Memorial Day Weekend!

Well the celebration of Aaron graduating became a month long celebration as you can see from past posts and this one...My wonderful sister Katie threw Aaron a small graduation party at her house for family and close friends. It was a BLAST!! She went all out with burgers, chicken, coleslaw, potato salad, fruit, and the list goes on! What a blessing it was for us that Katie opened up her home and made Aaron feel so special and loved. Aaron and I truly cherish the bond he has with both my sisters as well as the closeness he has with our brother-in-law John who is married to my sister Lauren. Aaron and I were truly humbled by how generous Katie was in throwing this party for him and all the hard work she put in to making it so great. We both appreciate her so so much!!! Many of his close friends were able to make the party and some we missed but it ended up being a great turnout.

My nephew David thought it was pretty cool to be hanging out with the big guys :). This is a picture of him and our friend Matt Thomas waiting for their turn to play corn hole.

 

Aaron and Patrick Kennedy playing some corn hole

Funny thing...Although Aaron graduated from Uof L my 4 year old nephew David INSISTED that Aaron have a GO CATS cake! Aaron was very pleased :)

We spent the rest of the Memorial Weekend with family just hanging out at the pool and grilling out at Aaron's parents house. It was a great weekend to relax and get refreshed!

Ice Cream Party!

This weekend to celebrate Aaron some more for Graduation, we had our current Community Group and past Community Group over from church to celebrate. I thought it would be super fun to have an ice cream party and it seemed to be a hit, especially with the kids! But I think the adults were pretty excited too ;). The weather was absolutely perfect so everyone was able to hang  out inside and outside which was nice because the guys could play corn hole and the girls could sit on the deck and chat. It was fun having everyone together and Aaron and I truly realized just how blessed we are with such wonderful friends. Each person that was there has played an important part in our lives and they are all our FAMILY :). We love each of them very much and it meant so much to Aaron and myself that they all came over to celebrate his accomplishments. I am just so encouraged by how intentional our friends are and how much they really care about each other and about us. We are so incredibly blessed to have them in our lives!

Here is me and the graduate just hanging out...

If you have ever been to my house then you have seen the massive tree in my backyard. Well the guys had the bright idea that they would climb it. I think there was about 5 or 6 guys in my tree at once...it was quite humorous cause they were all like a bunch of little kids...in the picture below is Tate and Joel. I think they were trying to figure out how to get down :).

I wasn't able to get pictures of all our friends that were there because I honesty forgot about taking pictures until the very end (go figure haha) but below are just a few of the wonderful women in my life.

Me and Jackie  

Me and Danielle

My sweet new friend Mylee and her precious baby girl! So glad they moved to KENTUCKY :) 

Like I said before, Aaron and I couldn't ask for greater friends and we are so blessed to have them in our lives...I wish I could have a picture of each of them on here but I am working on getter better at capturing the moments with my camera haha!

Graduation and Mother's Day Weekend!!

Well this weekend was very fun and exciting for The Roberts Family! On Saturday Aaron GRADUATED from the University of Louisville with a Masters Degree!! I couldn't be more proud of him and all of his hard work. As he was walking down the aisle to go to his seat though he did manage to throw up the UK 3 googles DIRECTLY in to the camera for ALL to see :). Keep in mind we were in the UL YUM Center!! The boy bleeds blue what can I say :). These past two years have been exhausting for both of us with late nights working on papers and studying away for tests but he did so well and finished successfully! I am so honored to have been able to walk along side of him as he completed school and to be his #1 cheerleader. Just this past week though has been a complete 180 in regards to the time we have gotten to spend together! It has been so nice having him free at night and on the weekends. The weekends now are so much fun because Saturdays used to be "homework day" from morning to night...glad those days are over...atleast until he decides to go get his PhD ha! I will enjoy this time now though while I have it with him!

My graduate :)

My parents were able to come to the graduation too which made it very special because they are so proud of Aaron and all that he has accomplished! My dad calls him "Master" now which if you know my dad its kind of funny :).

