D baby at 12 1/2 Weeks!

Baby was moving all around and being so cute at our ultrasound. Baby was waving at Miss D and so active. Everything looks good and I just love hearing the heartbeat! They were willing to give me an early guess at the sex of the baby but we declined.... right now we are going with not finding out. But that may change.

Another 4 inches makes about 2 feet!

The snow it so beautiful. We find ourselves just gazing out the windows at it. This is one of the biggest icecycles we have. We are enjoying being snowed and spending time with each other.!!

Buried in with DADDY!

Mr. D got home on Friday night. He was delayed a little bit during one of his stops... but we didn't have to wait to long at the airport. Miss D was so EXCITED to see him. Once she caught sight she ran down the way yelling "DADDY"! He bent down to hug her and tears were streaming for me and him. It was so sweet to see how tight she held him. We stayed at his parents that night all in one bed and Miss D kept at least a hand on him all night. She has been keeping very close tabs on daddy since we have been home. He gave her a bath tonight and I can really tell that she is needing his attention. They have been hugging and kissing and it is so cute. She wants him to play with her and she is kinda showing off all the new things that she can do since he has been gone. Like say her "L"'s and her "TH's"! They are playing dollhouse right now in her room... to cute. Her daddy is home and she couldn't be happier.

We are completly snowed in also! We put chains on the car so that we could make it home on Saturday. But since then we have gotten so much more snow. It is so beautiful. I'm really starting to feel better.. I can tell because I have sat doing this post and haven't felt yucky at all! Good for you all right... more D updates! We have our next ultrasound on the 26th.... that will be the end of my 12th week. Time is really flying!

Random Pictures Selection

I'm not home and so therefore I have the luxury of fast internet... and with that comes some fast uploading of pictures... so enjoy some of the pics that I would have loved to share but didn't have all day to load!

Brrrrrrrr.

So Mr. D is out of town.... So our pipes don't freeze we needed to come up with a cheap way of insulating the foundation and the ppies below the house. He suggested magazine papers crumbled up in a bag... but that was way to much work. I decided a bath towel in a bag should do the trick. I needed to do a ton of these so as I was filling I saw that it was a good thing that I'm a freak about saving these type of bags. I cleaned myself out today. Now out house is protected from the freezing weather.

Brrrr. It is cold outside. I braved it and got some great pictures of the beauty.

A little something...

I got a haircut yesterday... surprise! It is short and I love it. I sent a pic over the phone to Mr. D and he likes it too!

Update on The D's

Ok... I know I know that I'm lacking in the posting area of my life. But to be honest my keyboard at home is being picky and not obeying me when I type a letter... it is skipping and then I have to go back and fix it (annoying!)....then another reason is that sitting in front of the monitor contributes to my nausea. Which by the way peaked on Tuesday when I spent the morning and afternoon hugging the toilet. I never threw up with Miss D or Baby Hazel... but Tuesday I was in bad shape. I had a glass of milk at about 5am to fill the void that was starting to make me feel yucky and then went back to bed... well it just didn't sit right. I stayed in bed as my tummy was churning until Miss D woke up about 7am. I headed for a potty break and I couldn't get turned around fast enough to puke...Miss D was so precious... saying..........
"Get those throw up's out mommy"
"Good Job Mommy"
"Do you want my niney to make you feel better?"
" You will be OK mommy"
Too sweet... I stumbled downstairs to get a gargle of water and then maybe a small drink of something... I managed to drink a sip of water. About 1 hour later I had round 2. This time I closed my eyes and Miss D was so into her cartoon that she didn't even notice that I was missing. No pep talk from my daughter this time.. I was on my own. I flushed the toilet and made it back out to the couch where I stayed ALL day. Miss D had a nap at 1pm and I layed down... but had to sleep sitting up because my stomach was in my throat. That really doesn't make for very restful sleep. We gathered our things later in the day to make the trek down to my in-laws to stay. It took me hours to pack for a few days away from home and now a few days later I really did a horrible job packing. We have been at my in-laws staying and I have been feeling MUCH better. I'm hoping that was the end of my nausea and it culminated with a bang... or barf. Anyhow... I have been hitting the sack early because I really have been tired. Mr D really isn't missing much around here. Although we are REALLY MISSING HIM. We both purchased a web cam and are able to "skype" back and forth at my in-laws house where they have highspeed internet. We did on Thanksgiving... which was SO sad as he was with a friend from home who is now on the job with him (HUGE BLESSING) and they were having brawts on the bbq for Turkey day. I felt terrible as I was indulging in a beautiful dinner and pie as he was alone in TX having to fend for himself. He has had some major challenges down there... but as of today 2 people have been fired (Mr. D is very happy about that) and the 4 that are left have good attitudes and are very hard workers. They are now hoping to get 7 more guys down there to help them finish the job before the day they are to return home which is Dec 19th. If they are unable to finish the job by then they will be returning after the 1st of the year. So
Please pray that they get suitable help and are able to make up much lost time.
Please pray for safety on the job site and for a problem free work environment.
Please pray for endurance and clarity for the workers because the are working 6 days a week putting in 60 hours.
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Mr. D passed his written State patrol test! So we are hoping that they will be able to give him and oral interview during the time that he is home... If I can gather all the paper work and transcripts.
Hmmmm what else can I update...
I had my 1st baby appt. Baby is measuring right on target with what I thought... 8 weeks and now a few days. It was so cool to see a beating heart and Miss D was so intrigued by the tv that showed what the tech was doing. She waved to baby... it was so sweet. My due date is 7-7-09...
and a friend just announced her pregnancy... exciting... another round of babies to be born. Hopefully I won't be so long in posting because I have made it this far in a post without feeling totally yucked out by the monitor!
Late Turkey Blessings and thanks for sticking with me.. even though I have neglected you!

