All the news

I guess we'll start with the sad news, Dave's grandma passed away late Saturday night. It's sad cause he no longer has any grandparents alive. But, we are thankful for the opportunities God gave, and Dave accepted, to take time with his grandma to keep sharing the gospel. He had a neat "God moment" with her in the hospital a couple weeks ago and we pray that she accepted Him as her savior.

On to other news...I popped this week! Yikes, it was sooo hard to find something to wear for Easter Sunday that didn't show my bump! I'm thankful I found a tank top that would work, plus gotta love my bel.la band!

Now to one of the "surprises"...After church we headed up to my parents for Easter lunch. My nieces found their eggs and were opening them up for the goodies inside while the whole fam watched. When they were done, my dad was going to make a break for it, but I said, come back here, I have a surprise I want to share. I then said, God has matched us with our baby (yes, I was already crying)! I got lots of tears to go with mine, then the questions lined up just as I was hoping (to play it out a bit). First my mom was upset cause she said, I knew it, you're getting your baby next week aren't you! They are going to Mexico and her biggest fear was missing out on the baby homecoming! She keep going on and on, and then my sis was like, when is the mom due, and I said November 1st. They were all crying and hugging me and so excited for us. Then I slipped in, "except I'm the mom" and it took a couple seconds then it sunk in and WHATTTT, and cue loud crying and hugging and questions and disbelief!! It went perfect! My poor nieces were a little confused though, my sis had to explain that Auntie Amber is pg and having a baby...they were like so your having a baby and adopting? We were like, well for now we are just having a baby, then we'll see where God brings us. The rest of the day I got to spill what has been happening the last 12 weeks and show pics and ask Q's. My dad was like, now I can take a few different puzzle pieces and start putting together what's been going on! My mom said last week she noticed my belly a little bit, but said she never would have asked me cause she knew it would have hurt me. So, we had a great time with them and look forward to sharing with Dave's parents on Tuesday night (they could use some good news after mil's' mom passing).

I saved the best news for last...Jesus is risen, He is risen indeed! I really had it on my heart that this day was to focus on HIM and what HE did for me, not all that was going on. As Dave said before bed, in the last 24 hours we experienced death, life, and the resurrection, what a day!