Praise the LORD!

Well blog friends we have had an amazing answer to prayer around here! Friday afternoon Nick was offered a job! Just a year shy of giving his two weeks notice at his last job.

The job in on Offutt Air Force Base in Omaha. It's a civilian contract position though, so that's a major plus. That means if in 5 years when his contract with the Air National Guard is up he doesn't have to re-enlist if he doesn't want to. The only downside is that it's about an hour and fifteen minute commute everyday. Thankfully the car he drives doesn't get too bad of gas millage and we should be able to save up for an even more efficient one pretty quickly. I'm sort of bummed that he won't be home everyday till after 5, since I'm used to him being home by 4, but it's a small price to pay.

Thank you for all of you who kept us in your prayers! This all means that we can get the ball moving on our plan to be foster parents! Exciting things are happening around here.

Easter

So I have been working on this post almost all day. The internet on our laptop is being weird so I had to transfer everything over to our other computer. It took awhile, but finally I'm getting this up! 

Our Easter was a busy one. We had church and 2 family meals. Which meant very little nap time for Evelyn, but it all ended up being ok. 

We got all dressed up and headed to church at 8:20. We had a wonderful worship service that was backed full. Evelyn did great in the nursery, which is always a blessing.  

Evelyn fell asleep on the way home from church so we just let her nap in her car seat till we had to head to my parents house at 11:30. We had a delicious lunch (Steak, Cheesy Potatoes, Deviled Eggs and Veggies. Yum!) with my parents, my grandpa, my sister, my brother-in-law and my niece Drew. After lunch Drew did an Easter egg hunt. I can't wait till next year when Evelyn can participate. 

We hung out at my parents till about 4. Evelyn took a tiny nap somewhere in there. After that we ran home and then headed over to Nick's parents for dinner.

We had a wonderful dinner of all your traditional Easter dinner foods. It was Nick's parents, his sister and his Grandpa. 

It was a great day of celebrating Christ's death & resurrection with our loved ones.

Now for the pictures!  

Evelyn & I all dressed up for church.

Nick & Evelyn before church. Look at that smile! 

Recognize the bunny? It's the one I got from Goodwill!  

Evelyn opening her Easter basket from mommy & daddy. Two new summer outfits!

Nick & I all dressed up for church.

Evelyn wearing my old bonnet and opening her Easter basket from my sister. 

Two little bunnies! 

She loves her cousin Drew. 

Our Little Family 

Rockin' & Rollin'

So my little one, Evelyn, is coming up on being 6 months next week. Well that being said she has become quite mobile in the last couple of months. It was honestly like a light switch. One day day she wasn't really rolling around and the next day she was rolling and scooting all over the place and getting into everything!


These are some of the silly places she has gotten herself into in the last week.

This was last Monday. Daddy was outside mowing and I was checking e-mails. I head Evelyn starting to fuss, but I thought it was just because she was done being on the floor. I turn around and I see her completely tangled and stuck underneath one of the chairs in the living room. I like any other mother didn't get her out right away. Instead I ran for the camera so I could show Nick when he came in. 

Nick made fun of me and made mention of something we saw on Pinterest the night before. It was a sign that said "In case of fire, Exit building BEFORE tweeting about it." I told him that if it had been a real emergency I would of course taken care of the baby before thinking about a picture. 

This happened Wednesday night. Evelyn was playing on the floor. She grabbed the edge of the blanket and rolled over while holding on to it, which led to her face being covered. We of course didn't help her out this time either, we just watched to see what would happen. 

Well as you can see what happened was that she continued to roll around till pretty much her whole body was covered! Shortly after I took this picture I helped her escape, because she was getting frustrated. See I'm not that mean! 

Well Evelyn didn't make it into the basket herself, but it's pretty cute none the less. I was putting away laundry and instead of dealing with her "helping" I let her sit in the basket. It kept her occupied long enough for me to get most of our laundry put away, which is saying a lot! 

I also caught her playing with the curtains in the living room Wednesday during the day, but I only took a picture with my phone so I have no way of showing you. 

While I must say I'm happy she can get around by herself, I'm kind sad she's growing so fast. I have the ability to actually accomplish things now, but I'm starting to get a taste of her not needing me anymore.

