Please vote for my baby!

Hello my bloggy friends....

I just signed up Elanie for a contest and all I need is for you to go to this link http://www.kdhnews.com/babyohbaby/ and go to the "E" and find her name and click on the Free Vote. You can vote starting today, Sept 1st thru the 30th of Sept. You can only vote once a day from the same computer since they count the votes by the IP address. I also found out that you can NOT vote from your cell.

We would appreciate all the votes we can get!

Thanks and I will keep ya'll updated :)

In Christ,
Melanie & Elanie

Prayers for Grandma

Hello my bloggy friends,

We are asking for everyones prayers for my Grandma Maria who is in the hospital. She has been there since last Thursday with heart problems, chest pain, and an episode of a seizure. She is a diabetic and has heart problems. She is in her 80's and she has lived a long life! She is such a strong woman that I just know she can pull thru but this is the weakest I have seen her. Right now they are testing her for many things. We know there is a valve in her heart that is slowly closing. They are afraid of doing an open heart surgery because of her others medical problems and because of her age.

Please pray for all of us for strength and comfort as we go thru all of this...

Thanks in advance for your prayers!

Love,
Melanie

She is here... she's been here... lol

I know a little late but she has finally arrived!

Elanie Rosaluz...

...was born on June 6th @ 9:02 p.m. weighing in at 8lbs 14 oz and measuring at 19 inches.

We are so so blessed and give God all the glory for He is magnificent...

Sorry I haven't updated anyone but MAN is life busy now...

Hubby is back overseas and we are praying for his safe return home next year!

God bless you all and THANK you from the bottom of our hearts for all the prayers that were said after I miscarried in 2008, while we were trying, and thru the pregnancy.

Love you all!

Birth story to come shortly! :)

I hope ya'll are still reading my blog LOL

Awaiting His arrival and Her arrival :)

Hey everyone...

This will be a quick post! Well today was my last dr's appt and I have not dilated anything.... Frustrating BUT I know why now.... Hubby is coming for her birth :) I had to do a Red Cross message just to get him to fly out SOON. I will be induced on Sunday at 10pm so please pray for us...

I am praying that Elanie comes when the Lord wants her to come and that if hubby is here well so be it but if he isn't well it's all in His timing not ours!

Just waiting for my hubby's phone call to let me know the flight details :)

One happy wife and soon to be momma!

Pray for us please :)

She isn't ready, but Mommy is....

Hello my blogging friends,

Sorry about not blogging... I have been so busy with so much that I don't even know where to start. From reading my last post I was still in Missouri and we had just found out of my placenta problem and my hubby deploying so let me start from there:

Since the dr's in Missouri were telling me I had Placenta Previa and then they were thinking baby girl had IUGR (when baby isn't measuring correctly) my hubby and I decided since he had to deploy that I would move to Texas to be with my mother and family. We were so blessed to have my mom, step dad, 2 uncles, and my aunt come and get me and my 2 dogs and also help us clean our home so that we could turn it back into the military since I wouldn't go back to Missouri. The military was giving us a hard time with alot of different things to the point that my hubby had to just tell us to go ahead and leave and that we would see each other in a year :( WOW talk about the hardest "see you later" cause we don't say "goodbye." What we were trying to do was see him "off" to his next destination but I had to leave him all alone in out house. It was so so sad that I cried for days and still do :(

He was able to come to Texas to see me and his 2 boys before he had to depart so that was exciting :) He was able to go to my first appointment at the new hospital I am going to here in Texas so that was nice. He was only able to stay for a week and then I saw him fly away :( Being pregnant and having my husband deploy is so hard that I don't wish this on anyone! He has been deployed for 3 months now and we will see each other in July for 2 weeks.

About baby girl~Elanie~well she has not made her appearance YET! From all the things they were telling me in Missouri I no longer have Placenta Previa *Praise God* and she does not have IUGR *Praise God*. I am 39 weeks and 6 days today and I am READY! She needs to come on out...but she doesn't want to! I have been seeing some really good dr's and have found the one! He is a resident but its all good. He is so understanding and always asks about how my hubby is doing. Hubby won't be able to be here for the delivery but it's okay cause he will come a few weeks later :)

We can't wait to meet our precious little one!

We had an awesome baby shower and OMG I got so much stuff that living here at my mothers house is the hardest because there is hardly no room :(

I have some prayer requests:

*that Elanie will come on her own and that I will not have to get induced

*that my delivery will go smooth :)

*that my hubby will keep walking with the Lord and for protection

Thank you everyone that care for us so much :)

We love you and can't wait to post a pic of our precious little one!!!

