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Benson, Arizona, United States
August 21st 2008, I married the love of my life. April 26th 2009, we were blessed with a son- Gabriel (meaning "God is my strength"). He was diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis at one month old. But we aren't settling for that. We have faith in God to heal him and give him devine health. Gabriel Isaac, "a miracle waiting to happen." And what a miracle he has been already! God continually gives him amazing health! A year and a half later we had the desire in our hearts to try for a second child. We prayed and trusted God not to give us any more than we could handle- hoping for a healthy CF free second child, and deep down wanted a girl. June 15th 2011, we were blessed with a daughter, we named her Ellie Grace "Shining Light". Two weeks later, we found out she does not have CF. Thank you God for all the miracles you let my husband and I witness ♥

Friday, January 28, 2011

The first time

I just had to share with the world that we didn't have to tube feed Gabriel at all today. Thank you Jesus! This is the first time we have gone an entire day without tube feeding since Gabe was 6 months old and got the G-tube placed. It makes me cry with joy! That is a miracle in itself... Just 3 weeks ago he was purely tube fed, and recently I just let go and fully gave it to God and then all the sudden Gabriel was ready to eat eat eat and can feel when he is hungry! We are incredibly thankful Father God!!! I feel like I am floating with bliss lately. Every dream is coming true, God takes such good care of us! When I put my trust in Him, He doesn't let me down. He is our ROCK. Nothing can wipe the smile off my face! :)
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Saturday, January 15, 2011

Appetite, appetite!

Today marks day 8 that Gabriel has eaten his dinners by mouth and no feeding tube. And today he ate his breakfast AND dinner purely by mouth! He is now telling me when he is hungry, he goes to the dining room table and pulls out his chair begging me to help him up in it to be fed... I don't think there is anyone in the world who can know how Robert and I feel to see our baby boy ask us to eat and to have an appetite for actual food... My eyes tear up with joy frequently as I thank God over and over for giving Gabe a thriving appetite and for his great health. He is the biggest blessing God could ever give us, he has changed our lives for the better, and there is no one else like him! He brings a smile to everyone who sees him, because he is so happy all the time. Where has the time gone? It seems as though I was just pregnant with him yesterday... And now he will be 21 months old on the 26th, time fliiiies when your having fun I suppose! :)








On a pregnancy note, I'm 18 weeks pregnant, and we are going for an ultrasound on the 17th, and hope to find out the gender!


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Sunday, January 9, 2011

Today is blog worthy

Well today has been a pretty great day. It started out with renting a movie and getting pizza with Rob and Gabe, it was a nice morning as a family. Robert had to work at 2 today though. But the day just kept on going great; we had just figured up how much we have saved so far for banking our baby's cord blood and decided to go ahead and commit today and register with ViaCord. I got on their website and started to register and when it got to the payment options page I noticed the pay-in-full price online was more than the price I had on the info papers they had sent me in the mail, so I called the phone number and got the same lady I had spoken to the first time I called when I found out I was pregnant and told her how the prices were different and asked why. She told me the info papers I had were a year old and prices had gone up, I replied with an "Ohhh", she then said that she can give me a discount and make it an even $2000, taking off $250. PRAISE GOD :) Then, I had also posted a status update on Facebook saying "So far we have saved $930 to go towards banking our baby's umbilical Cord Blood. Plus a generous donation from my mom of $500 (thank you). We just need about another $600 to reach our goal. For those of you who don't know much about what Cord Blood can do to save our childrens life someday, you can read about it on www.ViaCord.com" and right away a family friend of ours volunteered to donate $100. So wonderful, we are so blessed. Thank you Jesus, and thank you to those who have helped us! We now just need about $500, and I have 22 more weeks to go until I am due. We will be setting up our Cord Blood gift registry on Tuesday for anyone else who may feel led to donate. We are excited to complete our family with baby #2. On another note, I go in for my ultrasound on January 17th and get to find out the gender of our baby and, most importantly, checking to make sure the heart and all looks good!

Ohhh, I also wanted to mention that today, for the very first time (also the the first time I've ever tried), Gabriel took all 3 of his enzyme capsols as a whole and I didn't have to open the capsol and sprinkle it on the baby food. He is growing up! That will make things easier :) Yay for Gabe :)


Thank you again Father God :)
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