Family Update & HONK!

I can’t believe it’s February already! And the birth of our new little one is literally just around the corner, with Sarah’s due date set for March 3. We are all so excited for her arrival! The St. Clair family just continues to grow!

Live has been pretty busy with all that is going on. Sarah is in full on “nesting” mode working on cleaning and organizing the house to get everything just right for the baby. Rennah and Nessa talk to her belly every day to check up on her. It’s so cute. Oh, and by the way, in case you haven’t heard the name of our new little girl, we are naming her Aislynn Hope. We are a fan of different names and ones with special meaning for us. Aislynn means “dream”, so combined with her middle name, she is our “Dream of Hope”. In memory of all God has done in our lives the last couple of years, we have a new hope for our future and are so thankful for the new lives we now live.

God has also blessed by opening up many great opportunities for me in both music and drama teaching! I am so excited to be helping to choreograph a production of Annie coming up here in March! I have been working with HPA (Homeschool Performing Arts) on their production and have had a blast doing it! Also, God has allowed me to teach with an organization called VSA which teaches the fine arts to students with special needs. I have been teaching their theater and drama classes.

The most recent (and REALLY exciting) opportunity that has opened up is a chance for me to put on my directors hat once again for a full blown musical production! I have just recently started rehearsals with another homeschool group (Living Books Homeschool Theater) for the production of Honk!: a musical tale of the Ugly Duckling. I am having so much fun with this new group of kids, none of whom have ever performed in a musical. So this is a first for them. I am excited to see all that God teaches them through this as they discover gifts and learn new talents. You can pray that God will unify us as a cast.

I am also still working full-time at Panera, so we are juggling a lot, but happier than ever! And so thankful for the church He has place us in and all the love and support we receive from them. Hope everyone is doing well! Stay in touch!

Thanksgiving!

Hey Everyone! HAPPY THANKSGIVING! I hope everyone has a great time with your friends and family over this holiday season!

This will be a sad thanksgiving for us as both of our families will not be around our area for the Thanksgiving holiday. So we have decided to spend the day with a family from the school who are dear friends of ours. That will be nice, but it would have been better to see our families. Either way, we should be able to see my family in a couple of weeks as they will be back in their home in Buchanan until after Christmas.

Today is our last half day before break starts and I am SOOOOO ready some time off! Have a blessed Thanksgiving everyone!!!

New Laptop!

Praise the Lord for provision! The school where I work just provided me with a brand new laptop! They saw a “secret” Wal-mart sale and purchased and very nice laptop for about $300 for me! I am super excited. Hopefully I will be able to update a little more here now that I can sit on our comfortable couch and not in a painful wooden chair at our desktop. It’s so much nicer to work on the computer while you are comfortable.

Let’s see what’s new with us . . . we just had a great full cast rehearsal for Beauty and the Beast last Saturday . . . check out our B&B blog for videos and pictures. Then we took Rennah to Chuck E Cheese for lunch. She loved it! And actually beat me on several games that we played together! I couldn’t believe it! And get this . . . she won 50 tickets on ONE game that she played by herself! That was the TOP PRIZE on that game! I couldn’t believe her “luck”! It cracked me up! All together she won 270 tickets to get some nice prizes at the end.

We are doing well and Nessa continues to grow! I tell you what, they grow out of that newborn stage way too fast! Love you all! Keep us posted on your lives!

Family Visit!

We recently were able to visit my family and the Encounter Revival Team down in St. Joseph, MI. They were there for a week so I took a couple of days off of school in order for us to drive down and let my family meet little Nessa! We had a great visit! It was wonderful for us to be able to meet the Encounter Team as well and see the new ministry that God has placed my family in. They are so happy there and really enjoy the opportunities that God has given them to minister.

So we crashed in my parents trailer for a couple of nights and “Grammy” and “Papa” had some good time with Nessa and Rennah!

Papa and Nessa

My parents were very thankful for the time to visit with us and Rennah was extremely happy to be in the trailer and with her Aunts and Uncle.

