I can’t believe that my oldest baby is three years old!

This has been a great couple of days with a couple of emotional moments. 

Jim and I gave him a play shot gun or as Jake calls it a “shoot” gun. He LOVES it. 

Happy Birthday Jake!

There are times that I find myself worrying about my boys future. I get nervous that they are growing up in this generation. I know what it was like to grow up and go through school 15 years ago and I can’t imagine the pressures that they will face in the future.

Well, I was reading today and I found this verse.
Psalm 12:7–You, Oh Lord, will keep them: You will preserve him from this generation forever.

This verse will be one of my new prayers for my boys. It just gave me confidence that my God can preserve and guard them from the negative influences in this world. There will come a time when I can’t personally protect them. I am just thankful that I have a God that loves them and will take care of them better that I ever could.

I haven’t posted any new pictures of the boys lately. Since we have been sick for so many months it has been hard even take pictures much less post.

This picture is of Jake. This morning he came running in my room while I was getting dressed. This the outfit he had picked out. I thought it was great! I love the UGA and the cowboy boots. All he kept telling me was,”Mom, I am a Georgia fan.”

Tonight I took pictures of them in the bathtub. Bath time is a good time to take pictures because they are contained:-)

Sweet brothers!!

I thought I would post a picture of my at 31 weeks. I went the doctor on Wednesday. Mommy and Baby girl are doing great! I still can’t believe she will be here in 9 or so weeks. Jake was two weeks early and Judd was one week early. Hopefully, she will decide to come right on time. 🙂 I still enjoy sleeping through the night!!! However, I am eager to see what she looks like and how the boys will act when she comes. 

It is so weird to write children instead of “boys.” How different to know that I have a little girl coming in 11 weeks.

I read this verse last night and it really motivated me to start praying more specifically and consistently for my children.

Lamentations 2:19 says “Pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to him for the lives of your children.”

I spent some time last night researching how other couples pray for their children and this is one idea that I thought would work for us. If you know me then you know that I am a list person so I need a list to stay focused.

Jim and I plan to take time to discuss each child’s strengths and weaknesses. Hopefully, by doing this we can commit to pray through each of those areas and work with them to embrace their strengths and have victory over their weaknesses. At the end of 6 months we can reevaluate, update, and praise the Lord for his faithfulness. Also, by writing these down we will be able to look back and see how faithful our God is at answering our prayers.

They belong to Him, we are just allowed us the incredible blessing of raising them for a short time. I want that time to be productive and effective in His eyes.

If you have any input on the topic let me hear from you.

Boys names are so easy to figure out. We have two more on our list, but girls names have always been hard for us to decide on. We know that we want it to be a GIRL name. Not a name that could be a girl or could be a boy. We don’t want anyone reading or hearing the name and wandering, hmm, is this is a boy or a girl. 

I know that I haven’t even said Happy New Year, but life has been a bit overwhelming at times. I just thought I would give quick update of the end of 07 and the beginning of 08.

Many of you have read this, but I thought it was worth posting:

On Dec 21, Jim and I went to have a 3D/4D ultrasound in Memphis. I really wanted to have a video of this baby since I had one for both of the boys and none of the ultrasound places around here would record my 20 week ultrasound. It was so cool seeing the baby in 4D.

Another reason we decided to get the ultrasound was I wanted to surprise our parents on Christmas morning with the gender of the baby. No, I didn’t want to find
out, but I thought that it would be a nice present for our parents. It was a really hard decision for me.

Let’s pause and rewind a few weeks before I continue. At our 20 week ultrasound the baby’s legs were crossed, but the technician made a guess and Jim was able to find out on his 30th birthday. I still didn’t want to know and I didn’t want to find our if her guess was wrong, so I decided not to look at the picture. He did a great job of keeping it a secret.
Okay, back to the 3D ultrasound…..

When we got into the room I told Jim that if we could tell then I would try and guess the gender. So the lady started the video and I was able to tell immediately. I guessed and I was right. I must say now that I will not find out in the future. I REALLY enjoy not knowing….but since our parents and the rest of our family know I thought I would share our
news with each of you.

Jake has known since day one and he has always said “We are having a GIRL!!!” How did I raise such a smart kid!!!

Happy New Year!!! Our world will change in April!

p.s. No she doesn’t have a name!

I can’t believe that my little baby turned 1 on Friday. It just seems like yesterday I was waking up at all hours of the night to feed him, and wondering if he would ever sleep through the night. He is now sleeping through the night, walking, laughing, and signing milk, more, and please. He doesn’t talk much, but he is a pure joy to have in our lives.

We had a small party at our house Friday night, but his birthday party is going to be Dec. 29 when we are home for the holidays. I decided to have his 1st birthday party with our family. Here are a few picture from Friday night.

He loved playing in the cake, but he didn’t want to eat any of it.

Daddy, Jake and Judd playing with Judd’s new basketball goal. 

On Jim’s birthday, November 29, we had our 20 week sonogram. This was a great sonogram. We got to see many pictures of the baby. At this point, we have a breech thumb sucker. Also, the baby was sure to keep its legs crossed and the umbilical cord in between the legs. We have a great picture to prove it.
Below are a few pictures from the sonogram. If you would like to view Jim’s favorite go to his blog.

This is the picture of its legs crossed.

This is our baby sucking its thumb.

This is a picture of the face and hands.