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Well here I am... 3 weeks out from baby boy coming! Can't believe it. This pregnancy has gone pretty quickly. It was lovely not having to be seen by the high risk dr this time and kind of being a "normal" patient. Maren is super excited to be a big sister. She turned 2 in October and she definitely knows how she is going to help! Im feeling nervous for all the change that is about to happen, but excited our little fam is able to grow. This really may be it for us, no more fertility meds, doctors or appointments for us. So weird that is has been our lives for the past 4 years. Super grateful for modern medicine and for Jesus blessing us with 2 kiddos!</div>
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We have 1 last shot for baby #2. We have 1 frozen baby left. We will not do ivf again- 1, its too expensive. 2- we don't feel like we should. 3- 1 & 2 should be good enough :)<br />
Anyways... I DO really want a sibling for Maren however; I do NOT want to enter in the "dark times" again. They were really tough, I was not in a good, healthy or happy place. We have been so incredibly thankful for our sweet gift and we begged God for her and for that we are forever grateful to God for her life. I always said I would be okay with one child and I will! I know God will get me there if that is His will. I just haven't been ready to face this fortunate "fear" so I've been putting it off to stay in my happy place.<br />
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We celebrated Fathers Day, have enjoyed going to the pool, enjoyed Meg-Meg coming for a few visits. (She graduated from u of a and is now in PT school in KC. We are learning to do life w/o her here in Fay). </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Maren also decided to climb/bail out of her crib several time. So now her crib has been converted to the toddler bed. She did awesome w/ the transition and is doing great! 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I know it has been awhile but a big reason I have slowed down on blogging is because I started this new "thing" called Plexus. I saw a friend post about it a little while back on facebook. I was so desperately trying to lose weight from the awful fertility drugs and then the pregnancy weight. I had tried some products called advocare for a couple of months and lost around 6lbs but then it came right back. The more I saw this friend post, the more I was intrigued. So I decided to try it for a month. After that I was hooked! I lost 8lbs in 6 weeks and then just kept losing from then on out. I'm now currently down 25lbs and have seriously never felt better. It has been life changing. I'll save all of that for another post, but my husband is taking it too and is down 14lbs and has been able to go gluten free and now has no more headaches. He used to have them daily and now doesn't!! AHHMAZING. It has been a game changer for us for lots of health reasons but also for financial reasons. I was worried I needed to go back to work b/c we were draining our savings each month so I was determined to make something work. I felt like this was doable for me since I was having so much success with the products and truly believed in them. So all of that to say it is now my job and I'm loving it! It has been a blast and super easy. I also love that I am able to contribute financially again for our fam. It came at such a great time for me and could not be more thankful for it. I also can't believe I'm just now blogging about it b/c I could literally talk about it for dayzzz!<br /><br />
Anyways if anyone is interested in sheddin some lbs or making some $$! Check out my website: <a href="http://www.plexusslim.com/mlyount">www.plexusslim.com/mlyount</a> or Email me at mlyountspinkdrink@gmail{dot}com it could be the best decision ever you ever make {at least i'm not dramatic}!<br /><br />
I could go on and on bit will save it for another day! Hope you all are doing awesome.<br /><br />
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Welp. It has been awhile once again....</div>
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We have had a busy 2 months. We went to the beach. My sis graduated. Went to a wedding in Dallas. Maren is growing like a weed. She finished a full year at mothers day out, which she looved. </div>
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Maren loves her colors, shapes, singing, elmo, noodles, being outside, starting to string 3-4 words together. She is very chatty and I love it!</div>
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She is also tons of fun and a ball of energy. Marc and I often like to reflect on the greatness of God and allowing us the privilege of being her parents when we didn't even know if we would ever have a child. My heart is always hurting for those that are still waiting. I think that is one of the main reasons I haven't kept this blog going. I just felt like it would be pics of my kid all the time (which is what it is) and I just remember that bothering me soo bad when I struggled to get pregnant so I felt like a hypocrite or something. Once you go through infertility you never forget even if you have a child. It really never stops b/c then you are wondering if you can have another and so on... so know I'm still that girl that struggled to get pregnant and also know I hurt with you. I also feel that Maren is a perfect picture of Hope and that miracles can happen. So don't ever give up hope or on God!</div>
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Much love to all those who have served our country and made sacrifices.Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12261868029761052809noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8630637731291119499.post-65698810730221852962014-03-12T11:50:00.001-05:002014-03-13T10:53:00.131-05:0016 and 17 months<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
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Well here we are in the middle of March. February flew by as usual with all of the weather and sickness, but we are happy the weather is finally warming up!</div>
