a word from lilly jo...

that's right, we're having a GIRL! this afternoon seth and i were able to get a little preview of our daughter at the doctor's office. for the second time in a row, seth has beat me in the game of guessing the sex as we're watching the technician perform the ultrasound.
a HUGE shoutout to our brother-in-law john for watching his two kids and our two kids so seth and i could enjoy the visit alone and not have any meltdowns while waiting for the doctor. thank you uncle john!!!!

we had fun finding out that God has been forming miss amelia kate inside of me and we cannot wait to meet her in may! i am so curious what another girl will look like that is not lilly jo.

Praise God all seems to be going well in terms of amelia's growth, as far as doctor's can see. so we'll keep praying for her and look forward to the day we meet in person!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas from the Sarver side of the family...
(left to right: uncle john, matthew, aunt natalie, milana, lilly jo, nana, rebecca, seth, jack, aunt cathy)

I hope this Christmas season has caused you to think and reflect upon the greatest gift of all - God's only Son, Jesus, sent to earth to save us from our sins!

Isaiah 9:6
"For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace."

and now for something completely different...

ok, so it's not completely different if you consider the fact that we just had 2 back-to-back.

however, i know this one is completely different in that he/she is uniquely and wonderfully made by God and will look different than lilly jo and jack, and he/she will arive in late may.
nowhere near january like our first two. that's totally different, right?

seth and i have really enjoyed seeing lilly jo's reactions this time around, as opposed to when i was pregnant with jack and she was still a baby in lots of ways. but now, she knows where the baby is, she can say "baby", she likes to kiss (and blow on my belly) the baby, and i think that her love for the baby will only grow as he/she grows!

i am 16 wks and 1 day in these pictures above...and we'll find out the sex of the child at the end of december...we can't wait!

we're so thankful for God's blessing in giving us a 3rd child!

emotional

you can tell it was an emotional Felton Stew Day football game for jack as he watched his dada play...

cold turkey

no, we're not still eating it or anything, but we did get rid of lj's paci's on thanksgiving night. and voila, they're gone. we went with the method my mom used when she got rid of mine as a child. it seemed to fit well because, like myself as a kid, lilly jo is facinated with the trashman and also with throwing things away in the trash for us (quite a big helper she is!). so thxgiving night we brought her a trashcan and asked her to say 'bye bye' to her pacis and throw them in the trash. sure enough they all went in without a question. we talked that night about how the trashman would come the next day and take them away, and so we watched him when he came and said 'bye bye' to the paci's again. and she's never cried about them at all. not once. she does ask about them, but always with the curious sense that she knows the answer and we talk about it and remind her that we said 'bye bye' to them and that the trashman took them away. and she always says, "yeah." like she usually does in her cute voice.

i will say naptimes have been a tad shorter without the paci, and the girl will now talk for about an hour in bed each night. loudly (poor jack). but she doesn't ever cry or whine for them, so i'm not complaining!