Katelynn's First Birthday 01/04/2013

Go Go Go Go Go Go Katelynn, its your BIRTHDAY!! We gon party cause its your birthday.  Happy Birthday baby!! 1 Years Old!!  Praise God!

                                                                   Nanna & Katelynn

                                                                  Lea & Nanny Sheila

                                                                  Sidney & Jackson

                                                                      Birthday Girl

                                                                   Momma & Katelynn

Kids First Chistmas - Katelynn, Jayden, Kendall and Jackson

It was a white Christmas although we don't have any pics of the white stuff lol!  It was something to remember especially w/it being the first Christmas for all of the kids.  They didn't know what was going on but it was still special.  Hopefully one day soon they'll be able to really get out there and enjoy the white stuff and be something they can remember.  I praise God that we could experience this time w/the Fam and enjoy our first Christmas all together.  Thank you Lord! 

Thank you baby Kennedy Joy Whaley

Kennedy Joy Whaley, how I Praise God for you.  It is because of you that I write this w/joy and played a vital role in me experiencing my dreams come true.  I can’t thank God enough for you and what miracle he performed thru you.  Thru the pain that I’ve never experienced before and could not ever imagine me feeling especially being a believer in Christ, my dreams were allowed to come true.  After your short visit here on this earth in 2009 your mom and I could not imagine that we would be experiencing the life that we are experiencing today.  What a blessing!  We still have to pinch ourselves today to realize that we are living this dream.  To even know that you paved the way for that life we have today is even more of a blessing.  I wish you were here to experience this life w/us.  We sure could use your help around here lol!  Your brothers and sisters are a handful so we would have you working around here sista lol! As much as they are a handful, they are truly a blessing and little walking miracles. 4 children in one year is a miracle in itself and to know that ALL 4 were all spontaneous, all God, w/no added medications, enhancers or manmade drugs is the ULTIMATE blessing.  We might as well say 5 because you too were all God made w/no added flavors so to speak.  We feel blessed that God chose us for this miracle and we will continue to tell everyone that this was all God’s work.   We had nothing to do w/this other than having the desire of having a big family.  And that’s exactly what God blessed us with. As you know, after Katelyn, we were not trying to have triplets or another child at that time but that’s exactly how God saw fit.  I just wanted to take some time to thank you from the bottom of my heart for the sacrifice you made and the blessing you brought to me and your mom’s life.  We miss you and wish that there was some way that you could be here w/us enjoying this miracle that God worked thru you.  We will see each other again one day once it’s time to come home to heaven and I’m going to hug and kiss you and spoil you w/everything you want lol!  And you already know that’s something I try to avoid doing but it’s a token to show my appreciation for you and how you have blessed my life.  Even though this road w/the Whaley Bunch will have its valleys, thru this miracle and testimony I know God has his hands on us and will take care of us thru it all; just like he did w/you.  We will have more peaks than valleys in the lives of the Whaley Bunch.  You were a dream come true; a dream we had waited on for over 8 years at that time.  We were very shocked that you were on the way but could not wait till you got here.  It’s been a while since I wrote but you know we speak regularly.  I’ll be writing more often from now on.  I want to establish a blog so your brother and sisters can look back on and get to know you and have something they can remember you by.  It will also give the rest of the family something that they can go to and see the Whaley Bunch and also something that they can write to you and other siblings.  We’ll just keep the blog updated so all can tap in and see how the FAM is doing. I miss you baby, I really do.  I still have to ask God for comfort and understanding today to deal w/losing you and that’s something I’ll probably have to do for the rest of my life.  Thank you again.  I love you baby and I will talk to you again soon.  Every now and then or as often as you can, let us know that you’re watching over us.  I’ve seen you before in watching over me so good looking out.  Thanks Joy for bringing us Joy.  I love you

Daddy

Katelynn over the past year 2012

Here are pics of Katelynn from the past year.  We just wanted to show some pics to show how much she has grown in a year and get everyone caught up. 

Hey Girl!  Looking good Girl!!!

Katelyn's First Teeth

Hey FAM!  Katelynn has cut a couple of teeth in the past year.  She has two that are in now and two more on the way.  My baby is so beautiful w/her lil teeth.  We love her! 

Triplets - Jayden, Kendall and Jackson Whaley

Praise God for our lil miracles!  We cant be thankful enough for the blessing that God has blessed us with.  We could not even imagine being in the situation that we are in today.  We are truly blessed.  We went from not having any kids to having 4 all in one year.  No we did not plan it that way and probably couldn't even if we tried but this is what God saw fit.  No medicines or enhancers or pills; this was all God.  We tried that in the past and did not work for us.  We do know that God does work thru medicines at times but just trusting God is what brought about these miracles.  We had nothing to do w/this; we just had the desire and trusted God w/it.  So w/no further delay let me introduce you to the lil miracles.

