37 Week Dr Visit

This morning we had our 37 week visit to the doctor. Little Kaden is officially considered a full term baby now, and can be born at any time he gets ready. My cervix were checked today, and I am effaced 75% (I was 50% in the hospital just after Christmas) and not dilated yet. So, we have made a little progress but not enough to start any labor. I have been cramping a lot since leaving the doctors office today though, probably from being checked, I'm not sure. Also, my Mom went with me today since Lance is working, he hated to miss this appointment, and I hate not having him with me. However, my appointment for next week is on Wed. as well, so he will not be able to go then either, and my due date is on a Wed, so we have 2 more weekly check ups on Wed. and then the following Wed will be the due date. If little Kaden has not decided to be born between now and then, we will be induced the morning of the 4th so he can share his Daddy's Birthday with him! 3 weeks to go, we can't believe it!!!

Maternity Photos By Mom Part 2

Maternity Photos By Mom

Also this week

Read Psalm 63 and give praise! I am also reading Acts 5 this week and focusing on the lessons to be learned from the early followers of Christ. This will be my focuses for the week: Psalm 139, Psalm 63, Acts 5.

Psalm 139

O Lord, you have searched me and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O Lord.

You hem me in-behind and before; you have laid your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain. Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. If I rise on the wings of dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.

If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me," even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.

For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.

How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand.
When I awake, I am still with you. If only you would slay the wicked, O God! Away from me, you bloodthirsty men! They speak of you with evil intent; your adversaries misuse your name. Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord, and abhor those who rise up against you? I have nothing but hate for them; I count them my enemies.

Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

NOTE: I know I said I wasn't going to post this scripture, but I changed my mind. This is my first scripture I am working to REMEMBER this year with the Beth Moore study. My goal is to EQUIP myself with 24 scriptures this year by memory. It is equipping me with words of God to have and use DAILY in my life when I need them. (You have to choose scriptures that have meaning to you and your situation or life, if they don't have a strong meaning to you, you won't remember it.) I am working on committing this scripture to memory this week, and it may take me longer, but I am working on it daily several times. CHECK OUT BETH MOORE'S BLOG AT:
www.livingproofministries.com for her video on how to remember scriptures, and why it is so important.

Kung Fu, Who?

Just a little Sunday afternoon humor for you all as we anticipate the big arrival date of Kaden. He has been quite the active baby as of recent in my belly. He can no longer, of course, flip or twirl around like he used to because he is now locked into position for delivery, and I believe too large to move elsewhere. I believe this frustrates him greatly. So, he pushes and stretches his legs/feet as much as possible as well as his arms/hands. I am as of today referring to him as Kung Fu Kaden! His first nickname from his MOMMY and he isn't even here yet! My Mom is convinced that he is going to be a VERY active baby. We shall see soon! For now though Kung Fu on Kaden, Kung Fu on!

Changing this life

It is hard for me to describe what I have been feeling lately. Maybe it has a lot to do with becoming a mother for the first time, but it also goes much deeper than that. I have been on a spiritual search recently.


I have had plenty of time to ponder on the most important things in life while at home, off work, anticipating the birth of our first son. And, when it is all broken down, all I see as important are the people in my life. My husband, My baby on the way, My family, and My friends. One way that I got really started on this journey recently is through discovering that I have people in my life who I have considered friends, and they still are friends, that are not Christian. I am by no means the person to PUSH Christianity down someones throat by living my life as an example, because I know I am not a shining example of how to live your life as a Christian at times.

At the same time I have always been a believer, as long as I can remember. I can remember believing that Jesus loved me as a small child (both my parents always instilled a Christian love inside me), and I can remember choosing to accept Christ when I was a young adolescent, and I have experienced very strong as well as very weak moments in my walk as a Christian over my lifetime. I am embarrassed to admit how often I've read and studied the Bible just this year. My point being, my life needs work spiritually. My attention needs to be on me and how to improve my walk with Christ, not on others.

It goes deeper than that though. Those whom I call friend, I love dearly. It truly breaks my heart to think that one of my friends does not have peace in their life. They are not comforted by the same God who so lovingly always accepts me back even when I have pushed him aside over and over again. I have peace and comfort in times when things are unimaginably bad in my life because I know I have a God that loves me and forgives me and comforts me and heals me, over and over again.

If I wanted to take this one step further I would say that is disturbs me even more that these self proclaimed 'non believers' are raising children. How is it possible that someone with my same viewpoints and interests in so many other areas could be missing this one HUGE piece of there personal life? How can you raise a child to have no beliefs? How does that child receive comfort if the PHYSICAL things are no longer present in their life?

And that brings me back to my current state, becoming a mother. God is calling me, not softly, and not nugging, but SCREAMING to me at this point in my life. He so desperately wants me to experience all the wonderful things he has in store for my life as a mother, that he is TELLING my heart, 'this is your time,Kelly.'

The scripture that is starting me back on my quest for CHRIST in my life is Psalm 139. This scripture just seems like the appropriate starting place for me on my new quest in Christ. I want to seek him in all I do, not just the really good times to praise him and the really bad times to ask for his help, but in all times for his guidance in my life.

Here's the scripture: Psalm 139
Theme of this scripture: God is all-seeing, all-knowing, all-powerful, and everywhere present. God knows us, and his greatest gift is to allow us to know him.

I am not writing the scripture out here, in hopes that each of you will study this scripture with me this week. It's so amazing to me that God knows us, every single tiny detail about us, and he still chooses to allow us to know him. He wants us to know him, and for that I couldn't be more thankful.

My hope is to show God's love through my life. To teach my new baby boy about Jesus, and to give him the gift of comfort that can come only from believing in God. I know I will stumble, I always do, and I know I'm very likely to fall, I have before. I want to remember 2009 as the birth of a new me, not just the birth of my first child. A me who prays daily and multiple times daily, who reads and studies the bible for true meaning in my life, and a me that strives to put God before everything. To glorify him in happiness and sorrow, and to let his LOVE show through my life. I know that with God, my marriage and motherhood will be blessed with strength and guidance.

Like I stated above, God has called me. He has called me to be the best mother I can be by trusting in Him. God has called me to be a witness of Christian love to my son and my husband, and for that I am thankful.