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!

Where’s the snow?

Hey everyone! I am really enjoying having this laptop and being able to remain comfortable in my recliner and still do the work I need to do online. It’s so nice.

So we returned safe and sound from our high school choir retreat and things went really well. I feel like we were able to accomplish what we needed to and learned all of the rest of the music for our Christmas concert. We even got a head start on a couple of songs that the kids will be performing in our Spring concert. God even started a work in several students hearts. I had the opportunity to share a few things I had on my heart and try to challenge the kids in their walk with Christ. God even opened up a door for me to be able to talk with several students. I have such a burden for my students and pray that God will do a deep work in their lives.

WE ARE SO READY FOR THANKSGIVING BREAK!! It’s only about a week away now and we are so ready for the holiday and even more for CHRISTMAS! It is crazy that we haven’t had any nasty weather yet here . . . hopefully we will have snow for Christmas this year. Rennah, however, thinks that as soon as we get snow on the ground, we get to go to Papa’s house and have Christmas. So maybe it’s a good thing we don’t have any snow yet.

Nessa is doing so well with her schedule. She has started sleeping very well at night, usually 5-6 hours before waking up . . . even a couple of nights where she slept 7 hours or more! So life is starting to settle in for the St. Clair family! More later!

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!