Nothing Yet...

Just a quick word to say that, no, Andrew still hasn't come home yet. Sara's body is definitely ready to be done being pregnant though! :)

Here's a recent picture:

From Pregnancy

We're all looking forward to bringing Andrew home!

Preganancy Update

For those living out of town, here's a quick update:

Sara's looking really cute! ;)




We're now 34.5 weeks along, and if you ask me, I think he's going to come early! I'm telling Sara it'll be in the next week or so, but she's still thinking it'll be closer to our due date (August 11th). By the way, did we tell you the baby's name? He will be "Andrew Charles". I think we'll stick with Andrew instead of Andy or Drew.. I also updated the Pregnancy Slideshow if you want to see Sara's progression. :)

Sara's been doing very well (though she gets tired of course), and we still manage to get out for the occasional family fun day. Here is a slideshow from the last month or so, including a little trip to the Amazing Pizza Machine where Aaron was being very brave (for him) and rode the carousel and train all by himself.

It's a BOY!

Yep, skip right to the chase - it's a BOY! We're really excited about Aaron having a brother to play with. We've been so excited about this little guy, but haven't been able to do much to get ready for him because I (Chip) have had to put in a lot of extra time at work for a special project, but now that is done so we're able to get on with life again!

I thought it was about time we got some pictures of Sara (and the new baby BOY) posted! For those of you that live far away and haven't gotten to see Sara recently, she looks really cute pregnant!! You can click the slideshow below to see the pictures larger, or this link should show it full screen.

Sara has really been doing amazingly well with this whole pregnancy thing if you ask me. Of course she gets tired some, but she sure is working hard and it's really exciting to see her tummy growing and hear all about how the baby is kicking (I can't wait till I can feel it, too).

We've also decided what we're going to do for the baby's room.. My office is moving to the basement, and Aaron will get a "big boy room" decorated in his favorite - Disney Cars (Lightning McQueen, etc.). He's really really super excited about his room and he keeps trying to kick me out of my office so he can have his new bedroom. :) I don't think we'll be redecorating Aaron's old room very much, it's a much cuter baby-boy room than we'll be able to create again at this point in life. ;)

Just for the fun of it.. We got to spend some time with Sara's family recently and did the whole Easter Egg Hunt thing for Aaron and his cousin, Luke. It was a lot of fun! Aaron loves to run and find an egg, but once he finds it, he has to stop and open it and examine the contents thoroughly (and try to close the egg again) before going onto the next egg. Of course this meant he didn't get a whole lot of eggs at the larger church easter egg hunts, etc., but he didn't seem to mind. ;)

(full screen version, click here)

Some Recent Pics

It's been a while, so here are some recent pictures from so far in 2009! Aaron has grown up sooo much!




(if you can't see the slideshow above, you can also see it here)

We're Pregnant!

Yep, you read that right!

We were extremely surprised when God gave us an unexpected piece of news right before Christmas - we were pregnant! We had a real hard time even believing the pregnancy test at first, but a few days after taking the test they scheduled us for an ultrasound:



We found out from the ultrasound that we were 7 weeks along, with a projected due date of August 11th! It's hard to see from the picture, but you can actually discern a little body in there complete with little limbs and a head! We can't wait for our next ultrasound (around 20 weeks) where we should be able to tell the gender, too!


We were "just a little" excited when we got the news :) so we only waited a couple days (till Christmas) to tell our families and then finally started sharing the news with friends a few weeks later. Life has been absolutely crazy (of course), and it only got crazier once we got the news and Sara's body began needing a whole bunch more sleep!

Speaking of Sara's body...it's starting to show already! It looks super cute if you ask me! :)

(Sara at ~14 weeks)

It's been amazing to see how God puts families together and how he orchestrates the timing of everything! As you probably know, we've been in the process of adopting again (from S. Korea this time) since about Feb 2008. We contacted our adoption agency (Holt) and they put our adoption process "on hold" until we contact them again to either cancel it or begin pursuing it again. We're very glad for that - it wouldn't be right for either baby if they both came home at once, there's no way you could give them the attention they really need.

We're crazy excited and looking forward to a brand new adventure (again)! Please pray for us and for this new little baby!

Eating Green Beans

Ok, so we haven't posted any updates in forever, and way too much has happened to summarize right now, but I just wanted to share a video clip that I thought was really funny.

You have to understand that Aaron really doesn't like to eat green beans (or food in general for that matter)...



This continued for quite a while (lots of green beans) - Sara is a very creative mommy!!

To My Wife

Happy Anniversary!!

We've been married 7 years as of today, and each one has been a great year! For those of you who don't know Sara personally, she is a very kind and compassionate woman who strives after God's heart.

She is also really, really, really cute. :)

One of the things that always surprises me is how creative she can be! This year for Father's Day she arranged to have some Daddy pictures put into the adoption newsletter our old agency puts out, and she also secretly arranged for some family pictures, which turned out really well:

She is always coming up with fun new places to go with Aaron (which always makes me depressed when I have to go to work and miss out on that day's activities), but she saves the really good places for when I can go, too. She is truly a blessing to me and brings so much joy and spice to my life! I LOVE YOU!