Over it.

I had the best intentions of enjoying this pregnancy..since it will be our last, I thought, I'd savor every second of it. But just to be honest with you I'm not.

I know this is kind of horrible since I know many who cannot get pregnant, stay pregnant or have bigger issues then me, and I AM thankful to BE pregnant. It's just, I'm not enjoying it like I'd hoped. As I laid in bed last night, even Luke could tell..he said "you'll be happy when this is over won't you?"..I feel huge though people swear I'm not..I always seem to have all my complicated issues while pregnant..like kidney stones, and I'm pretty sure my hips and pelvic bone hate me.

I will miss the child bearing season of my life, but not so much this pregnancy part. ;)

Glad the pay off(being the baby!) is so stinkin worth it.

24 weeks on Wednesday..16 more to go..give or take. Hopefully the take. ;)

Its a boy!!

So, due to some complications we had our anatomy scan a little earlier then 20 weeks, and we were able to find out that our sweet bean is a little boy! We are stoked. We would have been happy either way, but its nice that Noah will have a brother and that we are rounding things out as our last. God worked it out so well..

He is perfectly healthy from what we saw and measuring just perfect, plus the complications we weren't sure about turned out to be nothing really at all..so it was a happy appointment. The kids were sooo happy when we told them, they REALLY wanted another boy.

Little man still doesn't have a name yet, but we are working on it. He is an active little booger and moves a lot. Hoping he'll be calmer when he comes out..haha..

My husband.

Have I ever mentioned how much I love my husband?

I know there are TONS of hardworking wonderful men out there, but seriously, I feel so amazingly blessed to have this one. He works very long days, then has to come home to usually a very tired pregnant mama and most likely a rowdy bunch(there are exceptions to this sometimes..haha..I'm not always tired, and the kids aren't always running up the walls..) to which he immediately jumps in and helps out, often times taking them all on an errand or outside for a bit, just so I can have a minute to myself. I try and go out of my way to make things easier here while he's home, but I'm not super woman and some responsibilities I'd rather him not have to take on do indeed get passed on to him.

He is very patient with me(most of the time) and is very good at encouraging me spiritually and just verbally in terms of how I'm doing. He also puts up with my temper and isn't quick to jump in and argue...allowing me time to cool down. :)

I'm very blessed and I only wish that my 2 girls(and similarly the boys with woman) will find someone who is similar to their father's personality.

Where has the time gone?

Its December already! Geez!!

We were able to get the house that I blogged about in Oct..we were so stoked, because it looked like it wasn't going to work out, but God totally worked it out. We had a brother in the Lord bless us IMMENSELY and this season of moving, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and everything else has been so much easier then it was last year when we moved the week of Christmas. The house will be open to us as of tomorrow, so we can start moving things over..The owners went all out and painted, and fixed so many things after the prior renters moved out and we are thrilled that we are moving into a nearly pristine house. Though, I just hope I can keep it up with 3+ kids..haha..This weekend's project? Purging most of of garage..some of the stuff will be easy to get rid of , but we have some "I'll use this one day" and sentimental stuff in there too that will be harder to let go of, but the new house doesn't have a closed in garage, so if it doesn't fit in the house, we can't keep it!

We were able to get a new TV on Black Friday(online, cause I'm not crazy enough to shop at 3 in the morning!) and it was much needed cause our last flat screen broke and our entertainment center can't hold the weight of our old school tube tv that was in our room..but we've been using the smaller tv so long it feels weird to see a bigger one now..haha..

I'm 17 weeks and 1 day preggers. After much debate, Luke and I decided to go ahead and find out the gender this time around, so hopefully in about 2 weeks we will be able to know what we are having. We would obviously love a boy to round things out, but we certainly wouldn't mind another girl either...!!

Luke and I went down to T'ville to be part of a wedding of a long time friend last weekend(not this past one) and enjoyed some time to ourselves as my Mom and then Luke's sister's watched the kiddos..then we enjoyed a very short work week(only 2 days for Luke) and really got to enjoy seeing LOTS of family..(All of Luke's family, and all of mine except one nephew!) and eat lots of food. Pretty sure I put on a couple lbs. from all the eating I did..haha..

Meeting needs.

"We hear a Christian assure someone that he will 'pray over' his problem, knowing full well that he intends to use prayer as a substitute for service. It is much easier to pray that a poor friend's needs may be supplied than to supply them."
                                                                                       A.W. Tozer, Of God and Men.

