Seriously, I need to be better about this

I don't keep a journal and I have a horrible memory; I've tried keeping a general blog before and then burnt out on keeping it up and then later started a blog about loosing my post pregnancy weight. Well, I got pregnant in the middle of that blog (more on that later) and let it go. So, I want to do this because I want a record of all the funny (and not so funny) things that go on in our daily lives that make up the Aden family. Here goes another try....

News:

Many of you who may read this already know about the "surprise" fourth pregnancy that threw us off a bit. Well just as we were getting used to the idea we got thrown off even more: Carly miscarried. It has been an interesting emotional journey. We were supposed to be 10 weeks along but from the ultrasounds it looks like it stopped growing at about 8.5 weeks (I did not miscarry "naturally" the fetus stopped growing and I had to have a medical procedure called a D and C to actually "clean" my body out). Now I know why people wait to announce their pregnancy until after the first trimester; I have to admit I was feeling a bit immune to a miscarriage as I had 3 pregnancies and 3 healthy boys, lesson learned. No news yet as to if we'll try again, I thought I was done but have new emotions about a fourth now...we'll see when things settle down again. I'm feeling okay, hormonal and emotional but oh so thankful for the health of my family.

Okay, enough of that, I've been dreading the announcement but had to do it; so there it is in my first blog post on the new "family blog" I promise future post will be aimed more towards humor and reveling in the minds of my young children but ya never know what life will bring you. Trusting in God and his plan to get us through anything.

I'll leave you with this...I am laying down with the two youngest boys asleep for nap time and Luke by my side needing to sleep but fighting it with all he has in him (daily routine with him...I mostly just want to get some rest myself and make sure he doesn't wake anybody else up). He comes up with a bright idea "let's see who can stay up the longest" yeah, Luke I'm gonna go for that. :)