And of course The Roberts Fam wouldn't have missed this great event! Silly Bob in the background :).

Our weekend didn't stop there...after Graduation Aaron's parents treated us to a yummy dinner at The Bristol to celebrate Aaron and then we went to a wedding later that night! We had a great time at the wedding and it was so fun catching up with people we haven't seen in a while! When we arrived back home from dinner at The Bristol there were flowers and a card waiting for me at my door! My sweet sweet friend Katie Rulketter left me the most touching note and flowers for Mother's Day...what an encouragement in times of sorrow and how incredibly blessed I am to have such loving and thoughtful friends. Lots of my friends reached out to me on Mother's Day which made me feel very loved and special. Thank you to all of you who told me you were praying for me and thinking of me! That means the world to me!

On Sunday, Mother's Day, Aaron and I went to church in the morning and then spent the day with my family at Churchill Downs. It was a rainy day but we were at Millionaires Row so we got to enjoy the races from the room upstairs staying nice and dry with yummy food. This was Aaron's first time betting on races and he won twice so he was pretty pumped!  It was really fun being with my family and all my nephews...I think my 4 year old nephew David won the most races haha! Sadly I forgot to take pictures at the track :( but the memory is engraved in my mind. My mother-in-law was in Florida so we did not get to spend the day with her but we will definately make up for that when she comes back!

Although Mother's Day was an emotional day for me, I was able to hold my composure (most of the time) and have a lovely day with my family...My family not only celebrated my mom and my sisters but they celebrated me too which was special :) I am truly blessed to have such a WONDERFUL Mom who has always been such a great example to me continually pointing me to the Lord and 2 AWESOME sisters who are teaching me through their children how I can be a good mommy in the future. I so look forward to that day! :)



Mother's Day Thoughts...

This week has been a little hard to say the least as I am constantly reminded that Mother's Day is this weekend. I keep thinking about how I would have been a mother and how excited I was knowing that I was going to be pregnant on Mother's Day. I probably would have known the gender by now too. Throughout the day I hear people say "Have a great Mother's Day this weekend" and in my mind I think " How can it be great I am not a mother anymore:(". Emotions have been stirring within me all week of what it would have been like to celebrate the fact that I was pregnant on Mother's Day and know that one day that child would call me Mommy! There have been lots of tears this week as my husband can attest to but once again, Aaron so lovingly reminds me that our God knows our heartache and the pain I feel right now is the same pain God experienced when His son was dying on the cross. That's pretty powerful stuff because God's pain was probably ten times greater than my own. I take comfort in knowing that God completely understands my pain and that He can be my ultimate comforter.

 

Today I have decided to change my mind set about Mother's Day :). Although it will be hard being around lots and lots of mommy's who are celebrating the fact that they are mommy's with a physical child in front of them, I can still say that I AM a Mommy! I HAVE a child in heaven!! Although that child is not presently with me it will ALWAYS be my child! Motherhood lasted only a short time for me in this present moment but I will always be the Mother of that baby...what a comfort to know that when I meet my baby in heaven it will know I am MOM :). A sweet friend sent me a Mother's Day card in the mail this week too which made me feel so good knowing that my baby hasn't been forgotten and that its 9 weeks of life in my belly was important. That small gesture meant the world to me because it let me know that my baby is loved and that people know that I am still a mommy even though I don't have the physical evidence of it anymore. I thank God every day for those little blessings of encouragement.

 

I am looking forward to Mother's Day as a time to spend with my family and I pray that I will have joy in this present moment as I remember my little one. We have an eventful weekend ahead of us with Aaron's graduation and Mother's Day at the track but I will update you more on that later :).

Derby Weekend

So Aaron and I had a very fun and refreshing weekend! This is the first weekend in two years that Aaron didn't have to spend his entire Saturday doing homework!! It was GREAT! We honestly forgot what it felt like to have a whole weekend free together!

