Boy.. oh wait...

Looking back on my pregnancy now, it really did fly by. While it was happening.. I didn't seem to think so. I did enjoy being pregnant but the suspense of the first few months will about drive you crazy. I was very early along when I found out so I had a LOOONNGGG time to wait for all the joys such as feeling the first kick or finding out with the baby was. As many of you know, we have a catfish house and at the time the employees we had wanted to take a "Murphy's Cruise."  We did our research and figured the best time for everyone to go. Destination was set.. Bahamas here we come!! All we lacked was permission from my doctor. For future reference to anyone reading this who plans to ever take a cruise while pregnant, "Pregnant women are only allowed to sail if pregnant for 24 complete weeks or less at time of cruise debarkation." You would know that I love a little spice in my life and I would be a little over 24 weeks when we were set to sail. They make you take a form to your doctor to sign stating that you are in good health and less than 24 weeks so I had a dilemma.. either lie and tell the doctor the cruise was sooner than it was or be straight forward and pray she would sign the sheet and help me lie to the cruise line!! haha I know, I know why not just reschedule the cruise for earlier right? WRONG! We scheduled the cruise around the colleges spring break so it was now or never. At my 19 week check up I marched into the doctors office paper in hand still debating what to do. I thought to myself that it would be smarter to let the doctor know the truth in case something did happen while I was gone so I ended with option B. My Bahama adventure now laid in the hands of my doctor. Would she let me down?? NO! :)

Me and Brent at supper

I'm pretty sure I would have been devastated if I would have missed this

The truth comes out.. this is why I really went. I'm pretty sure they put something in the ice cream to make it so addicting. I dreamed of it once we came home! :)

This is where I will add I know most are wondering.. she is blogging about the cruise and not about finding out what the sex of the baby is first. Wellll... This is how that happened. I am a very impatient person as many of you know so I scheduled to make an appointment at our local junior college sonography program to find out what the baby was going to be before my doctors office were going to be able to do the test. At 16 weeks Brent, myself and our parents made the haul up there to find out what our little Murphy baby was going to be. Many of my family will tell you that I'm very stubborn when it comes to certain things. My child must have gotten that trait from me in utero because it was not willing to show anything for the student that was working with us. She went and got the teacher who was a sonographer at the clinic my doctor is at for many years. She proceeded to shake my belly and roll me to my side and then proudly announced.. it looks like a BOY! Yay!!! Brent and I were so excited. We had talked it over and both decided that a boy was what we wanted first so when she said that we were ecstatic. The baby from then on out was called by his name.. Mason Joseph Murphy. We started working on the room.. buying clothes.. the works! Well, remember that 19 week visit with my doctor I mentioned earlier?? She told me at that visit that the ultrasound girls were booked and I could make an appointment for 2 weeks later if I wanted to come back to find out the sex of the baby or I could wait til my next appointment. Being the fact I already knew that he was a boy. I choose to wait. So the Monday after we got back from the cruise on Friday Brent and I went for our ultrasound.

When we got in the ultrasound room Brent told the lady that we already knew it was a boy and she asked how. He told her we went to the college and she said "well you know they have been wrong before." Let me throw in here that my mother-in-law said before we went that she would be waiting for the call saying the baby was a girl. She was not going to accept that Mason was Mason. Needless to say.. she got that call. I wish you could have been there to see Brents face when she said.. "hmm.. thats definitely a girl!" I thought I was going to have to do CPR on him. haha! He didn't say anything else until we got to the waiting room where they send you to wait until its time to meet with the doctor. Then he said "she will never.. ever.. ever.. date! Do you understand me??"  Yes honey.. yes I do!

Its a girl!!