Thanks to everyone who voted on our poll! It was fun to see how it turned out. At this point, she is yet to be named, but I think we are pretty close to making a decision. I'm in the 3rd trimester now...and we are getting anxious to meet our "little lady"! :)

DNow '09

I feel like I've been gone awhile, even though it was only a few days. :) We had a full, and very blessed, weekend with our youth group, 180, and many extras. We had an event at our church this weekend called DiscipleNow. It's where we get together Friday/Saturday evening for large group rallies, and the students stay the night at host homes. We had a good group of students, an awesome worship band from Brentwood Church in Lynchburg, and a great speaker from a church in Lynchburg as well. Our theme this year was Identity Theft...with our focus verse being John 10:10. I know even though I'm exhausted *and a bit achy* it was a refreshing weekend spiritually. We had awesome times at the rallies, and the kids had a great time on Saturday playing "Bigger and Better". *A game where you try to trade up from a paper clip to something bigger and better, with complete strangers. Some of the items we ended up with were lawn furniture, an XBox, a dishwasher, and a snowboard! Little swindlers...;)* We had a celebrity lookalike contest Saturday evening, where kids and counselors dressed up to "steal" celebrity identities. Some of the guest list incluced The Hulk, Clark Kent, Taylor Swift, David Beckam, Octomom, Wolverine, Barbie, Payne Stewart, Katy Perry, and Michael the archangel to name a few. We also had lots of great food...the host homes went all out providing meals for the students/counselors. So much planning and prayer went into it, and we are SO grateful to everyone who helped out! Here are some pictures from the weekend! :) ~John 10:10~

Black Belt in Training

If you watch carefully you can see my belly jump when little lady kicks me. *Esp right at the beginning* She's working off those chicken nuggets we had for lunch. :)

Super Soaker

Who is taking a bath here anyway? Merrick, the bathroom, or me? It was so funny I didn't stop him...but we were ALL soaked! :)

Naming Names...

Ok so we're narrowing it down to *most likely* one of 2 names for little lady. I like both of them very much (so does Billy), but both of us are leaning more towards one of the two. *Not telling which one* We are pretty much decided on a middle name I think. But at this point still not wanting to commit to anything, because we still have some time, and I'm still doing a bit of research to make sure I've found something that we think will best suit Miss Barron. They are both rather different, but meaningful to us. I wanted to share them with everybody/anybody who reads this, because I thought it would be fun to see what people would say when it's possible for their comments to be anonymous. I am pretty sure you won't hurt my feelings if you don't like either...my own mother makes faces at the names I chose for my children. :) And like I said, this is just for fun anyway, and we'll choose her name regardless of "popular opinion". No offense of course. :) I'm going to put up a poll on the sidebar...check it out! The 2 options thus far are...

Tirzah - meaning: pleasantness, delight
pronunciation: TEERzah
origin: Hebrew

Blythe - meaning: happy, joyous
pronunciation: Blithe
origin: English