Getting Closer!!!

 Well, it has been a while since my last post. I don't know why it has been so hard to blog this pregnancy! A few weeks ago, I was looking back at a blog I had for my last pregnancy, and was surprised at how faithful I was at posting every two weeks or so.
 I wish I had been better at blogging this pregnancy, it is so neat to be able to look back and see how you felt and the things you were thinking about while pregnant!

 I am feeling pretty good. I am surprised that I feel this good!!! My last pregnancy, I remember being so very uncomfortable and not feeling very good. This pregnancy has been so smooth!

Here is my 29 week belly, at Easter time.

Baby Evelyn is growing and wiggling like crazy! I love feeling her move, I take great comfort in her being so active, it helps ease my mind that she is okay in there! She is such a wiggle worm! and she loves to interact with us too. Kicking and poking at us when we press on my belly. It is so cute!!! She loves when daddy talks to her too!!

 I am so excited for her to FINALLY be here and feel like I don't know if I can wait another 6 to 7 weeks!!! I just feel ready for labor and delivery and ready to be a mama to another little one! I am so excited to put tiny little outfits on this sweet little girl and wrap her up and nurse her!!!! 

I know it will be here before I know it! I just am so excited!

 I feel pretty prepared to deliver this little one, I have pretty much everything that I need.

 Eric and I plan to attempt to have this baby girl at home, we have a friend that is a midwife and she has offered to help us out. I am still going to my docs for check ups and may still deliver at the hospital, but I hope to be able to birth Evelyn at home, all cozy and privet just Eric and I and our Midwife. It sounds so wonderful to be home, especially for after the birth, just to cozy up in bed with our new baby, Eric and I!! No nurses to bug us, and just be able to rest!

 I have always had hospital births and never had a "bad" experience  but with this pregnancy, early on, I was thinking about the birth that I desire deep in my heart, and being home and just Eric and I, no friends, no my mom, no one at all, just us, sounded so so good to me. I don't even know why. I wonder if this is how I have longed to birth from my first baby, but just didn't voice it, or even think about it. 

 I look forward to laboring in a darker, quieter, and more intimate way, and delivering this tiny girl in peace. 

 I look forward to being "left alone" with her, to bond, to rest, to fall in love, and to be free to be intimate just our family. It seems like the best way to bring another little member of our family into the world!!!!

 Well I am going to leave you with this post for now, and hope to update more in the future!!! 

BIG Ultrasound, And It's A.......

                                                            GIRL!!!!!!!!!

We are completely overjoyed!!! 

I have to admit, I was super surprised ! I can only say that I have been truly surprised when we found out the gender with two of my 5 babies, first with Carter (baby 3) I was SURE he was a she, and bought little dresses and kept calling him Sophie! When the ultrasound tec said boy, I couldn't not believe it! But I was totally happy about it, just had to come up with a name for him, and that wasn't easy!!!

 This time around, I was sure it was a baby boy, we kind of have that pattern going, boy first then girl, boy and girl again, but this time around, baby number five broke that pattern! 

I was fine with either boy or girl. I am so happy to be expecting our third little girl! 

 We decided on the name Evelyn Faye for this sweet little girl. Love the name, and it grows on me more and more. We were going to name her Faye Evelyn, but she just did not seem like a Faye to me, she is more of an Evelyn, I was pleasantly surprised that Eric was fine with swapping her first and middle name! 

 Little Evelyn is 100% healthy and happy, and totally adorable, I might add! 

We got to see her wiggling around, yawn and even have the hiccups during the ultrasound. She is totally CUTE! I am so anxious to meet her in June!!! But for now I am loving feeling her move around more and more in my belly! I love her little bonks, flips, and hiccups! Such an amazing feeling! I love knowing she is safe and sound tucked inside her mama! Love knowing she is a healthy little baby, developing normally!

Praise God for another healthy, and beautiful little one!!!

 So for now, I will leave you with our little girls beautiful little face. Take care and chat with you soon! 

Family Picture Update

Here is our family, all 7 of us, fall of 2012, when our newest little one was the size of a poppy seed!

ALMOST halfway there!!!

So I have been a slacker in my blogging this pregnancy and it makes me sad. I have always documented my pregnancies, either by journal or a blog I wrote with my last pregnancy, so I am sad I haven't done that this time around. It is so neat to go back and read about how I felt at different times and how I felt about things. 

 This time, I feel I have been busy and distracted and almost forget I am pregnant at times! It helps that the icky morning sickness that I had for the first 13 or so weeks has thankfully gone away. YAY! So glad!

