Nursery Completed

With the help of 4 special women (Nancy, Marlana, Cheryl, and Chelsea), the room is complete. T and I are so grateful to these women for bringing together this room. What a special haven of a place where Evie will sleep and play. Each morning I walk in there and lift up a prayer of safety for our baby. I pray she will learn to love her mama and daddy in this room and learn to love her Father in heaven in this room. Now the room is done and we are awaiting her arrival. Thank you again to all who have blessed our family.

The Pregnant Club

Amazing how God has different timings for all of us.
Nicole on my left is almost 18 weeks, I am 34 weeks, and Jan (the newest member to our club) is just a few weeks pregnant. It is such a joy to share such great news with others about the miracle growing inside each of us. Arlington Heights better watch out, cuz this makes three of us teachers that are on board for maternity leave. :)

The Nursery is on its Way

Thanks to Marlana and her mom we have the furniture.
Mar and Ms. Nancy picked the most beautiful crib and changing table out.
The beautiful cherry wood looks MAGNIFICENT in Evie's pink room.
And YES I said "PINK" room! T loves sharing with his men folk that he has a PINK room in his house. haha!
Seriously we are so thankful and blessed for all Mar and her mom did by purchasing and assembling these items for our daughter.

Evie's Baby Dedication Dress

A teacher at T's school was so kind to bless us with a beautiful white dress for Evie.

Evie will look gorgeous in it. I was debating whether to cut some of my wedding dress off and have a dedication dress made from it, but looks like I can hold back from cutting up my dress because this dress will look amazing on her when we take her to her first church service.

Burger King Menu in Espanol

My students fell in love with the pictures that T brought back from Puerto Rico over Thanksgiving. Over 3/4 of my students speak Spanish and they were happy to see a familiar menu in their native language.

T's trip to Puerto Rico

This is the hotel that T stayed out for his tournament in Puerto
Rico. Can you say "mucho bonita"??!!

Hand-crafted quilty by Kathy

Our bible study leader, Kathy, created this beautiful blanket for our beautiful daughter Evie. YEAHHH! The bible study ladies threw a surprise shower for me on our last study night and I was shocked to see this beautiful gift. I am so thankful for the ladies and every thought and prayer that has been requested to God for our daughter.

Surprise Bible Study Shower

Misty, a sweet lady in my Beth Moore bible study series on "Daniel", created this unique cake-like design that is completely diapers. So unique and beautiful and by the way the teddy bear for Evie is soooo soft. I hate to think about these beautiful diapers are soon to be used and will "not be so beautiful" anymore if you know what I mean.

GO DAWGS!!

Chelsea and I at the Ga/Fl Game in Jacksonville.

Proud Parents to Be

At church this morning T and I listened to this amazing verse

Psalm 139:13-14

"You formed my inmost being; you knit me in my mother's womb.
I praise you, so wonderfully you made me; wonderful are your works! My very self you knew."

This verse has never meant so much to me til this morning. How great to know that "HE" has formed our Evie and it is HIM that already knows our precious little girl.

27 weeks

Brownie looking at how Big the belly is!

Darton Girls at Mar's Wedding Reception

Pretty in Pink

Looks like Evie has a spot to sleep!

Nursery Room to Be

Believe it or not...this is the "nursery room to be".....we are in the midst of cleaning it, but for fun..I laid out the cute things we've already gotten! The purple outfit says, "My heart belongs to Daddy"!! HOW ADORABLE! AND PURPLE AT THAT!!!

4-D Sonogram on its way

Terrance and I will be getting our 4-D sonogram of Evie done on Wednesday, October 17th. We are real excited about this. As soon as we get our hands on those pictures, we will share with everybody.

Our four legged son "Brownie"

T is not to thrilled having Brownie (our chocolate lab).

But he has been such a comfort and friend to me.

Dogs are man's best friend and even more a woman's best friend.

Daily Miracle Movement 24 weeks

Each day is such a blessing to feel little Evie moving along inside me.

We have decided to make Evelyn's middle name be "Faith" because "Faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen." Hebrews 11:1

T and I in 2005.

T and I

God has totally blessed me with the most wonderful husband.
T and I have been married for 1 year and 3 months this Monday.
Time has flown by but oh how much fun marriage is.
I feel so unworthy to be married to such a God-fearing man, and let alone to be blessed at 24 weeks with a miracle growing inside of me. Amazing how God blesses us over and over.

Freeman Family in Jacksonville, FL

Hey Everybody!
This is Terrance and Rachel's blog page.
I got the big idea from being so hooked to Trish and John Pfaender's blog site.
How amazing.

Well in a gist....T and I are so blessed. God has given us such a wonderful marriage so far for our 8 months and odd days relationship. We are continually couting on Him to do lots in our lives. T is coaching a 13 and under baseball travel team called the Stars, while opening up a softball indoor facility here in Jax, Fl, also while being a very intelligent stressful Athletic Director at a Christian School on the westside of town called Eagles View Academy. Those of you who went to SCA it is almost a STRAIGHT SISTA of SCA.....I love going there because it reminds me of our high school.

Well, me on the other hand, I'm busy being a third grade teacher and coaching basketball and softball at a nearby high school. Wow! Amazing the change from 8 year olds to some 18 year olds! YIKES! But God is using me and I hope to make a difference in some of these girls lives.

Other than that we are connected strong at our community church Celebration. AMAZING that is all I can say about it!. T and I are excited to be off for spring break together....LOVE having the same profession and same holidays....it's good to just sit and hang with him.

Hope all is well...keep us in your prayers. Our dog Brownie (Chocolate lab) says HELLO too!

Love ya'll,
RAch and T and Brownie