Week in Review...

Last week we had Activity days at our house and the girls made these cute Resolution banners, where they wrote their resolutions for the year on them. It was cute how they each were so different from each others banners. Ashlyn had her first orchestra concert, and they did such a good job! I was amazed at how good they sounded, no squeaks! She is learning the violin and when she practices at home, even Haley is amazed at how good a tone Ashlyn is able to play. We are excited to see her grow with this talent! Her teacher came to her concert and gave each of her students a rose! That was so sweet!

About 3 weeks ago a very good friend of mine went into labor early and had a 3 lb 1 oz baby boy! You can imagine that this brought back a lot of memories for me! I wanted to send her pictures of Jacob so that she could have hope and realize how far we have come since having a 3 lb 6 oz baby boy 8 years ago. I looked everywhere, I went through all of our photos that have been printed, and digital, I went through my blog and only found 3-4 pictures! I was devastated thinking that I had lost all of those photos! Finally I decided that I had to have saved them and went back through my emails and found that all of our NICU pictures were shared through kodak gallery, which has since been bought by Shutterfly and if you didn't link your account back in 2012 then they were gone forever!! I was so upset! Well, I was still determined to find them so I got out all of our CD's and started putting them into our CD drive on our computer and each one came up blank! So upsetting! So, I started sending Rick to work with a couple of CD's to check everyday. On the 2nd day, he found them!! So, I'm putting them on the blog so I can print them out in my blog book and we are going to save them!!  Here is our NICU adventure with little Jacob, I think there are more pics out there, so I'll keep looking!

Rick's mom came to stay with us for a few weeks which was a huge blessing! I had to drive down to Provo a couple of times a day and spend hours each time. It was definitely a very stressful time, but we survived and can't believe how far he has come!

I think this was the first time that I got to see Jacob with Haley and Rick...Ashlyn wasn't allowed into the NICU.

Dad Hahn and Carrie came to help out and see baby Jacob...

 Dad, Haley and Jacob..

 Haley holding Jacob...

Rick's sister Becca was a big help as well...

This pic was when Jacob came home and he had the oxygen monitor on.