Sunday, March 30, 2008

Zoe's Baptism Service


Zoe and Mom after getting ready for church. As you can see, Zoe is extremely excited.

Zoe is wearing a white dress that was her Grandma Reynolds'. It was one that hand-made for Grandma Reynolds by her grandmother.










Zoe, Mom, and Dad at the baptism service at Jacob's Well. We love our church!







Here we are with one of our pastors, Tim Keel.












A great highlight was having Mike and Vicki King up front with us as Zoe was baptized. Mike King was Rachel's youth pastor when she was growing up. He is now on staff at Jacob's Well where we attend. He preached on this particular Sunday. Click here to hear his message, "Where Are The Adults?"


The Jacob's Well community prayed a prayer together for all of the children being baptized. It is a beautiful prayer. It is also printed on Zoe's baptism certificate and personalized:

Dear Heavenly Father,
Together, we pray that
Zoe's mind will know Your wisdom.
Her eyes will see Your glory.
Her ears will hear Your words.
Her mouth will speak Your truth.
Her heart will be Jesus' home.
Her hands will do Your work.
That Zoe's knees would bow
only before You, the Lord Our God.
And that her feet would follow You
in the way of Jesus all the days of her life.
Amen.

Friday, December 14, 2007

Zoe Grace Reynolds

Zoe Grace Reynolds
December 14, 2007
9:17am (cst)
7 pounds 10 ounces
20.25 inches long







We will post more details about how the day went later. At the present, all three Reynolds' need a nap. Thanks for all your thoughts, prayers, and words of encouragement.


Thursday, December 13, 2007

Tomorrow Is The BIG Day!!!

We are leaving for the hopital in a matter of minutes (St. Joseph's @ 435 and State Line Road). They want us there tonight so that they can get Rachel ready for tomorrow's induction. We begin at 6am. We are excited. We are nervous. It is a strange mix.

The next post after this should provide the great news that we all have been anticipating!!! We are looking forward to sharing the news with everyone.

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Our Little Girl's Nursery



A huge "THANK YOU" to all of our parents who helped us to purchase the items for her new nursery. It looks great and will serve her well!

Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Kansas City's Ice Storm

For last night and this morning, the weather forecasters were calling for freezing temperatures and rain. That's a great combination for slippery roads and school closings. Kansas City dodged this prediction because the road crews did wonderful preventive work and the temperature did not dip as low as expected.

We are not in the clear, however. It is still raining today and The Kansas City Star has articles warning that tonight might bring on the ice storm that we were expecting:
http://www.kansascity.com/384/story/398805.html

Yesterday, several people had told us that in their experience severe weather has contributed to them going into labor. Whether or not this is true, we have our bags packed and are ready for whenever she decides to make her way into the world.

If she is not here by Thursday, we will go into the hospital Thursday evening so the doctors can induce labor on Friday, December 14th. This is not an indication that anything is wrong. The doctor won't let Rachel go two weeks past her due date. So for several reasons, December 14th was decided upon.

Keep checking the blog for more updates!!!