love thursday... we love our family!!!

well, this love thursday is bittersweet...

on tuesday, the 4th of september.... tami and karen both had their babies...

the sweet....brents older sister tami had her seventh child, james reed curtis... a healthy baby boy... and we congratulate them with kisses and hugs! love you guys!!! yeah!!!

p.s. thanks for the picture shauna...

the bitter.... one of brents other sisters, karen, also had her baby, alice jane burr... however and unfortunately she was delivered stillborn...

karen was 37 weeks along... going to her routine check up with her doctor when he could not find vital signs... later tuesday karen was induced.... the baby had gotten the umbilical cord wrapped around her neck... they will be having a burial service for alice jane this coming monday.... we have been thinking about you guys often, and know that we will be thinking of you monday!!! we love you guys and know that so many are thinking and praying for you!

President Joseph Fielding Smith said in "Doctrines of Salvation"....

STILLBORN CHILDREN

"STILLBORN CHILDREN RESURRECTED. There is no information given by revelation in regard to the status of stillborn children. However, I will express my personal opinion that we should have hope that these little ones will receive a resurrection and then belong to us. I cannot help feeling that this will be the case.
When a couple have a stillborn child, we give them all the comfort we can. We have good reasons to hope. Funeral services may be held for such children, if the parents so desire. Stillborn children should not be reported nor recorded as births and deaths on the records of the Church, but it is suggested that parents record in their own family records a name for each such stillborn child."

"WHEN THE SPIRIT ENTERS THE BODY. The time of quickening is when the mother feels the life of her unborn infant. President Brigham Young has left us this explanation of the time when the spirit enters the body:
“When the spirit leaves them [mortal bodies] they are lifeless; and when the mother feels life come to her infant, it is the spirit entering the body preparatory to the immortal existence. But suppose and accident occurs and the spirit has to leave this body prematurely, what then? All that the physician says is—‘It is a still birth,’ and that is all they know about it; but whether the spirit remains in the body [i.e. in its own body] a minute, an hour, a day, a year, or lives there until the body has reached a good old age, it is certain that the time will come when they will be separated, and the body will return to mother earth, there to sleep upon that mother’s bosom. That is all there is about death.”
On other occasions, also, President Young taught that we should have hope for the resurrection of stillborn children. “They are all right,” he said, and nothing in the way of sealings or ordinances need be done for them"

...this time also marks the approximate time that we would have had our first... we miscarried last january... however have been truly blessed since then to be able to pregnant once again!