Our Sweet Baby Pascual

The last few days have been painful and difficult. We grew to love this sweet baby so very much! It has been an amazing experience for me personally and for our family. We learned that we are a lot stronger than we ever thought that we could be. We learned so much medically on how to take care of all of his needs.

Tuesday I went with Marissa and Pascaul, his biological parents and helped them pick out and urn and then today to the Holy Rosary Church in Woodland to set a memorial service date. His memorial will be next Thursday, March 26th, 2009. It has been a long drawn out and frustrating process due to the county involvement and lack of human compassion. My heart goes out to his parents! I know this has been a very painful and sad experience for them.

I am so thankful for Heavenly Father's insight in placing us all together through this experience. It has given me many opportunities to serve and help Marissa. I have grown to love her. She is such a sweet girl and she needs lots of love and acceptance.

I am so thankful for my sweet Jeff! He has been such a wonderful support and I love his ability to make me laugh and his ability to love. He is amazing! Hannah has shown so much concern, love and compassion not only for me but for Marissa as well. She is an amazing and sweet daughter of God! Hudson my hilarious, terrific 2 year old keeps us laughing and running. I know that he misses the baby. He will go to the crib and ask where is the baby periodically.

At the risk of sounding repetitive I am thankful for this amazing experience and that Heavenly Father entrusted this sweet baby to us. He had, has such a strong sweet spirit and has forever changed us and has helped our testimonies grow so much. I am thankful for the continued opportunity to serve and love his family. I hope that we can bless theirs lives as much and they have blessed ours.

I hope that you enjoy the pictures. A professional photographer offered his services to Marissa and Pascual while the baby was still in the hospital. He did an amazing job. Several of the pictures remind me of how peaceful he looked when he passed. Thank you for all of your prayers and love during this time. All our love!

Sweet Pascual

I know that I haven't updated our blog in a few weeks. Life has been crazy busy. For those of you who don't know two weeks ago we brought Baby Pascual into our home. He was two weeks old with Trisomy 13 which is a extra chromosome genetic disorder. He had a severe cleft lip and palate, a blood platelet disorder, a 6th pinky on each hand, heart and lung problems and his eyes never developed. Because of the cleft palate we had to line feed him through a gastric tube into his little tummy. He was an amazing baby with such a sweet special little spirit! He loved being held and loved on. When he cried we would carress his little cheeks and he would be instantly soothed. We grew to love him so much in such a short time. Sadly Pascual passed away early Sunday morning in our home. We miss him horribly but will always treasure the blessing of having him in our home. It is such a comfort to know that he is no longer in pain and that he went straight back to our Father in Heaven. This has been such an amazing experience for our family and has brought us closer together and reminded us to treasure the simple things. We have learned that service and love go hand in hand. I will add more about this precious baby and experience in the days to come. Thanks for the out pouring of love and support to our family.