We have been so blessed to be part of His body that are SUCH wonderful examples of Christ in action.

When Luke and I were in Stone Mountain, we had a couple occasions where people blessed our socks off, but we seriously have been so immensely blessed by where we are living and those we know here. There were weeks we didn't know how we'd buy groceries, or pay a bill...and even without asking someone would give us money, and I don't mean $10..haha(which is a blessing too though!)..or provide a meal for us, or gave us a bunch of clothes that made it where I didn't have to buy any. That quote isn't to say that praying for other's needs are silly or that your heart is in the wrong by praying for them, but its basically saying, sometimes you have to put that to motion. The Lord provides through His body over and over again, we see it all through the Bible. This quote challenged Luke and I, we may not have much, but even a little something here and there will bless someone more then we could ever know. We look forward to the day when we can give more...not out of duty or what not, but because we know what its like to be on the receiving end and its such an amazing blessing.

Its October..

Well into it actually..haha..

So much has happened! Our toilet broke in the hall bathroom for like a week...I didn't realize how spoiled we were to have 2 till one wasn't working anymore. Its annoying to take a bath, trying to get dressed or go potty without someone barging in needing to go too..Thankful that even though it ended up being our fault(Noah flushed some toothbrushes down it!!!!!) our Landlord had a plumber come out and fix it for us. So so thankful!

There is this house on our way to a friend of ours that recently had a "For Rent" sign go up and after our friends were talking about how the house was nice, we decided to go look at it. Our lease isn't up till the end of Dec, so we were hesitant to get attached or anything, but after looking at it we really liked it! Upgraded and nice(r) kitchen then what I have now, 4 bedrooms instead of our current 3, and cheaper then what we are paying now! Crazy...But this house's tenants were leaving the first of Dec...so we didn't think we had a chance, but after talking to our super duper nice landlord he said we could leave early without making us pay or lose our deposits..So happy! So we are in the process of working it out with the new Landlord and hopefully we will get to move come Dec! I hate moving, but the idea of having more room is so exciting! Plus it will be nice to be moved in well before Christmas, unlike last year when we moved like 3 days before!

Working with a Mortgage counselor to hopefully get our monthly payments down to, so we are hoping to hear back from our bank in the next month or two with some new terms, please pray for soft and generous hearts at our bank..haha...we really need it to come down quite a bit to be able to keep paying it. Plus its generating income for us monthly(our house we are renting out) so we really don't want to lose it!

Going to try and do something festive this weekend involving pumpkins. All the good pumpkin farms are a good hour drive +, so we may end up with Wal-mart pumpkins and some carving kits.

10 weeks today! Having more good days then bad days lately as far as nausea goes, so I am super happy about that and hoping I am on the upswing!

One more thing..

Our family went over 3 years without getting any kind of sickness when we were in Stone Mountain outside of one bout of bronchitis for me and Kate, but once we moved and actually started hanging out with people on a regular basis we have gotten sick left and right. 3 Stomach bugs, Strep, and lots of colds in just 9 months time. Crazy!!  Being a hermit is lonely, but it certainly had its benefits..haha..Needless to say it was also very hard to feel SO sick and have to deal with our latest tummy bug, although I am very thankful that I was the only one in the house that managed to escape it..A sick mommy is not cool, so I am continually thanking the Lord I didn't get it.

I'm 8 weeks! Thankful that I only have a few weeks left of 1st trimester cause this nausea business is driving me crazy. I had lost 8 1/2 lbs. before getting pregnant and I've lost 3 more since being pregnant just from not wanting to eat(though I do, I assure you!). I'm part of an online forum for mom's due in May and we have had 3 Moms leave due to bad news at the Dr's office..It just reminds you to be so thankful for every day you are pregnant and not to take it for granted. For some reason I've had a lot of fear about this pregnancy for some reason. After our initial miscarriage, our pregnancy and birth history has been pretty decent and I guess I just keep feeling like the jig is up and its my turn to have something bad happen, but I have to remember that is NOT the way the Lord works. There is no fair police with Christ and there cannot be so much good that God has to make it bad. He just isn't like that, and I just have to remind myself that the Lord is good, He created me perfectly to carry this baby no matter what. Which helps a lot...:)

Anyways, just wanted to check in and say I'm alive. :)