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20 Weeks

Well BR #2, this week has been nothing shy of BUSY.... so glad that I have finally started to feel completely better (no more nausea or cold!) because we have been going 90mph to nothing! The most exciting thing that happened this week is that your Aunt Caroline got married!!! Caroline has been one of Momma's very best friends since I was 13 years old... I literally do not have a memory from junior high to the present where she is not part of it... we were bests all through junior high, high school, college and even still today... a rare find, today, if you ask me. We have been through life (Eleanor's birth) and death, and EVERYTHING in-between, together. So needless to say, her wedding week (20 weeks with you inside) was a very special week for me.

Immediately after the wedding, we packed up with Aunt Mindy, Uncle Josh and Lucy headed towards Buena Vista, Colorado (Hence the picture!).... it was SO nice to get out of Dallas during the massive heat wave we are having this summer, but more importantly, SO fun to spend time with our best friends on the road and at their cabin. Again, Momma and Daddy are so blessed to have friends like Mindy and Josh... truly they will be more like an Aunt / Uncle or second parents to you and Eleanor than our friends.... and we are so blessed by that.

Of course spending time with just 2 of my best friends makes me reflect and FERVENTLY pray for the friendships you will make in this world. First and foremost, we pray that you find the true friend that sticks closer than a brother (or big sister!!), Jesus. That you will hold fast to his salvation and a relationship with Him from an early age and find great security in that. Secondly, that you and Eleanor (and other siblings that will prayerfully follow) will be the BEST of friends. Our strongest desire for our family is that we would not only love each other, but that we would truly ENJOY each other... that you and Eleanor would not only respect the other, but that you would be one another's confidant, soul mate, play mate and FRIEND. Lastly, oh that you would be blessed the way that Momma and Daddy are with the best of friends in this world... not just that we have a great time with (because we always do!) but that truly know our hearts, love us, encourage us, pray for us and are a large part of our sanctification process here on this earth. That you would find friends that love Jesus, love you and will be a TRUE friend through the good, the bad, the ugly, in life and in death....

BR #2, we love you... and we can't wait for the day when you consider Momma and Daddy your friend too.... we know it may take 3, 15, 20 or 25 years... but we pray you desire our friendship, too. We love you!
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