 I was sicker this time around, and that was not too fun! Thankfully, I never threw up, but I sure felt like I might! It was rough! I am so glad for older children that were able to help me out, take care of my toddler and home school, some,  independently. They were so great!!! 

I am 19 weeks now, and almost to that halfway point!! I have a big ol pregnant belly and LOVE it!! This is a time in my life where I actually LOVE my body, I love the way I look pregnant! I enjoy wearing maternity clothes and "rockin" a baby bump!! 

 I feel pretty great now, I can't eat as much, I get full quick. I have some back pain when I stand or walk a lot, I have been thinking about getting a belly support thingy this time. I am feeling baby wiggle around more and more and I am sure I even started to feel little hiccups! It is sweet! Eric has felt baby move and loves it!! This little one doesn't like to be squished at all. If I lay on my side/belly it will squirm until I move! So silly! Saturday baby's heart rate was 160 and sounded great!! Love hearing that sweet sound when ever I want to. Nice having an at home doppler! I don't use it much, but maybe once every other week. Ella worries about me using it. She is afraid it will hurt the baby. She is so sweet! 

I haven't really been craving anything regularly, just things that come to mind once in a while. I am not into sweets too much, they make me sick! That is a pretty good thing I guess. 

 We have finally pick out names! YAY! if this little baby is a baby girl we will name her Faye Evelyn if this baby is a baby boy his name will be Silas , not too sure about a middle name yet! Maybe Silas Gray??? Not sure. So in EIGHT days when we go for the BIG ultrasound, we will know what this wee one will be named.

 It is our plan to have a fun gender reveal with our kids after the ultrasound, usually just Eric and I go, so when we get home I will have already made cupcakes ready and I will put either blue or pink frosting inside the cupcakes, so you can't see, then have the kids cut into the cupcakes to see, blue or pink? It will be fun!

 I am also thinking of fun ideas for announcing on Facebook, boy or girl. I think maybe take a pic of my belly with either a pink or a blue scarf or ribbon tied around it, or pic of me holding a pink or blue balloon?? Not sure yet. Maybe post pics of our little gender reveal with the kids, what ever we do, I will make sure to post on here as well. 

 I am so excited to see this tiny new baby and find out he/she is okay, healthy and if it will be a Faye or a Silas!!!!! Eight days seems like a long time!! 

