13 weeks

Today marks the beginning of my 13th week and I have my next Dr's appt next Monday. All my labs came back normal which is good, the only thing that was kind of wierd was that they told me I have to re-do my HIV testing because they said it was incomplete... whatever that means! This week is also pretty crazy for us because we are picking up our keys tomorrow for the apartment and also having to move in the bed and the refrigerator at the bare minimum so we can live there. What's even worse is we have to do this all after work! Yikes, well I guess it's better than having to pay for another month's rent. So anyway, yesterday at work was more than crazy and I about cried twice... not sure if this was the hormones or if I actually was stressed or come to think about it I was probably just hungry because I wasn't able to snack like usual because I was so busy. We have tried to keep our refrigerator empty so that we don't have to move as much food as well. Other than that, I think it is kind of hard clothing wise because I can't fit into any maternity clothes and am barely fitting into my regular clothes so... we will just have to see how much longer I can wear these clothes :)

How do you treat your "friends"?

This questions popped into my head the other day as a situation had come up and it made me think. How do you treat your friends? Do you treat them with disrespect with disdain? Do you call them names and treat them in a verifiable crappy manner? When you're done hanging out with them, do you generally feel worse then before you hung out with them? Do they not even show the littlest amount of civility of decency when they're mad at you? Do they belittle your existence?

To me, friends should never make you feel any of those things that I mentioned above. When you hang out with friends, they should make you feel better not worse. They should never talk to you in a manner that is disrespectful for no reason. And if they do any of those things, are they really truly a friend?

friend /frɛnd/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronuncia[frend]- noun

1.	a person attached to another by feelings of affection or personal regard.

2.	a person who gives assistance; patron; supporter

3.	a person who is on good terms with another; a person who is not hostile

I think friends should build each other up, not tear each other down. Should never talk to each other in a manner that belittles their existence. A friend should be supportive in your life and be there for you when they need them. Someone who is on "good terms with another". Jesus gives us the perfect example of what a friend should be, humble, honest (but not hurtful), kind, gentle, wise, gracious, merciful, forgiving, supportive... and the list can go on and on. When a moment arises that you should have a reason to be mad at one another yelling and cursing is not acceptable behavior for friends. They should be able to talk it out without the violence and hostility. No friendship is perfect and you are going to have moments when you are going to be mad. And even if you're not wrong, sometimes we still apologize, swallow our pride, so that we can get past this point because you know that the other person may not apologize. There comes a point when we have to be mature, and that is all that I expect from any of my friends when they get mad at me. A level of civility and decency because that is what we all deserve from our friends.

RV sold?

We have done some advertising for our 5th wheel to get sold. We put a nice little "For Sale" sign out in front of our space so in case anyone in the park wanted to buy it. We are only asking $14,000 and it's a pretty good buy for that amount and considering I took immaculate care of everything in it. Today, we got our first bite and surprisingly enough it wasn't from the $45 ad I placed in RV Trader or the free ad in Craig's List. Funny enough, the bite came from our cute little home made "For Sale" sign outside. The guy came out to look at the RV for his mother and really liked it and I think he was going to pay cash... WOW! Anyway, seems like a good thing and could be an answer to our prayers to have this 5th wheel sold before we move. The great thing about having someone buy it within is we can easily move the space over to the new owner instead of being put on the 1 year waiting list just to get into the park. Keep your prayers on this as we hope that this buyer goes through so we can have everything taken care of.

This week has been extremely tiring, I stayed home from work on Tuesday not because of morning sickness (because I haven't had any) but because I mostly just felt like crap when I woke up. My boss even said my coloring wasn't good on Monday, so I called out sick and went back to sleep and didn't wake up again until 10am. I got something to eat, got ready and headed to my Dad's for the day since we had Bible study there that night anyway and pretty much just slept the rest of the afternoon. Some much needed rest, I am telling you. I think there is just too much going on with my body right now and just needed some rest. I felt much better today, other than the fact that I had to catch up on paperwork when I came back to work today. Can't wait for the weekend... YEEEEAH for packing :) So far so good, things are cleaning up nicely and I can actually see underneath my bed which hasn't happened for storage reasons since we moved in. Very exciting!!!!

Supporting our troops!

Today, I went to my Dad's before Bible study and he had some signs he was in the process of making so he could go and stand out on a busy intersection. One sign stated this "Shame on you Congress, Support our troops!" and one of the other ones said "Here we go again, just like Vietnam!" Now, we are not big ware advocates in my family, but my Dad is a former Marine who did fight in Vietnam and survived even after a mortar blew up within arms length of him. I am not trying to make my Dad seem like some huge war hero, but in my eyes he is because he served his country. No one can tell him his fight wasn't worth it, because only he decides that.

My dad feels very strongly that Congress is making a mistake much like Vietnam in pulling funding from our troops while they are still in Iraq. Why is this bad? Well, if you pull funding they can't buy bullets. My point is this, stand where you are going to stand... but if Congress doesn't agree with the war then pull the troops out. Don't just pull their funding and leave them there with nothing to fight with. Congress right now is working on pulling the funding from our troops. and I have to say that my Dad will probably be one of those people that you would normally look at while you're driving and you see him sitting there and you say to yourself "What a nut!" With my Dad, I support our troops!

I leave you with this thought, this was a quote that I took from the movie "Tears of the sun" but I have forever kept in my mind:
"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing"

Happy Valentine's Day!

