Many of you know how hard it was for us trying to get to the point of finally having a baby. It was definitely a process; spiritually, emotionally, and physically for us. We had 2 miscarriages in the couple years that we were trying to bring a baby into this world. (We figured out that Kaden was born around the anniversary of our second miscarriage.) I was scared every day during my pregnancy that something bad was going to happen. I prayed probably harder than I had ever prayed up to that point. I prayed that our baby would be safe, that I would do the right things in order to be a good 'incubator.' And I can say, without a doubt that Heavenly Father truly does answer prayers. I know he was listening to us because he gave us Kaden.
Even though it was hard to go through everything that we did, we could not be more thrilled to have the wonderful, happy boy that we do now. Heavenly Father has blessed us an enormous amount to be able to raise one of his precious children and we only hope that we can raise him to be a happy boy who loves the gospel and our Heavenly Father.
So about 2 weeks ago (I am evidently horrible at posting things lately) Kaden turned 1! We are so excited that our sweet boy is growing up! Its hard to believe that its been a year already that we were in the hospital having him. I remember thinking how weird and exciting it was to finally have a baby of our own. And how it didn't really sink in till a couple days afterwards that we were really parents. I kept making mental notes and pictures to myself; like I do when I know I will want to remember something forever, and every day I was happy to get up at 1, 2, 3, 5 etc in the morning (even though it was not easy) because he would grow up so fast.
And sure enough, he is a crazy, happy, goofy boy, who is now 1!
