Her name & 26 week update

I am excited to share our baby girls name. I am so in love with her name and its meaning. It didnt take long for use to decide on this name, as soon as it came to mind i knew that this was the name for our baby. It just felt right.

Alayna Nicole { Alayna: Precious, torch, fiery one, a burning light} {Nicole: Victory or Victorious }

These are the pics i used to announce her name just some shots my husband took that turned out amazing!

26 weeks pregnant
baby girl is kicking around, i am eating EVERYTHING and my belly is itching( don't scratch).
I have been having the hardest time sleeping through the night and i have rearranged the house at least 100 times in the last week. Been daydreaming about what she will look like and imagining myself rocking my tiny little newborn. I cant wait, but i can wait. I just ordered some fresh new cloth diapers to add to our collection. We have more than enough hand me down, practically new clothes from my 3 year old ,that praise the Lord I couldn't ever get rid of and now i know why ;)

Love motherhood 

Merry Christmas 2011

Hope everyone had a blessed Christmas!
This was our first Christmas with just us ; my husband, daughter and I. All of our other family had plans to go to Florida this year and since I am 34 ,about to be 35 weeks pregnant on tuesday, I cant travel. So I made Christmas dinner for my family for the first time .We made cookies opened presents and just had a nice relaxing time no rushing around or family drama lol


Proud of myself stuffing, green beans, chicken, and mac and cheese


The food!



A happy Christmas baby

His Heart

Iv have always had a heart for children to teach them ,to love them, to make them laugh and smile and to just be around them but lately I feel his heart for them and its intense!! God loves his babies and wants to use us to show them how much he loves them . Reggie and I have gotten the opportunity to sponsor and provide for a 9 year old Ethiopian boy by giving money monthly so that he can have clothes, food, clean water and go to school the amount of money that we provide is the same amount of money that it would cost for us to go out to eat!! and that little amount of money provides all this for him. Its such an honer that God would use us to  give to him (Naji)

The newest member of our family!!!

Naji is 9 years old lost both of his parents to Aids he has 2 brothers and  2 sisters and was not in school, didn't  have many cloths and very little to eat before we sponsored him... We are able to write to him and he writes back ( there is a translator) so it really becomes like a real relationship where we are able to hear whats going and how he is doing :)

" And whoever welcomes a little child like this in my name welcomes me."
                                          Matthew 18:5



We are blessed to get to bless  one of Gods children if you are interested in doing this check out www.worldvision.org   or go to your local Christian store and ask them (thats how we got involved)