MeRrY ChRiStMaS!!!!

Merry Christmas! This year has been filled with so many challenges, miracles, and happiness. This was sweet Lizi's first Christmas. I thank my Heavenly Father every day for her sweet spirit. I am so thankful she stayed on this earth to be part of our family. We've had fun going to Nana and Papa's to play with cousins, the Ballard family Christmas party and having Grandma Fisher come visit this morning. Matt has been dealing with kidney stones for the last 5 days, which(not his fault) has exhausted me with trying to get Christmas done, families parties without him and staying awake all night to make sure he is okay. It caught up to me Christmas morning after the kids unwrapped their presents. I ran to the bathroom to throw up, then fell asleep. What a wonderful mother! ;)  Poor Matt has been great though. Helped wrap presents and he put Avery's kitchen together for me. Love that guy! The gift highlights for the kids were Bryton's Dread Eye's Phantom ship, Bentley's Lego Technic log hauler, and Avery's One Direction Liam doll. Oh what are we going to do with her? Lizi got a tea set and a vanity, but loved the wrapping paper :). 

We are so blessed to have such amazing family and friends. Thanks so much to those who helped take and pick up Matt from InstaCare's and ER's. We love and appreciate you! We couldn't be more blessed. We love you all and hope this year is filled with happiness!

A few of my favorite things.....

How did I become so blessed? These are just a few of my hundreds of favorite pictures. Just randomly chose some. I love these people more than any words could ever express. I can't imagine my life without a single one. I am the luckiest, most blessed person ever!

He Lives......

......And I know it because of this sweet baby(amongst a plethera of other things).  These passed almost 6 months have brought so many opportunities for Priesthood blessings and for miracles to be watched, for prayers to be heard, for prayers to be answered, for patience to be tried, for faith to be built and for testimonies to grow. These last 6 months have pushed me more and harder than ever before in my life, and I am so grateful. To watch what has gone in my life and the life of my family is amazing to me. I will never be able to express aloud the love and appreciation I have to my Heavenly Father and His Son for their Divine intervention, love, piggy back rides, comfort, blessings and guidance.  I just have so much love and gratitude to them and for my family that I felt a post was necessary.  I am so grateful for my sweet family and all of their prayers and for fasting for our sweet baby. I hope they(especially the kids) see what miracles can be worked when faith is exercised and what fasting can do. I am crazy in love with my husband to whom I owe my sanity. He is the most amazing husband and father to my family. I feel so blessed and humbled that I am the mother of these four beautiful spirits. I hope I can do 1/16 of the job with them that my sweet mother has done with me and my siblings. 

This is sweet Lizi about 6 hours after being born.

                                                                                   

  About 17 hours after I had her I was able to see her for the first time. I will never, ever forget that sweet moment in my life.                                                                           

Sweet Sass came to see me the day after I had Lizi. She just wanted to cuddle and watch a show. That's all I was going to be able to do anyway...obviously.

The BEST birthday present I will ever receive was this....being able to hold my sweet baby for the first time. This was 4 days after I had her. I will never forget this moment either. It was like the Heavens opened and breathed comfort into my heart.

After almost 3 weeks the kids finally got to see their sister in "real life". They just got to see her through glass until now. These are moments that make my heart soar.

We finally got her home and the first thing I wanted to do was give her a tubby. I had not been able to do any of the "newborn" or "baby" stuff besides feed her or change her diaper up until now. I wanted to wash that hospital smell off of her. I LOVED that sweet little body and washing her beautiful little head.

And this was our position for the most part for a while after she came home. Sass didn't want me to go anywhere, and she really didn't want her sister to go anywhere.