My hubby

I have to brag about my hubby for a quick second. Throughout the pregnancy he's been very vigilant, loving, caring, sweet.....You get the picture. Kyle is a very deep sleeper. So much so that Jack can bark right next to his head in the middle of the night and he won't even notice. That was until I got pregnant. Every time I get up to go to the bathroom or move, he leans over and asks me if I'm ok. The other night, he kept waking me up to check on me. Of course during the night when I was being woken up in between the times I got up, I was not very happy about it. Now that I'm fully awake and I've had more sleep, I am very blessed to have such a loving and caring husband. I don't know how I got so lucky but I thank God that I did. I found these pictures the other day and I thought I would share them again. I love the look on Kyle's face. Mom took these pictures when we fould out the sex of the baby.

Exciting news from the DR

Yesterday I had a doctors appointment and everything is looking good. The baby and I are both healthy. The most exciting news was that the doctor said he would be shocked if I made it to May 16th. The baby is measuring big and I'm already dilated and my cervix is almost completely gone!! WOHOOO....I'll keep everyone updated!

Maternity Pics

Our friends, Mike and Rebekah, took maternity pictures for us and they turned out so good!! For some reason, I'm having an issue downloading the pictures onto our blog. My mom was able to put some of them on her blog so you can check them out there or on Facebook. Here's her link, http://lisa-lisasfamily.blogspot.com/2009/04/anna-lisas-maternity-pictures.html. Mike and Rebekah, thank you again for the pictures and all the time you put into them. They are amazing!

Thankfulness

Apparently God is trying to teach me a lesson on being thankful this week because that seems to be where all my thoughts are this week. Last night I was laying in bed thinking about how uncomfortable I was because William was in playing in my ribs, I was having bad reflux, I had already gotten up three times to go to the bathroom since I went to bed, I was hot, so on and so on. I suddenly realized I hadn't thanked God for the miracle growing in my belly. After that I got to thinking, are we supposed to be thankful for everything we experience even the bad? Is a cancer patient supposed to thank God for the cancer that could take their life? I did a study this morning and I'm still a little fuzzy on what God wants from us when it comes to being thankful. Obviously we are to thank him for everything in our life, but what about the bad stuff or the uncomfortable stuff? I do remember hearing that we should thank God for whatever test and trial we are going through because we are still blessed and God has a plan for our lives and the test or trial we are going through is part of that plan and even though we don't know what the experience will teach us, we should thank God for that lesson. In 1 Thessalonians 5:18 it says, "Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus."
So, my what I learned is I'm still confused. I'm still going to have to do some research but this may be one of those things that God is going to have to show me himself. If I am to read into the Thessalonians verse, I would say that we are to thank God for EVERYTHING in my life no matter how difficult the experience is. This is definitely something I'm going to have to work on. Please feel free to add your two cents in on this subject because I am totally unsure and a little lost.

Rant of the day

Sunday was the miss USA pageant and like every year there is always some answer that draws a lot of attention. This year, it was Miss California's answer. Perez Hilton (who is very openly gay) asked her if every state should legalize same sex marriage. Why or why not? Her answer, "Well I think it's great that Americans are able to choose one or the other. Um, we live in a land that you can choose same sex marriage or opposite marriage and, you know what, in my country and in, in my family, I think that I believe that a marriage should be between a man and a woman. No offense to anybody out there. But that's how I was raised and that's how I think that it should be between a man and a woman."
Of course, Mr. Hilton was not happy with her answer and has now made a statement stating her answer to that question lost her the competition. Here's where I have an issue. You asked her opinion, she gave it, and it wasn't the same as yours, and now your acting like she's the anti-Christ. When did we become a country that didn't accept that everyone has different opinions? I thought that was one of the things that made America great. I am very impressed that she didn't bow to the pressure of being asked the question by a gay man and give an answer she thought he would want to hear. Here's the YouTube link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XMvviFbkf0&feature=related and here's the link of Perez Hilton's comments after the pageant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_QhM3TK2UE&NR=1 (There is some cussing in this one and it makes me SO MAD!). Today I am thankful that I live in a country where I can express my opinions and not have to worry about government backlash even though other people may be offended by my opinion.

