Parker’s First Easter at the Beach

We took off Thursday after work to head to our beach house to enjoy the Easter weekend.  We had so much fun being with all my family and celebrating Christ’s resurrection on Sunday!  This year was so special to be able to hold Parker during the service as the pastor was talking about how sometimes we get too focused on us and our circumstances and forget God knows the big picture and knows what is best for us.  I can attest that God certainly did know exactly what Scott and I needed in our child by bringing us Parker and exactly when we needed it even though the road was longer than we would have liked for it be while we were walking it.  I am so glad we serve a God who is so much bigger and wiser than us!

 

This post will be mostly pictures since I took so many good ones!  It is too hard to select only a few favorites so I will just post a lot!

1 brave little boy, 2 very scared parents

Monday, April 2nd at 8am, we walked into Palmetto Richland Children’s Hospital for Parker’s surgery.  Walking through those hospital doors with a 5 week old to the day precious baby, Scott and I were a little LOT bit nervous.  I was tearful the entire drive to the hospital but prayed that God would continue to heal Parker as he has done from the beginning.  I truly do believe that God is Parker’s healer.  I give him all the honor and credit for that.  I love that Parker’s doctors are amazing and talented but I know they are only God’s instruments, His hands to do His work on Parker.  Around 10am, they finally told us that it was time for us to tell Parker bye and they escorted us to the waiting room where we waited.  The surgery officially started around 10:20 and took right at an hour to do everything they needed to do including casting, fitting for braces and removing the little skin tag from the hand.  I got to go see him in recovery around 11:30 to feed him a bottle since he hadn’t eaten since 1:30am….our boy eats by the way so he was missing that bottle.  Around noon, they took us up to a private room where we stayed for the night.  The next morning, Dr. Hydorn came by and released us early so we could go home and love on Parker from the comfort of our home…thank goodness!  Here is the only picture I took from my phone.  Thank you again Lord for watching over Parker during our surgery!

Cousin Lovin’

I know I am a little behind on my posting but we have had a lot going on!  I am determined to keep this blog current so let’s go back to March 30th….Shannon’s birthday (also the weekend before Parker’s surgery which was scheduled for that Monday).  We had a yummy dinner and a great time of fellowship celebrating Shannon’s 24 birthday!  She is an amazing sister and aunt and we love her dearly!  Here are the only pics of the night I snagged….a little cousin love!

Parker and Reece (our nephew, Reggie and Lindsey’s newest edition)

Parker is four and a half weeks old and Reece is a week and a day old

Happy Birthday Shannon!

There are no words for how much I love these pictures!

Can’t wait to watch these little boys grow up together so close in age.  Thank you God for knowing exactly what we needed