Little Trip to Richmond

I drove to Richmond to meet Josh for lunch since he was not able to come home this weekend. Our best friends Mac and Hannah also came up too. We all drove close to two hours to see Josh so I know that meant a lot to him... well especially for Mac and Hannah to do that since they aren't married to him. We ate at a French restaurant called Can Can and it was so delish! Josh was only able to stay for about 2 hours but at this point I will take what I can get!

Here are a couple of pictures. I also took a couple of pics of the dogs just before I left who were really sad and missing their Dad. :-)


Josh and I

Don't you remember playing "Hot Cross Buns" on the recorder?

Mac and Hannah


Annie and Sadie missing their Dad

Thanks for your prayers

My best friend Kelly found out that she is pregnant thanks to InVitro! Praise God! She and her husband are going to be such wonderful parents! And I get to be another aunt! :-)

Please continue to pray for Kelly and the baby.

Also please continue praying for my other best friend, Hannah and Mac and their adoption process!

My two best friends: Kelly and Hannah

I have been thinking a lot about my two very best friends (both who I grew up with) and the struggles that they have had in trying to have a child. I have definitely known a couple of good friends who have also struggled with this at some point in their lives and I have never understood God's reasoning. Now that my best friends are going through the same thing I find myself struggling once again with God's reasoning. (I mean, I know God's timing/will/etc but I still struggle!)

I guess it just seems that more and more women are having difficulty getting pregnant, which is so scary. I see the measure that my best friends are taking to have a child and it just doesn't make sense for any women to have to do that. I also get frustrated hearing/seeing news coverage of abused kids or (careless) women who have abortions. I just think it's selfish. (Sorry if I step on anyone's toes with the topic of abortion.) I just think...there are so many women who can't have children so why be SO selfish? I know if it were myself who could not have a child I would be frustrated with those "careless" women and surely doubtful to God.

I wrote all of this because as I mentioned before, my best friends Kelly and Hannah have been trying to get pregnant for a while, they have been to the doctors and been on medicine, yet still no luck. After a couple of years of trying, Kelly and her husband Ryan have prayed about In-Vitro and feel that God has led them in this direction. She started the process a couple of weeks ago and as of yesterday she had surgery to retrieve the eggs and they took out 10...which is great! On Thursday the doctors will see how many embryo formed and they will insert (2) embryos inside of her. Please keep her in your prayers.

My other best friend Hannah (and her husband Mac) have also struggled with getting pregnant for a year or so. After much prayer, they have decided to seek adoption and feel God has led them to adopting in Russia. They are in the process of lots of paperwork and will hopefully be in full swing pretty soon in hopes of getting a little Russian boy to love on!

I know that some of you reading have also dealt with this struggle in your own life or know close friends that have dealt with this as well. Please take a brief moment to pray for my two best friends that God will continue His work and they will bring home a precious baby. I am very excited about all of this!