Birthday Month!! (Sept. 2012)

 

Oh my goodness I am so HUGE!! Labor day wknd we had our annual Back-to-School All Nighter, so I had one more thing I had to hang in there for!! We planned the games, got the bounce houses, provided food and entertainment and I left at 2:00 in the morning. I was exhausted, swollen and my whole body ached! Little did I know that in 2 weeks Jacoby was coming...

 

I tried to make it to kids football games before Jacoby came, so I went to Ben and Raymon's game Friday, Sept. 7th, exactly one week from Jacoby coming. I sure did sit in those bleachers and prop my swollen feet up. Texas heat is so hard on pregnancy!

 

Last pic I took of me and Jacoby before he came the next week @ 37 wks :) He definitely had dropped

Sleep? What's That?! (Aug. 2012)

 

FINALLY the month to slow down and focus on Jacoby coming! My sweet sisters threw me a super cute vintage airplane baby shower...

 

We had our picture Scavenger Hunt with the youth group

 

We had youth led Sunday again...

 

I never had time during the summer to take belly pics, so Molly captured some sweet moments @ 34 wks pregnant!! I had to have some pics of my big Jacoby belly :)

 

And I got to see a 3D image of him. I always knew he had Jacob's head and lips and my nose :)

 

My mom helped me with a few sewing projects. We reupolstered a glider that was given to us and I will NEVER do that again! This chair is staying the same fabric for every single one of our kids!!

 

Finished product. Not too bad for my first time, but of course my mom helped a lot haha

 

I sewed on some fabric to cover over the sailboat on this pillow. I didn't want to throw it out just bc it didn't match his airplane theme...

 

Made my own lampshade with leftover fabric, buttons and hot glue gun

 

Staple gunned fabric and cut up valance from Jacoby's bedding set

 

My sweet dad came over to help Jacob hang Jacoby's quilt rack (after my sweet mom helped me paint the whole room)

 

Jacob finished putting together the changing table and dresser...never again!!

 

And we hung up the vintage airplanes and quilt his Grandma Sandy made him when he was boy

 

The busy summer is coming to a close, we have everything we need for our little bundle and his room is ready for his debut into the world!

THE Busiest Month of a Pregnant Woman's Life! (July 2012)

 

Celebrated 4th of July

 

Went to an Arizona Indian Camp and shared Jesus to a very lost world! God literally carried me through a very emotionally and spiritually difficult time and gave me His strength to continue. My heart was blessed and broken at the same time by these precious kids that didn't know Jesus! It was here that I began to fervently pray that God would capture our Jacoby's heart and draw him to Himself as he grew up. I so desperately want our son to know Jesus Christ as his Savior and follow after Him. To see so many kids not understand the gift of salvation and the great love God has for them, only made me cry out to God more for the salvation of our son!

 

John 6:44 "No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him..."

 

Hebrews 7:25 "He is able to save completely those who come to God through Him, because He always lives to intercede for them."

 

1 John 3:1 "How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God!"

 

Romans 9:16 "It does not, therefore, depend on man's desire or effort, but on God's mercy."

 

Oh how I prayed these few weeks that God would have mercy on our son and reveal Himself to Jacoby!

 

And as we left these kids, I prayed with tears streaming down my face, that although we would never see them again in this life, that I would see their precious faces in Heaven one day! My heart broke and pleaded with God that seeds were planted and He would bring harvesters!

 

Oh these faces...

 

Forever etched on my heart...

 

And then we went to the Grand Canyon. The guys camped and all the girls got to stay in the lodge since I was BIG and pregnant at this point! I won't forget, before we left for our few weeks around the States, Jacoby was head down and sometime during our travels he turned breech and never made his way back around :) And I felt hiccups for the first time...cutest thing ever!! He still gets them to this day and hates them haha

 

Jacob raced his first triathlon as a Loncar team member, which is a big deal bc he's moving up in the triathlon world :)

 

Then we had Mission Camp in Arlington and shared Christ with more precious kids!

 

Our summer interns that were the BIGGEST blessing to me and soooooo helpful!!

 

Our group with the kids at the Apartment complex church. This time was such a blessing and once again God proved faithful in carrying me through an emotionally and spiritually taxing week while 31 weeks pregnant in the heat of Texas summer!! Seriously looking back, it was all Him bc despite my circumstances there was so much joy and peace and patience and love and everything else that truly only comes from Him!!

 

Jacob FINALLY won "The Best Youth Pastor" Award after we'd tried for years...

 

Our wonderful group!! I remember Jacoby LOVED the worship music...and probably the air conditioned service time haha

 

My basketball kept growing all during our extremely busy July :)

 

 

God gave me Hebrews 1:3 as I lay reading my bible one night in Arizona, praying for His strength to not only make it through our summer, but to serve Him well while doing it. "The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of His being, SUSTAINING ALL THINGS BY HIS POWERFUL WORD." It was literally running to His word daily that gave me the strength to do it all. How do you continue to emotionally and spiritually pour out yourself when you physically are falling apart while carrying a child?! By being sustained by His POWERFUL Word!! So thankful I have His promises and comforts to cling on to!