BABY T - the movie star

HELLO BABY T

here is the baby! I tell you what... GOD IS AMAZING! Jerry and I sat in the ultrasound room laughing. It was so amazing to see OUR baby moving around, kicking it's legs and punching my insides (ha). The ultrasound tech, Claire, kept saying how wonderfully developed the baby is and how great it's brain is growing. The arms and legs are developing wonderfully and the bones are growing. The heartbeat is 166 and my due date is JUNE 20. While driving home, it struck us, we believed we were having a baby but now we know and we have seen it. The idea became reality. So, now introducing Baby T...

This is hard work...

Ok so, I know I am out of the loop and keeping all of you out of it too. I have not been writting on our blog... I suppose Jerry could write in it some... We have been so busy! I got pregnant, I got kidney stones, my parents came to visit twice, we had a youth retreat, we went home for Thanksgiving for 9 days. That's pretty much the whole month of November. It is amazing how fast life goes by! I really am pretty pumped about it though - so my pregnancy goes by faster! This week, on Wednesday, we have our first ultrasound. I will let you all know how that goes! It will be great to know a more exact due date! This baby thing is hard work! Nausea, exaustion, cramping, exaustion, dizziness, did I mention exaustion?

We pray you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving! We sure did! We were blessed to go home to Illinois and see all of our family and friends and of course, all the new babies there! And, our niece Arden-Grace. She is 9 months old and I must say...she looks like Jerry...I know his sister doesn't want to hear that :) (That's his sister in the background) Hey, maybe our child will favor her. :) So here are the only pictures from our trip home and how appropriate - Arden-Grace riding Buc. Or should I say Jerry making Buc take her for a ride...

Here come the Handsakers...

Well, this weekend was alot of fun! My parents came in on Thursday and stayed until Saturday morning, we had a lock-in on Thursday night, the Brown County football team won their first sectional game (we are 1-8...funny huh?) and Dave and Jen came to see us on Friday and stayed until Monday. We really enjoyed spending time with my parents. It was great because it was the first time we saw them since finding out we are having a baby. We also had a blast with our friends Dave and Jen. We went shopping, went to the football game, ate and ate and ate, got pedicures, went to the state park, played games and then to top it all off...

Jerry and Dave took a motorcycle ride to get the pizza for our last meal together...

real men ride bikes........... together

Saying farewell to our friends from Iowa is tough but we will see them again.... we love you Handsakers.

God is such a showoff...

On Friday, September 28,2008 - Jerry and I got the most horrible news of our life. Most of you know that we have been trying to have a baby for a year in November. Jerry had some testing done and he was told that he has no "men". We cancelled everything. We just wanted to be together. So, we prayed and we decided that God is in control and everything would be ok. No matter if we would have to go to an infertility doctor or adopt we would have the family God has dreamed of for us. Throughout the next two weeks we were angry with God, we were undertsanding of Him, we questioned Him, and we learned to trust Him. I proceeded to get Jerry an appointment with the top infertility doctor in Indiana and one of the top in the US. We felt like God was directing every step we got appointments when others said we wouldn't and things seemed to be going our way. On Monday, October 13, 2008 at 1:50pm Jerry and I drove up to Greenwood, IN to meet Dr. Samuel Thompson. He was wonderful. He had all the right answers and we had the beginning of a plan in place and made a follow-up appointment for Monday the 20th. Then, things changed...

On Tuesday, October 14, 2008, I came home from school and felt very tired and unsettled. I began to pray and the idea of taking a pregnancy test came to mind. So, I did. Instantly it went positive. Now you have to understand, we have been trying for a year to have a baby so I have been disappointed many times with tests. I screamed. And, I drank a bit of water and took another. I screamed again. At this time Jerry came home and I told him the news. He just looked at me in shock. And then told me to make a doctor's appointment to make sure it was true. So the next morning, I quickly took another test and again positive. I made an appointment to see a doctor for that afternoon. We went in at noon and again the test was positive and then I took a blood test for more proof and a date. It took two days to get the results back - so I took my fourth home test. Again, positive. The nurse at the doctor's office told me to quit wasting my money. She said in a sweet voice, "honey, a positive is a positive. We are just looking for a due date." I took her advice and stopped wasting my money. On Friday, we got the blood test back and the due date of MAY 29.

God is so good. At times when we don't understand we still have to believe He is in control. While watching one of those TV ministers the man looked at the screen and said, "someone has had a great gift and God wants you to know that HE gets the final word." And isn't that so true - my friend Jen said to me right when she found out - God is just showing off. All we can do is laugh.

Please pray with us for a healthy baby who will love Jesus and live a life for God.

The picture is alittle blurry - but here it is the first 3 pos. tests.

Happy Birthday to Me....

Well on October 11 was my 27th birthday... Abby and Matt Stout came to see us!!! We had so much fun. We went to pick up a coffee table (not worth $50 - but that's ok Jerry) and strapped it to the top of the Nissan - ok so picture a big wooden coffee table strapped to the top of a car flying down the highway at 80 miles an hour... fun times with the Tiptons! We went to the football game. We went geo caching - gps treasure hunting (I went to the bathroom for the first time in the woods - I know, TMI but more fun times with the Tiptons). Then we went to church and more church. Then we went to TGI Fridays!! YUM!! So we had so much fun and we already miss Abby and Matt...

Oh yeah - I cried on my birthday. Turning 27 sucks! (But I will get over it)

our LITTLE buc

Well, I was thinking the other day and I realized that I have never put our sweet little Buc on here. So, here's to you Bucster...
For those of you who haven't met Buc yet - believe me - you are missing out. He is one of a kind. My mom says that if he was a human, he would be a comedian. He is loving and happy. He is sometimes annoying - but it is just because he loves us so much. Here he is in all of his 100 lbs. of glory. He will be 3 November 4.