A fun day at the park.

Today I decided that we needed to get out and play! With everything that is going on right now in my life a "park day" just sounded great. Right now as we speak there is a man cutting holes in my bedroom wall and bathroom wall. My beautiful paint job will have to be fixed. After getting a very large gas and water bill my husband and I convinced his parents there must be a leak. So..... after a year of telling them that the kitchen tile isn't suppose to get "HOTT" when you stand on it they agreed and got someone out there to look. What do you know we have a major major problem!!! All the pipes are rotted and there are lots of leaks. All of the pipes have to be come out and new ones have to be put in. We are still praying about weather we are going to buy a house or rent an apartment and "save" for a year. I say "Save" cause it feels like we are always saving but Im not seeing anything come out of that. I know I need to just be patient and see what the Lord has in store for us, but I honestly just want to know now. I know he's working in my life and my husbands in a big way. Please give us extra patience as May gets closer!! Back to the park, Emma and I decided that we were going to go have some fun at the park since today the weather was nice. She had such a blast, now that she's getting a little braver she is climbing a lot more. Today was a fun day!

Getting closer

May is only four months away. These past few months I have noticed my husband picking up my baby brother more and more. At first I thought it was he was just trying to help out (which he does all the time!) but then I started noticing him just going and picking him up for no reason. We had been teasing him cause my baby brother LOVES sucking on Frank's fingers. I will put mine by his mouth and see if he will go for it and no luck. Its the craziest thing in the world. I know the Lord is preparing him for father hood. It melts my heart to see a baby in his arms. We have been talking a lot more about kids and names and all that goes into being parents and it has been so much fun.

Being a sister is the Best!

Yesterday my sissy came down for the day. We had so much fun. The trip was mainly to get our Christmas shopping done and I have to say we did a great job! She got all her shopping done except a couple small things. I basicly had all my shopping done. Frank and I are doing stockings this year. I have a couple things for him, but I really want to come up with something really cool. Im hopeing the Lord will bless me with that perfect thought soon! We went to the mall with Emma, had lunch and shopped till we dropped. Literally we dropped when we got home (we missed Emmas afternoon nap) I made a bottle for Emma layed down with her and you know when kids miss their naps and they are so tired they just want to cry and scream? Well thats what happened. She didnt care that I knew what was best for her. After about 10 minutes of off and on crying she passed out. So did La La since she has been working two jobs and one is at the mall and with the christmas season they are working her to the bone. She takes a nap whenever she can get one. Then we came home picked up Frankie and went and got dinner. That was our fun and exciting day! I cant wait to see my faimly this weekend!!

Our dream home!

For those of you who don't know (all four of you! Hee Hee) we are house hunting. We came up to my moms on Sat. We had a blast went to my cousin Zach's music performance, went out to lunch with the Ferguson and Baker clan. Then Frank, mom, the girls, baby and I went house huntting. We went to go look at a couple different houses in the same community we had already looked at. We liked the two story the best. Then we went back up to Aunt Mishels checked out the new paint and furniture. I have to tell you its lookin beautiful!!!! So we hung out talked about all the different homes we looked at. Then at 10:30pm Frank and I drove back to Garden Grove. The next morning Frank said "babe you wanna go look at more houses?" Without hesitation I said" lets get ready." We got ready and got dash ready (yup we had to take the doggy" and we left for another trip out to the desert. We looked at a lot of different homes. There were two we really like but there was one that we both fell in LOVE with. We didnt tell each other how much we liked it until we were getting ready to go to the next home. I could tell her really liked the house when we were walking through it but it wasnt until we got outside did he really tell me how much he wanted this house! When we walked back to the office he said "maybe you should go get your camera." I knew in that sentence he was in love. For anyone who knows Frank, knows that sentence would never come out of him mouth unless he really meant it! I wont even tell you what I had to promise him just to get our family picrures taken. Here are a little facts about our dream home. Its in Beaumont (which is 20 minutes away from my mom) Its 3,157-3,468 square feet, 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 baths, living room, family room, kitchen and nook, 2 or 3 car garage. You have the option of turning the extra garage into a room and bathrom. I know it sounds like a lot and it is but its my "dream house" so thats ok. We are looking at a couple other ones but I just thought I would share with you I found my dream house! Please keep us in your prayers over the next 6 months. We will be looking at more homes, Frank will be graduating from his x-ray program looking for a job, I want to start an in home daycare. Lots of things we want to do pray that we stay focused and our eyes on what the Lord has for us.

Please keep us in your prayers!

We need a lot of prayer right now. There are some things going on right now that I cant give details. I just need to ask for your prayers and support! We know that we all need to trust in the Lord and he will take care of everything, but right now emotions are high. I pray that the Lord will shut doors that need to be shut and open doors that need to be opened and to guard out hearts.

Wicked

Last night my mom, sister and I went and saw Wicked. It was so so so much fun! The day started with a little drama but as soon as we gave it to God it got a lot better. Its crazy how the enemy works when your going to have a fun and blessed day with your family, but luckily we figured out what was going on and prayed, things got better really fast. I went and saw Wicked with my husband 2 weeks before and had a blast, but last night was a different kind of fun. First of all it was girls night out, and second when you get the three of us together its crazy fun!!!! The show was amazying and afterwards we went out back and got our playbills signed by the cast members and took pictures with them. It is definatly a night I will never forget. Thank you Mom and Laura for such a great birthday present!!!!!

The most amazing thing I have ever seen!

I was in awe of how the Lord has created our bodies and the amazing miricle of how he brings life into this world. My little cousin Ashleigh had her second son and she made it look so easy. I am so very proud of her for trusting in the Lord and knowing that she could do it with his help. I was so inspired by her faithfulness that I want to have a natural childbirth. I cant tell you how much I love that little guy. I catch myself looking down at him and then I cant take my eyes off him.

I just want to praise the Lord for his perfect timing. Thank you for closing all the doors that needed to be closed. You knew exactly what we needed and when we needed it!

Welcome baby Merritt!