Family Pictures... Growing Belly!

Sweet little Baby Girl keeps on Growing and Growing!!  

I've just been so thankful to the Lord at how Amazing my pregnancy has been!  I really have had no major issues!!  All Thanks and Praise to the LORD!!!

We have started the High-Risk Pregnancy twice-a-week doctor visits!  We have ultrasounds every Tuesday and non-stress test every Friday to keep a close monitor on everything!  Dr. Crenshaw has been Amazing!  He is calm, cool, and collected... yet very watchful and cautiously anticipating any problems!

Spring Soccer

Spring Soccer was so much fun this year!!  

Caleb and Negash both are getting to be INCREDIBLE SOCCER PLAYERS!!!  

GO GREEN DRAGONS!

Disney World!!

We had planned to go to Hong Kong for Spring Break... We have always planned to take Caleb back to Hong Kong around age 10.  THEN.... I found out I was pregnant...  Flying to Hong Kong in my 3rd trimester wasn't exactly a good plan, we thought.  

... SO ...

We decided to go to Disney World!  :)

We had so much fun and the boys were so great!!  They LOVED IT and because they had not ever been before they didn't have any huge expectations about what was to come!  It was INCREDIBLE!  The boys were excited to go back to the hotel and swim in the pool whenever we got tired... so it worked out so well!!  Love my Sweet Boys!!

February & March Happenings

February and March were also great months!! 

As my belly began to grow and grow, and maternity clothes became the norm...  We dreamed about what was about to come... but also wanted to slow down the time to make sure we MAXIMIZED our time as a family of Four!!

February also marked 1 year since Mom passed away...  I did take some time to let that soak in... and remember some precious times with her... and I'll post on that separately.

February brought our dear friend Jeff Lancaster to Southaven/Memphis area to visit and we were so blessed to get to visit with him some!

March brought Negash's FIRST Science Fair project!  

He did great and even got 1st place!!  And a Trophy!!

IT'S A GIRL!!

IT'S A GIRL!!

REVEAL party!!!

We are having a REVEAL party!!! 

We will have our BIG Ultrasound on 1/20/12

 and we will have the Doctor seal "Small Fry's" Gender in an envelope... 

THEN on 1/21/12 at the party, we will have the BOYS open it

 and let everyone share in the JOY!!!

We are SO EXCITED and want YOU to be a part of our little Miracle Baby!!!

We'll have all kinds of games and fun things to do! So PLEASE COME!! 

*This is not a Shower... so NO Presents!! Bring your favorite finger food or snack or drink, and come ready to have fun!*

We'll be a little limited on space for kiddos, but feel free to stop on by!!

Drop-Ins welcome! :) 

Holidays!!

We had an incredible Holiday season!!

Sweet times with family - eating lots of great food, fellowship, and thinking about how different NEXT years Thanksgiving and Christmas will be!!  

Praise the Lord that I have made it through my first Trimester without any major problems!  I have been VERY fatigued, and had a few cravings... but no significant or major morning sickness or other problems.  My kidneys are doing well and holding in there...  My blood has become more anemic... but that is a bit normal.

So Thankful this Christmas for my AMAZING Family and for what the Lord is doing in our lives!!

ANOTHER GOD-SIZED MIRACLE!!!

It is with a little Hesitation, yet the Loudest SCREAMING that we share with you, our prayer warriors, some FANTASTIC GOD-SIZED News.

The kind of News that will force Everyone who hears to Stand in AWE of our Great and Mighty Savior!!

It is for THIS REASON that we just can't bear NOT to Share of HIS Good Works!

We are 9 weeks Pregnant!

I know.........  Shocking........... believe me..... we are still beyond ourselves in shock.

We have been told for 12 years, 12 YEARS HEAR ME, that this day would not likely EVER come!  We were told in 2001-2003 that if I ever did become pregnant, that because of my kidney condition... I would likely miscarry quickly and never carry to term... OR in the "RARE" chance I ever did... My kidneys would quickly fail and then I would be on dialysis!

These were the last words that we heard in 2003 that sparked our passion for adoption!  We started process for Caleb within MONTHS of hearing this news.

NOW......  My kidneys are SO much better than they have ever been.  We have seen very slow progression of their healing over the past 12 years.... HOWEVER, AGAIN, the thought NEVER entered into our minds to even try... after all "Chemo had likely killed any eggs that I had to begin with."

On October 30th, the night after we shared with many of you in Caleb's Baptism, I informed Chris that I had missed a cycle, but really thought nothing of it.  Other than being VERY tired and heading to bed at 9:30 or 10 every night... I had no clue!  Of course, my PRECIOUS husband was insistent on a pregnancy test to which I completed really only to humor him as I "knew" it couldn't be possible.

WELL.........  I was WRONG!  By a LONG Shot!!!

I called my GYN and got an appt for this past Friday.  My doctor was very excited!!  It was still all so surreal for Chris and I.  Disbelieving even being in that office.  We persistently asked... ok... let me be correct... CHRIS persistently asked for the Ultrasound.  

AND THERE OUR LITTLE PEANUT WAS!!  What a precious one!!!  We even got to see her/his little heartbeat beating so fast.  S/He is still too little to be able to HEAR the heartbeat.  Chris and I both about started BAWLING!!  We've been constantly texting each other "Eeeeeeeeeeee" as our little SQUEAL for excitement!

So here we are......  Another GOD-SIZED Story in the Making.....  So Unbelievable that it MUST be our Lord and Savior!!

The boys are very excited!!  Caleb is probably the most excited as Negash simply flippantly says "I saw that one time inBonosha!"  LOL!!  Love them!!

***PLEASE pray for the Continued health of the Baby, my health, my kidneys, Chris and the boys, and all of us together as we embark on UNCHARTED Territory for our family!

*I laughingly say that "Only in OUR family would a biological child actually introduce yet another culture!!!"  :D 

We love you all so much!!  We couldn't fully decide if we should tell this right now or not..... but just as Luke 19 says "if they keep quiet, the stones will cry out.”

It is just TOOOOOOOOOOOO much of a Testimony to the LORD'S Greatness to be Quiet!!!

*We Covet and Cherish your prayers for us during this time!  You guys have been such Warriors for us during our adoptions and Brazil and now!!  We thank you so much!!

~Beverly  - for the Fryar FIVE!!!!!!  :)