Shepherd's Conference

Andrew was only home for a few days after the Master's trip and then hopped on a plane to go back down to Southern California. He went with a group of men from our church to Shepherd's Conference. He had a great time with our group and seeing old friends. He's not a blogger so I had to blog about it for him. For that reason and because I know the other wives out there would like to see some pictures of our husbands at the conference.

Master's Trip

It's been a crazy couple of months! Andrew and I took some of our students down to Master's to check it out. We made the long drive on a Thursday and came back on that Sunday. We now realize that we are really living in northern California! It was a long drive!!! It was fun to show the students around and to be back on the Master's campus.

Roommate Reunion 2010

This last weekend I was able to meet up with some old roommates for our annual roommate reunion. We all met up at Erin's house in Simi Valley and enjoyed the warm SoCal weather. I feel truly blessed to have each one of these girls in my life. We are able to just laugh at each other and ourselves and to reminisce about old times. These girls sharpen me and I am so thankful that our friendships are centered on Christ. I am already looking forward to our next reunion in 2011!

Erin and her puppies

This is why I love these girls. We crack each other up.

Winter Camp 2010

We took the Herd up to Klamath Falls, Oregon to have our first Winter Camp. It was so much fun to be with our students for a whole weekend. We met up with another youth group from Oregon that our friend, Will Costello, leads. It was fun to see both groups get to know each other and to be challenged in their walk with the Lord. I survived being in the snow and it was actually fun!

My husband geared up for the snow.

I think this was the best sledding shot I got of our group. Shae and Julia always made it entertaining!

This is the chapel that we met in to have all of our teaching sessions.

Group photo at the end of the trip. Check out Andrew's hat. It's his new favorite clothing item.

My Kind of Snow

It has been raining for weeks here in Redding. I kind of just got used to not seeing the sun. I even went out and bought some rain boots and then woke up today to this. I love seeing the snow from a distance, that's my kind of snow:) I am thanking God today for a little break from the rain and enjoying the sunshine!

It's a...

We have had two official ultrasounds now confirming that this little baby is a GIRL!!! We are so excited and thank God for this sweet blessing. I am at 20 weeks now and find it very encouraging that I am half way done being pregnant. Not because it is so horrible being pregnant but we want to meet our little girl!

We had not discussed many names but Andrew surprised me over the holidays when he announced to my family that our baby girl's name would be Sadie Jane Callaway. I liked the name Sadie Jane because these names are close to our mom's names. My mom's name is Sandy or Sandra and Sadie is close to that and then Andrew's mom's name is Jan or Janet and Jane is similar to that. We thought naming our baby Sadie Jane would be one way we could honor both of our moms.

We had our big ultrasound today with our doctor and everything looks good with Sadie Jane. We are so amazed by God's goodness in keeping our baby healthy. Please keep praying that she will grow (well not too big!) and stay healthy.

Belly Picture

Well I am a little behind on this because of the holidays. This is me at a little over 18 weeks.

I am able to eat normal food again but for now I am still on my medication for nausea. I tried to go without it two times and I always end up sick. My doctor told me that I will probably need to be on it for another month or so but to just keep trying to go without it once a week. I feel like I definitely look pregnant now which is very fun. I think I have felt the baby move but I am so new to all of this I am not sure. Hopefully in the next couple weeks I will feel more confident in that. I have my big ultrasound in about a week and half so that will be fun to see the baby again.