On the bright side of traveling...

As many of you know, the hubs has been doing a bit of traveling with his job. He is gone-on average-1 to 2 nights a week. This is because he is living in Fairhope and doing a job that is based out of Montgomery, so he is there quite a bit during the week. He does SO much driving during the day, it's insane. He does trips to Birmingham and back some days just so he can meet with his prospects and then be home in time to feed Knox and put him to bed (and to see me, of course. Because I am SUCH a thrill to be around these days as I lay in the fetal position declaring-while moaning-that this will be our last child :)). I am so thankful that he works so hard and that he makes such an effort to be here as much as possible. However, there are many times that he has to travel out of the country for a few days or even somewhere in the states that requires him to be there for an extended time. Those days are hard because, well, I miss my husband and I also miss having an extra set of hands helping out with the little rascal. Anyways, I can get very sad when he has to leave and lately I have been somewhat bitter about it. Sometimes I just wish he had a normal 8 to 5 job and he could be home every night. BUT...I know that the bitterness is not good at all and that I need to be thankful for his job, especially during the economy these days. Since I've been married to Lee he has been in Economic Development, and I have never seen someone love their job as much as he does. Whenever he lands a business in one of his territories ( he has 49, thats why he travels so much), the first thing he tells me is not what kind of company it is or how hard he worked to build relationships with the prospects (and I know he works hard), but he tells me exactly how many jobs will be provided for people. Thats his favorite part...knowing that he has somewhat helped in finding employment for people without jobs. Sometimes it's 500 jobs, sometimes it's 2, 500...etc. Anyways, all this to say that because of all his travels he has accumulated many points from flying and hotels, and last night he put some of them to good use! Ladies and gentlemen, behold. This little lady is now the proud owner of this puppy:

It's true! I am super pumped about using a camera other than my IPHONE! haha. However, I am sure that I will have to study the manual front to back before I do anything with it seeing as how we all know that I am technology challenged. SO...hopefully I will have some clear pictures to post in the next month or so. I'm sure it will take me that long to figure it out. I love that we decided to break down and get a nice camera now that our child is almost a year old. O well, better late than never! Major bonus that we did not have to spend our own money on it, and were able to use his points. Thank you, God, for always sending sweet little ways to provide.

My doctor's appointment is this Thursday. We are praying for a ONE healthy heartbeat. Lee has some twins genes in his family and it has been quite the talk over the past few weeks since the gene has not manifested itself in our generation yet. I am remaining calm. My sweet, sweet Jesus knows me well enough not to give two babies to me at one time. But until Thursday, I think I might remind him in prayer ALL the reasons why it wouldn't be the best idea. :)