Archive for September, 2011

Our third and final installment.  The one who, if we had gone through with our plans, would not be here.  Gibson Eli Stapleton.

While in the hospital waiting to be discharged with Jackson David, Mindy and I were a signature away from her having her tubes tied thus eliminating the possibility of future children.  The nurse was actually in the room with the consent forms when we both looked at each other and decided to delay that decision.  We, as a couple, were not ready to end our chance to increase our family size.

Fast forward from 2004 to late summer of 2006 and Mindy’s OB/Gyn advised us, due to medical complications, that if we wanted to have any more kids we needed to do it soon.  So, after praying, we decided to at least try and lo and behold within the next month Mindy conceived and nine months later we were  blessed with a third baby boy.

He was, and still is, a wonderful and opinionated bundle of joy.  With a quick smile and and endearing look, he knows how to manipulate those around him and has from day one.  God knows what He is doing and our family was not complete without Gibson, affectionately known as Gibber and Gibber Eli.

I don’t know why God has blessed us as He has done.  I don’t know why we have been given the responsibility of raising three boys in the fear and admonition of the Lord, but I am glad that we have been.  It is not always easy and there have been plenty of times that Mindy and I were worried, but God has always proven faithful to our little family.  HE has never let us down and He never will.

Gibson is now four years old, has played T-Ball, and started homeschooling with the other two boys and the blessings continue to come as Weston, Jackson, and Gibson grow into young men.