Lots to be thankful for

I really have a lot to be thankful for right now. Rachelle is almost at 28 Weeks and the babies are each over 2 pounds. That alone is really exciting. I also have a bunch of other things to be thankful for. I will list them here:

1. One of our friends from church, Liz Horton flew out to help Rachelle for the week when her aunt Jeanie was at the family reunion. It was really nice of her to take time off to go and help Rachelle out, get food for her, go be a personal shopper for her, and help her organize stuff from Rachelle's baby shower in Arizona.

2. One of Rachelle's old employers, Peter Peterka from SixSigma.us offered to buy us the quint stroller that Rachelle wrote a blog entry about! That makes us pretty excited.

3. Last week, another member of our congregation, Dr. Darrell Park at Buttercukp Dental (see www.buttercupdental.com), offered to give our quintuplets dental care until they leave home for church missions or school. That is awesome and it gives us some good incentive to never move.

4. My aunt Gloria Wilkinson went to order some micro preemie clothes from a company based in Utah. Micro preemie clothes are smaller than normal preemie clothes and are for babies in the NICU. The company was created by an LDS grandmother of a preemie named Elliot. When Elliot was born, the Grandmother wanted to do something for Elliot and decied to make him some clothes to wear while in the NICU. After she made them, she saw that it helped her daughter and son-in-law feel a little more a part of her grandson's life at a time when it was most difficult for them. Anyway, when Gloria placed the order for some sets of a t-shirt gown and cap in each of their colors, she got a call and found out that she was the 500th customer so the order was free! First, I was really grateful that Gloria was even thinking of ordering the clothes. But second, I was really grateful to Elliot's Preemies for giving us the order for free. The name of the website is: http://www.preemietees.com/

5. I am grateful for all of the woman that gave us stuff at Rachelle's baby shower in Arizona. Many of them came from her aunt Jeanie's congregation and didn't really even know Rachelle very well. They did tend to give a lot more girl clothes than boy clothes which leads me to my next thing...

6. I am also grateful to a colleague at work, Jackie Keating, and her friend Sherri who actually gave us a big bag of left over boy preemie clothes which will help balance out the girl clothes.

7. I am also grateful for the Wilcox family (another member of our congregation) who, just this Sunday, offered to help us by taking care of our yard on a regular basis while we deal with the baby situation.

8. I am also grateful For my parents who took care of Riley and Kaiya for the last two weeks and for my sister Alicia and her husband Mike who are going to be taking care of them for the next two weeks.

9. I am also very grateful for all of the many other people that are constantly offering support and encouragement!

I am amazed at what I have seen so far with people and I am really grateful for it. It is difficult to constantly feel in debt to so many people but I suppose that I will need to get used to it. I hope that all of these people are blessed for the service they are offering us. My heart goes out to those who do not have a church or friends like ours because I can't imagine what it would be like without all of the support we recieve.

Thank you again,
Jayson