 Well, that is my post for today. I pray that those reading this are doing well, and that God will bless you and your families! Take care! 

~~~~~~~~~*****Note~ The ultrasound pic on top is of baby number five at 11 weeks. SO cute!!***~~~

The Queasys

Well I am nearly five weeks into this pregnancy and the past two days or so I have been hit with the queasys.  Bummer, but also, praise God!!!  So glad that I have the hormones that make me feel icky, because they are important for a healthy pregnancy, but it isn't the best feeling in the world.

 Honestly, I am one of those odd ducks that love everything about being prego! I even love saying "urgh, I feel sick to my tumm!" I love it because of what it means, it means I am blessed to be able to carry a baby! I am fully aware of the fact that not everyone is able to get pregnant very easy or even at all, and I would be so heart crushing not to be able to have little ones. Little ones I didn't honestly know how much I wanted, until God showed me what He had placed on my heart, and I was willing to look!
 I am pretty sure that for quite some time I took the call I felt God placed on my life and heart, and I shoved it in the closet, really pretty afraid of what it would mean in my life and how others would view me, I know how people felt about "Conservative Christians" and I knew how they felt about the "nuts" that let God direct their family size. I felt like from the time I gave my heart over to God when I was just nine years old, that God was calling me to be a mom, wife and woman that reflects His biblical standards.
 I think that if I am being honest, I knew he wanted me to have children, and more then 2.5 of "normal" Americans, I felt Him calling me to home school, even though I chose to ignore for the first few years of my children education, I knew with out a doubt that I was called to be a submissive wife to my husband, even if he wasn't "submissive worthy" at times, I knew that God had called me and set me apart,
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew^[a] you,
    before you were born I set you apart;
    I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.” He wanted me to look different the the world.
Changing into the woman He has called me to has been, and still is a process. But now that I am walking in that calling, and being obedient to my Lord, I have never felt such joy, fulfillment,  and peace in my life! Despite the imperfections of my life right now, all seems right with the world, knowing that my God is in his rightful place in my life and in my heart.

Five or so years ago, while my husband and I were having a quiet morning of breakfast, bible time and prayer, (the kids were all in enrolled in Christian School at the time, so we had time every Monday mornings to be alone...gone are the days...sigh...moving on... ) we read scripture that Eric had laid on his heart earlier in the week, it was Psalms 127:1 The part Eric had on his heart was "Unless the LORD builds the house, its builders labor in vain. "
 We poured over what this meant. And we read the verses after, 

Sons are a heritage from the Lord,
    children a reward from him.
 Like arrows in the hands of a warrior
    are sons born in one’s youth.
 Blessed is the man
    whose quiver is full of them.
They will not be put to shame
    when they contend with their enemies in the gate.

( verses I need to be taking to heart right now, as I am so nervous to tell other we are expecting again!!!) 

and we both knew what God was calling us to, He desired to have our whole hearts, our lives given over to Him  in faith and trust in His perfect will for our lives. We knew He was placing on our hearts to have more children.  

  This was scary! Still is!! But we both agreed that we wanted more then anything, to be in Gods will for our lives, to let Him be the master builder of our "house" .

  

 So that is why I am here today, two babies later! We had Lilah 19 months ago and now joyfully expecting our fifth baby! 

 I have no idea what will come after little baby boy or girl ( I think boy!) if we will have more or if we won't, I do know, with out any doubt, that I trust my almighty Father in heaven with my whole life and still desire more then anything to be in the center of His will for my life. 

SO there ya have it! The reason for the blogs title and here we are! 

 I want to make sure that y'all know, I don't think EVERYONE should have baby after baby, and I don't think if you don't that your somehow "less Christian" or that your are wrong, I know that God places different convictions on different peoples lives and I think it best not to go around judging others for where they are or are not in comparison to yourself! Not good! Let us uplift one another and try our best to have understanding in our hearts, even when we don't agree. 

 Thanks a bunch for spending time with me, reading my little blog! 

 May the Lord bless you and your family!! 

Exciting News!!!

 Hey to all! It has been a while since my last post! I am not the best blogger I know, sorry!  I have been busy home schooling kids, keeping house, and running errands! Things around our home have been a tad crazy!
 I wanted to share some exciting news with you all. We are expecting baby number five!!!!!!!!
 We are very excited and joyful that our Lord would see us fit to parent another little one! I am so happy! I can't believe it is true! Clearly the morning sickness hasn't set it, because once it does I can for sure believe that it is true, I am so sick enough I can't forget it! Thankfully I don't get too sick, just pretty queasy and super tired!
So we will have a little June bug this summer! I can not wait!!! I love being pregnant and really love being a mama to a tiny new little baby.

~~~~YAY! Two lines!!!! So exciting!~~~~

I found out Wednesday. I took a test and honestly thought it would be negative like a million tests before it I have taken. I am kinda a testoholic!  I watched the test processing and the control line was clearly visible  I did NOT expect to see anything else, but slowly the second line became visible  getting darker and darker. I started to flip out a bit, saying, oh my goodness, oh my goodness! I was totally thrilled! I thanked God, then rushed out to get the phone to call hubby. I am too impatient to wait for him to come home from work and tell him in some creative way!  

 I couldn't get the phone number to his work right, I kept having to try again! Finally I took a deep breath and carefully pressed the numbers, I got a hold oh Eric, who works for a natural food store, and was dressed up like a turkey to promote the turkeys they sell for the holidays, so knowing this I said to him "Congratulations Papa turkey, there are two lines!!" He was a bit confused and said, "Two lines?" I told him yes there are two lines!  "Really?!?" he replied and I told him yes, your going to be a daddy again! 

 It was exciting! He couldn't talk much but was so very happy! 

 We haven't really told anyone yet, and I am fine with that for now! Eric did tell someone at work, even though I told him NOT too! He was just too excited. 

 I am only about 4 weeks pregnant, and I think we should wait to tell people. I think mostly I don't want to tell people yet, because I don't want to hear the negative  Most people don't have the same conviction as we do, and that is totally fine, but people can often be pretty negative. 

 I say that, but I was pleasantly surprised how people reacted to our last pregnancy and how supportive they were. People see us now out and about and are pretty positive for the most part, so I should give people more credit than I tend to! 

 I am nervous about telling people anyway. I think we should just wait a little while, something I tend to not be so great at though!!! We will see. 

 I can not wait to have a baby belly again!! LOVE baby bellies! They are the best!

 So There ya go! Our GREAT news, we are expecting a tiny June bug 2013! YAY 

 May God bless you and your family! 

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