Month of Thankfulness: Day 11

November 11th, 2013 we learned that our family is being blessed with another little girl

 - a third girl -  

Miss Katelyn Rae Gunter.

We are beyond excited and extremely thankful that God has blessed us with another girl.

I love all the pink, the dress up, the tea parties, the baby dolls, and princesses. I love having my little helpers in the kitchen or with the chores. And all the craft projects and snuggle times.

It is definitely a huge responsibility to raise godly women in a society that does not necessarily promote such living. It is also a huge honor to be given the responsibility of teaching three little girls how to be a mommy and a wife. There are many many times that I feel I fall short in my duties as a wife and mother, but maybe I am doing something right (or at least have good potential) if God feels I am capable of training up three to be godly wives and mothers.

I am thankful for this responsibility and for this honor.

I am excited to see how Katelyn fits into our family, and to see the bond of sisters grow. I look forward to seeing my three daughters grow as sisters who will one day travel their adult life together. It is my hope and prayer that they provide a deep friendship for one another and provide daily encouragement as they strive to be the women God has called them be.

My heart is filled with love for three little girls.

I absolutely could not ask for more.

God has blessed me beyond measure and for this I am very thankful!

Also, the timing of God blessing us with another girl was perfect. In May of this year, my Gramma  - Leah Rae - went home to be with Jesus. I was able to spend her last weeks in Kentucky with her. She will always have a special place in my heart. A little over a month later, God began creating a little girl inside my womb unknown to me. After learning we were going to have another baby, David and I talked about using the name "Rae" as a middle name if we were to have a girl in honor of my Gramma. Two days before we were to learn the gender, David told me a name he thought of to go with Rae ... it happened the be the exact name that popped in my head a few days earlier: Katelyn. It was perfect. The more I thought about the name, and the timing of being able to name a child after my grandmother - a child who was conceived a little over a month after Gramma went to heaven, the more I yearned for a girl. My prayers for the next two days were asking God for a little girl that we could name Katelyn Rae. Not only did God answer my prayers of those two days, but He knew my heart months before I ever spoke those prayers. I love seeing how God works and how His actions prove how much he knows our hearts and how much He loves us.

If it is not obvious, my heart is overflowing with thanksgiving to my God for blessing our family with another little girl.