Dare 2 Share...What a great weekend!

What a wonderful weekend we had with our students this past weekend! We got to take them to a Dare 2 Share conference here in St. Louis. This conference is so much more then a pep rally, it really challenges and teaches the students how to witness to their friends step by step! They got out of their box and really experienced change! We are so blessed to have the coolest job in the world! I mean that! We get to hang out with students that we can be absolute dorks around...go to camps, retreats, activities, and McDonalds like all the time! God has blessed us with so much and the place that we are in at our lives right now is absolutly amazing! Last night was teen service at church and Brandon got to really share his heart with the church family about reaching out to the students and becoming mentors to them. It was a great and emotional message! Instead of ending it with a typical invitation and alter call he encouraged the church family to come down and take a student by the hand and take them to the alter and pray with them specificly about their week. We ran out of teens fast and there were more adults willing to pray but no more teeens. One of the boys was bragging b/c the pastor picked him to pray with...he was glowing with pride that he got picked! It was so neat to see the church family connect in a great way to the students.

I am 15 weeks!! I can't believe that next Sunday I'll get to say I'm 4 months pregnant! That blows my mind! I had a regular check up on Thursday and everything sounded great. The heartbeat was 158 beats a minute. I have an ultrasound scheduled for April 24th to see if we have a boy or a girl! Very excited to find out! We put up a big marker bored in the teen room and half says boy and the other half says girl and we're letting the students put their name on the side they think we are having. So far there are double the names on the boy side...we'll see whose right!

Some pics!

This weekend I got to take my teenage girls on a girls only weekend retreat. It was great great fun! BBC put on a great program! My girls had an absolute blast! They got to stay in the dorms, we did face masks, played games, just great bonding time! I posted a few pics of the group!

I am 13 weeks pregnant! I am feeling great and can't wait to see my mom, dad, and brother this weekend!

12 weeks!!

Greetings friends! Sorry it's been a little bit longer then normal since I've blogged...things get a little hectic around here sometimes. Well we are 12 weeks!!!! Hooray!!!! I definitely have a pooch!!! I need to take a pic and post it for you but I don't think it's cute yet still just weird...ya know. We got to hear the heartbeat last week!! It was 162 beats a min. I wasn't supposed to get to hear it for another few weeks but I was spotting and the Dr. wanted me to come in to get checked out. Turns out I have an irritated cervix. He said no need to worry it can happen all the time and some people don't know what causes it. It's not close to the baby and it should heal up like a scratched knee. It was a little scary not knowing what was causing it but it's all ok! I got to go maternity clothes shopping this weekend! It was a lot of fun! Not much else is going on...