32 Weeks Today

I had a check up yesterday again and all is good. Dr. Burke said my belly is measuring for 33 weeks but he thinks I look an average size. Lil muffins heartbeat sounded good. My good friend Daisy tried to come with me, she recommended Dr. Burke to me because he had delivered all her babies and yesterday was the first time that she had off work and Tom was not coming with. But we waited in the waiting room for 40 minutes together and she needed to go rescue the babysitter and then I got called into the appointment about 5 minutes after she left. They put me in the room with the ultrasound too and I bet if Daisy would have been with, Dr. Burke would have asked us if we wanted to see what the baby was up to. He did one time when my cousin Lauren came with me and never charged for it because he didn't print any picture or anything. Anyway I think lil muffin really likes the sound of daddy's voice, when Tom talks to the baby lately, he/she will start kicking and moving around. I love it, it is so amazing.
We are packing tonight to go on Spring Retreat this weekend with the high school kids. We are very excited, this is my favorite event with the students that we do all year. We always go up to this Experimental Forest that the University owns where there are old train car cabins to stay in with bunk beds and pot belly wood stoves in each cabin. You get cold by morning if you don't keep that fire going! Of course I am taking our queen size double blow up mattress to sleep on and praying for some sleep on that. I am sure the six girls in my cabin will be very attentive to lil muffin and I, they all love lil muffin. I will be sure to report early next week with the report of the event. We are praying for a refreshing, relaxing time for the students and for God to continue working in their hearts and this is the first event of the year where upcoming freshman get to come along to begin their transition into the high school age youth group. Pray with us.

His Abundance

I am so excited about Toms fishing trip today, I just have to let you all see the sweet way God provides some great fish for us. Mmmmmm. His brother, Kevin, and a friend of ours, Wayne Benson, and he went fishing again this spring (today at one of Toms traditional spots to go in the Spring (this is his 3rd yr going) and between the three of them they brought home 15 fish! They are whopper trouts, 2 to over 4 lbs. and about 20 inches long! Last year he and Wayne and another friend had brought home 11 and we fed our rehearsal dinner with them and still had some left to eat later in the year. They caught them fly fishing from the shore, I am so impressed by my husband, he is a good provider for me and lil muffin. I am so excited to sink my teeth in, Tom is preparing one now! Gotta go :)

9 Months of Wedded Bliss!!

Well today is our 9 month anniversary, it has gone by so fast and it has been so wonderful. God has truly blessed us in our relationship with one another. Every day that goes by I love Tom more and more and there has been times when I have been overwhelmed by the thought of ever losing him to some tragic accident or something and all I can do is cry. The things you sometimes think of when your pregnant! I love being his wife and the one that he comes home to (although he is usually home before me) and the one he snuggles with every night and one he loves to cover with kisses in the morning. Yesterday the instructor in our class had us think of a peaceful happy place we love to go for a relaxation exercise (which by the way never really works for me) but anyway I thought of our warm snugly bed when Tom caresses my face and talks with me at night while I fall asleep because his voice is so calming and it is so peaceful there next to him, it is our favorite part of the day. We only have 2 more months and then we will be sharing our room with a newborn! Then it will be the 3 of us snuggling! We also bought a bassinet today speaking of lil muffin, we haven't really been able to find one and then we were on our way to church this morning and these people right down the street were having a garage sale. But we actually stopped later this afternoon to pick it up since it was still there and it was only a $1! I already cleaned it all up and washed it, it is waiting for a beautiful little baby to sleep in it! Anyway I believe I should go, I have a cribbage match to win against my wonderful husband.

Birthing Class!!!

Today we had our birthing class that we chose to take at Community Medical Cent. where our baby will be born. It came highly rec. from our OB, Dr. Burke. It was very informative Tom and I both thought and we practiced breathing and other techniques to relieve back pain now and during labor :) Which I experience a lot now in my lower back and today I found out why it is down there :) We also watched a lot of videos and got to see five births that were done without medication and got to see one with an epidural & a c-section! I have been adamant from the beginning that I am not getting an epidural, I hate needles & don't really like the thought of one going into my spine! Yikes! And you know all of those videos just confirmed my decision and as long as me and the baby are safe throughout labor I am going to stick with my decision. I believe I can do it and the Lord will give me the strength to do it. There were 7 other couples in the class and we were the only ones who has not found out the sex of our baby! Anyway that was the bulk of our day today, 9-4:30ish, a lot of information and we toured the labor and delivery where we will go when it comes time! I feel much more prepared now that I am informed of all my options. Some of the videos almost made me cry, when the baby comes out and is given over to the mother to hold and she is holding the most beautiful of all God's creation that she just did all that hard work for, wow God is splendid in His creative ability.
I wanted to take some good belly picks for you all this week since I just had an appointment on Tuesday. Which went well, everything is good thus far and now I actually start going every 2 weeks to see the Doc.! Getting closer!

30 Weeks and Counting

Today we are 30 weeks along in our pregnancy! We are pretty excited for our little muffin to arrive in about 10 weeks! This has been an exciting journey that the Lord has taken us on in our almost 9 months of marriage. God's planning is perfect though, the timing of the year to be pregnant with the different stages of pregnancy. And He has been good in just the blessing of the experience as a first time mom, I have had really no complaints thus far. Now I am just getting huge, I feel, and can't believe I have 10 weeks to go. With that comes discomfort in sleeping, getting in and out of the car & tying your shoes. But if that is my only complaint is my size, I will be able to tell my baby what a great baby he/she was before they were even born. I have been feeling increased movement this week, it is really quit amazing to experience the life inside you growing & becoming active.

Last Wednesday, the 31st, it was Spring Break for the students we volunteer with at our church high school youth group and some of the students were hiking the M in place of yg and Tom & I joined them! My unspoken goal was to to it without stopping but we got a little distracted by the fox & mule deer we saw up there. There are 13 switchbacks on this trail and your elevation gain is 620ft., I was pretty proud of myself since I have not been exercising very much during my pregnancy.