A New Post-At Least for Now!

Well, my second attempt at keeping up with a blog has been an embarrasement!
I so enjoy reading other people's, and then seem to always run out of time to keep mine up to date!
So, please don't delete me...I'm still here!
A lot has been going on with us lately!
We got back from SC visiting the fam last week, and of course we had a wonderful time as always! I must've been super emotional b/c I cried in the car on the way home!
I miss my family so so much, and as time goes on I realize how much I really wish we were together more!
It was especially hard to leave this time b/c it was the first time that I got to see Baby Brie's grave marker. We were there for the funeral in February, but her ashes hadn't arrived in time, and when they did get there, P.J. and Sarah wanted to be alone with her-which was totally understandable!
She is buried on a hill in the cemetary with beautiful douglas fur trees all around her! It was so hard to see her there, and all I wanted to do was lay down in the grass, put my hand on her marker and just stay with her. What an incredible, incredable loss it is to loose a baby. All other hardships just seem to wave in comparison. I never got to hold her since I was still in Alabama and in the hospital with Gabe, so to be by her gravesite, was in the way, the first time I saw her!
Sarah is doing better each day, and is really hoping and praying for another pregnancy soon. It amazes me how people seem to think that she should just "get over it". Loosing a child is something you never get over, and no one should in any way try to rush the grieving process. Everyone deals differently and in their time. I admit that it has been especially difficult for me with a baby the exact same age that Brie would have been. I just can't imagine not having him, and so my sadness for Sarah feels so real everyday I am with him!
What a wonderful promise we have in Jesus that although we walk this world with pain and sorrow, beautiful Brie never knew anything but the comfort of her mother's womb, and then the comfort of her Father's hands!
On a lighter note, Miss Madeline turned 2 while we were in SC, so we celebrated "Dora, the Explorar" style. I didn't want to do a huge bday bash with the wound of Brie's passing still so fresh for Sarah, so we just had a small party! She had such a wonderful time, and that was really all that mattered!
We are now tackling potty training! So far so good. Maddy knows that she needs to sit on the potty and go pee-pee. She's talk to me about it, but will still just sit there and sing and talk with no action in the potty! I have decided to put her in big girl underwear and basically just take her every 30min or so until she can go! This was my Dr's suggestion. She still wears diapers at night though. If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know!
Joe is looking into a new career path as the "Area Director" of Apartment Life, inc! He has been so so ready for some sort of work in ministry and I am so excited for him!
Being a sales rep for Cooks has been good, but the hours are horrendous! He leaves around 7am and we are lucky if he's home around 6pm.Needless to say with a 2year old and a 5month old, being hime for 11-12 hours with them by myself can make anyone go a little loopy!
Gabe is doing so well, and just the perfect baby if I may be so bold! He is so easy and so happy all the time! If Maddy was this easy as a baby we may have had Irish twins!
I am seriously spoiled with him!
We have started solid foods!! His favs are pears and bananas. I did sweet potatoes last night, and they weren't a huge hit, but hopefully he will warm up to them since they are so super easy to make!
Over the weekend Joe's sister, Naomi, got engaged too!! Yeah! The wedding is in November and Maddy is going to be the flower girl along with her other cousin, Briana! I know they will be so sweet!
Thats about it! Hopefully my next post wont be so long and few between!

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