A quick update..

16 weeks 5 days!

16 weeks! 3 days!!

Kaleb and I have found a nice routine at home. It took a few weeks but it's great! We have a lot to accomplish in the next few weeks. My car will be getting fixed. I am studying for my board exam. I am also slowly getting things in order in ithe house. I don't have the intense amount of energy I had pre-pregnancy! Kaleb has been working hard at work and at home. There are many things I can't do anymore; Most of which involve heavy lifting. Today we are going to plant flowers that one of Kaleb's coworkers gave us. It is a blessing. They are all perennials and I can't wait to see them in the ground! MY belly is growing daily. I am now 18 weeks, 5 days pregnant!! IT is absolutely the most incredible thing I have yet to experience. I am so excited! This journey is really bringing me closer to God. It really is just as my mom has said many times. We partner with God to bring a person into this world.. Psalm 139:13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. Right inside my uterus God crafted a soul! He brought it into existence. IT is our duty to be healthy and to be diligent to raise that child to follow Christ. I am so excited to teach this little one about God's love! We have two names picked out, one boy and one girl and the middle names. Kaleb wants to keep them a secret and I respect that wish. Everyone will find out once the baby is born.
Tomorrow we are going to the park where Kaleb proposed to me. I will be photographing my friend Rachels 3 children. I can't wait! It will be so fun!!

I was digging into my Bible a few weeks ago and God really spoke to me about worship and praising Him. These are the thoughts and verses from the quiet time spent with God. :)

Our Facebook accounts and blogs represent who we are and what we worship. I know worship is a word we associate with church. However, what we worship is the thing we allow to take up the most space in our lives & minds. It is what we will be remembered for when this life is over.
John 4:23 Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshippers the Father seeks. ..I looked up the specific meaning of the version of the word worship in Hebrrew. It means to prostrate oneself in adoration. Prostrate means to lay flat on the ground. I took that as meaning, a person is in such awe of God that they can do nothing but lay down.
Acts 17:23 For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship. I even found an altar with this inscription TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. NOw what you worship as something unknown, I am going to proclaim to you.
The Hebrew word worship in Acts 17:23 has a completely different meaning. It means serve by doing service. The people spent time serving their gods and were lost and confused and Paul told them about Jesus.

Colossians 2:23 Such regulations indeed have an appearance of wisdom, with their self-imposed worship, their false humility and their harsh treatment of the body, but they lack any value in restraining sensual indulgence. . . The Hebrew word used in place of the English word worship, refers to voluntary piety. Piety means to be religious or reverent. Paul is referring to just doing religious things but not actually loving people or acting better outside the church walls. This bothered Paul. He wanted people to connect their faith and life because that's what God wants. Paul says, Since you died with Christ to the basic principles of this world, why, as though you still belonged to it, do you submit to its rules: "Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch!"? These are all destined to perish with use, because they are based on human commands and teachings. Colossians 4:20-22.