Awesome Blessing from The Skys!

Ok, so I just can't wait to blog this testimony! Can you say wow! Where do I start?

Let's see, for Christmas Ernie's parents blessed us with money. We were all set to put it aside in savings, with the baby coming and all. Then we got this brochure in the mail about a cheap cruise and our little wheels started turning.

We had a long conversation and put much thought into it and realized that we weren't going to be able to have our annual summer vacation this year and in fact we weren't ever going to have another vacation before we started having babies...that is unless we decided to take a trip sometime in Feb. before I was too far along.

Our next step was to pray and ask other friends who had new babies what they thought. Every couple with kids that we talked to told us to go for it and take the vacation. They said we would regret it if we didn't because our life was about to change forever.

So, we started looking into cruises leaving from San Diego to Mexico and from Florida to the Caribbean and the British Virgin Islands. We were thinking Mexico at first because we wouldn't have to pay for airline tickets, but in the end we chose a 7 night cruise leaving from Fort Lauderdale and going to exotic places like San Juan, Puerto Rico and St. Thomas in the British Islands.

We booked the cruise about a month ago, but I just kept putting off buying the airline tickets. I told Ernie several times that I just had this feeling to wait. Then last night we realized we only had a few weeks to buy our tickets so I went on line and they had gone up in price pretty drastically. This didn't fit into our budget and I was starting to get down.

I happened to check my Facebook page, and my friend Ann and sent me a link to a Southwest Airline Promotion that was happening in San Diego today. I even called Southwest to make sure the promotion was legit.

I found out that 200 Southwest employees were going to be downtown and they were going to give away just 40 round trip airline tickets to anywhere they flew. Ernie and I decided to hold off buying the tickets one more day and give it a shot.

Today, Ernie took his lunch break and scooped me up and we headed downtown, Gaslamp district for our adventure. On the way I asked my mom and my prayer partner friend Sundy to pray for us. My mom prayed specifically that God wanted to give Ernie and I this gift and she said the words, "they are going to find you and give you the tickets." Go prophetic momma!

Ernie and I roamed around for a bit and then saw all kinds of Southwest employees. However, most of them were tight lipped and wouldn't say anything about any round trip tickets. Then we found a group of employees who were rounding up people to be in a talents show (on the news) to sing and try to win 2 tickets. Ernie and I knew that wouldn't be us. We are no kind of singers, let me tell you!

We were a little discouraged, but I felt God was leading us and we walked down one more street. We saw a group of ladies from Southwest we had seen before and they asked us if we had an luck. We told them no and Ernie mentioned about our baby and the one last trip. Nothing. So we started to head back in the direction of the truck.

What we didn't know was that a man who had been with the ladies was following us. He followed us a block, almost to the truck and then stopped us. He started asking us questions about how we found out about the promotion. We mentioned Facebook and then we told him about the trip and our baby. He just kept smiling this really big smile and then he pulled out two free tickets for us. One of the lady's snapped our picture with the man and we just kept thanking them and laughing.

We are so excited and amazed by our Heavenly Daddy! I believe it was him all along that was guiding me not to buy the plane tickets and my mom's prayer came true. God's blessings actually chased us down on the street. I just looked up what the tickets are worth on Southwest and the total was $780. We are truly blessed. I had to put this on the baby blog because our little one was a big part of all of this. Plus he'll be traveling with us you know. His first vacation in a way :) Caribbean here we come!

"God's blessings shall come upon us and overtake us!" I hear him saying, "It's just because I love you."