Our Big News!

We are so thankful, grateful, humble, and excited to announce baby Nelson! I am 11 weeks and due in September. We have seen the baby three times and everything looks perfect. I was released from my specialist today which was a great milestone and very emotional. Dr. Phy and her office have become family to us. The baby has fingers, toes, a strong heartbeat, and a lot of spunk!

We are so thankful to our Father for hearing our prayers (and yours on our behalf) He was so faithful. Even before we knew we were pregnant, we felt His presence and His peace during these past couple of months. This child is to his glory and humbly recognize Him as the creator of this life. I told a friend this week that I felt like one of the Baxters and could run around singing "Great Is Thy Faithfulness" all day long.

Many of you know after my second miscarriage I was diagnosed with Antiphospholipid syndrome. Basically this means when I get pregnant, my blood thickens and forms clots. I have been and will continue to take a blood thinner shot in my stomach every day until two days before my C-Section. I am so thankful that they found this. The amazing thing is that a pregnancy only has a 10% chance of making it to full term and delivery if this is untreated. Over half of the miscarriages occur after 32 weeks. We had a friend recently miscarry at 37 1/2 weeks and she was diagnosed with this after. The amazing this is that I had this with Carley and had no idea. She is a 10% chance! I love that little curly headed miracle running around our home! That being said, we do covet prayers for a healthy pregnancy. Treated with the blood thinner shots, you have like a 90% chance of a healthy pregnancy so we are really thankful to be on them, even though my stomach looks like I have been beaten with a bat! :)

We are all just so excited and thankful for this little blessing already!

I think I am the only one,

but I like Molly. She has been my favorite since the first episode. Most everyone I know likes Melissa. I think that he should pick Molly and Melissa should come back as the next bachelorette.

You Tube predicts Melissa because they say that the video of him proposing shows her pinky ring. I guess we will know in two weeks. I just can't imagine what makes the next couple of weeks so dramatic and the after the rose so private. There is just no telling with nutty reality TV and the smoke and mirrors game they love to play!

Who is your pick?

Also, how good was the Grey's/Private Practice crossover. Some of the best episodes for Grey's all season. I just wish Taye Diggs would come flirt with Baily more often! She deserves some flirting!

Lost has not disappointed me all season. I love what is going on and the connections.

What are your thoughts?

You never know

Last night one of 13 year old students died. He was at a small group bible study for his church youth group. He went to the bathroom, has a seizure, and was gone. He had no history of anything like that. Noone knew he was sick or feeling anything weird, if he was. TJ was a great kid. Smart, funny, charming as could be, cute, hard working, talented, and creative. All the kids liked him. He was just one of those great nice kids. Today was such a sad day at school for our students and faculty. It is so unbelievable to think how life ends in an instant.

I have nothing to say for a wrap up. No life lessons, no adage to sum it up. It is just amazing how life begins and ends out of our hands and often so quickly and without warning. My heart goes out to his parents and little brother who loved him. He had such a bright future. I know that he is in a much better place. (afterall, dying at church is a pretty good place to go) It is still just amazing.

Important Lessons From the Tower of Babel

In bible class yesterday Carley learned about the Tower of Babel. I think she might have missed part of the point of the story.

There is a lot of construction aroud our church building. When Carley was looking out the window and saw construction and said, "building does not make God happy. He does not want us to build". So Cody told her that they were building a really tall tower that God did not want them to build.

Then she looked at our church, which has a tall bell tower and said that our church does not make God happy because God doesn't like towers. We tried (to no avail) to argue with her, but it was ridiculous so we let it go. That afternoon she was watching part of Beauty and the Beast and saw the castle. Well that set her off again. "Belle makes God so said because she lives in a tower. God cries when he sees her tower". So I tried to tackle it again and told her the people were not obeying God and that was why he was sad. They were trying to build a tower all the way to Heaven, where God lives, and he told them not to do it. They disobeyed.

So then Carley said, "God does not want us to go to Heaven. It makes him so sad".

Then began another arguement with a three year old who had no idea what she was saying and I couldn't stop laughing.