Firsts...

We've had a bunch of firsts lately. ;) 

But here are just a few. 

First time at Nana's...

First best buddy...

First milk coma...

First "shoe socks"...

First stick out of the tongue of many to come...

First "What are you looking at?"...

First fourth!...

First smirk...

First really good dream...

First month of life!

We love you Jared Scott!!!

It's been a good month of firsts and many to come. :) :) :) 

Just some Jared pics ;)

Jared Scott - our perfect, new addition.

    Love every little inch of this guy. He is perfect for our family and we couldn't be more proud. Thank you, Lord! 

These were taken on day three in the hospital. :) 

Welcome to the world, Jared Scott!

He's HERE!!!

    And Mommy and Daddy are not proud or anything! 

Jared Scott Englert came into this world on Friday, June 26th at 7:50 a.m., at a whopping 9 pounds, 21 inches! BIG boy!!! 

   Mommy and Daddy stayed in the hospital for four days due to a C section, but Jared is doing good. He has a touch of jaundice, but not enough to make the doctors worry, and they even sent him home without any time under the bili light. We are taking him outside each day and making sure he gets to sun bathe. :) 

   

   He eats good, almost every two hours or so, but also sleeps pretty good at night if you let him. Sometimes Mommy has to wake him up to eat! I cannot see letting a newborn sleep through the night yet - I know he'd be too hungry! 

   We are feeling immensely blessed. The first day we got home, Justin and I just looked at each other and said, "We don't deserve this."

    Three children is a hard concept to wrap my mind around right now. What an incredible blessing.

  

   I don't have a lot of time to write (imagine that!) but it has been quite an adjustment. Justin went back to work tonight for the first time and thankfully it wasn't too stressful. Just a bit of a change. I am hoping it stays peaceful! Like I said, Jared is a good little sleeper so far. But usually newborns are their first week. We shall see. 

  I have so much more to say, however, I will leave you with this for now. 

  We pretty much knew his name from the very beginning. :) One of my very favorite, if not my favorite, story in the bible is about the flood. I just love the faith it took Noah to build the ark (I mean, the guy had never seen rain before, come on!) and all that the flood story entails. And in my life, when I tend to get down, or need some encouragement, I tend to see rainbows more - it's just something that I have always experienced. Anyway, so the flood story is special to me. And through our prayers for another baby, I was so encouraged through that story that I knew if I did conceive I would name a child after someone in the story or related to the story in the bible. 

   Originally, I had liked the name Noah when we were pregnant with Kaleb. But for some reason, it just didn't really seem right. So we never used it. Then, when this new little guy came into our lives after so much prayer, I was looking at the story of the flood again, and realized that there was someone related to Noah whose name I did like - Jared, the great great grandfather of Noah and an ancestor of Christ. 

   

    Then, after doing more research on the name, I realized it had several meanings. One is "he who descended." Descended down a mountain was the way the text described it. We found out about Jared while we were leading worship on a couples retreat in the mountains of Sacramento, New Mexico. 

  And Scott is my dad's middle name. Wanted to honor him! We also have a lot of Scotts on my side of the family, and a lot of people on my side of the family with the initials J.S. 

    Will leave you with this from Wikepedia - 

1. "In the Biblical Book of Genesis, Jared was the sixth link in the ten pre-flood generations between Adam and Noah; he was the son of Mahalaleel and the father of Enoch, and lived 962 years (per Genesis 5:18). The meaning of the name is "he who descended" (Hebrew root YRD)."  

Final week!

     As we enter this last week of pregnancy I am a bit emotional. 

I cannot believe we are here. It seems as though it has taken forever to get to this point, but now that we are here, I'm like, "Can we turn back time?" 

  Really. I'm not one of those women who get to this point and say, "Get this baby out now!" 

  I love being pregnant. I love to feel the baby move, his little jabs, his little arms and legs all over the place, and his little hiccups. Such a precious time! 

 This pregnancy has had it's share of ups and downs, though, for sure. And for that reason, I am glad to be finished soon. During week 6, I began to bleed, and it didn't stop. I freaked out only just a little because I had had the same thing happen with Brookelynn and everything turned out fine. But when it didn't stop and got heavier and heavier, sending us to the ER at week 10, thinking I was losing this baby, then I began to wonder if things were really okay this time. I had to hold onto my faith! 

  I had to see a specialist in Lubbock for a few months and monitor this little guy pretty closely. I didn't see an end to the bleeding until week 19. It was scary. I really prayed about this little guy! 

  But thankfully, everything is well. It turned out to be a pretty large blood clot causing the bleeding, which is also the reason I bled with Brookelynn. Most of the time they are harmless, but on occasion, they can cause miscarriage. It was my greatest fear for a while there. 

  I am so thankful though that we have a healthy little guy according to all of our ultrasounds (and we have had more than we planned on, that's for sure!). I will never forget that visit to the ER on a Sunday morning while I was bleeding and cramping so badly. But as soon as they turned that monitor on and we all smiled as we saw baby boy literally squirming around like nothing at all was wrong, I knew things would be okay. At least, I felt a ton better! 

  I had morning sickness too, a bit worse than my first two pregnancies. Not too terribly bad but I'm a wimp when it comes to sickness so I ended up on morning sickness pills. They worked wonders for the most part and I was able to get through those first few months with just an upset stomach for the most part, not spending the entire trimester in the bathroom, thankfully! 

  And this little guy is so wanted. We tried for about a year and a half before he was conceived, and prayed hard for him. He is no doubt a large answer to prayer and I know in my heart already that Jesus is going to use him for his glory. He is so special to our Lord! 

  All that said, here are some sweet photos of our journey. I can't wait to post the BEST photos - of his sweet face!!! We have approximately one week til he comes to join us!  

    

20 weeks! 

28 weeks

29 weeks 

31 weeks

35 weeks

36 weeks (Can you tell he DROPPED?)

38 weeks

And, some maternity shots at about 30 weeks 

    I am so thankful to be on this journey with this man. 

He is so great, ya'll. SUCH a good daddy, and I look forward to raising these children with him. I thank Jesus for him and his love, and for our THREE sweet blessings! :) 

   

Children are a heritage from the Lord, offspring a reward from Him. Psalm 127:3