Enjoying Florida

Before we went out Eb caught a nap with Daddy!

Since we are getting so close to our move date Chris and I are enjoying some of the fun little things Florida has to offer while we still can - like swimming outdoors in April!  While it was still too cool for me to feel comfortable taking Eb in the water, he had fun rolling around the pool with Mom or Dad while the other one swam!

My handsome happy boy!

Figs!?!

There were figs on the ground around the pool!  I am still baffled as to where they are coming from because none of the trees around the pool look like a fig tree!

Yay! Pool!

I love his little hat!

Gorgeous Day!

Enjoying the sun!

Konked out after a big day!

 

First Easter!

Today was Ebenezer's first Easter! It was a beautiful day to celebrate the Lord's resurrection even though he wasn't feeling his best due to some teeth trying to come in. He got all gussied up in his outfit (unfortunately it fit much better about two weeks ago!) and we had a fun morning at church and visiting with some friends of ours for lunch afterwards.

It was a rather bittersweet day - it was wonderful to celebrate and visit with our church family, but it is really coming home to me that we are leaving SOON and this is our last Sunday with our Florida friends. While I'm super excited to be heading home we sure are going to miss the sweet fellowship we found here.

You Might be a Mommy If...

While on your way to an Easter egg hint at church you stop at Publix to get orajel for your fussy, teething son. When Chris headed into Publix, he left a moderately fussy baby and an in control Mommy. When he came back he found a screaming baby and a Mommy who tried-to-nurse-baby-to-soothe-him-because-he-had-started-crying-harder-but-he-didn't-want-to-nurse-so-she-tried-to-give-him-Tylenol-but-he-spit-it-all-out-and-over-the-place-so-now-she-is-stressed-and-worried-that-something-worse-than-teething-is-wrong-and-milk-is-squirting-everywhere-and-she-is-starting-to-c-c-crryyyy!

Chris made the executive decision that a nap was needed badly by all and we should probably skip the egg hunt and head home - and the baby fell sound asleep as we drove home...

Provisions Abound

$34,000. That was our original hospital bill. Not including the anesthesiologist, pediatrician or hearing tests and after we had already prepaid $1,000. $14,000 was the second, reduced, but still incorrect bill because insurance was being difficult. After some calls from Chris (and a lot of prayers) we discovered we did not have to pay this whole amount and needed to wait for yet another bill. That bill finally came this week. Wanna guess how cool our Lord is?

I don't think your ready for this...

$484 is our final correct amount!

Pre-natal care and all we have paid around $3,000 dollars to bring Eb into the world. I am beyond floored by God's abundant, tangible provisions. He is true to His word - where He leads, He will make a way.

My Sweet Hubby

It has been a crazy week and I simply could not make it without Chris! He has helped me finish entering data, finished up the responsibilities with his work, started packing/painting and kept me fed. To top it all he brought me home some flowers to brighten up our increasingly bare apartment! Did I mention how happy I am that he's mine?

Great is Thy Faithfulness!

Do you ever feel like God is in control of the big things, like moves, job choices and children, but leaves the details, the 'little things', up to us and chance?  I do on occasion and I love it when God corrects me by showing how He wants to care for me through the 'little things' too!

We are going to be moving in about a week and as things pile up we try to prioritize and knock down what is absolutely necessary, saving what we can for after the move.  Knowing what a planner I am it has been stressful not knowing exactly where all the tasks were going to get accomplished - then drama hit! (Que the dramatic music!)  While chomping away on some Easter gum I felt an unusual crunch and then something came loose... that something was this...

... my crown I had done in Bowling Green probably five years ago.

Stress does not begin to cover the emotions that raced successively through me at that moment.  The internal montage went something like this...  "We do not have a dentist in Florida - for that matter we hadn't been to a dentist in YEARS.  Where do we go? How much is this going to cost? When I got the crown originally it was quite expensive - and time consuming.  We don't really have a week to repeat that process all over again.  Do I wait until we are in Indiana?  Can I get a temp here and finish up there?  Its seven o'clock at night, I can't call any dentists to get these questions answered - and Chris made some wonderful lasagna, am I going to be able to eat it?"

I Facebook-ed some of my Gainesville friends and they came to the rescue with local dentist suggestions and called Mom to pray that this could be solved quickly and cheaply.  Chris called the next morning and found a dentist that could see me in a few hours.  They said as long as the crown wasn't cracked all they would have to do was re-cement it.  Praise God it wasn't cracked!  He cleaned out the old cement, dried off my tooth and cemented the crown back on!  No needles, no waiting for a new crown and a bill we were able to pay without much stress!

How cool is it that we have a God who cares about the details - including our teeth?

Second Sunday

4/1/2012

It took a couple weeks but we finally made it to church again! Its a little hard to see but I love Eb's outfit with the polo!  He looked so grown-up, especially with his shoes from Kathy!

Just strolling along...

Until it is time to leave for IN I have been watering on campus once a week.  During this time Chris hangs out with Eb in the car, and if Eb is doing good we take a walk around Lake Alice.  This last week (3/31) I got to play around with a new application my friend Adrienne gave me called Hipstamatic, and below are the fun results!  Can you believe my baby is 10 weeks old!?!

Imprints in the side walk around the church...

I didn't know Florida could grow these kinds of Irises!

The beautiful chapel near Lake Alice.

Walks make Eb sleepy...

Trying to decide if we were going to get rained on...

Yummy finger Mom!

"Why do you keep pointing that at me?"