Well, I haven't ever done Quick Takes before, but I enjoy reading other people's. And after I wrote this post, I realized it was random and a little all over. So here are my first Quick Takes!
It's been a very exciting week around here.
1. It all began with a birthday party for a very special little boy. If you haven't read about James' birth and (what we believe to be a miraculous) healing, head on over to Bonnie's blog and read about it. His healing is being investigated for the cause for Archbishop Fulton Sheen's canonization. Read about it here. We were glad to be able to celebrate with their family and friends on his first birthday. He's an adorable and very loved little boy with no lasting effects from his traumatic entry into the world!
2. We then went to a wedding of two friends that evening! We had a blast celebrating with friends and we're so happy for this beautiful, holy couple!
3. Monday was Anna's Adoption Finalization. A day we've been waiting for a long time!
4. Tuesday was my birthday! Anna and Jeremy brough me breakfast in bed! And I spent the day relaxing, playing with the babies, and trying to catch up on laundry from a weekend of being gone! My parents took me out shopping to get some new clothes (which I desperately needed) and some for Anna too, because we just can't resist the baby girl clothes!
5. Also on Tuesday, our very close friends had their baby! David was Jeremy's best man in our wedding and they've been friends since 1st grade. They just moved out to Pittsburg while he pursues his Doctorate in Scripture after living here for a year. Matthias Joseph was born Tuesday weighing in at an impressive 10lbs, 2oz at almost 42 weeks. We are so happy for them, he is absolutely beautiful and we cannot wait to go visit them in a few weeks!!! I seriously cannot get there fast enough to kiss those chubby cheeks of his!! And I'm so excited that we now share a birthday! He's got the best birthday ever :-)
6. Tonight we're celebrating birthdays with my family, mine and my soon-to-be brother-in-laws which was yesterday. We're also trying on our bridesmades dresses to get them altered (and hem mine about 40 inches as usual). Then tomorrow we're having a bridal shower/bachelorette party for my sister (I can't believe one of my sisters is getting married in just under a month!!). And then I think the chaos dies down for a few weeks until the wedding! And I tried on Anna's flower girl dress today. Oh. My. Goodness! How adorable can one baby get! She's gonna be pretty cute! I'm a bridesmaid, Jeremy is a groomsmen, and Anna's the flowergirl, so we'll all match and we get to carry her down the aisle! We're so excited!
7. And we're eagerly awaiting the birth of another baby. Our good friends Jon and Justine are due to have their baby boy here very soon. We can't wait to meet him! He's also our Godson, so we're super excited for his baptism soon after he's born!!!
Random story about these two little baby boys and their parents and us... We've spent the past two New Year's with David and Stephanie and Jon and Justine. For the past two New Years, the three of us couples were all in the midst of trying to grow our families through children. We were pursuing adoption after infertility, and the other two couples had been TTC since their weddings as well with Jon and Justine suffering a miscarriage not too long before. This past New Years, the men were playing Wii in the basement and the women were upstairs discussing the challenges of infertility and at the same time glad that we were able to talk about it with other people who were going through it themselves. We prayed that by the next New Years celebration, we'd all have a child. (We were identified by the birthmom at this point, and were still waiting for the baby to be born in early Feb.)
Shortly after that, Stephanie found out she was pregnant. Beginning of February, Justine found out she was pregnant. We then suffered our adoption fall through and although we were over the moon excited for our friends, we were sad that we had not yet been blessed with a child. Until early March, that is. It's amazing that in just 3 short months, we all had been blessed with children.
Let me tell you, this New Years is something to celebrate for sure. I doubt we'll be able to stay up as late and we definitely won't have the luxury of sitting down just to chat, but it will be joyous and fun and it will be fun to raise our kids together. Despite the geographical distance between the three of us, we're very close friends and will always remain that way. We're truly blessed to have shared this journey with these two couples and we can't wait to see our families expand and grow closer.
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