May-The Recap

Yes, I know. It is almost August. Time flies when you're having fun...or when you're traveling, renovating, paper-working, and preparing for a baby. Whew.

May 2012 was so busy from start to finish. Some highlights were going to my beautiful nieces' first dance recital, celebrating my first Mother's Day (it counts!!), lots of time with friends, and finishing up the month in my favourite city in the world (sorry Vancouver, you have a long way to go)--New York, New York.

The girls with their seemingly too large bouquets (thanks to Uncle Jason :) ).

Oma and I took Maria out for her birthday. I think she liked the goats.

And last, but not least, here are some highlights from NYC. 

          Baby's first plane ride!                                        For the Canadians...it was right beside our hotel!

Visit to the Flower District...for Jason. 

 "There are like 30 Ray's Pizza's..." Elf

Found something for Baby at the Hard Rock. 
Because we have a rockstar baby.

                                                

Jason's favourite places...

The M&M Store. Yum!

Seriously...

And some of mine...

AND we (finally) got to see Wicked!! Jason was thrilled. Well, at least I was. 

And the baby moved the entire time. 

Ice cream stop before the show. 

On May 2nd, we also celebrated 2 years of knowing each other! We met at the NALC Leadership Conference 2010. I never would have guessed on that day that my life would be like it is now. Good thing the plans are in His hands, not mine.

My crazy friends--old and new!

And the happy (soon-to-be-at-that-point) couple

Bob Marley- Three Little Birds

I heard this song a few weeks ago on my Pandora.com station and really liked it. Then, two weeks ago we went for a midwife appointment and the baby's heartbeat was irregular. Long story short, we ended up going to the hospital after that, followed by more frequent visits to the midwife and a visit to a heart specialist. It has been really hard not to get worried about the baby. But, oddly enough, this was the song that kept popping into my head. And--the funny part is--both the midwife and the heart specialist said after listening to the heartbeat that it sounded like the baby was just listening to Reggae music. I went back to the midwife again today and the heart beat was actually completely normal. Praise God! She said that it might go back to being irregular, but the baby will most likely be just fine. So, the lesson learned (really still learning!!) is to not worry. 

 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?

 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?

 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

Matthew 6:25-34