Buddies.....

I took this picture of macie and her buddy kirah a few weeks ago and kept forgetting to put it on but its absolutely priceless!!!!!!

Fall Festival.....

Tonight our church held its annual fall festival which we look forward to every year. The kids dress up in their costumes and members of our church pass out candy from the back of their cars in the church parking lot. They have hot dogs, cotton candy, inflatable slides and pony rides. Macie was so excited to go and has been talking about it for weeks now. My grandmas bought her a horse costume awhile back and macie couldnt wait to wear it. It was pretty cold out but we had alot of fun and was glad we were able to go again this year and look forward to many more years to come.



After we got home from the fall festival we carved pumpkins. It was so funny to watch macie dig in all the slimy goop and try to pick out the seeds. I asked her what her favorite part of making pumpkins and she said it was "the seeds inside." Scott and I both love to eat pumpkin seeds but for some reason we didnt get to make them last year so we were super excited to do it this year. Scott and I attempted to carve faces and a few other things in the pumpkins which turned out pretty good actually. Overall we had a very fun day together and know it will be something we look forward to doing every year as a family.

Its been awhile......

Its been awhile since i have updated our blog i know, but it seems like everytime i got ready to do it something always came up. Its been very busy around here lately, nothing big just life. I have been working 3 days a week at the hospital which has been good but exhausting because of the 12 hour shifts. Its been a huge adjustment but an amazing new journey also. I feel so grateful because i love being a nurse and everyday that i go to work i feel excited for whats to come. By the end of the day I am usually exhausted but i feel so good about what I do like i have truely accomplished something and made a difference in someones life that day. Its been hard not seeing macie on the days i work because i am gone literally ALL DAY, but it makes me appreciate my days off and the time i get to spend with her and scott just lounging around and being together. Although there is alot going on in peoples lives around us i think we have finally come to a point in our family that we are relieved to just have calmness and normallcy. We are relieved to not have big mountains to climb but just little mole hills to deal with. There is definitely beauty that always comes from trials but its nice to have a break too and be able to just sit in the midst of Gods peace and just be still......i am thanking the Lord for fall, sweat pants, osu football, friends, family, the journey that has brought us here and the journey that is yet to come but most of all the stillness of just being right in this moment right now.

Catch up time soon....

Just wanted to let everyone know we are all doing very well. Things have been very busy around our household the past few weeks so we havent had the chance to blog. I feel like i'm starting to get the scratchy throat, stuffy nose thing going on which i am sure is from my patients:) and i have heard its been going around, so i am off to bed...working 12 hours again tomorrow. I hope to blog wednesday and catch everyone up on whats been going on in our lives and to post a few new pics of macie too. g'nite sleep tight...

Our little Mia....

So lately macie has taken her interest in soccer to the next level. We knew that she always liked soccer because she loves playing kickball in the living room. Scott is always asking her if she is going to be his soccer girl when she grows up because he loves soccer and she giggles and says "yes i a big girl." But this week she has asked me everyday to play soccer with her. We roll the ball to her and she kicks it back to us. She does very well and has now started throwing the ball up in the air herself and kicking it in the air which i think is amazing for a 3 year old because it takes cordination for that...but i am sure most of the time its just by chance she actually kicks it:) So macie and i were talking about soccer the other day and she started going through daddys espn magazines and finding pictures of "big girl" soccer players and having me tear them out for her. I told her mommy played soccer when she was a little girl and daddy too and she thought that was hilarious. Scott had given me one of his old soccer jerseys in college which i had put up in the attic so i got that out and let macie wear it around the house and she loves it!!! But not only does she just need that shirt when she plays soccer now...she has to have the "big girl" headbands in her hair too.. its super cute watching her get all her gear on and play soccer. She gets excited because we tell her next year she will be able to play upward soccer at church and i know she will love it....here are a few pics of our little mia hamm...

Praising the Lord today!!!

So as most of you know i had laprascopic surgery yesterday to address pelvic pain i have been dealing with for over a year now. The surgery went extremely well and we are praising the Lord for this. They found that I had adhesions around my left ovary and on my bowel. They did some biopsies and we should know the results at the beginning of next week but they are leaning towards them being positive for endometriosis which we thought was a possibility all along. They also drained a cyst on my right ovary. Going into the surgery we were worried and was told there could be a possibility that my left ovary would have to be removed and if there was alot of scar tissue I might end up having to have a hysterectomy, which we were very worried about because we would like to have another baby very soon. So to come out of the surgery with answers to my pain and to still be able to keep both ovaries we are thankful beyond words. Now we can look forward to having more babies and less pain:) Thank you all so much for your thoughts and prayers. God is so good and we are giving Him all the glory for this!!!!