When I picked up Mason from Mother's Day Out on Tuesday, he was dressed as a little pilgram. Too cute not to take a picture. Today we had an Thanksgiving dinner with just us, and it was so good as we had the opportunity to reflect on the many things we have to be thankful for. There has been a lot of change for our family this year, and yet we are so blessed. When we asked Mason what he was thankful for and he said ham and then he said HEB. So cute!
I realized I never posted anything about our crazy transition, and God's perfect timing in everything. On June 4th, the last day of school, Craig had an interview with USAA in San Antonio. A couple of weeks later he is offered the job and we are moving to San Antonio along with finding out that we are pregnant with our second child. At the end of June, we have a miscarriage at 8 weeks. A hard thing to deal with especially in the midst of where we were at. On July 19th, Craig starts his new job in San Antonio. We hadn't sold our house nor could we find one in San Antonio. Craig stays with his sister Jamie for two weeks, and also wrecks his car the day before his first day. Crazy I know. Mason and I went back and forth from Weslaco to San Antonio and Burleson.
At the beginning of August, we realize we needed to rent a house and were blessed as some friends in San Antonio where selling their house and let us rent it from them. At the same time, we find out we are pregnant again and the sickness began. I remember being sick with Mason, but not as bad as I was with this pregnancy. We got enough stuff from our house in Burleson to survive in the rent house, and a week later we got an offer on our house. We also finally found the perfect house after looking at so many houses in San Antonio. It was definitely God in how we found it, and it was everything we were looking for in a house. I had really given up and was ready to settle, thinking we would not find what we were looking for, for the price. I was wrong!
To make a long story short, we couldn't close on our house until September 30th which seemed like so long to wait. Well, God knows and his timing is perfect as my morning sickness ended the week we moved. I couldn't have done everything I had to do that week if I was as sick as I was. I went to Burleson, the movers packed us up, and we moved into our new house September 30th. If someone would have told us at the beginning of the process we wouldn't move in until the end of September, I would have said there is no way we could make it. However, God saw us through. It was a tough transition especially since I was so sick, but we are in a great house and so thankful. God knew what we needed!
Here we are at the end of November, and I am 20 weeks pregnant and due April 14th. We had a sonogram on November 9th, excited to see if were going to have a boy or girl, and our baby had different plans. The umbilical cord was right between its legs, and we tried everything to get it to move. Needless to say, we left with the doctor saying the baby looked healthy and we had to wait to February to find out if we were having a boy or girl. We will probably pay for another sonogram before then.
We are enjoying every minute with Mason. One of the things I am most thankful for is the ability to stay home with him. I love watching him grow up and learn so much. His vocabulary is unbelievable and learns new words every day. Today, he came in saying, "I found it!" He is beginning to try to speak in sentences. Craig asked him if he new his real name and he said, "Craig". We have no idea how he knew that except that he hears me say it. He tries to repeat every word he hears. Here is some pictures of our Big Brother Mason.
