As I posted earlier, we bought a house! So after we closed on the house we spent 6 weeks working on it 24/7 to get it ready to move into. So it came to be moving week... finally. I (Mandy) had been sick on and off for a few weeks during construction and finally, 3 days before moving, Jason convinced me to take a pregnancy test "just to rule it out". And instead of ruling it out, we were shocked to find out that we were expecting our third little Kirschenmann. We were caught a little off guard, but we were VERY happy. Children are such a blessing from God!
Then two days later (the day before the move) we got a call that everybody dreads. Our pastor, Brian McGuire was having a heart attack. We rushed to the ER. But he had passed away. We were devastated. He was Jason's boss, mentor and our friend. He was only 52 and had 6 kids, 3 still living at home. Please remember his wife and children in your prayers.
So we still had to move the next day, I just wanted to put it all in a pile in the front lawn and light a match. Our stuff just didn't seem important to me at the time. Our church was SO wonderful though. They helped us move, even arranged the furniture and set up the beds. Some ladies came and put up our curtains, and cleaned the bathroom and put the girls' rooms together. So wonderful to have people in our lives that will do that.
Then the very next day was Miriam's 4th birthday. We had a party at McDonald's planned but we postponed it, we just weren't feeling very PlayPlacey that day.
The last 3 weeks have been a roller coaster of emotions. So happy, so sad, confusing, stressful, exhausting. Now both girls and I are fighting a bug of some kind, just feeling yucky. So the unpacking is going much slower than I had hoped, but I'm not stressed about it. I have 3 months worth of new pictures to post, and a new ultrasound picture! Sometime soon I will do that. Just wanted to tell you all why we fell off the grid for a while.
P.S. At the ultrasound we found out that I had been pregnant for a while, since mid December. So I'm 10 weeks along, baby due in September! YAY!
