Compassion in Kenya

Click HERE to watch a news story broadcast of a medical team from members of our church Harvest Bible Chapel Oakville on their trip to the Mully Family Orphanage in Kenya to give medical relief and of course the Gospel.

9 Months Pregnant!

I made it! I will be considered full-term on Thursday (37 wks) which will mean I'm allowed to have a home-birth and the baby will not be considered premature :) I had my appt. yesterday and everything is amazing. Baby is head down and facing the right way, my weight gain is good, my iron levels are better than normal AND the midwife guesses it's a girl hehe. The only thing not going well in our house right now is our little toddler who has been sick for 3 weeks or more now! he keeps catching new virus'. Last night he woke us up at 4am crying in pain saying his ears hurt, so we took to him to the ER and found out he has a really bad ear infection. He just finshed antibiotics for the throat infection he had and now he's on new antibiotics again and in a lot of pain (poor guy). It rips my heart out to see him suffer like this. I really pray by God's grace he will be healthy when the baby arrives, it's just so stressful. I'm even considering putting him in a bubble and not letting him leave the house for the next 5 years (Its actually really tempting).

I laso got all my homebirth supplies yesterday to get ready in the room and after spending all night in the hospital for D i am so looking forward to birthing at home. Hospitals are just not the most comforting, warm places y'know? Plus all i could smell was barf. Anyway, the Lord is so good us even though we don't deserve it.

Valentine's Day

We don't usually celebrate Valentine's Day, I will usually make a small card or love note to remind Ry of how much I love him (which if your married you should do everyday!) This year, Darius got hit with a virus and was sick all weekend. So come Saturday night we were too exhausted to do anything. But last night after I put D to bed I came downstairs to find sparkling grape juice, marshmallow hearts and candles lit on the table, Ryan standing there with a dress shirt on and a big smile :) It was so sweet! We drank our juice and talked about when we met, our wedding day and all our exciting future to come. I thank God for such a Godly, loving husband. And am also reminded of God's everlasting love that bears all things.

34 weeks and counting!

It's been almost a month since my last post and I am still hanging in here getting bigger by what seems like the minute. I am now 34 weeks along, which gives me 3 weeks till the baby is full-term (37 wks) and 6 weeks till my due date! I'm allowed having a home birth once I hit full-term so I'm praying that I can at least make it to then. I'm having a lot of practice contractions so it worries me sometimes. The two things i hear most often when I'm around people is "your only 8 months? It looks like your gonna pop any second!!!" and "It looks like you have a basketball under your shirt, you can't even tell your pregnant from behind!". Seriously i hear these at least once a week. The baby is moving a lot and we can see his/her arms or legs roll aorund in my belly and it is such an amazing thing to watch. I officially can't sleep at night and am contemplating wearing adult diapers due to the baby pushing on my bladder constantly. We are getting really excited to meet this new addition God has added to our family!

In other news, Ry has quit his job at Exactics and is starting up his own business with a friend from church. He will be working at another machine shop until they get the business going. Once that gets started he will be able to have more freedom and be home more to help me and spend time with the fam, which would be a huge blessing. We're also going to be taking night school courses and Toronto Baptist Seminary in Sept. to slowly work on our degree. On top of all those new things, we're alos extremly excited about helping to plant a Harvest Bible Chapel in brampton in sept. So we have a lot of exciting things coming up for this year and we're stoked. I just feel so blessed to have such amazing opportunities and blessings in my life.