Around our house...

Saturday was a great day because the ladies at our church had a Welcome Tea for me. It was held at a nearby french bakery type restaurant. The food was very yummy and many ladies showed up to simply say, "Welcome," and to get to know me better. We played a few games and they took a quiz about me. I was also able to share my testimony with them so they could see a little bit more of who I am. Below is what I came home with- a beautiful cookie bouquet that represented Texas. The heart cookie in the back said, "Deep in the heart of..." and then the Texas shaped cookie was in front of that. It was so cute!



This is Halle in her new bathing suit going to the pool. Our church had a big event on Sunday at a water park in our town and we left the park with no bathing suit for Halle. I'll spare you the details, but let's just say a constipated child + a laxative= a bathing suit that goes in the trash. Halle is getting more comfortable in the water, the more we go swimming and loves to wear her bathing suit!





This was my conversation with Halle in the pool.
H: Bye, have to go to work
M: Where do you work?
H: Have to go to meeting, have to go to lunch
M: Oh ok, well we're going to go home in just a minute.
H: 5 minutes.
M: Oh ok, Halle


This is what happens when Halle disappears for 30 minutes- a big mess!




She is becoming quite the little mommy. She loves to take her baby for walks and feed her a bottle. I've caught glimpses of her rocking her and last night as I was washing dishes, Halle came in and took the dish towel off the hook and wiped the baby's mouth- then returned to what she was doing! So precious!




In other news: I'll be 15 weeks tomorrow (Friday) and I have had about 2 days of feeling better- so I'm holding my breath, but hopefully I'm on the way to no morning sickness! Halle and I will be flying to Chicago this weekend to spend the week with my family, so I'm especially hoping to feel good with all the traveling. And, we have a really strong potential house that we're looking at. We're getting the roof checked out today, so please pray that if this is the house for us that we'll know and everything will work out accordingly!

Updates

I know- I am a horrible blogger lately. I blame it on a few things: 1. My computer is still sick so I've been using Brian's. 2. I still feel crummy and have little motivation for anything. 3. Not that much exciting is happening!

Well here I am at 12 weeks- (I'm now a little over 13 and a tiny bit bigger, but here's the start of the belly!



Here's a few of me and Halle bear- me on the couch like a typical day.




And we were able to get out a bit this week- Brian's sister, Lisa came for a visit so we showed her a few sights. One of our favorite things was going to the beach. The town we live in sits on a big lake- so we took Halle to the beach, which she loved! It was such a great beach for little ones. She's a pretty cautious child, and is gradually getting a little more brave in the water. She could have stayed out there all day!







And this is one of our favorite places to go where there's a fountain and a walking paths, shops, and the best of all, a Coldstone! We think it makes a great night out to get some ice cream and have Halle play and run around.

Some pics from the weekend

4th of July

My computer is sick so I am unable to upload pictures right now. It's crazy that we've been here for almost a month already. Yesterday we surely felt the Dallas heat! My car said 103 degrees at one point- and we were outside in it most of the day! Our town has an annual 4th of July parade that our church had a float in. We were able to work on the float this week with a team of people and it was fun to see the finished product. Halle and I rode on the float while Brian walked along side it with a bunch of church people. We were so hot! Poor Halle's whole entire head was soaking wet. So we were relieved to get out of the sun! In the afternoon we headed to the lake in our town for a big festival. Our church had a booth set up for us to advertise about the church. Halle and I only managed to make it about an hour before we had to get out of the heat. Poor Brian had to stay a few hours longer and meet and greet. We were exhausted at the end of the day from all of the festivities but enjoyed being a part of the celebration.

We feel like we've had a really great transition here and have been welcomed with open arms by the church. It's been great to feel so loved already. We feel a little overwhelmed with the amount of work to be done, people to meet, and personal needs like finding a house, a second car, etc. We are praying for all of these things to fall into place. We have about 3 more months to find a house, and hope to find just the right place for our family. Halle is doing amazing with the transition and has already made friends here. She loves getting out of the apartment and having time to run around. We are enjoying our pool at the apartment and go in it a few times a week.

I am almost 11 1/2 weeks pregnant and am anxious to hit the 12 week mark this week. I'm struggling with nausea just like I did with Halle which makes everything more challenging. But, I'm thankful that it's not worse and will hopefully kick the yuckies by 16 weeks. It's very limiting for me right now and causes me to spend many hours on the couch. Brian keeps praying for a boy- but we'll just have to be patient and find out.

I think that's it for now!!