Shower with paint...

My wonderful husband left me all week for Kansas City. He was being submerged into the world of school again. Karl had an evaluation about 6 months ago. He and his direct sat down and Karl decided he wanted to be PMP certified by Oct. 07. His boss asked him to change his goal to attempt the PMP certification and Karl changed his goal. Still, he went full force. Being inundated with stretches, functions to make his brain retain more and more new information, high protein diet, no sugar and few carbs; Karl had a full week of arrow spinning new information being thrown at him and on Friday he was able to test. MY HUSBAND PASSED! I am now married to Karl Wayne McDonald, PMP. He is officially a Project Manager Professional! He is super excited and with super reasons to be! We are thankful God took him through this class and he is able to mark a HUGE goal off of his list!

Way to go, BABE! I love being your baby’s momma…

This week is my last week at work in Newton, Iowa. I have been working in Human Resources Dept. at the Career Resource Center for Maytag which was bought out by Whirlpool. Since the acquisition, we have been helping salaried individuals through their career transition. I has been awe inspiring (all the emotions) and such a great learning experience. I have been driving 45 minutes (all interstate)! Now, I am going to be working in the Des Moines area for my boss and my drive will be all of 10-15 minutes! WHOOP!
The lovely (extremely professional) ladies at work blessed us with all kinds of baby goodies today and we had a blast. It’s so weird to be a part of this group. I am not a “professional” person. I am me…not sure how to explain my work persona. Anyway, these ladies are fantastic and they showered us with blessings. The director that I will continue to work for personally knit this little sweater/jacket for us. All of the gifts were so wonderful and nice. I have a special place in my heart for homemade things. I will be the first to admit that I will go out and buy something off of the shelf to give as a gift, but when someone puts that much thought and time into a gift, it just makes it that much more special. Guess I get it honest from my mom and Mama Denton!
We are truly blessed…me and my PMP husband!

Family Reunion

We have made it to 32 weeks and everything is checking our GREAT!

Thank you, God!

This last weekend we were able to fly into Dallas and spend the weekend with Sherry and Chad (Karl's sister and husband). Friday evening we were going to go stay in Arlington with his aunt but Karl and Sherry decided they wanted the time to themselves and we stayed in Anna, Texas with Sherry and Chad! We had a blast. Saturday morning we traveled to Arlington to the McGrew Family Reunion (Karl's grandmother's family). We played games, ate and played more games, then at 3 pm they had a shower for us!

Karl and I were blessed with many, many baby things and fun, sweet items covered the room. Some of my favorite gifts; mom made a couple of blankets (one is from some material she found in Mexico this last year - sweet memories), a John Deere pig that plays the nursery rhyme "This little piggy and wiggles it's toes, a mirror for the car so the baby can have something to look at (as well as I can keep an eye on baby), hooded towels and some really cute/precious clothes. We were so loaded, that the extra bag we brought (which I thought would be more than big enough, wasn't even close). Karl and I needed some luggage and out we went to buy two pieces to get all of our gear home safely!

We are truly blessed to be a part of such a wonderful, Christian family! Mom and Amy were even able to come up to Arlington for the day and spend with us. You know Amy; she brings fun and laughter to every event. I really enjoyed getting to see them, even if it was for just a few hours. I do miss being close to our family. I am super glad that I have one of my sisters up here but I look forward to the day where we can all be closer more often. I am thankful now for the times that we are allowed to be together!

Karl, Andrea, Robert (Karl's dad) Sherry and Chad

After the shower, Chad, Sherry, Karl, Amy, mom and I headed to meet Cindy and Johnny (Karl's mom and step-dad) for supper. We had a blast at dinner and after dark, allowed our family to depart and go their separate ways. It was good to see Cindy and Johnny as well and I appreciate them also for driving up from Frankston just to have supper with us.

Chad, Sherry, Cindy (Karl's mom), Johnny, Baby K, me, Karl