That I LOVE being pregnant! I am barely showing but I just love that there is a person growing inside of me! I am so excited fro the day when I get to hold him or her in my arms and kiss them! I love that God has given this amazing ability to GROW a whole PERSON inside of me! It's so cool! The sickness hasn't been pleasant and I know that both me AND my husband are ready for my energy to return but even with those symptoms I am still so in love with this feeling! And there is still so much more to come! Like when I get to feel the baby move for the first time. So amazing! I love the baby so much!!! By the way in case you were wondering, apparently the baby is the size of a lime! How neat!
I am one happy pregnant woman right now!
...now if I could only get my insurance to cover a home birth...
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Friday, August 12, 2011
Heartbeat!
On Wednesday I had my midwife appointment and we got to hear our baby's heart beat! It was so amazing! I definitely feel pregnant but hearing it's heart beating was so special. It made it so real that we are having a BABY!!! There is a child growing inside of me right now. So stinking cool! Also I am now 10 weeks so I am a quarter through my pregnancy! Woo Hoo! And I am almost done with the first trimester so hopefully the nausea and exhaustion will subside soon. That's what's new!
Thursday, August 4, 2011
The Philippines
So if anyone has read the beginnings of my blog you know about the midwife school in the Philippines and how I had wanted to go this year.
A recap...
In January, on my way home from Texas the Lord gently asked if I could lay it down. I joyfully said yes knowing that the Lord gives and takes away and He is always good. I wasn't sure if it would be for real that He wanted me to give it up or not but as time went on it became apparent that I wouldn't be going this year.
Shortly after, Chris and I began courting! Things started to make sense especially once we started moving towards marriage.
I have said this to many before but I'm not sure if I've said it here but there are two things that the Lord has given me passion for. Midwifery and Wife/Mothering. I loved and wanted both but more than anything I wanted and still want the Lord. I could live joyfully for Him without ever fulfilling either, both, or just one. While I was single I couldn't pursue marriage or motherhood because then they wouldn't have come about the right way. But one thing I could pursue was being a midwife, and I did.
While doing so, a dear friend of mine was asking about the school in the Philippines that I was saving for. Turns out the Lord totally called her there! She applied the same time as me and she got accepted and is now leaving this Sunday!!!!!!! So stinking exciting! She is going to do so well there!
Now I am married and preparing for birth and motherhood, while my friend is preparing for a long journey to becoming a midwife! It's sop beautiful how the Lord works!
Someday I would like to still pursue becoming a midwife, however being a wife and mother trumps any other passions the Lord gives me. They are the most important jobs he has given me. So maybe years down the road when my children are grown I might stir up the ole midwifery subject again. But for now, the Lord has given me a sweet, strong, manly man to care for, and soon a precious baby to raise. I am so blessed!!!
A recap...
In January, on my way home from Texas the Lord gently asked if I could lay it down. I joyfully said yes knowing that the Lord gives and takes away and He is always good. I wasn't sure if it would be for real that He wanted me to give it up or not but as time went on it became apparent that I wouldn't be going this year.
Shortly after, Chris and I began courting! Things started to make sense especially once we started moving towards marriage.
I have said this to many before but I'm not sure if I've said it here but there are two things that the Lord has given me passion for. Midwifery and Wife/Mothering. I loved and wanted both but more than anything I wanted and still want the Lord. I could live joyfully for Him without ever fulfilling either, both, or just one. While I was single I couldn't pursue marriage or motherhood because then they wouldn't have come about the right way. But one thing I could pursue was being a midwife, and I did.
While doing so, a dear friend of mine was asking about the school in the Philippines that I was saving for. Turns out the Lord totally called her there! She applied the same time as me and she got accepted and is now leaving this Sunday!!!!!!! So stinking exciting! She is going to do so well there!
Now I am married and preparing for birth and motherhood, while my friend is preparing for a long journey to becoming a midwife! It's sop beautiful how the Lord works!
Someday I would like to still pursue becoming a midwife, however being a wife and mother trumps any other passions the Lord gives me. They are the most important jobs he has given me. So maybe years down the road when my children are grown I might stir up the ole midwifery subject again. But for now, the Lord has given me a sweet, strong, manly man to care for, and soon a precious baby to raise. I am so blessed!!!
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Wow...
So, I have been thinking about whether or not to keep up this blog anymore. I am still not 100% decided but for the time being I guess I will continue to write unless I forget about it and just dont!
So to catch up with my life, I am now married and pregnant!
Chris proposed to me in April at the Biblical Gardens which is one of my favorite places in the whole world! We knew we wanted a simple wedding so we decided that June 11 would be our date. That gave us about 6 weeks to plan and pull together. Most people around us thought we were crazy...especially since we weren't pregnant! But we both knew how much money we wanted to spend and we didn't want to spend more than that. WE already knew we were getting married and we had the money. The Lord was blessing it so we proceeded. And on June 11, 2011 I married the most amazing man I have ever met! IT was a BEAUTIFUL day and wedding! It was at his Uncle's house in Foresthill outside on the front lawn. We had about 250 guests share it with us, family, friends, and lots of community friends! It was really awesome to have some of my out-of-state family come. My dad and Tammy and all the kids made it! And my best friend from high school, Chelsea, came as well! It really was amazing!
Then two days later we set off for San Diego! We went to Six Flags, Sea World, snorkeling in the ocean, then a extra trip to go to Midevil Times!
