We are 95 % sure we are having a GIRL!!!

On Friday, March 6th we had a sonogram with a specialist. It was a new sonogram that checks for down syndrome and other birth defects. The sonogram picture was amazing. It also helped that the TV was HUGE. When I say huge...I mean HUGE! The baby on the screen was the size of a large book.

When we first started the sonogram the baby looked like it was just kicked back and hanging out (see picture below). At one point it looked like the baby was yawning! The Doctor said it must be bored. It stayed in that position until the Doctor was done with all the tests. Then it decided to turn over. That was amazing to watch. We could see the baby go completely from it's back to it's stomach. Then it put it's bottom right in the air! The doctor then scanned that area and asked if we wanted to know what we were having. I did not give Brad a chance to answer before I said of course we do! She said she could predict the sex with 95% accuracy. Brad told her he already knew and she said okay dad...what is it? And he replied...girl. She smiled really big and said he was right!!! So if the doctor is correct.....here is Miss Sarah Diann Cantrill:

My Granny

It has been awhile since I posted...again. Part of me has been putting off this post because I was not ready to deal with it, and the other I was not sure what to say. Now that a few weeks have passed I am ready to deal with both. So here it goes...

My Granny passed away on February 12. The doctors think it was from a heart attack. It came as a complete shock to the whole family...including me. I had just talked to her the day before. She seemed like her normal self (the past few months she had been a little testy due to an illness). We had a great conversation. Most of it centered around the new baby. She was positive that we are having a girl. I tried to prepare her that it could be a boy...just in case. She would not hear of it. We also talked about how she had been acting the last few months. She said she was not sure why she said some of the things she did and that she really did not mean them. (We had a huge fight right after Christmas. I think it was her way of apologizing.) We then made plans for me to come over during my Spring Break. I had not been to her house in months due to her being sick. She did not want Grant or I to get what she had. We then said we loved each other and hung up.

Had I known that would be the last conversation I would have with her I would have talked longer and told her how much she meant to me. I will cherish that last conversation because it was like talking to my old Granny and not the one who had become over the past few months. Looking back I now realize she knew something was about to happen. I just hope she found peace in her heart and knows how much we all loved her. I miss her already and am sad that Grant will not really remember her and that this new baby will have never met her. I know that she is in heaven now catching up with my Papa. I will miss you Granny and I love you!

This is the last picture I took of Granny. We had gone to visit her for her birthday.