In Christ,

Melanie

He will hold us together...

Hello my blogger friends,

Let me see if I can get thru this post without crying (yeah right, a pregnant woman = crying). Alot has been going on in our life and well I want to share it with each of you because we are in need of prayers.

Last Wednesday I had an ultrasound done here at my regular hospital and the u/s tech explained that I have what they call Placenta Previa. She stated its lying pretty low and close to the cervix. Usually placentas will move in time as the uterus grows so with that I received a call on Thursday from a dr that I have been diagnosed with Placenta Previa. He said that I have to bring everything that I do daily to a minimum. Which means I can clean but not the way I used to, no intercourse, and well just laying low. I went ahead and quit my job at the church which they were okay with and have been home since last Friday just resting with my feet up, trying not to go up the stairs often, and just starting to take care of Elanie and I. Tomorrow I see my dr for a follow up. I am 24 wks and some days and we are hoping to be able to get more info from him. Oh and because of the placenta issue more than likely if it doesn't move I will have a Csection.

Then this last Friday my husband went to work cause he was called in by his Colonel and was told that he has orders to be deployed to Afghanistan in 2 weeks. Since it was Friday and the post was closing due to the bad weather we had he really couldn't find out any other information other than he will leave in 2 weeks. Mind you 2 weeks is not enough time especially now that I am pretty much on partial bedrest. This hurt me so bad when he was telling me that all I could do was cry. I asked my husband if he thought he could get out of it because of my High Risk pregnancy and he said he would try. On Monday he went in and he has to go no matter what. It's a "up to 365" deployment.

We are praying and believing that all will be well with us as we are apart for a year. It's the hardest thing as a wife, and a first time mom to be (the tears started) without having my husband with me. I will be moving out of our house and will live in Texas with my mom since I really can't do alot in this 2 story house and then on top of that I have my two dogs that I can't take out cause of the snow, etc... I am trying to deal thru this with God's strength and peace because without Him I would just be a disaster. My husband is at peace thru all of this and knows that its all in God's hands. We know that God knew about all this before we knew of it so we are okay with it.

Ever since Elanie has came into our lives in my womb our marriage has changed so much and its so beautiful. I will miss my husband so much and wish that he could be here thru out the rest of the pregnancy but thats not God's will. His plan is to be able to come for the delivery for 2 weeks and during the rest of the time he is gone to start building our house in Texas.

Please pray for us for strength, peace, and that everything will work out as we leave this military post with the house, etc...

Thank you all so much!

~Melanie~

Happy New Year and Pregnancy Blog

Happy New Year to all my Blogging friends! I hope each of you had a wonderful Christmas and New Years and that 2010 will be the year of many blessings for all of you! Amen! We had a great time in Texas for Christmas and New Year and we couldn't ask for more.

So now it's official I went ahead and made me a new blog here of our little one on the way (add yourself as a follower if you'd like!)... As of today I am 20w 5d. I just had my Level II ultrasound on Wednesday and the results were amazing! Baby girl looks like she is growing in my whole uterus PRAISE GOD (they are now saying its a probable bicornuate uterus, so what that meant to us was it could be or may not be, but no sign of a septum or baby growing on one side of the uterus) That was something we were worried about but why worry when you have God by your side?!!!? Hubby and I went in "thinking" BOY and we were WRONG! So now to share the best news with his 2 boys :)

I got a touch of a head cold and am hoping it will go away soon as Sudafed makes my heart race really fast and it scared me so I stopped taking it and am just taking care of myself without meds.

Well I gotta get some things done around the house! Love all of ya'll and wishing ya'll a great weekend.

~Melanie~

Shopping Websites Anyone?

Hello bloggy friends~

I was wondering if anyone knew of any cool shopping websites to buy Christmas gifts. I have been searching Amazon, Ebay, and Etsy but I need others. I am not looking for anything particular just want some good sales. Where I live there is only Walmart so yeah I need to shop online!

Thanks,

Melanie

It is well with my soul

I love the song "It is well with my soul" because I remember that song when I lost Nehemiah last year. When I layed their on the hospital bed while I got my last look at Nehemiah was laying at the bottom of my uterus with no heartbeat I remember hearing the Lord tell me "It is well." After my miscarriage my mom bought me a CD from the Lakewood Church where Joel Osteen preaches and in it was this song "It is well with my soul."

