Surprise, Surpise!

So here it goes...a brand new adventure...a story to tell, in fact, many stories to tell! Yes, it IS true....Abner and I are....yup, you guessed it, pregnant!! I know, I know, coming from us, that's a huge shock! But believe me, we're still in shock, disbelief and somewhat in denial of the whole thing ourselves!! I went to WIC last night and they told me that I was about 9 weeks pregnant...I honestly think I'm more like 5 or 6 weeks, but I guess we'll know for sure when I go to my first dr visit in September. Anywho, I have been praying and crying for the last week, since I found out. It's something we were not expecting at all, and so I ask God to help us through this whole thing. Don't get me wrong, we are very excited, but we just don't want to get to excited until we know everything is going to be ok! So I leave you guys with a couple favors to ask: 1) Please, when you see Abner or I or when you talk to us, don't congratulate us...saying something more like, that's cool, I'm happy for you guys, please, dont say congratulations! lol...I know that sounds negative, but we just feel kinda awkward when people say that to us. Anyways, 2) please help us to pray, pray for health, pray for wisdom and most of all pray for TWINS!!!!

Lord Empty Me

So it's pretty early in the morning, and all I can think about lately is how GREAT my God is! How he has poured blessing over blessing upon our lives, and yet, for some reason, we still fail him every time!! Why?? I ask myself, why, if we know the consequences, if we know how good it is to be completely emptied of ourselves and filled with the love of God. No other experience in the world seems to be of importance if it's not shared with the creator of you and me, the creator of the world, the creator of everything in this universe. The song by Chris Sligh, has touched my heart dramatically since the first time I heard, it has rapidly become my all time favorite song it says,
"And I've tasted my share of the sweet life and the wild ride
And found a little is not quite enough.
I know how I can stray
And how fast my heart could change.

Empty me of the selfishness inside
Every vain ambition and the poison of my pride
And any foolish thing my heart holds to
Lord empty me of me so I can be filled with you."

That's just a little part of the song, but it just gets me every time...and every time I hear, I can't help but cry and say...God Please..empty ME!! When going through a time in life that I was not prepared for, that we hadn't planned for, I sometimes find myself asking, how are we going to do this, what's going to happen, this wasn't planned, what if we can't make it....after hearing this song, it makes me feel so selfish...it's not in my plan, but it's in God's plan, and God's plan is the only one that really matters.
So as I start my day today, I just want to ask God to please, empty me and fill me with your love, so that I can be a shining spotlight for all to see!! And instead of complaining of worrying today, I'm gonna say Thank You LORD!!!

Waiting...

So as I sit here at work, cotemplating all of the things that have happend recently, I decided I would write a blog. I have about 5 or so minutes still that I have to wait for Abner to get off. Anyways, it's been pretty good working alongside my husband...we dont get to see eachother much as some people thought we would. Actually, the only time we actually carry on a conversation is during lunch, so it's pretty nice. I know exactly where he is and how I can get a hold of him if I need something which is good. Some husbands might think that would be a nuisance, but I promise...I dont bother him very much at all.

Anywho...I know a lot of you are reading my blog waiting for me to announce something on here that many of you have already heard...well...too bad!! No announcement yet! For those of you who dont know yet, there is reasoning behind it, and I will very surly be blogging about after the second week of September...for sure! So for those of you who I have left hanging...check back in two weeks! And for those of you who already know, well you too can also check back in two weeks and find out just how things are going with that :)

Anyways, I hate to post without putting a picture, and seeing that I dont have anything to go along with this blog, I will leave you with a picture of one of my favorite nieces...Aimee Mae, she is just getting humungous and I love her more to peaces every day!

A Day in Wonderland...

Literally...we spent a day in wonderland in Spokane. We had a ton of fun. We left saturday night and got to Cheney around 9ish. We got to go swimming at the Holiday Inn...mmmm....it was nice! If you havn't gotten it yet from my previous posts....I LOVE to swim! Anywho...on Sunday we spent the day at Wonderland where we got to go on the go karts, play minature golf, play some lazer tag, and play some arcade games. It was a ton of fun...here are a couple of pictures from this weekend, but before I go, I'd like to make a special shout out to my Bro, Nando, who let us stay in his apt this weekend, saving us 100 bucks on a hotel! You Rock bro! Thanks for all you do, you're the greatest!

My favorite thing

Besides spending time with my awesome husband, my most favoritist thing in the world to do is swim. I absolutely love to swim on a hot day especially. This summer I have had the chance to swim about 5 or 6 times. At hotels, an indoor pool, and Othello's public pool. Most of the time I have been able to go swimming with my nieces, whom I adore! Here is a picture of one of the times I went swimming with Aimee Mae, she just loves to swim, almost as much as I do. As a matter of fact, one of her first words was "Agua!" She learned to say that as she splashed her hands in the water. The other picture is of Anissa and Miah enjoying the water. Anywho...hope you guys are all enjoying your summer, make the best of it, b/c it's almost over :(

God's Amazing Creations!

At around 10:00 pm last night, I laid myself down to, what I thought was going to be another amazing, peaceful night of rest....boy was I wrong! I woke up at 11:30 last night to what sounded like an enormous bear right outside of my window...I very quickly cuddled up next to Abner and said...Hun...what was that?? He says, oh it's just thunder...just thunder?! I thought, yea right, I was scared out of my wits for about 45 minutes. I spent that whole hour praying to God continuously to not let my house or that of my neighbors catch on fire! The lightening was literally striking right outside my window! I have NEVER in my life heard thunder roll over so loudly before, it was the scariest thing of my life. I kept wondering, if this is what it might be like when God gets angry...boy, I sure hope it wasn't me he was angry at! Anywho, the lightening did start a few fires, but they were controlled before they could cause too much damage. So here is an amazing picture ( I didnt take it) of the lightening last night. Enjoy and keep praying for my house b/c it looks like the lightening wants to come back!! :(