So as most people guessed correctly on facebook, my Valentine’s Day present 2011 (or at least the most amazing one) is that we will be bringing a little bundle of joy into this world. I am officially 11 weeks and 2 days along and due on February 12th (hence the Valentine’s Day present). That is as long as I am not like my mom and deliver 2 weeks late so the baby is born Feb 26th or like my friend Diana and deliver 6 weeks early so the baby is born January 1st. So hopefully all will go as planned and we will have a healthy baby as an awesome Valentine’s Day present this coming year.
We are incredibly excited about this unborn child and feel completely blessed as we know it has come in God’s perfect timing. Just a little background into that, we have been telling friends for a while now (since January 2009 to be exact) that we were not doing anything to keep from getting pregnant. And if I had it my way, we would have been pregnant much sooner. However, God had much better plans. He wanted me to have the opportunity to grow through the waiting and trusting him with my desires. And to be honest, I was hoping to be pregnant so I didn’t even have to start my Master’s degree in the first place. But God had other ideas in mind. We were blessed with a pregnancy earlier this year, only to experience miscarriage in early March which was heartbreaking, but it made God’s timing even clearer. If that pregnancy had been successful, I would not have been able to complete my student teaching this fall and graduate in December.
So even though I still struggle to see the purpose in getting a degree that I know I will most likely not use for several years, I know that God has a plan for it. This baby will come in February, two months after I graduate, confirming His timing perfect. I have been off from school and work all summer which has been a blessing since I have been exhausted and nauseous most of the time. I will complete my Masters and graduate on December 18th which will put me right around seven months pregnant at the time (meaning I won’t have to be rolling across the stage to get my diploma). Then I will have almost 2 months (hopefully) to prepare for our precious bundle of joy to arrive in February. It’s pretty amazing to see how God had worked and he has worked in so many smaller ways that I wouldn’t even want to begin to write here so as not to bore everyone to death. But this pregnancy is not only a blessing in itself, but has been a huge blessing to see the process God has brought us through to get to this point.
Obviously we are not in the clear and anything could happen to change circumstances with the baby’s health, etc. But we are trusting God that this baby will arrive healthy this coming February and that miscarriages and other obstacles into growing our family are behind us. And we are looking forward to the wonderful opportunity of bringing a life into this world and showing them the love of Christ.
At this point baby and I are healthy. As I said, I am just over 11 weeks pregnant and this past week we were blessed with the opportunity to see our first ultrasound and here our baby’s heartbeat. It was such a wonderful moment to confirm that the baby was alive and well and that everything was on track so far. Here are some pics from that day we would like to share with everyone:
Here's our first glimpse of our beautiful baby!
Then we got to hear the heartbeat (176 and strong) and it was so awesome!
Basically to sum it all up we are super excited and ask that you pray with us as we begin this next stage in our lives. We know we have no idea what is up ahead, we just know that with God’s help we will be ready for whatever He has in store.
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