How Baby McKelvey is growing:

Your baby's sensory development is exploding! His brain is designating specialized areas for smell, taste, hearing, vision, and touch. Some research suggests that he may be able to hear your voice now, so don't be shy about reading aloud, talking to him, or singing a happy tune if the mood strikes you. Your baby weighs about 8 1/2 ounces and measures 6 inches, head to bottom. His arms and legs are in the right proportions to each other and the rest of his body now. His kidneys continue to make urine and the hair on his scalp is sprouting. A waxy protective coating called the vernix caseosa is forming on his skin to prevent it from pickling in the amniotic fluid.

19 Weeks!!

I am starting to feel the baby move like crazy. I started feeling him kick around 17.5 weeks, but now you can feel the kicks outside my belly. Every morning I wake up to him kicking so I lay in bed a good 10 minutes with my hand over my belly just enjoying all his little movements :)


Me and CashMan


Derby wanted in the picture too!

Yes I realize my butt is as big as my stomach...lets hope it doesn't stay that way...

Easter and...Its a BOY!!!!

This was my dad's idea - to take a picture every month with the respective number of fingers held up...my mom did this when she was pregnant with me :)

Grant unfortunately had to work on Easter Sunday, so he had to miss out on the fun :(

Me, Lizzie and Mac

Maggie: 4 months Lizzie: 0 months :)

We decided to tell my family with little blue socks in their easter eggs!

Katie is Married!

She was soooo gorgeous!!!!





Maggie: Almost 18 weeks Amy: 35 weeks




Me, Kristen and Marie...I really didn't want to have to stand next to Kristen!

Me and Lizzie!

Grant has since gotten his hair cut...I liked it long though :)

Me and Rachel :)

I had Katie's lingerie shower at my house...we had to beg her to have one! :)

Her cake matched the invitation :) So cute!!

16 weeks!

How the baby is growing: Get ready for a growth spurt. In the next few weeks, the baby will double his weight and add inches to his length. Right now, he's about the size of an avocado: 4 1/2 inches long (head to rump) and 3 1/2 ounces. His legs are much more developed, his head is more erect than it has been, and his eyes have moved closer to the front of his head. His ears are close to their final position, too. The patterning of his scalp has begun, though his locks aren't recognizable yet. He's even started growing toenails. And there's a lot happening inside as well. For example, his heart is now pumping about 25 quarts of blood each day, and this amount will continue to increase as your baby continues to develop.

Grant's 31st Birthday

Grant's birthday was this past Saturday...I cannot believe that he is 31!! I had Grant's favorite kind of cake made for him (a Denise Lang cake). You can't really tell much from this picture, but it was camo designed. It was sooo good. We took it down to the beach with us this past weekend and I wanted to take a picture of it before it endured a 5 hour ride (thats why it's taken in the floor board) ;)


Friday night our Sunday school class celebrated both April Wills' and Grants' birthdays at April's house. We had a blast and these pictures do absolutely no justice to how funny it was to watch the boys play the wii. Grant was taking a break and sitting on the couch behind them playing with the kids of course!

Baby Paxton asleep on Brooke's lap, it was soo cute! He stayed up waaay past his bedtime and did so good!

Future Garden

The McKelveys, the Halls, and the Adams (our neighbors) are all planting a garden behind our houses. We talked about doing it last year and never got around to it so this year we were determined to get it done. A couple of weekends ago, the boys worked so hard all weekend long to till the ground and mix in some good soil...hopefully the plants will hold up in the red clay rich dirt that Fultondale is 100% made of...


Before the "good" dirt was tilled in with the rest



Derby and Cash enjoyed watching! Yes I know the yard needs to be mowed..The front yard acually has zero weeds and looks really good...the back is a different story!!

Katie's Kitchen Shower

One of my best friends, Katie Hill, is getting married on April 11 (YAY!). She had a kitchen shower 2 weekends ago in Hartselle; it was sooo nice and so much fun!! She lives in North Carolina so I was so excited to see her. She is absolutely beautiful inside and out...I cannot wait to see how pretty she will be on her wedding day!!


Caribeth Penn, Katie and me...yes I know my boobs are about to fall out!!




One of my best friends from high school, Katie Hill, is getting married on April 11 (YAY!). She had a kitchen shower 2 weekends ago; it was so much fun and sooo nice! She lives in North Carolina so it was so wonderful to see her! She is absolutely gorgeous, I cannot wait to see her on her wedding day!!!

Quick correction to the previous post...

**Cash and Derby fight over their toys! Not Grant and Derby :) **

My First Pregnancy Pics - A little over 14 weeks!