As I think of this song going thru this pregnancy all I can tell myself is "It is well" because I struggle each and everyday with so much fear and doubt. I keep reminding myself that fear and doubt is NOT of the Lord but of the enemy. I have been trying to keep myself in the Word and praying that the Lord will be with me at all times even when I do fear and doubt. I have been pulling scripture. I've asked many friends what verses have they read when they were pregnant. *It is well with my soul*
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See I have a Bicornuate Uterus (heart-shaped) that I was diagnosed with back in 2006. I was told by that dr that it's nothing to worry about. In July of this year hubby and I decided to see a Reproductive Endocrinologist to make sure that all will be well to get pregnant with my uterus. He did an ultrasound and said that I am not a candidate for the removal of the septum that parts the uterus on the top. He made it seem that its just a thicker lining on the top of my uterus. And I still worry... I was placed on Clomid to help me ovulate in July and August and I conceived in August :) *It is well with my soul*
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I started seeing my midwife from my 5th and have seen her my 10th, and my 13th week and ever since the Lord has shown me that He is with me every second of my life and of my lil ones life as well. Because they see me as high risk I see my midwife pretty often and each time she is always giving me a ultrasound and listening to the beautiful heartbeat. My 13th week appt I was given a referral to a Maternal/Fetal Specialist during my 18th week up until I deliver. The procedure that will be done at the Specialist will be a Level II ultrasound and then he will monitor me due to the abn uterus. *It is well with my soul*
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Yesterday I had to go to the ER (for a possible UTI) because you can't just go up to Labor & Delivery until you are 20 weeks. So since im 15 weeks I had to see the ER dr and was seen pretty quickly and told that my urine was fine. The dr thinks I am not drinking enough fluids which is true. They then said they were gonna measure my lil ones heartbeat which of course was a HUGE highlight for me :) Baby Blessing heartbeat was 146! I was then told to go see my midwife cause my ER dr couldn't get ahold of her to give her heads up that I was there so I went to see her and she thinks the same thing that I need to drink more fluids. GOT IT! If they could just stick me with an IV with fluids it would be easier! LOL Oh and get this she listened to the heartbeat LOL no I wasn't gonna tell her they just heard it in the ER are you crazy :) I want one of those machines but I think I will drive myself insane!!! *It is well with my soul*
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Can I ask you to pray for me??

*That fear and doubt would be replaced with peace

*That the abn uterus will not affect my pregnancy

*That in Jesus name this baby won't come early!

*FOR PEACE!!!

*That I will stop freaking out for no reason

*My Level II ultrasound is the 6th of January



It is well with my soul,

Melanie & Baby Blessing

Many blessings to share...

Hello my bloggy friends,

I know I have been very naughty with my blog and have left it to the side just because there is something HUGE that I need to share with ya'll and well I just couldn't come on here cause I wanted to wait a lil while more...

We are EXPECTING... If you read my last post in Aug/Sept I said I was waiting on a BFP. Well I got the BFP on Sept 22. I am now heading into my 15th week. We are beyond thankful!

I went to read my Thanksgiving post from last year and wow... God has shown me so much since then. He truly does bring JOY in the morning...

HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL AND MAY YOU ALL BE THANKFUL FOR WHAT HE HAS BLESSED YOU WITH THIS SEASON!

LOVE & IN CHRIST,

MELANIE

I think im back!

Hello my friends!!! How is everyone doing?? I see alot of you have brought some blessings into this world and I want to congratulate each one of you! Also I see many that are pregnant! Praise God! He is awesome :) As for me well we don't know yet~I have been seeing a Reproductive Endo. doctor since June and I have been on 2 months of Clomid and tried a shot once but didn't do it the 2nd time since my dr is 2 hours away. I am praying for whatever God's will is! If I don't start by the end of the week then I will guess that I am preggos! And I will praise God if I am and if im not!! AMEN!

As of right now I am still working at the DMV,BUT the Lord has blessed me even more and has given me a part time job at my church as their secretary! I start tomorrow and will be part time there then school then part time at the DMV for a little while longer so that I can get a few bills paid before the new year.

I started school in August and LOVE IT! I am taking Public Speaking and really enjoy it! I am only taking one course cause I know how I am in school and if I take more than one I will be overwhelmed!! I was granted a scholarship for military wives and it has been such a blessing from God!

Well the Giants and Cowboys are playing and I want to enjoy some time with hubby....

Take care and I promise to keep in touch!

~melanie~

Been so long....

