Halloween 08

Why we vote pro-life

I am sure many of our blog readers are of like mind. Some are not. Although I have always been adamantly pro-life (since I understood abortion in high school), having our miracle has taken it to a new level. I can't even fathom how anyone could allow abortion to occur. Women (or girls) that choose abortion, often make that choice because they feel they have no other choice. Not only am I adamantly against abortion, I try to help women (and men) know and understand they have a choice...a choice for life. And if they have had an abortion in the past, I try to help them understand forgiveness is available through the grace Christ.

Now...to those in government that choose abortion for our country, there is no excuse. And there is no excuse to those who elect them into office. Have these elected officials NOT seen the pictures of aborted babies? Of course they have. Yet they choose to allow this procedure which kills 4,000 innocent babies every day in the US. Abortion is far worse than any holocaust, any genocide, any war the world has ever seen.

I watched a YouTube video yesterday. Paul and I were both in tears. I hope you will take 5 minutes to watch this video. I met Jill Stanek when I worked at Priests for Life. God bless her for speaking out against the atrocity of born-alive abortions. Senator Obama has voted 3 times against a bill that would squelch this practice. Regardless of his "personal views" on abortion, he is no friend to the unborn, or those who claim to be pro-life. How can we find middle ground when he is in favor of letting babies die cold, on a table. I was very close to throwing up watching the discussion on abortion in the last debate.

I thank God every second of every day for the gift of H. My heart hurts for those that have made the choice of abortion....and I pray they find forgiveness. But for those that make the choice to allow abortion to continue, and those that elect them into office - God have mercy.

Where our milk comes from

There is something fun and unique about getting to hang with the cows that provide our milk. :)

The Sweetest Girl!

This is a blog to brag on my daughter. I have discovered THIS, 12.5 months is my favorite age! She has become so adorably charming over the last week!
Here are a few reasons why:
1. She gives kisses. Now, in addition to the snuggles, she will give me kisses. Earlier tonight I was laying on the couch exhausted. Multiple times she stopped from her activities to walk over and give me an (un-prompted) kiss or two. It was utterly adorable, and some were a little slobbery. She also loves to kiss pictures of babies (ie herself), the dog, baby dolls, little kids, and on occasion, another relative. :)
2. She lights up a room. Seriously! We were at a wedding this weekend. If she is in the middle of a group of people, she strives to win their attention and keep it. She succeeds.
3. She smiles at strangers. She will even push me out of the way if I am in the way of her giving a big cheesy grin at the person behind me.
4. She is honing her dance moves. Boy, did she get her grove on this weekend! I only wish I had video of this. The best we have is this picture (below). Once she heard the beat, she was out of her seat, clapping, dancing, doing this adorable 5 point spin - pivoting on one foot. She has repeated that, and other adorable new moves, several times since being home.
5. She is imitating us; she walks around the house clicking her tongue (what I do to get her attention), she tries to put shoes on her father, she clasps her hands to pray, she swats bugs from her face, etc.

She is her own, most unique, adorable self....growing into an adorable, beautiful little toddler.

From Then...to Now...

Miracle Baby...meet Miracle Worker!

We had the chance to see Dr. Hilgers last weekend and snap these priceless pictures. For those of you who don't remember, Dr. Hilgers is the founder of Creighton Model Fertility Care and NaPro (Natural Procreative) technology. He also preformed two of my surgeries, which led to the conception of our miracle babe. Thank you Dr. Hilgers (sniff sniff) - you are truly doing God's work!!

Birthday Party

Here are a couple of pictures from H's party. Sorry for the delay, we have been having some computer problems of late!






Note to parents...red and black icing do NOT make for easy clean up! Lesson learned. :)

One Year Old!!!

We have spent the last couple days reflecting, tearing up and now...it's official. We have a one year old!! A gloriously wonderful, toddling, lovable, giggling, adorable (did I mention, wonderful) one year old baby girl. We had party, part 1, tonight with family. It began with Mass, and concluding with angel food cupcakes and a gifts. Saturday we will have party, part 2, and we are expecting Hurricane Hanna to rain us in. Ironic. :) I had hoped to update sooner...but obviously, our life has been chaotic. Chaotic, but wonderful. We moved, successfully on August 17th & 18th. We got busy immediately. My parents arrived later as reinforcements. I will try to update with pictures as more gets finished. For now, enjoy pictures from tonight and the last two weeks, don't miss the two video clips at the bottom!

Latest Happenings

A new highlight in our "organic" lifestyle! I decided to let H "air out" the other night. Not only did we have this mess...we also had a puddle on the floor following dinner. :) Note to Self: Naked babies and rice make for fun pictures with big clean up!







And, today we finally pulled out our bikes and explored a new trail. H didn't have the best view (or enjoy the fresh air as much as we did, lol) - but we all had fun.



And....2 weeks to Settlement!!

To Florida and Back

We went to Florida last week while Papa was at Steubenville. Here are a few pictures from H's first trip to the Ocean - and visiting with family (and a trip to Ikea with my friend Jennifer).

Homeowners...once again!

Well...I guess the first update is that we sold our house, in less than 1 week!! We had a total of 5 (exhausting) showings. From that we got 3 (exciting) offers! We accepted one and sold our home for our asking price. In this market, we were thrilled and elated, and never expected it to go so quick.

And, so the next update is we bought a new home! Our bid was accepted this morning!

Here are some pictures of the new house!