Tiffany’s brother Joe returned from Okinawa, Japan on the 15th of December. This was the first that we had seen Joe since our time with him in August of 2007. In this picture, you are seeing Joe taking his first look at Tiffany’s pregnant belly, just 11 days before Katherine would be born.
It was a wonderful Christmas as we were able to spend time with our nieces and nephews that were born while we were in Cambodia. Here you are seeing Tiffany examine a gift with her nephew Hunter on Christmas Eve.
Here you are seeing Tim with his niece Gracie on Christmas Eve.
As stated before, Katherine was born on December 26th, and we were released from the hospital on Sunday the 28th. Here on our discharge day, the Gallant family posed for a picture in our hospital room. Proud Daddy, Beautiful Mommy and Perfect Little Katherine.
Walking with her through the hospital hallways was quite daunting, as if we were travelling much further than just a few hundred yards to our car. We were stepping out without the help of the nurses or the hospital staff, hoping and praying that we would know what to do to take care of this little child to whom we have been entrusted.
Putting Katherine into the car for the first time and leaving the parking lot of the hospital brought on many mixed emotions. We were very scared that we would not know what to do to take care of this little person, but we were also very excited to know that our lives as parents had begun, and that our travels with our little daughter, this new little missionary, would take us all around the United States and to the other side of the world.
Katie’s first destination after the hospital was a family get-together at Grandma and Grandpa Gallant’s house. Everyone was very excited to meet little Katherine, at that time just 2 days old, and she was passed around from person to person for the rest of the night.
A fun time of the night was spent bowling in our front room, courtesy of my brother’s Wii. Seeing people of all ages enjoying this new technology was quite entertaining. Here you are seeing Tim bowling in his eventual losing game to his Uncle Paul.
We were very blessed by the gifts that were sent by some of our church family and friends. Here you are seeing Tiffany and Katherine posing with a bouquet of flowers given by Brookhaven Wesleyan in Marion, IN.
Several days after New Years, we took Katie on her first big adventure. We went to Lima for family portraits while Tiffany’s brother Joe was still in town. Dressing Katie up, putting her in her car seat and driving her around was something that we found to be extremely pleasurable, and Katie showed that she was ready to do some traveling as she did great with all of the moving around from place to place.
The Neuenschwander FamilyFront: Gracie, Grandma, Hunter, Sandy, and Katherine
Rear: Angie, James, Joe, Tim, and Tiffany
This is our daughter Katie, a gift from God, a beautiful blend of the persons of Tim and Tiffany Gallant with a dazzling spark of life and light that can only come from our Father in heaven, the author and creator of all that IS. We are thankful for her life and we ask that you pray with us for her future and the impact that she will have on the Kingdom of God.