Thursday, May 24, 2012

I am reminded everyday how much God has blessed Andrew and I.  We have 2 beautiful girls, a wonderful family, great jobs, etc.  We could go on and on.  I just want to say how blessed we are to have family that loves and cares for our girls.  We have never had to put our kids in daycare, and they are well taken care of.  Brooklyn is in Mississippi this week with my parents.  She is definitely enjoying her visit there, while it is hard for us in Tennessee to be without her.  I am counting down the days to when she will be back.  Everytime I call and talk to her, she says she misses us but that's about all I can get out of her.  She has been fishing, playing with my nephew Kasyn, and just having a great time.

 I am so glad that she will stay places without Andrew and I, although we do miss her alot. But, I feel better knowing, that if Andrew and I aren't with her, she is ok.

As for Sarah,  she just started eating baby food last week, and absolutely loves it. For those of you who don't know, she was born with a cleft palate.  Sometimes, feeding her can be such a challenge.  It seems that every feeding and every bottle nipple is so different.  But, I feel like that we are actually getting used to it, and bottle feedings are definitely much smoother than they were.  Her cleft palate repair is scheduled for September 4th.  There are so many things that I feel like we need to work on, but I know that God is going to take care of her.  She likes to suck her paci.  After surgery she cannot have anything in her mouth until she heals.  That means no paci. They also want her to be drinking out of a valveless cup.  Teaching a 4 month old to drink out of a valveless cup, could get very interesting!!

Monday, May 21, 2012

Welcome to our blog!!  I've decided to try something new to keep people updated on my precious family.  We have family all over, so I thought it may be easier to keep people up to date this way.  So to start out, let's go back to July 19, 2008. This is when Andrew and I got married.  Who knew what God had in store for us.


On May 7, 2009, we were blessed with our first daughter, Brooklyn.  She is now 3 years old and such a blessing to us.  She is so much fun, never a dull moment with her. She is absolutely beautiful and so smart. I will write more stories about Brooklyn throughout our blog.  It is amazing the things she comes up with at times.



On January 3, 2012, we were blessed with another daughter, Sarah.  She is now 4 months old and learning new things every day.  She was born with cleft palate.  So, her first few weeks of life were challenging trying to get her eating down.  She is now taking her bottles like a champ, and loves loves her baby food. She will have surgery September 4th to repair the surgery.  I just pray for a smooth surgery with minimal pain. 


Sisterly love... Brooklyn loves her little sister. She is such a good big sister and loves to help with Sarah.  I can't wait until Sarah is big enough to play with her. (But, of course, I don't want her to grow up too fast, which she is already doing)

Well, that's about it for tonight.  I will try to write more tomorrow.