Looking Back

There are many reasons why I love this blog. But one of the main reasons is because it gives me the opportunity to look back at some of our precious family memories. I'm looking forward to having this year's blogs printed as a book for us to keep. If anyone has done this and has any suggestions for where to get this done, I'll gladly take them! In the last few days, I've also seen how it is used as a reminder of God's faithfullness. I was reading some previous posts such as Singin' the Preggo Blues, Just For Reid, Our Newest Crew Member and The Truth and realized how thankful I am that God keeps his promises. In the previously mentioned posts, I discussed how physically ill I was, how I didn't know how in the world I could love another child like I love Landon, how scared I was when told I would have to deliver my son at 35 weeks due to preeclampsia and how hard it was for our family to adjust to life as a family of four....especially with a particularly difficult newborn! But, today I can gladly say that I am feeling better than I have in almost a year and I have a lot more energy to run after my 2 (excuse me...3) boys! I have an amazingly healthy 3 1/2 month old who went from a scrawny, premature newborn to a little chunky monkey (my nickname for Reid). I have an indescribable love for my 2 children that I never knew I was capable of until they were here. I'm not saying life is perfect, but these seemingly minor things that I previously struggled with have now been lifted thanks to the faithfullness of my heavenly Father. It's easy to look back and see God's Greatness once things are better. I pray that I am acknowledging it just as much in the midst of harder times. I hope you can look back and see how faithful He has been to you as well! :)

My little chunky monkey~He's so much happier these days and we just love to sit and "talk" with our sweet Reid!

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I had just finished bathing Reid and was getting ready to bathe Landon and I thought it might be cute to get some pics of the boys in just their diapers. Well, as any other mother of more than one child knows, that's almost impossible! At first, Landon was less than thrilled to be taking pictures with his little brother...

This was the best one I got!

At the pumpkin patch