NEHEMIAH CHRISTOPHER REYNA

Monday, August 19, 2013

Prayer Flag ~ 2013

There is a lovely lady name Carly Marie, who like myself, is a mom of an angel named Christian. She writes names in the sand on the beach in Australia and she also started August 19th International Day of Hope. You can read more here about the event, as well as Christian's story.

This year I decided to participate by making a prayer flag to hang up somewhere special on August 19th.

Here is a little story behind what I chose to do for my theme for my prayer flag:

When I first started telling my co-workers that I was pregnant, a dear lady I work with bought me a blue and white stripped onesie, as well as a card to indicate what she believed I was carrying.

Unfortunately, we never got to use the onesie on our sweet baby. So, I thought what better way to honor my baby then to use the special onesie for the base for my prayer flag.

The open heart represents my heart.

The angel inside represents Nehemiah.

The sparrow represents freedom.

My sweet angel is free from a world of hate and destruction.

Of course I had to put his name and birth date.

The stars represent lights of hope. Hope that one day I will be with

my sweet baby and Jesus in Heaven.

The finished product!

Next year I plan to make another one and invite my family to help or make their own. I self taught myself to hand-stitch and all of the letters, the outline of the bird and the heart are all my handy work. The "N" is an iron-on that I stitched on with the buttons. I think I did a pretty good job. :)

Thursday, July 18, 2013

Grief That is Everlasting

Love is Made
Pregnancy Test Taken
Positive Results
Announcements Made
Congratulations Received
Sonograms Had
Pokes & Sticks
Excitement Setting In
Due Date is Set
Gender Revealed
Name Picked Out
Nursery Painted
Bed Put Together
Baby Shower Invites
Friends to Celebrate
Gifts Opened
Oo's & Ah's
One Last Final Checkup
No Heartbeat
Tears Begin to Fall
News Begins to Spread
Delivery of a Still Soul
Funeral Plans Made
Laying Baby to Rest
Balloons Taking Flight
Sadness Sets In
A Life Has Ended
The World Keeps Turning
Grief That is Everlasting

In Memory of LBS 7/02/2013

"He will swallow up death forever. The Sovereign Lord will wipe away the tears from all faces." Isaiah 25:8

Wednesday, May 08, 2013

Slacking, Running, and Other Things

I have seriously been slacking on the blog-front this year. And this post is almost 2 weeks late....But here goes!

We just finished up our 5th March for Babies season. It was a whopper of a go-around!

We sold 9 whole boxes of chocolates!
We made $90.00 at our Bake Sale! :(
We raised $1,526.00! :)
We had THE coolest t-shirts ever!
We had 21 walkers!

And.......my dad and I ran our first 5k in 46 minutes!

Dad and I have been training since the first week of January. Honestly, I never thought I would be ready, nor would I finish the race if I started. But I did! My "coach" dad and my good friend Crystal ran along side me, pushing me to keep going when all I wanted to do was walk...which I did do some of that.

We had an absolute blast!

There was one down side to our walk though....the stomach bug had hit our household the week of the walk and my dear husband woke sick early in the morning the day of the walk. So, he was not there to congratulate us as the finish line; however, he always has next year.

Here are a few pictures from our day:

Dad, Crystal and Myself at the End

Go Dad!

Myself and Nehemiah's Bear

This little fellow showed up after we completed our run..
Sent from Heaven Above!

The Back of Our Cool Shirts!

My Children and Myself

The Awesome Supporters!

Saturday, March 16, 2013

DIY - Training Pants

Training pants are so expensive. You only get 2 or 3 per package for $7.00 a pop, pull-ups are too much like diapers and are also expensive. So, I did some research and figured out I could make some myself.

I cannot keep a good thing to myself, so I am posting step-by-step instructions on making these Training Pants.

You will need:
Tri-fold Parent's Choice Cloth Diapers 6pk - found at Wal-Mart
Faded Glory Briefs, size 2T-3T 10pk - found at Wal-Mart
Sewing Machine
Sharp Sissors
Pins
Thread - I used white only

1. Take your tri-fold cloth diaper and fold the

two outsides into the middle, making them overlap.

2. Fold your diaper in half

3. Turn your underwear inside-out

4. Line one end up just below the elastic and pin.

I do this on the backside.

5. Pull the daiper around to the front of the underwear.

Pin it just below the waist band. There will be extra material,

we will cut it off later.

6. Pin the sides to help keep the diaper in place

when sewing.

7. Turn pants right-side-out, make sure

you have an even amount of diaper

sticking out of the leg holes

and pin the crotch.

It should look like this.

8. Cut the material off along the leg holes.

After you sew, you may have to trim

them up a little bit more.

It will look like this.

9. Cut the extra that is sticking out

over the elastic. I use the elastic

so it will be straight.

Once we finish sewing it may

need to be trimmed a bit more.

10. Start sewing. I sewed as close

the edge of the material as I could.

The first one I made I sewed it in sections. Then realized

I could sew all the way around if I took my time and

pulled the underwear and diaper tight.

11. I trimmed the edge that we cut

a little, just below the elastic band.

Here is the finished product!

Please leave any questions in the comments section and I will get them answered. Good luck!

Friday, March 15, 2013

We Are Fireproofing

A few months ago I had put the movie Fireproof into our Insta Queue on Netflix. Thinking one night when JD and I had some free time, we would sit down and watch it.

At the time JD had no idea what the movie was even about. All I told him he was that the movie was written by the same people who did Facing the Giants, but I was unsure of the plot. I thought if he knew, he might not think he needed to watch it and then wouldn't have.

Well, on March 2nd, my parents took the girls to a fundraiser for my niece's school. JD and I made kabobs and put the movie in. There was a scene in the movie where the dad is talking to the main character and he says, "hate is the same as murder and lust is the same as adultery".

JD got a little upset with this part, was ready to quit watching it and asked me if that is what it really says. I have been telling him for a while about the importance of going to church and studying his bible is. So I took this opportunity to get my bible out so we could look together.

1John 3:15 "Whoever hates his brother is a murderer,

and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding

in him."

The first thing he says to me is that the bible is talking about brothers. I chuckled quietly to myself, not wanting to upset him, then I explained that the bible refers to everyone as "man" and "brother''. However, the bible means everyone.

The rest of the movie went on and by the end he seemed to have actually liked the movie.

I felt a twinge of pain when they are in the garage and Catherine says, "Something has changed in you Caleb, and I want what happened to you to happen to me". I had been praying for JD to say that to me since I had started back at church with the girls.

The next day, when I got home from the gym, JD started telling me about how he had looked up The Love Dare book. He had all the prices memorized and went on to tell me that there is a study guide that we can do it together or separate. I was speechless!

When I was able to talk, I told him that I was in if he was serious. Needless to say, we out the next day and bought the book and study guide. He picked out a journal and a new pen to go with it.

He had dug out some of his devotionals that he had either bought himself or that my older brother gave him. He was looking them over and then asked if he should do them all at once or just a few. I told him to pick one devotional, along with The Love Dare.

He picked the one he was going to do and got out his bible. After he read a little bit, he then told me he would have to start going to church so he can understand what he was reading a little better. Again, speechless!

We are on day 8 of The Love Dare, spent the whole week together since I was on vacation from work, and so far so good.

Now our only dilemma is going to be getting Crispin to let us leave him in the nursery so we can all go to church.