Little Elliana will be a big sister soon!!!

  Bryson and I were very shocked, and overwhelmed, yet are excited and feel extremely blessed to have found out we are expecting baby #2! Elliana is going to be a big sister at only 15 months old (she's just so little to be a big sister!). :) Though we've been waiting until I got past the 1st trimester to spread to word to make sure things were going well with the baby, we've known since Jan. 28. I was feeling somewhat sick for about a week with no apparant reason, and I finally decided to take a test. Sure enough we found the cause of my nausea. It's going ot be tough having two babies in diapers and I know two so young will require a lot of attention, but we know God is in control. His plans are bigger and better than we could ever imagine. Bryson and I are so thankful God has decided to bless us once again with another precious baby!
   My sister Amy, her friend Keeley,and Daly got here Thursday and left today. It was great getting to see them all. I definitely don't get to see enough of them. Living so far apart is tough! We had a good time hanging out here at the townhome, and Amy's pup did great at the shows! He won first place in the puppy class on 2 out of the 4 days! He also did very well in the open show...3rd out of 31 dogs! We went out to eat one night, played board games, and went to the Bass Pro shop in Nashville. It seems like the time flew by!
  We had a big scare this weekend with my dad. My mom called about 2:30 p.m. on Friday and told  us that dad had gotten really sick while at the post office. He ultimately had the worker there call an ambulance because he was extremely dizzy, staggering, sweating, nauseous, his whole body felt really weak, and was he having left arm pain. They checked his blood pressure and it was 210/90, and my dad has never had any trouble with high blood pressure. Though,he has a history of heart trouble having already had a quadruple by-pass surgery at 45! Both his mom and dad died of heart-attacks; his dad being only 54 years old when he passed away. High cholesterol is a problem being passed on to lots of Whetzells, including me.  Once dad got to the hospital they ran lots of tests on him and decided that he had not had a heart attack. In fact they couldn't find the cause of his symptoms at all! They ended up sending him home that night and told him to follow up with his cardiologist on Monday. I for one had hoped they would try a little harder to find the cause of the high blood pressure, but I assume they ran all the tests that they could. Hopefully everything will be o.k. with him when he goes to the cardiologist tomorrow. We thank God that he did not have a heart attack and seemed to get better very quickly. Please keep him in your prayers and thanks for all who've already said a prayer!
   Well, it's been a long weekend (a 5 year old's energy level vs. a pregnant lady's engery level = no comparisson) :). Both Bryson and Elliana are sound asleep and a nap is sounding perfect to me right now. Remember that today is the day to spring forward with your clocks!

Daly goofing off on Elliana's motor cylce.

Bless her heart, she got stuck in her crib! It was so cute though.

Daly out back with Mugsy.

Daly's first night here. She was so tired after traveling to TN from Albany and getting up early for the dog show.

Elliana loved having a playmate for a few days. Daly made a great baby entertainer!

Daly reading Elliana her favorite book....and getting her hair messed with as well. lol