Oh Man, Oh Man!

Yea... apparently they shouldn't have changed my due date from April 3rd to March 27th because this is just aggravating! I'm actually doing better today then I was on Friday, I'm still getting stuff done and really enjoying every last minute with Mackenzie. Sat. night seemed like "the night", I had contractions for 90 mins that were about 4 to 5 mins apart, but then they stopped on their own at midnight. Oh well, I got a good night sleep and I got to hear Bryan Lockhart preach the best message on finding our hope and joy outside of our circumstances... talk about timing!

Jake just got home and we're doing more house hunting tonight! I guess God really wants our attention focused on finding a new house right now instead of enjoying a new baby! I need to be grateful in this... there is so much going on and I know His timing is perfect for everything! He reminded me today that if it was good for me to have Aubrey now, then I would have her... but His ways are not our ways or His thoughts our thoughts =) I'm so glad we trust in such a great big God!

Tribute to Chic-Fil-A

My craving of choice this pregnancy has been Chic-Fil-A and girltalk.blogs posted a really cute song about it on their blog on Friday. Thought you'd get a kick out of it... I think I'll be singing this one for a while!

http://girltalk.blogs.com/girltalk/2009/03/friday.html

Mackenzie insisted on wearing "shuish" (shoes) this morning but I couldn't get them on over her footie pj's... so this is what she wore all morning. I love this pose, it's like she's saying, "What? I don't see anything wrong with this outfit!"
"Helping" us pack up the kitchen =)

She was standing on the mini crockpot... she's turning into such a climber!

Still nothing to report on Aubrey's arrival! We're taking it easy today, watching 24 and packing some boxes. Jake just took a whole car load of boxes over to be stored in the Lockhart's garage... they are so generous with their house! They're visiting this weekend and Bry's preaching at church... even though I'd love to have Aubrey here by now, this is a really sweet weekend to be a part of!

Yea... I'm still here...

Just in case you were wondering... no baby yet =(

I feel fine, my blood pressure is fine, and no signs of any baby coming anytime soon. Jake bought me pizza tonight to help keep me distracted (he knows the way to my heart is through Papa John's right now!)

So I'm not in the hospital, but my brother Jeff is. He is having a Crohn's flare up again and he'll be in the hospital at least until Monday. They're trying to avoid surgery at all costs. Jeff and Angie just settled on their house today in the hospital room! Everyone met there so Jeff could sign the papers and then Angie had to go back with them to the office to finish up. She is so amazing... I would be so overwhelmed at the idea of doing that on my own! She is doing a wonderful job taking care of my brother! It's hard as his sister to see him in pain, I can't imagine what it must be like as his wife! When they went to the ER on Wed. night they didn't get a room all night and she sat in a chair while he slept on a stretcher... what a wonderful wife! And Jeff is doing a great job looking out for her as well, even in the midst of excruciating pain he was asking for a bed for his wife to sleep in, but it was wall to wall people and there was nothing they could do for her.

Hopefully I'll be joining my brother in the hospital soon!

Bragging about my Bro!

I have no idea if you'll be able to open this link or not if you don't have facebook, but Andy WON BEST SOLOIST in the ICHSA competition (not sure what those words stand for...) First his school won the regional competition against all the ACSI afflilated schools and they qualified to compete in this competition against 9 other qualified high schools. Their team won against all the other schools and Andy won his own award for the best soloist! They're going to NY to compete nationally agaist four other schools at the Lincoln Center April 18th! It's a really big deal... it deserved it's own post!

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=83513638744&subj=1046760536#/video/video.php?v=83516373744&subj=1046760536

Just in case you can't open that link, here's something else to look at! Mackenzie is obsessed with the video of Andy singing... here she is trying to get it to play by herself (she's being naughty, she's not allowed to touch the computer!)

Look at her waiting so patiently!

Then she starts clapping and dancing when the music starts... and when I say "music" it's only their amazing voices since it's all acapella... it sounds so cool!

I was feeling really yucky tonight and she brought me her silky and her juice... she's very nurturing!

Yep... still here...

We're into playdough now... it's a really good thing too because she'll sit and play playdough in her high chair for at least 20 mins.... long enough for me to blog or, in a few days, nurse a new born! I'm so glad we discovered this new joy! She looks frantic in this picture, but that's only because she was all done and I was making her wait to get down until I took her picture... she was frantically saying, "all done, all done!"

Last night I really thought might be "the night." I couldn't sleep because she was so active and I was having incredible pain in all the right places, but by 1 a.m. she settled down and the pain stopped and I was able to sleep. It felt like she was literally trying to hatch her way out of me! I think she's just as uncomfortable as I am!

