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Highlight of the Week
We’ve officially and finally let the cat out of the bag!
If you missed our big announcement earlier this week, trust me, you have to go back & see how we announced that we’re EXPECTING baby #2 in December!! And if you know “us” at all, you’ll appreciate just how perfect the placement & wording of our announcement is! I must say, I’m pretty darn proud of myself for coming up with the idea! And I’d be remiss if I didn’t say “THANK YOU” to my sister Amy, who snuck off to Kennywood with us to help us take the photo!
If you want to see both of our roller coaster themed pregnancy announcements, here is the link to when we announced we were expecting baby #1 and here is the link to when we announced baby #2 this past week!
Yes, This Happened
- Braelynn randomly asked me on Wednesday: “Mommy, can we go catch a roller coaster & put it in our backyard?” – only the child of a roller coaster fanatic would think of such a thing!!
- I had my first official doctor’s appointment this week! We got to hear our lil babe’s heartbeat & all is well! We are so excited!
- I promise not to “litter” all of my Abby’s Saturday posts with pregnancy updates, but figured this would be the perfect place to quickly keep everyone up-to-date. I am now 14-weeks pregnant, have officially entered the 2nd trimester (praise the Lord), and baby is approximately the size of a lemon!
- To top off our exciting week, it was also Tuesday’s Together this week! We had one of our largest meetings to date on Tuesday evening!! The topic was SEO & keywords – talk about a hefty topic! It is always so fun to gather with other like-minded small-business owners, to be able to band together & encourage one another! I know I always leave so encouraged & uplifted after our monthly meetings – that’s probably why I call them my “favorite day of the month”!
- Braelynn asked me one morning this week: “Is Daddy different?” – not sure what she was meaning, I told her I didn’t know what she meant. She thought for a moment & then clarified, “Is Daddy getting a haircut today & going to be different when he comes home?”
Feeling Blessed
It’s Father’s Day weekend (which is why I forced Derrick to be in this week’s photo!) and I am just feeling so overwhelmingly blessed. I have the very best Dad in the whole wide world, who loves me (and all of my siblings) unconditionally & always has time for us (whether it’s stopping by the house to fix something or just sitting & chatting) but is also just the sweetest Grandpa to Braelynn. He loves to take her on walks thru the woods at the Lake House & play with her! I also have the very best Father-in-Law in the whole world, who is always ready to have fun, laugh, and who doesn’t blink an eye when we ask him if he could come to do a big house project for us (like completely renovate our 2nd floor). He is also the sweetest Papa to Braelynn – she is so blessed to have 2 Godly Grandfathers in her life!
But, I am most thankful for Derrick & not only the amazing husband that he is, but the fabulous Daddy he is to Braelynn & our little “lemon” who is on the way! I’ll write more about it later, but the last 8 weeks have been really rough – I’ve been devastatingly sick with this pregnancy & he has so graciously stepped up to the plate & taken on so many responsibilities that he normally doesn’t worry about. Things like making dinner, cleaning up around the house, doing the laundry, grocery shopping, and Braelynn’s normal bedtime routine – he’s so servant-heartedly stepped up & simply done the things that I physically could not do. Thankfully, I seem to be coming out of that first-trimester fog & am starting to finally feel better! Just know that we would not have survived the last 8 weeks without Derrick taking the helm of our family & doing so many things that I normally do while he’s at work all day. He is the very very best & I am so thankful for him!
