Fold up yer prayin' hands, people...

It's time to get down to business....
I visited my dr. this morning to find out why I was spotting... sorry fellas, TMI.
Looks like it could be anything; a HPT at the dr's gave a very faint positive pregnancy sign, so that's good. The blood tests she took today (and will again Monday afternoon) can help us determine what's going on.

So, this is where you come in. I waffled back and forth letting everyone in on our baby-news so early for a good long while, but I had to tell my family and friends back home because you ARE back home. I had to connect with you all. Now that you've shared in the joy, I hope you can share in our prayers at this time. Knowing that God's arms are around me, not only because He loves and cares for me, but also on YOUR behalf, means the world to me. I need my strong people! Gerald is a ROCK here for me, and I'm so grateful. He's most likely heading to Oshkosh, Wisconsin on Wednesday with a friend to visit an Air Show/Convention for aviation enthusiasts (ask him about the plane he wants to buy...), so he'll be out of commission for a while. Pray that God gives me peace of mind next week. Also, pray that Monday's dr. visit will be productive and positive.

Thank you all for loving me so much. A girl doesn't deserve such a wonderful family!
~gin :-)

Wow!

So I know yall are about as surprised as I am excited, right? My first appointment will be on August 7th, so I'll have more info then. I'll appreciate all your prayers. Just wanted to say Hi to everyone who have stopped by to give their well wishes. Thank you, and we love you!!!

LOTS going on...

Hi there,
Thanks for stopping by... :-) Work has been going well. We're leveling off from the super-busy-ness of end of school, and that's both good and bad. Good for sanity, bad for business. Well, not bad so much as making us work harder for future months. What's a job without hard work, though?

Gerald's studying for his private pilot's license. He's got a mentor-friend-neighbor (when it's not parentheses, it's dashes, apparently.) we met thru church who is helping him learn the ropes... or wingflaps or whatever. We're excited because it can allow us to travel a little easier. I love to fly, anyway. :-)

Some very early breaking news for you... I'm pregnant. (it felt very weird typing those words just now.) Very early. I want people to know so we can have a community of believers praying for us. We told our family, and many of our friends tonight, and we'll have to make more calls tomorrow morning. My first dr. visit will be August 3rd, so I'll have more info after that. That's about all I know. This is definitely an answer to our prayers, and we know God is faithful to hear our prayers. Thank you all from DEEP down, for lifting us up to God in prayer. We are so ridiculously excited, that we just had to share right away!

Love and Miss all of you!
~gin

hey there :)

• had a training in Charlotte today. 3 hours there, 4 hour training (for a program that takes 12 hours total), and 3 hours back. sooooo sleepys.
• new favorite show: The Biggest Loser!!! We're loving watching reruns. A bit inspirational! :-)
• also, So You Think You Can Dance. I mean really? What's more to love? "I, I am a dancer. That's who I am; What I do!" It was good to see last year's competitors in the audience Wed. nite.
  
• ummmm. I think that's it.
• oh! I bout some new ann taylor loft pants. WAH-HOO! I went down a pants size w/o trying. :)
  

Hoo-Ray

(has that been a post title before?)

leave it to me to open up with a parentheses!

capitalsbedammed! my pinky shift keys are tired.

i went to the dentist on monday. SCARY (see, that was caps-lock and not shift-shift-shift-shift-shift) but i made it. the hygenist said i had pretty teeth. yay! they better be pretty after all the craziness they've endured. and NOOOOO CAVITIES!!!!! that may've been tmi for some people, but for a denta-phobe like me, it's wonderful news.

i'm importing some cds into my itunes (and my ipod has crapped out on me twice and has already had a vacation to apple-land in california once). wanna know what i'm listening to? (or planning on?) AHOY, BULLETPOINTS (again the capslock)

• dave matthews band: central park concert
• gaither vocal band: God is good. (there's 2 contrasting music styles if i've ever heard 'em)
• mary mary: thankful
• crystal lewis: hymns-my life
• martina mcbride: martina
• harry connick jr.: to see you
• pfr: goldie's last day (one of the cd's i've owned the longest)
• center stage soundtrack
• point of grace: rarities and remixes (i originally typed "pint" of grace, and toyed with the notion of keeping it that way. i'm goofy, remember? that's why you love me.)
• "the all time greatest movie songs" yes it's a cd, and i have it.

