Babies...Babies...Babies...They Sure Make Life Grand!

Lauren's 17th Birthday -
She celebrates by holding all her neices and nephews
(Alli doesn't come until a few days after this picture is taken)

Kathryn is loving being an Auntie!


Macy and Mia
Meeting for the first time.


Mia Meeting Alli


What a wonderful and joyful year this has been. We added three more babies to our family...

~Mia Rynae Jackson~
(Pictures to be added as soon as I can download them from my husband's computer)
Starting in August - the 14th- Ami delivering Mia Rynae at 7 lb. 11 oz. She delivered the day we were returning home from our vacation. Richard had woken me up with a phone call from Ami who was wondering if her water broke. I was up with her off and on all night as she ended up going into the hospital and they admitted her. I hoped we could get there in time but before we even left Indiana, she delivered baby Mia that morning sometime around 8 a.m.

~Macy Elizabeth Amrine~

Then Rachel was due to have Macy on Sept 5 but ended up having to be induced on the 11th and didn't have Macy until around 11pm on the 12th of Sept. Macy only weighed 6 lb. 11 oz. So cute! I was privileged to be in there to help Rachel with Dan. It was a WVU football game day @ home. Just before she was dilated to a 10 the game got out! It took the doctor almost 2 hours to get to the hospital. Crazy! Thankfully the baby and mommy were ok!


A Joyous Family Celebration!

~Allissondra Elizabeth Waldron~

Jessica was induced a week after her due date on Oct 8th. It was also the day Richard and I were on our way home from Palmyra, NY for a CES conference. We stopped in to see her at the hospital as we drove into town. It was sometime around 8 pm or so. It was going to be a while. They had had some challenges earlier with regulating the baby's heart rate. They had stabalized her before we got there and everything seemed to be going well. We decided to leave so we could go say hello to the rest of the children at home. Low and behold, we got a call from Nathan almost as soon as we walked in the door that Jessica was being taken into emergency surgery. The baby's heart rate had plummeted. It was scary. After saying a prayer with those who were awake, we drove back to the hosptial and walked into the room where Nathan was just waiting for them to call him back After they came and got him, it was some time after that that we saw him again. My mind has a terrible imagination but thankfully i have a logical side to my mind as well...and that reassured me that there is a lot of things that happen right after having a baby so just RELAX. Then pretty soon after that, Nathan walked in and announced the news...Mommy and baby Alli were both doing fine. She weighed 7 lb 3 oz. born at 11:13pm.







These three little baby girl cousin's will have so much fun growing up together. We are now looking forward to February when Amanda will add yet one more little one to our family.