Thank You Lord!

The Lord taught me a huge lesson in trusting and thankfulness this week. Judah has had some swollen lymph nodes on his neck for a couple months now. Being the first time parents we are we took him in several times to get them checked. This past week The doctor told me she wanted to get some blood testing just to make sure he was OK. I definitely wanted to know if anything was wrong, but part of me just wanted to live in denial. Of course as a woman my mind instantly wanted to go to worse case scenario. The blood testing in itself was bad enough (I would have probably sobbed through it had Liz not been there), but what if something was wrong??? I would shrivel up and die. Or live in the fetal position in my closet. He was a champ. He freaked out a little when watching the needle go in. Looked at me to save him, crying out "mama mama". I tell you that is the worse feeling in the WORLD. Having to do something that you know is in their best interest, but them being too young to explain it. I now understand why people say they would take the pain if they could. I would. I totally would. and I have the worse phobia of needles. They make me cry like a baby worse than Judah. I feel like it really opened my eyes to the people who have kids that are sick and hurting and have to do stuff like that on a daily basis. I know that this was not even CLOSE in anyway to what they have to go through, but it gave me a teeny tiny teensy little look into it. How do they do it? It has to break their hearts a little every time. I pray for those mama's and babies. That God will give the mama's courage to keep doing what they have to do to protect their babies even though it hurts their hearts. That God will give those babies eyes to see that their mama does it to protect them. and of course healing for both.
Anyways the whole time (2 whole days after testing:) I was waiting for results I didn't let myself think about it. I just prayed really hard, and ask my family and friends to pray. I kept thinking about the verse that says that God won't give you more than you can handle, and I prayed he wouldn't. I prayed that even if something was wrong that I would remember that. It is very easy to pray that when things are going good. I feel like my parents did a pretty great job in showing us how to trust. Believe me I am not that good at it, but I had a great example and I am trying to get better. They went through a lot and still go through a lot, but I never have seen their faith shaken. Yes, they might ask God why or even cuss him out (dad, not mom), but they still love him and still go to him. I want to be like them when I grow up.
There are a lot of hard, sad things in this word, but there are a lot of wonderful things too. But the best things are yet to come, and I am super pumped about that. Judah's test came back normal, so I guess he is just a lumpy kid. I am so thankful for that answer to prayer. But whether it was that answer or another answer I am slowly learning that God is good and He has a plan (even if I think it is a crappy one at the time), and He does everything for a reason. When I say slowly I mean REAL slowly. Can you tell that it made me think a lot? I hope this doesn't come across as some cheesy God high type thing. It just helped me to see clear for a minute. I am sure next week my eyesight will be all blurry again and I will be saying "why GOD why???" about something. Ok. I will stop. Sorry for the blabbing. Thanks for all your prayer and encouragement for Judah! Anything God has been revealing to you folks?

hey boss.

As I lay here Judah is in the other room going to sleep. Or he is supposed to be. He sounds WIDE awake from the constant stream of jibberish coming from his crib. If I thought he talked a lot before than there is no way to describe how much he is talking now. The other night he said "night night mama" clear as day and my whole being melted into one big ball of goo. He is in one of those phases that is totally endearing, but also totally makes you feel like you are losing your mind. He copies everything you do and totally thinks he is one of the adults. It is endearing when he sits on the steps next you and looks to make sure he is doing it exactly like you. Or when you say stuff like "hey boss" or "hey baby" or "dignity" and he says it right back to you. It makes you want to lose your mind when he REFUSES to let you feed him and so he gets spaghetti all over the place. or he refuses to drink a sippy and gets water all over the place. Or he refuses to let you help him in any way whatsoever. I think the kid would change his own diapers if he could. One other random Judah thought. Dave taught him how to yell. Which is a ridiculous thing to teach your child, but when he is a teeny tiny little man and it takes all his concentration and he makes the most serious face in the world, it is pretty darn cute.

How can you not give this little mushroom head whatever he wants???

Especially when you have to deal with this when you don't.

Whew!

I am very behind in the blogging world. That last post was from something we did in May! It has been a crazy summer to say the least. In the last month we have had friends visit, we went to CO, we have a new niece (Who I had a shower for and the pictures are still not up!) and lots more. Hopefully one day you will get to see pictures of some of that:)

So here are a few quick updates...

Georgia Everett Gunter was born Saturday weighing 7'11 and 21 and a half inches long. She is so sweet you could eat her. Yes, it did give me a "I need one of these" twinge. Pictures to come soon.

Judah is growing like a weed in every way. He is getting taller, his hair is getting longer (yes!), and his vocab is getting larger. His favorite thing right now is to ask what EVER SINGLE thing in our house is. " whats that? whats that? whats that?" He has learned to get his point across very well.



I missed (but did not forget, I was just out of state) some birthday's which I must give a shout out. Well I missed a lot, but I don't really do boy shout outs besides Dave and Judah. Happy Birthday to my Beautiful friend Tammy! That is all I ma going to say because I am 98% sure she doesn't read this. She is fabulous, I love her and couldn't live without her!

The main one I missed was this pretty lady...

Rylie Cadyn!!!
You are a beautiful young lady
with the sweetest heart you will ever meet.
You are great babysitter
and helper.
You always make me feel very special and loved
I love seeing how much you love Judah
and he DEFINITELY loves you
(you might even be his favorite:)
He ask for lilly ALL the time
You are the BEST SISTER
I could ever ask for!!!
I love you!





Well gotta go. While writing this Judah very quietly (should have wondered about that) got my burts bees salve and rubbed it all over his body, so not only can I not pick him up because he slides right out of my hands, he also looks like a grease monkey and smells like a peppermint.
Anyhoo Have a great week!

The zoo woohoo!

Judah loves him some Choochie, and she is a very good helper
When she is not torturing him!

Yes, it is weird that there is a deer directly behind me and I do not even notice.

My little cheese muffin.

Yes, That bunny is half dead. It did not help that Judah accidentally
stepped on it.

Crazy hair!

This rabbit got to have Eryn literally shove carrot down its throat.
between Judah and Eryn the bunny family was glad when we left.

Yet again weird that no one is paying attention to the deer in the stroller?
I think yes.

Jenna was here but was unfortunately behind the camera or avoiding it.