Birth Announcement

Thank you to the wonderful and amazing Rebecca Marr for designing the birth announcement for us! She is so good to us!

1: Feb. 3-Mommy’s first visit with Hannah Kate in NICU

(photo by Brittany Richmond)

2: Mar. 8 in NICU;

3: Apr 18-(photo by Rebecca Marr Photography);

4: Feb. 2-Rachel & Leah (photo by Brittany Richmond)

5: Apr 10-at "home!"

*I have had these announcements printed since the end of April, but I’ve been too busy to mail them! See updated pictures on our blog! ~DS

We are proud to announce the birth of our daughters!

Thank you for the love, support, and prayers that you have shown us over the last several months. God has blessed us with an amazing church family and group of friends to help us through this experience. Thank you for loving us, visiting us, checking on us, and telling us how cute Hannah Kate is!

We are thankful for the few hours that we had to spend with our Rachel and Leah. They were laid to rest on April 16^th about 30 minutes from our home. Hannah Kate spent 64 days in the NICU at Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital. We were blessed to have some wonderfully special nurses and great medical professionals who made our stay much easier. We are thankful for the medical teams who worked to keep Hannah Kate growing and healthy!

We came “home” on April 4^th to Papa & Nana’s house (Wesley’s parents) since our remodeling wasn’t quite complete yet.

Hannah Kate is doing great! She is growing everyday and looks big and fat to us! At 4 ½ months old (6/16/11), she weighed 10 pounds 7 ½ ounces! What a porker! God has given us a living example of the power of prayer that we get to see each day.

For that, we are extremely thankful.

We want you to know how special each of you are to our family. We will never forget the love you have shown to us during a time when we needed it most!

We hope to see you soon. Until then, you can keep track of us on our family blog!

Love,

Wesley, Denise, and Hannah Kate Skelton