Sweet Babies

I started reading Angie's Bring the Rain blog around this same time last year. To give you a summary, Angie became pregnant with her 4th daughter and was told at her 20 week ultrasound that her sweet baby girl, Audrey, would not be "compatible" with life outside of the womb. Angie has shared so much of her journey on her blog including pictures and video of Audrey's precious few hours on earth. She is such an amazing example of grace and faith and especially humor.

From Angie's blog I was introduced to MckMama. MckMama was pregnant the same time as Angie. Her baby, MckMuffin aka Stellan, also was expected to die. He was miraculously born with NOTHING wrong with him! He has lived the past 5 months of his life as an adorable, happy, HEALTHY baby with his 2 brothers and a sister (ages 4 and under!!!). Well now Stellan is in the hospital. Struggling to live because his heart has fallen back into the dangerous rhythm that threatened his life when he was in his mother's womb.

Other than the pain I felt over my first pregnancy ending in a miscarriage, I can NOT imagine the horror of losing a child. A child that you have felt kick inside you or held in your arms. I pray to God I never have to know that pain! But these ladies have come face to face with that possibility, and reality, more than once.

Please familiarize yourself with their stories, their families, and join me in praying for this sweet baby boy fighting for his life.

The One Where My Addiction Pays Off

So we all no that I am a shameless blog stalker. Well it paid off!
I'd been peeking around Those Corwins for a couple months now. Several of the other peeps I read, read this one. One of them is even related!
Well the other day I was snooping around and noticed that Mrs Corwin was doing a bloggy give-away for a copy of Love Actually, a movie that I have never seen.
I am by no means a LUCKY gal. But I figured what the heck. If there's ever a good time to de-lurk myself, why not now!?!
And whadya know, I WON!!!
Needless to say I just might have become Those Corwins biggest fan :)
Thanks Those Corwins for making my day! Can't wait to see the movie FINALLY!

More Bloggy Funsies!

Along with the Wii Fit giveaway (fingers crossed people!), I checked up on a favorite blogger of mine, Ms Talia. She is posting an uber fun SCARF swap! All the details are over on her blog - Rejoicings and Ramblings. I think it sounds like a blast! How bout you?

It came & went

This is the only picture I have of the night, taken in our dirveway before we left. BUT the fabulous Ashley should have a picture up soon of us (taken by her fabulous hubby), so I'll add that one when I can :)

So the big night was on Friday. The girls' work was AMAZING! I was really impressed! I knew they were amazing but they did such a great job with the pictures for the show. I was definitely proud of them!

As you know I was really excited about seeing Colleen again and meeting Ashley. I also got to meet their hubbies! :) They are SUCH nice people! I was a lil nervous seeing them because it'd been so long with Colleen and obviously having never met Ashley before and you know what they say about those internet people ;) But they were all just SO great! Ashley was so sweet and it just felt like we had known eachother for awhile! It's not very often that I meet someone so genuine and classy and I know that that is exactly who Colleen and Ashley are - what you see is what you get! I love that. This world could definitely use alot less shadiness, don't you agree?

My fave part of the night (other than seeing the girls) was when Colleen was introducing me to her husband, Kyle, and he said "oh I know I've read her blog". haha that was just so cool to me!

My least favorite part of the night was leaving before I got to meet some of the other bloggers that showed up that night. :( Especially these three girls. I am shamelessy addicted to reading all 3 of their blogs and from those I know that they share those same great qualities that Colleen & Ashley have!

But we WERE on a date night and my hubby had been so sweet in agreeing to accompany me so I knew that I needed to follow through with my end of the bargain - get your mind out of the gutter people I'm talking about dinner & Best Buy! ;)

Anyway it really was a great event and I was so happy to have been able to show my support!

Great job girls!!!!

I So Needed This

Thanks to the fabu Ali Edwards for sending me in the right direction today. In the direction of a blog titled - Ordinary Courage.
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