To God be the Glory:

Great things He hath Done!

Wow, where to even begin? It's becoming quite obvious, so I hope you know by now the amazing news of our newest little blessing we are expecting to arrive around April 25th! We got to see our sweet baby GIRL on Friday and she is growing right along, even ahead of schedule for size!

Because I feel like God has given us this precious miracle and I can't deny the chance to bring Him the glory He is worthy of, I need to explain the journey we have been on the past year. This page is normally strictly my happy place, so bear with me through the valley as God leads us through to how He showed us His graciousness...

Exactly one year ago I was pregnant with our second baby, though I didn't know it until shortly after Thanksgiving - when we found out we were so thrilled!! Busy planning how to share the good news with our families over Christmas, I was a little nervous that I hadn't felt any of the early nausia I had with Sutton. Our 7 week check-up confirmed my fears when baby didn't have a heartbeat. Though my doctor seemed very hopeful that we were just too early and I had miscalculated dates, I was certain this was terrible news. We miscarried on our 6th anniversary just after Christmas.

God is gracious and took care of us through that trial. His hand sustaining us and giving us hope that we could try again soon. Sadly, shortly after Easter during an 8 week check-up for our third baby we were heartbroken to again find no heartbeat.

We then began our journey with a fertility specialist and endured all types of testing. Praise God for the knowledge he gives to these doctors and for their efficiency and care. There is no way to describe the feelings you have when you think you might not ever get to have another baby. Even going to the park with Sutton and watching siblings play with each other as we looked on was incredible to have to face. And being put through the tests we were put through...I had to pray HARD to fight off the fears of what terrible things they might possibly find wrong.

After 6 weeks of working with the specialists, we learned I had inherited a simple genetic mutation that keeps me from processing B vitamins properly - thus making it hard for a baby to form properly. The remedy? Just taking a super mega dose of B6, B12, and Folic Acid a couple times a day. Praise God! Am I right? Not only that (another awesome God thing...), I was on extra B vitamins somewhat early in my pregnancy with Sutton because they were supposed to help with nausea. How Great is Our God!

Which leads us to, finding out we were expecting just days after the due date of the baby we lost in December and getting to see our fourth baby's heartbeat just one week before Sutton's second birthday.

At just 6 weeks and 3 days...that little awesome work of our Creator:

At 8 weeks and 3 days she was wiggling away :)

At 9 weeks and 1 day, getting so much bigger and we were ready to graduate to our regular OB :

At 9 weeks and 5 days:

And Baby Girl's latest photoshoot at 17 weeks and 5 days:

"For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb." Psalm 139:13

Is it crazy for me to already think that she looks like me? We are so thrilled and thankful to be expecting another special blessing in our little family and thankful for the many prayers of family and friends through this trial. Sutton is going to be the perfect big brother to his little sister and he already is asking when is he going to get to play with "Baby Sister". So sweet.

God has special plans for you, Baby Girl.

"Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us." Romans 5:1-5

"He will cover you with his feathers, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart." Psalm 91:4

"Your love, O LORD, reaches to the heavens, your faithfulness to the skies." Psalm 36:5