A day in Avery's life

Monday, January 17, 2011

Aaron and Avery at Breakfast

All dressed up!

Christmas Morning. The kids all line up, youngest to oldest to come down to get their stockings. Stockings are our favorite part. We all write love notes to each other and put them in our stockings. After stockings we ate breakfast and then opened presents.

The nativity pageant: Every Christmas we act out Luke 2. This year Avery was Mary. She and Aaron sat in the wagon that Aaron got for Christmas while we did our pageant. It was much better than the traditional donkey!

Here's the story, of a girl named Avery...

October 15, 2008

Some time ago I (Brad) had an experience that I would like to share with you. When Janet was pregnant with Aaron I had a dream. In my dream I saw a little girl as part of our family. Her name was Avery. I told Janet in the morning about my dream and we wondered if it meant we were going to have a baby girl. Janet always felt that we would have sons – plural. When Aaron was born, that promise was fulfilled. We now had 2 sons. We also felt very strongly that Janet was not to give birth to another child, but we wondered about the little girl in the dream. We wondered why we would have this dream and then not be able to bring another baby into our family.

As you know, things don’t always come about in our lives the way we plan them. When the Lord closes a door, a window opens.

We are very grateful for this child and are thankful that we were chosen to be her parents. Our children are all looking forward to having Avery as part of our family. We feel that she will complete our family.

Thank you for letting us share this blessing with you.

We love you,

Brad and Janet