Another surgery...

from an email:

"hey everyone

isaiah is doing really well and the girls are enthusiastically loving him:)

i had a follow-up appointment with my surgeon yesterday and he didn't like the way the lump on my left side felt(that he had biopsied last year and it came back negative) so he's removing it tomorrow morning...if you could please pray that everything would go well...we are very grateful that jim's mom and brother are here visiting and can help with the kids for the surgery, that even if this is the end of nursing isaiah i did get 3 weeks(initially they had said i wouldn't be able to at all, then the oncologist said he would hold off on the hormone treatment so i could nurse for 4 months), and that even though this means a second surgery with the apparently out of network doctor(we've been trying to work things out with the insurance company who initially told us this doctor was covered) that the Lord provided all along the way and He knows how He'll provide again this time.

please pray also because jim recently was brought onto a project at work that required him to work the night shift, so he has to work tonight and tomorrow night(4p-7a) and probably won't get the chance to sleep much tomorrow with everything going on...

thank you so much for all your prayers

love, laura and family"

He's Here!!!

"Thank you so much for your prayers...it went so well!! He was born at 1:43pm on the 22nd and was 7lb 1oz and 20.5 inches and he's perfect, the cutest boy in the whole world and we are SOOOOOO grateful.  i'm feeling really good and the girls are beside themselves with joy about the little guy, can't stop kissing him :)

lots of love...Merry Christmas!!!"

Getting Close Now...

just wanted to let you all know how things were going...

i had an ob appointment this morning and Isaiah's doing fine, the ultrasound is measuring him as being around 6lb 14oz right now and i'm dilated 1cm...i've been having quite a few contractions each day the past few weeks but mostly i'm pretty comfortable and feeling really good...the Lord has really blessed me in each pregnancy, including and especially this one!

so i have 9 days to go til the due date and then i'm supposed to start radiation in the second week of january, that will be 5 days a week for 6 1/2 weeks and the radiologist said i'll be pretty tired, which i'd been feeling pretty optimistic about...i'll be tired anyway with a newborn and 2 energetic little girls :) but when i had the appointment and he talked about the side effects and fatigue i started feeling a little discouraged and anxious, its just one more opportunity to look at all the Lord has done for us through this whole process, the way that He has provided in amazing ways for all of our needs and poured out His grace on all the side effects i was "supposed" to have experienced and didn't...so i'm choosing to cling to Him rather than the worries and fears about what might happen... we'll see :)

hope you all have an amazing Christmas...what a beautiful year its been!!! we have so much to be thankful for!!

thanks so much for all your thoughts and prayers!

love, laura

Family

We had a great Thanksgiving with my inlaws who flew in...my energy was starting to really come back to where I felt like doing some REAL cooking, not just the quick stuff thrown together because I'm tired...I had so much fun!!