Aunt Melody and Nessa

I even had the awesome privilege of running a couple of rehearsals with the 24 Encounter Singers! That was a blast! I really enjoyed working with them. God has blessed my family with an amazing team to travel with this year.

Snuggle Time with Papa!

After is was all done, it was hard for us to leave and head back home and into “normal” life again. Part of me just wanted to stay and travel with them . . . but I am thankful for where God has us right now and am content to stay where He has placed us.

Thank you all for your prayers with the delivery and recovering process with Nessa and Sarah. Everything is going well . . . Sarah is recovering much better this time around, and Nessa is growing very quickly! Rennah is a wonderful BIG SISTER and helps around the house and demonstrates amazing love for her sister! God has truly blessed me with a wonderful family! I am so unworthy of it all!

Please stay in touch! We love all of our friends and just wish we could be with all of you all the time! Stay faithful to Him!

Nessa is Here!

So for those of you NOT on Facebook that haven’t heard yet, Nessa Faith St. Clair arrived Friday night, September 28, at 11:08 p.m. She weighed 7 pounds 6 ounces and was 18 inches long! Both mother and baby are doing well and we are home now! Rennah is so excited to have a new sister! Praise God for his newest blessing to our lives! Thank you for your prayers!

Still Alive!

No we have NOT fallen off the face of the earth . . . we are still alive and kickin’, just having a crazy life right now! And to clear up any confusion, we have not had our baby yet. We are still waiting patiently . . . sort of . . .

Both Sarah and I are very ready to have this new little one. Ever since our first “false alarm” with Sarah having contractions, we have been counting down the days . . . but with nothing really to count down to, it makes the waiting seem like forever! It don’t remember it being this insane with out first! I guess it’s just because we have wanted to have another baby for so long, now that we are this close, it is killing us!!

So Nessa’s official due date is this Friday (9-28) and we are praying that she will come before that. Who knows . . . by the time you read this we may already be in the hospital. But I can’t tell you the number of times I have been asked, “Did you have the baby yet?” And my first response wants to be . . . “Uh . . . DUH! I think you would have heard and you wouldn’t be seeing me right now if we had a baby!”

The past three days I have been on my death bed with the most awful sickness!!!! I had a fever, was throwing up, and achy and shaky all over!! So, I was not at school for the first two days . . . I am finally back today and someone actually congratulated me on the birth of my “seven pound baby”!!! Wow! They know details about a baby that hasn’t even been born, I thought!! Yes the rumor has spread many times so I think at this point, Nessa has been born 4 times! AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! It’s driving us crazy! Like we aren’t going to call anyone and give an official word about her birth! Everyone just decides we had the baby and is happy for us! By the time Nessa is born, everyone will be like . . . “that’s old news”!!! Crazy!!!

So those of you on Facebook will probably find out when she is born before anyone else here on the blog because I plan to upload some mobile photos as soon as Nessa is born so everyone can have the official word from us!

God has been good to us. Ever since we got home, we have been going through some crazy things . . . and God is showing himself so faithful in providing for us. I admit, I thought it was kind of odd that Sarah wanted to register Nessa stuff at Target . . . I thought that was only for the first baby and it might be rude to do it with the second child. But any of you that have more than one child knows that you still need stuff for a second child and you can’t just recycle everything from the first baby.

In one day, God provided a new mattress and the crib sheet set that Sarah had registered for! It was so awesome!!!! Through three different sources . . . first came the crib sheets and bumbers . . . then Sarah and I wanted to go out and buy a new mattress just so we could get the crib ready . . . then that night, someone knocked on our door and gave us a new mattress! It was so exciting! Praise the LORD!

Now our house has never been cleaner or more organized! I keep asking my wife if she has run out of things to do . . . and she’s like, no I still have a list! She is definitely nesting! Even so come, little Nessa!

I will keep you posted and get some pictures up when she is born! Facebook people look for updates! Love you all!!