I Love Technology

Well today my new nephew Holden Russell Weckesser was born and I was able to see him less than an hour after he was born through Face Time!  If it were not for the technology we have, it would have been at least a week before I would even see a picture of him through the mail.  He is beautiful and my sister looked great.  We also got to sing happy birthday to my other nephew who now shares a birthday with his brother.  Since we have been here in Ecuador, we have used email, Apple texts and/or Face Time every night.  We would be really missing family and friends if it were not for all these things.  We have gotten to sing to four people for their birthdays and just check in with people periodically.  I cannot even imagine doing this and not having such great contacts with people back at home.  I know many people are not as fortunate as we are and I thank God for allowing us to have this experience, but also keep our contacts at home.  Today we also had a thunderstorm and lost electricity and the first thing I thought of was my medication, then that I would not have access to the internet, then that we would not have hot water.  Luckily it came back on within 10 minutes.  God is really watching out for us.

I also wanted to post today about how excited I am to have my dad, my brother and his friend coming to visit in March.  In the grand scheme of things, Holden's birth fits right in with what I was going to write about originally.  I had planned to write about what an awesome family I have and how unwaveringly supportive they have been my whole life, but especially during this trip.  I get encouraging notes from someone everyday on Facebook or through this blog or my email.  They make my day.  My family supports each other through everything and does not miss a chance to be there for all the big moments and the small ones.  Today as Corrie was in labor, I received emails and texts every step of the way.  I felt like I was there.  Also when I was able to Face Time with Corrie, my family was all there and I saw the Weckesser side of the family there already too.  What a blessing that my sisters and I have married into such wonderful families that help extend the family we came from so seamlessly (My little brother hopefully will when he asks his wonderful girlfriend to marry him).  So I am ending today with a great big thank you to my immediate family and my extended family that goes out into amazing friends of mine and my parents and today especially for an old friend of my dad's that brought us Holden with such steady hands.  Thank you Dr. Banias.