1) Flat land-- Really? I can see 6-10 miles in any direction. How boring
2) Water/Flooding-- When we lived on Taylor it flooded everytime it sprinkled.
3) Ugly Animals!-- Who picks a razorback for a mascot?! Haha just kidding!
Ok, in all fairness here are the things I miss
1) Community Center-- D and I lived at that thing when we lived there.
2) Wal-Mart-- the closest one to us now is 20 minutes away
3) JHDC-- I miss the resident there. I miss spending time with them! I wish everyone can be more like them in the sense of happiness! They are always happy, and laugh over the littlest thing! What Joy!
Saturday, May 7, 2011
Baby steps to Happiness
Easter! Happy Belated Easter everyone! Matthew celebrated his first Easter! So Mommy is the worse ever! She did not get a good picture. Now, I got a picture, but it wasn't good.
Doctor's Appointment-- We had our first appointment with Dr Gunter on May 5th. Why is this our first appointment you may be asking yourself. Dr Gunter has been on maternity leave, she has a baby exactly one week older than Matthew. So we have been seeing Dr. Lau. We have been throughly impressed with everyone at Huntsville Peds! Anyways... TIME FOR THE WEIGH IN: at 9weeks 2days old Matthew weighs 13.0 pounds and is 24.3 inches long. He got three shots and an oral vaccine that same day. Poor guy! :(
"Surprise surprise surprise" (in my best Gomer-pile voice). As everyone knows, Daniel is leaving for New Zealand in a couple of days. Well, we were unable (at first) to make it to the Newberry Family reunion because was leaving on Sunday. To save money, (about $500) we decided to change the date from Sunday to Monday! As a last minute decision we decided that we would surprise everyone and make a trip to Arkansas. We did this for numerous reasons: 1) it's the first time anyone has seen Matthew 2) because I have been having nightmares about Daniel not returning to the states and finally 3) as some of you know the last time we encountered family, it didn't end well (don't worry no one went to jail. Lol). But seriously, it didn't end well. Daniel and I both have the fear that when we are standing on judgment day, we will not be ushered into Heaven as a result of not making amends. God gives us the opportunity to take steps towards full reconciliation. How does this apply to this weekend? In short, we were not going to go mainly because of a particular falling out. Our initial thinking was, "we do not want to cause a scene and ruin the reunion." However, after months of discussions and prayer we realized how arrogant we were. I mean, by not coming to the reunion we were actually hurting the entire clan, and punishing them for this falling out! STUPID! Then, I realized we are depriving people of happiness. I mean there are not a lot of people who are not happy around babies. Life is all about chances. We had no idea how the reunion was going to turn out, but what we did know is that God was going to take care of us. Sometimes the most cliche verse can hit home; I do not want anyone to prevent me from being happy, therefore why should I prevent people from being happy!
So, needless to say we over-reacted. The reunion was GREAT from our end. Matthew was tossed around like like a lil hot potato! :) And the best part is, we made a particular person happy. We may have fired more people up, but you know what, we opened a door that was almost locked tight.
Thank you to Paragould Community Center for putting up with the Newberry Clan! It was a lot of fun and laughs!! :)
Life is truly too short to Be anything but happy!!
Be sure to check out Daniel's Blog page for updates about New Zealand! Be sure to click the follow button on his page! Also, check out our tumblr page for pictures and videos from this weekend!
Until next time, when I'm actually at a computer and not on my phone!!
:)
Doctor's Appointment-- We had our first appointment with Dr Gunter on May 5th. Why is this our first appointment you may be asking yourself. Dr Gunter has been on maternity leave, she has a baby exactly one week older than Matthew. So we have been seeing Dr. Lau. We have been throughly impressed with everyone at Huntsville Peds! Anyways... TIME FOR THE WEIGH IN: at 9weeks 2days old Matthew weighs 13.0 pounds and is 24.3 inches long. He got three shots and an oral vaccine that same day. Poor guy! :(
"Surprise surprise surprise" (in my best Gomer-pile voice). As everyone knows, Daniel is leaving for New Zealand in a couple of days. Well, we were unable (at first) to make it to the Newberry Family reunion because was leaving on Sunday. To save money, (about $500) we decided to change the date from Sunday to Monday! As a last minute decision we decided that we would surprise everyone and make a trip to Arkansas. We did this for numerous reasons: 1) it's the first time anyone has seen Matthew 2) because I have been having nightmares about Daniel not returning to the states and finally 3) as some of you know the last time we encountered family, it didn't end well (don't worry no one went to jail. Lol). But seriously, it didn't end well. Daniel and I both have the fear that when we are standing on judgment day, we will not be ushered into Heaven as a result of not making amends. God gives us the opportunity to take steps towards full reconciliation. How does this apply to this weekend? In short, we were not going to go mainly because of a particular falling out. Our initial thinking was, "we do not want to cause a scene and ruin the reunion." However, after months of discussions and prayer we realized how arrogant we were. I mean, by not coming to the reunion we were actually hurting the entire clan, and punishing them for this falling out! STUPID! Then, I realized we are depriving people of happiness. I mean there are not a lot of people who are not happy around babies. Life is all about chances. We had no idea how the reunion was going to turn out, but what we did know is that God was going to take care of us. Sometimes the most cliche verse can hit home; I do not want anyone to prevent me from being happy, therefore why should I prevent people from being happy!
So, needless to say we over-reacted. The reunion was GREAT from our end. Matthew was tossed around like like a lil hot potato! :) And the best part is, we made a particular person happy. We may have fired more people up, but you know what, we opened a door that was almost locked tight.
Thank you to Paragould Community Center for putting up with the Newberry Clan! It was a lot of fun and laughs!! :)
Life is truly too short to Be anything but happy!!
Be sure to check out Daniel's Blog page for updates about New Zealand! Be sure to click the follow button on his page! Also, check out our tumblr page for pictures and videos from this weekend!
Until next time, when I'm actually at a computer and not on my phone!!
:)
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