Oops

That birthday post popped up a day too early! Her birthday isn't until tomorrow but oh well.

Happy Birthday!

Today is my mom's 60th Birthday!!! We celebrated over the weekend with friends and family and pizza and cake! Here are some highlights.

The Bee Tree

Last week we read the book "The Bee Tree" by Patricia Polacco and did a little cooking activity with it. This is a great book that Ruby loves to read about a grandpa and granddaughter who follow a bee to find some honey. Lots of people in the town end up going along for the adventure and in the end they eat honey and biscuits. So, we made some homemade biscuits and honey after we read the book (thanks to our friend Sarai for the idea).

Ruby sifting the flour and other ingredients.

Telia was running around playing while we were cooking

Our homemade biscuits (1st time ever). Yes, you can make them without a biscuit cutter as evidenced by the below picture.

Good Morning

Ruby and Telia like to sit next to each other like this and eat their breakfast. Also, notice that Ruby has on a bumblebee costume...she likes to dress herself everyday now.

The Lonely Goatherd

Ruby and Telia have been wanting to watch The Sound of Music a lot lately. Ruby really loves this song in particular this week.

God Strengthens

The name Ezekiel means "God Strengthens"

We can see the truth of that in our day to day lives. It has been hard but we are only getting by with God's strength.

I didn't write much in my last post and I hope that didn't concern people. We are doing okay...not good or great or even fine...just okay right now. Some days are better than others and God has been healing our hearts little by little over the past couple of weeks.

We have been comforted so well by our Heavenly Father through His promises in scripture and through His people. Our family and friends have been so wonderful to us over the past 2.5 weeks...literally they have brought us meals (we have only cooked 1 meal since we came home from the hospital), cleaned our house; loved on our girls; sat with us; cried with us; babysat for us; prayed with us and for us; run errands for us; sent us flowers, cards, email and texts. One friend even went head to head with a "not nice" sales lady at the maternity store for me when she didn't want to take something back that I needed to return...that is a true friend. We are so blessed to have such wonderful friends and family.

So, please know that although we are grieving the loss of our child, we are daily getting strength from our good and merciful God.

For those of you who are praying for us, thank you and please continue to pray for us. Please pray specifically for our health this week. We have all been sick on and off since the 20th of January.

One week ago...

We buried our baby boy Ezekiel Brian Laffin. He was born at 23 weeks (on the 19th) but died in the womb from a cord accident.

I have been writing down thoughts that I may or may not want to share on this blog but today decided that I would simply let people know that we had to say goodbye to our son.