Sunday, October 30, 2011

Miracles

Kash Lee Lawrence entered the world on September 7th, 2011! He weighed in over 8 lbs and 21 inches long 2 weeks early! I was scheduled for my C-section to be the next day but once again I started labor on my own. I called my Doctor to let him know what was happening and left a message with the nurse. Within 5 minutes he called me right back to meet him at the hospital ASAP for a 5:00 C-Section. At that moment I became incredibly emotional. My heart raced, realizing what I was about to face once again not knowing how this would all turn out. Case gave me a blessing before we left for the hospital and almost immediately I felt peace. I knew Heavenly Father was with me and it was all going to be alright. I'm grateful for the priesthood and the blessing that it is in my life. Hearing that first little cry was an emotional moment for us as it was with our other babies. Holding Kash, seeing how healthy he was and the Doctor telling us how amazingly strong my uterus looked, as if it were only my second C-Section, was overwhelming. We were thrilled and humbled with the good news and that the baby had arrived safely. It couldn't have gone any better and we feel incredibly blessed. Child birth has never been an "easy" process for me, but one thing is for sure, I have seen Heavenly Father's hand and experienced a miracle 6 times over.








Daddy love









The kids can't get enough of him! It's so fun having a new little one in our home again!






We celebrated Crew's Birthday in the hospital with our new baby brother. We figured this was pretty appropriate considering this was where Crew was also born 9 years ago! How often do you get to have a birthday party on your birthday at the actual hospital where you were born?! Crew got a kick out of it and Mae Mae our little drama queen performed her own little song and dance she made up especially for Crew's party!





Mae and baby Kashy






Thursday, June 23, 2011

Family Fun!

Celebrating our new baby brother!!!
That night after our ultra-sound, Kamae threw a party to celebrate our new baby brother! She planned the whole meal and had me buy blue balloons, I love this girl, she is going to be the best helper! We are all SO excited!!!






More Birthday fun!

Love Kamae's faces!

One happy boy :)
Crew and Mae get so excited for Birthday's and Holidays. I came into the kitchen and found this adorable sign Crew had made for McKay on his Birthday! He is such a thoughtful little boy.

We have quite the pranksters in our family! The kids wrapped up a pair of underwear for McKay's Birthday present-It turned into great laughs the rest of the evening! l love their sense of humor-they have so much fun together!




Easter Sunday!
Mommy and Mae Mae
Our Easter chickies
Taia's darling friend Krissy. The Luccey's-our wonderful neighbors, joined us on a fun Easter egg hunt! Turned out to be a wonderful missionary opportunity.



Our recent additions :) baby goats are so dang cute! Just in time for Easter!

All the kids checking out their treasures!






FHE..... Food Storage!
We have been teaching the kids the importance of food storage, so for Family Night we rented the canner to work on more of our own food storage as a family. Each child had a job to do and we rotated every so often. It turned out to be such a fun FHE, very memorable and rewarding for the kids! We had a great time working together and now have our year supply of the items we canned together as a family!












Cousins!
Doug, jan and kids came to California last April. They were down in Anaheim for a week so I loaded up 51/2 kids :) and zipped down there to spend a couple days at Disneyland with them! We all drove back to Clovis to hang out for a few more days. While they were here with us we had quite the Easter egg hunt, I think it lasted 45 minutes! The Easter bunny sure knows how to hide those eggs :)


Easter chickies- While Jan and the kids were with us Case took the kids to buy some chicks. The girls painted their toe nails to tell them apart-love it!
Cute Adria
The gang
Daisy Mae :)