Nathaniel and I have always wanted a family and couldn't wait till it was our turn! But God had different timing plans than us! We started trying, well not really preventing July of 2009. We had lots of struggles on the way. I was diagnosed with Polycystic ovarian syndrome/disease in 2006. This is a very frustrating syndrome to have. It caused my body to change in so many not fun ways, ie: weight gain. Along with everything, we were told it could make it complicated to get pregnant and higher risk of miscarriage. But with all that, we had faith in God's plan for us. We started getting help from the doctors by taking clomid and then we had 2 AI's (artificial insemination). After our second AI, we finally had that second pink line on the test that we had long hoped for! But, at just 5 weeks along I started bleeding. We went in first thing the next morning to the doctor and sadly we had a miscarriage the following week. It was something that was painful both physically and emotionally. After the miscarriage, we decided to take a step back and just go with the flow for awhile. Well, we went with the flow until about Dec of 2011. My close friend Sam works for Parkhill, so we decided to changed doctors and see what they would say. We started seeing Dr. Emily Hinton and fell in love with her right away. She is so sweet, down to earth and personable! We started Clomid again along with AI. Our first round was unsuccessful and we were sure the second would be to. The second has quite the story of why but a probably a lil to personal to write about. Anyways, the second was successful and come tomorrow we will be 26 weeks pregnant!! Praise the Lord!! Though this pregnancy has not been easy and defiantly scary most of the way. I will post in the next few days about the pregnancy itself. Anyways, if you are struggling with becoming pregnant dont give up Faith! Here is a qoute that helped me along the way: 'Faith in God, includes Faith in his timing'!!

Celebrating 3

Wow how time flies!! On Dec.13th, Nathaniel and I celebrated our 3rd Anniversary! We booked a 2 night stay at the Mulberry Ranch Cabins on the Pig Trail towards Ozark. We spent Saturday driving around through Altus, Paris and Mt. Magazine! We love driving and splorunking(sp?)!! We was given a tour of the Post Family winery in Altus, which was really cool! We drove all the way to the top of Mt. Magazine and boy was that view AMAZING!! Absolutely breathtaking!! We have decided to stay in one of their cabins on anniversary #4!! Extra excited about this one bc they have pet friendly ones!! We had dinner Saturday night at the Weideker Restuarant, part of the winery. I'm sad to say, we weren't to impressed. : (  We finished up our weekend Sunday in Fort Smith doing some last minute Christmas shopping! We had a blast together...as always!!! 

Wow...Time Flies!

It has been just about 3 Months since my last post!! Whew! There really hasn't been a whole lot going on in our lives besides getting ready and starting the holiday season off!! One bigger exciting yet scary thing that has been going on is we put our house on the market a little over a month ago! We started looking around for houses not really expected to find the 'right' house after thinking we were going to build! We we were wrong! We found a house in Wesley with 7.5 acres and almost double the size of ours!! We both have fallin' in love!! We both feel like this house is meant for us. So after lots of praying and laying out the details, we put an offer in! Yikes!! Yes before ours has sold! But we love it and did not want to miss out on it plus we feel confident in ours selling! Negative yet postive think about the house...it is in short sale! Positives: we might get it at a great price and short sales can take a lil while giving time for ours to sell. Negatives: they might counteroffer higher saying we are buying it for too little and the waiting is tough!! I am not gonna lie, Nathaniel and I are a little nervous about our house not selling before everything might fall into place with the new house and the closing date. Don't take us wrong, we are not going into this stupidly, we know we can afford both mortages if it comes to that but we do not want to! I,myself, did lots of praying and talking to God while Nathaniel was gone on his hunting trip and faithfully felt ready to put an offer in. So when he returned home, we had that lovely heart to heart!!! He felt the same way, so in went our offer!! In the meantime, we have had to things with the process that has defiantly tested our faith! A couple things that help me; 1: a fellow teacher at work said you will struggle with it your whole life, but when you lay it down at the cross DO NOT pick it back up!! 2: a lil saying I read awhile back that I say to myself daily "Faith in God includes Faith in his timing"!!! Day by day we anxiously await the phone call saying we have another showing on our house and await at the earliest mid Dec the phone call saying they accepted our offer!! But for now all we can do is Pray, Pray, Pray and Pray some more and put our entire Faith in God and know that what he has planned will happen in his timing!! We have Faith that all of this is meant to be, we just have to remember it will not happen we when say it will but when God says the time is now...which is always the perfect time and in the perfect way!!! In the meantime, if you know of someone who is looking to buy a house send them our way! It is perfect for first time home buyers and is in a great community!

