Hello spring semester, new furniture, and new changes!

Winter semester has finally come to a  close. Malone is happy to enjoy a week off of school and will be starting his LAST semester next week. This semester came with it's share of challenges for Malone and I. But we are excited to start anew this semester. At the end of last semester  Malone had trouble with a big paper for his class. The teacher gave him a failing grade on it, which would have failed him in the entire class. If Malone didn't pass this class, he would not have graduated next semester. After 24 hours of prayers, it turned out the teacher was nice enough to work with Malone and he was able to fix his paper and turn it in for a grade. Malone was able to pass his class. What a huge blessing that was!

Malone and I have also been blessed to find some used furniture to replace our couch and chair we've had forever. The new couch and loveseat as well as a glider rocker (for the nursery) are all beige microfiber and cost us about $400 total. And we had some friends of ours sell us some of their furniture since they were moving out of the country next week. We got two bookshelves, three lamps, some decorations, a framed painting, and a long pretty mirror for about $130. It's fun to see our house look put together and nice! The couches are really comfortable too. I had to clean them up a bit when we got them (the lady we got them from had kids and a dog), but they look pretty good now. They still kind of smell like someone else's house, but it's going away.



Kayto knows he's not allowed on the furniture, but he's pushing his boundaries here!

I am 13 weeks along now, and I am starting to feel like I'm poking out a little more. I can't sleep on my stomach like I use to, it feels like I'm laying on a baseball. It's a little hard to tell I'm showing since I already had a bit of a gut there from before, but I know it'll just get bigger and bigger as time goes on. I am excited to see some changes! The last couple days I have been making an effort to try to watch what I'm eating, how much, and eat more fruits/veggies. I'm not going to say I've been perfect at it, but I am trying to do better than I did the day before. The scale hasn't moved much, which is surprising, but that'll change too in time. I am still feeling really great, not sick really at all. That's also been a huge blessing, because I don't know what I would have done if I was sick all this time!