House Pictures

 I am finally posting some house pictures to show our friends and family that live out of town.  We got our rug today for the living room so now it is complete, well sort of complete.  We need a few more things but the rug was the major need. Enjoy the tour!

 Notice the lovely blue tape us.  Yep, still need to do some paint touch ups!

 Our boring guest room.  This room I have not touched and now there's no point with baby #2 coming!

 I love our backyard and patio.  It needs some work because it has been neglected for a while but we are so thankful for a big shaded space.

 Our lovely side yard.  We are still not sure what to do with this space.

 The doggy door we will NEVER use.  Sorry dog people!

 Yes, our house is a lovely pink color.  One of our friends calls it salmon...we are hoping to change that someday but for now we are just trying to keep the yard looking decent.  Below is our front door.  Yes, that is a purple trim.  I am not sure why anyone would choose purple but we just say its for the Lakers:)

 

Happy Easter

I'm Back!

I'm finally back!  I am so grateful to have a laptop again and saw just how much I rely on it.  It was good to go without it for a while and now have it and appreciate it much more.  The things that were broken in my life for a while are back to normal.  Starting with the laptop and our house!  Our house is finally done and we are enjoying having a cozy place again.  I will post pictures soon.  Adding to all the drama with the house, I found out I was pregnant less than a week after we discovered our water damage!  We were so thrilled but at the same time I was a little nervous to see how my 1st trimester would go with our house under construction but God gave us another trial to get my attention off of that.  A week after we found out that we were pregnant I had some complications and we assumed I was having a miscarriage.  By the end of the week after some blood work and an ultrasound it was confirmed that I was still pregnant but there was something next to the baby.  My doctor said it was either a 2nd baby that didn't make it or a blood clot.  Either way she informed us that I was at a high risk for a miscarriage.  So we prayed and had other pray for us that we would ask God to save this baby and use them in a mighty way but more than that we prayed that we would submit to God's will, whatever it was for this baby.  In God's perfect plan, we had another ultrasound appointment a week ago and whatever was there that could have harmed the baby is gone.  It absorbed like my doctor hoped it would.  So right now we have a healthy growing baby and I am almost done with my 1st trimester!!!  We are now trying to figure out what life will be like come the end of October with a 16 month old and a newborn.  I know God has a lot to teach us:)

I also have not stopped reading the Bible in case anyone was wondering:)  I just wasn't able to blog about it and I really missed that.  I know it is more helpful to me than to anyone else.  

Today I read from 2 Peter 1:8-For if these qualities (virtue, knowledge, self-control, steadfastness, godliness, brotherly affection, and love) are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.  

This was so good to read because I fear being ineffective or unfruitful.  I don't want to waste my life.  It is good to see the qualities that I need to be striving after for God's glory.

SJ 9 1/2 Months

 It was time to do another little photo session with SJ.  I think in the craziness of life I have skipped a few months.  This is a little costume from cousin Kylee and SJ won't be able to wear it much longer so I thought I should get some pics of her in it.  Enjoy!

Our Trip Down South

We got to go down south for a few weeks and visit family and friends.  First stop, Merced, to see Nana and Pawpaw.  I finally figured out where SJ gets her cheesy smile from!

We had a little reunion with our old Bible study and it was amazing to see how many kids we all have now.  Here's SJ meeting some new friends.

SJ grew some hair when we visited Grammy.  Her new hairdo kept us laughing.

We got to hang out with Uncle Tyler and Aunt Joy with Elyse and Lauryn.

Papa Jim always gets down to SJ's level which she loved

We got to hang out with cousin Kylee and cousin Jackson.  Kylee likes giving SJ kisses.

Here's SJ laying one on Jackson.  There's a lot of love in the family!

House Update #2

 

We finally have an update on the house!  We were blessed to be gone for a few weeks on vacation while the house was being worked on.  Andrew got to go to Shepherd's Conference and I got to spend time with friends.  Then we got to spend some time with Andrew's family in Long Beach (pictures to come).  We are hoping the house will be finished this week but we are just trying to be patient knowing these things always take longer than you think.  I can't wait to give everything a good cleaning and have a kitchen again.  I am sure once that time comes to actually clean it won't be exciting but living with dirty floors for several weeks gets me pretty motivated.