It's amazing how God has blessed me. It's funny how these blessings are never so apparent as they are in stormy weather. He has provided all we need and more in these last few weeks. He has given us hope. He has shown us mercy and grace. He has provided us with incredible people who are mirror images of his amazing love. He has encouraged us through the supportive words and thoughts of our friends and families. He has brought forth new relationships that have been ULTRA clutch during this time. He has blessed me with a husband who is so loving and supportive and tender-hearted that sometimes, I can't even believe he's real :)
To all of the people in our lives, WE LOVE YOU SOOOOO VERY MUCH!! You really have been SUCH an encouragement and comfort to us. Knowing that so many prayers have gone up for us is awesome. Having you all check in so frequently has been such a comfort. Thank you from the VERY bottom of our hearts!
Right now, God is requiring us to be patient and wait on His timing. It's not so bad. We always want answers RIGHT at the very moment that we ask...but I think we can handle waiting a little bit longer :) He is making us stronger... Sharpening us. And we praise Him for that.
Monday, April 14, 2008
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Kayla Jane
Kayla came to stay with me for part of this weekend while Brian was outta town. It was wonnnnderful :) Just like the good ol' days of high school when we basically lived together. But this time, we had a bigger bed to share, ha. We basically just chilled out to the max. What with her crazy pre-schoolers and my early mornings, we both needed some down time. Today I took her on a grand tour of Tyler, Texas. It really is a pretty place!
Only one down-side to the weekend: Poor Kayla has a severe shedding-dog allergy...and Kerbey set it off like crazy! After a mere 15 minutes of being in my Kerbey-infested house, Kayla had bumpy itchy arms, red/SUPER watery eyes, an itchy nose, a headache...a full-blown allergic reaction that didn't stop until she showered and we turned my bedroom into a germ-free zone. We quarantined her in there and let Claritin save the day :) I thoroughly enjoyed having a night full of girly chatting and fun with one of the greatest ppl in the world!
So, thanks Kayla for coming to visit and keep me company during a vulnerable stage of life. AND thank you for being SUCH an incredible friend. It means soooo much and has made me realize just how blessed I am to have you as a friend for life :) God hooked me UP!
PS- I just took a 3.5 hour nap and it was AMAAAAZING!
PPS- I'm happy Bistro is home :)
Peace <3
Only one down-side to the weekend: Poor Kayla has a severe shedding-dog allergy...and Kerbey set it off like crazy! After a mere 15 minutes of being in my Kerbey-infested house, Kayla had bumpy itchy arms, red/SUPER watery eyes, an itchy nose, a headache...a full-blown allergic reaction that didn't stop until she showered and we turned my bedroom into a germ-free zone. We quarantined her in there and let Claritin save the day :) I thoroughly enjoyed having a night full of girly chatting and fun with one of the greatest ppl in the world!
So, thanks Kayla for coming to visit and keep me company during a vulnerable stage of life. AND thank you for being SUCH an incredible friend. It means soooo much and has made me realize just how blessed I am to have you as a friend for life :) God hooked me UP!
PS- I just took a 3.5 hour nap and it was AMAAAAZING!
PPS- I'm happy Bistro is home :)
Peace <3
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Our Prayer...
At our doc visit yesterday, we received some not so great news. It wasn't BAD news, but it wasn't good either. We found out that there is a POSSIBILITY of bad news to come. That's never comforting. So anyway, we just ask that you guys keep us and our little baby in your prayers. We know that God's will prevails over ours, and we praise Him for that, but of course it's always nice when our will is in line with God's :)
Details: Our baby and the embryonic sac were too small. They couldn't tell a ton from the pictures, so they came up with 2 scenarios:
1.) We are just earlier in our pregnancy than they had originally thought.
2.) Our baby will reabsorb (aka- spontaneous miscarriage)
So...that's where we're at. God knows what He's doing, we just pray that our hearts are prepared for whatever He has in store!
Love <3
Details: Our baby and the embryonic sac were too small. They couldn't tell a ton from the pictures, so they came up with 2 scenarios:
1.) We are just earlier in our pregnancy than they had originally thought.
2.) Our baby will reabsorb (aka- spontaneous miscarriage)
So...that's where we're at. God knows what He's doing, we just pray that our hearts are prepared for whatever He has in store!
Love <3
Sunday, April 6, 2008
Reidy-boo is going to college!!
Okay, so Reid is in the midst of making a super difficult decision!! He is trying to decide where to attend college. I know for some, this was a super easy decision, but it was one of the TOUGHEST decisions I have ever had to make in my life. So, I understand where Reid's at. He's debating between San Diego State and Texas State.
