A Year of Blessing-April, May, and June

Ok, I have to be honest with you all....I have a bad memory. So now that I've procrastinated this long to review all of last year, I'm having a hard time remembering month-by-month. So because I want to finish what I started by giving God all the praise for the blessings we experienced in 2009, here goes my attempt at remembering (and to make it easier on myself, I'm lumping several months together so I can finish the task!)...


By April, Aron was well established in his job at TMobile, things were chugging along nicely with homeschooling, and I was getting bigger and bigger with Baby Elizabeth (though we didn't yet know that she would be a she). Caleb had his birthday and turned 5 in North Carolina and decided in lieu of a party, he wanted to go camping with Daddy and Nathan. So that's what they did and they had a blast! What a blessing to be able to within only a few hours be in the mountains for adventures!




May was the month we'd all been waiting for because our fourth and final baby was going to be born. We were so blessed by our small group one night in May because we showed up for our regular get-together and they had planned a Baby Shower for us! We'd only been a part of this group for a couple months and they blessed us like crazy!!! What a way to make us feel welcomed and at home!! The day before Aron and I went to the hospital to meet our new one, Aron's mom and her dad (that's Grandma and Great Pappaw to us!) drove up so that they could stay with the other 3 children. HUGE blessing!!! And on May 26th at 10:37 a.m., we met our little girl Elizabeth June!!! She was our tiniest blessing of them all, weighing in at only 6 pounds 14 ounces. Because I'd had a c-section before and knew how difficult the recovery had been, I was SOOO incredibly blessed by God that I recovered so swiftly! Seriously, people besides myself were amazed that I was getting around as easily as I was as quickly as I was. Thank You Jesus!



June came around and what could have been a potentionally huge disaster turned out to be another blessing. Our house in FL was now vacant because the family who'd been renting it were being stationed somewhere else through the military and we needed to get someone in there quickly. Thanks to much prayer and Craigslist and Aron's family and our friends the Abstons, we were able to find new renters and have them moved in to a clean house (yeah, the previous renters didn't hold up their end of that part of the contract, thus the thanks to family and friends who got the house in shape since we were so far away) by the end of June. Although being landlords has been one of my least favorite things about moving, we know how blessed we are to not have a foreclosure to deal with.