16 Weeks and Man How Things are Changing

We are 16 weeks pregnant today, "Praise God". I have been feeling so good, that sometime I look down at my little tummy and ask "Are you still in there?". Of course the little one does not answer yet, but I am sure in the near future the time will come to feel a flutter or two. Javier and I have really cherished this special time in our lives. Javier especially appreciates that when he hugs me the baby (my tummy) touches him first! It is all so majical, and still a bit sureal when you have been through so much trying to get to this point. Of course everyone is wants to know boy or girl. We won't know until the last Monday of April, unless I can sweet talk our doctor to give us an ultrasound tomorroe. Don't hold your breath on that one, but it doesn't hurt to try...Right?

The next big thing happening in our lives, yes God has been very busy, is that Javier has received a flying assignment. For non military people an assignment is the next place we will move. The place makes most people flinch, but really it is the best case scenario for our family & for Javier's career. Sooooooo for now Javier has a one year assignment to Osan Korea. I say for now because this one year will be without me & the babe; but before you panic, we have applied for command sponsorship (non military people that means we have applied for me & babe to go along). Now if this pans out we are looking at living in Korea for two or three years. During these one, two, or three years Javier will be back in the F-16 doing what he loves....so we all feel very blessed.

The best part, making it apparent that God's hand is in the middle of our lives constantly, is that He will go back to Phoenix to re-train in the F-16 for July and August. I will be dropped off at my mom's house in NM, because I simply don't think the heat in AZ is the best thing for later pregnancy, nor does my doctor encourage excessive travel during the last two months. After his training he will return to NM with me, the baby being due September 10.....and the military is so fabulous....he wouldn't have to report to Korea until the beginning of October. So he will be here for the birth of our first babe & get to stay awhile and help out mommy!

In October, Javier will head to Korea, for his much anticipated flying assignment. Depending on the military's decision to include baby and I in the assignment we will either spend a year hanging at my mom's house & periodically visiting Javier....or we will follow him to Korea when the doctor says it is okay and safe to travel with a newborn.

So, as you can see there are many changes on the horizon for the Antuna family & we couldn't be more excited that God is leading us through such amazing opportunites. We continue to give him the glory for all the blessings in our lives, and ask that you pray for our future momentary chaos until we all are settled again together! Be blessed, JoRie

2nd Trimester & I'm feeling fine!

I am really not so good at this whole blog thing. But, I figured I might need to update my little diddy before my sister demanded a new blog! LOL

I am feeling so blessed to feel amazing during what is now our 15 week of pregnancy. We see the doctor again next Monday for a standard check up & then end of April we will know if we have a girl or boy. We don't care either way and are crazy excited about either, but it seems our families have differing views. On Javier's side of the family there are pretty much all boys...and on my side of the family there is pretty much all girls. To make things even trickier Javier's side of the family are born with tons of dark hair...and my side of the family, we are pretty much bald until we are three and even then super blond. So my mom is wishing for a little boy with lots of dark hair. Javier's dad is wishing for a girl, and his mom wants a bald blond baby.

So as I sit in my recliner dreaming of holding this little one in my arms, I simply put my hand on my tummy & say it doesn't matter if you are a girl or a boy, bald or tons of hair....I have a feeling there is going to be alot of love in your life little one.

Feeling more blessed by the day! JoRie

God is so Good!!!!!

Javier and I are pleased to finally announce that God has graciously given us a baby. We are three months pregnant at a little over 12 weeks! We have gone through so much to get here, but we want to make sure and give God the glory for this little miracle.

I am feeling great, but having horrible back pain the last few weeks. We found out yesterday that the pain is being caused by a tilted uterus. The doctor says this will correct itself in the next few weeks. Other than that I have been feeling great!

The baby gave us quite a scare yesterday as we went in to hear the heartbeat on the doppler, but because of my uterus position the baby couldn't get close enough to hear the heartbeat. I stayed pretty calm considering. They quickly shuffled us to ultrasound & there was our beautiful baby with a strong heartbeat! Sigh of relief.

I can not express how extremely blessed I feel. God blessed me with an amazing Godly man in my husband, and now he has blessed us with a baby. So our lives are about to change in so many ways & we both say bring it on....we have God on our side!!!

Thanks to everyone who has followed my sparatic blog and I will try to keep it updated as we have appointments. Once a month for now and closer together once we get further along! We appreciate your support and prayers more than anyone could know!

Ciao, JoRie