FAMILY!!!!

My mom and sister visited last weekend. We had a freaking blast! Chris and I showed them around our small town, eating dinner at a yummy, locally owned, grill house. We went into town and had lunch at Fido's (a must when visiting Nashville) and had coffee at Crema... also a must. Of course we went shopping and my mother bought me some very cute maternity clothes. Very nice of her! My sister talked to my belly every chance she could. Didn't matter if we were in public or at home, she wanted Sesame to hear her voice. For those of you that don't know, we are calling the baby sesame until it's born because it was the size of a sesame seed when we found out we were pregnant. I know, we're adorable.

4 of my favorite people are visiting next weekend. The other Reyes clan... Matthew, Naomi, Abby and Jacob. I cannot wait until they get here. I haven't seen Jacob since he was 4 days old. Crazy!! He's so freaking adorable. He looks just like Matthew (and my dad and granddad) when he was a baby. Abby gets more beautiful every time I see a picture of her. We are going to have a blast with them. We will take them to the lake and play in the water and hopefully get a little tan... mainly because I want to see Jacob's rolls and Abby's cute tiny toosh.

There are only 2 things I don't like about living in another state... family and friends are so far away. I can't spontaneously go visit them in San Antonio and trips have to be planned way in advance. So I've decided that everyone needs to move here. That's right... EVERYONE! You will all love it!

Chris and I are visiting Dallas for 2 weeks in October, the only time we'll be there before the baby is born, so make sure you see us! We'll be at Sushi Loco almost every night :)
Gay and Ted (Chris's parents) are visiting us over Labor Day. We are thrilled about that too! It's so much fun showing people where we live and what we do now. I just love family time.

Here are 2 pictures... one from when Mom and Mindy were here and one of my sweet niece and nephew. There will be plenty more when they come visit. I know I won't be able to put the camera down.

God is GOOD!!

Things have been going so great here lately. 3 weeks ago I started my new job. It is fantastic. It's a very laid back atmosphere. I get to wear jeans to work, I am allowed to be on the internet when I have down time, and I can read while on the job! Doesn't get much better than that, does it? Yes, yes it does... I had to miss 2 days of work my first week because I was feeling so miserable. I was nervous to tell my boss I was pregnant because I really didn't know how he was going to react. After all, it was only my first week! When I told him on Friday he was so excited for me! It was such a huge relief and blessing. I only work with 4 people (all men) and they are all family men, so they couldn't be happier for me and Chris. It just worked out so perfectly! God's timing is the best timing, wouldn't you agree?

Last week we went to the doctor and saw the heartbeat. It was incredible. I cried. Knowing that a tiny little human is growing inside of me is just too much for words. Yes, he/she makes me sick, but I don't mind it. I think it's his/her way of letting me know it's there. You know? That might sound silly, but it's how I choose to look at it. He/she is just communicating with mommy. We really can't believe we're going to be parents!!! What an amazing gift! I fall asleep thinking of that little heartbeat and can't help but smile and feel an overwhelming sense of pride and joy. God is good... ALL the time!

A quote from my niece...

There's a baby in my belly!! This was taken at 7 weeks. We are so friggin thrilled!! Just thought we would share with you :) Please pray for our baby's health. We covet them.

Does God test our faith? If so, how?

I have great new friends here in Nashville. Our homegroup leaders, Bobby and Dena Williams, had us over for dinner on Wednesday and helped me with my resume. We completely redid it... new layout, better work descriptions, and a much better synopsis of my abilities. I have already had 3 hits because of it. I am thrilled! The Williams spent over 4 hours with us perfecting it. How wonderful!

Chris and I were asked to be facilitators in a class lead by the church called "prep for marriage". We started last week. It's great. It will only get better. We are leading the week 6 discussion. And when we get back from Honduras we will be leading our homegroup through the book Sacred Marriage. Yippee!

God is faithful to us... we want to be faithful to him.

We have a meeting tomorrow with our new church about our experiences in connecting people, especially people in marriages. Chris and I really want to do a Bible study with people whose marriages are suffering. I lead a women's Bible study last year over the book Love and Respect. We're hoping to do our study on the book Sacred Marriage. How cool would it be if we could help hurting marriages! We're pumped about our meeting tomorrow!