New Life
As I'm sure you know by now, Randy and I had our beautiful son May 30, 2017, and we named him Owen Joseph Byers. He was 6lbs 12oz, 20.25in long. If you go back to the original meaning of Owen (different spelling), it means "gracious gift from God" and Joseph means "addition or increase." If you read my last post, you know we struggled for a long time to conceive this sweet boy, so we very much feel like he is a gracious gift of an addition to our family. A gift from our Creator, who knit him together and knew his name even before we did. We are so in love. I want to write his birth story before I forget, so some parts may be a little more than you'd like to know, but it won't be too bad. You have been warned! 😜 We were supposed to head to the hospital on the evening of May 29, 2017, which was also Memorial Day. So naturally we decided to throw a big party at our house so all of our family could get together and eat some burgers and hotdogs. Some