Life changing month

I actually drafted this post the beginning of May and never posted it so I figured better late then never right?! I can't remember what I was going to add to it, but here it is. I can say that now that it's been another 6 months, we have come a long way from the 3 weeks it had been. Sundays are still the hardest day of the week. It's hard to escape a converstaion with someone without them asking me how we're doing as the Bishop's family. Overall we are doing fine and we have our good and bad days just like anybody else. What good does it do to dwell on how much he is gone. Life does go on even for the Bishop's family!

April turned out to be a bit of a crazy month for us. The first wednesday of the month Chad and I got called in to meet with the Stake President. It's hard not to let you mind wander and wonder about what is going to happen. There's only a few reasons why you would meet with the Stake President. I had thought that Chad would probably be released as the HP Leader and be called as the Young Mens President since the YM President was moving that next weekend. I was mistaken. The Stake President got right down to business and told us that changes were being made and Chad was being called as the Bishop of the ward. It was very unexpected as the previous Bishop had only been in for 3 years. The hardest part proved to be the 2 1/2 weeks until he was actually sustained at our ward conference on April 22nd. That is a long time to know and think about it when nobody else knows. His counselors weren't called until a few days prior to the ward conference and the previous Bishopric wasn't told until the morning of the ward conference. It took everyone by surprised I think, but we have felt a positive response to the change which has been nice. We are in our third week as the Bishop's family. We are surviving and have already felt that we are being blessed. Chad definitly has a lot of meetings and places to be now and I am left to put the kids to bed on my own. Sundays are pretty draining on us both. The kids have quickly learned to find Chad in his office at church and love the chalkboard that is in there for them to draw on. The kids don't quite understand why daddy can't come home with us after church. Chad is enjoying working with his counselors.

The family on the big day!

We don't usually have pictures of just the two of us so I decided to post this one too.

Chad and his dad. Handsome or what!

Hannah and Spencer loved having both of their grandma's and grandpa's here

Rachel Ann is born!

Rachel Ann is truly a miracle baby! At 13 weeks Brenda found out she was leaking amniotic fluid. We thought we might lose her but didn't. Brenda was on bed rest for the next six months and though she continued to leak fluid the rest of the pregancy, Rachel arrived 3 days past due. The labor was a bit scary and when Rachel was delivered the cord was wrapped around her four times (once around the neck, once around her arm, and twice around her body). We are very grateful for her safe arrival! Even at 3 days past due, she weighed in at 5 lb. 8 oz. and 19" long. Par for the course at the Fromm household! She is very tiny and very cute!

She is definitely a Fromm baby!

Hannah and Spencer loved seeing Rachel and holding her. I think you can tell from their expressions how much they loved it!

Spencer's 2 year doctor visit

I took Spencer to the doctor on Monday for his two year visit. He finally got up to the 50% for his weight! I wasn't sure he would ever get that high since he had been down in the 10% for so long and isn't a great eater. Maybe it's the milk he loves to drink and drink and drink. He is right where he should be for a two year old and very advanced in his speech. He LOVES to talk. He talks in 5-6 word sentences and you can have a conversation with him. It's amazing. The thing I was most impressed about the visit was when he got his shot. The nurse came in and preped his leg then stabbed him with the shot. I waited for the screaming or crying to start and it never did. Spencer just sat there and watched like nothing was going on. The nurse put on the clifford "sticker" (band-aid) and it was done. I was quite shocked! What a tough boy!!!

Spencer 2 years old!

This was a fun year with Spencer for his birthday. He was so excited and animated about everything and very fun to watch. I had put all of his presents on the couch along with his "scooter" (as he calls it) that had balloons attached to it the night before. As soon as he saw everything the next morning, he immediately started to jump around with excitement and talk non-stop. He kept saying things like "my balloons, my presents, for me." It was funny. As he started to open each gift he would say "What's in there?" As soon as he could tell what it was he got so excited and would say "It's Thomas, It's Little People, It's cars, My blanket." He was really cute and pictures can't really capture his excitement and expressions. I wished we had a video camera for this one. He is just so darn cute! We had wanted to go to the zoo for his birthday but the weather was not good so we opted out of that. We plan to go soon though.

For as excited as Spencer was, I could not get him to give me a good smile for these pictures. Oh well. He definitely loves all of his presents!

I did get a cheese on this one. My kids love balloons!

I made Spencer a Lion cake. He loves lions and is always talking about lions. I realized I am very out of practice of decorating cakes but I was pleased how this turned out and thought it was cute and very fitting for Spencer at this stage.

He tried really hard to blow the candles out but we had to help a little!