Most precious moment so far

The time invested in children is so precious. I had a moment with Lorelei yesterday that melted my heart. She and I were sitting in the bathroom, and had been in there for almost an hour because she has decided that she wants to get off and on the toilet by herself. Therefore, she was getting off and on and off and on and...so on. We were just talking and laughing and one of the times she got down she came and stood in front of my and leaned in to give me a kiss and then stood back and looked at me. She was deep in thought with the sweetest look on her face and then she said, "I yuv yu momma". It was such a sweet unprompted show of affection! I love her so much.

Merry Christmas from our family to yours!!

Flying by....

One of the pictures I am putting up today really describes exactly how I feel this holiday season is going! i feel like I can barely blink and it is a new day! It is the exact same way with Lorelei and this precious boy that is on the way! Wasn't it just yesterday that she was in my tummy kicking me constantly! Wasn't it just yesterday not 5 years ago that Danny and I got married! Unbelievable!!

She has moved on from her Elmo fascination and is now a Little Mermaid fanatic! When I say fanatic I am serious! I am trying to make sure we only watch it once a day. As much as I love the movie I don't care to watch it 5 times a day!! It is too cute. She sits and smiles through the whole thing. She even loves the "scary" parts!

I am still finding myself overwhelmed with thankfulness for everything that God has blessed us with, and can't wait to see what this next year has in store! (especially that whole family of 4 thing)

Well, I love the holidays!! Danny gets a few days off that we get to spend with him, and we get to spend time with both of our families. What a blessing to have them all close! Today was a very productive day for me. I have uploaded some pictures of the outfits I made for Lorelei today! It was so fun and I can't wait for her to wear them. My back is a little achy, but it is well worth the money saved.

We are still trying to figure out a name for our sweet little boy, and are coming close to a decision. Hope you all have a blessed Thanksgiving!!

It's a boy!!!

We are so excited to be having a baby boy! I know it will be new and exciting, but I am ready for the challenge. :) Children are such a blessing and I am so thankful to be able to stay home with ours and invest in their lives. It gives me so much joy. I am so thankful for a husband that works and provides for our family. I am most thankful for a God that is faithful to provide all of our needs, and lots of our wants. We do not deserve what we have.

Our next step in this whole process is to pick out a name for our sweet baby boy, and decide where he will be sleeping in our house. I am thinking that he and danny will be sharing a office/nursery. That way Danny doesn't have to move all of his Whisper stuff out into the living room. I suppose if business picks up and he has lots of late nights in there we can re-think it all, but if it is just every once in a while the little one can go to sleep in our room and move in there before we go to bed. I have no doubt it will all pan out. And we still have 4 months to make all the preperations.

Follow the Light

Well, here we are headed into the holiday season! I love this time of the year. We made a huge batch of homemade chex-mix last night that made the house smell wonderful!!!! This time of year makes me want to eat ALL day long. That probably wouldn't be the best thing in the world for me to do. hehehe.

Things are starting to get better pregnancy wise. I still have some rough evenings, but my energy is coming back and I think I am starting to feel the little bean move around. Actually, I think avacado would be the correct size description right now. We find out on Nov. 11th what the baby is, and we can't wait!!!!

I think we are going to get Lorelei her new big girl bed this weekend or next. I am very excited about that. I think she is too. We took her into room-to-go last weekend and let her see it and sit on it, and she was very excited! She has begun to speak in small sentences, and amazes me daily with the little things she is starting to pick up. We can now count to 10 and are beginning to sing the abc's. What a blessing it is to be home and be a part of all her learning and developing. I am so thankful for the opportunity that I have. So thankful for a husband that works to support his family!

Speaking of husband. Now for the job update. Unfortunately, the job has not worked out. The higher ups decided it would be more cost efficient to higher a uniform for the job. This was a big disappointment for us. It seemed to be a very large door that God had opened for Danny. so, the big question we asked was Why? right now to me, I see it as maybe He wanted to see if Danny was willing to go out on a step of faith, but it wasn't the right time for it. I am clinging to the promise of Jeremiah 29:11. Obviously despite maybe not wanting to be, Danny is where he is supposed to be right now. We are going to choose to follow the Light.

Coming soon

I have a job update that will take awhile to type up, so be looking for that in the next day or two. We have been soooooo busy this week. I have left each morning and not gotten home till after 9:00 every night. Most of it has been spending time with family and grandparents that were in town and tomorrow I am going to holiday market and a fabric shop for some christmas stuff for Lorelei. YEA!!! Anyways.....long update coming soon. toodles!

Roll Call

Lorelei has a new thing that she loves to do....when she goes to bed she goes through roll call of everyone that she believes needs to be in the bed with her. It really us a funny thing to see her run for all of them when we say it is time for night night. Of course the most important is her "lovey" but we also have Elmo, Nemo, bunnies, meow (cat), pig, dog....etc. I will have to get a picture with her holding them all in her arms running to her bedroom. It is too cute!

We went to a family reunion today. It was Danny's side of the family and it is always fun to watch when a bunch of Weston's get together. I love any chance Lorelei gets to see mamaw (danny's grandmother) because she is 94 and as alert and full of life as ever. She has the best memory of anyone that I have ever met. She can really remember anything that has ever happened to her. She is a sweet sweet lady! I am so glad Lorelei gets to know her even if it is just for a few years.

We are now into the second trimester of this pregnancy. It really seems to be flying by! I can't believe it really. Next month we will be finding out what we are having! We can't wait! I feel as though I am definetly starting to show now, and I know that means hopefully soon I will get the feel the litte one moving around! I can't wait. Life is such a miracle! We are so thankful for the blessings that God has given us and can't wait to see what He has in store!

