Sorry It's Taken So Long

Sorry it's taken so long updating! We still don't have internet service at our house but are staying the night at my parents as my dad severely sprained his ankle and my mom was rear-ended today and has whiplash...so we are taking care of them.....so here we go:

Well we got moved in.....it went rather smoothly. Thanks to a couple of kids from school, my parents, and wonderful hubby we loaded up Wednesday morning and headed for Lubbock. Ryan and I spent the night in a hotel and my parents went home to get some rest!! Thursday we did a few errands and then had our new home orientation.....everything checked out so we were good for closing on Friday. It was so awesome...during the orientation he was showing us all of our instruction manuals for our appliances and stuff and he pulled out a box and said that at Betenbough homes they believed that the most important instruction manual was the Bible and in the box was a nice leather bound Bible with our names on it. The wife of the owner of Betenbough had written a really sweet message and scripture on the inside. It made me cry! :)

Friday morning we went to a job fair at the Region center...Ryan talked to several schools and is in the process of following up with them. We got a phone call from Betenbough asking if we wanted to move our closing up....which we of course agreed to!! So we closed on the house at 1pm instead of 3pm. Closing was a neat experience as well.....they had a tv screen with a slideshow and it would say "Welcome New Home Owners" and then the next slide would say "Ryan & Liz Braquet" We met the owner of Betenbough and then at the end we were shown a video where he blessed our home and family and then at the end it panned out showing all of the staff and they said "Welcome Home" and started clapping. At that moment the whole building broke out in cheers and clapping!!! It was such a neat moment!!!! After that we headed home and were all unloaded in an hour and a half (don't worry...I didn't do anything :)

It's now been almost 2 weeks and we are getting settled in. I will post some pictures soon! So far we have painted the nursery (orange) and our laundry room (teal). We are slowly unpacking boxes and decorating!


Job updates: Thank you for all your prayers: I have accepted a job as the elementary music teacher for Lubbock Cooper South Elementary. Ryan is still searching and we know the right school will take him :) Please continue to pray for him and for the school that God wants him to be at!!!

Baby update: I am now 26 weeks and feeling pretty good! We had our first appointment with our doctor and he is very nice. He said everything looked good and sent us to a perinatologist (fetal specialist). He sends all of his patients to the specialist at least once just to make sure all is good. We went to that appointment yesterday and it was a neat experience. They did a full ultrasound: anatomy (YES SHE'S A GIRL), brain, heart, lungs, everything! She looks great and weighs 1lb 15 oz....almost 2lbs! They took measurements of my fibroid as well....it hasn't grown much more so that's good and they said that we need to wait until delivery to see what it actually is and where it's located. They don't forsee any issues but I will go every two weeks for ultrasounds.....and since it is basically blocking my cervix I will more than likely have to have a C-Section....but a good of that is that the doctors will be able to get a better look at the fibroid and possibly take it out then.

Well I guess that's about all for now....Ryan and I will be traveling back to Brownwood next week to work the HPU Band Camp.....and the week after we plan on getting internet service at our house so hopefully we will be able to update more then!!!! Love to all!!