In Three Parts

Kentucky
We had a nice trip to Kentucky over this past Fri-Mon. The weather was beautiful. There is truly nothing more wonderful than a warm Kentucky spring day. It was a quick trip and Nathan helped a friend shoot a wedding on Saturday, so it wasn't necessarily a relaxing, all fun trip, but it was still nice. My only complaint is that we ended up spending approximately 28 hours in the car... Way too much!!! Our next trip to Kentucky with the baby will not include all the running. Once we get to BG, we will be parking it at my parents house.

Big News
Last Thursday, Nathan was asked to step up as Photo Editor of the Midland Daily News! Its kind of a big deal. The current photo editor is leaving, as is the other staffer. This job change will include a pay raise and regular hours! While we consider this a great blessing and incredible opportunity, there is definitely a lot of stress involved. Maintaining an award winning photo department will not come easily, as most of the battles will be from within the newspaper. The success of a newspaper is now measured in website 'clicks.' So it will not be an easy task to keep the focus on good photojournalism and not doing whatever crap gets the clicks. We are excited, but there's definitely a lot of anxiety from both me and Nathan. Please pray that if this is truly what God desires for us, then He would give Nathan the direction, strength, and boldness to do what needs to be done, without causing too much stress. We're having a baby in about 7 weeks!!! This time should be full of excitement, anticipation, and rest in preparation for the soon coming lack of rest... not full of stress and anxiety from work.

Nathan will also be responsible for hiring two new staffers who will need to start at the end of this month! And of course that will then give him four weeks to get them trained and hopefully one of them trained to cover for Nathan while he takes time off for the birth. We've got a lot going on between now and June 3rd! I'm just glad I'm still sleeping well at night.

Baby News
Not too much to report here. Baby is moving like crazy these days. I had been feeling the hiccups down low, but now they are higher on my belly. Apparently Baby is still trying to find a good position... as long as in the end the position is head down. And we had another nice birthing class. We were told that our hospital bags should be packed by 36 weeks, so I think I'm going to start making my list and start getting organized in that area. No major baby complaints... just joy.