More Pink

We're having a girl!  I honestly was shocked. Taylor and I both wanted a boy and started looking forward to that. During the ultrasound I felt such a strong sweet spirit of love come over me. The Lord is blessing us with another girl. I felt that carrying and giving life to this little girl was the most important thing I could to for my Heavenly Father. He loves this little girl so much.

Pregnancy is a sacrifice. A test of my physical, mental and emotional strength. It's hard to not always have the energy I'm used to. I've had to slow down quite a bit and put my legs up.  My varicose veins started hurting in the past month. My emotions and mental clarity are always changing.  Yet, through it all, the moments of pure joy, like when I found out that I was carrying a girl, make it all worth it.

Homeowners

For the past few months we've been in the process of buying our new home.  We found online a little area south of Taylor's work that looked nice and seemed to have good pricing on houses. We decided to drive down and take a look in late January.

In downtown Kent we walked into a Windermere Real Estate office to find out a little more about the housing market in the area. It was all fast sailing from there. In the next few weeks Vicki, our agent, took us around to the many new developments that were springing up all over and a few older homes.  We really liked the style of the new Polygon homes.

It took us a few months to find a yard that we liked, then, after coming down to Covington to look at the Polygon homes three or four times we found one that had a huge side yard (about a fifth of an acre plot) and protected wetlands along both the east side and front of the house. Most of the new homes in this area have very little yard and are surrounded by other homes. Also, it was a house that just had the exterior done, so we got to choose some of the interior details. We choose the coloring of the tile counter tops and back splash pattern as well as where we wanted the hardwood floors to be. We even got to watch the amazing process of the house being built from that point on.

Things went smoothly with the loan process and we moved into our new house on April 20.

Buying this house was a hard decision for me.  I was neck-high in pregnancy hormones and felt so distant from the Lord's influence because of it.  I had to rely a lot on logic and trust that if it was not the right thing for our family that the Lord would somehow let me know. I had a few moments of beautiful assurance after we had made the decision to move forward and had signed some documents to secure the house. I'm so grateful for those moments and think about them often.