My vote? STAY IN TEXAS, SON!! But, that's for selfish reasons :) I wouldn't mind having an excuse to visit San Diego either :) Basically, I just want him to have a good time and enjoy himself and GROW. I have been praying over the last month or so for God to really guide Reid's decision and start preparing his heart for whatever this next year will bring.I'm writing this post just to ask for you guys to shoot a few prayers up for Reidster when you think about it. Pray that God is preparing a perfect place for him. Pray that Reid's is seeking The Lord's will in his decision. And just pray that he can experience some peace.
K, thanks! You guys rock :) It's pretty amazing that I have friends that I know I can count on for prayer. LOVE YOU ALL! <3
Friday, April 4, 2008
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Sleep is for the birds...
...AND developing babies, apparently.
One of the head trainers at Premier is back home in Australia (how cool is that?) for 2 weeks so she gave me 5 of her clients to train while she's gone! In the last 2 days, 3 of them have already cancelled! Normally I would prob be a little bit bummed, but I have been taking naps in the back seat of my car any chance I get between clients at the gym! I've been able to fit one in almost every day this week and the energy boost they give me is AMAZING! I'm starting to feel a little bit more tired lately, which is annoying to me.
Today, however, I did not get to take my nap and I am FEELIN it!! Brian and I took Kerbster to "the spot"...this reallyyyy pretty place in the back of The Cascades with tons of trees, a lake, and little creek that she lovvves to run around in. Anywho, I'm pretty sure I very closely resembled the walking dead. Ha, it's only 8:24, and I'm thinkin I'm hitting the bed in no less than 30.
My 5:00am client, Clay, is the urologist I have previously mentioned who used to talk constantly about kidney stones. Well, he's finally moved on to bigger and better topics of discussion, thank The Lord! I'm training his wife for the next two weeks and we were talking today about having kids. Her and Clay are super excited for us to have kids because they SO wish they had started younger. Well um...the convo started out great. She was telling me how EASY it is to drop your baby weight when you're already pretty fit before the pregnancy. Then she pointed out that this only holds true after your FIRST child. After kiddo #2, all bets are out the window and the preg belly sticks like glue. I'm really not paranoid at all about how big I'll get or how easy/hard it will be to lose the weight, but I can't lie. She made me a teeeeeny bit nervous!
Okay, I am SO excited to have a weekend at HOME where I can sleep til a normal hour and get some stuff done around this house! I guess because I've been so tired lately I have been a bit of a lazy bum. Our house pretty much looks like my bedroom always used to look in high school. For any of you who knew me then, this is a MAJOR PROBLEM. Ha. Not for long though. That's #1 on my priority list for the weekend :)
I CAN'T WAIT TIL OUR APPOINTMENT ON MONDAY!!! I hope we can see the heartbeat :)
Peace <3
One of the head trainers at Premier is back home in Australia (how cool is that?) for 2 weeks so she gave me 5 of her clients to train while she's gone! In the last 2 days, 3 of them have already cancelled! Normally I would prob be a little bit bummed, but I have been taking naps in the back seat of my car any chance I get between clients at the gym! I've been able to fit one in almost every day this week and the energy boost they give me is AMAZING! I'm starting to feel a little bit more tired lately, which is annoying to me.
Today, however, I did not get to take my nap and I am FEELIN it!! Brian and I took Kerbster to "the spot"...this reallyyyy pretty place in the back of The Cascades with tons of trees, a lake, and little creek that she lovvves to run around in. Anywho, I'm pretty sure I very closely resembled the walking dead. Ha, it's only 8:24, and I'm thinkin I'm hitting the bed in no less than 30.
My 5:00am client, Clay, is the urologist I have previously mentioned who used to talk constantly about kidney stones. Well, he's finally moved on to bigger and better topics of discussion, thank The Lord! I'm training his wife for the next two weeks and we were talking today about having kids. Her and Clay are super excited for us to have kids because they SO wish they had started younger. Well um...the convo started out great. She was telling me how EASY it is to drop your baby weight when you're already pretty fit before the pregnancy. Then she pointed out that this only holds true after your FIRST child. After kiddo #2, all bets are out the window and the preg belly sticks like glue. I'm really not paranoid at all about how big I'll get or how easy/hard it will be to lose the weight, but I can't lie. She made me a teeeeeny bit nervous!