Button Canvas

So I have newly gotten an addiction...its lovely little name is Pinterest http://pinterest.com/!!! If you have not checked it out, then you so should. But...BEWARE!!! I have already addicted 2 people within a week!! It is a website full of ideas from crafts to recipes, it has it all!! The site is constantly updating! All of the stuff comes from other peoples blogs, etc! It is A-mazing!!!

I seen this on the site and fell in love with it! So since we do not have kids, I decided to make some for my fellow teacher sweet Ms. Amy! I am in love with her children...and of course her! She is absolutely the sweetest person I have ever met!! I knew she would love and appreciate them, so I chose her and her girls to I guess you could say be my guinea pigs!! Ha! So since the girls share a room, I wanted to make them similiar but still unique to the girl! I look at both Hancocks and Hobby Lobby before I found this fabric. So I thought the fabric was a bit of a hassle...I was so wrong. The buttons...oh the buttons! Hancock had a good assortment of buttons(which I went to first), but I did not purchase any yet due to not knowing my fabric chose yet. Hobby Lobby had buttons, but no packages that contained all the same color. So I went to Jo-Anns, bc online they seemed to have alot. Well, they did but only had one left of the pink. So I had to drive back to Hancock to purchase more. Why can't there be one place with everything you need...or the business' be side by side??

I used 11x14 canvas, half a yard of the fabric, short piece of ribbon and it took about a whole package of buttons!

Cover the front of the canvas with the fabric and staple to the back...just like they do with the canvas material itself. Then, I penciled an outline of how I wanted the letters to look. I painted on Elmers Craft Glue and started placing the buttons. Once finished, I tied a bow with the ribbon and stapled the ends to the back of the canvas. That's all folks!!! Overall, the project cost just under $6 a canvas! Awesome easy to make gifts at a great price!!

I love how they turned out and can't wait to make some more!!

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Football Fever

Oooh Boy...it is now 24 more days till kick off of the new season!! I love the Razorbacks!!! Over half my wardrobe is Hogs, my car is decked out in Hogs, my studio room is in Hogs, the back porch has Hog decor, etc... Earlier this year we purchased a new patio table that seats 6 plus a convo set that has to chairs, loveseat and coffe table. They are super comforable!! The hubby also rigged it up so that we can move the flat screen to the back porch!!! Can you say awesome Razorback party!!!! I can not wait!!! September 3rd can not get here fast enough!!! Plus with football season starting that means that we are that much closer to deer season!!! Woo Woo this is why I Love Fall!!!!!! Woo Pig Sooiee!!!!

Summers Coming to an End!!

Boy oh Boy! This summer has flown by! Next week is our last week of the Mothers Day Out program at church and what better way to end than this weeks theme of Camping!! Woo woo! We will have a tent, sleeping bags and all kinds of camping goodies!! I have enjoyed my kids this summer and as far as I can tell they have had a blast!! I am sad to see it end but I am even more excited for PlayLearn to start!! The Lord has answered my prayers and is giving me the opportunity to be in the Pre-K room as the assistant teacher with one of the sweetest of persons I have ever met, Ms. Amy Adams!! Down fall...I only get one free week of no work before us teachers go back to start preparing for the school year! But hey I will take what I can get! I am excited to work with Ms. Amy this year, I truly feel like we will work so well together! I am also a little sad because for about 4 months now, I have been volunteering at Loving Choices in Fayetteville. It is a pregnancy crisis center for women. During the school year I can only volunteer for a few hours each week, but this summer I can get a whole day in! Over the past few weeks I have been sitting in on the counseling appointments and learning how to counsel and having a whole day to do so. Once school starts back it limits me to just a few hours, which is only about 2 appointments. But hey, thats ok! I will in time have 2 girls that I will be able to weekly counsel and get to build a relationship with!! So in time I pray that maybe I can take half a day off each week or only work 4 days a week to allow me to counsel on that day!! But only time will tell!! Loving Choices is a wonderful Christian based center that continues to have open doors because of its volunteers and donations!! If you have a spare moment check them out!! http://www.lovingchoices.org/  I hope each of you have had a wonderful not too hot summer!!!