Snips & Snails or Sugar & Spice....

Here is a brief update... everything has been going really well.... we have an ultrasound scheduled on Tuesday and hopefully we'll know then if the theme in our home will be eternally blue or if we will get a chance to throw in some pink!!! All I want is a healthy baby...seriously.

My last ultrasound showed a marginal placenta previa, so we are hoping that has pretty much resolved itself. I have felt great.... a little tired here and there, but overall, I have felt really good. I felt some "quickening" this week... I also am bigger at this point than I was with my last two... let me tell you, that does a lot for a girl's self-esteem!! ;-) For my birthday, my husband is buying me maternity clothes (since I gave ALL of mine away)... I know, so romantic. What can I say, we are just practical people! ha ha

I also switched doctors this week...I mainly did it so that I can deliver at the hospital where I work. Our next goal will be starting to talk to Cooper about "baby." This will be a HUGE adjustment for him. If anyone out there has any advice on how to handle a new baby and a toddler who thinks the world revolves around him...send it my way!!!!

Promise....

Natalie Grant has a song that I JUST LOVE... "Held"

The past few weeks I feel like everytime I turn around I hear stories of death, tragedy, cancer, sickness, hopelessness, broken marriages...basically, just pain (ever had one of those weeks?). As a follower of Christ, I feel what is so hard is trying to make sense of these things.... and knowing that I am not exempt. Admit it... we all do it or have done it...and I don't know if we ever succeed in "making sense" of things. However, there is a line in this song that I have heard a million times, but it just stood out this week. "The promise was when everything fell, we'd be held."

What a promise... to know that when the world falls apart, when "unfairness" sneaks in on us, or when tragedy rains down, we have a promise that is greater than anything the world can offer. To be held by HIS loving arms.....
I am thankful today for my Savior who rescues me and holds me... and I know is holding those around me.

Incomparable Camp Ozark

Austin returned home after completing his 2nd summer at Camp Ozark in Mt. Ida, AR. It is a Christian Aventure Camp... it's beautiful there. Anyway, just wanted to post a few pics from the camp and drop off/pick up. I know it was only a week, but he looked, sounded (and SMELLED) different from when I dropped him off. He had a blast, though. Thanks to those of you who kept him in your prayers and sent him notes, letters, & e-mails.


A pic from Closing Ceremonies...I'll give you one guess what they are singing... Michael W. Smith's "Friends Are Friends Forever"... the eternal good-bye to something song!


This the view from Austin's cabin... I doubt he appreciated how beautiful it was.


Art posted throughout the camp..

Waterslide.....

Austin setting up his bunk!

This is on the day of pickup!!! You are lucky you can't smell this!!! :-)

Waterslides!!!!!

Pulling in... a pic of one of the rock climbing walls.

House in the Ozark Mountains... what a view!

Inside the dining hall!

View of a few of the cabins... Austin's was the one at the bottom.

View from the camp grounds.

The "shuttle bus" to your car. (They valet park it for you! ;-)) By the time you get on the shuttle and back to your car, you have a new appreciation of AC, need a shower, and feel guilty for leaving your child in that heat!

My mom singing "Pharoah, Pharoah" at Closing Ceremonies... she is going to KILL me for posting this!!! ha ha

Austin's counselors... Will & Tyler.

View from Vesper Point.. Not sure what takes place here everyday.

View of the dining hall entrance.

Art posted throughout the camp.

I love this pic... he had a top bunk and this was his "window."

The entrance to the row of cabins where Austin bunked for the week.

Pulling into camp! Those big balloon things are called "The Blob." They jump onto them and then into the lake.

Calem (my road trip buddy) stealing a hug before we let him go!

Right before we let him go!