Well we are down to the ‘it could happen any day now’ time! I do have to say I am happy that we had a Christmas with no baby. As fun as that would be, we are glad to have her birthday at least be a few days after Christmas (for her sake). As I am writing this we are actually 10 days out from due date, which is so hard to believe!

Christmas has been such a wonderful time to celebrate and be with family and relax a little  before our lives are thrown into a whirlwind of parenthood. Trey & I still can’t wrap our heads around what life will be like as parents, but we will find out soon enough.

Our Rainbow Baby:
I have a very special story that I have debated whether or not to tell, but I believe it is such a hopeful story that I just have to share:

With the holidays already being a time of awe and wonderment as we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, it makes me that much more thankful and amazed to be blessed with such a miracle in our lives. The end of the year also tends to be a time when we look back at our year and wow! I have to say this year in particular has been such a testament to the fact that you just never know where your life is taking you. This time one year ago was a very different Christmas for us as I experienced a miscarriage with what would have been our first baby. It was a few days before Christmas and was a very difficult time for us. It is amazing to see what a 180 life has done over the year. We are blessed beyond belief and try to appreciate it and give thanks for it every day. As we try to live our lives this way, I hope we can teach baby girl the same. Be thankful for what you have every day, thank God for all the blessings in our life, and enjoy each day to its fullest. Since we found out we were pregnant again, baby girl has been affectionately called our Rainbow Baby because she is the good after something so terrible, the rainbow after the storm. We have a framed rainbow in her room that says “Keep looking up, there may be a rainbow waiting for you”. This little rainbow baby has taught us that among many other things. God has had many lessons for me this year.

An Angel Watching Over Us
God decided he wanted to remind me he is watching over us and with us all the time. My Nanie used to give all the grand kids a Christmas ornament every year. Mine was always an angel (the series actually started the year I turned 1 so I now have all 27 angels in this series of ornaments and I love them!) Every year the young angel is doing something different- playing an instrument, praying, reading a book, etc. My mom has kept up the tradition after my Nanie passed away so we still get our ornaments every year. This year she hands me the angel and when I open it up it there is an angel coloring in a book and amazingly she is drawing a RAINBOW. We were all so shocked that of all years and all the angels I have the rainbow appeared this year.

We can’t wait to meet our rainbow baby and we thank God every day for her!