20 Weeks

Here's our final ultrasounds!  How do you like the peace sign that Baby Aiken is giving us!  And the 3D is amazing...

I am having more good days than bad now so that is a huge improvement on the previous months.  Now if it will just continue to be better days!  

First pic of the belly

Well, lots of you have been asking for a picture of the belly.  It is really not that big yet, but here it is...we went apple picking on Sunday with some friends and then stopped at the pumpkin patch to see all the fun that was going on there.  

16 Weeks

Here is Baby Aiken at 16 weeks, the head is of course the huge thing that is quite apparent, then the knees are bent on the far right side, kind of under what looks like it's fingers.  We do have one more ultrasound coming up at 20 weeks at which we could figure out what it is, but have decided to wait until the baby is born to find out if it is a boy or girl.

That's about it for now, I am feeling a bit better these last few days so maybe I am finally coming out of the nausea!  I am definitely getting bigger, so we will try to post some pics of the growing belly sometime soon...

Baby Aiken is on it's way!

We are very excited to announce that our family will be growing as Baby Aiken is due to arrive 15th of March!  This has been the reason behind us having no posts on our blog because I have been really, really sick since the 5th week into the pregnancy.  We are now at the 14th week and I still have the nausea and extreme tiredness.  I had a 4 day time period last week where the nausea went away, but it came back yesterday.  Yuck!  

So here is the first ultrasound we had at week 9.  We have one coming up at week 16 so the baby will be more formed and we will be able to see the arms and legs...it is so amazing to see the progression of how a baby grows from the moment of conception.  God has truly been blowing us away with this process of growing our family!

My mom came out for 9 days, left this morning actually.  It was wonderful to have her here to see our day to day lives and was a tremendous help being my chauffeur and cooking meals for us.  What a blessing to have the best mom in the world!

We will keep you posted as the days pass, might not be too regular at adding things to the blog but know that we do continue to think of you all and would love to hear from you!

Been a while...

Sorry it's been so long since posting...kinda  a crazy summer around here.  I did a quick trip to Kansas a couple weeks ago to spend some time with my friend Sara's family, they lost their father to cancer.  It was so good to be able to be there for that time even though I had the worst airplane travel experiences of my life.  I basically was delayed/cancelled and did not get there in time for the funeral but did get to spend time with them afterwards which was a blessing.  Then on the way home from it my flight was delayed which then made me miss my connecting flight in Chicago, was put on another flight, that was cancelled, then on another flight that was cancelled until I finally made it to Hartford CT at 3 am in the morning!  I was supposed to arrive at White Plains NY at 9 pm...what a headache but so worth it to see this family that we have known for most of my life and to see my parents who just happened to be there.  They were doing a Kansas trip and had taken 3 weeks to drive out to Kansas and see their friends along the way.  And the date of the funeral was the date that they were in our hometown.  So it was wonderful to see them!

The rest of our weeks have been busy getting ready for camps coming up and normal everyday life.  We are headed to Wyld Life camp, which is for middle schoolers, July 26-30.  It will be crazy and fun...I'll try to post after we get back with some fun pictures and probably funnier quotes!

Hamptons Weekend

We went out to the Hamptons this last weekend and stayed at my employers house with our Young Life committee. Our committee is three families that support and encourage us with the ministry in Norwalk, they share the vision to reach every kid, every where and are amazing people in our lives. We were able to be out there from Thursday night through Monday morning, with everyone else arriving Friday and most were gone by Sunday at noon. We had a great time enjoying the house and going to the beach as you can see below in the pictures.

Here's the strategy meeting in the works on Saturday morning...

The kids on the beach enjoying every second!

And me with Hester, their Cavalier King Charles Spaniel that is absolutely adorable and cuddly. We were dog sitting for them which was a lot of fun! The kids kept him busy running him all over the property, he slept for two days straight after they left.

New Roof

We had a missions team come to our house today and put on a new roof! It was such an amazing humbling thing to happen to us. I have been on missions trips before and done stuff exactly like this (actually in South Dakota my sophmore year of high school) and had such a great time serving others. It is so different being on the receiving end of it. It was a group of high school and college guys from North Carolina. I was able to stop by and meet them during the day...they were so incredible. What a blessing!