Since my last post we have been very busy, yet that is nothing new for our busy family.
Oakley is doing great now, she  had a fight with the flu and pneomonia over the Thanksgiving
Holidays. She is finally starting to act more like herself, which is a huge welcome.
Oakley, is at the  fun age this Christmas. She loves Santa so much and loves
Christmas music and dancing to the Christmas music. She loves the Christmas tree or
should I say the ornaments. Our tree is a little top heavy now, everytime Oakley takes an
ornament off I put it back at the top of the tree, so that she can't reach it. Needless to say
there are very few ornaments left on the bottom of our tree.
We took her this weekend to meet Santa. She was a little unsure at first but ended up loving
him. Santa sat down in the floor with Oakley and played. She liked that and gave him a hug before
leaving. Afterward she skipped away saying"Bye HO HO"!!! We also went to the county Christmas
Parade this weekend. Oakley waved and said Merry Christmas to everyone that past by.
Oakley is our 4th child, I don't know that I have ever taken the time to slow down and watch the innocence and joy that this age brings to Christmas.  Maybe it is knowing the Miracles that happened that first Christmas and knowing  that each day,  we have had and will have with Oakley, are an amazing gift and Blessing from God.  We are truely Blessed.

Oakley's favorite movie is "Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy rescue".Oakley would watch this
the whole day if she could, over and over.
She is talking and saying so much. My favorite thing that she is doing is,  she will come to me or her daddy and say "come on mama/daddy lets play"!! Oakley is so smart and is learning so much so very fast. She already knows her ABC's and their sounds and isn't ever 2 yet. I am amazed at how very smart she is. She loves to color and I love coloring with her. She still loves her brothers. We got to go watch her brother Peyton and his travel ball baseball team. Get Championship rings a few weeks ago. The Georgia Hitters are the #1 team in the state. Oakley loves watching all of her brothers play ball.

Over the last 22 months I have tryed to stay in touch with Sky and Carla. We come to know this amazing family while Oakley and their Joseph were both fighting CDH at Eagelston. Joseph lost his battle to CDH but was such a Warrior. Sky and Carla are expecting a little girl in April. There are no signs of CDH or any other birth defects. Please pray for Sky,Carla, and their family.


From our family to yours, May this Christmas season bring you and your family much happiness and joy.
Love, Brian,Sheree,Auston,Christopher,Peyton and Oakley

A Blessed Fall

It has been a while since I have had time to post. Oakley and her brothers are keeping us very busy.
Oakley is now almost 21 months, she is an amazing little girl. Oakley is still in love with her 3 older
brothers, she keeps them busy. She knows that she has all of them wrapped around her fingers.
She is starting to count and learn her ABC's. She loves to be read to and her favorit book is still
"I Love you Stinky Face". 
We found out that Oakley was approved by our insurance, to get the Synagis shots again this year. What a Blessing it was when we got the call confiming she would be getting them.

Oakley is talking so much and is able to tell us what she needs/wants. She is so sweet, at night when saying her prayers. She has memorized the main parts and when we get to GOD Bless, she starts saying all the names of our family.
Oakley's favorite movie right now is" Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy rescue". She will bring it to us and say
Bell please. Her favorite saying is "come on play"!
Oakley is still on the small side at 18 lbs and 27 in, she is negative 25 % on the growth chart. Her doctor is
not concerned because she is healthy and there is nothing negative about her.

We know we are Blessed to have such a Miracle in our lives. October 3rd 2008 ,was the day we found out that we would be Blessed with a daughter and that she would come into this world fighting for her life. Today no   one would ever know that our Oakley was given only a 20% chance of surving CDH. She has had no complications in the 20 months that we have had her home with us. Every child that survives CDH is a miracle. I know that without in debt that God has held my daughter. He held her when I couldn't and he gave her the breath of life. Our lives are forever changed by our precious gift from above.

We have had a great Fall. Peyton,our youngest son's team, won the championship/mini bowl in Football.Brian coached Peyton's team and did an amazing job. His travel baseball team "The Georgia Hitters" are placed #1 in the state of Georgia.
Christopher, is wrestling on the high school wrestling team. This is new for him but he is doing great and enjoying doing something new. Auston is doing great, he doesn't like sports much but loves his video games.
He is also the #1 brother for Ms. Oakley. She loves her Auldi>

Oakley and Peyton went Trick or treating and were Captain Hook and Tinker Bell, they both had a lot of fun and just adorable.

We are looking forward to the up coming Holiday season and some down time. Thanksgiving is my favorite Holiday, I love being with family and friends. We have so much to be Thankful for.


Hope everyone has a great November and Holiday season.


