Happy Mother’s Day!!

Happy Mother’s Day!! This year is extra special for me. In 2014, I found out I was pregnant with our son in August. In 2017, I found out I was pregnant on Memorial Day after a discouraging negative test result on Mother’s Day. Two of my friends announced their pregnancies that day and I was happy for them while dying inside. Two weeks later, our prayers were finally answered.

After struggling for 18 months to conceive and crying over 36 negative pregnancy tests, we finally had our baby girl. After having a second c-section, my husband and I were quite content to just have two. We decided to leave our family planning in God’s capable hands. I didn’t stress out. I didn’t take a pregnancy test or two each month. I left it completely up to God. 

That being said........

Baby #3 is due in December! We are so excited! We found out the week after Easter! I knew right away that I would be keeping it secret until Mother’s Day! I have succeeded!!

Ruthie will make an excellent big sister! Just 22 months will separate them in age unlike the 34 months between Sonny and Ruth. 

Reality is setting in and we still can’t believe it. Two years ago we thought that it was just going to be the three of us. Now we’re going to be a family of five!!

Thank you, Baby, for loving me and for being such an awesome husband and father!  These have been the best 5 years of my life!

We are looking forward to the arrival our little one in time for Christmas as a family of five!!

A New Year, A New Chapter In Life

The year 2018 brought a lot of change to our lives. We welcomed our little girl into our family and we finally got settled into our beautiful house in Michigan once more. Just a few months later we decided to sell our house and move back to PA for good.
We listed our house with a local realtor and packed up all of our belongings. Wendell had an excellent job waiting for him in Carlisle PA training new drivers for Knight Transportation. Several years of driving and pushing it hard on the road was starting to have a negative impact on him and he was burning out.

On the morning we left for PA my mother in law snapped these pictures of us.

We moved back to PA in November and Wendell started his job right away. He loves it. He has a great working relationship with the team around him. More importantly, he’s only been in a truck a couple times! And those were short runs!
In December we rented a huge old house in Perry County from a family friend. We love the place and it’ll do until we are ready to buy a house. We finally had closing on our house in Michigan at the end of the year! It’s sad knowing that our first home is now someone else’s but I’m looking forward to settling into our forever home here in PA.
It was great to see the calendar page turn over to a brand new year. What 2019 has in store for us is still a mystery! One thing is for certain, there is no one I’d rather spend it with than my husband and my two precious children!