4 Months Old

My sweet baby boy is 4 months old today. I cant believe it has been 4 months already.

Isn't he so big now? I love this little man so much! Look how far he has come. My little 3 lb 15 oz baby only a couple hours old. While i was still in surgery.

I am so thankful for this beautiful miracle baby. He is worth all that we had to endure to get him here. He is such a sweet happy baby. He beams when i talk to him and even tries to talk back to me. He starts squirming and moving his mouth as he smiles. My sister babysat for us the other day. She said she saw him out of the corner of her eye, twitching really bad and wasn't stoping. She went over to him to see what was wrong and he was full on laughing in his sleep. Haha, probably reminiscing with his angel buddies in heaven. 

We blessed him in church a couple of weeks ago. It was a beautiful blessing. 

I am so blessed to be the mother of this family!

Here he is ready for church. I never knew dressing up boys would be as fun as dressing up girls. Isnt he so handsome? 

Our little Rebecca loves her brother so much. They are going to be great friends someday. They already are.

 I am so blessed to be a mother to such amazing spirits. All 6 of my kids are such a blessing to us. They are strong happy children who know they are loved. We love to watch them squirm and giggle when they see us kissing. We have made it a fun tradition to go into the pantry to make out every once in a while. At first they weren't sure what to think of us going in to a little room and shut the door. They figured out that we were doing in there and now every time they just giggle and whisper... "They're kissing in there!" Or "hey guys, come here, Mommy and daddy are kissing in there." We just sit and giggle back, as we listen to them. I love that they know that nothing or no one comes before each other. Besides God. When there is a secure umbrella of love and friendship between husband and wife, the children feel safe snuggled in under that umbrella, knowing they are loved as well. I love my husband for teaching me that! He is such an amazing man. 

Things are incredibly tough for us right now financially. We are still trying to get our feet under us from the long months of not being able to work much. We have been very blessed with work the last few weeks, but we are so behind on all of our bills that the late fees alone are taking their tole. Nothing we haven't gotten through in the past, but nonetheless, tough.  We sat the kids down last night and explained to them that today, we wouldn't have electricity or running water because we didn't have enough to pay the bills. We have some water in our food storage so we would be fine in that way, and a few dollars to add to our prepaid electricity card, to get us through the day but that was it. We told them that the money we could have used to pay one of the bills, we owed in tithing to Heavenly Father. Ill admit, it was so tempting to use the money, to pay for other things that we "need", but knew that the blessings of tithing outweighed the instant relief, so we paid Him instead. 

This morning i had the feeling to call the water company and just check to see what its going to cost when its time to get our water turned back on. The kind woman said that she would actually be able to extend the deadline a couple of weeks so we would have time to pay it. What a huge blessing! We also called and added our van onto our insurance. It dropped our policy charge by over $400 every 6 months! 

Meet Big Bertha! Another huge blessing in our lives. We have been taking the Dave Ramsey approach on our lives the past few years. We were bound and determined to not finance anything on a new (to us) van. We needed something bigger legally and weren't sure how it was going to happen but God made it happen! We were able to trade it straight across and actually make a couple hundred dollars on the deal. Huge blessing! It will hopefully get us through the next couple of years until we can upgrade to one with less mileage. It has already broken down on us once, but thanks to some angels... We are able to get it fixed. We are so blessed when we put others, especially the Lord before ourselves. Even when times our tough. We watched "Facing the Giants" last night. I loved what he said... "we praise God when we win, and we praise God when we lose!" How many times do we only make emergency prayer calls to Him when we are in trouble and not when things are going well. How many times do we blame Him when things are tough, and not give Him the glory when things are good?

Trever and i decided that its time to prepare for rain! The movie tells a story where two farmers asked God for rain, but only one, went out and prepared his fields for rain. Its time for us to prove our faith by preparing for rain. Not sure how it will come with no work right now, but with God, all things are possible. We are truly blessed.

Even with the struggles we are facing, we both just look at each other and say, "this is nothing. We have been through far worse this year." Knowing that i almost didn't live to see days like this, makes me so much more grateful for them. Even though they are hard. I am healthy, we have 6 healthy children, Including Caleb who is alive and healthy despite being 9 weeks early! A pure miracle! I have a loving husband who adores me and treats me like a queen. I am the luckiest woman alive! I have everything i need! God is good. We are so very blessed.