A Thankful Thanksgiving

What a wonderful Thanksgiving our family had, although it was not a normal Thanksgiving by any means (no traditional meal and not the typical family gathering). The day before Thanksgiving we got the phone call we've been waiting for....our titles are finally here...Aunt Mindy, Uncle Evan, and Cousin Denver! Jacob Alexander was welcomed into this world by his wonderful parents Kimberly (my sister) and Jeffrey (and of course all the rest of Jacob's family!) on November 26, 2008 at 11:35a.m. Labor went well and baby is beautiful with a full head of dark hair. For those of you who know, this day has been long awaited for and I'm guessing my sister had the best birthday of her life and the best Thanksgiving of her life too. Our family has been praying for this day for quite some time and we could not have asked for a better miracle than little Jacob. A family friend of ours who also blogs has within her "title" the verse "For this child I prayed" 1 Samuel 1:27. I don't think this verse could be anymore true for our family. We have prayed and prayed for little Jacob to bless Kim and Jeff and the rest of our family and God is good! Welcome to the world baby Jacob Alexander!

Jacob Alexander 6lbs. 13oz 19 inches

Grandma and her boys! (Grandma never got her 2 sons...but now she has 2 grandsons!) COUSINS!

The Proud Grandparents! The Kliewer Family

SISTERS AND COUSINS

When we first walked into the room to meet Baby Jacob we immediately saw his Daddy in him. Why is it that the Mommy's do all the work and the Daddy's get all the credit? :) The funny thing about this though is...on the way home I was looking through the pictures we captured during our time with the Kliewer's and when I was scanning through them I came to 1 and said to myself "oh, and there's Denver", but then I quickly realized it couldn't be because my memory card was empty when we arrived to meet this little man and this was a picture of a baby. It was Baby Jacob! Even though these baby's look like their Daddy's, they still must have some of their Mommy's shining through because if you look at the following pictures they look very similar.

Baby Denver

Baby Jacob

Denver had a good 2nd Thanksgiving. Which brings me to another thing we are thankful for...which is our baby boy Denver. We have been blessed with such a wonderful year with Denver and have loved almost every minute of it! :) God has filled our lives with so much love and has given us a wonderful, healthy, happy son whom we love so very much. Denver loved on his new baby cousin Jacob. He was sooo good with Jacob. He would kiss him and snuggle his head into him, and pet him. It was so cute and made me so very happy (and makes me feel a little better about him welcoming a sibling into the world in 6 months). Denver's vocabulary continues to grow. He continues with his animal sounds and you can now ask him "What does a cow, pig, or kitty say?" and get an answer after each question and the lamb/sheep is coming, he just needs a little reminder of what it says and some coaxing into saying it. He has also added "that" (as he points to what he wants and says "that") and "no". I also think I got "hi" out of him once or twice today, but we're still working on that. Here are some fun pictures of Denver and playing with his Daddy today. He's getting to be quite the imitator and he was imitating Dad before he picked him up; it was very cute.

We are so thankful for Denver's Grandma's for stepping up to the plate and helping us take care of Denver when both of us have to be at work. I couldn't imagine having to leave my baby with a stranger. If only all parents could experience the ease of leaving their child to go to work everyday that we experience! Thank you Grandma's for taking such good care of Denver. We are also very thankful for the new little blessing that God will be adding to our family in May. This past month I have been overfilled with joy about this unexpected blessing and couldn't be more excited. I never thought I wanted my kids too close in age, but I'm so excited that they will be close in age and what good friends they will be some day. Also, knowing how much purpose Denver has given us makes us so excited about how much more purpose will be given to our lives with this new baby. Even though I haven't felt well during this pregnancy God has still shined through it and made it possible to see our baby moving around during 2 ultrasounds and a couple weeks ago I started feeling him or her move around inside me which makes it all so much more real. There are countless things that we are thankful for, but these are at the top of our list this year. We have such an amazing God and can't wait for the next holiday to celebrate the birth of His own Son! We hope each and everyone of you had a great, thankful, and, happy Thanksgiving. (You have 3 days left to vote for Denver's baby sister or baby brother! Please help make this fun for us and vote for which you think it will be...thanks!)