So Much Excitement

It's the end of the school year. We are being showered with love and gifts for baby Martin from every corner. There are birthdays of dear friends to celebrate and weddings to attend. The sunshine is drawing out everyone around us for front yard conversation and backyard fires. Our baby arrives in a few short months and stirs in my belly almost every moment. It's hard to sleep at night with all of these thoughts and excitements slushing around in my head. We have until June 23rd to see if anything happens with our house, but I'm ready to pull it off the market now. I want stability and certainty and to get that nursery set up! God has taught me a lot about patience lately, and even more about how I am not Him, and He is not me. Shocking, huh? Finding strange comfort in Isaiah 55:8-9:

"For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways,"
declares the LORD.
"As the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Amy and I celebrating her and Josh's 30th at The JASCARS

Pregnant ladies can party too- Ali and I are due only 2 days apart!


The guys at Catherine White's wedding

A lovely shower thrown last weekend by Judy

28 Weeks

3 months to go!

Let the Fun Begin!

Well, I had my first official shower today. My amazing co-workers had the Culinary Arts program at school put together quite the spread and serve it up! There was fruit salad, caesar salad, pita pizzas, pulled chicken and sloppy joe sandwiches, tortilla chips and cheese dip, shrimp, and more that I cannot remember! I'm still wondering exactly how much butter was used in the cake because it was so buttery and creamy tasting- I loved it! So sweet. I will dearly miss my work friends and felt so honored they would put on such an event for me :) Tear...

Green Tip

The environmental systems class at Whitmer will put out green tips every now and I thought this one was definitely worth passing on. Even if you already recycle your junk mail, you can take it one step further:

Now is a great time to stop the junk mail from coming to your home. Millions of trees and billions of gallons of water are used to create junk mail, most of which never gets recycled. You can get off national mailing lists by sending your name, address, and signature to: Mail Preference Service, c/o Direct Marketing Association, P.O. Box 643, Carmel, NY 10512.