Baby Charlie

Life is good. We just had a great Sunday, one of the talks in Sacrament especially hit home. It was about balance. I have been thinking a lot about balance lately. It seems everything comes back to being balanced. Whenever I am troubled about what to do with a particular thing it seems the answer revolves somewhere around being balanced. So the lesson is that we need to be balanced in all aspects of our life, temporal, spiritual, emotional, etc.

Baby Charlie has been doing somersaults in my stomach lately. We had an ultrasound last week that showed things are going very well and he was head down during the ultrasound. Later though I could tell he had moved back to breech. Right now he seems to alternate a lot and the midwife isn't concerned because he was very easy to turn. Being all baby helps in all of this. The placenta continues to move away from the scar which is also a good sign. Hopefully everything goes according to plan. We are being very prayerful about the whole matter. People give us all different kinds of reactions to the home birth thing so it has been interesting. Chris wouldn't even consider doing it unless he got a definite "yes" in his prayers. I am more of a risk taker than him, but luckily the Lord knows the right balance (see there is the whole balance thing again). In truth, Chris and I balance each other real well. I am more spontaneous and he is more organized. Thankfully the Lord had helped us to be a great team.

The yard is almost completely ready for planting now, we chopped down our last tree and all we have left to do is remove the stump (we have already have done several). We may move one of our lime trees to the back yard as well, but we still have a lot of wood to chop up and bundle too. Maybe Chris can use all of that with scouts or we'll have the garbage haul it away. We can't wait to get our trees and get them going. Our strawberries survived the Houston winter (even with an actual hard freeze) and already have some strawberries growing. We are going to eventually move them to the front and hope to have them set up in the next couple of weeks. We just hope this all pays off.