We are finally here! A new blog and ready to share more on our lives and now ...our growing family. Yes that is right ...we are expecting a bundle of joy! Due July 1st, 2011 ...and we are excited as ever to be parents, and for whatever joys, trials, and adventures that come with it.
For those of you who know us, know that we have been on quite the journey throughout the first year and a half of our marriage. From college, to Rockford, Illinois ...from there back to Iowa to help mend our hearts....Iowa to Branson, Mo ....from our crazy adventure there, to now ...Back in Iowa for what we hope is a very long period of time. The journey we have been on has been tough, testing, yet very exciting. Throughout it all we sought very much after God's calling and where He was guiding us ...and that is what made it such an adventure. We have learned SO much, and it has drawn us closer together as we have drawn closer to Him.
Now we are back in our home ...IOWA! It is so great to be here and we are loving it! What brought us here was an amazing career opportunity for Zach. He one day (while we were still living Branson), decided to search "worship leader positions in Iowa" on Google. An ad popped up for a church in Des Moines and we were traveling there in just a couple of weeks for an interview. It was so amazing how God orchestrated it all! Within a few weeks of Zach reading that ad online, we were packing up and moving to now what is home to us with an amazing church (Lighthouse Community Church) where he works full time as the Worship Director. And when I say an amazing church ...I mean an AMAZING church! The body was so great and has still been overflowing with kindness and welcoming hearts.
It is also so great to be back by our families. We have missed them SO much! To be able to see them more than once a month has been such a blessing. And now that we are expecting a little one ...our parents are more than excited that we live here now! It will be awesome to have grandma and grandpa close by :)
Speaking of this little bundle of joy ...let us share with you that journey ...
We had been wanting this for a little bit of time. It was October 22, 2010 and I was visiting my dearest friend in Wisconsin for her bridal shower when I decided to see if maybe this would be the month that it had happened (just as I had some months before that). I went on through my normal daily "getting ready" routine and when I was finished I looked down expecting to see what I had seen every previous time before ...but to my surprise, there were two ...yes TWO pink lines! Stunned and overwhelmed, I kept looking up and then looking back down just so I could rediscover the amazing news... I was pregnant! There were many tears, a couple of little jumps up and down, and I think I even let out a little squeal at one point. All of this in my friends family bathroom in Wisconsin. I kept my cool when I walked out and grabbed my phone right away to call my wonderful husband. "Hello", he answered. With a shaky voice I said, "hey hun, what are you doing?". "Fishing." (He had made a trip to go fishing with his grandpa and his cousin that morning) "Oh, well are you with anyone?" I replied. He had reminded me that he was with his grandpa and his cousin. "Can you step away from them for a moment?" I said. "Well no, I'm in the boat with them hunny." I kind of chuckled. And then I told him ...he had to keep his cool, but I could definately hear the smile on his face from my end of the phone. I know it wasn't how we had hoped to discover this news because of course we wish we could have been side by side holding each others hand and looking in each others eyes ...but we were so thrilled!
And here we are, months later. And still as thrilled as ever! We will most definately be sharing many details with you throughout the pregnancy...including photos, any big news, and of course how we are preparing ourselves. As well as just our thoughts on all this new parent stuff!
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| Taken at 7 weeks |
We will do our very best to keep you informed : ) Thank you guys all for your love and support! We love you all very much!
