Today would have been Noah's 9 month birthday. I don't think I'll count his birthdays by month, because even with Emily, after she hit one year I would just round it down or up for people who asked...before I was a mom it would frustrate me to have to calculate math when I'd ask a lady how old her baby is..."Oh, she's 22 months....Oh, he's 29 months..." Oh really, I'm 422 months. Do that math! I guess I just looked at the calendar and realized that it was the 10th and he would have been 9 months today. I think of him every day, obviously, but on Saturdays because he was born at 6:57pm on Saturday, June 10th. On Sundays I think of him because we took Noah t0 church the last Sunday of July before we checked him into the hospital on Wednesday...and of course, every 12th because it will always be the anniversary of the day we laid him before the Lord...

Anyway, that's not the intent of this post...

The other day I was at the gym and I was praying for all of you guys. I know that's quite broad as I don't even know all of you, but I was praying in general and the idea popped into my head that it would be neat to show Emily pictures of all the people who have prayed for us and continue to pray. Maybe we'd print off the pictures and put them in a prayer book of people around the world that we pray for, too. Anyway, when I got home, there were 3 emails from people that had family pictures attached, none of which we know personally.

So, I wanted to pose this to you...if you would like to share your family picture with us (you can add your names or leave them out for privacy reasons), we would love to see them! The two pictures above are the only two we have of the four of us between the time Noah was born and August 2nd when we took him to Children's Hospital. The first one is of us the day we came home from the hospital. The second at Noah's favorite restaurant, Hacienda Colorado, 2 1/2 weeks later (I say that because he went there in my belly, out of my belly and that's where we had a big dinner on the 15th of January after his service). We had so many adventures during his 7 1/2 weeks at home, but we were taking pics of one another with Noah or Em individually. So, to help take the sting out of my regret, go grab your cameras and start snapping full family photos! It may seem you have too many, but years, or maybe just months, later, at least you will have them...And, if you feel like sharing, send one our way. We'd LOVE to put faces to prayers, and names if you don't mind sharing...

(You can go to my "profile" and there's a link to my email if you want to send a pic. Also, please downsize them if you know how to so my inbox doesn't take 12 years to upload)