Okay, I am SO excited to have a weekend at HOME where I can sleep til a normal hour and get some stuff done around this house! I guess because I've been so tired lately I have been a bit of a lazy bum. Our house pretty much looks like my bedroom always used to look in high school. For any of you who knew me then, this is a MAJOR PROBLEM. Ha. Not for long though. That's #1 on my priority list for the weekend :)
I CAN'T WAIT TIL OUR APPOINTMENT ON MONDAY!!! I hope we can see the heartbeat :)
Peace <3
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
THANK YOU, Jim Rome!!
""TU" is not funny. It is not insulting. It is dumb. Just imagine if folks from Texas kept talking about M&A and giggling. That would not be funny. In fact, it would be retarded. That's why UT fans don't do it. Please learn. You want to lose the image of country bumpkins? Of a people fond of sheep? Of a people that aren't stupid? Then quit building things that fall down. Quit chasing cheerleaders around with swords on national TV. Quit whooping in church. Quit whooping period. Quit putting up scoreboards for the enjoyment of dead mammals. Quit spending your Friday nights practicing how to yell."-Jim Rome-
I stumbled across this quote thanks to my friend Dan. And, I temporarily fell in love with Jim Rome (I NEVER thought I'd say that...he's usually REALLY annoying!).
Okay, that's all.
PS- Have I mentioned I'm HAVING A BABY!!!
As of right now the un-official due date is November 26, but we will get the official one in a week! eeeehhhH!!!
Monday, March 31, 2008
BB!!!
Me and Bistro are gonna be a mommy and daddy!!!! We found out 1 week ago that I'm a pregling! We are superrrrrrr exciteddddddddddd!!
We had our first official appointment this morning. No ultrasound...we'll get that next Monday. CRAZY!!! Right now, I have a sesame in my uterus who will someday be a beautiful little Baby Bradford :)
Love you guys. Thanks for sharing in our EXCITEMENT!!! You guys are all super awesome and we are lucky to have such TREMENDOUS and LEGIT friends in our lives!
I'll keep ya posted.
PS- You people with the new AMAZINGLY cute blogs...I'm obsessed! I want this girl to teach me how to do that!
We had our first official appointment this morning. No ultrasound...we'll get that next Monday. CRAZY!!! Right now, I have a sesame in my uterus who will someday be a beautiful little Baby Bradford :)
Love you guys. Thanks for sharing in our EXCITEMENT!!! You guys are all super awesome and we are lucky to have such TREMENDOUS and LEGIT friends in our lives!
I'll keep ya posted.
PS- You people with the new AMAZINGLY cute blogs...I'm obsessed! I want this girl to teach me how to do that!
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
T-Baby!!
T-baby is in Ty-Ty for the week!! Yay :) She got here last night and we had a fun little adventure today with the Kerbster out in the wilderness. Good think my week at work is SUPER slow!
Hope everyone's doing great.
PS- HAPPY BDAY SHELBINATOR!!!!! Hope you're having fun being 21 in Arizona with Travvy :) Love you!!
Hope everyone's doing great.
PS- HAPPY BDAY SHELBINATOR!!!!! Hope you're having fun being 21 in Arizona with Travvy :) Love you!!
Monday, March 3, 2008
Prophecies, The Rockets, and Kidney Stones
I have my first client. And strictly by coincidence he is one of my Brian's most important AND most frustrating doctors! Kinda funny. He's a urology surgeon, so he talks about kidney stones EVERY time I see him. NAST. But still kind of interesting :) Most importantly though, we meet every M,W,F @ 5:00 in the flipping morning! It's actually kind of nice to get started that early though. So far, it's been awesome and I have felt super awake. The rest of this week will def be a test though...we have to meet at 4:30 on Wednesday because of his doctor meetings and then at 4:45 on Friday because he's "on call". GEEZ.
Brian and I got OFFICIALLY approved for our mortgage loan today!! YAYYYY!!! So, we've talked with a realtor (we coincidentally and incredibly conveniently met the 2 most successful realtors in Tyler at church a few weeks ago) and are getting started on the house-hunting adventure! Yippeeee! PLEASE keep us in your prayers!
The Rockets are awesome. Yao's season-ending injury was SURELY going to end their record-setting streak of W's...at least according to most of SportsNation. Umm...3 games later, we're STILL on a roll! And old geezer-man, Mutombo is totally holding his own :) I'm so proud. If only Brian and I could make it to the Toyota Center to see them play!!
