Not Too Much To Say...

There really isn't much to blog about right now...the baby is due this week and well the blog will either start to consist of lots of adorable baby pictures or cease to exist depending on how much time I find to blog once the Munchkin gets here.

I was hoping I wouldn't make it to my 40 week appointment, but morning is close and it is in about 12 hours so unless I go into labor tonight which I highly doubt my Dr. and I will be joking about a little dancing leprechaun being born on St. Patrick's Day.

Not only are we getting anxious for him to arrive, but so is everyone else which I think makes me even more impatient because I know so many people are waiting on me to get this little guy here!!

Although we are patiently sitting here, waiting and wishing for him to arrive I feel really blessed in light of a phone call I got today. When we found out I was pregnant we decided I would take this semester off of school, I was told by the International Student Services that I could keep working 20 hours a week and so until last week I was still working. Today I got a call from the Employment office at BYU telling me I would be terminated because I wasn't actually allowed to work on campus if I wasn't in school. This is kind of a bummer because I was planning on going back for a couple of weeks after the little guy gets here before my job ended (it is a just a temporary position). But I am really grateful that I avoided the radar for long enough to get us to this point in the semester and that I wasn't out of work for the last 3 months. It will be a little difficult and much more tight until my residency comes through (fingers crossed all is well) and I can start applying for jobs off campus, but we have been blessed thus far and believe that will continue as we pay our tithing and do our best.

So for now we are just waiting till' our lil' one gets here! Stay tuned for pictures of the adorable Baby Steenblik...hopefully a clone of his Daddy!

Grateful: Families Are Forever

This week one of my best friends, my in-laws and extended family members all said goodbye to someone they loved very much. Family members and friends were taken back to their Heavenly parents and I am so grateful to know that Families Are Forever. I also believe, that although not bound by Priesthood powers, that friendship can last forever too, simply due to our love for that person.

I am so incredibly grateful to know that Brett & I are bound together for Eternity and that our little boy will be born into that covenant and divine blessing. My heart is full to know that if something ever happen to either of us, (heaven forbid), that the words we spoke in the Temple the day we were married were not only for this life, but for the life to come.

I know the 3 people that passed on (all people I never met) will be missed very much, but I know those who loved them will cherish their memory, remember things they learned from them and find comfort in the knowledge they have of Eternal life and Forever Families.

My love and prayers go out to you all.