A Prayer for Baby

I guess I have not been doing very good at being a good blogger! Sorry!

Everything as been good lately. Nothing too exciting going on. As for TTC, I should be ovulating this weekend. I am not temping, just watching other signs. Everything seems to be indicating ovulation so wish us luck!

A girl made a post about a book on the TTCAL board. The book is "Expecting: Praying for your Child's Development, Body & Soul". She posted the 1st prayer in the book and I really liked it so I am posting it here.

God, I know it's never too early to pray for my future children. Thoughts of motherhood have always had a place in my mind & heart. I'm not naive enough to think it will be easy,but I know I can do this with You by my side.

God, will you watch over my body as it prepares to welcome a child into my womb? Will you work out everything for good and make sure the conditions are just right for conception.

I want to start praying even now for the child who will someday rest in my arms. Would you protect that baby? Would you help him/her grow up to be healthy & happy? To be a child who falls in love with Jesus and never stops growing in his/her relationship with you?

Please give me the discipline to pray for my child every day for the rest of my life.

In Jesus' name

Amen

"Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you, before you were born, I set you apart" Jeremiah 1:5

Books

I just finished reading a book that I thoroughly enjoyed. It is by the same author of the famous Twilight series that I have yet to read. I was not going to read the Twilight series even though I have heard nothing but rave reviews that turn into obsessions. But after reading this book of Stephenie Meyers I feel that I might have to read them. I could not put this book down it was so good. Once I got towards the end I made myself stop reading so I wouldn't have to finish it. I don't usually read books about aliens but this book is different. And I don't usually read books about vampires either that is why I haven't read the Twilight series but now...
I think if you liked the Twilight series you will like this book. It is called "The Host".

Bad Blogger

I have been a very bad blogger lately! I just haven't had to much to write about I guess.

So to update you on our life, Lee got a new job. He has been working for himself but he was offered a union job in HVAC. The main reason I like the job is the stability it provides us along with the benefits. I feel much more comfortable trying to grow our family with this job. He seems to like it and he gets to learn a new field of work. The only negative thing is that he will be on the road Monday-Wednesday. But that is not too bad in the scheme of things. It is definitely something I will have to get used to though!

Speaking of growing our family, I am very excited that we get to start trying again this month. Hopefully Lee's new job doesn't interfere with anything since he will be on the road some. I don't plan on charting to start with. Maybe if I am not pregnant after a few cycles of trying I will start that back up but for now we will just go with the flow.

I will try to be a better blogger for now on!

Arizona Road Trip!

Lee and I have been throwing around the idea for a few months of going to Arizona to visit our friends. So finally last week we decided that we would go and make a road trip of it! The trip is 1600 miles. So we left early Wednesday morning on the 7th which happens to be our anniversary. After driving a thousand miles we decided that maybe we should get some sleep. We pulled into a truck stop, parked the car, and took us a few hour nap! This was my first time sleeping at a truck stop. Not the coziest place to sleep but hey it worked!! After a cold, cramped few hours we hit the road again. The second part of the trip was much more exciting since the scenery was different. I love the mountains. The only thing about the mountains I did not like was speeding down them 80 miles an hour. Lee thought it would be fun but I was not excited.

We had a great time in Phoenix. I had a girl day with my friend where we hit all the high end resale shops and had pedicures!. The food was awesome everywhere we went. Saturday night we went to the Supercross races. That was pretty exciting minus the drama we had to go through but I am not going to go into that. Then Sunday we hiked up Camelback Mountain. That was extremely hard (since I am so out of shape!!) but I made it all the way up. It was my favorite part of the whole trip. Looking back on it, it was fun but at the time I was complaining the whole way up.


We started to head home on Monday. After we stopped in Oklahoma to visit Lee's mom and a few other stops we finally got home Tuesday night. The drive home was so long, not as fun as driving out there.
So we went from beautiful Phoenix of 70 degrees to back home at -13 degrees. Isn't that lovely!!!


Here are some pictures on Camelback Mountain.(except the last one is of us driving home. Must have been early in the trip since we are smiling!!)