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Our days are filled with fun w/ this little one who seems to be growing extremely too quickly. She is full of life, spunky, and super fun. We have such a blast with her</div>
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-BUBBLES- outside or in the bath, we beg for bubbles all day long</div>
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-"THIS"- We call our lovie, "this." That was a mom fail on my part- everytime I ask her if she wanted her lovie, I would say, "Do you want this"? So that stuck and now we don't go anywhere w/o it. I love it and never want that to change.</div>
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-Food- she can put down a ton of food, her main love is NOODLES, which she asks for every meal and in between. haha. We also love blueberries, bananas, ribs, cheese, grapes, green beans and sometimes turkey and chicken</div>
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-She loves being outside</div>
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-Some words she can say are - dog, mama, dada, bubbles, bath, balls, baby, beck, meg-meg pop-pop, pappy, papa, nana, bruiser, please, thank you, slide, snack, noodles, this, NO, Amen </div>
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-Some favorite songs are: itsy bitsy spider, abc's, jesus loves me, patty cake</div>
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-Some favorite books: brown bear, where is baby's pumpkin/easter eggs, Madeline, 5 little monkeys</div>
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So there is the latest w/ miss Maren! Soaking each day up and loving it!Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12261868029761052809noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8630637731291119499.post-39049625515168221302014-02-04T16:44:00.003-06:002014-02-04T16:44:48.692-06:00Gorgeous PicsOur sweet friend, Maura just happens to be one of our neighbors and really good friends! She married one of our friends from college, and we have loved getting to know her over the past couple of years. She has blessed us tremendously with some amazing pics of our family that we will treasure forever. I will never be able to thank her enough! Thanks sweet friend, we our forever thankful to you!<br />
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Well I have a goal of getting back to this crazy world of blogging... I had no idea of how much I've missed it and want to keep doing it for Maren's sake. Plus my memory isn't getting any better! I'm going to attempt to doing this once a week again.</div>
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Christmas 2013 was one for the books. We were gone for over a week and got to see several family members and friends. Maren absolutely had a blast and did great with all of the traveling. She was even excited on Christmas morning to see all of her "santa" presents.</div>
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9/10- She started standing on her own and loved it</div>
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We have way too much fun with this kiddo! We like to tell people we special ordered her, which we kind of did. I got really emotional cleaning out all her of her little summer clothes the other day as its getting chilly here in Northwest Arkansas. Marc and I are overwhelmed with how the Lord has blessed us with her. It literally brings tears to our eyes most days when we think about our little miracle.<br />
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We have been traveling quite a bit and now we are finally home for awhile...<br />
since my last post this is what little bit has been up to!<br />
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-She has grown lots of hair and teeth (she has 6 now)<br />
-She is in size 3 diapers<br />
-She wears 6-12 month clothing<br />
-She pulls up on everything<br />
-She is officially crawling!!! I thought we were going to skip this b/c she started pulling up first.<br />
-She is finally napping in her crib instea of her swing! Yay, huge accomplishment<br />
-She loves to eat puffs, bananas, and mostly all baby food.<br />
-She has 4-5 bottles a day<br />
-Sleeps about 10hrs a night w/ no waking up<br />
-Her favorite toy is anything she can pull up on and lids<br />
-She does not take a paci and still has no lovie :( I want her to have something but she truly hasn't become attached to anything but me.<br />
-She still loves her car seat and will usually take at least 1 nap a day in it while running errands. She is still a great traveler<br />
-She loves most people, especially men<br />
-She grunts when she likes/wants something :)<br />
-She is finally making some sounds: bah bah, pa pa (still no da da or ma ma) which we work on everyday<br />
-She is so.much.fun I can hardly handle it. <br />
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Do any of you moms have advice of how to get them on a good nap schedule and how I can get her to go down w/o a bottle... I started that only to transition her out of the swing but know i need to stop soon!<br />
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She is obviously a happy girl!<br />
-She slept awesome through the night. 9-6:30 w/ no waking up<br />
-Takes about 4oz every 3 1/2-4hrs<br />
-She got really good at rolling (i know, super late)<br />
-She's a belly sleeper<br />
-She loved her jumper, sitting or rolling around in the florr<br />
-Loves to cackle<br />
-Super hard to take out to eat b/c she doesn't quite fit in a high chair<br />
-April 26th started sitting up by herself<br />
-April 27th- began rolling from back to belly<br />
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On June 8th, She turned 8 months!<br />
-She is super happy still! Her laugh may be the best thing ever.<br />
-She sleeps from 8:30-7:30 w/o waking up!<br />
-She takes 6oz every 4hrs<br />
-She loves all baby food<br />
-Still wears size 2 diapers (needs to bump up soon)<br />
