Hurricane IKE

So, if you've been in a hole lately, you aren't aware that Mommy Mere and Daddy Jere Pete have a hurricane headed straight for us!!! SO what have we done in the way of preparation you ask??

Boarded up our windows?????

Filled our gas tanks????

Headed for Austin????

Filled the bathtub with water??? WHAT????? WHY DO THAT???? So that if we are without electricity for days on end we can use the water to flush the potty after we take care of business.

Bought an abundance of can foods and galllons and gallons of water??????

Had a baby?????? Not yet ~ she has decided to wait out the storm inside Mommy Mere's belly!! That's a good little girl, Rachel!!!

Some of those things we have in fact done. However, the biggest preparation work we've done is outlined here!!! What do you think???







What do you think of our Hurricane Cake???? Hey, IKE means laughter according to Pastor Mike!!!! So let's pray and wait and see what Daddy God will do in this storm to bring joy to His kids!!!

In other news

My Dad is coming to town this weekend!!!! I can't wait to see him ~ I last saw him in December 0f 2006 when I graduated from college!!! We will also get to see my brother and sister in law!!! Haven't seen them since I was about 11 weeks preggo ~ I'm MUCH bigger now!!!!

I'm learning so much about my Daddy God too!!! He is showing me that He will take care of us and we are where He wants us to be dispite what the world says!!! I have decided to keep my eyes fixed on Him and not get distracted as Peter did (Matt 14). I realized that if it had been up to Jesus all His disciples would have stepped outta that stinking boat and walked on the water to Him. Hey, Jesus, what does it look like to dance on the water to You?????

Ummmm . . . Wednesday night

So . . . . on Wednesday around 5:30, I started having strange feelings in the baby area. Then they progressed to contractions and continued to come on a pattern. OK . . . here we go, it's BABY DAY!!!!! I'm all emotional and fussing at Jere to do this and that as I pack my bag (hadn't done that yet) to take the Birth Center. And the pains keep happening . . . around 7:15 we decide to start recording them ~ 45 sec and 10 min apart. HERE WE GO!!!! We are having a baby tonight!! I call my mom, Bethy, Dr. Amber (our chiro who will be there when we have her), and . . . any one else under the sun that I can think of . . . .hey its BABY DAY!!!! Jere passes out around 11pm but I cannot sleep if my life depended on it. I'm up and clocking my contractions. My midwifes, Melanie and Katherine, say to wait till contractions are 5 minutes apart lasting for 60 seconds for an hour to call. SO. . . .I'm still keeping track as Daddy sleeps. I am sitting on the toilet in case my water breaks I don't want to clean THAT mess up for about half an hour clocking my contractions. SO at 1 am they have met the CALL KATHERINE QUOTA!!!!! I call and she said to get some sleep and call back when they are 3 minutes apart!!! WHAT???!!!?????? Ok, so I lay down and pretend to rest (that's all I can do) for an hour and a half. Then I take a candle lit shower at 2:30 am (I forgot to mention the PB and J sandwich at 1 am!! Hey, I was hungry!!!) and call Katherine back at 2:45 with the new status report of 3 minutes apart. She tells me to time the next few and call her right back. OK . . .I clock them and its 3 minutes apart. So she says lets meet at the Birth Center!! I wake up Daddy and say its time to go . . . call Mom, Bethy, and the beloved Dr. Amber to pass on the news. We get to the Center just as Katherine gets there. We go back to check my cervix (I was sure it had to be at least 3 or 4 cm dialated) and . . . its still a 1 and thick!!! Katherine sent us home ~ VERY SAD!!! It was supposed to be BABY DAY!!!! But I was wrong :-( Guess Rachel is not ready after all!!!

BTW ~ Jere did call Mom (coming from Katy) and Dr Amber, and I called Bethy to let them know the new news.

The picts are:
top: when they started happening and I was a basket case (that's how I've been lately),
middle: when we came home without our little girl (at 4 am),
bottom: Daddy after coming home without his little girl (at 4 am)!!

AND SO WE WAIT . . . . .

Labor Day 2008

Here we are on Monday, September 1, 2008!!! I went to the midwife's office on Wednesday and she told me that on Thursday I would be 37 weeks and cleared for take-off!!!! We shall see what the little one decides to do from there!!!