Thank you for all of your prayers. I made it back safely from my whirlwind trip back home to Michigan to see my doctor.
The baby, " AKA" as Trevor is doing good. No kidney change which is great and he is growing WELL. As a matter of fact........SCARY well! He is already weighing in at 5 lbs. 4 o.z.!!! On track to beat Tyler's weight I am almost sure. I am over 33 weeks pregnant, but we all know that they do not gain the most until the end.........YEAH for me!! I knew that I was getting BIG, now I know that it is just all Trevor's fault!!! HAHAH!!!
We got to bed around 1 a.m. this morning and left out around 10:30 to take Tyler to the beach. We had promised him that sometime on the trip we would go. Well, we leave Friday morning so today needed to be the day. He was so brave this time. LOVED the water, and he and daddy made a sand castle. Low and behold I left the camera back at the motor home. I NEVER do this when I know that we are going to do something special. Made a little upset as you can imagine but there was no turning back.
He was SO much fun today. We had tons of fun in the water that for 2 hours I did not even sat down on a towel and enjoy the beach!!!! Tyler and I just walked around and found shells to throw back into the water. It was fun to him so it was fun for me to.
Mark has now gone to go work in the studio that he helps out down here one last time. In the exception that he might have to go back one more time before we leave. Tyler and I are tired out from the day so we are chilling in the motor home. Actually, he just woke up from a 3 hour nap and I am starting to crash from yesterday and today combined!!
We leave out Friday for our dates on the way home. Keep us in your prayers as we travel. For safety, Alertness driving weird hours and, NO blowouts!!
Thanks a lot and may the Lord bless you all as you are serving our Lord too!
Because of HIM,
Andrea
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Out of here............AGAIN!!!
I am updating my blog here on Saturday as Sunday will be busy and I will be out of here as of 5:00 a.m. Monday.
Speaking of which. Please pray for me as I will have yet another LONG day on Monday flying home for my doctors appointment. I will get up around 4:30 a.m. and will not land back here in Tampa Florida until 10:35 p.m. Not to mention all the running around, the layovers in between flights both there and back to help drag the day on!!! It will take me another day to once I get back to get over the day again! Long day when you are 33 weeks pregnant. Oh, well that is life. Good thing that I grew up with weird schedules, late nights and a lifelong build up stamina to...... NO sleep!!
We will be with Bro. Neal at Peoples Baptist Church all day Sunday and I am sure that we will have a great time as we always do. They are great people and are always receptive to our music and ministry. Mark is going to preach there on Sunday morning as well. He will do great I am SURE of it......as always.
I hope that you will have a great week. I will try and update you on my trip and doctors appointment next week before we take off. Because we will not have Internet for quite a while once we leave this facility.
Thank you for your prayers as I travel and as we all travel starting Thursday of this coming week. The next stop after we leave here is Alabama!! Thanks again.
In His Name,
Andrea
Speaking of which. Please pray for me as I will have yet another LONG day on Monday flying home for my doctors appointment. I will get up around 4:30 a.m. and will not land back here in Tampa Florida until 10:35 p.m. Not to mention all the running around, the layovers in between flights both there and back to help drag the day on!!! It will take me another day to once I get back to get over the day again! Long day when you are 33 weeks pregnant. Oh, well that is life. Good thing that I grew up with weird schedules, late nights and a lifelong build up stamina to...... NO sleep!!
We will be with Bro. Neal at Peoples Baptist Church all day Sunday and I am sure that we will have a great time as we always do. They are great people and are always receptive to our music and ministry. Mark is going to preach there on Sunday morning as well. He will do great I am SURE of it......as always.
I hope that you will have a great week. I will try and update you on my trip and doctors appointment next week before we take off. Because we will not have Internet for quite a while once we leave this facility.
Thank you for your prayers as I travel and as we all travel starting Thursday of this coming week. The next stop after we leave here is Alabama!! Thanks again.
In His Name,
Andrea
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
NO Broken Bones.......Praise the Lord!
We had a wonderful weekend with Bro. Mike Smith and his family at Fair Haven Baptist. Tyler had a blast playing with their kids, and they were very kind to him as well.
Tyler loves being with other kids and playing. He does not meet to many strangers and makes himself at home wherever he is. So it did not take him long to warm up to them, especially when the church had a golf cart for the church facility and they took him for a LONG ride both Saturday and Sunday afternoon! Tyler gets neat little adventures in his life and I am so glad for it.
I am so relieved to tell you that Mark and the pastor survived their 4 and 3 wheeler adventures together with NO broken bones. They rode around for about an hour and a half on Saturday and came back covered in dirt, and some funny but what could have been scary stories!
