Thomas Mead family: Carolyne baby blessing February 2013

Austin is still making sure Carolyne is never alone.Tom had taken 5 weeks of FMLA off of work and the Friday before he was to return to work, he received a phone call. The phone call let him know that after 9 years of working for University of Phoenix, he was being layed off. We had survived two layoffs and thought we were in the clear. Pretty emotional since he worked for UOP so long and we had just had a baby. We are enjoying the gift of time during this crazy time and were grateful so much family came into town for the blessing. Very comforting to be surrounded by our family and feel their support.

Austin in the bear cave at Petit Jean State Park in Arkansas. On the drive out, Keri looked in the back seat and noticed Axel had blood all over his face and clothes. The inside lip bite re-opened. We pulled over and Tom held Axel and tried to clot the bleeding. Axel looked so pale from losing so much blood. Tom looked like he had fought a grizzly bear and lost due to the blood all over his clothes. When we arrived to the park, Axel starting throwing up blood clots. It was such a large amount of blood clots. It landed inside the car and made a mountain. It was so scary but we later found out that saliva mixed with blood made it look like it was far more blood than it actually was. Axel was really mellow and just laid on Tom while we were at the park.

As aunt Tera said, "It's not easy saving the world in one night". Austin fell asleep in the car with his mask on-so cute!

Axel stayed on daddy's shoulders after losing so much blood.

Axel showing off his Arkansas Hawg pride!

Axel kept putting on aunt Tera's boots and walking around-so adorable!

Tom, Axel, me, Austin, Jenny with Carolyne, and Keri inside bear cave.

Baby Carolyne on blessing day! Carolyne pooped right before sacrament meeting so I went to change her diaper and she decided to go pee pee while I was changing her diaper so it got on her dress. Timing is everything right?

Carolyne looking out of the baby carrier-inside view.

We were so blessed to have so much family come even though Arkansas was not close to where anyone lived. Grandma and granpa Mead, Keri, Tera, Hancock family, grandpa Eliason, and Jenny. They all made a lot of effort to be here!