This is why I avoid yard work as much as possible

I must admit...I am getting better, but spiders have to be my number one fear. This "friendly" little yard friend was in my yard today. I don't even know if have the guts to leave this picture up for very long. I did get a lot accomplished today with the help of Deena. We bought the things necessary to organize our outdoor storage room. we are going to do cork board on one wall and then shelves on the side. This way maybe the wagon can come home from Marmie and Papa's house and stay here. I got the room painted, and then planted purple and yellow flowers in the front flower beds. Lorelei got to help me plant them and she loved it. We got all dirty! Everytime she would put a flower in the hole she would say "more please" till I gave her another. We had a good time together, and hopefully Danny and I can get everything finished in the storage closet tomorrow! Should be a lazy day at home other than that.

What is that smell

I have decided that this pregnancy has given me that pregnancy nose that you hear people talk about. I, for the last 8 weeks, have smelled the strangest smell in my house. I am the only one who smells it and can not determine where it is coming from. So, I have tried many methods of getting rid of it. None that have been successful to this very day. right now my house smells like glade clean linen. Which is great. We will see how long that lasts. I guess if the outcome is a clean house that is a good thing.

Lorelei and I are having a nice quiet week at home. I am slowly getting things done that need to be done and working on some sewing projects!! I finally get to start making Lorelei some fall stuff! And now that she is getting bigger I have so many more options of cute things to make her. Maybe I can get some pics of that soon.

How does time go by so fast!?!

It really seems like just yesterday that Lorelei was a baby in my arms. Just lying there doing nothing but eating and sleeping. (and making tons of diapers for me to change) Now it seems we have a little toddler walking around our house with a mind of her own and a personality to match! She is so funny these days. She has taken to her baby dolls...if they fall down she picks them up and kisses them. She talks to them and puts them "night, night." Although one day I asked her to show me how she was sweet to her baby and she proceeded to raise her arm up and catapult her baby across the room! I guess we need to work on that one before her brother or sister arrives. :)

She now mimicks everything that we say to her and it is the sweetest thing ever. She is a pro at "I luv u" which is so sweet. She loves the time that she spends with her grandparents! She gets excited at even the mention of visiting. What a blessing it is to have them all in town.

Lorelei is showing great intrest in potty training. In face everytime that we have tried to go we have been sucessful. I have a feeling if I were to dedicate a few days to it she would catch on pretty quickly. Hopefully we will be out of diapers by April!! What an expense that would be great to be done with.

We are still waiting on more information about the insurance though Danny's new job opportunity with the National Guard as their graphic designer. Hopefully we will hear something this week that is good. So, we are still deep in prayer about that one.

Till next time!
Ashley

Are we going in a new direction?

It is so fun to watch God build our family and our lives. Sometimes it amazes me. No, not sometimes....all of the time! He just has a divine plan for our lives and we still try to take it into our own hands. We pray and think....God can do this, but in the back of our mind we think, but just in case, what is my plan? If only we could live our lives as faithful to Him as He is to us.

Back towards the end of February Danny and I began to pray about his job situation. Just about God's will and what he would have us to do. so, we decided, like we have many times in our marriage, to make a list and pray about very specific things for God to answer, and we decided to place a 6 months time period on it. Kinda strange sounding, but it is what we felt led to do. We felt led that if the things we were praying for did not come to pass by the end of the "time frame" it would be our way of knowing that it was time for danny to start looking for a new job.

Fast forward to present day....A few weeks ago someone came into the shop talking about a graphic design job coming open and wanting to know if they knew anyone that would be interested. Danny prayed about it and decided that he wanted to take a chance at it. Well, a week later before he could even get his resume to them they asked him to design something for them. They loved it and offered him the job! Crazy! Well, Danny and I are talking about it and praying about it and realize that it has been 6 months to the day that we started praying. God is AWESOME!!!!

Right now, we are waiting to see if everything is going to work out, but the end result is that God has our lives in the palm of His hand, how can we not trust Him!!!

I will update as I know more.

Week nine and counting!!

Well, here we are, in the midst of the first trimester. I finally gave in to the yucky feeling and came home early today. For the past few weeks I have been trying to just deal with it. After all, I am just working one day a week. I did this five days a week with Lorelei, right. Well, today I gave in and left Lorelei with Marmie and came home and took a nap. It felt so nice!! I am in the middle of reading the Baxter series by Karen Kingsbury. They are books that once you start them you cannot put them down. (even if it is 1:00 in the morning.)

I am stating to get excited about finding out what this baby is. There are a lot of decisions that we will have to make once we know what it is. We have decided to stay at our house for a little longer. So we will have to be maximizing the little extra space that we have. (which reminds me that I need to be starting on cleaning out those closets) Danny having a home business requires him having office space, so we are going to have to work around that problem, but we feel at peace where we are and know that God will provide what we need, when we need it.

Lorelei is a ton of fun lately! I am hoping I can figure out putting up pictures here. She is full of new words everyday and lets her sweet little spirit light up the room! She has begun the daily questioning of where everyone is, and I am sure it will not end, and the list of people will get longer!

Being a mother is a true joy, and blessing beyond anything I could ever have imagined!!

Am I really a blogger?

I get so much enjoyment reading other peoples blogs I decided I would try and start one of my own. I have never considered myself a writer, so I am sure it won't be the most interesting thing you have ever read. I am sure it will be lots of Lorelei chatter and updates about the new baby.

I really think that I probably think too much to write a blog, but oh well. Here goes nothing!!!