Pastor Mike pulled up next to the motor home and said, " has Mark told you yet?" and of course I said, " NO" what? He said, " Oh, nothing to bad just really funny. He flipped his 3 wheeler over on himself twice, while laughing in hysterics!!!" My first thought was oh, my word!! But, just then, Mark came around the corner and once I knew that he was o.k. the way that Pastor Mike explained how it happen..........well I too began to laugh in HYSTERICS!!!! I kind of wish I could have seen it to be honest!! You put those two together and you NEVER know what you are going to get, see or hear!! It probably is a good thing that we do NOT live real close to each other! HA!
I am glad that they had such a good time. I had a good time Saturday and Sunday afternoon in my own way. The church property sat back quite a ways from the main road with a lot a property for Tyler to ride his electric truck. Plus the Pastors kids were out there both afternoons the whole time. SO!!! I went in the motor home propped up my feet, relaxed and watched a show knowing that he was o.k. Mark was doing his thing and I knew that I could just rest..............aaaahhhhh!! SIGH!WHEW!!
Today we are just doing some odd jobs and my big duty of the day is laundry......AGAIN!! I have 2 BIG bags to do which usually boils down to about 6 loads. YEE HAW!
Keep us in your prayers. We have a busy week ahead and the days are getting longer and more tiring for me. God is good and I am just praying that I make it home safe and sound before Trevor decides he wants to see us! We will be home exactly 1 month before I am due. However, I have the woman, mother intuition going on that he is going to be quite earlier than Tyler was. SO with that in mind please continue to pray!
Have a blessed week and let's stay faithful to our Lord! Go tell someone about HIM!
Andrea
Tyler loves being with other kids and playing. He does not meet to many strangers and makes himself at home wherever he is. So it did not take him long to warm up to them, especially when the church had a golf cart for the church facility and they took him for a LONG ride both Saturday and Sunday afternoon! Tyler gets neat little adventures in his life and I am so glad for it.
I am so relieved to tell you that Mark and the pastor survived their 4 and 3 wheeler adventures together with NO broken bones. They rode around for about an hour and a half on Saturday and came back covered in dirt, and some funny but what could have been scary stories!
Pastor Mike pulled up next to the motor home and said, " has Mark told you yet?" and of course I said, " NO" what? He said, " Oh, nothing to bad just really funny. He flipped his 3 wheeler over on himself twice, while laughing in hysterics!!!" My first thought was oh, my word!! But, just then, Mark came around the corner and once I knew that he was o.k. the way that Pastor Mike explained how it happen..........well I too began to laugh in HYSTERICS!!!! I kind of wish I could have seen it to be honest!! You put those two together and you NEVER know what you are going to get, see or hear!! It probably is a good thing that we do NOT live real close to each other! HA!
I am glad that they had such a good time. I had a good time Saturday and Sunday afternoon in my own way. The church property sat back quite a ways from the main road with a lot a property for Tyler to ride his electric truck. Plus the Pastors kids were out there both afternoons the whole time. SO!!! I went in the motor home propped up my feet, relaxed and watched a show knowing that he was o.k. Mark was doing his thing and I knew that I could just rest..............aaaahhhhh!! SIGH!WHEW!!
Today we are just doing some odd jobs and my big duty of the day is laundry......AGAIN!! I have 2 BIG bags to do which usually boils down to about 6 loads. YEE HAW!
Keep us in your prayers. We have a busy week ahead and the days are getting longer and more tiring for me. God is good and I am just praying that I make it home safe and sound before Trevor decides he wants to see us! We will be home exactly 1 month before I am due. However, I have the woman, mother intuition going on that he is going to be quite earlier than Tyler was. SO with that in mind please continue to pray!
Have a blessed week and let's stay faithful to our Lord! Go tell someone about HIM!
Andrea
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
SHAMU!!!!!
What a weekend and beginning of a week that we have already had!
We had great meetings Saturday and Sunday. We were in Zephryhills Saturday and New Port Richey all day Sunday. We had great reception at both places and the Lord blessed.
My parents were down here in Florida for the weekend with my grandfather and offered to take us to Sea World on Monday. What a joy this was in 2 respects. One being that I got to see my parents and two being that we got the opportunity to take Tyler to see the BIG great popular whale...." SHAMU" with his MeMe and Paw Paw. He was such a joy to watch. He LOVED the SHAMU show, so much so that we went back and saw it one more time before the day ended.
I and Mark both rode a few rides with him and saw every show there except 2. My parents rented them both some mobile carts so that they could last and endure the day with us!! They did great and we had a WONDERFUL time!!! Thanks mom and dad!!! I am still full from all the meals and FUN snacks!
Today was CD, clean the motor home and grocery day!! Mark has now gone to do some more work for a guys studio here in Tampa. This has helped out with the groceries since we have been gone. Thank you Lord and.............MARK!!