-Have no clue how much she weighs<br />
-She got dedicated on May 12, Mothers Day. It was such a special day.<br />
-She traveled to Orange Beach, Al on May 13th and did fantastic<br />
-She loves puffs, yogurt melts, and mum mums<br />
-She loves any and all baby food. Still trying to get better at feeding her more than once a day :)<br />
-She loves water! Loves the lake, the pool and still loves the bath<br />
-She also loves watching older kids play<br />
-Still loves swinging<br />
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<br />Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12261868029761052809noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8630637731291119499.post-11821685259126195652013-06-13T23:31:00.002-05:002013-06-13T23:31:23.131-05:00My friend, EmI have never participated in the "Show us Your Life" series from <a href="http://www.kellyskornerblog.com/" target="_blank">Kelly's Korner</a> Blog before, but I have the perfect reason for doing it this time! Today is "Show us your life: Singles Edition.<br />
I want to introduce you to an amazing woman! Her name is Emily Canada and has an incredible personality, so much so that her best friend made a rap for her. {see below}<br />
So instead of reading a bunch of words, listen to this Rap to catch of glimpse of Emily!<br />
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Turn your speakers down if you are at work. :) <b>Best Rap Ever!</b><br />
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Like it says, Don't be shy guys!Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12261868029761052809noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8630637731291119499.post-56860420294131634722013-06-04T12:29:00.001-05:002013-06-04T12:29:49.642-05:00Lake time! ANNND its been a month since I last posted. Ughh, I'm so mad at myself for not making the time to keep this up. Although, this past month has been on-the-go and a little cray cray. But I really want to start back up so Maren can know what all she got to do in her 1st year of life.<br />
First of all, she will be 8 months in 4 days.. so I will do her 7th and 8th month post soon.<br />
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Secondly, We got to take her to the lake on memorial weekend. I was super nervous that she may not do well out on the boat.. which would be tragic for the whole family. But no need to worry, she LOVED it, I mean she did amazing. We were out there for 3 days straight and she got in the water, handled her bulky life jacket well, and even fell asleep sitting straight up and lying down. If you know my family, you know that my parents are there every weekend. Those were my summers and I loved every minute of it. I'm hoping Maren will get to do the same.<br />
She is definitely a water baby! She is so much fun right now, and probably one of the happiest, laid back babies I've ever known. I'm swear I'm not trying to brag... but we are so thankful and can't get enough of her.<br />
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She just out of the blue started doing this crinkle nose, open mouthed smile and it cracked me up! She hasn't done it much in the past few days, but it was cute while it lasted.<br />
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My favorite people at my favorite location!<br />
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Water baby! and it was freezing~<br />
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Hope you all had a great Memorial weekend as well!Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12261868029761052809noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8630637731291119499.post-90815100072169975962013-04-30T08:24:00.000-05:002013-04-30T08:24:35.073-05:006.5 months Well I have somewhat neglected my blog this past month and I do apologize. I'm just having the time of my life with our baby girl and she distracts me most of the days. I also feel pretty boring these days so I haven't been very inspired to write about much.<br />
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But now that Maren is almost 7 months old... Here is what she is up to. First of all we are over half way to her 1st birthday. Sadness. I just want to bottle up all of her cuteness, and this might be my most favorite age yet. I love that I don't have to discipline her yet and she is just so stinking fun. She is still super easy and content I could not be more thankful.<br />
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-She still loves her carseat and will nap in it if need be<br />
-Travels great<br />
-Just this weekend started rolling from back to belly.... just a tad late ;)<br />
-She can sit up for awhile by herself<br />
-Loving any and all baby foods plus a few little tastes of my food sometimes<br />
-Starting to master a sippy cup<br />
-Loves her big girl stroller<br />
-Weighs 14 1/2lbs and can't remember her length. But it was 10th percentile again<br />
-Wears size 2 diapers<br />
-Wears 0-3 month still and some 6-12month things<br />
-She sleeps from 9:00pm-6:30/7a<br />
-Has had 2 unfotunate ear infections :(<br />
-She has about 5 bottles of formula a day every 3 1/2-4hrs<br />
-Takes about a 2hr nap in the mornings in her swing and 30min- 1hr nap in afternoons. I hope to start weaning from the swing but its just so easy right now and I feel like keeps her flexible to still sleep on the go.<br />
-Still has only 2 teeth but the top ones I keep thinking will be popping through soon<br />
-She loves people and kids- no stranger danger yet<br />
-Her laugh is contageous<br />
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Dear Maren,<br />
You are such a joy to have in our lives. Your sweet smile is the best thing ever and makes us smile everyday. You have a sweet personality about you and are also super fun. I love being able to spend my days with you and having our time together. I would be so sad to miss out on all the fun we've been having. Your love people makes me so happy and your laugh is the most amazing thing ever. Sweet girl, thanks for bringing a joy to our lives that we've never experienced. Time needs just slow down a bit!<br />