Hello friends! I missed you all I promise! You know I haven't been on here I think since gosh I have no clue... For some reason it was hard to come onto blogger and I think it was because I was just a little depressed but I can say that the Lord has really been working in my heart! I was a little to myself and in the midst of not blogging I found a new church and a new church family! God is good!!! My job at the DMV is going well but very busy to where Im exhausted everyday but it keeps me busy and im not "bored" like my last job ooooo and I work with Christian ladies! God is good!!!

Thank you ladies for checking up on me... I get emails saying that something commented and so i had to come on over and redo my page!

You know me I can't keep the same background for long so everything will be changing.

Gotta feed the dogs.... Laters!

**And i will be letting ya;ll know what has been going on with TTC'ing** God is good for He knows the plans for me!

Alot

Well as my title reads "alot" because there is just so much to blog about... All is well in my end but my heart is heavy and hurting for many reasons.
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I hope everyone that reads my blog is doing well as I have not been reading anyone's blogs because I have just not had the time. With my new job it's been so tiring to come home and get on the computer because I actually make dinner and by 8 p.m. I want to be in bed!
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I tried out another church today and well it was a church that a friend of mine from New York attends and she has been wanting me to meet her there and so today was the day and when I arrived I kept looking around for her car. I walked in and asked a lady if Linda was there. She looked around and said she thought so. Well she asked the Pastor and comes to find out she was in a car accident yesterday evening and broke her leg. She is in another city in a hospital and will be having surgery tomorrow or Tuesday. Please be in prayer for Linda. Thank you!
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Another thing on my heart is for Baby Stellan. When I run home for lunch everyday to let the dogs out and grab some lunch I always check on MckMama's blog to check on Stellan. My heart hurts for this family. If you have never read her blog please go by it www.mycharmingkids.net. Please pray for the MckMama family!
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I have not said anything in awhile about my struggle with my loss a year ago and with that my heart is even heavier. I have been feeling fine for about 5 months and yesterday everything hit me like a ton of bricks. I was just sad. I just cried and I couldn't pin point what exactly was wrong with me. It's alot of things and I just needed to cry so I did. I felt that cloud over me like I did when I lost our sweet Nehemiah. Mother's Day is approaching and that was the HARDEST day of my life last year KNOWING that this year 2009 I would NOT have Nehemiah in my arms but in Heaven! Nehemiah you are truly missed and daddy and I love you very much.
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Hubby and I are still trying and waiting patiently as hard as that is. I don't understand my body and well I have no control over it. Like I said in a previous post that I wouldn't talk about our "journey of trying" but I have to let it out cause it makes me feel better I guess. We tried Clomid the month of March and but still had to take meds for my cycle and then the Clomid since my body is not regular STILL! I am so bothered by everything and I feel as if I am going backwards. I don't want to go backwards cause I know thats what the enemy wants. I took a test yesterday and it was negative but with the way my body is I still can be pregnant and a home pregnancy test come out negative like my 1st pregnancy. So I will wait a couple of days and EXPECT a + one day :) Please keep me in your prayers. Thank you!
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My last prayer request... I love my new job... but I have an interview tomorrow for a Government position that will follow with me when ever the Army decides to move us elsewhere. I am excited and sad all together. Of course I know the Lord has it all planned out and I just need to rest in His hands (im trying). Like I said I love my new job and the girls I work with BUT I also would love to work as a Government worker one day :) Please pray for God's Will.

God bless all of you! Congrats Abbie your pregnancy and congrats to all who are pregnant and may the Lord be with each of you who are still wanting and waiting...

Sticking with HEBREWS 11:1 always!!!

~i~ Melanie

Miss me?? No?? Yes??

LOL I'm a dork yes I know...

Ok so I have been a very very baaaaaaaaaaad blogger... Well it's because I got a J.O.B. and I am T.I.R.E.D! So my new job is working Mon - Fri 9 hours a day and when I get home I don't want to see a computer anymore. See at my last job we had maybe 1 or 2 customers and well I was always blogging and searching the net, well this job there is NO internet and we have about 100 or more customers a day. Sorry for being a bad blogger... I haven't even been able to read anyones blogs either and because of that I feel so bad that I am not "following" like I should be.

Today I am going to try a new church. A girl from church told me about hers and I told her I would try it and see. I am excited and well even though hubby isn't going its ok. He has to go check on his soldiers that are out in the field.