Jayden

                                                                       Kendall

                                                                         Jackson

Journey to Joy

Praise God for the blessings that he has bestowed upon my family and me.  WHO IS THE KING OF GLORY – The LORD who is STRONG and MIGHTY!  Hallelujah!! I come to you praising God because you don’t understand the MIRACLE my family and I are walking in.  You might not understand trusting in God for something, just to have that thing given to you and taken right back out of your hands.  You might not understand the heartache and pain of waiting on God for something that he’s blessing other families w/and they don’t even want the blessing.  And we are not talking about waiting a couple of years.  10 years plus we fought against the negativity and lies of the enemy that we unfit to be parents and would fail in our quest to have children.  Even though we tried the modern day, microwave manmade way of creating babies, they all failed.  All the procedures, test and trials caused us was more heartache, pain and confusion.  We knew that God does work thru the doctors and some modern day medicine.  W/that said, we also knew that the medicine and doctors could not do anything or help anybody medically IF God did not allow them to work.  God has all power and what he does or does not allow will come to pass no matter how man tries to intervene w/that.  Once we left the doctors alone and really trusted God for our children is when he fulfilled his promise just as he said he would do. Yes he blessed us but he kept our child our first child Kennedy Joy after 9 months which broke our hearts.  Here we were trusting God for our baby and then after waiting and praying for years we finally were about to have a child; then after 9 months God takes her back.  Devastation couldn’t describe how my wife and I felt at that time.  Words can’t describe the pain, heartache, confusion and anger we felt.  That sounds cruel doesn’t it?  It felt that way.  One thing God has taught me in life is that when we give our lives to Christ our lives are no longer ours.  We are now a vessel for God and are molded to be used for a cause when God sees fit.  So even though this may seem cruel and it hurt my family dearly, we still had to trust God.  If he allowed it to happen then it was meant to happen.  He did reveal that it was not anything wrong w/my wife or I and we had the ability to have children.  We were not unfit physically like the enemy said; it just was not our season or time to have children.  Knowing that is wonderful after years of being unsuccessful but we still wanted our child.  We wanted our BEAUTIFUL daughter Kennedy Joy Whaley born on 02/08/2009.  She brought us that joy in our lives that we had been waiting all our lives for.  We miss her and lover her dearly.  We wish she was right here w/us enjoying life but she’s in heaven where we all want our kids to make it to when God calls them home.  God also revealed that he didn’t need any help from any modern day medicines, methods, or doctors in order for us to have children.  Little did we know that this was also a spring board to a blessing God had in store for us later.

                  After God took Kennedy home, we didn’t think it be much time before God blessed us w/another child to fulfill and comfort us for what we had just gone thru.  That is what we were praying for and believing God for.  We tried the doctors and modern day medicines and stretches/calisthenics in the bedroom they tell you to try but again all that failed us.  We go so frustrated w/more heartache and pain from going thru those procedures that we gave up on them.  Frustration began to build between my wife and I causing issues in our marriage.  So we got back to reality.  We knew who had the power to bless us and we were just going to wait till God said it was time.  Well it took almost 3 years before that prayer was answered and God fulfilled his promise.  Hallelujah!  Thank you Jesus!  Our 2^nd daughter was born on 01/04/12, healthy and strong just as God had shown us in our dreams and visions.  Thank you Lord for our BEAUTIFUL daughter Katelyn Elise Whaley.  Words can’t express the joy that we have from our having our daughter.  She restored that joy that we once had when we were getting ready for our first child Kennedy to be born. 

                We all know that when you have been obedient, waited and trusted God for something that he likes to reward us but do so abundantly.  He knows the heartache and pain we go thru when trusting him for something.  We have that pain because we are fleshly beings and don’t always operate in the Spirit.  God is looking at the whole picture while we are just looking at person or the object in the picture.  That is why we must trust God w/all things.  Even though some may not understand but we trust God more than ever now because of this journey we went thru in us having children.  Yes I said children.  So just as my wife and I are enjoying our daughter and watching her grow up, my wife starts feeling funny.  This went on for a couple of days so she decided to take a pregnancy test.  God is AWESOME!!  Hallelujah!  Yes my wife is pregnant again.   Abundantly, remember that is how God wants to bless us.  That’s exactly what he did for my wife and I.  Not only do we now have an 8 month old daughter but we also are awaiting the birth of our two sons and little girl that are due in December.  Praise God!  Thank you Jesus!  We are having triplets.  No medicine, no modern day procedures, no doctors were involved or needed.  God himself delivered this miracle.  Only God can make a miracle such as this.  Hallelujah!!  He blessed us to come from not having any children to having four in ONE year!  God is a miracle worker and he’s proved it once again that he is still working miracles in this microwave modern day way world today.  Kennedy paved the way for the next 4 babies that followed.  She made room for them.  That’s our little angel.  She’s always watching over us.  Thank you Kennedy.  We love you baby and we miss you. 

                Thank you family, friends, ministries and all that supported us and prayed for us thru the tough times and now the good times.  It was your prayers that got us to the place of blessing and joy in my wife and I’’s life.  God please bless each and every one of them in return and in the way you see fit.  God is truly faithful to his word.  Thank you Father for doing so and blessing my family.  For all those facing the impossible like it seemed we were, keep trusting and being obedient to God and he will bring that thing to pass.  NO he has not forgotten about you.  Just keep believing in God.  If God promised that he would do it, then it will come to pass.  He is faithful to his promises and my family is an example of just that.  Praise God!  Hallelujah!  Thank Jesus!  Thank you readers for your time.  May God bless every one of you and may God’s will be done in our lives. 

Best Regards,

Darryl & Tamika Whaley

Katelyn Elise Whaley Born 01/04/2012

Hello!  I just wanted to get posted the pictures of the 'new edition' I told you about previously.  This is a year late but we wanted to make sure we got it posted.  There's also been some other blessings or lil miracles as we refer to them to show you pictures of also.