We are going to have a baby!

In case you haven't heard the news yet, we wanted to let you all know that we are expecting a baby to arrive on the scene somewhere around July 15th!

Right now Kara is 8 weeks along (9 this Saturday) and so the baby is still super tiny, only 1/2 inch long, about the size of a blueberry. So far Kara and the baby both seem healthy, we are very thankful to have been approved for Michigan Medicaid, which will cover all the Doctor's visits, ultra-sound, testing, etc. We also are thankful that we have a Doctor right next door to us, his office is in the hospital, so we are able to just walk over there for our appointments, and will be able to get just about everything done all in the same building.

Last week we had to get an ultrasound done and we got to both hear and see the baby's heartbeat, so that was super cool, and it was encouraging to know that the baby was growing as it should and there didn't seem to be and problems from what the doctors could see.

Please be praying for Kara as the "morning" sickness is lasting all day and she is also having quite a bit of abdominal pain. Because of this, she isn't going to be trying to work over this Christmas break. Please pray for strength for Malachi as he has been continuing to stay busy with school, work, cars, etc, and now he has also been helping with a lot around the house when Kara's sick. He's been pretty exhausted lately.

We do have another exciting thing, Malachi just found out a few nights ago that he has a temporary raise at work for during the Christmas season. He has worked very hard, so its neat to see this raise work out.