Flashback to December 23rd 2008

Here are some picture just minutes after Jeshua was born! Sorry it's been so long since we posted
pictures. We took some recent ones I will post after this. It's hard to believe he was that small in
the hospital.

GROWING BOY

This boy is getting bigger by the day. Check out the boy’s first official Church outfit. 

ANOTHER ADVENTURE

Jeshua is already becoming a jetsetter.  We went on our first adventure to the store with him.  He sleeps like a rock in the car seat in the van.  Is this not the coolest hat?!

1st VISIT TO THE CHURCH FAMILY

We are sooooo grateful for such a loving Church family. We were mobbed for about 2 hours after the service. It was totally obvious that Jeshua is everyone's baby of promise. There's such an amazing spirit of ownership in our Church family.

And we have now confirmed that the 2 happy shiny people in this picture are the confirmed God Parents; Ben & Kandace Santa Cruz. There speechless crying when we were just speaking pretty much says it all. They were in the hospital with us for the majority of the time and Kandace was in the delivery room and just gave us a disk full of the most amazing pictures of the birth. We love them and appreciate them in our lives and the life of our son!

This is Jeshua's future girlfriend Camille. She's practicing looking enticing. I held her up to Jeshua and told her to burn that face in her memory, and dream about your future husband. I was reminded when we got home that it will be a chick fight (a blessed Christlike discussion) between Camille and our other friends new baby girl Kailey.

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Is that not the coolest hat?

What a great new year... Gifts Will Be Defined in 09. God's Gifts to us all will be explained and peoples personal God given gifts will be defined and utilized. Other than Jesus, we got the 2nd greatest gift in the world for Christmas. We wish you all the same joy, contentment, and peace of mind. Happy New Year!

HIS FIRST ADVENTURE

After his first Doctor’s check-up this is actually his first non-medical adventure yesterday, that allowed us to dress him and put him in the car seat.  We needed to run errands and Katherine wanted to drive so she could feel comfortable taking Jeshua to his next check-up today by herself.  We are learning that running errands quickly will never happen again.  Nothing ewill ever be quickly again J.  Everyone is great, we are on the every 2 hour feeding schedule for the past couple of days and he is finally starting to pee 6 or more times a day. Mom is moving around and healing.  GOD is good!

NEPHEW ERIK

Check this out... This is a pic of our nephew Erik Carl Burdick at birth. Isn't the similarity
amazing?! Katherine even stated the similarity with Jeshua's 30th week 4-D ultrasound picture.

COMMANDER OF ANGELS

It's so easy for people to say he looks like an angel.  Let's not forget we were made above the angels and they are in our command, due to the authority we have as Sons & Daughters of GOD thanks and praise be to the name and blood of Jesus Christ.  So after that little preach, isn't this Commander of Angels pretty darn cute.
 

 

THE PROMISED CHRISTMAS BABY - GLORY TO GOD

Prophet Ruckins McKinley visited our Church in Oct 2007 and prophesied that we would have a Christmas baby, and we did. He also prophesied we would be blessed with land (like farmland), in March 08 we were in our new house that had FAR more land than we thought was possible, and a few months later our neighbor told us how our lot used to be farm area and she use to ride her horse through the yard that is our house. GLORY TO GOD for his promised word, just like the promise of His Son that would set us all free!!!

This kid is incredibly strong, especially when he's kicking. He's got iron legs that make it very hard to keep him still when changing his diaper and still avoid hard contact with his exposed circumcised man part. He has also already gone from the laying on the belly mode below to rolling himself over onto his back. Thank GOD for his Mother's athletic stamina instead of his Father's artistic atrophy.

It's amazing that he's changing soooooo much, that he already doesn't look the same as last night. Momma and I are great; we had him skin to skin all night, which completely makes him peaceful. After feeding every 3 hours, we got a full nights sleep and he's still sleeping. Yahoo!

THE NEWEST JOHANN

We are introducing Jeshua Carl Johann to the world. His momma is one tough chick that earned 100 times more honor in my eyes having pushed an iron cannonball through a garden hose. Her water broke at 4am on Monday 12/22. She was committed to go all natural so we waited as long as possible before using petocyn (sp?) to induce more consistent contractions at 10:30pm. Started pushing at 5:30am 12/23 and without any eppy's she pushed out a 14.5" head at 10am 12/23. He was 9.9 lbs and measured off their midget rulers at 22.5" long. Katherine had a supernatural pain endurance from God and can actually say that through about 90% of the 30 hour process her pain level was as high as 4 on a scale of 1 to 10. More will come later after we sleep ;-)

P.S. We have no idea where the hair came from; definitely not Daddy!

THE ONLY SLIGHTLY WONDERFUL WINTER WONDERLAND

For the Ohioans, this 1 to 2 feet of snow is just another day.  To you Californians, the white stuff is called snow.  And please pray for me that I somehow gain the wisdom to explain to my prego wife that this will not impact our trip to the hospital when it's time.  We have had non-stop snow for 2 days, aprximately 1 to 2 feet of snow, and we've had enough of Washington drivers! BUT, freeways are clear and the trip to the hospital is easy.

THE BABY'S ROOM - FINALLY!

I must point out that nothing in our entire house, except for a handful of furniture, has been purchased by us. Absolutely all has been given to us by friends, family, and even some strangers. GOD has so richly blessed us when showing Himself as our provision and supplier.

The room is designed in an underwater theme, with Finding Nemo as the inspiration. Vinyl printed Nemo themes will be added soon.

There was a friend from Church who had a sister that was dying from cancer. She heard about the maricles that took place with us having the little vanilla bean, and she wanted to sew a quilt as a gift. She died a few months ago before she had a chance to do that, and when she was dying she wanted to make sure that we received all the white shelves in her place, as well as our first official (non-midget) Christmas Tree. Another friend from Church has given a huge TV box full of boys clothes ranging in size from infant to about 2 years old. We literally will not have to buy any clothes or shoes for the first few years. Other friends have also provided huge garbage bags full of clothes.

The bassinet has been in Katherine's family since 1907. Every new baby's butt in her family has been laid in that place and their name engraved on a plate underneath. Katherine's Grandmother, Mother, Sister, Brother, Neice, and Nephews have all had ther butt in that bassinet.

Lastly, our sister-in-law Cynthia is amazing with knitting, and made us the first in the line of Jeshua memorabilia. Please stay in touch and this could be your's on the online auction for Jeshua keepsakes, in 18 years.

AND NOW WE ARE ON MINUTE BY MINUTE WAIT FOR OUR BOY TO POP OUT!

MUCH AWAITED PREGO PICTURES

There's been alot of fan request for Miss Katherine to add some pics of her pregnancy. We tried to do a monthly shot, but life preperation got in the way ;-). Here's a few months of big belly progression.

JUNE

JULY

OCTOBER

This is Prophet Ruckins McKinley who is the man of GOD that was at our Church last year (at the same time) and actually prophecied we would have a Christmas baby, as well as telling us we'd be blessed with property, which occurred 5 months later.

DECEMBER - 1 CM DIALATED (WAAAIIIIITTTTIIIINNNGGG)!