The day we left California was our anniversary, so TJ got me flowers for the car and I got him chocolate 🙂
TJ and I on our anniversary
I skipped doing my blog last Week because it was an official vacation!! We got to spend 4 glorious days in the Rockies with our dear friends Pete and Whitney Hofmann. We were able to rest our minds and enjoy some down time as well as God’s beautiful creation, consisting of high peaks with a touch of snow and wide green valleys splashed with yellow Aspen trees.
Beautiful Creation
If your wondering where the North Mountain is, we found it, it’s in Colorado! 😉
We left there feeling refreshed and encouraged. We made it to Missouri late Friday night, and have been spending some time with our good friends Joni and Jason and their little girls. This past weekend was a camping trip for the missionaries in training, we went out there on Saturday and I got to witness the killing of some chickens as well as how to gut and cut them up… Very interesting and quite likely maybe useful some day!
Enjoying some time with my girls.
Auntie Helen got the girls a couple disney dolls, they have been a hit!
On another note it was a year ago today that we went to our 20 week ultra sound only to find out that our little girl was not alive. It feels weird that it’s been a year. We are grateful to be in Missouri right now which is where all of this took place. It feels healing and good to be here with the people who walked this with us. Tomorrow we are going to have a small get-together on Nola’s birthday to honor her life and to remember what God has done. I would have expected to be in a different place today, I thought I would have been pregnant again and getting ready for another baby, and yet that is not where we’re at. We are trusting God as we walk this road and surrendering more of ourselves to him.
I am so thankful for the Lord and how he has ministered to us, and how he has provided for us, through very hard things and through incredible! I love that God always remains the same!!
I am also so thankful for my two beautiful girls, and the true blessing that they are to me. I am thankful for my husband and the way he serves me and walks with me through every circumstance. I wouldn’t want to be doing this with anyone else!!
I am thankful for Nola Grace and for the opportunities I have had to know God more because of her. I wouldn’t have taken away her life for any reason whatsoever. I can’t wait to see you in heaven Nola girl! I know you are alive and well there!!
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