Back and in Action

Woo hoo, I have returned! My blogging hiatus was filled with finding out I was pregnant (surprise!), moving in with my Gammy in Texas, visiting my sister and her husband in Austin, visiting NC to see my BABY sister graduate from college, putting offers on house after house, finally getting a house that passed inspection, becoming a homeowner, becoming a doctor's wife :), a trip to the ER, and finally moving back to Arkansas.
Life. Has. Been. Crazy.
And now we are here, and it seems we are saying goodbye to dear friends almost daily. Slowly but surely, all our close friends, who were in school with John, are moving away :(
So....I'm going to try to back up a bit...

Here we are on Match day, when we found out we wouldn't be moving anywhere...
Okay, we'll momentarily talk about it.
You know when you pray for weeks and weeks and weeks about some big decision, and all you pray is that God will put you where he wants you. Right, well that's what I was praying. But come to find out, had I REALLY thought to pray honestly, I would prayed something more along the lines of...
Dear Lord, put me anywhere BUT HERE
...just being honest...
It's nothing against Little Rock or the wonderful people in it. It's just...well, I'm an 8 hour drive from Jade, and she is my nearest immediate family member. I have been in Arkansas for 8 years already, I was really hoping to have somewhere new to explore. My life in Little Rock has just seemed a bit lonely. And I was just SO excited to be moving somewhere, I hadn't really considered the possibility of staying....but here we are, and I'm determined to suck it up...I mean make the best of it!
I will say I can't wait to look back and see WHY God wanted us here!
okay, moment over.
Alright, under the assumption that we would be moving somewhere, our lease at our rent house ended end of March. The plan had been to house hunt and move in the following months, only, again, we hadn't thought we'd be staying. So we packed up all of our stuff and put it in storage here in Little Rock, while we vacationed in Arlington, getting to spend the time with my grandmother.
We found out sometime near beginning of April that I was pregnant. And I find it slightly humorous that John says we were 'kinda' trying, while I stick to the fact that we were definitely NOT trying...go try to figure that one out :)
We had absolutely no idea how far along I was. I happened to take a pregnancy test after 2 or 3 days of being my normal nauseous self, but abnormally exhausted. And my body hadn't returned it's normal cycle of things since Valin, so we really had no idea how far along I was...
This pregnancy has been FAR easier than Valin, so I feel like I shouldn't complain...however, I have been almost completely worthless until about 2:00 in the afternoon. Praise the Lord, John has been free to help!! And he has been such a HUGE HUGE HUGE HUGE help! He gets up with Valin pretty much every morning, and is immeasurably helpful throughout the day. Valin has LOVED all this time with Daddy!


Alright, it's getting late, more updating tomorrow!
Love to all my readers!!!!!