Walk for Life

Hi Friends. I am not usually one to ask for support, but.......
I will be walking this year in the Robbinsdale Women’s Center “Walk for Life”!

“Robbinsdale Women's Center (RWC) was founded in 1992 to provide compassionate care to women facing unplanned pregnancies and has served over 16,000 women and families. We help our clients sort through their options to make a decision that is right for them. RWC offers free pregnancy testing, ultrasound imaging and medical consultation."

My mom actually is the Nurse Manager for RWC and gets to hep save babies. With everything that I have been through, this organization is dear to my heart, because I believe every life is a Miracle and gift from God!!

If you would like to support me, please click on the link below and select my name as the walker.http://www.robbinsdalewomen.org/node/add/walker-pledge

I will be walking on Saturday, May 8, 2010 at 9AM. The best part is I get to bring my dogs to walk with me! :)

Thanks friends and family!

Happy Friday

Today I experienced one of those pregnancy hormonal emotional days!!!!!

I swear everything anyone says to me today makes me want to cry! My plan is to head home and crawl right into bed and just sleep off these hormones for the day :)

The joys of growing a little bean in you!

PS~
I am so excited because I am going to the Twins game tomorrow with my sister! It should be great weather and I can't wait to see the new stadium! Thanks for the ticket Sista!

I moved into a new office at work. Above my desk are to frames with these verses:

Galatians 5:22
"Live by the Spirit...Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Faithfulness, Gentleness, and Self-control."

1 Corinthians 13:4
"Love is patient, love is kind, it does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud, it is not rude, it is not easily angered. Love keeps no record of wrongs, love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth. Love always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always preserves. Love Never Fails."

What great reminders to have by me all day.

Pictures of Baby at 13 Weeks

Here you can see babies spine......you have to look closely, my camera doesn't take the best pics.

Profile of Baby. A beautiful round shaped head!

You can see baby's arm up by its chin.

We are so thankful for a healthy baby. Our next appointment with the Perinatal clinic for an ultrasound will be between 18-20 weeks. So we will have to enjoy these pics. for a while.

Thank you for all your prayers! Praise God for a healthy baby so far!

13 Week Ultrasound

Ultrasound wend wonderfully! Doctor kept saying how great everything looks. They gave me about 10 pics. of the little babe.......I will post them soon!

2nd Trimester Here I Come

Only 3 days left in my first Trimester. This is very exciting for me as my last 2 pregnancies haven't made it further than my first trimester. I am at the point where my work pants are starting to not button and my belly is starting to grow.

Luke and I head to the Perinatal Clinic on Monday the 12th at 1pm for another complete ultrasound. Please pray with us that everything continues to look normal. After that appointment Luke and I will decide how often we really need to have ultrasounds. I have to decide if it is going to be re-assuring for me, or something that will just cause more stress.
I will update my blog again after Monday.

Thanks for your continued prayers!

Please Pray

Please pray for our dear friends Dad, Dale Sorbel. He was just diagnosed with cancer and it is at an advanced stage. Here is his Caring Bridge site...http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/dalesorbel

Priase the Lord

Yesterday, March 29, 2010 Luke and I found out that we are having a healthy baby due October 18, 2010.


We found out 4 weeks ago that I was pregnant.......This is how it all started.......one Tuesday night I was at my parents house. I had already taken an at home pregnancy test and it was negative a couple weeks before. I thought there was no way I was pregnant....Sari is getting married this summer and it just seemed too soon after losing baby #3 this fall. Well I took pregnancy test #2 and it was immediately positive. I had been in denial for about 3 weeks.


These last 4 weeks have been very trying for us as we weren't sure if our baby would have anencephaly or not. Because we have had 2 babies with anencephaly we had an 11% chance of having another baby with anenecephaly. That gave us an 89% chance to have a healthy baby, which is huge, but with the luck we have had I just felt like you never know. Our lives are not our own, they are God's.

So after a couple nights of no sleep we headed to the MN Perinatal Clinic in Maple Grove yesterday morning at 8:30AM. We waited for what seemed like forever and then had the ultrasound. I closed my eyes at the beginning until I heard the sonographer talk about the brain and the shape. I opened my eyes and saw a head roundly shaped and the tears started rolling. We had an hour ultrasound. The doctor told us that he definitely doesn't see any signs of anencephaly or spina bifida or any neural tube defect. PRAISE THE LORD!!!!!!!!!!!

We are so excited to think that it is actually our turn to become parents. We couldn't be more excited and actually feel more ready than ever.

All the praise and glory goes to God!

After talking with the doctor, we will be going in every 2 weeks for an ultrasound and then at 20 weeks have an in depth level 2 ultrasound. My nurse practitioner told me that they will be watching me like a hawk! I am definitely ok with that.

So......I get to actually be pregnant for more than my 1st trimester. I am so thankful and it brings tears to my eyes knowing that I get to have a healthy little baby.

Obviously anything is always possible, so please just keep this little baby in your prayers that it will continue to grow and develop into a healthy baby.

Thanks friends and family!

My Random Thoughts

So I woke up around 5:30AM this morning. Not on purpose, because my dogs decided they wanted breakfast an hour early today! I have been looking online and think I have a solution...
http://www.perfectpetfeeder.com/design_features.html

After I was awake I was trying to decide if I wanted to go back to sleep for an hour or not. I was lying in bed for a little bit and my mind started wandering. I started thinking about how I wanted a laptop....yes, random. Anyways, the reason I want a laptop is because I want to be able to sit in bed and write. I know that sounds weird.....but there are times when I want to journal, but writing takes so long. I want to start a journal that is typed. I mean, I do type like 72 words per minute or something like that. :)

Also, I have thought about writing about what I have been through since getting married. The losses Luke and I have had in our life and basically a book on marriage and life and realities. That may sound stupid to some people, but after going through what I have and discovering things about myself and marriage and God I just feel like I want my thoughts on paper.

My sister came up with a good title of a book for me, "the marriage next door" a look into the life of an average husband and wife.

I finally went to the doctor last night and they are treating me for Bronchitis. I have never had Bronchitis in my life. It sucks..... Anyways, hopefully I feel better soon. I was in bed last night at 8pm and sound a sleep soon after.

We have a pretty busy weekend ahead of us. Friday night we are just going to stay home and relax. Saturday we are heading to Hudson to some friends house for a lunch BBQ and then the girls are going shopping.

Sunday we are having Kurbis and Bethany over for dinner. I have to figure out what to cook!

So I guess not that busy, but busy enough.