Seventeen years ago today, my best friend proposed to me.

Four years later, we were trying for a baby. It took us over 6 months to conceive and I remember someone speaking fear into my life. "Do you think maybe you should go to the doctors and see if something is wrong?" I rebuked it and kept believing God would bring us a baby.

A week prior to finding out we were expecting, some dear friends of ours (Adam & Brooke Cooke) were praying life over me. Adam specifically thanked God for the new life God was giving us and prayed over our baby, and at that time we didn't know we were pregnant.

Father's Day 2007 will be a day I will never forget! It was a Sunday and I woke up early to test before  I woke Jeremy up to get ready for church. Sure enough, for the first time in my life I saw the word "Positive" on a pregnancy test. I will never forget that moment, it was so exciting! I ran upstairs so fast and jumped on Jeremy in bed and showed him the test! I had bought a book months before "You're going to be a Father" and gave him the book. I can still remember that moment like it was yesterday. I remember getting to church and telling Brooke we were pregnant! How when Adam thanked God for our baby, we were indeed pregnant and had no idea! I remember I was working in the nursery that morning and my heart was just overflowing with thankfulness for this new little life. We were starting a family. Thank you Jesus!

Me at 18 weeks.

I was due with our first baby, a little boy, on February 18th. I prayed he would be born on Valentine's Day. I thought how cool would it be to have a Valentine's Day babe, especially since his daddy proposed to me that day, it was extra special to me. It would be 5 years to the day of our proposal if he came that day.

I shoveled our driveway on the 13th and at midnight that night, my water broke and sure enough, after one of the worst days of my life bringing him into this world, our Ethan Craig was born. I got my Valentine's baby and I thought to myself....we found out on Father's Day and he was born on a day of love. Indeed, he's the perfect example of "The Father's Love".

God is so in the details of our lives, friends. I have since had 5 more babies after Ethan, and not ONE of them has come early. In fact, they've all come late, I've had to be induced with them all and have my water broken. But God knew my mama's heart, my desire for a Valentine's Day baby - so incredible!