GIRL NUMBER THREE!

Thank you to Sneak Peek for sponsoring this post.

 Can you believe it?? We're having another girl!

Honestly, I can totally believe it... but for some reason reading the results still took me by surprise! We are thrilled to be adding another little girl into our family! And, if you've seen the video of us telling the girls, you know they're beyond excited! Having girls feels so natural to us and honestly, I hardly have to do anything to prepare, ha! Another girl will fit so easily into our family. For whatever reason though, from the moment I saw the positive pregnancy test, I thought we were having a boy. If I'm being honest, I really had to mentally prepare for that. Having two girly girls feels really natural to me. Over time I mentally prepared to have a boy and started to warm up to the idea of a little Hunter running around. Then, came the ring test... Have you heard of this? If not, look it up on Google. Basically if you hold your ring over your hand with a piece of hair or string, it'll either move back and forth or move in a circle and that supposedly tells you the genders of your children and how many you will have. This test appeared to be accurate for every person we tried it on. My test said this baby would be a boy. So, here I was thinking we'd be welcoming a little boy into our family. I got super anxious and wanted to really actually start preparing if it were a boy because hello, we have ZERO baby boy things! Need dresses, hair bows, barbies, and pink nursery decor... I got you! But boy stuff... I have none of that. So I desperately wanted to find out the gender of this child, and fast! That's when I heard about Sneak Peek...

I have a few friends that have done Sneak Peek so I was really interested in it. The more I read, the more I really wanted tot try it! Sneak Peek is the only at-home early gender DNA blood test with results that are 99.1% accurate. It can also be taken as early as 8 weeks into pregnancy! Can you believe that?? You can now find out the gender of your baby at 8 weeks! That is 12 weeks earlier than the anatomy scan. Sneak Peek is also the safest, earliest, most accurate way to determine your baby's gender. 

I received my test in the mail and was so excited to take it. I had my mom help me because blood often makes me feel a little queasy. Luckily, my mom was super calm and helpful and it literally took us like 20 minutes. The instructions were very straight forward and I was surprised at how easy it was. You don't want male DNA to come in contact with the test so we had my dad stay downstairs and I used disinfectant  spray on the entire bathroom... I may have sprayed my moms hand after she touched her phone too... haha sorry mom. Once you mail the test back you can find out the results as fast as 72 hours after! I was alone when I opened the email and I was literally shocked! I told Hunter and he was soo excited. When I called my mom to tell her we both felt like we should go get an ultrasound just to make sure. I found a place that would take me the next day and sure enough, after looking for like 30 seconds, she confirmed that we are having a little girl! Once I received both results I felt like I could finally breathe and start really feeling excited about another girl. We're 98% sure we have her name already picked out and each passing day I get even more excited to see my three girls together. 💗💗💗

I would totally recommend doing the Sneak Peek test if you are wanting to find out the gender of your baby early. They ship everywhere in the US, Canada, Australia, and the UK. If you are wanting to try the test you can use code SPINOV11 for $10 off the standard test or $20 off the FastTrack test. The code is valid the whole month of November!

If you have any questions feel free to ask me! 

All my love

-Aleigh Joy

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She's A GIRL!

I already posted my announcement photo on social media, but figured I'd also write a little something about adding another little lady to our family!

First off, I cannot begin to explain how relieved I am!

As all expecting parents, we were really just hoping for a healthy baby and a healthy pregnancy.

We would obviously have been happy with either a boy or a girl, but of course were kind of "hoping" for one or the other.

From the moment I saw that very clear positive, I was hoping it would be a girl.

First off, a girl just felt right to me.

I have a two year old girl already, a whole lot of little girl clothes, have changed hundreds of little girl diapers, felt totally comfortable with raising a girl, and just loved the idea of reusing basically everything we already have.

I purposefully got all of our baby gear the first time around to be gender neutral so we wouldn't have to worry about that in the future, but when it came to wardrobe... there was nothing "neutral" in her closet ha.

Since Hunter is still in school, it just felt so much more comfortable to have a little girl.

Not only that, but I have been obsessed with our girl name since I was 18 and was just dying to use it.

So, at 12 weeks we had an ultrasound and the tech says "are you guys going to find out what you are having this time around?"

I responded, "yes, but probably not until 20 weeks because we don't want to pay at 16 weeks this time..."

He then looks at me and says "well I know what you're having already, do you want to know?"

I looked at Hunter and said "Do we? Do we want to know right now?"

I was worried I wouldn't know how to feel about what he was going to say because I wasn't prepared to know that early but blurted out a big 'ol yes!

He then says "okay, I'm 90% sure you're having a girl!"

I immediately felt relief and was so happy we wouldn't have to worry about buying much of well... anything!

He of course then says " I'm not usually wrong, but this is a very early guess so we'll make sure to check again at 20 weeks."

Because it was so early we only told close friends and family but if I'm being honest... I really didn't want to tell anyone haha.

I felt like it would be "less exciting" news to have another girl even though for me, it was exactly the news I was hoping for.

So, we just continued to pray for our "baby" and knew there was still a possibility of hearing something different at 20 weeks.

Fast forward 8 weeks and we're at the 20 week ultrasound.

The tech is going through all the anatomy and then says, "So what did I tell you you're having at 12 weeks?"

After telling him a girl he says, "Okay! Let's find out if I was right!"

Suddenly I panicked and thought "wait... what do you mean 'if'... What if it is a boy? I'm not prepared for a boy!"

Next thing I knew I was staring at the screen where he typed out that we were in fact having a girl!

I let out the biggest sigh of relief and whispered "oh thank goodness."

Like I said earlier, we absolutely would love to have a little boy... but at this particular time I am SO grateful this little one is a girl!

I am already dreaming up matching dresses on holidays and watching them play dolls together!

Hopefully they get along haha.

At some point, I absolutely want a boy... and Hunter of course does too!

We are definitely not stopping at two kids.

However, right now, I know the Lord was very mindful of us and placed this baby girl into our family at the perfect time.

Oaklyn gets a little friend, I get to be at ease while Hunter finishes school, and ya know... I get to use my name ;)

So anyways, we just wanted to say a big THANK YOU to all of you for the congratulations and well wishes!

We are thrilled to welcome another baby girl into our family and can't wait to share her name!

For now, we will be calling her baby C :)

All my love,

Aleigh Joy

I just had to include this picture because Oaklyn's face is the best haha! And no... Hunter didn't buy pink Nikes for this picture haha. He already had them from Breast Cancer awareness month (BYU makes sure to support!)

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