Easter 2012

So this year I felt like we all needed our outfits to match:) I have been getting great ideas from pinterest and I have actually been making things that I find, so I thought I would make the boys some ties that matched. Found out that it was really easy and they turned out super cute!!

sickness

The sickness sure has come to the Branch house, but it really could have been worse. This is the first time that all 4 of us have visited the doctor in a month's time. Canaan started it off with pink eye and then passed it to little man Gideon. I thought I had strep(test came back negative) ended up with a double ear infection. I think the last time I had one was when I was a kid! Josh has ended everything with tonsillitis.  We are hopefully on the mend..

The Repository

About two months ago I had got a call from Linda at Mercy Hospital. Linda was the nurse that was with us during the birth of Calvin. She had told me that The Repository was doing a story on the origination "As I lay me down to sleep." It is an organization that has photographers donate their time to come take pictures at the hospital for families that have lost a child. Although we had a friend take our pictures they still wanted to interview us.

The Repository came to our house one day and took pictures of us holding our frame of Calvin's pictures, and of our scrapbook that friends put together for us. It was so great to be able to share our story about our sweet boy. The journalist told us she would call us when it was going to be in the paper...time went on and we never heard. I just figured they weren't going to publish it.

Much to my surprise Sunday morning it was on the front page! A picture of us and of course I'm crying..all of the article was online. We are blessed by all the love we still receive from people almost 2 1/2 years later. We thank God that we had this trial to go through even when we don't understand why. I am amazed how God is still using us!


http://www.cantonrep.com/news/x392618306/Kim-and-Josh-Branch-talk-about-photos-taken-of-their-stillborn-son


http://www.cantonrep.com/news/x1771578713/Stillborn-baby-was-part-of-our-family?img=1

playing catch up

Christmas was fun this year adding another little man! Canaan understood a little more and tried to open some of the presents even though he ended up playing with the boxes instead of the toy. We had a wonderful time celebrating birth of our Savior and then with our families both Christmas Eve and Christmas day!

Christmas Eve

Christmas morning at home

yay for blocks!

this is what gideon did all of Christmas

grandma's boys LOVE her

Christmas night