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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 ♥

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 :)
Posted by The Black Family at 2:38 PM

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