Spring Break - Texas!

Last week we went to Texas to visit my family. My Dad, Step-Mom Barb, sister Mikayla, and brother Blake live between Houston and Galveston in a place called League City. The weather was really nice and the boys had such a great time swimming in Galveston, going to the Rodeo, checking out Grandma's new hair salon, visiting Grandpa's carwash, watching uncle Blake dirtbike, and cruise around in the golfcart. It was great seeining them and the trip went way too fast.

Pregnancy Update - 25 weeks

Thursday I hit the 25 week mark and today I had my doctors appointment. Everything is looking good and healthy. Her heartbeat was consistantly at 140 beats per minute. I'm certainly feeling more pregnant with the size of my stomach and the cartwheels this little girl does in my belly. I mostly feel good during this 2nd Trimester; minus some back pain, a little heartburn (I attribute that to the baby finally growing some hair) headaches and some ligament pain. I can now see her move on the outside of my stomach and I am most entertained by this at night when I am working on school stuff and sitting with my laptop watching my stomach excitedly showing kicks from the inside. I think she likes that I'm learning again. :)
Jack loves to feel the baby kick and sometimes he will come up to me and give my stomach a kiss on my belly button and say, "hi baby!" out of the blue-I love this :). Henry doesn't really know what's going on but he'll soon find out! Seeing as I am more than halfway there I better start thinking about nursery ideas. I haven't had much time to do this with school and the kids but need to start transitioning Henry into Jack's room and then we will be able to get in there to start changing things around.

Feed My Starving Children..

On Saturday, some friends and I volunteered for an organization called, Feed My Starving Children - a non-profit Christian organization that is dedicated to producing packaged meals for children, in effort to fight world hunger.
Our church small group has volunteered with them in the past and it was about time that I did it again!

We had such a good time with our group and we were able to produce 18,000 meals in just 1 1/2 hours; which feeds 50 children for one whole year! It's hard to believe that in such little time, you can help in such a huge way. I will continue to volunteer there and would encourage others to do so as well.

In the future, I want to instill in my children that volunteering is very important. I want them to know that we should be sharing the gifts that we have been blessed with on a constant basis. I was so sad to see those images of mal-nourished children on the FMSC DVD. It made me want to do everything I can in the future to help those in need.

To volunteer, please go here for more information, www.fmsc.org

20 Weeks

Merry Christmas!