Ok so here they are...amazingly I woke up this morning and I had a BUMP! I haven't posted any pictures because I have only looked pudgy, so, I thought it was just fat, but, we went to the doctor on Tuesday and I still haven't gained any weight. The doctor is mad (oops!) but I promise I'm eating, and A LOT at that! The good news though is that we heard the heartbeat and it was 162!!! I've heard different stories about whether or not that means we are having a boy or girl...the chinese calendar said that we are having a boy though... :)

Our typical night...while I'm over here on one couch on the computer or doing school work, Grant is either watching TV or reading one of his hunting books, and Grant and Derby are fighting over their toys

Cash and Derby LOVE their daddy!!!

The usual...Grant ignoring half of what I'm saying because he's glued to his Cabela's, jk :)

My two favorite boys!

Backyard Fun

Now that it has been pretty and warm, we've been taking our dogs to play in the backyard.
Grant has been trying to train our 7 month old yellow lab Cash for hunting next season...he loves to go fetch whatever it is that Grant throws to him! Derby doesn't get to play like Cash does because she would run off and not come back for an hour... :( So she stays tied up next to me while I take pictures

Please excuse our backyard! :) Hopefully Grant will mow it soon!!

He Loves to jump up and catch his toys

Tests Are Finally Over!

I promised I would blog once all of my exams are over with, and thank God they are! We had 11 final exams over a 3 week period, and 9 of those exams were over a 2 week period...I have been so exhausted and have been going off of very little sleep :( We started a new semester on Monday though and from here on out I think school is going to get a lot less stressful!

Update on the pregnancy...The last time I posted I really had not gotten sick really at all. For the most part that is still the case, however, I have gotten really light headed lately. I have been rotating through Oral Surgery the last two weeks and if I am the one doing the procedure, I'm fine, but if I assist someone else, I start feeling really sick - to where I can't even stand up. I have had to leave the room on multiple occasions, sit down and just catch a breath. Other than that I have been fine.

I feel like my taste buds have changed tremendously. I absolutely HATE chicken now, not sure why, and I don't like sweets that much anymore. Used to, I could eat a huge chocolate brownie with icecream for dinner and be perfectly content; now, I don't even bother with dessert. I LOVE to eat and drink juicy things (fruits, juices, etc). I always have, but not anything like I do with this pregnancy. People have asked me if I am more hungry these days...yes and no. Even though I eat a pretty big breakfast, I am Starving between breakfast and lunch, but then when I eat my lunch, I get full extremely fast. I don't have time for small meals through out the day, so when supper time rolls around, I'm usually pretty hungry, but then the same thing happens, I get full really quickly. When I went to the doctor for my 10 week visit, the doctor sort of grumbled at me because I had lost weight, and wants me to have gained at least 3 pounds by my 14 week visit, so...we'll see!

A lot of you have been asking to see belly pics and I would love to show you some...if there was a belly to show!! I am still not convinced that there is actually a baby growing inside of me right now because I can't see anything! I know that this is normal because I'm only 12 weeks but it is still frustrating! I have one picture at 9 weeks of me standing next to one of my friends who is pregnant, but my belly really hasn't grown much since then. I will be sure to pst pictures once they are worth posting! :)

We Are Having A Baby!!

To all those who have been asking me when I am going to update our blog...well I guess now is the time! Over the past two years, I really haven't had anything too interesting to update AND honestly, had zero time to add anything! I looove looking at other peoples' blogs, I'm just too lazy to update my own! :) But I will be better now!

ANYWAY! We are very, very excited...the baby is due September 15th. It was a huge shock to us (and everyone else really) considering that we were wanting to wait at least another year to try to start having a baby. But! God's plan was different, and I know everything will be perfect. I will have this baby at the beginning of my senior year, which will be a huge challenge, but I have the absolute best husband, parents, siblings, in-laws, and friends that anyone could ever ask for, so Grant and I will not have to go through this totally on our own! All things considered, we are really so blessed.

I am a little past 9 weeks pregnant right now and haven't really been that sick at all. I have a MAJOR heightened sense of smell, so some smells make me kind of nauseous, but other than that, I've really been fine. This week I have felt a bit fluish, but I went to the doctor yesterday and he said that everything was fine, so I guess its just part of pregnancy...ugh.

I will continue to update as much as I can...I have finals coming up so it might not be for a couple of weeks, but I will definitely do better than I have been doing, promise!

Our First Gift!

We got our first wedding gift a couple of weeks ago from my Aunt Cindy and her husband Tim that live in Memphis! We are so thankful of them! They gave us 2 Lenox place settings and 2 accent plates that go with them. They are beautiful!

Maggie & Grant