20+ Weeks

I am now a little over 20 weeks pregnant and it's going by so fast! Jude Bryce will be here around Oct. 31st if he stays on track like he is!  I started feeling him move a whole lot last week, it is so surreal. We had an appt. yesterday and the biggest measurement they took was of his stomach (weird), so pray for Sean because if Jude ends up weighing as much, or more, as Sean did when he was born Sean may feel my wrath in the delivery room, ha!

A lot of people keep asking me if I have any weird cravings or aversion and so far nothing. Although I do like to eat pickles, that has not changed from before it is now an excuse for people to not look at me weird when I want a lot! The only aversions I had were in my first trimester and it was really an aversion to Chili's. But I can say I ate there with a friend this week and I was just fine!

I am so thankful for the friends in my life who are either experts at child birth/motherhood or experiencing for the first time this year! Special thanks to Lauren who I feel like is my on call nurse when I have any questions.

I am so excited for the future of our family and a very nervous as well. So if you're reading this please pray that God would answer/provide for concerns that Sean and I have regarding what to do after Jude arrives and how to make this all work financially. We are thankful for God's provision thus far and we know He will continue to do so, it's just hard some times to release control of the situation when numbers don't add up. Thanks to everyone who checks up on me and has been encouraging me along the way, you will never know how much it means to me. There is a reason why we are told through scripture that we should encourage and build one another up!

Jude at 16 weeks, he didn't really cooperate at our 20 week appt. for any good pics! But you can already tell he's got a big tummy haha!

And Then There Were...

So if you read my last post you know that we just moved into our house at the end of February, February 27th to be exact. Our house has this beautiful room with bay windows, it is so pretty. If I ever figure out how to upload pictures to this I will post pictures of it. When we looked at the home Sean quickly dubbed it as his office/music room, others were quick to say it will be a baby's room for when we have children.

So Monday as we are bringing in boxes (ok everyone but me brought in boxes) I would hear, "put it in the baby room", again we have already determined this is Sean's office/music room. As I hear that being said I kind of smile and laugh and say you know with all this talk about it we are probably going to find out that we are pregnant.

Wednesday, February 29th, I am having lunch with a friend, Amanda, at Chili's (a weekly ritual) and I told her I thought I would take a pregnancy test. Now one thing to know about me, I am super paranoid and take lots of pregnancy tests! So Amanda gets all giddy and I tell her I think I'm just gonna wait because I do this all the time. She ends up convincing me to go buy one on my lunch break and let her know immediately ha! So instead I tell her to go across the street with me to Wal-Mart, classy I know. So we go over and get one, and head to the bathroom...sure enough, I'm pregnant!!! I couldn't believe it so I took another when I got home and then another a couple days later. After three positives I decided to believe it was true, ha!

Yesterday, March 28th, was our first appt. We were able to see the baby's heartbeat which as really cool, the baby was hanging out upside down and cracked me up! The Dr. gave us great news saying that it is measuring properly and so far everything looks great. Our due date is expected around Oct. 31st. Sean is adorable (he will hate me for saying adorable!), he is so excited to be a Dad, I love it! I did find out from the Dr. though, during my appt., that I have a heart murmur; so I will be going in for an EKG sometime. Called my mom to find out that my pediatrician said I had a murmur when I was a baby, 25 years later I know ha! So just pray that it's nothing!

Now then, a lot of people have been thinking that this wasn't planned or it was an "oops", I will assure that is not the case. No baby is an accident, it is by God's grace and plan to provide us with such blessings. We knew we wanted a family, and I decided a long time ago I did not want to start having children when I was in my 30's, I wanted to start earlier. So Sean and I prayed that if God wanted to provided us with a child, He would do so, and we know He will provided and care for all of us. Remember from my last post that my prayer for this year is for the Lord to bless us, this is just another answer to that prayer!

If I ever learn how to upload pics on this thing I'll provide a pic of the sonogram! 

Growing Up and Moving On

It is only March and this year has been a crazy but wonderful year already!

In January I made this my prayer for the year: That the Lord would pour blessings upon Sean and I in 2012.

Fast-forward a few weeks... Sean and I spent one Saturday looking at houses, not really expecting anything to come up that we liked in our price range, but sure enough we found something. We signed the contract the next day.

The following day our world got rocked when we needed to really pray about some situations and where God is calling us. We took a weekend and spent time together in prayer, Scripture and reading a book called, "The Circle Maker" by Mark Batterson. (I highly recommended it). God showed us that he is not through with us where we are at and gave us great clarity. So on we went with purchasing our first home!

The process of buying this home seemed way too good to be true, and sure enough... it became a pain! Two weeks after we were told we would be in the house we still weren't. When we went to sign everything it did not go as well planned as we had hoped, but finally by the end of February we were in our house! But of course stuff has to continue to go wrong right? A week after we were moved in we had to take Paisley (our Australian Shepherd) to the vet because she sounded like she could not catch her breath at night. Sean went to pick her up while I was at home cooking dinner. I went to clean some dishes but when I turned the faucet on, nothing came out! Now before you start thinking we did not take care of things in order to have water, let me assure you Sean did this. But when they came out that day to switch it over from the builder's name to ours they found a leak and could not switch it over, so they turned off our water instead. So Sean comes home, (finally from the Vet; none of Sean's Debit/Credit cards work due to his wallet, so he got stuck there for awhile trying to pay... this is important to know because he is not too happy and is coming to a house without water!) he goes outside and turns our water on! I was so proud and I am sure he felt super manly by being able to take care of his wife like that!

We are a year and a couple of months into our marriage and it has been a crazy, wonderful journey so far. God is teaching us so many things and has truly already blessed us beyond what any one can imagine so far this year... and I know there is more to come! ;)