Cheerios

Today I'm offically at 11 weeks! Not really a milestone week, but only 2 more to go until I'm out of the first trimester and hopefully goodbye to nausea after that!! Recently I've found that the best remedy (for me anyway) has been dry honey nut cheerios!! I wish I would have discovered this a few weeks ago. So Spencer and I bought a huge box! I'm also getting really clumsy, I drop every thing I try to pick up or knock stuff over! As you can see the baby is revealing itself...a little. I'm really trying to push my stomach out so you can see, but hopefully in the next few weeks I won't have to. Spencer is really excited to finally see some evidence of the baby. Its still kind of surreal because I'm not showing really. Our college students are going to have a big surprise when they come back in the fall...I will be six months along by then! They are all really excited and can't wait 'til Nov.! Our next appt. is actually tomorrow, just a check up to see how I'm progressing. July 6th seems like an eternity away until we see how our baby again on the sonogram...that's when we will find out if its a boy or girl! Join Spencer and I as we pray daily for the baby's health and development...we know that God has fearfully and wonderfully made our child!!

Last weekend, Spencer and I flew to Nashville (I secretly want to move there!) for a national college conference (it was actually 2 conferences that overlapped and we went to both.) We mostly went to the sessions for church based collegiate ministry...which was a bit smaller only about 40 people. They had a wives session which was really refreshing to get to talk to other wives in the same situation I am in....4 out of 8

us were pregnant...AND...there were 2 other girls there named Shelley who even spelled it the same way as me!! We also went sightseeing...here is the Grand Ole Opry. Anyway, Spencer got to make a lot of contacts and enjoyed hearing people like Mark Dever, David Platt and Ed Stetzer speak. In one of the pictures Spencer is talking to one of the Lifeway guys after a breakout session about ministry, this was a regular occurance last weekend! We are so excited about the doors God has opened up in the college ministry and in our lives over the past few weeks! We are prayerful about the upcoming fall semester! We had our first meeting with new leadership team, we really believe God is doing a work in them, not only in their personal walk but also as they invest in other people! They are leaving an amazing legacy at TCU.

We were in Nashville on Spencer's birthday so we celebrated a little early before we left. We had dinner at the Cheesecake Factory in Arlington! The waiters of course sang to him and gave him this special dessert plate! He picked the carrot cake cheesecake! The picture doesn't look like it, but it was huge...but so good! Spencer loved getting the cards and the gift cards from family in the mail! I was telling him that this will be his last birthday with just me...next year we'll have a 5 mo. old!!

We have plans to move to a bigger apt. sometime in July to make room for our baby! I took Spencer to Babies 'R Us the other day and he was in complete shock! He had never seen so much baby stuff! He loved looking around though and helping me pick out some potential baby stuff! We won't register until we know if its a boy or girl...so sometime in July we will make the big trip to register! Can't wait!