Just some old times...

When we did Relay for Life in 2008.  Libby was like 8 months old.  It was sooo much fun and it made me think of my Aunt Terry who died that year too.  Love Aunt Terry.

Harrison is offically a blessed baby.

Sunday we had Harrison's baby blessing and it was one of those moments that you know that God looks out for us and loves us soo much.

Nathan says it's the scariest of all the priesthood ordinations you do because it's in front of the ward and family, but the blessing was so beautiful. 
Heavenly Father blessed him with health and strength, to have a strong testimony of the gospel, to choose good friends that he can influence for good and they will influence him as well; to have a desire to be baptized, go on a mission and be married in the temple.

I love our little boy and there will be pics coming soon, but our computer and internet are dumber than a box of rocks, so I can only give updates for now.

Just wanted to say...

To my Heavenly Father, how grateful I am for all the experiences here on earth I have been blessed with. 

More to come soon.

Harrison Jess Coffin

Soooo, we had our baby.  HE'S SO CUTE!!!  I forget how instant the connection to a little person is, how you love him and you've always known him for some reason or another.  That he was just with Heavenly Father, and I'm sure he's visited often, and now he's here with you.  The work of 2 kids is a hard adjustment, but I was ready, probably a little too ready and should've done is sooner, but it's awesome. 

Now it's not all fun and games, we had a rough day on Thursday.  Libby had a terrible day, starting with the fact that for the 4th time she has wiped poop all over her crib and herself and then decides that she's going to cry and throw tantrums for the rest of the night.  Now she has been so good with Harrison, mauls him and kisses him and wants to hold him and love him, but I think she was getting the jealous bug a little and wanted some reactions from us.  Which I'm sorry to say I gave the wrong attentions and started yelling and pulling hair out of my head and fun stuff like that.  It's not so much getting used to 2 kids, it's getting used to the fact that you have to control your temper even when you're totally sleep-deprived and want to sleep all day like you did with the first one.

I love it though I'm learning that prayer in the morning and scripture reading in the morning, before my kids get up, are essential to my sanity and theirs.  Heavenly Father has blessed us and I'm grateful beyond words.

Spencer my brother is the cutest with him; kisses him, hugs him and can't take his eyes off of him.  I love the way babies make you act, you're kinder, gentler and all around better person, and in my case, mother.  I'm so grateful to my Heavenly Father for giving us that gift of love when a baby comes.

Blessings...

We had the best lesson today about the priesthood in relief society.  We talked about the calming and needful power it is to making our homes a safe one from Satan.

Then Nate gave me a blessing today of comfort and counsel, before the baby comes tomorrow.  I am soooo grateful it is to have an amazing priesthood holder that is worthy and can teach our son how to live and uphold his priesthood.

I have so many blessings in my life.

Another baby's coming...

I know I keep blogging about another baby coming, but I'm just so excited and also very tenative to add another baby to the mix.  Libby is energy enough for me and now I'm going to have another baby to take the rest of my energy.  Well I'll let you all know about how Monday goes.

Loves.

11 days and counting...

I love knowing that I'm going to have a baby on the 20th of July, when I go in and now what to expect.  I wish I felt more prepared and settled, but I still feel like there's a ton to do, which isn't true either.  Just the anticipation of adding another little person into our family and still having to run after Libby.  She is excited too, but I think she doesn't understand and wants to know why everyone keeps asking her about the baby.  I wish that somedays I had her energy to run all day, literally, and still not need any sort of nap time or down time after. 

The bad thing about having this baby in July though is we're missing the big Cotant camping trip, which honestly is ok with me some years.  Every year of going an entire week with no shower and no where to put Libby down for a nap without her getting heat stroke.  Actually it's nice to get away for a couple of days, like the last 3 days of the week, but the entire week is alot with young kids. 

So everyone in blogging world, pray for my sanity that I don't kill Libby after the baby comes and that we can actually choose a name and not kill each other.