Lucky Number 7

May 24, 2010 - Mon: Heidi
We celebrated our 7th anniversary on May 17th at the Homestead Resort in Hot Springs, Virginia. It was a beautiful historic resort surrounded by amazing scenery...kind of in the middle of nowhere really. The resort was originally founded in 1766 so there was so much history behind it. We even took a history tour to learn all about the resort. A little more than half of U.S. presidents have stayed at the Homestead.

The weather wasn't super great during our visit so we spent most time indoors. Each morning we had a huge buffet for breakfast in the fancy dining room. That was my favorite part - getting up early, going to breakfast, sitting there as long as we wanted, reading the newspaper together, sipping coffee. We had a very relaxing time together. We spent time in the fitness center, explored the grounds, walked around the little boutique shops, had afternoon tea, got drinks at the cafe, sat on the porch reading, and ate lots of great food!

Mother's Day

May 11, 2010 - Tue: Heidi
Mother's Day was a little different for us this year. We were asked to do a short video testimony for our church on our struggle with trying to have children and how the Lord is using that to teach us that we are still fearfully and wonderfully made.

Joe and Heidi share the story of their struggle with infertility as part of a teaching series called "Fearfully & Wonderfully Made" at Reston Bible Church.

The video was shown during the three services on Mother's Day weekend. It was a little awkward going to church knowing the video was going to be played (and we hadn't seen it yet) but we were anxious to hear how it all came together. During worship I already started tearing up replaying some of the words from my testimony that were going to be played. As our pastor was introducing the video, I couldn't keep the tears back any longer. Even though I knew what I had said I cried through the entire video.

We have had such a gracious response from so many. We can only pray that our words were encouraging to others in some way. We have had numerous people tell us how brave we were for sharing. It's funny that they say we are brave because I don't think of it like that. I don't see myself as brave but rather as someone who is sharing what is going on in their life. We all have struggles or hurts or difficult situations but I think as Christians we think we have to appear as though we have it all together all the time.

After church, Joey and I met up with my family to celebrate Mother's Day and my mom's birthday. We walked to a nearby shopping area and grabbed lunch, smoothies and coffee and then went back to Christian and Nina's place for dessert, gifts and a movie. We watched "Young Victoria"...well, the girls watched "Young Victoria" while the guys played games on their iPhones and threw in their sarcastic comments from time to time.

Joey also started a new experiment with our niece on Sunday. His plan is to train Naomi using gummy bears, sort of like Pavlov's dog. Every time Naomi comes over to see him, he gives her a gummy bear to keep her coming back. At one point Joey began to ration the gummy bears so he told her that the bears were sleeping. Content to let the bears have their nap, Naomi kept herself occupied playing while the bears slept. She eventually walked back over to Joey, looked up at him with her big blue Precious Moments eyes and said, "I think the gummy bears are waking up."
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April Birthdays

May 05, 2010 - Wed: Heidi
We celebrated my sister (Heather) and brother's (Mud) birthdays together this year for the first time. The boys played Settlers of Cattan and some other mafia type game while the girls went on a girlie outing. We took Heather to get her haircut first. We grabbed smoothies to sip on while we got our nails done. Even Naomi got her nails painted...pink!

After our separate girl and guy times we met up and headed into DC to eat at Founding Farmers. We love this restaurant because it is owned by family farmers and they are committed to bringing fresh, locally grown and farmed food to its customers. It really is delicious!

The birthday girl and boy