Ben turns 1

Ben turned one the end of July.  It has been a long year and it was full of ups and downs but his cute little smile made it all worth it!!  We LOVE you Ben!

Ben getting checked out in the NICU

This picture makes me tear up.  This is how Ben looked the first time I got to go see him.  He had was breathing really fast so they had to put him in the NICU for eight days.  It was the longest and hardest eight days of my life.  It is hard to be in the hospital recovering from having a baby and not being able to take care of the baby...and then to have to go home from the hospital without your baby...makes you feel horrible to have to leave your baby!

Ben LOVES water so we got him a water table.  He loved it!

I think this picture says it all!!  He is the first one of my kids to LOVE his cake on his first birthday!