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Maren hammed it up all day on Easter! She was so glad Jesus is Risen and that He has victor over death! We went to church with my family and then went back and had a late lunch with some family friends.<br />
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Thankful the Lord died on the cross for our sins and the reason for celebrating this Holiday!Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12261868029761052809noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8630637731291119499.post-68923637593266077932013-03-20T16:36:00.001-05:002013-03-20T16:36:31.079-05:00Latest ReadsSo i'm not a huge reader, and I don't always have the time to read these days, but it is something I like to do right before bed.<br />
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Here are some of the ones I have recently read that I have really enjoyed. I'm sure most of you know about this daily devotional, but it is still a favorite of mine.<br />
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I'm currently reading this one. It is challenging me in ways I wish it wouldn't. I have a love/hate relationship with it.</div>
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I read Jennie Allens book, "Anything" which I absolutely loved. Plus her sister<a href="http://www.passysandparties.com/" target="_blank"> Katie</a> is one of my best friends so I know her and her family. Its amazing and also challenging.<br />
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I read "Anything" to gear upfor doing her bible study, "Stuck". I got to do this study before it was ever published and got to give some feedback before it was in book form. Its fun seeing it in real life and doing it again. Each week is over a place we could possibly be stuck in that is hindering our relationship with God. It again is super challenging and is really helping me to think about the things in my life that I need to work on.</div>
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My next 2 reads will be these next 2 books. My husband just read this one and loved it. He finished it in like 3 days I think! Love this show so much too!</div>
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And I've heard great things about this book, "Unglued" is on my list as well!</div>
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We had a some big and exciting things happen this past month.<br />
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Happy 5 months!</div>
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She loves having her tongue out!</div>
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She likes the jenny jump up!</div>
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Still loves her baths and just look at those yummy rolls!</div>
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We got our first tooth! Whaaat!? Its all the way through now a sharp little sucker at that.</div>
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We still love our swing and take most naps in it.</div>
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another big thing that happened was that we finally weaned her from the swaddle. It took a good 2 weeks, but she is doing great now with both arms out. We started off with 1 arm out for a week, then bit the bullet last week with both arms out. It took her only a couple of days to get used to it. So that's a huge relief.<br />
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I'm so very thankful for that and that she has been healthy so far!</div>
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Another big thing that happened was that she rolled over both ways. She rolled from her back to belly first {and only once} then a couple weeks later did belly to back {and only twice}. She has yet to do it again, but I guess will do it on her own sweet time. She just wanted to make sure we knew she was capable I suppose. Ha. We like to call her miss independent.<br />
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Other things that have happened:<br />
-We just moved to size 2 diapers, still a little big, but her rolls were spilling out on the ones.<br />
-She wears 3-6 month tops and still in 0-3 pants. Most 3-6 month things are still too big on her.<br />
-She sleeps from 9:30/10-6:15/7 then is awake an hour or so and goes back down for a 2-3hr nap.<br />
-She stills loves her car seat<br />
-She is super alert and just takes everything in by concentrating pretty hard<br />
-her head control is getting really good, and we are working on assisted sitting<br />
-I'm down to pumping twice a day so she gets more formula than BM now, but is doing great with it.<br />
-We are probably going to giver her some rice cereal or at least try in the next few days!<br />
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I'm absolutely loving being at home with her and grateful I get to do that. I feel like I just can't get enough of her and that my heart may explode... ok not really but I'm definitely slightly obsessed!<br />
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This is what the room looked like before... and it was in the middle of being cleaned out.<br />
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I can assure you that the room does not look like this currently. The bed is filled with her clothes, we have a pack n play still set up in there where she was sleeping and junk everywhere.<br />
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My friend Kelly {shek sewing} made these shades for me. She got creative because I didn't want to mount anything on the actual doors. They have worked out well when guests stay.<br />
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Now I'm considering selling the amazing daybed that I have in there so we can have more space. The bed takes up most of the room, which leaves no storage for toys and what nots, plus no one ever stays in there since we have an extra bedroom upstairs. I'm also thinking about getting a small desk so when I work from home I could have a little space to be at. Right now I sit at our kitchen table and I hate having office stuff out everywhere.<br />
