In between all of the fun, JP loves to sleep...whether in the crib or in the swing!

We'll try to stay updated more often! Thanks to everyone who has been so encouraging and loving since JP has come to be part of our family. We are grateful for the love and support we have felt from our community around us.

And he spent some great one-0n-one time with Dad.

JP had his first bath...don't worry it was only a sponge bath. He smells so good!

...then lots of friends and family came to visit.

Mema came to the house to see Mr. JP, while Great grandma Spears and Aunt Amanda got to see him while visiting Grand and Granddaddy.

Pretty busy

We've been quite busy over the last few weeks.

First we came home from the hospital...

catchin' up

So much has happened in the last three weeks! Please forgive us for not posting sooner, but we have had our hands full trying to figure out what exactly it takes to care for our new addition.

Indulge me for a minute...JP is gorgeous. I realize that it will not be appropriate for me to ascribe this word to my son for the majority of his life, so i thought i would take the opportunity and do so now since it is the one word that comes to mind almost every time i look at him. He truly is a miracle and i am amazed at how much you can love someone for just being...what a precious gift.

My First Day!

Hello! My name is JP and I'm going to be using my blog to tell you all about my life. Today was an ok day for me. I decided to just sleep most of today. I didn't do much of anything else. I had and ultrasound and an Uper GI scan. They made me drink some nasty contrast and I didn't like it so I spit it back up on them! All of my scans were normal, so mommy and daddy were very happy. They did great with all of this today, ha-ha! Well that's about it and I'm tired again, and in need of a diaper change, so I'm going to go back to sleep. Here's some new pictures before I go. They are of Me and Daddy, Me and Pastor Dusty, and Me and Aunt Anna.

A quick post from the new parents!

Dear Family,
How blessed we are to have so many people that love and care for us. We now have anothe person for you to shower down your love upon. Jason Paul "JP" Simmons was born on Thursday July 5th at 10:42 Pm. He weighs 6 puonds and 4 ounces and is 19 inches long. He and Beth are doing great and we look to be released from the hospital sometime tomorrow. I just want to say thank you for blessing us throughout this whole process. We know that God has a special plan for JP and we look forward to you, our church family, walking with us as God reveals it. I will have some infomation ad some pictures up at a blog for JP. This seems to help keep my cell phone from blowing up, haha, and will hopefully serve as an easy way to see what's going on with all three of us. The address is http://www.babyjpsblog.blogspot.com/ I'll try to have some new pictures up very soon. Please be praying that both Beth and I will be able to rest as I've only had about 5 hours of sleep in the last 2 days and she's had about he same.

We love you all!
Jason, Beth, and JP