And his name shall be....

Collin Joseph York!!!

We both love the name Collin and we want our children to have Biblical middle names. We chose Joseph because when we first moved back to our condo, Wes and I were both feeling frustrated and discouraged. We know God has a plan for us but don't understand it yet at all and even though we are so thankful to have a home, it's hard on our family for me to be so far from work and spend so mant hours in the car three days a week. We were flipping through channels one night and found Charles Stanley speaking on Joseph. We truly felt God was speaking to us, reminding us of how he uses such difficult circumstances for good in the end. Joseph was betrayed by his brothers, sold into slavery, accused of a sinful act he did not commit and thrown into prison. But he trusted in God and God's hand was on him the entire way. In the end he was able to provide for his people and family in the famine. We pray that both of our boys will also always have God's hand on their lives and trust in Him no matter their circumstances. We can't wait to meet you Collin Joseph!!

"Can we find anyone like this man [Joseph], one in whom is the spirit of God?" Genesis 41:38

AND.......

Another boy makes four!!! I heard of a book "House of Testosterone." I need to buy it ASAP!!!

Favorite February Photos So Far

Our trip to the Aquarium!

Every few minutes Ashton would shout, "FISH!"

Pointing to this whale shark, he yelled, "AIRPLANE!"

Valentine's Day and 16th week of pregnancy!

Visit with Grandma and Papa

The kids are glad they can get to their window since we've finally emptied enough boxes!

Back in Chamblee with a new Addition!

Wow! So much has happened since my last teary eyed post that I thought was bringing total closure to our condo experience. Little did I know!!! We moved out of here to live in my grandparent's second home (in a 55 and up community-haha) until we closed on our new house in Suwanee. The following week we found out some awful news-our condo association is involved in a lawsuit that we knew nothing about and because of that, no lender would lend money to our buyers to buy our condo. So after trying everything under the sun to get it to work, the closing fell through and we had to cancel our contract on our house also. After 2 mos, we are now officially back in our little condo. It has been a crazy and heartbreaking journey but truly a learning experience for Wes and me. We know that God has us here for a reason and are now trying to figure out why! Meanwhile we found out in the madness...we are having another baby!!!! I am now 12 weeks pregnant so we will have two little ones in this little place! So here we are among boxes again and trying to unpack. We finally have internet hooked up and feel we are back in the real world. We've probably lost all our faithful blog readers by now!

If these walls could talk!

As we are packing up and getting ready to leave this little condo in about a week, I have been getting sentimental thinking of all the memories in this first home of ours! We lived in Athens and Augusta for a little while but the majority of our marriage so far has been spent here and even though we are excited to be moving, I am going to miss certain things. These walls have seen:

LOTS OF STUDYING! We moved here so I would be close to Emory for PA school and I spent so much time here studying and trying to learn what it means to be a healthcare provider. I spent many hours on this couch and on the back porch memorizing bones, drugs, diseases, and looking at EKGS and Xrays. Then right after I graduated, Wes went through grad school and spent time memorizing all those music ed things and whatever else it is that he did in school-it was all foreign to me!
LOTS OF PRAYERS! Lots of crying out to God for help in school, help when I was scared to death to walk through the doors of Grady hospital, to get a job, to survive my first day of patients and not to harm anyone, prayers for these patients as they tell me their stories day after day, Prayers for Wes' job at Campbell and prayers when we took the leap of faith for him to work at GAC, prayers for his grad school and prayers for Haley the night she was attacked and hurt (while we walked in a close neighborhood), prayers when we found out we were pregnant (and sat on the couch wide eyed wondering how we would do as parents), prayers to quit feeling sick when I was pregnant, prayers to get through the fears of labor with Ashton, prayers as I walked these rooms having contractions, prayers for Ashton to stop crying once he was here and prayers to raise this little boy in a Godly way and prayers to sell this place over the past 2 years!
LOTS OF EATING! I love to cook and spent so much time in this kitchen learning to cook for 2 and then learning to cook babyfood and now learning to cook dairy free!
LOTS OF LAUGHTER! We had so many fun times with friends and family here and lots of fiestas and holiday potluck parties and showers!
LOTS OF ADDITIONS:our first dog Libby who we had for a whole week before taking her back because she almost tore the walls down,our sweet Haley! I was in school doing an out of town rotation and working nights in the ER the first night we had Haley so Wes was alone with her and she was so scared to be here that Wes spent the night on the floor beside her. She adjusted quickly and she was our only baby for quite a while!
-of course bringing home Ashton and all the STUFF that came with him! That first week of having him here was truly an eye opening experience and we were in survival mode only.

So, for myself mostly, I wanted to record all this so I would not forget how much this little place has meant to us. I love the first line of David's prayer in 2 Samuel 7, "Who am I, O Sovereign Lord, and what is my family, that you have brought me this far?"