Me... not much but shuteye.

I know that my blog has been seriously lacking. But I really don't find time lately to blog. I really don't have much to talk about. All I do is sleep (when miss d is napping which sometimes can be the chunk of the afternoon). I did clean my house yesterday which was a miracle.... then what happens...someone wants to show the house. So this morning I had to scoop me and miss d out the door early so our house could be shown. That was a hard enough thing to do since my place in the mornings has been on the couch while miss d watches her fav cartoons and my breakfast settles in my not so happy tummy. Ugggh... I'm really not any fun to be around. On that note... Mr. D headed out this morning bright and early to a job..YES that is right I said a job! It just happens to be in Texas and that it is for a month. But God does provide and when He does it is always so over the top. The pay is whopping and we are so thankful for the path God provides. So Mr. D will be home in a month.. and leading back to what I was saying before, I'm really a gem right now.. not doing my hair and barely ever wearing makeup ( I have to be ready to hit my pillow at any given moment). So Mr. D won't be missing much around the home front. I'm hoping by the time he gets home I will be more of a peach instead of a peach pit. I have my first doctor appt on Monday.. I'm hoping for an ultrasound. I can't wait to see a beating heart!!

Thank you

Thank you to all who will be praying for me and my 3rd child as we embark on this adventure together. I know that this baby will be SO covered with prayer. Thank you for standing with me in this time when I know that I will need prayer. I will need to be covered so that I don't stray toward the uncertainty that I know the devil will try and taunt me with. I will chose joy and I know that God is my strength and I can do all things through HIM.
Pray for a doctor that is sensitive to my needs and who will understand what I have been through. I'm in the process of finding a new doctor right now. I would like to find a fellow believer.
I'm feeling tired and nausea... but I welcome these feelings because they are the signs of a healthy pregnancy. I can't wait until my 1st ultrasound when I get to see a beating heart!
We are so excited and know that the time will fly. Miss D is saying that she wants a sister.. but Mr. D and I are thinking boy. We haven't decided if we are going to find out this time yet... still thinking on that one.
Thank you for all the comments and the encouragement! Much love Friends!

Missing her Sam and Syl

"Talking" on the phone to her friends who have been out of town for almost 2 weeks...

The phone is the play phone from her kitchen.... like how she is sitting in her grocery cart!

She was telling her friends that she would "call them on the other line".

Hee Hee Heee

I'm late
I'm late
For a very bloated crampy date
Auntie Flow didn't come
So a test I took
I'm late
I'm late
I'm late


It was postive and I'm due July 7th!!!
(baby Hazel was due July 5th... two years ago)


We are very excited!

Adventure Called Life

Something kinda cool... since work has been slow for Mr. D we have had time to explore new career options. Our house hasn't sold yet.. so in order to make the bills a job is needed. Mr. D filled out the paper work for State Police. I sent in his application today. We are excited about this new road of life. We really are living day to day knowing that God continues to guide us. We have no idea what the future holds for us. We may be here, there or anywhere. We are along for the ride and as soon as God says go we will be ready. Currently our house hasn't sold and we are enjoying everyday that we live in this beautiful place. All of this has really changed our perspective and has taught us to be storing up our treasures in Heaven and not here on Earth. We enjoy our friends and family with a new appreciation. As it should be... living everyday like it could be the last.

CRC weekend

This is a cute pic from Miss D's friends 1st Birthday party. We had fun! Isn't it a cute pic.