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This space will be great for when she gets older and it can actually fully be a playroom... well until or if another baby comes along...<br />
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Thoughts on this?<br />
<br />Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12261868029761052809noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8630637731291119499.post-38366331838765623282013-02-27T18:06:00.000-06:002013-02-27T18:06:00.855-06:001st getaway!I'm way behind on posting but didn't want to forget some fun things that are happening!<br />
On Valentines afternoon, my hubby got to take a 1/2 day of vacay and we headed off to Branson! We were blessed with a free night at Big Cedar and it worked out to where my parents were actually coming in town to see Maren anyways, so we decided to get away for 24hrs. It was much needed and such a blast. We were missing our sweetie by the end though. 2 nights would probably have been too much, but 1 night was perfect and we made the most of it.<br />
We actually had several couple friends that were already there so we got to hang out with them as well. We got to have a nice, quiet romantic dinner alone and a lovely brunch at the Worman house. It was all so delicious. Marc and I decided that we see each other a lot more at home, but we are so distracted with Maren that we rarely have intentional conversations with one another so it was important for us and our marriage to take some time to be with one another!<br />
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this was right after lovers bingo... along with all the "old" people at big cedar.!<br />
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of course... we played in the arcade! ha.<br />
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boys will be boys<br />
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And this was our little sweet one on Valentines! She is the yummiest!<br />
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<br />Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12261868029761052809noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8630637731291119499.post-67662438407773438142013-02-25T19:47:00.001-06:002013-02-25T19:47:32.401-06:00I said yes...8 years ago I said yes to the love of my life! It was the best decision I could have ever made. I can't believe how young we were. We were babies! 20 and 21.<br />
It's a joy to do life with this man by my side and have the privilege of parenting our sweet daughter together. So thankful he asked me to marry him 8 years ago. We've had some really amazing years along with some challenges, but Marc leads our family so well by putting the Lord first in our marriage. For that I'm so very grateful.<br />
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1 John 4:7-12 (niv)<br />
<span class="text 1John-4-7" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">7 </sup>Dear friends, let us love one another,<sup class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-30611P" title="See cross-reference P">P</a>)"></sup> for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God<sup class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-30611Q" title="See cross-reference Q">Q</a>)"></sup> and knows God.<sup class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-30611R" title="See cross-reference R">R</a>)"></sup></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span class="text 1John-4-8" id="en-NIV-30612" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">8 </sup>Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.<sup class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-30612S" title="See cross-reference S">S</a>)"></sup></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span class="text 1John-4-9" id="en-NIV-30613" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">9 </sup>This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son<sup class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-30613T" title="See cross-reference T">T</a>)"></sup> into the world that we might live through him.<sup class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-30613U" title="See cross-reference U">U</a>)"></sup></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span class="text 1John-4-10" id="en-NIV-30614" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">10 </sup>This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us<sup class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-30614V" title="See cross-reference V">V</a>)"></sup> and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.<sup class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-30614W" title="See cross-reference W">W</a>)"></sup></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span class="text 1John-4-11" id="en-NIV-30615" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">11 </sup>Dear friends,<sup class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-30615X" title="See cross-reference X">X</a>)"></sup> since God so loved us,<sup class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-30615Y" title="See cross-reference Y">Y</a>)"></sup> we also ought to love one another.<sup class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-30615Z" title="See cross-reference Z">Z</a>)"></sup></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span class="text 1John-4-12" id="en-NIV-30616" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">12 </sup>No one has ever seen God;<sup class="crossreference" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;" value="(<a href="#cen-NIV-30616AA" title="See cross-reference AA">AA</a>)"></sup> but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.</span>Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12261868029761052809noreply@blogger.com0