Friday night we went on a date to celebrate him being done with school by going out to eat at P.F. Changs...on our way to get ice cream at the Homemade Pie Kitchen on Bardstown Road we decided to drive through Cherokee Park and came upon the Barnstable Brown Party. For those of you who don't live in Louisville this is a party for charity on Derby Eve where many celebrities come. I thought it would be fun to go watch all the celebrities come in so we parked the car and walked on over...It was sssooo much fun!!! We saw so many celebrities there and I got a couple of pics of some of them. I will admit I was star struck :). I hope to go do that again next year!

Saturday we spent Derby Day at our dear friends the Binkowski's house and I have a cute little pic of their baby Shephard below...he just melts my heart! Always smiling!! It was fun to just spend some time with great friends!

Sunday we went to church and decided it would be fun to go to Lynn's Paradise Cafe for brunch...we didn't know that Ashton Kutcher and Guy Fieri would be there but it was quite funny to see all the people there freak out! I felt kind of sorry for Ashton Kutcher though because he couldn't even eat his food in peace...oh to be famous...glad I'm not :)

Derby time is definately an exciting time of year in Louisville KY and I am glad Aaron and I got to partake in the festivities! We couldn't go to Lynn's without getting a pick as the fork and spoon!



My hot date...it was literally scorching HOTTT!!! We sat out on the patio and it was like 88 degrees...I got sun burnt but the food was delicious! I needed some color anyway :). We had to wait an hour and forty five minutes for our food so the manager gave us a $50 gift card and our food was FREE!! I guess that means we have to go back again!



Well that was just a snap shot of our fun filled weekend. It was so refreshing to get to spend so much time with Aaron!! 

"Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see." Hebrews 11:1

Well I have finally given in to the blogging world and I have to admit I think this may be fun! I may need some help from my best friend Alex though to figure out exactly what I am doing! :) I thought this would be a great way to just share what is on my heart as a hope to encourage others.

I wanted to start my first post with the verse Hebrews 11:1 because this is a verse I am having to cling to at this point in my life.  As some of you may know and some of you may not know, My husband Aaron and I have been going through a very hard time these past two months. It will be 8 weeks tomorrow when we found out on March 8th, 2012  that our first precious baby went to be with the Lord. I was 9 weeks pregnant and the joys and excitment of becoming parents was all so sweet. We had so many plans and hopes for the future and names picked out as well. There were so many exciting thoughts of what the future would hold and the excitment of having my baby before the winter holidays brought me so much joy because that would have been such a great opportunity for family to enjoy the new bundle of life. In that one moment when you realize its all gone the first thing you say is "Why?" or "Why me?" That has been a question that I have been wrestling with since it happened and I have to keep telling myself that God is faithful. Although I don't see what the reason was for this happening right now I can have a hope that He will one day bless us with another child and that God is faithful to his children. As hard as it is to glorify God is heartache and suffering that is my main goal...still working on it ;).

I have come a long way in my thinking regarding this matter...I kept thinking there was something wrong with me for being so angry, bitter, sad, etc...but so many wonderful friends and family have stopped me and reminded me that its okay to mourn and to grieve the loss of a child. That was comforting for me to know that what I was feeling was normal and that I wasn't "wierd" for feeling these things...silly sounding I know but you wouldn't believe the crazy things that goes through your mind when something like this happens...anyway...I would love it if you would continue to keep me in your prayers as we get through this tough season of life and pray that we will be reminded of God's faithfulness to us.

Aaron and I have really been learning to cling to the cross through this time which honestly is something I think we so often forget to do. Although I still have many days of sadness and longing for that child to be back in my belly, I do have a renewed hope that God knows the desires of my heart and that longing to be a mother will one day come to fruition. Right now Aaron and I are just learning to be patient on the Lord's timing...which can be so so hard :). Children are such a blessing from the Lord but we have to remember that the child belonged to God before it ever belonged to us. I seek comfort in knowing that our Heavenly Father is holding our baby and what greater love is there than being in the Father's arms. Aaron and I are so excited for the day when we will see our baby face to face in heaven :).