Normally, I look at Valentine's Day a reason for marketer's to make us feel bad when we don't do something extravagant for our loved ones. And I don't need 1 day out of the year to tell my husband how much he means to me and how much I am truly in love with him.
This year, we did do something for each other nothing too extravagant or anything but I bought Andrew the GPS he wanted for hiking and Andrew bought me a very nice leather case for my phone that I have been desperately needing.
Andrew is so patient with me and he makes me laugh every chance he gets. He recognizes that sometimes with men it takes a tragedy to realize how much their spouse or loved one means or meant to them but that He didn't want to be one of those men... He is always so thoughtful and romantic. Even through all of his goofiness, He has become even better than the man I could have ever asked for.
Today, since Love is in the air I think about the Love that Christ has for me even now. How deep and how wide His love spreads over my life. It is not a day to be selfish but a day to be thankful to the 2 things in my life that totally complete me. Our God's Love is EXTRAVAGANT, forgiving, extraordinary, unfathomable, and so deep we'll never hit the bottom. So, I take today to say I Love you to my Father in heaven and also to my wonderful and patient Husband.

I leave you with these verses:
Ephesians (3:16) I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, (3:17) so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, (3:18) may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, (3:19) and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.


Happy Valentine's Day to you all!!!

How God is working

I guess I thought that I would title this blog this because of all the stuff that has been going on lately. We have 2 more weeks in our little 5th wheel and we have been working on trying to pack what we can until we actually move. Everything is all set to go on the apartment just have to wait for the keys, which we should be able to pick up March 1st. I am so excited about being able to be in Riverside now, and having a regular size kitchen so I can actually bake and cook the way I want to. Seems like such a silly thing to be excited about but still very excited about that.

The blessings so far with this move have been abundant, we did end up receiving a very nice green Lazy boy couch, a headboard, footboard, 2 nightstands, and coffee table all for FREE! That's right all for the low- low price of nothing. All nice furniture that we thought we would have to buy, but it turns out that God has his GREAT ways of providing for us.

We did, however, buy a comforter and we still have to buy a crib. So, we did find some very nice cribs through IKEA for a pretty low price and I was reading a magazine and they rated the IKEA cribs pretty high. I do want to go down and take a look at them before we purchase anything of course... and we do have to measure to make sure it would be able to fit.

Ode to tax season!!! It's that time of year again where we either have to pay or get something back. We have been pretty fortunate that Andrew's Dad just happens to do bookkeeping and taxes for a living. Looks like we will be getting a return once again this year... Just another great blessing.

Work has been good but also pretty hard since I have been really tired, my co-workers were all very excited when I told them about me being pregnant. I was a little bit worred at first because I didn't know how they were all going to react. Seems like everything worked out great. One of the other department's had a Admin Asst III position just open and the VP was trying to convince me that He wanted me to work for him. But his office is in Moreno Valley and although it would pay more, I really don't know what our plans will be after the baby is born. Today, his manager came to my desk and asked me how I liked working in the HR department and I told him I loved it. He said, okay just checking because you know of the Admin Asst III position open. I told him I was aware of this. I have no intentions of leaving the current department I am in just because of money and my bosses are so great and so accommodating. So funny, cracked me up!!

Our current plans for the next two weeks is pack into boxes the things we are not using so that we can get ready to move, also I placed an ad on Craig's List for our 5th wheel since we have not had a buyer yet for it. Keep in prayer that we would be able to sell it before we move in, I know 2 weeks doesn't seem like a lot of time but Man! That would be awesome!!!

How Amazing!!!

Today I had my first appointment with the Dr and of course they had to run a few tests to make sure my protein was at a good level so that they knew my kidneys were working and checked my sugar to make sure I wasn't diabetic. All passed with flying colors. I did not have to have a full examination like I had previously thought. She asked me a whole run of questions about Andrew and I family health history and asked me if I had any questions for her. Which I just had a couple, she is such an attentive Dr. When I asked her a question she was soooo nice. I really am going to like her for my Dr and to deliver the baby. I had blood work ran to look for any other possible diseases like cystic fibrosis also. Then... (drumroll) please..... the Dr said everything so far was looking very good and that I have less than a 2% chance of a miscarriage because she saw the baby's heartbeat so that is such a relief. I had a ultrasound done... so you see the picture of our little tiny baby and what looks to be the beginning of hands and feet. Man, it was so amazing watching the ultrasound. I showed Andrew the ultrasound picture too and it was pretty emotional for both of us- it's really awesome to think that we are going to have a baby. Such a special moment for us both.



Also here is a picture of a cute little piggy bank that Jeff and Sheryl gave to us as a gift. It is the most darling little thing. Awww.

Shocker today!

My very own husband who said He didn't want to hold anyone else's baby but
his own because he didn't want to "break it" if it wasn't his. Here is a
picture of Andrew holding Chris and Stephanie's baby Matthew. A small
revelation of what he will look like holding our own baby sometime. How
cute!!!!

Moving update

Friday, we turned in our deposit and they gave us all the information to
get our electricity turned on and if we wanted cable. We are going to be
unit G02!!! Now we are just kind of waiting until our unit has been
finished with the remodeling and then we should be moving in early March.
We get our first month free, so we are very excited.
Now, we have another task. We have to find a buyer for our 5th wheel, we
thought we had someone that was going to buy it but that might have fallen
through. We are going to be working on advertising with RV trader,
Craiglist, and Pennysaver to hopefully have a buyer for it. We want to sell
it before we move in preferrably.
This is the picture of the couch we are going to buy. It only cost us
$300!!! Plus, we should be getting a refrigerator from Jake. Looks like
everything is coming together slowly. God has been really good to us :)