EXCITING NEWS!!

A LOT has gone on the past few months in the Williams household. First of all, our house sold!! PRAISE THE LORD!! It was on the market for 1 year and 3 months. We never got even one offer the whole time it was on the market and then, all of a sudden, we got TWO offers in one day!! It was the Friday of Memorial Day weekend and we were thrilled to receive them, counter-offer one of them, and PRAISE GOD IT ALL WENT THROUGH! That Friday afternoon that we got the offer, we got a call from Jonathan's mom saying the people who had been living in Jonathan's grandma's house the last two years -- (who kept saying "we're getting ready to move out" over and over again for the last several months - because they were building a house)-- they had called and said they were really moving out. We thought, OK ... what are the chances... we don't need to count on that because it'll probably still be a few months. NOPE! That Monday morning when we got back from the beach every single bit of their stuff had been moved out and it was ready for someone else to move in...US!! Of course we had to pray about it and make sure it was exactly what we felt the Lord leading us to do...it was!! So over the next few weeks we moved and have gotten settled into this new house and closed on our old one. GOD IS GOOD!! So to make this story even MORE exciting... the week before we got those offers on our house we found out WE ARE EXPECTING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YEP!! That's right!! I am 12 weeks pregnant today and we are due January 24th, 2014 - the day before Jonathan's birthday!! :) And we are praying so hard that this will be a healthy pregnancy for the baby and also myself!! GOD IS FAITHFUL!! So...a few days after Mother's Day, May 15th to be exact, we were over at Ms. Debbie's house that afternoon letting Tucker play and just wasting some time before we had small group at Nolan and Cara's that night. Well, Tucker was playing in a pool that we had just bought and he started to feel warm to me. When I took his temperature, it was 101 and we didn't have any tylenol so I told Jonathan I was going to run to the dollar general and I'd be right back. In the meantime, I had been feeling SOO tired and it was time for me to start and I just wasn't feeling good either. Of course we had been "trying" so I knew it was a possibility but still doubted that it would be "this month". Anyway...when I went into the dollar general I saw the pregnancy tests and there was just one in the pack for pretty cheap. I thought, "what the heck... I'll just get it." So... I picked up the tylenol and test and went back to Ms. Debbie's. I immediately got Tylenol in Tucker and then we decided to get him in the car and go on home since we weren't going to small group because of his fever. I ran back inside while Jonathan was emptying out the pool and I decided to go ahead and take the test. I just knew it was going to be negative. So ... I take it and the first little bit was just showing up negative and I thought "I knew it...that was stupid for me to buy a test". But then ............ all of a sudden, it was a very faint plus sign!! I was not believing my eyes!! So I walked outside to where Jonathan was and he kinda needed my help emptying out the pool (because it was heavy). He turned around as if to say "can you help?" And I held up the test! He says, "OK - so CAN you help?!!" I said NOPE!! We both just looked at each other and hugged like "oh my goodness I can't believe this!!" :) He quickly finished and we both got in the car with Tucker. We were SO excited but so afraid and scared and anxious and nervous all at the same time. We wanted to be screaming and shouting and all that but we just had that fear in us because of the loss we had a few months ago. Anyway ... so the next few weeks we told my mom, his mom, my dad, my brother, a few of my close close friends but not really very many people. I just didn't want anybody to know until we went to the DR and heard the heartbeat. So... we asked Aunt Faye to keep him for the appt. We went and tears just streamed down my face as we had our first ultrasound and the technician told us it seemed like, at this point, everything was great! The heartbeat was 158 bpm and beating strong! PRAISE GOD!! I have been overly cautious about everything...careful not to pick too much up, careful not to over-do it, etc. The nurse practitioner reassured me that there was "nothing I did last time to cause it" (and I believe her) but I'm just doing what I feel like I can do to protect our baby. Ever since we got past the point of when we lost the baby last time, I have felt such a peace about this pregnancy. God is carrying me through and protecting this sweet baby. This pregnancy has felt a lot different even from Tucker's. I have been SO sick (which normally women would complain about) but I THANK GOD for that feeling because it has helped reassure me that things are going as they should and my hormones are working! We go for our first trimester ultrasound this coming Tuesday and I think after that appointment I will feel more confident about announcing it to the world. I just had time tonight to sit down and blog so I wanted to go ahead and share it with the blogging world. I have learned so much these past few months. I KNOW GOD IS FAITHFUL, in any and all circumstances. His plan is best. PERIOD. He comforts us, he strengthens us, he uses us for His glory, He LOVES us.. OH how he loves us. Thank you, Jesus!