Car

I wanted to write down my feelings about my car.

I bought my 2005 Dodge Stratus in April of 2006 and my aunt nicely cosigned a loan for me and I was scared to death that I was going to disappoint her and not be able to make the payments and my car was going to get taken away from me. But I concentrated and made sure that my car payments came first before anything else. Then in March of 2008, my father in law had told me about this great deal with the credit union he belonged to, if I refinaced my car I could get a really low interest rate and it was much lower than the one I had now. So I looked into it and found out that if I paid about the same amount I could pay the car off in 3 years instead of 7 years with the new interest rate. So I figured it was a no brainer.

So I inquired to see if I could get approved for the loan myself to relieve my aunt of the responsiblilty of having to be a co-signer, and I did get approved without a cosigner I was so happy. So then I started dumping most of my paychecks into the car.

Finally after only 3 years of owning the car I have finally paid the car off. As of 5-22-2009 the car is officially mine (well and elijah's if you want to get techinical). I will receive the title in 2 weeks.

So for the first time since elijah and I got married we are completely out of debt. The car was the only thing that had us (me techinically) in debt. If feels great to have it paid off. Especially since we are going to have a baby, I can start saving up for that and maybe a house!!!

Baby Cupcake 12th week!

I have just entered my 12th week of my pregnancy. That means only a few more days of those lovely suppositories. I am also happy because so far no problems have occured. The morning sickness is starting to subside a little. I mean I can eat my lunch and my dinner with no problems. Breakfast is a little tricky still but hey I can't complain at least I can eat 2 decent meals.

Some foods still make me feel ill but overall I am happy to be able to keep food down. I am getting sick of water and I need juice and I am just having withdrawls from my pop when we go out to dinner and I still have several months left to wait. Oh well it will be worth it in the end!

I want to thank everyone that has been praying for me about Baby Cupcake and please continue.

MacCabes

5-08-2009 Appointment Update!

Well elijah and I went to our appointment and the doctor did the physical exam and such. Then she was using the doppler to find the heartbeat and could not, so she wheeled in the portable sonogram machine just to make sure everything was ok.

When she located Baby cupcake, he/she was dancing all around like and crazy kid, however the heartbeat was still there and strong. So the doctor was thinking it may have been too early or because the baby was moving so much that could have been why as well.

But everything is just fine with Cupcake and I was so happy and amazed to see Cupcake moving around, it was so amazing. I still can not get that image out of my head.

Well elijah and I want to thank you for all your prayers at this point, and we want to ask that you continue to pray for Cupcake and us as well.

Thank you
MacCabe's

Ultrasound Picture!

update from 4-24-09 appt.

Like I promised I am going to keep you updated on my blog with the status of Baby Cupcake. So my last appointment was on 4-24-2009. When I first arrived they did an Ultrasound and elijah and I got to see our little cupcake (which only looked like a jelly bean) and then we could immediatley see the little flickering heartbeat, It was so amazing. So after the technician checked out things to make sure they were ok, which she loved everything she saw. We got to hear the hearbeat through the ultrasound it was 178 BPM. Then we got our first picture (which I will upload later). Then we waited for the RN to come do the intake appointment, which took forever. So I had to repeat all the blood work (they said it would be cheaper to do it that way), and then we were on our way.

My next appointment is 5-8-2009 @3:15pm for the physical exam appointment. Hopefully at that appointment we will get to hear the heartbeat through the doppler machine. I am excited and can't wait.


Please keep us in your prayers!

Thanks
MacCabe Family.