Friday, August 8, 2008

Chad's family


Chad and Catharine were married and sealed in the Jordan River Temple on January 28,1998 . They have now been married for 10 1/2 years and are living in West Jordan. Chad is a detective for West Valley City where he has worked for the last 6 yrs, he has work a total of 9 years in Law Enforcement. Catharine stays at home with there 5 kids and has a license to do hair which she does out of there home. There children are Katija 9, Leah 7, Natalie 5, Eliza 3, and Caden 1. Katija was born in to there family after 1 1/2 yrs after they have been married a long with 8 weeks of bed rest she was born @ 36 weeks but was fortunate to be healthy to come home. Leah came 21 months later following 6 wks of bed rest, she was born at 34 weeks and was also very healthy to come home after she was born. Natalie was born 20 months later following 11 weeks of bed rest. She was born at 31 weeks and came home after 4 weeks in the NICU, she was able to come off of oxygen after 3 weeks. Eliza was born 23 months later after 2 weeks of bed rest. She was born at 27 weeks after a very eventful and complicated 84 days stay in the NCIU. She was able to come home while still on oxygen and continued this until she was 7 months old. After there doctors told them that more biological children would not be possible. They knew there was a boy missing from there family after a lot of thought and prayer they decided to pursue adoption. After signing with there agency, Caden was born July 20,2007 weighting in at 8lb 1oz. Which has been there biggest child this put 2 yrs and 8 months younger then Eliza. Caden was placed with there family when he was 3 1/2 months old, his adoption was finalized 6 months and 1 day later on May 9th 2008 and finally sealed to our family the following day. All there kids keep Chad and Catharine very busy it seems to increase daily. They are all worth it and we love each one of them .

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