BEST CHRISTMAS PRESENT EVER!

Kevin and I just received the BEST Christmas Present ever...the doctor's office called not long ago to let us know that Kevin's blood work results came back negative so we have NOTHING to worry about as far as the Cystic Fibrosis! I feel so much relief...thank you all for your prayers, they work every time! All we have to do is trust and believe and leave it up to the one above to pull you through. Merry Christmas to ALL of you!

Happy 33rd Birthday to my Hubbie!

Happy Birthday to my hubbie, Kevin! We celebrated on Friday night since we had so much planned for the weekend! Last night, we had Christmas with my Dad's side of the family and today we are heading to Richmond for a Christmas get together with my Mom's siblings. Kevin's always a good sport for his bday since it's so close to Christmas. I will post more pics from the weekend get-togethers later. I Love You hubbie!

Excited!

I am very excited to tell y'all fellow bloggers that I have less than an hour here at the work place and I will be off 'til January 5th! I couldn't be MORE excited!

Kevin and I are headed to Suffolk to get his blood work done when I get off and then we'll try and get a bit more shopping done hopefully! Please say a prayer for us. I appreciate all of you thinking of us and praying for us. It means so much to have friends to uplift you.

Out to eat for his bday tonight (it's really on Sunday) since we have so much going on the weekend! We have Christmas with my Dad's side of the family on Saturday night and then Christmas in Richmond with my Mom's side of the family on Sunday. Then of course we do immediate family on Christmas Day.

I'll be in touch while I'm off and hope to give an update early next week on the blood work results!

Have a great weekend:-)

The Benson Family

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Needed Prayers

I had debated and debated y'day about blogging but didn't know if I wanted everyone to know what was going on...I was just way too upset having too many breakdowns from some shocking news. This morning I decided what better way to start a prayer chain than to blog as I've seen it work many, many times since I have been blogging. Let me explain...y'day morning I received a call from the doctor's office about my blood work...one test came back positive. I seem to be a carrier of the gene cystic fibrosis, a lung disease. The ONLY way it would affect the baby is if Kevin is a carrier ALSO...so we are going to have his blood taken on Friday. Since all this I have learned that this test can give FALSE results just as many other blood test can such as the Down Syndrome test. We know several families who have children with Cystic Fibrosis so we were some what familiar with the disease. Now what all this means is that if BOTH Kevin and I are carriers (we both must be a carrier for it to affect the baby), the baby would have a 25% chance of inheriting both defective copies and having Cystic Fibrosis, a 50% chance of inheriting one defective copy and being a carrier (this would only affect the baby later in life if he/she decided to have children---and only if his/her spouse was a carrier too), and a 25% chance of NOT having Cystic Fibrosis or carrying the gene at all. Hope that helps...I am trying to remain positive as I have had much encouragement from family, friends, and medical professionals that there is nothing to worry about just yet b/c the chances of Kevin being a carrier are pretty slim and even if he is a carrier many times the baby will not get the disease. It just all came to a shock to me when I got the news b/c NO one on either side of our families has Cystic Fibrosis and it is an inherited gene that you are born with. That also somewhat makes me thing the test may have given false reports as one of our medical friends said happens a lot with many of the blood test in pregnancy. None the less...I have a much better outlook today on it and am trying not to worry myself sick (although that's almost impossible as I am a worrier anyway)! Please keep Kevin, myself, and Baby Benson in your prayers that all will work out and we won't have to deal with the worry of the lung disease. I will keep you all posted as we hope to have results back from Kevin's blood work early next week.

Our lil' peanut

Hello! Just wanted to give you an update on my doctor's visit...everything looks GREAT! Baby he/she Benson was very very active this morning...the heart beat was good and they were very pleased. They moved my due date up only 1 day so it is July 8th now. I had blood work done as well...I did pretty good...almost fainted but didn't! The girl was very good and I didn't feel a thing...they took 5 vials I think! I think the problem was as always...ANXIETY attacks! Towards the end I had to get Kevin to fan me along with the nurse! They also had to get me water and put a cold cloth on my head! I got very weak but survived!!! I was just happy that I didn't faint...I laid there for about 30 minutes afterwards to get myself together and then we were off on our way to get a snack. Toby (who is one of the midwife's---David's niece) gave me a prescription for nausea and headaches so I should be set now! Below are our ultra sound pics (3d and 4d) of our "lil' peanut" as Kevin calls he/she. That was AWESOME...they have what I call a movie room:-)))) It's amazing...you can see arms and legs and he/she kept rubbing his little eyes...he/she is about an inch long...you will be amazed at the pics! We will go back in a month for our next visit. I feel like it's so real now that I've seen the little one moving all around and heard the heart beat...what a feeling that is indescribable!

