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Our Big News

Since Ashley won’t call me or give me her phone number, I can’t let her know this “in person”, so she and the rest of you will just have to read about it here.

We’re expecting #3.

I know, insert big gasp here.  Or, how about a picture?

We always knew we wanted our kids to be close in age; we just didn’t know we wanted them this close!  I have told many people that Kevin and I had lots of plans to do “other” things - take the trip to Hawaii this summer, train for the Houston Marathon in January (me, not Kevin), MOVE houses, etc. etc. etc… and God gently reminded us Who was in charge.

So, once again we found that our plans are not His. We are truly excited; we always wanted 3 kids (maybe 4), and we’re thrilled that there’s only one baby, at least so far as we can tell! Kennedy and this baby will be 19 months apart. We have told Colby and Kennedy the news. Kennedy is still a baby herself, and Colby thinks he has a baby in HIS tummy too. Once the pregnancy test showed positive, my tummy started pooching out, so it was a struggle to hide the baby until I got to the doctor to make sure everything was okay.

When we went to see the doctor, I had no clue when my due date would be. We got pregnant while I was still breastfeeding Kennedy, mainly due to a mix-up over my birth control pill and my doctor’s office. (Well, you know, it was all God, but if you want a scientific “reason” why we got pregnant, there you go.) While in the doctor’s office, they did an ultrasound to see how big the baby was… it’s amazing how something starts out so little and is yet still a person. The baby was only 3 cm long from his/her head to his rear end, and based on that calculation (only!), they gave me my due date and told me I was 10 weeks along… I took a pregnancy test when I was already 7-8 weeks pregnant because I was just SO darn TIRED all the time and couldn’t figure out why. Well, this was my answer!

My due date is November 19th, which puts me about 15 weeks along. I’m out of my first trimester (hooray!) and I’m nesting, which should explain the lack of posting for awhile now. Since we’re not moving, we’re making full use of the space we do have until we can move, which means lots and lots of cleaning. Good thing our church’s youth garage sale is next week!

I told our Sunday School class about the Scripture that kept flooding my mind when I found out I was pregnant.  Here are a few of them.

“…My grace is sufficient for you (Jenna) because my power is made perfect in weakness…”   - 2 Cor. 12:9
“The LORD is my light and my salvation - whom shall I fear?  The LORD is the stronghold of my life - of whom shall I be afraid?”  - Ps. 27:1
“‘For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways’, declares the LORD.  ‘As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.’” - Isaiah 55:8-9

We find out what the baby is on June 25th, so wager your guesses now… I’ll hold off on what I think for now. For sure though, this pregnancy has been different from the other ones! I just thought Kennedy’s pregnancy was different because she was a girl, but I already have a boy and a girl and this really doesn’t feel like either one right now! I do have a little hunch, but I really couldn’t tell you for sure.

Like I said, we are really excited and we know the kids will do great with another sibling in the house. Colby and Kennedy really are playing well together and I’ll post an update on them sometime next week. Let the celebrations begin!!

7 comments May 27th, 2008

Happy Birthday to Ashley

Dear Ashley,

You are the kind of friend who calls not only on my birthday but on my kids’ birthdays as well.  You were the first non-family member I called after the kids were born.   And so you would think I would do better to call you on your actual birthday.

If I have excuses to give, they are these -

1.  While vacationing in South Padre (I told you about this already, so I should be in the clear, right?), we stayed in a concrete and metal building which prohibited cell phone and internet usage.

2.  Also while vacationing in South Padre, I realized I did not have your current phone number stored in my cell phone.  I am a dummy who doesn’t update these things.  I never thought I’d be “one of them”.

3.  Upon our return home, I now realize I do not know where your number is at all.  If you still lived in  Underwood (our dorm at A&M for those still reading this far), I would know your number.  If you still lived in Fort Worth, I would know your number.  If you still lived in that other part of Arkansas, I would know your number (the one stored in my cell phone).  However it is lost somewhere and cannot be found.

4.  I had one more thought about getting your number off our caller ID since you were so faithful to call on Colby’s birthday.  But of course, the whole world tried to call us while we were gone to South Padre, so in a mere 3 days we accumulated more wrong numbers than we normally would in 3 weeks.. maybe 3 months.  But thankfully we weren’t home.

Anyway, I really really am sorry and rather than send you this as an email, I’d rather admit my sins to you and to my whole blogging world (you know, all 4 of you out there.  not counting Ashley.)  So, buzz me, beep me, page me, fax me, email me, or call me and if all else fails send a carrier pigeon.  (No wait, Cooper wouldn’t like that…)  Please send me your phone number and this time I promise I’ll put it in my cell phone and burn it to memory.

Love always,

the Jenna-shmo  (who is “shmo” sorry)

2 comments May 18th, 2008

Birthday Pictures are up!

This year we tried a combined birthday party for Colby and Kennedy.  Since their birthdays are only a month apart on the calendar, we figured it would be easier (and less traveling for those involved) to just have the parties at the same time.  Kevin put these pictures up a little while ago, but I have been trying in vain to add captions.  So, use your imagination to see what kind of party we had and if the kids had fun or not.  And be sure to add the comments.

2 comments May 7th, 2008

Boom-dee-ah-dah

Anybody else like the Discovery Channel?  Alicia told me about this commercial and she got a long version from her podcast subscription.  However, I haven’t been able to get this song out of my head since I saw it on Kevin’s iPhone.

Everybody sing!  I love the mountains…

3 comments May 2nd, 2008