Our New Little Surprise!!!

I've come to learn that God's plans for our lives aren't always what we have expected or when we've expected! I especially came to that realization when I became sick 2 weeks prior to leaving on a missions trip to Jamaica that Chad and I had been named Team Leaders for a group of 19 individuals heading on a mission that took months to prepare for. I had been sick all day, but it wasn't a sickness that was flu like, etc..The next day, again sick all day and food just didn't sound good..I had met my mom, sister, aunt, and cousin in Canton to do some wedding shopping and was sick the entire trip. I then ended up heading home with my family for a short visit. We girls took a shopping trip the next day so that I could do some last minute preparations for Jamaica and my mom had mentioned to me that maybe I was pregnant. "I can't be pregnant." I told her..We were totally preventing and how could it take me a year to get pregnant with Brooke and then to get pregnant while preventing? That's crazy! And to top it off, I had just lost 25 pounds, was in the best shape of my life! So I continue to be sick and I really knew that feeling from anywhere..So I got a test (in which no one knew). I took it at mom's "knowing" it would say negative. I look down at that cheap dollar test (that with both of my girls always said negative when i was really pregnant) and there were lines EVERYWHERE! I begin to scream "oh my gosh, oh my gosh, i can't be", my mom runs in and looks at the sink and starts jumping up and down "yes, more grandbabies!", as I stand there in complete shock and can't say anything.

After the initial shock, which at this point I'm 4 mo. pregnant and still in shock, I called Chad. I had no clue how to tell him, which I knew he would be totally ecstatic, but the whole missions trip thing. Of course he was so excited, but in complete shock b/c how could I be pregnant! Now for those of you who haven't heard this story, when Chad was buried in that ditch, at the hospital, he looked at me and said "what if I can't have anymore kids?" and of course, I say "chad, just walk, don't worry about that." So of course now, he's like "sweet, all you have to do is break your pelvis in 7 different spots and you can get through anything! I beat a 0.1% statistic! So then I reply "No Chad, GOD beat a 0.1% statistic!!"

Then the worry sets in about the Jamaica trip.. Can I still go? Oh crap, what if I catch something? Should I go? The Dr. said "No, too risky", but doc, "God has lined everything up and I really think I'm suppose to go." To make a long story short, I went, and we were blessed beyond measure and everything was fine!

So there you have it! God has blessed us with another baby, and we are going to start a process of trying to adopt a little boy from Jamaica in sept. So, needless to say, pray for me, b/c I may go from 2 kids to 4 in one year..maybe not, who knows, only our maker! He has great plans for us and every baby whether it is planned, unplanned, not our timing, etc..it is His timing and it is the right timing!! Thank you God for our new baby who at only 16 weeks gestation already has fingernails, hair, sucks it's thumb and is a complete miracle from you!