Being grateful!

Today was awesome! Finally some nice weather!

We were blessed today to be able to witness the water baptisms of some of our church members today. It made me think even more (I'm getting good at that....thinking hehe) about expressing how truly grateful I am for the Lord, our salvation. After that said I want to make sure I post something I am grateful for.

Today we are grateful for fellowship! We took the kids on a picnic and had a blast! We were joined by family and enjoyed the spectacular weather! The boys were just totally amazed by the fish in the pond...the simple things. I miss that, the simple things. Zoe was totally astonished with the baby swing, made it simple! hehe

Well as I promised, here are some pics of Zoe from her bday party, once I get the rest (my batteries died in the camera ah! thankfully Ashlie had her camera!). Enjoy...we did!!

One year ago.....26 Weeks into the pregnancy and here she was, 2 pounds 3 ounces, grade 2 brain bleed on the right, grade 3 on the left, 4 blood transfusions, 3 infections, hemangioma (bengin tumor), lowest weight of 1 pounds 12 ounces, PDA (A valve in her heart didn't close like it should of had she been born full term), after 51 days in the NICU she came home!


NOW! 22 pounds, 29 inches long with no residual effects of prematurity except for minor vision problems!

I'm slacking soo bad!

Alright, per several requests I have come back to my blg, I just didn't think people were really checking it out so I gave up! :)

The Gardner household is doing really well lately! Lots of big events!

Zoe Lynn just turned a year and we had a huge bash here for her, unfortunately my camera batteries died so I need to get some new ones to upload bday pics. (Thanks to Ashlie who was right there with her camera!) She had her 1 year check up today, she is 22 pounds and 29 inches long. She is something else I tell ya, only knows 1 speed and that's HIGH! Zoe now pulls up on everything, crawls on her hands and knees, sits, talks (mainly dada and hi), waves bye bye and so forth. She now eats all tablefoods but we are having issues with her taking regular milk, peds. just says to keep trying it off and on. Zoe is a rockstar though, she is a good girl though, just moves insanely fast:)

Kaleb is stinkin' funny! He has his last day of school on Monday, he moves on to regular preschool next year and will have Andrew's awesome teacher! yay! Kaleb has also growen up so much in the last 3 months, just maturing:) My baby turns 4 on the 27th!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So he started out at 2 pounds 9 ounces and is now a 45 pound chaotic, Thomas the train loving, Spongebob freaking 4 year old! WOW!

Andrew, a lot has happend with him! HE IS GOING TO BE A FIRST GRADER!!! Andrew has also lost his front bottom two teeth. Ah yes, my 6 year old step son is growing even faster!! He is sooo smart too, he comes out with the most insane things, stuff you wouldn't expect a 6 year old to know but he does! yay!

As for Bill and I, we are hanging in there, busy right now with the kid's bday parties, we are also both in a wedding coming up fast! Just livin' it! Here are a few pics of the kiddies, I will definately keep up with the blog this time, I promise:)