With lots of love,
Sheree Irvin

Oakley and I decided to have some fun this afternoon or I did anyway. I love taking her picture. Not that I don't love taking pictures of her brothers because I do. They are just at ages that they don't want to take the time for me to torture them. Oakley does seem to love it as much as I do. Today she was dressed in Red, White and Blue and I thought why not, lets go take some pictures.

Oakley is growing so fast. I can't believe that our little Miracle will be 17 months in just 11 more days. She is still small compared to other babies her age. When we went for her 15 month check up the first of June, she weighed 17 lbs 2 oz and was 24 inches tall. Still -10% on the growth chart  but Dr. Rosenberry said "you wouldn't know that she had anything more than a hiccup when she was born"! I told him that was GOD and that we are Blessed!!

Fatback tells Oakley all the time that she is such a "GIRLY GIRL" and as you can see from the picture above I do beleive he is right! Even with 3 big brothers I think she will still be a GIRLY GIRL!! She loves all of her brothers so much an they are all wonderful with her.

It has been a very busy summer for our family. Our youngest son Peyton keeps us going with Baseball.

Since the first of June he has been practicing and playing Little League All-Stars. His team finished up the tournament going 4-0. Winning the District Championship! We are so very proud of him. God has Blessed Peyton with a gift to play baseball. I love watching him as does our whole family!

Papaw and Nana were able to make it up to watch 3 of the 4 games! Including the semi-final and the Championship games!! Peyton was so happy that they were there to watch him play baseball. Peyton pitched in 2 different games giving up only a combined 3 runs. His team scored 66 runs in the tournament giving up only 9!! So proud of him and his team!

Oakley was happy to get to spend some time with her Papaw and Nana also!

Peyton thought he was the man, getting to walk Oakley in to one of his games!!

Such a GREAT Big Brother!

Auston got to go visit his Grandma Joanie and Grandpa Peter for a week this month.

This picture was taken the day he came home. Oakley loves her Audy so much.

She loves for him or anyone to read to her, she walks around the house with a book saying "Read me the book". Auston has always been a book worm also, looks like little sis may follow in his footsteps.

Auston also turned 16 this week, wow I am starting to feel really old!!

Christopher or as we call him "Fatback" ( in the middle) has been busy in June also. Everyday he will get out in the yard and hit grounders to Peyton telling him that he is getting him to the next level! So funny. Well Fatback you did it Peyton won District this year!

Fatback loves Football he has been going to weekly summer workouts at his school getting ready for Football season to get here..

Well I know that this has been a long post but I just wanted to let everyone know what our June had been like. I don't know where it has gone it sure has flown by. Hope that everyone is doing well.

Happy Birthday to Babies Kamryn and Brooke, I know that your mommy and daddy are as Blessed as we are to have you.

With love,

Brian and Sheree

Oakley 15 months

Oakley and her brothers have been keeping us very busy!! Oakley is going every where, into everything and learning so much so fast. It is hard to believe that she is already 15 month old. She has almost mastered all of her animal sounds her favorite one being the dog (woof woof). As soon as she sees a dog she starts going woof woof, so cute. She loves to read, She will get her book with her doll and sit down and read the book to her dool. So CUTE!! She is always following me around with a book for me or her daddy to read to her. She is saying alot of words. Words that she is saying are:
Mama
daddy
gma (grandma)
papa
Auston
Fatback
Peyton
Baba's (for brothers)
bite bite
look
get it
eat
bankie
baba
baby
want that
dog
woof
baa
meow
ball
mow
neigh
no no
quite
out tide (out side)
abc
book (She loves to read)
up
baah (for bath)
hey
bye bye
tank u (thank you)
Amen

I am sure that there is more that I am forgetting.
We are so proud of our CDH miracle she amazes us each and everyday.
My mom cried yesterday when I picked Oakley up, she has been keeping Oakley for us this school year and yesterday was the last day that I had to go to work until August 10th. My mom and dad are going to miss having Oakley every day:( We will be visiting alot this summer:)

Peyton's baseball team finished up the regular season 14-0. Great job GRASSHOPPERS!!! We will start practicing for All-Stars June 5th. We are excited. Oakley does very well at the ball park.
Auston finished up 10 grade and is now a Junior 11th grade. Fatback finished up 7th grade and is now an 8th grader. Peyton is now a 4th grader and finished up 3rd grade with Honor Roll all year. I have worried about Peyton and we really puch him hard because he plays ball at least 4 days a week and when he isn't playing he is practicing.

We hope that everyone has a great Memorial day holiday. Thank you to all the men and women that serve our country and to all those that have.

Love Sheree (Oakley' mom)

Oakley is walking!!