Keep us in your prayers. We sing right here again in New Port Richey tomorrow and Zephryhills again this Sunday.
Praya for me. I am getting much MORE pregnant, tired and ready to get to the end!!! I want Trevor as healthy as possible, but any woman out there understands when you get to this point of just wanting to get the baby HERE!!! The uncomfortable stage that is.
Thanks again and may the Lord bless you all out there serving our Lord in different ways that we are not called and to people that we cannot reach. Stay faithful and have a blessed week.
God Bless,
Andrea
We had great meetings Saturday and Sunday. We were in Zephryhills Saturday and New Port Richey all day Sunday. We had great reception at both places and the Lord blessed.
My parents were down here in Florida for the weekend with my grandfather and offered to take us to Sea World on Monday. What a joy this was in 2 respects. One being that I got to see my parents and two being that we got the opportunity to take Tyler to see the BIG great popular whale...." SHAMU" with his MeMe and Paw Paw. He was such a joy to watch. He LOVED the SHAMU show, so much so that we went back and saw it one more time before the day ended.
I and Mark both rode a few rides with him and saw every show there except 2. My parents rented them both some mobile carts so that they could last and endure the day with us!! They did great and we had a WONDERFUL time!!! Thanks mom and dad!!! I am still full from all the meals and FUN snacks!
Today was CD, clean the motor home and grocery day!! Mark has now gone to do some more work for a guys studio here in Tampa. This has helped out with the groceries since we have been gone. Thank you Lord and.............MARK!!
Keep us in your prayers. We sing right here again in New Port Richey tomorrow and Zephryhills again this Sunday.
Praya for me. I am getting much MORE pregnant, tired and ready to get to the end!!! I want Trevor as healthy as possible, but any woman out there understands when you get to this point of just wanting to get the baby HERE!!! The uncomfortable stage that is.
Thanks again and may the Lord bless you all out there serving our Lord in different ways that we are not called and to people that we cannot reach. Stay faithful and have a blessed week.
God Bless,
Andrea
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
EEWWW!!!!!
Just to be quite frank and honest this is how I have felt the last few days. I began to feel a tickle in my throat Saturday night at my grandfathers house. Got through the day Sunday but by Sunday night my stomach was hurting, I felt like my head was going to blow off and EVERY bone in my body ached!!! I can honestly say that I have never understood when someone said that their bones just ached all over. NOW I know!!! I hurt so bad. EVERY bone in me hurt. I felt a little better yesterday as far as the bones go but my head cold and feeling EEEWWW all over however has NOT gone away!!
Your prayers are GREATLY appreciated for me this week to get better. It is not good to feel this way when life chores must go on, a 3 year old and 7 and half months pregnant!! YEE HAW!!
I went up and did laundry this morning at the local laundry place here, did some dishes, fixed Tyler, Mark and I some lunch and now I feel like I have run a marathon!!! I see rest in my future at a VERY early time tonight!!
I plan on taking Tyler outside in a little bit when the church parking lot clears of the school traffic and doing some things with him. Well, me in my lawn chair while I watch him play!! I have him a new fishing game that I picked up the other day for 3 bucks. It has a pole and 3 fish with holes in them to try and get on the hook that is on the pole. I have a BIG bowl that I am going to put water in and then he can fish away while I watch. Plus I have him sidewalk chalk that he can draw all he wants with.
So mark it down. I NEVER eat a full piece of pizza, however I bought Tyler a 5 dollar pizza today after I washed clothes and brought it back so that I could have a " No fix a meal day!!!" Not the best nutrition, but I do not feel well. So I figured one day would not hurt him. But, this was bad for me. I ended up eating a piece and a half myself for lunch too!!!! I feel SO guilty.............but it was REALLY good!! I guess that I will have to eat salad for supper now that I have had way to many calories for today for me and the baby!!!
Mark had gone for the night to finish up a studio job that he has been helping out with the last few days( in between meetings). So Tyler and I will play outside for a while then in for our showers and EARLY rest night!!!!!! I like those nights Tyler.................NOT so much!!!
Our meetings went well this past weekend. We sing again Sunday here at the church in New Port Richey where we are already parked so that makes it nice. We have had several CD jobs come in( PTL) and so we will be busy this week with this too. We have about 300 in all to do. Mark has been able to help me more with the jobs since we have been gone so this too has been nice.
Thank you for your prayers as we are staying very busy and as I am trying to get over my cold............sneeze.............ironic!!!! Anyway, thank you in advance and may the Lord Bless you as you strive to serve the Lord. E-mail or sign our blog/guestbook and let us know how you are doing.
God Bless,
Andrea
Your prayers are GREATLY appreciated for me this week to get better. It is not good to feel this way when life chores must go on, a 3 year old and 7 and half months pregnant!! YEE HAW!!
