Blessings

The Fitzpatricks, est. 2005. Matt & I got married on a Sunday, took our honeymoon close to 4 weeks later I believe. Spent an amazing week in Hawaii, shortly after our return we found out we were pregnant! Matt had to work in California for a while that year, and just after Thanksgiving when he returned to California I found out that we had lost the baby. It was a true testament to our marriage. Newlyweds, living apart & losing a baby. However, we made it through! Our first year of marriage was amazingly hard, between working out of town, the baby, losing an amazing friend WAY too young, just a lot to take in during that first year of the 'honey moon' phase! What also came in that first year was another pregnancy, an amazingly EASY one! We got to tell our 4 year old daughter she was going to be a big sister, and this time the baby was here to stay! Kadyn was born exactly 2 weeks before Kersi's birthday. In fact, we planned Kersi's birthday early that year, just to be safe that Kadyn wouldn't come during her party, and that is in fact what happened! The day after Kadyn's 1st birthday we learned we were pregnant again, Kohen was due in September. The years are flying by. 2 babies under the age of 2?! Where has the time gone & what were we thinking?! When I was pregnant with Kohen I knew I wasn't done having kids...Matt needed a little more convincing! During our 5th year of marriage we had more trials & tribulations than I could have foreseen. Our faith in each other, our children, and God truly pulled us through. During year 5 Matt had warmed up to the idea of having another baby, I said if we aren't pregnant before Kohen turns 3 we are done. Heck, we got pregnant fairly quickly with both the boys, so that would be easy - right? Wrong! It was less than 2 weeks before Kohen's birthday. Matt & I had noticed some changes, I was feeling a lot of different things in my body, and as a Mom, sometimes you just know. However, I didn't want to get my hopes up or anyone's for that matter! I laughed at how quickly the 2 pink lines showed up, on Kadyn's first day of pre school. I dropped him off at school and cried because he is growing up so fast, and rejoiced knowing I had another little person growing inside of me! Today I had another doctors appointment, right over 12 weeks. Nervous, knowing that when we lost our first baby was right over the 12 week mark. My doctor comes in and pulls out the little hand held machine to hear the babies heart beat...he can't find it. I'm shaking, my mind is racing. He says baby must be hiding, no big deal! (Yeah, not to you!) I sat in the room, waiting for the ultrasound machine to be free, pleading, shaking, crying, wondering! Be positive - very hard at that moment! When the doctor first set up the machine and I could see the baby there was no movement, it seemed like an eternity. Then there it was, heart beat, legs & arms moving all over. The doctor laughed because every time he would catch the heart beat to get a reading on it, baby would wiggle another way! Baby is growing perfectly and looks awesome! And apparently, baby is stubborn like daddy! I am determined to enjoy every single last second of this pregnancy, the morning sickness, the lack of energy - all of it! It is a miracle to know that I'm growing a baby inside me. It is simply amazing!

- Stacy
Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, wity tyem that call on the Lord out of a pure heart. - 2 Timothy 2:22