On June 14th we got pregnant! I know that might sound weird that I know the exact date but I had been charting my fertility the couple of months before our wedding so that we could know when I was ovulating. Turns out our honeymoon ended up being the week I was ovulating and it being our first week as a married couple we didn't want to use any barriers. So we knew there was a possibility of conceiving...turns out it happened!
Two weeks later I took a prego test and it was positive!!! So now I am 7 weeks past conception and 9 weeks according to how the medical world counts pregnancy. They say pregnancy begins at the first day of your menstrual cycle...(weird huh!) For the sake of making things the same across the board whenever I say how far a long I am I will use the medical term so that no one will be confused!
So now my baby is the size of a grape and is causing all kinds of havoc on my body!
But time is short to go into those details for this post.
Maybe I'll be back later to record some more!
So to catch up with my life, I am now married and pregnant!
Chris proposed to me in April at the Biblical Gardens which is one of my favorite places in the whole world! We knew we wanted a simple wedding so we decided that June 11 would be our date. That gave us about 6 weeks to plan and pull together. Most people around us thought we were crazy...especially since we weren't pregnant! But we both knew how much money we wanted to spend and we didn't want to spend more than that. WE already knew we were getting married and we had the money. The Lord was blessing it so we proceeded. And on June 11, 2011 I married the most amazing man I have ever met! IT was a BEAUTIFUL day and wedding! It was at his Uncle's house in Foresthill outside on the front lawn. We had about 250 guests share it with us, family, friends, and lots of community friends! It was really awesome to have some of my out-of-state family come. My dad and Tammy and all the kids made it! And my best friend from high school, Chelsea, came as well! It really was amazing!
Then two days later we set off for San Diego! We went to Six Flags, Sea World, snorkeling in the ocean, then a extra trip to go to Midevil Times!
On June 14th we got pregnant! I know that might sound weird that I know the exact date but I had been charting my fertility the couple of months before our wedding so that we could know when I was ovulating. Turns out our honeymoon ended up being the week I was ovulating and it being our first week as a married couple we didn't want to use any barriers. So we knew there was a possibility of conceiving...turns out it happened!
Two weeks later I took a prego test and it was positive!!! So now I am 7 weeks past conception and 9 weeks according to how the medical world counts pregnancy. They say pregnancy begins at the first day of your menstrual cycle...(weird huh!) For the sake of making things the same across the board whenever I say how far a long I am I will use the medical term so that no one will be confused!
So now my baby is the size of a grape and is causing all kinds of havoc on my body!
But time is short to go into those details for this post.
Maybe I'll be back later to record some more!
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
So much to say...
I haven't posted in soooo long! Partly because not many are reading, but mostly because I don't know what to say! There is so much that has been going on in my life and soon I will be able to share more about it. But basically I have been loving the Lord and getting to know Chris! There have been so many amazing things that have happened with him but writing them on here feels like it would take away the excitement of it. So many private moments and words shared between us that would take away from the relationship that was building during those time if I shared them with the world. So...I really don't have much to say. Not sure if I will keep writing on here. I honestly don't really see the point for the time being since I am not going to the Philippines. It might make more since if I go to Egypt later this year...but we shall see!
Friday, February 11, 2011
Just a thought...
I was thinking about the quote a lot of people use these days that I myself have said many times in the past. "If something is boring it probably isn't of God". I robotic-ally used to say all the time, especially to non-believers who would say Christianity is boring. But this quote isn't true! There are a lot of things that God is very much involved in that isn't entertaining and what I would say is boring. Like the Israelites who wandered around in a desert doing nothing for years...that sounds horrifically BORING!! But that was ALL God. It was their grumbling that made them have to wait so long but if at any point they had stopped and said, "WAit a minute...this is boring and God isn't involved in boring therefore this must be Satan tricking us so we should go somewhere else and stop all this waiting!" then God would have never been able to send them to their promised land! And what about work...I am sorry but almost all of my jobs have been incredibly boring!!! So should I have quit because God must not have been involved? I realize that the context this phrase is usually pointing to is about sermons, teachings, or prayer but that doesn't work either. God doesn't exist to entertain us. I have heard some sermons that are very boring but they were so good! So full of truth and wisdom. And prayer, to be honest is usually super boring to me! I am constantly disciplining my mind to focus and not fall asleep especially in group prayer. I am not one who gets excited to pray but it is always so so so good! There are plenty of things that we do that aren't thrilling but are so good and give glory to God! Being bored is a discomfort and Jesus didn't die to make us comfortable! And this isn't to say that God is boring! HA! Oh goodness...he is so not boring! We will spend eternity getting to know all the facets of him! Anything that is entertaining on this earth only is because God created it to be exciting!
So yeah...its just a thought!
So yeah...its just a thought!
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
The big news!
So the big news that I have dying to tell everyone is that I am in a courtship! January 17th, Chris Arbaugh asked me to court him. He is one of the most amazing godly men I have ever met! I am very excited and beyond blessed by this relationship. The craziest thing is realizes how much God loves me! After laying down the "rights" to a future marriage soooooo many times, it is so beautiful to see the fruit of it all. So that's the mini story! I don't really want to blog about it too much because I would rather live it.
In other news I am thinking about taking the classes and steps to become a doula. I am still praying about it but the class is in March...so we shall see!
In other news I am thinking about taking the classes and steps to become a doula. I am still praying about it but the class is in March...so we shall see!
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