Chris and Jenni

For those of you who were not able to watch the video we posted, and are just dying to know what our news is, we are expecting again! My due date is June 19th (my sister’s birthday), so I’m only about 5 1/2 weeks pregnant, but already feeling the symptoms of course. I usually think the first couple weeks, “maybe I wont get sick this time.” And then around 6+ weeks it hits me, pretty much 24/7 for about 5-6 weeks. But I can always hope this time will be different. Today was my first real day of pregnancy tiredness, I’m not real excited about a lack of energy right now, but I know we will get through this and I will be just fine. The first trimester is always the hard part!

The questions, weird looks, comments, have already started rolling in :) But I just want to say, thank you for all of your positive responses, and congratulations. We ARE really excited about this new family member and believe that God has really blessed us. We have both wanted a large family, even before we got married and feel so honored that the Lord is blessing us with our heart’s desire. Children are a blessing from the Lord, but in order to have a large family, you’ve got to do the hard part first, carry and deliver babies! I count it such a joy and a blessing to carry another child in my womb, I count it a joy that my husband and I are on the same page and we are both, along with our children, excited to be having another baby next year. I think June will be a perfect time for another baby.

It is hard to imagine having 5 little ones, but I wouldn’t trade one of them for the world. Nor would I trade my life for the world! I love being home with them, I love being a wife. I love the joys and thank God for the struggles. People have asked, “where are you going to put all those babies?!” The great thing is that God has given us creative minds and we make due with what we have at the time. I honestly wouldn’t want too much more space (we live in a 750, two bedroom house), with my kids being so small, a larger house would be too much for me to keep on my own until the older ones can help out more. The other day Aidan was complaining a little about his little brother getting into his “space,” I think while they were in bed, they share a twin bed. I just told him, “well you know Aidan, some kids have to have a room all by themselves. They have to sleep all by themselves in a room and it must get lonely. How would you like it if you had to have a room all by yourself, and if you didn’t have anyone to sleep with at night?” Aidan said soberly, “it would make me sad.” “See son, we just need to be more thankful for our siblings and then we wont have to complain about them so much.” Life has so much to do with our perspective. Will we be able to buy all of our kids the cutest clothes, toys, stuff? No. Do we even want to? Sometimes, and sometimes we will. But God never promises that He will provide the “best” according to the world’s standards. He does promise to cloth us a beautifully as the lilies of the valley, and the feed us like the birds of field. We have never wanted for anything. Why would God bring us here only to starve our children when they are older because they eat more? He wont, but it takes faith to see into the future, God will never leave us nor forsake us.

Well, now you have my two cents. If you are wondering what we are thinking, why in the world we want more babies, I said it before. We are really just trying to take over the world, we figure that our 11th child will be the president of the United States or something like that. Stranger things have happened :) Well, this mama better head to bed, it’s way too late!

Good night, may God be with you and yours!

*****UPDATE*******

For those of you who are coming directly to this post, we are actually in the middle of a miscarriage. You can read more about it here.

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