This guy at work told me he had a "vision" of an embryo that was meant for me. He shared with me that his most powerful spiritual gift is the gift of prophecy and so he felt that he needed to share this vision with me. He said he thinks it was symbolic of a spiritual birth that will happen inside of me sometime soon. Interesting. I told him about another lady who shared a vision with me back in high school. When I worked at Souper Salad w//my soccer girls, I had waited on her and she was super quiet but super kind and had the most insane piercing blue eyes hidden behind this scraggly haired, frail little frame. Anyway, she thanked me and went on her merry way, so I thought. So I go back to the kitchen to drop off her dishes and all of a sudden, in the little square window in the kitchen door, her blue eyes are burning through me. Gave me chills. I went over to the door to ask her what was wrong and she simply said that as she left she felt it in her heart to pray for me. So she did. And then The Lord told her to tell me this, "Your destiny is to free the captives." And after those words numbed my mind, she turned and left. It was a crazy experience to me. But anyway, all that goes to say that I guess I had my SECOND encounter with a prophetic person. The whole idea of prophesy is one that I am not very familiar with and one that seems kind of forgotten and ignored.
Brian and I are working out again, FINALLY! It feels aaaaammmmzzzzingggg!! I'm insaaaanely happy about that!
Reidster hit two bombs and made the all-tournament team this weekend. So proud :) I can't believe it's his last year of high school baseball!!! That's kind of a depressing thought...
Brian and I are planning a trip during late May to go on a backpacking trip in Colorado. Kayla and L are in. And all of our couple friends are invited! If anyone would like to join, shoot me a line :) We can't waiiiiiiiiit!!! It's been wayyy too long since I got to wake up to a beautiful, spiritual mountain sunrise.
Kayla's super awesome g-ma went to be with Jesus (AND her hubby!) this weekend. Super exciting for her, but obviously a sad loss for the ones left behind. Praise God for freeing her from her earthly body, and keep those who love and miss her in your prayers!
K...those are the things on my mind at the moment. And, that's it.
Brian and I got OFFICIALLY approved for our mortgage loan today!! YAYYYY!!! So, we've talked with a realtor (we coincidentally and incredibly conveniently met the 2 most successful realtors in Tyler at church a few weeks ago) and are getting started on the house-hunting adventure! Yippeeee! PLEASE keep us in your prayers!
The Rockets are awesome. Yao's season-ending injury was SURELY going to end their record-setting streak of W's...at least according to most of SportsNation. Umm...3 games later, we're STILL on a roll! And old geezer-man, Mutombo is totally holding his own :) I'm so proud. If only Brian and I could make it to the Toyota Center to see them play!!
This guy at work told me he had a "vision" of an embryo that was meant for me. He shared with me that his most powerful spiritual gift is the gift of prophecy and so he felt that he needed to share this vision with me. He said he thinks it was symbolic of a spiritual birth that will happen inside of me sometime soon. Interesting. I told him about another lady who shared a vision with me back in high school. When I worked at Souper Salad w//my soccer girls, I had waited on her and she was super quiet but super kind and had the most insane piercing blue eyes hidden behind this scraggly haired, frail little frame. Anyway, she thanked me and went on her merry way, so I thought. So I go back to the kitchen to drop off her dishes and all of a sudden, in the little square window in the kitchen door, her blue eyes are burning through me. Gave me chills. I went over to the door to ask her what was wrong and she simply said that as she left she felt it in her heart to pray for me. So she did. And then The Lord told her to tell me this, "Your destiny is to free the captives." And after those words numbed my mind, she turned and left. It was a crazy experience to me. But anyway, all that goes to say that I guess I had my SECOND encounter with a prophetic person. The whole idea of prophesy is one that I am not very familiar with and one that seems kind of forgotten and ignored.
Brian and I are working out again, FINALLY! It feels aaaaammmmzzzzingggg!! I'm insaaaanely happy about that!
Reidster hit two bombs and made the all-tournament team this weekend. So proud :) I can't believe it's his last year of high school baseball!!! That's kind of a depressing thought...
Brian and I are planning a trip during late May to go on a backpacking trip in Colorado. Kayla and L are in. And all of our couple friends are invited! If anyone would like to join, shoot me a line :) We can't waiiiiiiiiit!!! It's been wayyy too long since I got to wake up to a beautiful, spiritual mountain sunrise.
Kayla's super awesome g-ma went to be with Jesus (AND her hubby!) this weekend. Super exciting for her, but obviously a sad loss for the ones left behind. Praise God for freeing her from her earthly body, and keep those who love and miss her in your prayers!
K...those are the things on my mind at the moment. And, that's it.
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