Friday, February 7, 2014

our sons' pics :o)

Yesterday, we did a quick photo shoot of the boys together and it was so sweet! Below are a few bunch of our fav pics.

Things here are going so, so well! Life is just so precious! In the last 20 minutes, Jasper has kissed Brody 19 times and keeps saying, "I wuv 'oo, wiitle wuv bug." ( I've always called Jasper my "little love bug" and I call brody my "tiny love bug" and it just melts my heart to hear Jasper saying it, too). I picked "Brody" to be our 2nd son's name because it means "brother" and from the moment we found out we were having a 2nd boy, it has been my fervent and constant prayer that these boys would be the best of friends, brothers with an unshakable love and bond and that they would be each other's "go-to person". Over the past 9 months, I've spent countless hours awake at night, praying for the brother's love for each other and for God and it is just amazing to see God's instant answer to prayer! It just makes me so thankful and humbled and it completely melts my heart.

Anyway, here are the pics! Enjoy! :o)

PS unfortunately, Andrew was the man behind the camera, so he wasn't in any of the pics. But don't worry. We will remedy that soon.

PPS Lest you think I'm a controlling wife who chooses our sons' names without letting Andrew participate, I'll tell you about our deal. About 1.5 years ago, we made the deal that for the rest of our lives, whenever we need a new car, Andrew can choose any car he wants, no questions asked, no input from me whatsoever. In turn, for the rest of our lives, I get to name all children and pets, no questions asked, no input from Andrew whatsoever (although I would never choose a name that Andrew hates). He loves the deal, I love the deal, we both feel like it's a win-win situation. :o) Hence, I picked Brody's name. :o)






















Wednesday, February 5, 2014

photo bomb :o)

So please forgive me, but I'm just going to post a lot of random pictures from the past 6 days. I don't have time to edit them, but I really wanted to post them just in case our computer crashes or something, then at least they'll be saved via the blog.

The last week has been so sweet and incredibly precious!!! I could never have imagined how precious life could be. I didn't really think anything was missing from our life pre-Brody, but now that Brody is here, it feels so complete and so perfect and like, "This is what we've been waiting for!!" Jasper just loves loves love brody (he tells him so often!) and gets a little emotionally distressed whenever he has to be separated from him (it completely melts my heart!) J loves to help with b, loves to show B his tricks and his clothes and his snow suit, etc. Jasper seems much more "complete" now that he has a brother and so far there haven't been any jealousy issues whatsoever. Life is just so sweet!!!

leaving for the hospital (with mom, too) at 5:10 am

getting prepped for surgery! I'm so incredibly thankful mom was with us! 

heading into the OR. These nurses were great!

my 1st glimpse of Brody bug! :o) Instantly so in love.

Andrew getting to hold him!

getting cleaned up a bit.

chunker!! No wonder I had so much back pain! :o)

1st time together as a family of 4! So precious!

the boys! :o)

father and son. melt my heart!

Our favorite nurse, Yvonne.

coming home from the hospital

 taking Brody to his 4 day check-up

at B's check-up. Everything looks great!

brothers :o)

Andrew and J headed out to shovel the driveway