back at home

First of all I have to say that all the prayers everyone has been sending our way have been answered.  Thank you to every single person from the bottom of our hearts for all the prayers.  We both felt so surrounded by your love and support.  Chris and I keep saying that this was the easiest hardest day of our life so far.  Does that even make sense? 

I am working on writing our birth story for our own record and to share with our ever growing network of family and friends.   This is turning out to be the hardest thing I have ever written.  But, I did want to update everyone that our identical twin boys were born at 4:30 and 5:03 am on January 9th, 2010.  They were very loved.

I am overwhelmed by each and every comment.  They are each so special to me and I will be returning again and again when I need your support and reread your sweet words.

When we arrived home yesterday the driveway was filled with cars.  My parents and sisters were here, along with Chris's two brother and his parents.  Walking in the house we were again overwhelmed by the love our family gives so freely.  Our family had gone grocery shopping for us, down to the lint roller I had put on my grocery list weeks ago, they had move the piles of baby stuff that I had begun collecting in our downstairs guest room including our 2 cribs that had never been put together,  and they were even scrubbing our kitchen floor!

Here is the banner that Gary's girls made for us (Chris's brother has 4 beautiful girls, whom we love).  They thought this up on there own to do a banner for us, such sweetness in these young hearts.