I'm really striving to take advantage of everyday while she's little and be cherishing her as a baby. It's hard sometimes, but I'm trying. 

Friday's Letters

This is my first Friday Letters! Yay! I'm linking up with Ashley@Adventures of Newlyweds.

Dear Evelyn,
Stop growing up! You're already wearing some 9 month clothes and I don't like it! I'm really going to miss these times of you just wanting to be held and cuddled by your mommy. I'm already starting to want another baby, because you're getting so big! (And that's not cool with Daddy.) I know you can't stay little forever, but could you try?!

Dear Mom,
Thank you so much for being so amazing. I can't put into words how much I appreciate you. My appreciation grew by 100% once I had my own little one. You're an amazing mom and an amazing grandma. I love you!

Dear Hubby,
I can't believe it's been almost a year since you quit your job. I've been praying like crazy that they offer you a job with the company you had a 2nd interview with yesterday. God has been so good at providing for us and I know He is leading you to where He wants you!

Dear Heavenly Lord,
Today is Good Friday. Today is the day You had to turn Your back on Your only Son, because You couldn't bear to see Him bearing all of the world's sin on his shoulders. I'm so grateful for Your sacrifice. Having my own child now I can understand a tiny bit of what it must have been like. I know I couldn't have done that. I couldn't have loved the world despite their complete disobedience and sinful ways. I can't understand how You loved me enough to do that. But I am grateful, eternally grateful for the salvation You've given me! I long for the day I get to thank You face to face!

It Arrived!

So I ordered this book last Thursday from Amazon. 

It came yesterday! I was so excited that it came so quickly. 

I had been searching for a book to read and study through. After reading lots of reviews on Amazon I decided on this and also "Desiring God: Meditations for a Christian Hedonist" also by John Piper. I wasn't sure which one I was going to read first, but since this one is already here it wins. When I'm done reading I'll make sure to write a review. 

Let me know if you've read either "This Momentary Marriage" or "Desiring God". I'd love to hear what you thought of them.  

$1 Days!

So I got super lucky this past weekend and Goodwill $1 days lined up with a drill weekend for my hubby. This means I was totally free to go shopping with my girlies Saturday morning!

If your Goodwill doesn't have $1 days you're missing out. It's when all of the Goodwills around town have all clothing for $0.99, that is unless it's marked with a price. (I have yet to find anything that is.) I don't get to it very often with a baby and all, but it's pretty awesome.

I was in extreme need of some new clothes for my wardrobe. Having a baby will do that. Unfortunately I didn't find much, but the non clothing items I found rock!

My favorite things! I got this cute little bunny to use for Easter decor. He was only $3.99. I'm in love with the glass pan and carrying basket. It's just a vintage 60's feel to it. When I saw it, I knew I had to get it and at only $5.99 I was sold. I bought that glass canister to hold cooking utensils on my counter. At first all the ones I was finding were over $7.99. I wasn't really into that price. As I searched I found this one hidden behind some other stuff and it was only $3.99. Score! 

I never thought to buy books at Goodwill. I don't know why, but I had never looked through them. Well my friend Kelsey was scouring through them most of the time we were there so I decided to have a look myself. I couldn't decided about Gone With The Wind, but the look of it had me. I hadn't heard of the two paper backs, but the descriptions looked promising. I'll let you know how they are when I finally get around to them. 

Here are the few shirts I found. The pink one is an over-sized tunic. I wasn't sure if I really "love" it, but for a dollar I figure I can take it home and  try it out. The red and cream striped sweater is a bit baggy, but I think it will do. The cream sweater is really simple, but that's how I like to dress. 

I'm not usually a navy type of person, but this sweater jumped out at me and once I tried it on I decided I had to have it. It will be cute with a white tank under it. Not sure what I'd wear for pants, but I'll figure out something. 

This was my best clothing find, black jeans that fit and are already the right length for me! Being only 5'2" that's really hard to come by. I almost always have to have second hand pants hemmed. The skirt has tiny white polka-dots, but they are so subtle you can barely tell they are there. It has a nice fit though. It's a pencil skirt that hits me at the knee, isn't too tight, but has a nice stretch to it. I might wear it next weekend for Easter with a colorful tank-top. We'll see. 

I wish I could have found more clothes, but I'm happy with my loot. I'm linking up with Laura@Bits of Splendor