He is Here!

We are pleased to announce the birth of our son Hudson Scott Tobias on Monday, Dec 15th at 9:11pm, weighing in at 6 lbs 12 ounces and 20 inches long.

Random Ramblings

Its been a while since I've done an update on the little daily happenings of our life.

Addi is 17 months old now and her little personality just shines through! She is talking more and more, she constantly talks her baby language non stop and the list of real words she can say is getting longer and longer. She loves to talk (wonder where she gets that from-lol) and she loves to say no. She walks around all day long saying no in tons of different tones and expressions, her latest is saying 'no way' and shaking her head very seriously when she really doesn't want anything. It is so funny! She loves to take a bath every night, right after dinner she runs into the bathroom and bangs on the side of the tub for a bath and most nights she wins and gets one. She loves to play with phones and wash her baby dolls with wipes. She is super tall, 95% and already wears 2T clothes so they are long enough and big enough around her Buddha belly. She is such a happy little girl, she loves to be tickled and loves it when dad chases her around the house. We have been spending a lot of time over at Grandma Cindy's house and she has been playing lots and becoming bestest little friends with her cousin Connor and loves Aunt Becca who is always so silly and playing games with the babies and getting them to laugh. Connor is the cutest little red haired boy you will ever meet and way too smart. He talks in almost complete sentences walking around saying Connor and ok! all the time. It is so special to Becca and I that we have our babies so close, they are great little buddies and we have a really special bond with the babies and each other as we get to experience all the ups and downs of parenting together. Addi has been such a ray of sunshine in all our lives lately and I am so grateful for my daughter!

Kevin has been doing great, he has been such huge help these last couple of months as I don't have much energy. He spends lots of time with Addi when he can and cooks dinner almost every night he is home. We went to his Christmas party and he got honored as the highest grossing salesman in the dealership, which is a huge honor he has worked very hard for. He has been so patient with me and my hormones, I can barely even put up with me by the end of the day but he is always so sweet and loving to me each night.

Baby Hudson is almost here! I went to the doc yesterday and without getting into all the details we expect him to be here today or tomorrow! It all seems so surreal right now, but I am very excited and anxious to have him here! We will be at St. Lukes Meridian, which I hope is a good experience. Addi was born at St Als and we really had some issues there so I hope this goes much smoother. We are only having our parents come see us in the hospital, not because we don't adore everyone else but I am going to focus on getting rest and having this special time with Kevin and Hudson as a family. This really isn't meant to hurt anyone and it certainly isn't because you aren't special to us but I am trying to follow my heart and do what I want and what I think is best. I hope you all understand and as soon as we get home we would be more than happy to have you all come see us in our home! We are very excited to introduce Hudson to the world and all the wonderful people who love him!

My job is going really well and I am looking forward to the New Year. It is going to be a great year, my mom is going to get better, I have my new little family with me, Kevin and I are both looking forward to exciting new part of our jobs. We will be married five years next year and would like to take a cruise, any tips for planning one would be great and we are going to have lots of family fun. And not to overlook Christmas, I am very grateful for this time of year and feel very blessed to be welcoming a new little boy into our family. Through all the ups and downs this past year I have been so in awe of our Lord and the way He works. He has looked over my family and provided us with so much.

Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas!
Lots of Love,
Sara

Oh, where to start

I have so much on my mind, I don't even know where to start. I just have this feeling I can't shake, its so tired, but its more than that, its like deep down to the bone, to my soul exhausted and worn out, it feels like it hurts my finger bones to even type. But I am the personality type where I feel so much better when I can get things off my chest so I am making myself write.

My Mom
My mom has been diagnosed with colon cancer. Just writing it feels so surreal, I can't believe this is really happening. Its my mom, this just isn't suppose to happen. I can't even put into words how scared I am of loosing her. She is what gets me through, she is always there, she is my rock, without her I can't survive. She is where I get my strength, what gets me through my trials. She is my friend I can tell anything to and the woman I look at and say I want to be just like her. She is so giving and happy, faithful, fun. I've always known I've had a great mom but the last couple of months it has really been hitting me that not everyone has that, that I am so blessed!! They are still doing testing to stage it, she had a cat scan and it is only in the one spot which is really really great, she meets with the oncologist this week and they expect her to start radiation and chemo after the first of the year. I just can't believe this is really happening.

Then with being weeks, possibly days before having my baby and the holidays I am just so tired. I want to snap out of this and have energy and a positive attitude but I'm just struggling...

Pray With Me My Friends

I don't have word right now...only these quotes, which express the deepest parts of my heart...my momma is sick, so sick and so brave. I firmly believe in the power of prayer!!! So I beg you sweet friends, please pray with me. Pray for my momma, for her health, for a Christmas miracle.

My mom is a neverending song in my heart of comfort, happiness, and being. I may sometimes forget the words but I always remember the tune. ~Graycie Harmon

Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible. ~Marion C. Garretty

I love my mother as the trees love water and sunshine - she helps me grow, prosper, and reach great heights. ~Adabella Radici

A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts. ~Washington Irving

A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories. ~Honoré de Balzac

A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all. ~Washington Irving

There's nothing like a mama-hug. ~Adabella Radici

A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of her self. And mothers are their daughters' role model, their biological and emotional road map, the arbiter of all their relationships. ~Victoria Secunda

The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated. ~Washington Irving

My mom is literally a part of me.... ~Carrie Latet

All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother. ~Abraham Lincoln

No one in the world can take the place of your mother.... ~Harry Truman

God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers. ~Jewish Proverb

XOXO

Sara