Busy, Busy Wednesday...

I am finally home after a very, very BUSY day! We (Whitney, Tucker, Mom, Amanda, and myself) left Franklin at 7:45 this morning heading to Richmond. We did make a pit stop in Courtland at Dairy Queen for some breakfast:-) Our 1st stop was Short Pump to get Tucker's Christmas pics taken. Next we had lunch with my Aunt Peggy who lives in Short Pump, it was a short but nice visit! Then we headed to downtown Richmond to The Children's Museum to see the famous REAL SANTA...aka Ho Ho to Tucker! We saw Ho Ho pretty quickly which allowed for some play time inside the actual museum...Tucker had so much fun! Then we decided that we would stop at Southpark Mall in Colonial Heights to let Tucker see the singing bears and the choo choo train! Boy did he like that! And of course we had to see Ho Ho again...Tucker was adamant that he sit in his lap again! Now keep in mind that he saw Ho Ho on Tuesday at the credit union in Franklin...he just can't get enough! We did manage to get a little bit of shopping in but not much at all b/c we wanted to get on the road before it got to terribly late! And that was our WONDERFUL busy, busy, Wednesday! Tucker so excited b/c he is about to see the REAL Ho Ho!

Tucker and the Snow Princess!

Santa sees Tucker's choo choo train sweater and tells him to look on his tree which is filled with lil' choo choo train ornaments...Tucker thought that was GREAT!

Tucker thinking HARD about what he would like Santa to bring him...he finally told him a firetruck, a choo choo, and a truck like his Daddy's...LOL!

Tucker got to talk into the microphone!

And one last time Tucker says goodbye to Ho Ho!

Time for some fun in the museum!

Tucker worked on a car...

Picked apples off of a tree...

And dumped the apples back so that they could fall again and again and again...

And he met a giraffe!

Davey & Brooks' Wedding

Here are a few of the 146 pics that were taken the weekend b/t Rehearsal Dinner and the Wedding!
*Please let me know if y'all can view the video that I posted in the next post...I can't seem to view it from here at work BUT could at home*
Mr. & Mrs. David Winston White Jr.

Mom and David (Father & Step-mother of the groom)

They did a surprise sibling dance...Amanda & Davey!

The cupcake wedding cake...Davey built the stand, Davey & Brooks baked ALL the cupcakes and had a girl decorate them that day! I thought it turned out really neat!

Handsome Lil' Tucker!

My friend Melissa who is pregnant with her 2nd (due April 30th) and myself.

Me and my hubbie Kevin!

My Mom toasting with her Coca-Cola!

My friends Quinton and Michelle!

Me-Maw and Tucker cuttin the rug!

Tucker dances with the beautiful bride and Heather.

Melissa and her hubbie Mark.

David giving his toast.

The bride and myself.

Mom and myself.

Kevin and I dancing.

The Worrell's...look at that silly Tucker!

Tucker dances with Uncle KK and Aunt Chele.

My friend Meredith, Chrlie, Tucker, and Whitney getting ready to throw bird seed at the new couple.

Here they come!

And off they go...honemooning in California and Hawaii 'til the December 23rd!

Our Lil' Dancer

Here is a video of Tucker dancing to the latest Kid Rock song at the wedding reception on Saturday night...he does LOVE to dance and had the best time! Let me know if y'all are able to see anything...for some reason I can't from my computer here at work...not sure if something went wrong when I downloaded b/c I could watch it from home.

Busy Weekend

What a busy weekend it was! I have MANY, MANY, MANY pictures to share with you when I get a minute to download them! Everything went great with the wedding and at church y'day with the musical group that performed. Just didn't want y'all to think that I had fallen off the face of the earth...LOL! I will share pics soon:-) Have a great week!

You're invited...

Please come join us if you can...The Sojourners are a musical group, this will be the 2nd year that they have come to our church to put on a Christmas program. I missed them last year but am excited about hearing them this year. Hope to see you there!
I wanted to go ahead and post this today since our family has a big weekend ahead of them with my stepbrother's wedding. I am taking off tomorrow to do a few things to help prepare. Y'all have a great weekend as I will probably not have time to blog until next week!

Sand Buckets

I finally felt like working on some Christmas gift stuff tonight...here are the sand buckets that I'm giving the kids...I still need to stuff them with a few things and get them wrapped!

A Blond Harry Potter

I caught Tucker back the beginning of November in Me-Maw and Paw-Paw's office...he had gotten one of their pairs glasses and was sitting at the computer (I was too late for that pic) acting like he was working! It was the CUTEST thing! Immediately I started laughing and that made him laugh! He looks like a little blond Harry Potter...LOL!