We have been busy lately. Mr. D has been searching for work and doing just about whatever he can get his little paws on. Gotta pay this bills! He is working at my parents house today cleaning up the outside and getting it ready in case they sell and have to pass inspection. He is getting his resume ready to start hitting the pavement in search for a new job. Construction industry is painfully slow. He does have work next week.. but really have been on a day to day basis! God is providing and we are in awe of how God cares for His kids.

We went away this last weekend to a retreat center with our community group. We had 10 couples. It was amazing. My head is still a little fuzzy from all the amazing stuff that happened and it is still running through my head being processed.

Light the fire in my soul

Fan the flame and make me whole

Lord you know just where I've been

So light the fire in my heart again.

Create in my a clean heart, O God

And renew a right spirit within me.

Cast me not away from thy presence O God

Take not thy Holy Spirit from me.

Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation

And renew a right spirit with in me.

We hit the outlets on the way down and did a little shopping. I got 40 bucks from some work that I did so I was able to buy a couple of cute shirts and a really cute pair of boots for super cheap!

I gotta load the pics from the weekend. The place we went was really beautiful. Fall leaves, great food and great friends. So many tears, the ugly cry and bonds were strenthened! Which is going to be awesome to have those memories in the upcoming years.

Getting the Word out.

This is a must read and the second to last paragraph about ripped my heart out. If you are a person riding on the fence or maybe you already decided... about who to vote for and care at all about unborn children and the laws to protect them ( or possible lack thereof). Please read this. It is very disturbing and enlightening.
Robert George Article

God,
Right now we are at the mercy of a possible 4-8 years under a man who's voting record points to things that I have a hard time very unsettling. I ask Lord that you send believers into this man's life who tell him about Jesus and that he has a radical encounter with you God. Lord... only you can do this and I ask that either man elected is saved and gets this country on track with God's Word. Life begins at conception and you say so in your Holy Word. Save this man because I know God that you love him SO much.. He is one of your children just as I am. Please God soften his heart so that he can be receptive to your calling and drawing him to you God. I rest in knowing that you God are in control and that you won't let your people perish. Not one of us. You created us in Your image and I am in awe of You. Thank you for sending your Son Jesus to save us from our sins. I pray that all come to know you and call you Lord. I long for the day I can see ALL rejoice in Your Holy Name. Be with both of our presidential candidates and their families as well as their running mates. Make their paths full of believers that they have no other way to go...but straight to YOU God!

Join me in this prayer for our leaders friends... our country desperately needs God.

Great Oswald Today

October 16th.
THE KEY TO THE MASTER'S ORDERS
"Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that He will send forth labourers into His harvest." Matthew 9:38
The key to the missionary problem is in the hand of God, and that key is prayer not work, that is, not work as the word is popularly understood to-day because that may mean the evasion of concentration on God. The key to the missionary problem is not the key of common sense, nor the medical key, nor the key of civilization or education or even evangelization. The key is prayer. "Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest." Naturally, prayer is not practical, it is absurd; we have to realize that prayer is stupid from the ordinary common-sense point of view.
There are no nations in Jesus Christ's outlook, but the world. How many of us pray with out respect of persons, and with respect to only one Person, Jesus Christ? He owns the harvest that is produced by distress and conviction of sin, and this is the harvest we have to pray that labourers may be thrust out to reap. We are taken up with active work while people all round are ripe to harvest, and we do not reap one of them, but waste our Lord's time in over-energized activities. Suppose the crisis comes in your father's life, in your brother's life, are you there as a labourer to reap the harvest for Jesus Christ? "Oh, but I have a special work to do!" No Christian has a special work to do. A Christian is called to be Jesus Christ's own, one who is not above his Master, one who does not dictate to Jesus Christ what he intends to do. Our Lord calls to no special work: He calls to Himself. "Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest," and He will engineer circumstances and thrust you out.

Our house is for sale Lord.. where will you have us go?

October 15th

Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day

I know of many friends that have a chance to join in this day to remember our babies that only were with us for to short of time.

If you would like to leave a comment and share about your child (ren) I would like to give you a place to share and remember.

I will start...

Today I remember my baby Hazel Hope who was born on May 30th, 2007. She was 35 weeks old but only was able to enjoy the sound of my voice and never see my face. I enjoyed feeling her movement and dreaming of her little life outside my womb. I didn't think that life would be so wonderful for her. It is a life that I could have never given her here on Earth. A life without sorrow, pain or anger. A life that is shared with our Lord in Heaven. How awesome is that. ? I have to be honest and say those weren't my thoughts on the day that she was born.. or even shortly after that. But it wasn't to many days later when God revealed Romans 8:28 to me.

28 And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.

What Satan intended as harm.. God would use to bring glory to His Kingdom. And me and my hubby are walking testimonies of that truth. I will be in prayer today for all of you out there who have lost children from this Earth.. but know for sure that you will one day be reunited with them if you have a relationship with the One True God and like the Bible says in

John 14:6 Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

and God has also said for those who mourn these beautiful promises...

