Well, it has once again been awhile since I have posted. Hannah has been sick for the past week, so any time that I would have used to post has been taken up with taking care of a sick baby. She is still not 100% herself, but she is definitely much better. It took awhile to figure out what was wrong, but yesterday the doctor confirmed that she has a virus called roseola. It starts out with a high fever, and then once the fever breaks, a red rash pops up. She still has the rash, but no more fever, and she is starting to be my happy silly girl again. Aside from Hannah being sick, things have pretty normal here at the Hershberger home. I probably just jinxed us by saying that... I did get some exciting news about my job this week. For the past two years I have been doing clinicals on the sophomore level at Malone. Since it is the students first time taking care of patients in the hospital they are put on a general care floor, and they are taking care of adults. Well, this past thursday, my boss approached me to see if I would be interested in doing pediatric clinicals on the junior level. I was sooo very excited, because peds is where most of my experience is and it is also my favorite area of nursing. I will be at Akron Childrens and it will be the same hours as the sophomores, so I of course accepted the offer, and I am really excited about the opportunity. Other than that, I just wanted to ask for prayer again for Beau, Nicole, Bryson, and the rest of the family. Bryson is back in the hospital this week for skin grafting, and I know that the family would appreciate your prayers. :) Thanks and have a great week everyone.

Long time, no post...

Wow, I feel like it has been a really long time since I last posted. It seems that now that school has started up again at Malone, we are just so much busier. Last week I had something going on every single day. Craziness!!! I spent the day yesterday running around in Canton, and visiting Hannah's great-grandma Hollingsworth, so my goal for today was not to go further than two miles from my house. So far, goal accomplished :) Well, aside from general business, things have been really good here at the Hershberger home. Hannah is standing up on her own now, and she is starting to say more words. Her newest thing to say is "mommy." And yes, I am very excited about it :) She is learning so much right now, it is really amazing. I hope that everyone has a great week!! Enjoy the pics.

Who does Hannah look like?

Ha ha ha, I thought this was funny!! I guess she looks like both of us :)

Hannah is One!!

My cell phone...I love to push the buttons and listen to the fun noises that it makes.

Sock monkey and toys!! So much fun!!

My very own croquet mallet :)

My new dolly :)

I can't believe that my baby is one year old. When you have kids everyone tells you that time goes so fast, but I don't think that you really realize who fast until the time has already past. I can't beleive that it has been a year since Hannah was born. Nick and I can't imagine what our lives would be like without her, and I wonder sometimes what I did with my time before she was born. As excited as I was about her birthday, and her party, I was definitely feeling reflective too. I was thinking about how there were some really scary moments when I was pregnant with her, and how there were times when I really was angry at God. But thinking about those moments also made me think about all the times when I knew that God was near, and about how great our God really is. I wanted to share a couple of those memories with all of you. I remember the day that I went for my 6 month appt. and had an ultrasound, and the doctors first told us that there might be something wrong with Hannah. We were at the hospital, and had been admitted, and the doctors had finished telling us about the possibilities of what may be going on. I was feeling a little bit hysterical at that point in time and I remember my OB came in and I just started crying and saying, what did I do wrong. She was so kind and she told me that I hadn't done anything wrong. Then she said that in situations like this she really believed in the power of prayer, and that we should call our church and our friends and family and ask them to pray for us and our baby. What a blessing that the doctor that happened to be on call that night shared our faith and was there to encourage us. I also remember a couple of days after we were home from the hospital telling Nick that I really felt like I could physically feel people praying for us. Never in my life had I felt that before, and I know it was Gods way of letting me know that he was working in our lives, and in Hannah's life, even before she was born. I truly believe that whatever was wrong with Hannah (the doctors have told us that we will never know what caused all of the problems for sure), that God healed her. He choose to perform a miracle and fix my little girl. I still have days when my faith is weak and I feel like God is far away, but all I have to do is look at my precious little girl and know that he is real, and that he is powerful, and that he loves us all so much!!


Well, enough of the emotional posting... We had Hannah's party on her actual birthday, Sunday. I had so much fun. She was so cute digging into her cake and making a complete mess. She got some really cute clothes and some really fun toys too. Thank you so much to everyone who came and helped to make her first birthday so special. I have posted a bunch of pictures, so have fun looking. :) She also had her one year doctors appt. yesterday, and she was 19 pounds, 8 ounces, and 29 and 1/2 inches long. She is getting so big :) Have a great week everyone :)

Messy girl!!

Peeking out over my cake :)

I love empty water bottles!

Ready for church before my party. This is the rocking chair that mommy and daddy finished for me for my birthday :)

Fort Wayne and Family

Well, we made it back from Fort Wayne in one piece. It was fun filled weekend, of lots and lots of softball. The guys played really well. They ended up playing three games on Monday, and if they had kept on winning, they would have only had to win two more games to be playing for the championship. GO WALNUT CREEK!! Remember how I said in my previous post, that I was sure that if I stuck to Hannah's schedule, napping would go ok? Well, I think that I jinxed myself. The games that the guys played on Saturday didn't finish up until midnight, and Hannah fell asleep at the ball park around 10:30, and she slept until we got back to the hotel at 12:30. But then she was wide awake until 2:30. She wasn't grouchy or anything, she was just wide awake. And then on Sunday, the last game they played was a 9:00, so I decided to skip so that Hannah could get to bed at a decent time...and mommy too :) Well she went down at 8:45, but when Nick got back at 10:30, she woke up and was up till 12:30. Needless to say, I was ready to get home and back to our normal schedule. :) It was a really fun weekend though, and really great to spend time with friends from church.

We had a great night last night as well. Nick's cousin Dominic and his wife Anya, and their little girl Tara came to visit. They live in Germany, so this was a pretty big deal. We had never met Anya or Tara before, so that was really fun. We also got to meet Nick's cousin Marcel's wife. Her name is Hirroko (I am sure that I spelled that wrong), who is from Japan. She is in the process of getting a green card, and it is taking a long time, so please pray for that process to be expedited. It was so fun to get to meet the wives, and they were both really nice and easy to talk to. :) I put up some pictures from Fort Wayne and from the family get together. :)

Mike, Marcel, Aaron, Dominic and Nick

The whole Hershberger, and Monaghan clan.

Go Daddy!!

Hanging out with daddy at the ball games :)

Stud Muffin!!

Tara...so excited to be in America!

Team Walnut Creek