name of Jeremy's uncle Ronnie and his cousin Casey. We decided to use it as a middle name that way if anyone else in the family wanted to use it they still could!

When you put both names together you get: Adalynn McKinley

If she happens to be a he, we are in a lot of trouble because there is no backup plan or name.

Addie's Puppies

These are Addie's puppy dogs!! When we were at the model home, they learned to sit in lawn chairs. I think it is absolutely precious. Bigby is on the left and Bella on the right.

Bigby is our six and half year old male Boston Terrier. He is very spoiled and has had to adapt to a new sister, Bella, a new house and now a baby. I really think that he will ignore Addie when she gets here but I am not sure.

Bella is our seven month old Boxer puppy. She cracks us up. She is a very fast learner and is very loyal to Jeremy. I think that she will be very jealous of Addie. She is very nosy and has to be the center of everything. Her newest trick is drinking out of the toilet.

Both of our dogs are very sweet and love ice cream and hamburgers!! Which they only get in the summer time. They too can't wait for Adalynn to get here.

July 10th- The Ultrasound!!

Well I don't think that anyone prepared me for what the ultrasound would involve. Jeremy was still convinced that the baby was a girl and I was going with boy just to be different. We invited my mom, Grammy, and Jeremy's mom, who is yet to be named a grandmother name, to come to the ultrasound. So, Jeremy's mom was on vacation and was unable to come :( But she was the first person we called!! Anyways we also ended up with my brother there.

So Jeremy and I go back first and leave Grammy and Uncle Randy waiting in the hallway. The girl who did the ultrasound was named Tiffany and she was very nice. But first she had to do all her measurements so she is looking at the screen and I can't see it!! Jeremy can see the screen and his eyes are bouncing all around and his eyebrows are moving up and down. We are discussing with Tiffany, our new bestfriend, about what we think the baby is. Then she tells us!
She turns the screen to me and says "see those three lines?"
At this point I know what three lines means, but my response is, "uh yeah kinda"
Her response, "it's a girl"

For all of you who voted GIRL you win!!

The Crazy Month of July

For those of you who don't already know the house story. We moved not by choice but because our new house that we bought 2 years ago had major problems! So we have been in a model home with everything that we own in storage since February. Our new home has been being built and is finally complete. In the end, everything worked out for the best. We were able to get a new house that is bigger and we had it custom built.

We didn't know what the baby was going to be when the painting occurred. So we painted the baby room a green color. Most of the men who enter the room say "it's bright", I think the builder's words were "it's stimulating." However, all the women love it!!

Now we are in the house and everything is put away. Our lives feel somewhat organized again. Now we wait for 4 months, for the disorganization to occur again when the baby arrives.

There's a Baby on the Way!!

Above: My Aunt Sarah, mom and Aunt Lisa (they were acting silly on Spring Break,
Mom didn't know that she was pregnant yet)

I am supposed to be born around November 28th. However, I appear to be a little bit bigger than expected so Dr. Hix says I may come earlier.

Mom and Dad were trying to have a baby and things weren't looking so great! They were having problems with their house and started focusing all of their energy on that. And then BOOM!! All of a sudden over Mom's Spring Break, there was a positive pregnancy test!!! Dad says that he knew I was coming but Mom thinks he is crazy.

Mom happened to be with her friend Donna on that Wednesday and Dad was at Parent Teacher Conferences. Mom was feeling really bad about Dad not knowing first so we came up with a plan. Mom decorated Dad's car with balloons, streamers and shoe polish. Then Mom and Donna hid. When Dad came out of the building, he thought his students had decorated his car. But then he realized what it said and that it was Mom!! Mom and Donna jumped out and surprised him!! And this is were my story begins........