A week away!

It's the 6th week for me and things couldn't be getting better. We are really anxious about our first appoinment next week. This week was actually the first date of our appointment but I called and moved it back one more week. I've been trying to "take it easy" however, that just isn't who I am. I'm a go go go girl! I always need to be doing something so it is so hard to just "sit" around. I've been sewing which is helping the days go fast and keeping me entertained without the feeling of being lazy and doing nothing.


I haven't really experienced any horrific sickness or nausea. I think it is actually funny when I get sick. It started last Friday when I was in the car with the girls. We were driving down the road and all of a sudden I felt motionsickness or something and I just had to puke. I grabbed a walmart bag that was sitting next to Sara Madeline and threw the stockings out of it (green & white tights for Audrey's costume) as fast as I could before I made a mess. After that I was fine. I was able to go through the rest of my day wihtout any more sickness. But this wasn't the last time it happened. It has been happening once a day around 3pmish and if I am in the car well, I just need to be prepared. =) Getting sick isn't going to leave me helpless at home, I just don't think I'll be one of those "pregnant" people.

I took a quiz today on Parent.com on what I should name my baby. This was the result:
"You seem to be a pretty active person and an independent thinker who likes doing instead of just talking. If you want your child to be strong minded and leave his or her mark on the world, you should consider baby names that people associate with being creative, smart active, and strong."

-- Well, DUUH, I could have told you that. Anyone who knows me could have told me that. I am doer - always going and never stopping. And I am sure my child will be just as creative and a go getter as me and marcos.

2 Corinthians 10:5

This week marks 5 weeks for me and all I can think about is next week. At 6 weeks and 2 days is when the worst happened for me. After praying today and looking for comfort in God's words this is what I got.

"Casting down imaginations, and ever high thing that exalteth itself AGAISNT the knowledge of GOD, and bringing INTO Captivity EVERY thought to the OBEDIENCE of Christ!"

- Wow- So powerful when you think about this. When I read this I thought to myself, well I am having these thoughts and they aren't obedient of Christ. How do I know these thoughts are not obedient of Christ, you may ask?

The Word of God! =)

I will make my EVERY thought obedient of Christ with HIS words! The Gossiple - The Good News!

The Word says:

"Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about they table." Psalm 128:3

"And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall YOUR VINE CAST her fruit BEFORE the TIME in the field, saith the Lord of host" Malachi 3:10-11 (*Casting your fruit before it's time - referring to a miscarriage)

"And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of they womb." Deuteronomy 7:13

"There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren in they land: the number of thy days I will fulfill. " Exodus 23.26.

So, tonight I will go to sleep with peace - Faith in God's Word brought me this peace tonight and will continue to bring me peace over the next 40 weeks (35 now). =)

Gender Predictors

So, today have been cleaning and looking at baby things of course. ;) Anyways I took this fun old wives to test to see what it said. Here was my result. We shall just wait and see....

60% chance of a boy
40% chance of a girl

Congratulations!

The old wives tales indicate that you are having a boy!

http://www.babygenderprediction.com/old-wives-tales/index.phtml

Then at Parent.com I went and took the Ancient Chinese Gender Quiz to see what it said I would be having.

According to my age: 25
According to my conception date: September

It says that there is a 58% Boy and 42% Girl.

Once again - they say I am having a boy.

I guess we all shall wait and see!

October 13, 2009

Yesterday morning I woke feeling fantastic besides the fact that my "watermelons" were quite sore. Which is beyond odd for me because I have never had this feeling before. I had an ovulation predictor test stick and decided to pee on it. Yes, I know this is an ovulation test however since I am wasn't ovulating there shouldn't be a second line. Low and behold there was a second line, strange...a little but not suprised. I went on with my morning wondering, could I really be pregnant again?

