the Miracle of Life– and HOW great is our God
The very very proud gramps! (my dad with alex)
Todds mom and alex
My mom and Alex. He does not quite know what to think there.. Did i mention how cute he is
He’s soo beautiful
Me with the MOST beautiful baby in the whole world (and I have traveled from afar in the world you know) I am a very very proud aunt!
My mom with little alex.. He has beautiful blue eyes
Hello world!!
The very proud AUNT!!! Guess what family– I am an AUNT!! to (I know that I am very partial… and biased.. ) but to the most beautiful baby in the whole wide world. He is PERFECT and adorable.. and the tiniest bundle of Joy that I have ever held in my whole life! (6 lbs)
Our God is truly soo good. Talk about being overwhelmed. I am overwhelmed with Gods goodness and HIS perfect timing. I had prayed soo hard about when to buy my ticket from nepal. It was a tricky situation because I could buy it either to late or two early. God promises us in Psalms 34:7 that He gives us the desires of our hearts. As I prayed the Lord repeatedly said August 9th– that He wanted to give me that gift on my one year anniversary in Nepal! Talk about perfect timining.. due to the length of the journey if I had left one day later I would have missed my nephews birth. But instead. I got here in time to go to church, spend all day monday with my precious sister michelle.. and then be with her on Monday night .. literally one day after I arrived when her water broke!!!! HOW great is our God… You know Jesus called me to go and leave all that I knew and loved to serve Him.. and He did not wait until heaven to give me my heavenly reward … He gave it to me this week when He opened his arms through my friends and family and said Welcome Home My Daughter.. I am pouring out the blessings so you know I was more then there as you served me when it got hard, when you wanted to go home, when you had to press in.. (ok.. i have to stop now I am crying)
so about the delievery. Like I said I was with michelle when her water on monday night… they went to the hospital around 11:30 and she started really having contractions on tuesday morning. She did amazing. It was soo cool because around 3:00 was the time when it was about time to push. The nurse told her it could be 2 to 3 hours of pushing.. so my dad and my mom and i went outside and prayed. My dad said let’s pray a specific prayer. So the doc would show up at 4:30 and the baby would come just one hour after her pushing.. which woudl be 4:45. The doc showed up exactly at 4:30… the baby came at 4:42… MAHIMA!!
I was not in the room but hearing that baby cry for the first time was amazing. Alex swallowed fluid so he had to go immediatly to the nursury for some breathing help, but when they wheeled him past us it was the most beautiful thing I have ever seen.
And then when I got to hold that little bundle for the first time.. wow. Michelle was such a trooper to.. she did not even look tired. Todd of course could not stop crying. I was holding myself together well until Beth burkey showed up (my spiritual mama) right after the baby was born and we were all in the hospital room praying together. It was at that point that I broke down. I mean it has been a pretty emotional week… overwhelming. I’m in america, I’m an aunt, and I suprised my family with the biggest suprise of their lives. I went from a very third world country to the land of plenty– with air conditioning, wal-mart, and being able to actually touch and hug my family. I am one overwhelmed very blessed girl
going to the hospital now.. 🙂
Auntie Jenn,
You make us all cry tears of joy with these blogs. I hope no one walks in my office for a while. I am a mess – a mascara running, tear streaks down my face, nose running mess! I’m so overwhelmed and so blessed to see God’s outpouring of love for you. Give a big hug and kiss to Alex for me.
I’m off to the bathroom to redo my make-up now and to do a hallelujah dance in my prayer closet (the third stall of the bathroom.)
Love you bunches,
Sandra
I am so happy for all of you and I am very very happy for Todd and Michelle! Alex is so cute!!! I only have one question?? Where is a picture of the proud Dad! Poor Todd must have had something to do with all of this! Ha! Can’t wait to meet Alex and we are so happy for all of you! God Bless! Mama Ellis
Aunt Jenn,
Our God is so amazing! I can only imagine how Overwhemled you are! Alex adorable! I think he looks like Daddy Hand! You are an amazing writer Jenn! I love you! -teej
Jenn…..
Okay, how amazing, how good our God is!! First, I am so thankful you got here in perfect timing! And your little nephew – how precious is he!!! And the sweet smiling picture of you and Alex – Always crying when I read, then the next minute you have my laughing, then crying again! You and Michelle – truly, the most precious women of God I know!
Love, Mel