Pit stop!

Today on the way to church I noticed a huge sign with our last name on it!

I thought it would make for a cute picture,

so on our way home we stopped and took a pic!

Almost 28 Weeks <3

Kid President

How cute is he???

Awaken LU

Are you 18-25ish?

Want something awesome and fun to do this weekend?

Want to see college students wake up from their slumber and realized that a living a life for Christ is so much better than living life for themselves?

 

Well if you said YES! YES! and YES!!!!
You need to get to the Montagne Center on Friday and Saturday this weekend to be apart of the Awaken LU Conference!

 

 

www.awakenlu.com

The perfect guy :)

This Sunday I was listening to my hubz preach. I was thinking that I am a really lucky girl to have found such a perfect guy. I thought about how it seems like most Christian women speakers really love their Christian husbands. It seems to me that they all got really lucky and married great men. I was trying to find the common link in all these guys. What makes all these different men, from different pasts, and different sins so great? Well I figured it out. Jesus.

I was thinking about how I wish I could beat  this into the heads of my friends, college students,and any girl really. There are amazing guys out there. Wait for a good one. Find a guy that loves Jesus.


Ryan lives for Christ. He holds himself to a high standard of a man. He understands and accepts the responsibility of being the head of our family and he uses Christ to guide him to being the best husband/future father possible. So ladies, if you're reading this and in the market for a hubz, look for a man that loves Jesus. If he loves Jesus he will love you like Christ loves the church. He will have a love for you that most guys don't have. He will put Christ above you. Yes that is sometimes a difficult pill to swallow because we like to be #1 in our man's life, but it is so necessary. We can not fulfill what our men need completely and he definitely cannot fulfill our needy, emotionally unstable hearts. Only Christ can fill that void. If our hubz understands that and points us to Christ when we are acting crazo, things will be better than if he tries to fill our voids. So bottom line. My husband rocks. He rocks because he loves Jesus more than me. He loves me so much because he learned to love through Jesus.

You want a man to love you better than you deserve?

Marry a man on fire for the Lord.

                          

 

 

                

 

Six Months

Today we have been DTE for six months!

 

 

 Movement on the referral side has seemed almost nonexistant lately; however, the court dates and embassy appointments seem to be flooding in! Ethiopia has been hit pretty hard recently with some difficult situations. Their Prime Minister, Meles Zenawi passed away in August. Please pray for the country and for the adoption process!!

 

*Summer Picture Wrap Up*

Annoucing to the first time grandparents :)

 

Last day of a looooooong end of school.

NYC Mission Trip!

 

Almost every Monday night my family would run in a 5k race:)

Towards the end I did much more walking than running.

One of my favorite pics of me and mawmaw.

Just love to look at this sweet baby!

First outfits for baby Adelyn/Jude!

Mini Destin Vaca!

Painting the baby's room!!

The new mom mobile. Loveee it.

First day of Year Four!!

It's beginning to feel a lot like FALL :)

I feel like I don't know how to start this blog! It has been so long since I have actually wrote anything. I don't really have a reason, stuff has been happening I just haven't been documenting anything! I use to get sooo annoyed with blogs that didn't update, but here I am becoming one of them. Hopefully this fall weather will get me in blogging gear! After all, in October this little ol' blog will be two years old! I thought I would catch you up on what has been going on in my life :)

*April- Found out I was pregnant! What a surprise!
*May- Felt blahhh constantly and had the longest last month of school EVER! Also, got to see Baby Thompson for the first time!
*June- Mission trip to NYC! That was a tough trip, but God blessed me by taking away all my baby blahs! Since that trip I have felt like my normal self, just gaining weight. (TOO much weight if you ask me!)
*July- Tough month. My grandma who I was very close to passed away. It was my family's first experience with a loss so close and it was very hard. Still is hard.
*August- Ryan and I took a last minute mini vacation to Destin, FL. We had a great trip and the perfect end to not so great summer. Another high note- We got to see the baby again! It was so neat to see him/her moving all over the screen and actually looking like a baby not just a blob!

Here we are in September...
We have a roomie! One of our students from our college ministry moved in with us for the Fall semester! It's been somewhat strange having a roomie. Mainly just in the sense of having someone else in the house, but it really has been overall easy and good :)

I got a brand new car! We bought a mom mobile, a Toyota Highlander, and I lovvvvve it! It took a few days to get use to the end of my car days, but now I couldn't imagine not having it!

We have been working on the baby's nursery and it has been so fun! I just love walking past his/her room and imagining a bouncing baby in there! It seems so crazy. I can't wait for little Adelyn or Jude to get here :)

So that's the summer wrap up! Maybe a phone dump to *show* this update will follow :)