Mommy to be on the go!

    Well, here I go again with another Mommy to be update (and it didn't take a month!)...
I have a lot of things coming up with the FRG as well as with me personally. We are going into overdrive mode in preparations for the troops returning home in a couple of months. I have meetings to go to and events to help plan, which I enjoy because it makes me feel needed and useful. I just signed up for a new Bible study called 'Excellent Wife'. It will give a biblical perspective on how to be an "excellent" wife for your husband. I am looking forward to starting it next Tuesday. I am also joining the spouses club called the Hui (sp?). This should be exciting to get to meet other military spouses and join more fun little groups. I am also starting a weekly lunch with a couple new friends of mine and we are going to try a different restaurant for lunch every week. All of this should hopefully keep me super busy until the baby comes.
    Nate and I have ordered Ady's nursery furniture so we are now just waiting for it to arrive so I can finish decorating her room and put it all together! We are so thankful for all of the gifts that we have received! We have amazing friends and families! Nate and I have decided to go with a travel system and now we are just trying to find the perfect one for us!
    Nate has been so amazing throughout this entire pregnancy! I forget sometimes that he isn't here in HI physically with me because he stays so involved. I am constantly getting emails about new things people have told him about or that he has researched, which makes me super happy! He is reading his "daddy books" as he calls them and is putting me to shame with all of his vast knowledge. He loves to sing to Ady and she often kicks in response to her Daddy's voice. I cannot wait for Nate to come home on R&R, I am so ready for a Nate hug. Although, I have heard he has lost 20lbs!!! I hope there is enough left for me to hold onto with that hug, but he works out twice a day so I'm thinking I'll be hugging a rock ;).
   Well that is about all for now! We hope you are all doing well and Nate's up next from across the pond!
The Baloughs

Prayer Requests:
1. Nate makes it home for Ady's arrival!
2. My 28wk doctor's apt on Friday.
3. My glucose test on Thursday.
4. The deployed troops and the moral amongst the soldiers.

Cravings: Hot Wings, fried pickles and fruit
Clothes: Leaning more towards dresses these days ;)
Rings: Still fit great!
Emotions: Past cry baby stage now into "I will cut you" stage...I take no prisoners!
Puppies: Are stuck to me like GLUE! Oreo views my tummy as her pillow and Baxter views it as his trampoline!
Pains: Just my pinched Sciatic nerve ;(
Movements: Ady is moving up a storm, she really reacts to music.
New Happenings: I now know what heart burn feels like...Boo!

Lady bugs

So what's new???

Afghanistan is hot, so not change there , but I did get to to see the greatest thing in the world the other day thanks to Skype. What is it?? Look below I shall make you wait till the end.
Life here in Afghanistan is picking up with a Change of Command coming up I keep busy making sure $40 million worth of the governments' money is not lost or wasted. Which means I am VERY busy, but I guess that is the life of an Executive Officer. I am trying to get everything ready to send home too, which is only six months away. Now, I am waiting I put in for a Branch transfer, which means if I get it there is a 98% chance Morgan, Ady, Baxter, Oreo, and I will be cozying it up in the Rockies. (Yes, Tim you can come visit and go to a Rockies game). Well, that is the updates for the Army side.
Morgan has made this a very easy deployment, due to all the letters and cards I get from her. I don't understand why mail takes so long to get home, but it can get here in nine days from Hawaii. I get the Mail Clerk come by at least once a week bringing me a letter or card from M. Balough. I think they finally figured out who it was (DUH Morgan). I am so thankful for all of my family that has sent me mail, packages, and comfort items. Morgan Balough, Ashley Balough, Timothy Balough, Denise Kolakowski, Curtis Clan, Salley Williams, Jane Davis (Greenville Upstate Blue Star Mothers), just to name a few, and Amazon. I have been so blessed that Morgan has sent me pictures in the electronic mail so I can feel part of the pregnancy. She is got to be the MOST GORGEOUS pregnant woman EVER !!!! I cannot wait to come home and see Morgan and little Ady still in the belly, then she can pop out. I am good with Morgan going into labor at the airport as long as I can see Ady and say hey while she is still in Morgan's belly. Question is what do I do with my luggage? Wait for it or have someone pick it up???? Let's pass on the Airport labor part, that might not be as fun as I think.

Two Interesting things that happened recently that made my heart flip!!
1) I was around when another Soldier opened his care package, and he threw me something. I did not realize what it was at first and then I flipped it over and realized it was a little Lady bug bean bag animal, just an amazing realization that Lady bugs is perfect for Ady.
2) See below

Morgan is up next which means another month till the next post. Thanks to all who follow and enjoy reading the life of the Baloughs with a little critter on the way.

The Baloughs


P.S. The cool fact: I got to see Ady kick on Skype!!! Got to be the best present I could have got over Skype. Love you Ady and Morgan.

Mommy to be update!

     It's my turn again! I don't know where to start. I guess with feeling and seeing Ady move. I finally got to see her kick!!! It was the most amazing thing ever. Since the 'first' kick, she has been moving up a storm. She was quite the moving one in church on Sunday, especially when it was time for the music ;). Nate did finally get to see her kick but I will let him tell you about that ;).
     I have been working on lots of baby things lately. I know time is going to fly by in these last weeks and I am def. behind. I have all the decorations for her room ready execpt one or two. I still need to find a crib that I am happy with, it's so hard to choose! I have moved on a little from onesies and have started working on bows. I am trying to stay busy so I don't go stir crazy waiting for baby and Nate to get here!
         Nate and I have been talking a lot about what we want our family to be like and how we want to raise our babies ;). I am so excited to start our family. I know babies are not a new thing, but for Nate and I we are just over the moon excited for our baby. My mom has done nothing but talk about little Ady ;) and the puppies. It is so fun sending her weekly photos. She is going to come out in December for a little bit to help me after Nate leaves, which I am so thankful for. It is amazing to think how many people love our daughter even before she is here ;). It's a def. encouragement knowing we have such an amazing support system behind us.
     On another note Nate and I have been working on a verse for baby Ady. We want just a verse of encouragement and one to represent what we want for our little girl. We think we have decided on Isaiah 40:30-31. I am so excited to teach our little girl about scripture and I am hoping Nate and I can take her to her first "church service" together after she is born ;).
    Well, again not much going on here. I had a good doctor's visit with everything is checking out very good. She is measuring exactly what she should be and heartbeat is 150. My next appointment will be in about 2-3 weeks and I will have to take another glucose test, prayers appreciated! Nate is next with his Balough Bundle update!

The Baloughs