Follow up to yesterday's post

This post goes along with the one below. I heard the song (by Craig Morgan) God Must Really Love Me Easter weekend (oh if you turn your speakers on you can hear it). The first time I heard it, the radio played the "special version" which had messages from military men and women overseas to their family here. It was very sweet. The second time I listened to it, I actually listened to the words and realized that this song is very true about my life. It seems like our society is very much about dwelling on all the bad stuff going on, the war, the economy, you name it. Instead, we should be dwelling on everything God has given us. It seems like the world is so much about pissing contests (excuse my language) about how bad our lives our instead of how great we've been blessed. Can you imagine a conversation that went like this, "Oh man, today God blessed my life! He allowed me to wake up and start my day. Then, he allowed me to kiss my husband goodbye on the way to work. He even gave me the job that I got to go today." Instead we hear this, "Today was horrible. I had to wake up early to get to work. My husband was cranky when he left for work. Work was terrible and I hate my job. Then on the way home from work, the traffic was horrible." I admit, I am very much guilty of the second scenario. When I heard the song, I felt very guilty. We heard once at convention that we are so focused on seeing a big miracle in our life that we always forget to see the little, everyday miracles that happen in our lives everyday. Pastor Jeremy once made a comment that made me stop cold. He stated that the fact that we woke up and we were able to get to church that morning was a miracle. My goal is to start noticing and thanking God for the everyday miracles God performs in my life. Today, so far I'm thankful for the ability to wake up and get out of bed, my husband who is amazing, William being healthy, and the beautiful weather down here. What are your miracles today?

Lyrics to my new favorite song

Lyrics to God Must Really Love Me :

There's been times I've let my faith run thin
Not been the man I should have been
After all the trouble I've been in, I'da gave up on me
I've lived hard and I've lived fast
Lost things I will never get back
Cause someone to look past all of that
God must really love me
When I look at the miracles around me
At the way that I live and the way He forgives
I know He's up there smiling down on me
And I believe the only reason why
I'm still alive isGod must really love me
Wake up and feel you by my side
The perfect girl, the perfect time
And see the way our future shines
God must really love me
When I look at the miracles around me
At the dream that I live and the gift that he gives
I know he's up there smiling down on me
And I believe the only reason why
I get to live this life is God must really love me
When I showed the worst, He saw the best
He pulled the world right off my chest
Every day I wake up I feel blessed
Yeah, I feel so blessed
God must really love me
God must really love me
God must really love me

Thoughts of the day

This morning while I was laying in bed wide awake at 4:30, I decided to start writing more in the blog. Writing has always been my way of getting my thoughts and feelings out in the open even when I didn't really know how I was feeling and I haven't done it for a very long time so I figured why not start now. So here are my random thoughts for today.
As I was laying awake this morning, I realized that I haven't really had any fears about the baby and being a mom which is very strange since I'm very much a "what if" kind of girl. Well, I finally found my fear, deployments with a child. I don't know how to raise a boy. I thought about this because I realized that the reality of my life is that Kyle will deploy again. I know that Kyle is going to be a GREAT father and will take every chance he gets to teach William how to be a man, but what do I do when he's gone? I just hope that I don't make him a sissy :) My other thought is how do you explain deployment to a child. As an adult, you can wrap your head around they reason your husband has to go clear across the world for 7 months, but how do you explain that to a child? My biggest fear is that William would think that his dad doesn't love him because he's not here. It's my job to make sure that he knows how much his daddy loves him no matter where he's at. I've started coming up with ideas on how to do just that. Whenever I start thinking about Kyle being gone again, I think about one of my favorite verses in Matthew. " Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life...." That verse brings me so much comfort anytime I start to worry about the future. I know that God will take care of our family and we will get through any deployment Kyle goes through. No matter how hard the military life can be, I would never trade it for the world but that's a whole other post.

Belly pictures

This was taken on 4-14-09.

It's officially time for this baby to come out!! We had an appointment last Thursday and everything is looking good. The doctor even told us we could start walking to get the baby to move down. The appointment was cut short because he had to go deliver twins but I'm thinking he believes the baby is going to come early :)

Update

Since I'm not working anymore I really don't have any reason not to update the blog so here's the most recent update. I had an appointment last week and my doctor took me off of work because I'm starting to have some contractions and I get really swollen after working all day. The baby is already head down and growing perfectly. Since I've been home, I remember why I love being a stay at home wife/mom. I love having the house clean when Kyle comes home and having dinner on the table for him. Since everything is clean and done, we get to spend more time in the evening together. For about the last three weeks we have been trying to not be couch potatoes. We live in such a beautiful place with the best weather and we never take advantage of it. So far our tv has been turned off more the last 3 weeks than the whole time we've been married (it's sad to admit that). Jack enjoys it as well because he usually comes with us wherever we go. We've also been working on William's room. Everything is done EXCEPT the stupid dresser. We got the dresser at Walmart and when I opened it up, none of the hardware was in the box. So we had to wait for 7 business days for the hardware to be shipped to us. So I finally got it all put together and realize that I'm still missing the screws for the knobs and drawer guides (for the drawer to slide back and forth) are warped and the drawers don't work. So now we're waiting for more hardware but after that we're done with the room! Ok, this is a very long update but I also have recent bump pics. Enjoy!

Almost 34 weeks.