An EXCITING DAY!!!

Ben and I are proud to announce that we will be welcoming a BABY BOY in February.
He has made us VERY PROUD parents already and according to me (his mother) he is already perfect and wonderfully made!
We PROMISE to post pictures tonight!
Please continue to pray that our growing BOY continues to stay healthy!

Monday is the Day!

Monday, as long as Baby C cooperates, we will find out if we will be having Baby Boy or Baby Girl Carroll! We are too excited! Anyone have a guess of which it will be? Ben and I truly have NO idea!!!

Oh the Hogs....

Ben and I went with the other Carroll's to the AR- GA game. The game started out perfect....good touchdowns....and well we better not talk about the ending!
We did have a fabulous time and got some pics!

It's Growing!!!

It is just a little over a week away until we can say "Baby Girl" or "Baby Boy" Carroll and we are WAY excited. For all the requests, here is the newest picture! I'm still getting used to have a tummy and not feeling the need to do crunches everyday! :)

Catching Up!

Here lately it seems we cannot stay "on top" of the blogging scene. So....here comes some recapping!

* Over Labor Day Weekend, we stayed in the Good Ol' Fort Smith and had lots of Carroll Family Fun. Ben got 2 whole rounds of golf in and the girls spoiled me with a shopping trip to Motherhood Maternity. Even Esther helped me pick out some new preggo threads! We did find ourselves in last place of the "Family Olympics"; however, we still tried our best!!! Of course each day we forgot our camera at home and didn't get any pictures.....especially of our adorable nieces!!! Esther, Millie, and Aubri seem to get bigger each time we see them!!! We only wish they lived closer so that we could take more frequent Chuckie-Cheese Visits!!! We PROMISE to do better next time!


* This past weekend we had a wonderfully relaxing weekend in Branson. Mom and Dad found a great cabin that had four bedrooms and was so quiet! It was tucked away yet we were able to make it to the mall within minutes! Mom, Dad and Mama Pat were awesome and prepared wonderful meals so all we had to do was shop and relax! Riley is getting sooo big! Here are some pictures of this past weekend:

Blossoming Baby Belly...

So "the fam" and our friends have been on us about posting some updated pictures of my wife's baby bump. So I'm pleased to announce that your wait is over...I'll even give you an earlier picture to give you an easy comparison.

Here is Allison at 10 weeks back in July...

And today...September 9, 2009...

See any difference? :)

Fun Times

We have been busy the past couple of weekends, so we need to get you caught up!

First, last weekend we where given Arkansas Traveler Baseball Tickets from an ABF Sales rep so we decided to take advantage! We drove in to Little Rock on Saturday afternoon and headed to the ball field. Lance joined us and we had a blast! We had a great dinner at the ball field restaurant (where I got a MUCH needed fried pickle fix). We watched a great game (against the Northwest Arkansas Naturals) all included with the manager getting kicked out of the game! We then spent the night with Lance (who selflessly gave up his bed! What a great Brother!!).

Here are some pics:

This weekend, we had a FUN "baby" weekend. We started in Fort Smith and took a trip around Northwest Arkansas checking out all different styles, colors, materials, etc of cribs! Yes, cribs! We are quite excited about Baby C and decided it was a good time to start looking. We have found what we like, so we are now deciding to get it now (it takes 6-12 weeks) or wait until (maybe) a sale happens! We will keep you posted! Saturday night we met up with Jennifer, Jason, and Riley for an outing to PF Chang's and (Riley & I's favorite) Cold Stone Creamery! Ben and I had a great time and made a promise to each other that when we come back from NW Arkansas, we are either leaving before the sun goes down, or we are staying the night. Let's just say, we say at least 10 deer, and the scariest, a buck with BIG horns just hanging out in the median!

Energy has been my biggest challenge during these 13 weeks, so today I got ready for church and then was promptly told to go get back in bed.....seems I didn't look well. After throwing a fit, I finally conceded. Ben made me sleep to make up for Saturday, and we caught some of Brother Dale's message on TV. We missed going to church and pray that next weekend we will not work so hard on Saturday!

Hope everyone has a wonderful week.