Isaiah 61:3

3 and provide for those who grieve in Zion—

to bestow on them a crown of beauty

instead of ashes, the oil of gladness

instead of mourning, and a garment of praise

instead of a spirit of despair.

They will be called oaks of righteousness,

a planting of the LORD

for the display of his splendor.

Seattle Aquarium

We took a trip to an aquarium today.... her first trip to any sort of place that has animals or fish. I know I haven't taken my daughter to the Zoo.. judge me if you want. I will one of these days. So while visiting family we had an outing today. I'm enjoying all of the amenities. Wireless laptop on my lap with lightning speed internet access. My daughter sleeping upstairs after a bubble bath and I'm enjoying a nice glass of wine. I downloaded all the lectures that I've been saving in my email so that I could burn them to a cd. Good time huh. I'm also going to post pictures too...wow that was fast. Mr. D is hunting for Bambi with his brother. Miss D is also enjoying their dogs. We have been tossing around the idea of getting a doggy... if we do Miss D is going to name "Gracher"... not sure where that came from.... maybe "Gracker.." not sure of the spelling. But if you ask her what she will name her doggy she will say that name. I don't know if I have shared the fun little detail that Miss D and I are learning Chinese. We can count to 10 and we know our colors and how to say milk, water and juice. We also know sun, moon, rain and spider. Also how to say "what is your name" and "my name is". We are having fun with it. I have been tossing the idea around of Homeschooling and so instead of being intimidated of it I thought we would just learn together. I don't know Chinese and neither does she. We can learn together right. Kids have such an amazing ability to learn... they are just like sponges. It's so fun to see her learn. I'm off to surf the internet at lightning speed.

Come in for your checkup Miss Mommy

Miss D and I have been doing some serious playing lately... she is into playing doctor and checkup. Thanks to my neighbors daughter for teaching her how to play... and when I say thanks I need you to layer it with a sarcastic tone.... because I can't even count how many check up's that I've had over the last few weeks. A waiting room is involved and a ringing bell to let me know that it is my turn to come in to see the doctor. Then the bag of tools (which are silverware from her kitchen) are deployed and the check up is in full swing. Mr. D gave her some great ideas on how to use her "tools". The ladle is for checking knee caps and elbows. The triangle pie utensil is for checking behind the ears (it is silver and you can really use it to look behind the ears..!), the forks are for tapping teeth and the knifes are for taking blood....and the spatula is for listening to my heart. When I walk into her room for my check up she asks me "what seems to be the problem?". It really is cute.. I just had share. Next I will share about getting haircuts.. which are another one of her favorites to play.

Today in pictures

Gotta start the morning out right. I get the second half of this french press of coffee... Mr. D takes a to go mug on his way to work. It is perfect because there is just enough for a cup of coffee for me. And did you see what I got at Walmart!!! Chocolate Mint Truffle.. um....yummy!

Miss D was upset that I wouldn't let her have 3 bowls of Marshmellow Maties...I cut her off at 2 bowl. Which is ok with me... but 3 bowls come'on girl. That is just to much!

Next I made 10 of these cute little wreaths for an open house event here in town. I also made some really cute 9" globes covered in carns that they are floating in a huge vases up at the alter... they have a wedding business and are trying to get bookings. Times are hard! I pray that they have a great turn out and maybe out of the deal I will get some wedding orders.!.

Then after Miss D was down for her nap I headed out to the garden to see if there was anything left. I had a huge harvest! My yellow and black tomatoes had finally ripened and I had a dinosaur sized zuck out there... note that those are 6" tiles on the back splash... Miss D is still sleeping (going on 3.5 hours) and I've had time to clean out a few cabinets and drawers in my kitchen, sweep and mop the floor.. put away some laundry... visit the neighbors. Whewwww...

Then I got treated to an early arrival home of Mr. D. who right now is sleeping on the couch while getting ready to watch "Trackside Live". Talladega is on this weekend people! Tune in Sunday.

My friend that I have missed... A Tribute.

Rain

The rain is here

I have to say

I've missed you so

I hope you stay.

You smell so good

You sound so nice

You say fall is here, so

burn some spice.

Rain, Rain and more Rain

Other may say...go away!

I welcome you in all your wetness

Raincoats and all we still will play.

I love your clouds

I love your drops

Some are grey and

Some go plop.

A day of gazing at you

while snuggled in and toasty warm.

Gathered around some candles

I'm longing for a really good storm.

You water the Earth

You settle the dust

With Rain and Mist and Big Grey Clouds

You are just a MUST!

Rain