Do you think Brian's a little over anxious? (posted by Alyson)

How did I get so Lucky?

I was just sitting here thinking about my beautiful wife. She is such an inspirational person. She is able to take whatever comes her way and just roll with it as if it was no big deal. I know for a fact that if I were to go through some of the stuff she has gone through, I would have crumbled like a ton of bricks. She never complains about anything, and she is never without her beautiful smile. I just don't know how I got so lucky. I am of the belief that you get what you deserve, but somehow I beat the system when I married her some 7+ years ago. Alyson has been such a trooper throughout her whole pregnancy, and she has never complained about being tired. She has not even gone through the hormonal moody changes that I have heard a lot of women go through during pregnancy. She has such a spirit about her. Again, I just don't know how I got so lucky.

Alyson, I Love you with all of my heart and soul. You are my life, and I am blessed to have you as my wife. You are going to be a great mother.

WHOA MOMMA!!!!

He has to be ready by now!!! Just look at my belly, it is so big.

Grandma is HERE!!!!!

Well Grandma is here. Alyson's mother flew into Abilene last night. She was shocked to see how "big" Aly's baby holder is (she had to take a picture). She is so excited about meeting her first grandchild. I am glad that Alyson and I were able to do that for her (remember us in the will). I am even more happy that Alyson and her will be able to share in the whole birth experience together as mother and daughter. I know that Alyson is relieved to have her here. Now maybe we can go ahead and have this child. By the way we are 7 days from the due date.

10 days and counting!

We are at 10 days to the due date. Alyson and I are getting anxious to get this child into the world. We are so excited to meet Brooks. Alyson's mother will be getting into Abilene this coming Wednesday, which will be an exciting time. My one wish though is that all of our family could be here for the birth. It is just too difficult to coordinate all of them being here at the right time. I guess they will get to meet him in due time. But for now we are 10 days away from the due date, and hoping that Brooks does not to come later than that.

The waiting game.

I hate playing the waiting game. Now that the basketball season is over for us, I have a lot of time on my hands. We are in the middle of recruiting, trying to get players to replace our departing players. That's waiting game #1. We have to wait for the players we want, to see if they want to come to ACU. Waiting game #2 is even worse. Alyson is about 22 days from her due date. We have all of the nursery stuff done and now we can just wait for Brooks to decide he is ready to come into the world. I am hoping, however, that he does at least wait another 2 weeks or so, just in case we have forgotten to do something for his arrival.

Lamaze classes are going fine, and that sort of helps speed things up for us, but for me I am just excited to meet him for the first time. If he does wait another 2 weeks or so, that will allow me to go to Oklahoma and do some recruiting this weekend. I will probably call Alyson every 5 minutes while I am gone just to make sure she is feeling fine. Anyway, we are just waiting for Brooks arrival.

We ask for your continued prayers as we approach the birth and additional test for Alyson after delivery. We are still optimistic that she will be able to skip chemotherapy all together. We also appreciate your prayers, they are so encouraging to us.

Its March... Its Lamaze...Its delivery time(almost)

Well its March, and that means that Brooks should arrive sometime this month. We start Lamaze classes tomorrow. We are very excited to get going with the classes. I hope that we can get a couple of classes in before Brooks decides its time to meet mommy and daddy. When we woke up this morning we realized that it is March and that our lives are going to change in a great way. There is so much anticipation and preparation that we are going through right now. I just hope we can be ready for all of this, and we hope that Brooks at least waits until his Grandma McChesney gets here on the 22nd. It will be nice to have family here when he arrives (yes, Clint and Alana you're family too).

I sat up last night in bed and just stared at my wife for a while. She is so precious to me. She is going to be an awesome mother to Brooks. She has been through so much these past few months and I am amazed at her courage and strength. Through it all the Lord has been faithful. I just pray for Alyson to be protected from any harm during delivery. And I cannot wait to introduce our son to the community of believers that are in our lives, so that he will know that the Lord loves him and that he has the choice to accept God's Grace and Salvation.

Ahh, March Madness!!!!