Pregnancy countdown.....13th week....

I am getting emails from mypregnancy.com about how my baby grows each week and how I grow! It is very interesting.

This week... fingerprints have formed on my baby's tiny fingertips, the veins and organs are clearly visible through the still thin skin, and the body is starting to catch up with the head which makes up just a third of my baby's body size. If this baby is a girl, she now has more than 2 milion eggs in her ovaries. The baby is almost 3 inches long and weighs nearly an ounce. The chance for miscarriage significantly drops since I am starting my 2nd trimester next week!!! Yay!!

I wanted to share this and plan to so this each week. I thought this was so interesting!

Please pray....

Well, I start back to work on Wednesday. I will be working 2nd shift. I will greatly miss my boys. I have spent today cleaning and playing with them and have thoroughly enjoyed it. Stan is still job hunting. He actually filled out an application on line this morning and got a call 5 minutes later for an interview on Wednesday at 10am!!! Praise the Lord!!! This interview is with Aflac. He already had a group interview with them at their company in Winston Salem, but never got a call back. But this one is a personal interview in Greensboro. I am praying he gets this job.
Aaron goes at 7 in the morning to get tubes in his ears! I am so nervous. But I know he will be ok.
Alex is doing great. He told his daddy last night, "We need to pray for Mamaw, she is still sick" !! He said this out of the blue!!! I am so proud of my baby!!! He is such a sweetheart!
Well, guess I better get back to cleaning and playing!! Hope everyone has a great day!! :)

My angels!!!

My God shall supply all your needs....

Phillippians 4:19 has always been one of my favorite verses....
I know I have not been on here in a while, I am sorry. Things got pretty busy around here.

Aaron turned One year old June 2nd. We had a blast at his little party. He had a great turn out!

We were planning a trip to Florida to see my Grandmother and then on to West Virginia to candidate at a church. The evening before our trip started my life took a significant change.

Please bear with me as I tell you this story. It is still hard (as it always will be) to tell this story of what happened to my baby.

Alex is 3 yrs old now!! It is so hard to believe how fast time flies, seems like yesterday that I was holding my 4lb 14oz baby in the NICU! God has really worked in his little life. He is my miracle baby. Although he was born 6 weeks early, there is no sign of him being premature at all... to this day~
Anyway, that Friday, Alex was playing, and I was frantically cleaning and packing. Not willing to stop for anything.. I was on a roll!!! My inlaws called saying they were coming by with a shirt for Stan. I, determinedly, protested they not come! My mother in law is not usually so determined and forceful about coming by, but she insisted. So I even more frantically stopped packing and started cleaning. I was not very happy about it to say the least. So, they came in and Grandpa and Alex started playing. Gramma was checking Stans shirt out when we heard Grandpa yell. We walked in to Alex seizing! He has never done this and I didnt know what to think. My first thought was his blood sugar, since that runs on both sides of our family. Immediately his lips turned blue... My mother in law, a certified RN, (Praise God) started CPR. I called 911 (rather panicky). She had to do cpr for 2 minutes before he finally took a breath. 30 minutes later, we finally arrived at the hospital. By the time we got there, Alex was just starting to come around and recognize, and open his eyes. To this day, the drs dont know why he had this happen. He has a Neurology appt scheduled for Nov 3. They scheduled this to see if there is any underlying seizure activity. We are praying there isnt any. Alex is fine. He is my very hyper, fun-loving 3 yr old. I thank God for every laugh, whine, movement my children make. Yes, of course they drive me crazy, but I still thank God for them. Now, when my Mother in law says she is coming, I dont panic! God has a reason!!! :)

I quit my job due to the pregnancy and I dont leave Alex alone at all! Stan has a job, just has not started yet. Things have been tight, but God has always provided a way!!!

God is in control

Well, life has been interesting of late. Stan has received 4 phone calls to 4 different churches in the past couple weeks. He is sending his resume out. These churches are in Michigan, Nebraska, Ohio and Virginia! We are praying that one of these churches is where God wants us! Please help us pray. We both have a strong desire to serve the Lord in a church, more than we are now! We truly miss this and are praying that one of these will open up.

Stan has still not found a public job. I am still working. Alex has had a hard time adjusting to me working. Since I have started working, he has ended up in bed with me alot the last few weeks (at night). Aaron is doing well, We are getting ready to celebrate his first birthday! Wow, does time fly!!! We got his first haircut last week and he screamed thru the whole thing! :-)

All in all, Stan is doing well with the boys. He is a wonderful father to them. I have noticed little changes in Alex's manners and potty training. I have such a wonderful husband!!! I praise the Lord for him.

Hope all of you in "blog world" have a wonderful day!!! God bless!

working mom

Wow, no one should take working mothers for granted! I have started working at Steak N Shake this past week and it has been tough on me. This is the first time I have worked outside the home since before Alex was born. That was 3 years ago! I have been blessed to be a SAHM for the past 3 years and I do not take it for granted. Stan and I agreed that I would work for a bit, since it was easier for me to get the job. I have really missed my babies. But I am sure there is a reason for this happening in our lives right now, though I am not quite sure what it is yet. Maybe the reason is for me to strive to be a better wife and mother..... maybe the reason is for Stan to understand things from my point of view as a SAHM and me from his point of view as the one who works, not sure. I know that God will show us. He has already provided us things thus far in ways we would not have imagined. Romans 8:28 comes to mind. All things will work together for the Christian who loves God wholeheartedly. Life sure has changed around here, but God is still in control. I just need to keep reminding myself that. Please keep us in your prayers.

Growing up....

Just wanted to post a few new pics of Alex and Aaron.... they grow up so fast!