Other than that.... My family came down the week of March 14th for a week and we had a blast. It was my birthday on the 18th and we went site seeing and then of course Nehemiah's one year was Sunday, March 22nd. If anyone was praying for me I want to thank you RIGHT NOW! All I can say was I had so much peace that the day went by me like nothing. Yes I thought of Nehemiah and of course everyday that goes by I still remember "the day" that Nehemiah went to be with the Lord and it hurts yes but I can say that I feel STRONG like never before.

Love all of you and again thanks for checking on me....

~i~ Mel

Hello again...

Yup I came back to bloggin! Sorry I took so long but it was a much needed break. Now that I do not have the job that I was currently at I don't want to really be online much. See at my old job it was SLOW and all I did was blog, decorate my blog, blog, read other blogs (I love by the way), read my emails, email, and go to other websites because well that is all that I could do in a SLOW job. I am sure some are saying well thats a really laid back job but for almost a year there it got BORING always being online so now that I am home I don't want to see a computer LOL! But I know I have to post like I said on my last post I was gonna blog once a day NOT!

I am enjoying a really relaxing few weeks cause on March 23rd I will be working again at the DMV! I am excited and it will be part time for the time being till another full time position opens up. It's a really small office and I am excited because they are Christian! It's such a relief to know that too... I am enjoying my 3 weeks off and my family will be here this Saturday for a week so I know I will have a blast... My step sons are coming with them so I am TOTALLY excited! My hubby is taking a week off so we are going to relax :)

I want to say CONGRATS to Amanda on her 3rd little miracle.... I have known about it for sometime but of course after a miscarriage ya kinda want to wait a little while to tell everyone :) I wish you the best Amanda....

Well I am off to crochet my little fingers away cause it's what I do best as hubby says... LOL

Goodnight and God bless you my friends...

A NEW Day!

Where do I begin???

Well I am no longer employed... That means that my goal is to:

::Come to the Lord more than ever

::Be my husbands help meet

::Walk the dogs

::Work out

::Do my crafts

::Keep the house clean

::Volunteer at schools or hospital

::Blog once a day

So I think my schedule will be all filled up to where I will not be bored... What'cha think??? I am hoping that I can get on a schedule and not become a bum by sleeping in till late and just eating everything... YIKES!

I have a job that will start in June which they say is MINE but if that's where the Lord wants me it will be MINE in Jesus name, Amen!

I have family coming the 3rd week of this month and I would rather spend time with them than worrying if I will be able to get off for a week.

I wish all of you a great start of the week....

God bless and To God be the Glory,

Melanie

Giveaway from the Log Cabin!

Hello my bloggy friends...

Want to win some amazing nature items?? Well go to Shelley's blog and check it out...

I love butterflies and she has an amazing magnet that I chose if I win :) As some of you know I LOVE butterflies... Our wedding was butterflies so I am excited if I do win :)

Gooooo the contest ends on the 28th and the winner will be announced on Mar. 1st.

Good luck.

Melanie

Wordless Wednesday

This pic was taken by my niece C. Her and my other niece N were outside walking and this is their shadow "walking together with Christ in their hearts!"

I PicNik'd it and added a few but what a "wordless pic?"

I love you C & N!

Maria from With Hope

Just wanted to let you all know (you all probably know already) that Maria from the blog With Hope has deleted her blog for many reasons. She has asked me to give you all her email address if you want to keep up with her.

If you want to reach her, her email is mwalley82@hotmail.com.

God bless all of you :)

Valentine's Day

So for Valentine's Day hubby and I aren't really big on this holiday but I wanted to make him cupcakes cause I remember around Christmas time he asked for cupcakes and well since I am such a "good" wife (LOL) I never made them till now...

So here they are... They are my 1st cupcakes EVER and they were delicious and since I had extra I just made a cake to go with it... Since I've been following Sweet April's blog I decided to take some tips from her :) I used a ziplock bag and cut the tip and just had a good time decorating them.... I used the Valetine's Funfetti Cake Mix and it was YUMMY!

Cake you taste them??? LOL

That was not the only thing hubby got from me....

He has a new office at work and he has been talking about pictures of "his" dog! Ok so not a pic of his wife but of HIS DOG! So me being the nice wife I decided to get 2 5x7's of "his" dog for his office...

The BIG one from me was the book that really means alot to me since I watched the movie "Fireproof." I thought that maybe we could both do it...

And well my gift from him was going to Walmart and picking out what I wanted.... I really couldn't think of anything but a computer game so I got the Sim's Life Stories game and I am having a blast with it!

Have a great and blessed day...

~i~ Melanie