Miracles!

 Yes I am alive!  I think this has been the longest amount of time I haven't blogged, and once you get a little behind you are in for trouble. Yes like all of you fall came at our house with it bringing a lot of fun changes. 

 First off this little boy started preschool and he has loved it!

 Here was their first field trip to the police station.

 We also got some fun visitors!!  Gma and Gpa Nelson came and we went to eat, played, they caught me up on all of my projects, we went to the Air Force museum and they even got to watch Barrick at his very first Primary program!  It was an amazing week and so hard to see them leave.

Yes fall came and this view from our deck was amazing to look at every single day!

Like all of you we did celebrate this holiday and it was such a fun year!  The kids LOVED it!!  All though Barricks favorite part was handing out the candy not receiving it.  He would yell out our door, "come and get your candy!" 

 We had our friends come and go with us which made it even more fun for the kids.  It was a great holiday full of parties, fun and candy!  Yes the below picture was the only time we got the dragon head on Liam and it lasted about 2 minutes.  Silly boy!

We also had Thanksgiving:)  It was the first Thanksgiving in many years that we didn't host it at our house with kids everywhere and everyone packed as tight as possible, and it was a much needed break.  We spent it with Trent and Valene, (Scottys aunt and uncle) and it was wonderful!!  They have 3 adult kids and it was so nice to only have to deal with the craziness of my own three children and to have them outnumbered by 4 additional adults!  Both Scotty and I got naps which hasn't happened since we had kids, and it was so relaxing!!  (Here is Barrick on the furnace watching the Macys Thanksgiving parade.)

If you haven't noticed the title of the post is miracles and that is because Scotty and I for some reason became the recipients of one.  As most of you know due to a rare condition Scotty and I were told we would never have kids the natural way.  So to get our three little crazies we have always done a specialized form of IVF called ICSI.  Well a couple months back (when the posts came to an abrupt stop)  I wasn't feeling well and told Scotty that something was wrong with me.  I told him I felt pregnant but knew that is was impossible so we were both kind of worried.  Well I kept having this nagging feeling that I just needed to take a pregnancy test and told Scotty and he of course laughed.  Later he then followed up with, "that is the first thing your doctor will do anyways so we might as well rule it out."  The reason why I kept thinking this was Barrick had been nagging me for about a month that there was a baby in my belly.  He seriously wouldn't drop it!  I kept telling him we wouldn't have another baby until he was in school.  He wouldn't have any of it and kept telling me mommy there is a baby in your belly. 

Well we then took and pregnancy test and when that big clear as day positive stared back at me I about died!!  Scotty reacted in the same fashion and then told me that he wouldn't believe it till I had a a positive blood test.  To say we were shocked would be an understatement!!  I  won't lie, I felt very nervous!!!  There were days where I felt like I could barely handle my three little ones and to add a baby to the mix scared me.  I then felt an overwhelming calm and peace because this little one growing inside of me was a true gift, a miracle.  Why we are lucky enough to receive this is beyond me.  It is funny to look back five years ago and Scotty and I wondered if we would ever have any kids and felt that if we were lucky enough to have even one, we would be happy.  We now laugh that it took four years of trying then in the last four years we will have had four kids:)  Yes, that little Barrick of mine is much more in tune the spirit then I am, he knew without a doubt!  The funny thing is once I we took the positive pregnancy test he rarely talks about it.

Well I am now 16 weeks and the baby is doing great!  It has been a really rough pregnancy but I HATE being one of those women who complain so I will just say it has been hard!!  That is why I haven't been posting at all.  I consider it a good day if my kids are fed and well... yeah that is about it.  I am just grateful that this little baby is doing good which they say looks like a Girl!        

(I won't believe it until I have my 20 week scan but comparing this pregnancy to Barricks I would say it is a girl too)

We call this her praying picture.

Sweet baby profile.

 

So when you think that miracles don't happen here is a little proof:)