Check out my ticker/widget thing!

According to my ticker/widget thing we have 100 more days to go until this baby get's here! My guess it will be slightly less than that, and my hope is that it won't be too much less than that!

Small update

Just wanted to let all you blog readers out there know that I have an ultrasound scheduled for tomorrow at 1:00pm (please snow, hold off until we get back), and then a doctor's appointment on Thursday at 4:00pm. So, by Thursday night we should know what's going on with our precious little bambina!

We are so grateful for all your prayers and I have great hope that we'll get the "all's clear" tomorrow and go about with our "regular" life. I'm feeling great, baby is moving around like you wouldn't believe, she seems to take after her brother and *loves* dancing around to her daddy's vibraphone playing.

We have a busy Thursday night (hopefully) but I will try to update as soon as I get a chance. I'm going to try to get the ultrasound technician to talk tomorrow, but they are usually very cryptic in anything they say. Surely they can answer one question, "Is the placenta still fully attached or not...really, that's all I want to know." Lol!

Winter

Winter crept in at the end of this week. Temperatures have dropped and a little bit of snow did to. Here's a sight that I imagine I'll be seeing for the next several months, until July!

Prayers for this baby please!

I wanted to ask ya'll to please pray for me and our baby girl. I just got off the phone with my doctor and apparently there's some concern with my placenta and a spot that shouldn't be there. He said it could be a number of things ranging from where the placenta started to come off and then healed itself to, well...he didn't know....great.

Anyway, it was about a year ago we found out we were pregnant with the baby we lost on Christmas of last year and I really, really, really want to meet this little one so please pray for us. I'm trying to stay calm until I have another ultrasound (which will be in the next week and a half) and learn more. Until then I'll be praying like crazy and not scrubbing any more walls.

Mountain Man

We lived in Texas for 7 years. We miss Texas, we miss our friends, we miss the community we had there, but...we are so happy to be where the woods are in our backyard (not literally since we live in town, but close..very close).

As I was reflecting with a friend yesterday on the phone, Brett must have been in agony while living in the Lone Star State. There was limited opportunity to be out in nature. When we were in nature we were either way too hot or constantly looking out for poisonous snakes which we just knew were lurking around the next corner...lol!

Here, however, are endless opportunities...endless...really, I mean endless. Fortunately for Brett and usually for us, my dear husband has spent most waking moments either seizing these opportunities or dreaming up his next excursion.

The most recent adventure was making his own deer hide drum...out of the hide of the deer he shot. He soaked the hide for a little over a week and then scraped the hair and whatever off of it. This job stunk soooo bad that we couldn't even be outside in the yard while he was scraping. The next step was stretching and nailing the hide up in our garage to dry.

Last weekend Brett and Aidan went out to the forest to find a piece of wood...and find they did. Brett planed the bark off the wood and on Tuesday night stood over our stove with a big pot of steaming water steaming this piece of wood and slowly, slowly, slowly (read 4+ hours) bending it into a circle to be the frame of the drum. Then came stretching the hide over the frame, making a mallet, etc... You get the idea. Here are some pictures of the end result. Warning: these pictures were taken at 6:30am this morning.

25 weeks (tomorrow)

I'm beginning to feel like the "Great Pumpkin" and hoping my family doesn't mistake me for the turkey at Thanksgiving! :-)

Truly?

Is this truly the man that Americans want running our government? A man who stands for nothing, yet claims to be the "change" that everyone needs? A man who tells me that because of "choice" I can kill this precious baby I've been praying for before she was conceived? A man who wants me to fund abortions through "healthcare" for all? A man who has more money than most Americans can imagine, yet is speaking for "the poor"? A man who thinks marriage is not sacred enough to defend, that lives are not sacred enough to defend? A man who is going to "bring those troops home" by-golly regardless of if our job has been finished and make the lives lost null and void? A man who is charming and eloquent, but says nothing?
This is what America wanted, this is what she gets. Land of the free (if you were lucky enough to be born), home of the brave!
All I can say is that I will, with a clear conscience, be able to say that I did nothing(!) to support this man, and will be praying for this country because God is the only One who can get us out of this mess now!

On a "lighter" note...lol! I was going to say that I'm moving to Canada, but they are already under a socialist government, so I might as well stay here.