~Kauai, Hawaii~ Our Honeymoon!!!

I know it has been forever since I said I would post these... but here they are!!!! These are our honeymoon pictures from Kauai, Hawaii!!!!!! I picked some of my favorites to post and then all the others are on the photobucket slide show below.... Needless to say we definitely had a blast!!!! Derryck and I have contemplated selling everything we own and moving to Hawaii... but then we realized our families wouldn't be too happy about that! Everything is just absolutely gorgeous there!!!!! Be sure to look at the slide show!!!! Doesn't it just make you wanna go there today!!!!??? Let me know what you think of Hawaii's amazing beauty!!!!!!

In the helicopter going to the waterfall!!

Yes.. this is the waterfall that was in Jurassic Park!!! it was amazing how big it was in person!

~The Miracle of Life~

So I started up my 2nd year of nursing school this last week. This semester we are undertaking the challenges of OB, Pediatrics and Psychiatrics... Needless to say this will be a very informative, yet very interesting semester!! We had our first test yesterday and part of it was on conception and fetal development. I was very inspired by all of the pictures I was seeing in class and did some more research on what happens in the womb and such... Not to get all political... but I never really thought about pro-life or not and how it would effect others or a baby.. I thought it was a decision that should be up to that woman... yatta, yatta, yatta... but I personally would never choose it myself... needless to say I am definitely a pro-lifer all the way for everyone after what I have learned.... anyway... the pictures pretty much speak for themselves according to how a fetus develops week by week. * if you can't read the weeks on the pic, I posted them under each pic.

3 weeks the neural tube forms

4 weeks

5 weeks- heart & liver are functioning

5 1/2 weeks- you can see little fingers and eyes

6 weeks

6 weeks- 

7 weeks

8 weeks

8 weeks- definitely looks like a little human

9 weeks

12 weeks

13 weeks- the eyes are fused

15 weeks- i seriously can't believe the little fingers

15 weeks

18 - 20 weeks

22 weeks

24 weeks- * it is still legal to get an abortion 

up to 24 weeks

32-34 weeks- vernix is a white cheesy substance that 

covers the baby's skin and is used for protection

36 weeks- almost there!!

It is seriously amazing how God creates these little ones! It truly is a miracle!! I am so excited for this semester filled with delivering babies!!! It will definitely be a great learning experience!!!

"For you created my inmost being; 

you knit me together in my mother's womb. 

I praise you because I am fearfully and 

wonderfully made; 

your works are wonderful, 

I know that full and well. 

My frame was not hidden from you

when I was made in the secret place.

When I was woven together in the depths of

the earth,

your eyes saw my unformed body. 

All the days ordained for me

were written in your book

before one of them came to be."

Psalm 139:13-16