18 Weeks!

Baby Mozingo is the size of a sweet potato!
"He" weighs 6.7 ounces, and is about 5.6 inches long!
My uterus is now the size of a cantaloupe!

I always heard (or since I have actually started seeking out pregnancy advice, and reading pregnancy books) that you would start showing overnight. I didn't think I would literally wake up with a baby bump, but it sure does seem that way! I have been taking pictures for myself every week just to see for myself how much I am growing, and this past week has shown some major change! Jason is finally realizing that there IS a baby in there, and is constantly pointing out my growing belly! Maybe in a few weeks people will actually be able to distinguish my bump from what could be mistaken as a beer belly! :o)

Pregnant!!!

We wanted to wait until our first appointment to announce, just to make sure we WERE in fact pregnant, and I wasn't being a hypochondriac-since I've been known to be one in the past :o)

I have now been to TWO appointments, and after about 8 pregnancy tests, hearing the heartbeat, and FINALLY seeing the little thing, I can safely say that I am pregnant :o) The due date is March 22, 2010--I am 17 weeks and 3 days pregnant today!

When we got the ultrasound, the Dr. also gave us a prediction of the sex of the baby, but that is all that it is. She was very hesitant to tell me, but I begged and she finally gave in ONLY after saying that it was a 51%/49% guess--but I think she just said that because she wasn't 100% POSITIVE. To be sure, after doing this for as long as she has been doing it, she can tell the sex of a baby better than that at 16.5 weeks..anyways, her prediction is fine with me, and all I need for the moment! So for now, instead of calling it a "it", it is now a "he"! Hey, I started out as a "he", and in fact I stayed that way until I graced the world with my presence, and I turned out just fine :o)

XOXO from sunny (and from what I hear warmer than NC) Valdez,

It's Been A While...

Well we are finally BOTH back in Alaska, after a HECTIC and BUSY 6 months! Sorry it's been a hot minute, the few weeks before the wedding were more hectic and flew by faster than I could have imagined, and even the few weeks AFTER the wedding were busy busy!!! The wedding turned out BEAUTIFUL, we could not have asked for a more memorable, special day. Everything was perfect, and if it wasn't we sure didn't notice! After the wedding we drove down to Port Canaveral, Florida for a 7 day Western Caribbean cruise, one word--FABULOUS! After the honeymoon it was back home for all of the fun stuff--packing, name changing-- getting me entered into the system as Mrs. Ashley Melvin Mozingo :o) My family threw us a 'going away/just married' cookout, which turned out great as well!! Finally, after getting everything done and spending some much needed time with our families, we headed back to Valdez on September 2nd. We arrived in Anchorage that afternoon around 3, did a little shopping, and spent the night in Anchorage. The next day we headed back to Valdez, after a little more shopping of course, and we are finally settled in...FINALLY!! Have I said that enough?

Hopefully now, I will have more time to update the blog! I will try to add some pictures of our honeymoon soon, but for now here are a few of our beautiful day--Enjoy!

Thank you everyone who helped us celebrate our special day, and also thank you to everyone for your love, support and help with this wedding!!

1 More Month!!! :o)

Only one more month until our big day!!! Time has FLOWN by, as everyone warned me it would. GOOD, because I'm ready to be with my Prince Charming, but BAD because I have SO much to do, SO little time! Before August 15th I have to:

-Get Bridal Portraits Made (Friday!!!)

-Go to Myrtle Beach for my Hair Practice

-Finish centerpieces, candy buffet stuff, bubbles, fans, etc.

-Lose 50 pounds

-Get stuff ready for our cookout

-Pack for Alaska

-Pack for Honeymoon

-Clean out my apartment in Greenville

--God only knows what else I am forgetting :o)

Just wanted to post a quick update with a few pictures of what we have accomplished the past few weeks! Needless to say, I have spent the past week tying about 100 bows, which take me about 10 minutes per bow--I'm not a crafty person!

We bought fans for people to use during the ceremony since it will be at 10 a.m. on the beach and hot, hot, HOT! I have decorated those and our bubbles to the best of my ability, and needless to say, I am very proud of them :o) Here are a few pictures!

Just wanted to post a quick update, have to talk to Jason now--I can't talk to him and update our blog at the same time--I get confused! Ha! Keep me in your thoughts and pray that I don't have a nervous breakdown soon, and that I make it through the next month without killing someone! Thank you!!