Oakley started walking about 3 weeks ago. She is now nearly running!!
She has really amazed me at how fast she has gotten in such a short period of time. She is also climbing our stairs, she has been doing this for months, I just keep forgetting to put it in my updates.
We are spending alot of time watching her brothers play baseball right now and she doesn't seem to mind. She really likes seeing all the kids running around. She tells them all HEY! and if they don't say Hey back she just keeps telling them HEY HEY until they finally tell her hey. She started saying PAPA this week and is trying to say Grandma it comes out GMA.
My mom is loving it because she is at least trying to say Grandma. MY dad loves the fact that she is saying PAPA. Both say that Oakley brings them so much joy just having her stay with them during the day. We are very Blessed that my parents are able to keep her so that we don't have to send Oakley to daycare.
Oakley loves to laugh especially at her brothers:) I couldn't even start to say if she has a favorite because she seems to love them all sOOOOOO much!!
I hope that everyone is doing great, we are counting down the days til summer break.

Love to all,
Sheree (Oakley's mom)

Spring is here!!

The weather here this week has been Beautiful!! We have been able to get outside everyday this week. Oakley loves being out with her brothers and cries when it is time to go back inside. She loves picking my flowers! She goes to each pot picking the blooms off. I showed her how to smell the flowers and not pick them so she has finally started just smelling and not picking. She is amazing each day she is learning so much and each day we are more and more BLESSED to have her.
This time of year is a time of renewal in our lives. For God gave his son
for us and Easter is a reminder of this. I thank God for giving us our daughter and not letting CDH take her from us.
WE PRAY THAT EACH AND EVERYONE OF YOU HAVE A BLESSED EASTER!!

HAPPY EASTER!! LOVE SHEREE (OAKLEY'S MOM)

13 months 3 days

Oakley is 13 months 3 days old. She is doing so much. Her favorit words are uh oh. Anytime she drops something or if someone else does something that she thinks is a no no she will say "uh oh". She is always so happy.
It is like she knows that she is a little Blessing. Oakley took 15 steps across the kitchen floor this week but still hasn't just let go, we know that she can but we are not pushing her. Brian and I know she will walk on her time. She loves being outside we had a few pretty days where we could enjoy the sunshine but then the rain came and the weather turned cold again.
Oakley would stand at the window and cry outtide.
I have been trying to teach Oakley some baby signing.She can do the sign for Thank you and More. I work with special needs children at school and Oakley has amazed me at how fast she has picked up on these in such a short time.
We have weathered the winter without any major sickness, we have faught with the dreaded ear infections and one cold. (Knock on Wood)!!
Oakley had her last RSV shot the end of Feburary so we are trying to stay out of crowed places until after Easter (per doctors orders). We do take Oakley to church every Sunday but our congragation is great they know to admire her from a distance because they know what she has gone through.
We are Blessed that my mom and dad are able to keep Oakley for us. I'm not sure who spoils her more Grandma or Papa.

Christopher and Peyton are playing Spring Baseball, Peyton also plays on a Travel Ball team. His team is ranked #1 in the state of Georgia for their divison "GO HITTERS"!! Christopher got Braces today. I think that he is in a little more pain than he ever thought that he would be.
Auston had them 2 years ago and has really enjoyed aggravating him.
Auston is a sophmore in high school so school work and video games are keeping him busy. All 3 boys love Oakley so much and she will light up the room when she see's any one of them.

Sheree (Oakley's mama)

Oakley's One

On February 12, Oakley turned one year old. Oakley is doing great with no complications from her CDH. She had her one year check up with her surgeon and everything is fine. She is taking four or five steps at a time now and has great balance. We took her to Baby Land General and she adopted her first Cabbage Patch Baby for her birthday, the doll is bigger than Oakley. Oakley still weighs around 15 pounds and is very petite. Oakley loves all three of her big brothers very much and is very much spoiled by each of them. We have to keep an eye on Oakley at all times, because she is very curious and is into everything. She likes to help her Mommy do laundry as Mommy folds the clothes and puts them in the basket Oakley pulls them out and inspects them. Oakley loves music and loves to dance. We are very blessed and we know this everyday with Oakley. Every morning when she wakes up she has the most beautiful smile on her face, she is the happiest baby that I have ever seen. Sorry we haven't posted more, but finally we did get a new computer yesterday so Sheree can start back keeping everyone posted. We are greatful to each one of you that have prayed for and continue to pray for Oakley, may God bless each one of you.

11 Months Old

Oakley is now 11 months old and is doing so good. We are enjoying watching her grow so much. She is getting very close to walking. She will hold on to things in the living room and walk around, she does very good, but still hasn't got the nerve to turn loose yet. As far as health Oakley is still doing great, she goes for her 1 year check up next month. She is still very small and petite, but we were told when she was born that she probably always would be. Sorry it has been so long since we updated, but because of our computer crashing at home only able to update this at work when I have time and lately we have been very busy. Hope to have new pictures coming soon. Hope everything is going well with each of you that keep up with Oakley's Blog.