So, I've hesitated to write anything about our house until it's all a done deal, but I can't hold back any longer! We have sold our house and have been house hunting all in the past week! We got a deposit from our buyer on Friday and went out looking for houses on Sat. We were completely discouraged by our trip on Sat, but when we looked again Monday night we found two homes that we fell in love with. We took my parents back to see them last night and they loved them both too! They like the one the best that we like the best (although Stephen has his own opinion, he likes the one by the pool the best of course!) and we all agreed the other one was probably too small for our growing family. They came back for brownies afterwards and we had fun discussing the potential of this amazing house! I'll post pictures when it's official... we have a long way to go before that though!

I have to write about how good God has been to us in this whole process. Last week I was a wreck with worry... I couldn't imagine moving in 5 weeks (we have until May 1st) with a newborn. I was really anxious about even the process of us finding a house together and agreeing on something. Instead of rejoicing in God's good timing, I was questioning His wisdom for our family. But God has surrounded us with people to care for our souls. Our caregroup prayed for us on Wed. night and by God's grace, so many of those prayers have already been answered! Jake's mom and I pray together every Thurs. and she's been so encouraging and she is such a prayer warrior! I shared with her how I was anxious just about Jake and I not agreeing on what's a priority in a home, and I know she's been praying for us because we've walked out of every single house with the exact same thoughts about it! Jake has prayed that we wouldn't look back on these next 6 weeks as the craziest and darkest time in our family and a time we'd want to forget, but a time that we would enjoy remembering God's goodness to us and a time we drew even closer as a couple. So far, so good... but I know that is a work of God's grace! We haven't added a new baby to the picture yet, and the sleepless nights that come with a new born, but I have so much more faith for that just seeing how much God has worked in the past week!

Just for the Grandmothers...

Mom... you're gonna want to go to Marybeth's to watch these... they're so cute! Mom Moon, you and Dad will like the one of Jake reading to her... she can point to your pictures in her photo album and say "Nana" and "Poppop" all on her own now! Everyone else... these videos are cute, but I'm not sure you have 5 mins to just watch Mackenzie being cute like her grandparents do!

Still waiting...

Well... still no baby... apparently there are at least 4 of you out there who aren't surprised because you had the nerve to vote that I WON'T go before my due date... I don't know who you are, but you're NOT my friends =)

Just kidding... I'm thinking of voting that way myself... there is nothing happening! It is still a whole week before my due date, but I really wanted to go on Stephen's birthday which was yesterday. Oh well, I know God has the perfect birth date picked for this baby and I really only do want HIS plan!

There have been some issues with my blood pressure this week. I waited to see the dr. for 45 mins. on Tues. with Mackenzie in the waiting room, and then they wondered why my blood pressure was high?! They had me lay down and they did a non-stress test (I'm so grateful my mom could come and pick up Mackenzie for me... I had basically been standing on my head to entertain her, there is no way I could have done that test with her there!), but while I was taking the test, Jake called to say that we had an offer on our house! So, of course, my blood pressure didn't exactly go back down with that exciting news! They sent me to the hospital do take some blood and monitor me and the baby a little more... but everything was fine so I got to leave. I had to go back yesterday for a BP check and it's still high, so that's something to pray for in the midst of all this craziness with our house. I don't want to write anymore about the house until it is super official, but let's just say this is the most promising offer we've ever had!!

I've been told to rest as much as I can since they're concerned about the high BP, so I am trying my best to enjoy my last days with just one baby to care for and I'm taking the time to play with her as much as I can. We played with rice yesterday, per MamaB's suggestion, and it was a lot of fun! It brought back lots of preschool teacher memories and opened a flood of other ideas I can do with her. I want to make sure I'm intentional with her to play on the floor with her and enjoy her at her level at least once a day, I really hope that is reality once Aubrey is here!

Here she is being my "helper" and putting her babies to sleep... Oh Lord, please keep Aubrey alive!!

Welcome to the New Blog!!

Well, Aubrey isn't here yet... but I'm feeling really, REALLY ready to have this baby! I had my first... and only =( contraction this afternoon, but nothing has happened since then and it was an hour ago. I figured one of the last things I had to do was get a new blog ready so we can post pictures when this new little girl comes... so long to the days of "the three happy moons"... we are now four very happy moons, even though one of us hasn't arrived quite yet!

On Saturday morning we had the privilege of watching our dear friends' children. They were so well behaved and really helped with the clean up when there was the incentive of a movie and a rice krispie treat for everyone! Mackenzie loved the company and thought she was quite the belonger with the big kids!"Blowing her nose"... I told her she was boogery and she took that to heart and went and got a tissue and blew her nose! (more like smeared the boogers even more!)She is insisting on wearing her jacket right now even though we can't let her outside because it's raining. Here she is pouting on her piano!

Let's see if this works!