Alison my sister called that morning wanting me to pick up Audrey from school. I picked Audrey up at 11:30 and came home to have lunch with Marcos. While Marcos was out eating I decided to take a "dollar tree" test that I had gotten awhile back and never needed to use. Extremely nervous I followed the directions and waited...and waited...and waited. The waiting was worth it because I saw an extremely faint second line. And let me tell you - dollar tree test you can never get that second line - or atleast I thought. Shocked, excited and overwhelmed and pranced out in the living room trying to hold my composure. I was ready for Marcos to go back to work so I could get things together to announce the news that night over a romantic dinner.

Still not to sure about if I could trust the dollar tree test; I decided to go to Walmart to purchase a digital one that would read, "Pregnant or Not Pregnant". While at Walmart I bought: Baby Back Ribs, Baby Peas, Baby Carrots, Baby Rolls and for dessert: Baby Peaches and Baby Bananas baby food. =)

I waited 2 1/2 hours before I POAS (peed on a stick) because I just went earlier and wanted to make sure I had something and that it would be a waste of money. At 4PM I tore open the package, said a little prayer, POAS, and waited again. This time there is a little hour glass the flashes... it flashed FOREVER. I decided to leave the bathroom due to feeling anxious and come back later. As I walked back in I saw a word...what did it say? Should I go pick it up and look at it? Why not? So, I did and it read, "PREGNANT". OMG! Couldn't believe it... it was true this time because I had a machine telling me this.

I got ready to teach spanish class and put that baby back ribs in the oven. Marcos came home from work and left to work out. When I got home from school I was able to prepare everything before he got him. When he arrived I could tell that he knew somehting was up because of the fact that the dining room door was closed off and I was cooking. I told him to take a shower and when I was ready for him I'd call him for dinner.

At 8pm it was time to announce it. And so I did. Here are the pictures of the special occassion.

Eden Condominiums

Marcos and I just finished taking our first couple trip to Peridido Key where we stayed at the Eden Condominiums. It was fabulous! The condo was just like the pictures and our stay was so pleasant.

Riley, Paul, Liz, Leah, AJ, Jana, Marcos


In front of the marvelous waterfall...


A posing picture...of course!

Jeremiah 1:5 "I knew you before I formed you in your mother's womb.

With a life full of blessing and love from the Lord the enemy tries to do his best to move you away from God's love and blessings and have you question and doubt the King of Kings, who gives life and that you may live it abundently.

I was ecstatic on Wednesday morning as my Marcos left to work. All week I had thought that I could have been pregnant. I was sleeping alot, I had blamed it on our Greece trip. Then I got a nose bleed on Saturday and a friend of mine says that nose bleeds and bleeding gums are a sign of early pregnancy. This is when I started to think I could be. So, that Wednesday morning I peed on a little dollar tree test and up came two lines. I couldn't believe it! God had blessed us with a child. Later that night I would plan an amazing dinner to announce the pregnancy to Marcos. (I won't go into detail on how I did it because I will do it again when God blesses us again with another child).

However 6weeks after the pregnancy test and even confirming it with the Drs things started going wrong. Marcos was in Brazil he had left to Brazil on December 16th. We had just finished Christmas and it was December 27th, I went and watched Marley and Me with my sister and Mother. It was such a sad movie, but during the movie for those that have seen it, She gets pregnant goes to her appointment to find out she loses the baby. Gosh, I was so sad watching this and watching it with my family. The next day I start spotting some strange stuff, it was a Saturday and I "googled" it and it said I had nothing to worry about. Well, I was worried... worried big time. You know your own body and I knew there was something wrong. Sunday it was worse and on Monday I met my mom, dad, sister and audrey at chick fila for breakfast. I tried to be strong and act like nothing was going on but BURST into tears. "Mom, I think something is wrong" My dad, mom and alison were quite. Mom spoke up real fast to comfort me and told me she would take me to the right away. So we did.

