Busy FUN Week!

A week-and-a-half ago we traveled to Michigan to visit some great friends of ours. They used to live in Georgia but left us for the COLD state of Michigan about two years ago. This was our second time visiting them and I have to say, the weather was SO MUCH BETTER! It was so cold last time that my body just hurt the whole time. This past week, the weather was still cool but the air was so crisp and clean...nothing like Georgia.

This is the view from a local Amish store where you can buy homemade goodies! 

 

We stopped in Louisville, KY on our way there and back, which was great because it gave us two date nights! On our way up we ate at a little hole in the wall Chinese place and it was SO good! On our way back through we went to the Good Friday service at Southeast Christian Church. In youth we just finished a video series about Easter by Kyle Idleman...one of the pastor's at this church. We just happened to see it near our hotel the first time we drove through and decided to visit on our way back! It was an incredible service. We enjoyed every second of it. Then, we broke our rule of only eating out at new places in a new town (not somewhere we could eat around home) and picked up a pizza from Domino's and ate it at our hotel. It was a great night! ...and I'm pretty sure I ate more pizza than Daniel. I would post a picture...of the church...not the pizza...but they're all on Daniel's Ipad which I don't have with me at the moment!

We went to the sunrise service at church Easter morning. A few weeks back I wondered if I would still be wearing regular clothes and if I'd have anything that fit for Easter! Luckily, I'm still wearing regular clothes with a few maternity things thrown in...might as well start wearing them if I have them...so an Easter out fit wasn't a problem. I wish I got a pic of Daniel and Me together, but we didn't. Oh well.

This is me and baby at 18 weeks on Easter. Finally starting to show! I got tired of people telling me I'm not showing when I really was...now surely nobody will tell me I'm not showing! Even if it might not be totally obvious to some!

Monday was our big doctor appointment day!! I have waited for that day since we found out we were expecting...our ultrasound. I was so anxious to hear that everything looked great. We were going to find out the gender, as well, but I was more focused on hearing that the baby was healthy. Through God's mercy and grace, everything looked wonderful! 

We're having a GIRL!!

 Her heartbeat was 138 beats per minute and that kiddo was happy as a clam in there. When the ultrasound tech first started, the baby was sitting criss-cross-applesauce but a few seconds later she was stretched out with one arm behind her head, legs out straight! ...laying just like her daddy! This, however, made it a little difficult to determine who exactly was in there...her legs were clamped shut so we couldn't see ANYTHING! We finally caught a glimpse...well, the tech did...we basically took her word for it, HA! Daniel was proud that his baby girl was acting like a lady with her modesty!

 

 I think we've decided to have a 3-D ultrasound done in a couple of weeks just for fun. Daniel looked into this a while back but I didn't really want to spend the money. After yesterday, though, I can't wait to see her again! Everyone said that I would love the ultrasound, and I knew that I would...but words can't really express what I felt yesterday...and still do. My favorite thing...well, other than staring at my baby on that little screen, was watching Daniel look at her. God didn't have to bless us with this baby, but He did. It humbles me every time I think about it. God's grace astounds me.

 

"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, my thoughts than your thoughts." Isaiah 55:8-9 ESV

-Megan