XOXO from Hot and almost miserable N.C.--

Jason's Trip Home

Jason finally came home on June 27th, and we had a busy busy week! I picked him up from the airport Saturday morning and we spent the day with his family. Sunday we got up bright and early and headed to Goldsboro. On the way, we picked up my wedding band,
which I LOVE by the way, and had some pictures made in a studio--my aunt bought us a package from a fundraiser that my cousin was doing and we get a FREE 11x14 picture. After that we had our shower, which was a big success--we got lots and lots of stuff! We finally headed down to Myrtle Beach Sunday night and stayed until Tuesday night. We applied for our marriage license and picked it up, and just shopped and layed out on the beach so Jason could work on his tan--Alaska makes you PALE!! :)



We left Myrtle Beach Tuesday evening and headed to my family's beach house in Swansboro, where we stayed until Friday. We spent the day on the beach and at the pool with his family and my sister and the kiddos :) And Jason got fried, AGAIN. Needless to say, I couldn't touch him all week without him complaining :o(

Friday morning we headed to Goldsboro because we were getting our engagement pictures taken that afternoon. We met our photographer downtown at 5:30 and shot until 8! We had lots of fun taking the pictures, and LOVE LOVE LOVE how good they turned out! Could not have asked for better pictures, or for a better photographer, who is also doing my bridal portraits and our wedding :) Definitely recommend him to anyone. His website is: www.michaelradford.net. He is very affordable, fun to work with and is willing to do anything to get you the shots that you want :)

Saturday, we went to New Bern for the day to cook out with his family. We had yummy pig and southern cooking--which Jason couldn't get enough of while he was home! We spent the day by the pool and just relaxed which was a nice change from the rest of the week!! We headed back to Goldsboro that night and spent our last few hours together, and got up early this morning to head to the airport :o( Although it's never easy when he leaves me, it was much better this time because we knew that he will be back in a little over a month and this is the last time we will be doing this long distance crap (hopefully!!!). He is officially back in Ketchikan as of about an hour ago--safe, sound and exhausted :o)

Okay, enough blabbing. Why do I always talk so much on this thing?!?! Wedding planning is going good, everything is pretty much finished except for small details--whew! My dress should be in this week sometime, so YAY for that--Bridal portraits on the 18th is what it's looking like--I'll keep updating, and may have to cut Jason off from the blog until after the wedding so I can give a sneak peak of my portraits. We will see!

XOXO from hot and once again lonely N.C.--

It's getting closer.....

Just a little update on what has been going on in
my life lately....

My mom and I got everything out tonight to see exactly what we had for the wedding and I decided to take some pictures so Jason could take a peek :o)

The first few are some of our invitations, napkins and centerpieces. Oh, and our cake cutters too. I don't know if you can tell, but those are seashells at the top of the napkins and invitations! I ordered them both online, and am very pleased with how they turned out!

This next group of pictures are pictures of our candy for our Candy Buffet. I'm really excited to see that its all finally coming together. We have had a TIME trying to find candy in the colors that we wanted to use. I know I could use any colors I want, but I wanted to stick to our colors.....didn't realize how tough it was going to be! Come to find out, you give my Granny a job, and she goes all out! Thank God for Granny! I was a little worried because all of the "Pool" colored candy was a little different, they weren't all the exact same, but when we put them all out together they looked really good! We still have a few more things to get but most of it is finished for the candy buffet!

So far we have:

Blue & Pink Hershey Kisses

Blue & Pink M & M's

Blue & Pink Tootsie Rolls

Blue & Pink Hershey Kissables

Pink York Peppermint Patties

Blue & Pink Suckers

Granny bought TWENTY bags of the assorted Tootsie Rolls, and we got together tonight and picked all of the blue & pink ones out...we will do the same with the Kissables when it is closer to the wedding, we don't want them to go bad. Also, I found the cute suckers today and love them!


Here are the suckers. We have to find a way to 'hide' the sticks--I don't like the way it looks! Maybe put some tissue paper in the vase around them or something?

Here are the Tootsie Rolls AFTER we separated them...and a little vase we may use on the table to put some flowers in or something. Also, I think we may tie some ribbon around the vases. The colors aren't separated in the pictures, but for the wedding they will be separated--NOT mixed!

I also mentioned in my last post that we had hired two violinists for the ceremony. I'm extremely excited about this, and to make it even better they have offered to learn not one but TWO songs. I already have one picked out, but still haven't decided on the other...we will see!

Well, off to do some homework for my stupid online class, which by the way I will be finished with on Tuesday, WHOO HOO!!!

Feel free to give input, or ideas--this girl isn't too creative :o)

By the way--today is mine & Jason's 'other' 1 year anniversary--one year since he asked me to be his girlfriend..actually he didn't ask me-he told me that "I think it's about time we changed our Facebook relationship status, whatcha think?" Little did he know what he was getting himself into! Ha! Love you Boo Boo!

XOXO from hot and stormy N.C.--

Bridesmaid's Dresses...

Well my sister's dress, since she is the only one I am having :)

The main color of the dress is the same as the one in this picture, but the bottom trim and the ribbon around the waist is going to be a lighter blue color--'Robin's Egg'. Hope it looks good when it comes in!!!