Grandparent love

We are so thankful for helping hands, especially during those first two weeks of new baby transitioning. Grandma came up for the first week and served us oh so faithfully, she cooked, cleaned, shopped and played like only Grandmothers can. Thank you Grandma for coming and all of your help and love.
She gave Haven her first bath.
And, then the second week we brought in more recruits this time all the way from Kansas. Grams and Dog continued the diligent effort of making life easy and helping us around the house with all kinds of projects and grandparent love. We are so thankful for all of their help and don't know what kind of state we would be in this week without all of the help given to us these past few weeks. Love you all!

One Week Old

Sweet Haven

(We are moving to zone defense.)

Haven is here and we are so excited! And, you blog readers were correct, she is a girl. How in the world did you know? We are glad you were right because now we have our tie breaker. Girls will now rule (as if we didn't already) in the Dirks home. She is absolutely beautiful and such a blessing to us already. The Lord is so good and we are so grateful to Him for the good work He has done in our family through this little miracle. Come on over and meet her when you get the chance. She is extremely sociable, and would love to cuddle. Thanks for your prayers and thoughts.
Love the Dirks Five!

Baby Haven Is Here!

"When a woman is giving birth, she has sorrow because her hour has come, but when she has delivered the baby, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world." (Jn. 16:21) First of all, God is good! We are so thankful for little Haven! Secondly, Carrie is amazing! My wife has always left me awestruck, but she is now officially my hero!Big brother spending a little quality time with little sister.
Maggie is giddy with excitement about Haven! Maggie has big plans for this new little princess!
Maggie and Henry meet Haven for the first time!
Tyler with two of the most beautiful women who have ever lived!
Haven Katelin Dirks. Born 7/8/11. 7 Ibs, 8 oz. 19 3/4 in. Thank you God!