Myla Jade

I am uploading some pictures from our Mexico trip and realized that I never shared pictures of my niece, Myla Jade!! She was born on November 4th. . . yes, I realize she's a couple of months old now. But really -- I am one proud aunt!

Here's her story in a nutshell:
My sister had been trying for almost 3 years to get pregnant. She had just finished fertility testing and they came back that her husband had "issues" and one of her tubes was completely blocked and one of her ovaries was "dead" (I don't remember the correct term). Pretty much, they told her in January of 2009 that it was pretty much impossible for her to get pregnant. They were trying to decide if they were going to do fertility treatments, but that would mean that she would have to drive to Lubbock and possibly stay there for an extended amount of time. She finally decided that she didn't want to do that and that they would just wait and see what happened.

Then, our church did a 30 days of 24 hour prayer. Someone was at the prayer house 24 hours a day for 30 days. There was a journal there where you could write prayer requests down for the people to pray over. I decided to put her name in there and some of her story.

At the beginning of March, she called and told me that she was pregnant!! I was overwhelmed and overjoyed! I let her know that we had prayed for her those 30 days and there was no doubt that this little one was straight from God.

Then, on November 3rd, I get a text that says Sally's water had broke. She wasn't due for 4 more weeks. But, everything went just fine and as I was holding this little girl, I know that I heard God say that she has quite a call on her life. God just wanted to reassure me that she was what doctors would say was impossible, but God said otherwise.

Just a few hours old

What a little miracle I'm holding here

This is such a funny picture. I bought this beautiful dress for her to come home in and they were trying to figure out how to get it over her head. She did not like being naked and she did not like them trying to dress her. My sister was all but saying cuss words to me for buying something that had to go over her head.

But, I think it was worth it. Isn't it such a cute outfit?!?! There were some really cute black shoes to go with it, but they were tired of hearing her cry, so they decided not to put those on her.

She is one serious girl!

This is a rare shot of her smiling! We had to work really hard to get her to laugh!

Neither one of them look very interested in having their picture made

Now, she's had enough of this picture thing!

(Insert picture of Jaxon holding her)

Jaxon didn't want anything to do with her, so it didn't happen

Sally took her to get her pictures professionally done and I have some of those on my phone. I'll see if I can transfer them. But for now, here she is! I think she's pretty special.