Happy Birthday Isaac!!!!

It was 2 years ago today, that the best two years of our life started. I was leaving church with Kayla in the car, when my phone began to ring. It was our BM's mother calling me to tell her that she had gone into labor...a month early!!! I about crashed the car, but was able to pull into a parking lot to talk and breathe. We talked for a few minutes, then I raced back up the hill (we were heading to Target) so I could get home and tell Chris. I ran up the stairs to ur front door, barely able to get it open and yelled "T is in Labor!!!!!!!!!!!!!" WE have another friend by this name that was three months pregnant and CHris says "that's a little early, what? I yelled, not that T!!! We sat nervously for a minute, and then realized we had not prepared for a boy and I knew that she could be in labor for a long time, so I needed to occupy myself while we waited. What better way to do that then to go shopping?

So Kayla and I headed back down to Walmart. I tried to call my mom while we were eating lunch at Quiznos, but they were just getting ready to get on a boat for a Mexican Cruise. I so desperatly needed to talk with her, and all I could do was a quick 5 minute conversation. We were not able to get a hold of her again until we were in Texas a few days later.

We then headed over to the Carters outlet and I ran around the store throwing any cute newborn boy things in my bag...I had no idea what was in there. At that moment, my phone rang. It was T, and she said....your son has been born, can you hear him crying (I am crying now as I write this). I about fainted right then and there. I went and stood in the corner and cried, I told the lady helping me "my son has just been born, and she looked at me really funny! T asked if we had a name to put on the birth certificate and we had not decided on one yet. I felt bad having to tell her we would call her back in 20 minutes! I paid for all the stuff I had, no idea what I was buying and raced home.

Chris and I had narrowed down our list of names and decided on Isaac in about 5 minutes. T liked it and was glad to know what to call him. We talked to her several more times that day, but also wanted to give her the time and space she needed to love on Isaac while we travelled there as fast as we could.

The rest of the day is a blur. We knew we needed to wait until Tuesday for the legal signing of Isaac, but we also knew we could not just sit here and wait. Our friends Brian and Susie came over and ordered dinner, helped us pack and she was a huge help booking us the best flights to get us to Houston. I have no idea how anything happened as I was in complete overwhelmed mode. I fell into bed late that night, not able to get a wink of sleep, wich was too bad as I would later see that I would not sleep again for the next 5 months!!!!!

Thank you to Alyssa our neighbor and friend for getting up at 5 am to drive us to the airport. We flew from Portland, to Seattle, to LA, to Dallas to Houston and got in to our hotel around 12 that night. Again, no sleep as I knew that the next day I would meet my baby!!!! What a whirlwind couple of days.

This is the last known photo of us without kids! (and its not so good, oh well)


And to think we are back to waiting for that one phone call that will make it all happen again...it is a little overwhelming, but wonderful to anticipate.