Hello friends,
It's been a while...So much to fill you in on. A few weeks after my last post, we were getting ready for our cruise and low and behold...Positive Pregnancy test! Remember what I wrote almost the last couple sentences of my last post? God hear our prayers! What a blessing! His timing is perfect! Brandon and I could not be more excited to finally join a lot of you friends in the joys, struggles, and exhaustion of being parents. One week before we set sail on our 7 day adventure, the news of this just made it even more of a beautiful time together. And what fun we had on this cruise! The water in the Caribbean could not have been more turquoise! I got to Zip line through the jungle of Rotan, swim with sting rays in Grand Cayman, see the sights of Cozumel and Belize. Highly recommend cruising.
After we returned and I must say, NO sickness on the rocky ship, but it certainly showed it's ugly head Monday! Whoa, not fun. It's gotten so much better but still comes and goes slightly. The hunger has set in! It's hard to find the perfect thing to curb my appetite! Kind of annoying, but not complaing. So, we have been trying to wrap our heads around this new life change that is the deployment and now bringing a 3rd life into this Collin's home in January. Brandon is so wonderful to do as much to not let me have to stress about things around the house while he is gone. Meaning, I don't have to do the yard work! Just water the yard/plants. Thanks babe! Then on Monday the 23rd, he boared a P-3 and took off for the desert. 6 months started. I know I can handle it. Thank God for Skype (when the Internet works there) But now the lovely emotions of me being pregnant thows another dimension to this experience. A lot of people said, you guys planned this pregnancy perfectly. I think most of the guys (with kids) meant he won't have to deal with me and my emotions and all! But it is good timing, he will be here for the birth (God willing) and the first year. Brandon is kind of bummed he is going to miss all the firsts...first ultrasound, heart beat, see me get bigger, be there when we find the sex of the baby and see/feel the alien moving in my belly...you get it. I will nicely, but firmly ask for videos to show/send him!
Over all, we are just so blessed. I cannot contain how God is all knowing and knew this was the anointed time for this to finally happen to us! (we have NOT been preventing this for over 2 years) I am just to honored that the Lord would allow us to bring a life in this world and raise it! Many prayers would be so appreciated for not only me but for Brandon as well. He needs it. All I can say is
"...The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much." James 5:16 To God be the Glory!