My Dr. was out of town so I had to see another Dr. We went for another sonogram and I hear the lady say, "Well, I'm not seeing anything. I'm so sorry." I wanted to cry but I couldn't I was telling myself, "I told you so, I knew something wasn't right since Friday night". I had really prepared myself for the worst. And this was the worst. What could I do? I am only human. This other Dr. wasn't sympathetic at all really and was more like business mode... "so, you lost the baby come in tomorrow for a D&C and we will get you on your way". I couldn't really process it all. I was scared, nervous and sad. I had to call Marcos who knew at the time and all weekend I thought somehting was wrong. He and his mother had been praying all morning for me. He couldn't even talk when I told him. It was a silent and then he hung up. He called me back 10mins later after he was able to compose himself. We talked and I would see him in 2 days.

On December 30th I was at St. Dominics with my mother. It was a quiet day. Everything went smoothly. New Years was the 31st, I put on a happy face and celebrated with everyone. Marcos and his sister arrived January 1st. We really couldn't talk much and there wasn't really any words to comfort me or him. I celebrated my 25th birthday which is when I had my melt down, my first and last one. I put it in God's hand that night.

My Dear friend Sara couldn't have put any better: "15% of pregnancies end in miscarriage. I don't believe this is God's will or His best. I believe it is a product of a fallen world full of sickness and death and brought by the one who desires to steal, kill and destroy. My faith in the One who is my strength and my life will not waiver. I cannot explain everything away, but I know He never fails. His love for me is from everlasting to everlasting and His truth endures to all generations. If anyone can understand, He can and if anyone can comfort, He can. My life cannot be the same after this experience and the experience still soon to come, but I put my life in His capable hands. I know He will lift me up and give me strength. I am not saying all these things because I already feel them, but because I know they are true and the truth can set me free... from my despair, my fear and my confusion."

Marcos and I know God will bless us with another child, a perfectly healthy and beautiful baby. We feel so blessed to know we have a God who is all this and more, who comforts the weak and gives strength to the weary. I don't know how people who don't know God can go through something like we did. I pray for those families that they will see God through it all and that I can be a testimony of how with God I pulled through. There was no depression no hate no pity, just pure joy of the Lord. Psalms 30:5 "Weeping may last through the night,but joy comes with the morning."

Greece

Calameri! Good morning in Greek.

Marcos and I had been talking about going to Greece ever since the two movies, Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and Mamma Mia came out. On Wednesday, November 11th during Marcos's lunch break, he had came home for lunch. The topic of Greece came up again and we said, lets just do it! So, that day during lunch we booked our trip to Greece. We bought the plane tickets first then the hotel. We weren't sure what we were going to do once we got there but we figured we would know once we got there. 10 days later (5 days after we bought Sophi), we flew to Athens.

We arrived in Athens on Saturday, November 22nd. We stayed at the Hotel Herodion http://www.herodion.gr/. It was fabulous! It was literally a block or two away from the most historical sites. Parethenon, Temple of Zeus and Plaka. We stayed there for three days. We did the "Athens by Night tour", which was something we could have done without. The next day we did the "Half a day Athens tour", which was perfect. The next day we did the "Cape Sounion Sunset tour", and it was fun. Our trip was kinda like backpacking. We didn't take taxi, and tried the metros and buses. On Tuesday morning we opted for the bus and checked out of our hotel at 1:30AM and caught the 1:45 bus to the airport. The bus ride was only 25mins (our hotel told us it was an hour drive that is why we left so early). We arrived at the airport at 2:10ish and waited there until our 6AM flight out to Santorini.

We arrived in Santorini, Greece on Tuesday the 25 of November. We stayed at the Dana Villas http://www.danavillas.net/. It was more than words can describe. We had booked the Traditional Suites with the shared balconies. That morning Peter who checked us in changed all that. He upgraded our room free of charge and put us in the Jr. Suites which had a private balcony and kitchen. Wow, it was amazing!

Santorini is known for its fabulous sunsets, however we did not experience of these while we were there. The only fabulous sunset I have ever seen was when I was visiting my best friend, Nicole, in Amarillo, Texas.