The Prayers of a Mother

As many of you know, we mothers spent lots of our time praying for our children. It is so wonderful that we have a God who cares about the big things in our lives and also the small things! I thought I would share two things that I have been praying for. I love being pregnant, but pregnancy doesn't love me (at least in the beginning). I am now 16 weeks and am happy to say that the Lord has answered my prayers for the morning sickness to go away. I am not 100 %, but way better than before. So, thank you Lord for being so faithful to see me through those 15 weeks of sickness! And thank you to all my family and friends that had to put up with me also. The second prayer I have said recently will seem silly to most, but is a big one in our house. Carson is now 21 months old and still takes his paci to sleep. Phil and I have been praying for the Lord to help Carson when the time came to take it away. Yesterday when I picked him up from mothers day out they said they had lost his paci and were trying to find it when they realized he had gone to sleep without it!!!!! Shocker! This has never happened before. So, I thought well we will just roll with this and not let him have it anymore. Praise the Lord Carson only cried for 10 or 15 minutes before going to sleep and didn't wake up all night! We are so excited and are so thankful the Lord has answered our prayers again! We are paci free!!!!!!! So, keep up all your wonderful prayers. We do serve a Lord who listens and answers prayers!

Our First Look

Here is our first look at our sweet baby #2. I haven't blogged in forever and hope to be better in the coming months. This precious baby has been keeping me busy with sickness. I am almost 13 weeks and hope things will be better soon! So, here are our first pictures of our little baby. It was so wonderful getting to see it and see the heart beating. I know this is my second time to do this, but it still amazes me how awesome God is. During the sonogram the baby was moving all over the place and making punching moves. This sonogram was taken almost 3 weeks ago. I go back in 1 1/2 weeks and hopefully will get to hear the heart beat then. My pregnancy tracker says the baby is the size of a plum right now. Crazy to think that at Christmas it was the size of a grain of rice and now a plum. They grow so fast at the beginning.

I am also putting a picture of my fastly growing belly. Crazy how it just seems to pop right out there with the second. I don't remember showing much with Carson till 5 months, but that definitely isn't the case this time. So, here I am at 12 weeks.

Christmas

Our family has a tradition of "Christmas Eve P.J.'s". Everyone in my family opens up one present on Christmas Eve. The present always holds P.J.'s for us to wear that night. I thought it would be fun to post our Chrismtas Eve PJ pictures for the past three years. I love traditions.

When I was pregnant with Carson!

Last year when Carson was 6 months old!

This year! What a big boy!

Santa's Cookies! This is a picture of what Santa left on his plate. After this picture Carson ran up and ate the left over cookie. What a silly boy!

This is a picture of us at Phil's Bank for the Buffalo Gap parade. Carson loved Santa, but didn't want to get too close.


The whole gang Christmas morning. It took us 5 hours to open all the gifts!

Phil got this Texas Rangers hat in his stocking, but Carson had to wear it. Now he calls it his hat!

Santa brought Carson a bike! He loved it and wanted to sit on it all day. He hasn't quite figured it out yet, but I know it will be soon!

Carson's Christmas Present to Everyone

Here is a picture of what Carson gave everyone in our families for Christmas!

"mommy is pregnant!"

Yep, that's right! Carson is going to be a BIG brother! We go to the doctor on the 15th and will know a due date, but somewhere around August 14th! We are so excited! Please pray that this yucky morning sickness (which is really all day sickness) will go away soon and for a healthy baby! Carson really doesn't have a clue what is going on, but I know he is going to love being a Big Brother!

6 Wonderful Years!

That's right, on the 14th, Phil and I celebrated 6 years of marriage. Time has gone by so fast. It is so hard to believe we have been married that long! I am so thankful for my wonderful husband. Here are 6 things I love about him!



1 - I love how romantic he is. Not just on special occasions, but just for fun! Example: We went skiing last week and when we got off at the top of the mountain he stopped and gave me a ring! So sweet and totally romantic!



2 - His fun loving spirit. He is like a little kid at heart. Our life never has a dull moment with him around! He can put a smile on my face anytime of day!



3 - His love for the Lord! I prayed for a spouse that loved the Lord and the Lord has blessed me with one.



4 - He is the worlds best daddy! I can't even begin to describe how wonderful of a father he is. I couldn't make it through one day without him. Neither could Carson! From the begining he got up in the middle of the night and I have only had to give a few bathes because he loves doing that! We love him so much!

5 - His sacrifice for us! He constatly is giving up things he loves to do for us and never complains! Except basketball and baseball! :)

6 - His blue eyes. That is the first thing that I fell in love with, and am still in love with. He can hold me close and I just get lost in his eyes.

I love you honey and am so thankful the Lord brought us together! I couldn't live one day without you and am so blessed to have you as a husband! Thank you for loving me all these years! I look forward to many more wonderful years!

Love, Your Wife

Guess who loves....

Shoes!!!!!

That's right! Our sweet and very much a BOY loves shoes!!!! If Phil or I leave any shoes laying around he will find them and try and wear them. If we take them off he throws a fit. So, here are a few of his favorites!

For those of you that know Phil really well, you can imagine what he thinks about this picture. It is my favorite one!

He loves Phil's boots. They are wayyyyyy to big, but he has to try and drag them on his feet! Priceless!

These are Carson's new house shoes. He loves his little "ephants"!

Blog Help

To all my blogger friends, I need help. I am trying to put my site up on my blog. I have it on there now and have tried to make it a "hot link" (I think that is the right word). Anyway, I can't get it to work, so if anyone has any suggestions on how to add that as a gadget and make it work let me know.

To those of you that want to see my site her it is

http://courtscreativecorner.googlepages.com

All you have to do is click on the above address and it should take you to my site.

Thanks to all my smart friends!!!!