thoughts

• Proud of Jordin Sparks... she's such a cutie-pie, curlie-girl AmericanIdol. :-)
• New obsession: So You Think You Can Dance. WOO HOOOOOO!!!
• Brindle-pup's birthday is this Friday. I'll hafta, erm, FIND the camera, then take pics of his burfday special-ness!!!
• we had a BLAST in Arkansas for the graduation. It was so great to see all of our family, and the Joneseseseses and the Smiths... wish we could've had the whole Fun-roe contingent, though. We would've DEFINITELY livened up the "legal procedings" with duck calls and cowbells. :-)
• on the way to AR, we stopped in Nashville to do dinner with my former college roomie and head-turner, Ms. Wright, who will be Mrs. Flatt in November. We had a WONDERFUL time catching up (and eating, of course). Her fiance' John is such a great guy, and he makes her quite thrilled, which is ANYTHING a girl can ask for her friend... (and just fyi, P.F. Changs has a killer Key Lime Pie Martini!)
• hmm. what else?
• Oh! We have rabbits in the backyard. Brindle wants to play. If we had a fence, he could.
• I'm happy to see Studio 60 back on the air, at least for a little bit.

Okay, I think that's it for now. Wanna know more? Email me. :-)
~LAMY

Hmmm... What's up?
My pup is curled up at my feet, snoring away. He's such a stinker! :-)
We're headed to LR next week because you-know-who seems to think she wants to become a lawyer or something. (we're both so proud of her!) I'm so excited because I'll get to see family and friends that I haven't seen in quite a while, and it'll be a nice, long visit. For those who are wondering, we'll be in LR sometime that Thursday, and we plan to drive out that Sunday sometime.

Had to take my volvo in for many reasons today: oil change, battery/sluggish start, and squishy brakes. With a bunch of warranty hoo-hah, I have this to say: MY CAR IS A SPOILED DIVA! Nothing but the best for that Swedish Beauty.... I wonder if Ikea sells cars. ;-) No, really... she's a good car. Let me not type too loud for fear of her breaking down on us on the trip. But parts are really a pain, and the warranty doesn't cover a lot of it.

We had a few visits since I last posted. Mom and Joey came up for Easter, and it was such a fun time. It even "snowed-ish" on Easter Morning. It was the first time since high school that I had spent more than a day or so with my brother. We played "catch-up" for much of the time. I've been in a very reminiscent mood lately... I wonder why. Anyway, great food, great times! A&J's visit was a whole lotta fun, too. They got to visit our church with us. We decided to become members of Crosspointe, and we're really enjoying meeting new people. Gerald has already found a place to serve: soundboard for the Middle and High School services! Now all we need is for me to get plugged in with the youth somewhere, and we'll be set! :-) The messages have been really fantastic and exactly what I've needed to hear. Isn't God great like that?

Alicia and Chris (my neighbors) are getting married in September, and they've asked me to be a bridesmaid. I'm very much looking forward to the trip to the beach that weekend... imagine a wedding on the beach at sunset. How pretty! This is a pic of Gerald and Me taken on the night of their engagement party. Yes, my hair is straight... it took nearly 2 hours to get it that way, and that's why you never see my hair straight. And I'm growing it out. I'm tired of it being short. Anyway, this is a pic that I took in the bridal shop the day we got Alicia's dress. I found the ULTIMATE Bridesmaid's Dress.....Tangerine Chiffon. Ain't it purty? No, it's not our Bridesmaid's dress, thank the lord! Ours is a simple white linen mossimo dress from target, twenty bucks, can I get an amen!














Work is going really well. I've become closer friends with our "new" director, and we hang out about once a month. She's new to the area, and I know the lonely feelings she's going through... without family and just starting out. We've really had a chance to bond, without sounding too cheesy, and I count her as one of my closest friends here. There are going to be some big changes coming about at our center in the next several months. With JP on maternity leave (if you're not sure if a person's coming back after that period of time, do you call it "maternity left"?) and TR starting her master's internship in the spring, we're bringing in a director from another local center to help share the load. (Sorry, but every time I hear/say that phrase, I can't help but hear Samwise Gamgee saying, "Share The Load" re: the ring. I'm a dork. You know that. That's why you love me.) Kathryn is going to be such an asset to our center, if we don't go out of our heads trying to deal with Kathleen, Kathryn, and Kaitlyn. SHEESH!

Okay, pup is now pleading with me to take him upstairs to his so-comfterbuhls bed, so I'll just post these couple of pics and be off.

LAMY!!!
ps.... Melinda Doolittle ROCKS! (see post below)