on the road again...

well, we have hit the road to head to naperville, il...i am blogging in the car in arkansas on the way to memphis, tn...we should be in chicago by tuesday afternoon/evening...then the fun begins of unpacking everything....we have had great weather and very little traffic so far...
today we went to the oklahoma city bombing museum/memorial...that was so sad to see, but glad we were able to see it while we were in oklahoma city...what a tragedy that was...tonight when we get to memphis we are going to check out the elvis museum...and tomorrow we will head to st. louis, mo...we will keep you posted...until then
melisa

Moving....again......

We are off to another adventure. We are moving with Chase to the windy city! We are going to be there by October 1. We definately feel that God is leading us back to the Midwest, we are not sure why, but understand that we have been very prayerful about this and off to Chicago we go! We will be living in Naperville, IL, a suburb of Chicago and it is a great place. The downtown is amazing and it is only 25 miles from downtown Chicago! The weather is going to be rough, but we have been through it before!
Our ultimate goal is to be out West where it is a little warmer, but feel that this in a weird way will get us closer to that final goal! Please pray that our move goes smoothly and that we have a safe trip across country. We leave this Friday and our driving through to Chicago!

Matt and Al's Wedding!

This weekend we were in Detroit for Matt and Allison's wedding....it was a good old Eastern Michigan reunion! We had a great time and Melisa even got in a little dancing!

Pray for Baby Maule!

I just wanted to send a post to pray for our Cousins. Jennifer and Cheyne were expecting a baby and she went into premature labor today. They gave birth to a baby girl at 20 weeks, so the baby died. I am just sick about this, I am asking for everyones prayers for them.....I know God has his hands on them right now, we love you Jen and Cheyne!

2 Years!

I heard from a friend that marriage gets better and better, I don't know if at the time I either understood or agreed. But it has been 2 years now for me and Melisa and I have a much greater understanding of that statement! How is it possible to love your wife more than you did on your wedding day, but I do! She is the best thing that has ever happened to me and through each challenged we have faced, she is so supportive and the rock I turn to!
So just a post to share with all those in a happy and loving marriage, I am blessed and wanted to share that!

Decisions decisions.....

It seems that we are always in a position to be deciding on something that is life changing! I think that God is always testing us in ways that we will never really understand. We have some things going on that I will post about soon, but it is all good, just difficult decisions that I know will work out in the end!

Baby update......

We met with Dr. Patel this morning and we discussed the options for eventually getting pregnant. We went down to see him expecting to set up IVF, in vitro fertlization, but the process is long and there are some real ethical and moral issues with IVF. Because we strongly believe that life begins at conception, we would require the doctor to only fertilize the embroys that we would be willing to carry to term. We are thinking the doctor will eventually pull 6 eggs and fertilize all of them and inject 2 at a time and pray they both make it....by making this decision we need to be prepared for 6 kids, but the likelyhood would be slim. For those of you who also feel the way we do about conception, the doctor actually offered to check the viable embryos for certain genetic abnormalities and we could "discard" or kill them.....very disturbing. This process has taught us a lot and helps me understand even more why education is so vital.
We have decided to try one more thing before IVF, Melisa is starting Metformin today and will be on it for the next 3 months, it will make her sick so please keep her in your prayers. This drug has been successful in helping patients with PCOS ovulate which inturn should help us get pregnant. It will require a lot of tests and patience. The doctor also told us to continue our weight loss because for every 10 pounds we loose it really increases our chances of conception especially with the PCOS.
So that is my long winded update, sorry for the drawn out explanation, hope everyone is well!