Gender Reveal

 In case you aren't on facebook and didn't see the video posted, it's a.... GIRL!!!

I am absolutely shocked! I shouldn't be though. Why? Because this...

A short while before getting pregnant, Joshua said to me "God told me I'm going to have a baby sissy soon." We thought he was a bit crazy. Yeah right, another baby wasn't in the cards, and a girl.. ha! I had to grieve that loss of a dream a while back. Even if we got pregnant, there's no way he could be right on gender.

Well, we got pregnant. That's kind of crazy in of itself. But I won't share that story.

With Joshua, I knew his gender, his name, even the day he would be born. God revealed it all. With Z, I had a strong strong feeling he was a boy. God revealed his name much later on. With this baby, I had a slight feeling it was a girl BUT... I denied it. I resisted it. I told myself there was no way, this feeling had to be wrong. 

Why would I think anything from God, either through Joshua or myself, was wrong? Don't doubt God. Faith. That word keeps coming to me this pregnancy yet again as it did for Z as well. 

With God, all things truly are possible, and through this He has definitely shown it. 

IT'S A GIRL!!!! 

I'm shocked, excited and also nervous. After 2 boys I'm actually thinking to myself, how on earth do I raise a girl??? I don't know. But I'm blessed to have the opportunity soon! And yes, I've already gone shopping for some girl stuff. 💗😂

Continued prayers are appreciated as this pregnancy has been quite the ride so far. Prayers for everything to happen as God intends it, for peace no matter the stressors and that stress to not affect baby girl, and if it be God's will- for another full term, natural delivery with a healthy baby and a healthy mama with no complications! 💕

It's a....

4 weeks ago, at my anatomy scan, we could have found out the gender. However, Jeremy wasn’t able to be with me for it and I didn’t want to find out gender alone. I also didn’t want them to write it on a piece of paper knowing they would write small and when we opened it Jeremy wouldn’t be able to see it. So, I typed out in big letters BOY and GIRL. I then pasted them inside black construction paper so that I couldn’t read it through an envelope. I asked the ultrasound tech to put which gender it was inside the envelope and throw out the other. 

Here’s the thing… when I pasted it, the boy one had a little bump in it from the glue that I couldn’t smooth out. I knew if I touched that bump I would know it’s a boy, ruining any surprise. Fast forward. We waited a couple weeks before deciding to find out. I wasn't ready to know yet. I enjoyed waiting til birth to find out for Z, but... this time around I need to buy baby stuff either way! Different seasons and I got rid of most everything. That morning I grabbed the envelope to put in my purse… and when I did… I felt a bump. I ruined the surprise. Well, I put it in my purse and didn’t say anything to Jeremy.

Now being the day we were going to find out gender, we wanted to make it fun. We planned that after finding out, we would go shopping for some outfits then go out to lunch. 

But first we had to drop off the boys, then drop off our taxes. It was raining. Driving all the way back home to find out seemed silly because it’s nearly an hour round trip and all the stores and restaurants were where we already were. Where could we do our own reveal while out, in the rain? Well, I thought to myself I already know it’s a boy, so it doesn’t really matter where we do this. Why not just reveal in the car at the tax place. I mean, that makes sense right? Lol 

Stay tuned for part 2… a video.. which is very clear in the beginning that I knew I felt the boy card and ruined any surprise… but the video is worth watching anyways.