Great Weekend and Great News!

First of all, it's about time I post our exciting news...We're having a baby in June! I'm 10 weeks pregnant and feeling great. I've been really fortunate not to have morning sickness and nausea. I have felt extremely tired and been napping as often as I can. I'm hoping in a few more weeks to have a little more energy, but I'm so thankful that I've been healthy. We had our first appointment a couple weeks ago and heard a little heartbeat and got to see what the doctor says is a baby, but doesn't much resemble anything recognizable to me at this point. We are so excited for this little miracle and praise God for His perfect timing and plan!

This is how I let Brandon know. We call my dad's dad Papaw, and Brandon's first reaction was "Your Papaw's coming?" Then he got it and just kept asking, "Are you sure?" He was so excited but he didn't want to jinx it by talking about it as a sure thing before I had a blood test. I told him it wasn't like calling a no hitter in the middle of the game, but I think he felt a lot better after that first sonogram.

Papa-to-be standing in front of his sign

Right after I found out, Karen and I went to New York. We couldn't resist getting this onesie!

This past weekend, my college friend and roommate, Beth, married her friend since middle school. It was a great celebration and such a fun time to be together with all our friends. She was radiant as a bride.

All 15 girls together for the first time since college!

What's a reception without a little electric slide?

My handsome hubby

Then Saturday night in Dallas we went to the Eagles concert with Brandon's parents and another family. I loved hearing all the classic old songs.

I am still enjoying teaching freshmen English and have been glad that I have a student teacher this semester which gives me a little more flexibility and time to work on stories for my Fiction Workshop class I'm taking at ACU. I'm plugging away a little at a time on a Master's degree. At the end of this semester I will have completed 15 hours, almost halfway there.

I'm so excited to be pregnant. We have been praying for this for a long time and are thankful for the opportunity to be parents. I think in the back of my mind, I was a little fearful that we may not be able to get pregnant whenever we decided we were ready. And I'm mindful of those who have been praying for this and for whom it has not happened. I've been praying for and thinking about friends whose babies have had health issues and all the parents can do is take each day as it comes and trust in God. I realize that becoming a parent makes you vulnerable to the unknown. You could have a child with health problems or have a perfectly healthy child that could die suddenly when he or she is older. Nothing is certain except God. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. So I pray that this baby will be healthy as it's growing and developing. And I pray for wisdom as a parent to trust in God, to seek Him, to lead our children to Him, and to always know that our promise will be fulfilled in our life with Him, and in that we have hope and purpose in this life.