Baby News

For the rare few that didn't get my mass email you still have a chance to see the news report with our baby. My doctor was asked to be a part of a news story on prenatal testing. The piece was specifically about downs syndrom testing for pregnant women. Josh and I didn't want to do this test but they really needed a paitent at the last min and called me. I agreed to "pose" like I was getting the test. I did it simply so I could get an extra sonogram and see the baby. But they ended up making the story look like I had the test. Anyway, click here to see the news report. Once you get to the page you will push play on the screen with the synogram.



Everyone keeps asking if I am showing yet so here is a picture that Josh took of me tonight. I am exactly 5 months. That's over half way! I've got no where to go but out at this point.

Stay tuned for the big annoucment. We find out if it is a boy or girl next Friday. Josh thinks it's a girl and I think it's a boy. All I know is that the baby is very hyper. I feel it moving ALL the time. We have one very active child. I have no idea where it get's that energy from???

House Sitting for 6 Months!

Most of the time when you hear that someone is "house sitting" you think of a family going out of town for a weekend while you stay at their place. For Josh and I, house sitting is going to be a 6 months stay.

It's pretty neat how the Lord made this happen. Our lease was up in our apartment and we already turned in our notice to move out. Josh is currently looking for a full time youth ministry position and we have no idea where we will be moving. But we had to move out and find a new place to live.

We found an apartment and put down a deposit with no peace about signing a 12 month lease. We were approved and the leasing agent called to tell us that the computers were down in the office and we would have to wait a week to sign the lease. No big deal right?

Everything happens for a reason and those computers were broken for us. During that week we recieved a phone call from a Pastor at our church saying that he knew of a family that was looking for someone to house sit for 6 months. Josh and I immediately wanted to say YES! We prayed about it and then met the family.

They are the most generous people we have ever met! Their names are Rebekah and Mike Russ. They are a few years older than us and have 2 year old twins (one boy and one girl). Mike's company wanted him to move to China for work and they didn't want to leave the house empty for that long. After our initial meeting we both agreed that this was a good fit.

Josh and I were overwhelmed bythe kindness of the Russ family to allow us to live rent free!! God is so good and we know this connection could only come from him. Praise the Lord for allowing us this time to save money before the baby comes and to not be locked down in a lease.

So here we are house sitting until the first week of December. Here's a picture of the house.

Hawaiian Falls Water Park

Friday night we had a churchwide event at the Water Park. For every ticket you bought you were able to bring one guest. Josh and I decided to go and we brought along our friend William. William is a Chinese teenager who recently moved to the US with his family. He is one of the 4 chinese students that Josh leads in a Bible study once a week.

The evening got off to a rather rough start. There was all kinds of thunder and lightening, plus William said he didn't want to ride any rides because they were too high. Josh and I had no idea how to entertain a Chinese kid that speaks every little english in the rain.

But it all worked out. The rain let up and William decided to try a few smaller rides. The guys had a great time together while I walked around meeting new friends at our church.

Beach Vacation 2007

Our beach vacation FINALLY came around! This was one of my favorite trips home simply because we got to see so many people. The week started off with visiting Ed and Julie, my dad and the entire Anderson family and then we were off to the beach with my mom and step dad. We also had special beach bathing beauty guest Briani and Lauren. They stayed with us from Sunday to Monday. We basically just chilled and layed out every day. Some of us needed the tan more than others.

Check out the picture of Briani. She hardly needs more sun and made me look like a pale ghost.

Lauren some how managed to miss all of the pictures. I think she was embarassed of her skin color too. :)

Josh pretty much stayed in the ocean the whole week. All he needed was a surf board and the slight possibility that a wave might come. He managed to get up a lot but when you spend over 60 hours in the ocean you are bound to have some luck.

My brother came down the last half of the week and I think Josh was happy to have more testosterone in the mix of the condo. Fletch couldn't hang much in the ocean. He said it was boring. At least he tried a few times with no success. Fletcher also brought a girlfriend this time. Woooo! This was a first for him.

We had 3 visitors come visit us throughout the week. My college friend Delanie Thompson (formerly Jobson) is about 8 months pregnant and she was in town for the week too. She has a much bigger belly than me but it was fun for Josh to meet my sweet friend and to talk baby talk.

We were also visited by my friend Jennifer Breaux. She just graduated from Law School and drove up from Charleston to visit. That made me so happy that she would drive the distance just to visit for a few hours! She's a sweetie!

My step sister Lauren also came to visit us from Edisto. She has a man and they are so cute. They look like siblings! She is precious and I love every min I get to see her.

The last friend we got to spend time with was not planned. Our flight was delayed for 4 hours coming home from the Columbia airport. To my surpriese my Doctor friend Jason Grier was actually available. He came to the airport and picked us up for dinner. It was a quick dinner at Arbys but it was so nice to see him. Jason hasn't changed a bit. Still the silly goofy Dr. Grier. We took a picture to compare belly size. I don't understand it but he thinks it's hilarious that I am pregnant. I told him that I was just trying to help him get started with his practice. :)

If you want to check out other pictures of our vacation then click here.