Hey Everyone! I hope you are all having a great summer. I can't believe it is just about September. This past month has just flown by. Last weekend Charlie, Baby & I participated in an Adoption Fundraiser Run put on by Beating Hearts. Beating Hearts is an organization that works to raise awareness for Adoption in hopes to end Abortion. The organization put on their very first Fun Run/Walk this year to help support Adoption families and Pro-Life Organization. When I had first registered us for this race I had good intentions that I would be just fine running a 5k and that being pregnant would not get in the way of that. Well let's just say it was a good thought however I just have not had the time to run this summer like I have in the past and so I went for a "practice" run the day before the race only to find that it was not as easy as I had anticipated. The baby just feels so low already and the bouncing action while running just seems to make it drop all the more and get rock hard. So...I opted out of the 5k and decided to just to the 1 mile Run. It was a beautiful morning after an evening thunderstorm and baby and I had a great run...Auntie Jasmyn even came down and decided to join us for the run. Charlie would have run with me I'm sure, but his run with me is more or less a walk...he's too nice so he wouldn't say that, but it's pretty obvious if you'd ever watch us run together. Anyways like I said, it was a great morning and a lot of fun. We hope to take part in the race again in the future to support other families in the adoption process.
That same night we attended a wedding for one of Charlie's co-workers which was a lot of fun. It was an outdoor wedding and it got VERY HOT but it was beautiful and we had a lot of fun just getting to relax and socialize with some of his co-workers.
On Sunday we were privileged to witness the baptism of my youngest sister, Jamaica, as well as my parents and sister Jasmyn as they became members of Central Baptist Church in Sioux Falls. Jamaica had been anticipating this day for quite awhile, but with the move and all the changes that took place over this past year it didn't happen right away. They were all baptized as infants and my parents and sister Jasmyn have made profession of faith through the CRC/RC denomination, but with the desire to now join the Baptist denomination, they decided that they would like to recommit their lives to Christ through public adult baptism. We enjoyed getting to share in this special day with them.
This past Tuesday we had our 26 week appointment. At this appointment they checked for gestation diabetes. Everything came back good which was nice to hear. We once again got to hear our little one's heartbeat which is always exciting, and Dr. Anderson was able to tell how baby was positioned. Currently our little one is laying sideways, which makes sense based on where I've been feeling all the movement lately. It's crazy to think that next weekend already we are attending our very first birthing classes.
Tonight we look forward to hanging out with the Zomermaand family adults as we enjoy a round of golf together and then supper. We have a tradition of going out for supper as adults from time to time to celebrate birthdays within the family which has been a fun tradition. Then tomorrow we will be headed up to the Sioux Falls/Worthing area to take part in the Life Light Festival this weekend. If you happen to come out, my sisters and I will be performing three separate times on Sunday, Sept. 1st. We will be singing an acapella song during the offering at the morning church service and then we will perform on the Kaleidoscope Stage at 12:30 p.m. and 7:15 p.m. Our 12:30 p.m. set will be praise and worship and then our 7:15 p.m. set will be more of a performance in which we'll share many of the songs we have written ourselves as well as some of our favorite cover songs. We hope you all have a great Labor Day Weekend!
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