I went up and did laundry this morning at the local laundry place here, did some dishes, fixed Tyler, Mark and I some lunch and now I feel like I have run a marathon!!! I see rest in my future at a VERY early time tonight!!
I plan on taking Tyler outside in a little bit when the church parking lot clears of the school traffic and doing some things with him. Well, me in my lawn chair while I watch him play!! I have him a new fishing game that I picked up the other day for 3 bucks. It has a pole and 3 fish with holes in them to try and get on the hook that is on the pole. I have a BIG bowl that I am going to put water in and then he can fish away while I watch. Plus I have him sidewalk chalk that he can draw all he wants with.
So mark it down. I NEVER eat a full piece of pizza, however I bought Tyler a 5 dollar pizza today after I washed clothes and brought it back so that I could have a " No fix a meal day!!!" Not the best nutrition, but I do not feel well. So I figured one day would not hurt him. But, this was bad for me. I ended up eating a piece and a half myself for lunch too!!!! I feel SO guilty.............but it was REALLY good!! I guess that I will have to eat salad for supper now that I have had way to many calories for today for me and the baby!!!
Mark had gone for the night to finish up a studio job that he has been helping out with the last few days( in between meetings). So Tyler and I will play outside for a while then in for our showers and EARLY rest night!!!!!! I like those nights Tyler.................NOT so much!!!
Our meetings went well this past weekend. We sing again Sunday here at the church in New Port Richey where we are already parked so that makes it nice. We have had several CD jobs come in( PTL) and so we will be busy this week with this too. We have about 300 in all to do. Mark has been able to help me more with the jobs since we have been gone so this too has been nice.
Thank you for your prayers as we are staying very busy and as I am trying to get over my cold............sneeze.............ironic!!!! Anyway, thank you in advance and may the Lord Bless you as you strive to serve the Lord. E-mail or sign our blog/guestbook and let us know how you are doing.
God Bless,
Andrea
Monday, March 02, 2009
29 Weeks and counting!!!!
PTL!!! Everything went well at the doctors Thursday. Trevor's kidneys still look good and he and I BOTH are growing well. LOL!!! He now weighs about 2 pounds 10 oz. and is about 12 to 13 inches long. We won't share how much I have grown, HA! Not doing to bad really I just feel HUGE. Everyone that sees me is being very kind and saying that I do not even look pregnant, however I feel a little different. I am just glad that Trevor is well and healthy and I will worry about the other later. Thank the Lord that he is o.k. What a blessing to NOT have a stress related pregnancy.
So as you read from the title I am into my 7Th month. But, as we all know we really carry babies 10 months. They like to tell you 9 months, ( I think to make you feel better) but I have news for " them there doctors" 40 weeks is NOT 9 months!! All is well though so thank you for your prayers. Don't stop now, pray that the delivery to go well and that Trevor will do well through that part too........oh. yeah ME TOO!!!
We had good meetings this week. We were in Sebring Sat. Bowling Green, Sunday, and Umatilla Sunday night. The Sunday morning church we had not been to before. The people were VERY kind and welcoming. We had a good service and they all seemed to enjoy it. We hope to see them again in the future.
PTL we made it back with NO blowouts last night. We were able to go to bed this Sunday night at a somewhat reasonable time for us. 1 a.m.
Thank you for your prayers we still need LOTS of them. Pray for Mark as he is very sick with his YEARLY chest cold. As you can imagine this is NOT good for what we do. So pray for him please. We have a few days off. So hopefully rest, chicken soup and lots of love from Tyler and I will get him well. LOL!!!
Take care and have a very blessed week. Let's go make our Lord proud of us again this week.
God Bless,
Andrea
So as you read from the title I am into my 7Th month. But, as we all know we really carry babies 10 months. They like to tell you 9 months, ( I think to make you feel better) but I have news for " them there doctors" 40 weeks is NOT 9 months!! All is well though so thank you for your prayers. Don't stop now, pray that the delivery to go well and that Trevor will do well through that part too........oh. yeah ME TOO!!!
We had good meetings this week. We were in Sebring Sat. Bowling Green, Sunday, and Umatilla Sunday night. The Sunday morning church we had not been to before. The people were VERY kind and welcoming. We had a good service and they all seemed to enjoy it. We hope to see them again in the future.
PTL we made it back with NO blowouts last night. We were able to go to bed this Sunday night at a somewhat reasonable time for us. 1 a.m.
Thank you for your prayers we still need LOTS of them. Pray for Mark as he is very sick with his YEARLY chest cold. As you can imagine this is NOT good for what we do. So pray for him please. We have a few days off. So hopefully rest, chicken soup and lots of love from Tyler and I will get him well. LOL!!!
Take care and have a very blessed week. Let's go make our Lord proud of us again this week.
God Bless,
Andrea
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