Ok, here goes....I have a story to tell and you had all better be sitting down!!
The Monday before our convention our 19 year old daughter comes to Blake and I and tells us she is pregnant...not only that she is due in
3 weeks
To say we were shocked would be an understatement. The father is her ex-boyfriend and he is only 16!!
Doesn't this just keep getting better and better? She managed to hide it from almost everyone! Ask Lesa...we couldn't tell.. She was at school, work, friends or in her room..if she was in the living room she had a blanket over her lap...but we all do that, so it wasn't strange.
She tells us she is giving it up for adoption but at this point had seen no one...not even a doctor!!! I take her to my OB who delivered her, the next day. And she makes an appointment to see an adoption agency...her appt...the Friday I would be in WDW!! So my mom agrees to take her.
Thank God for our trip to WDW, the timing was perfect for me to get away and deal with all the stuff in my head!!
So Bree goes to the agency...I get a call later while sitting outside Imagination that the visit went well and Bree had tentatively picked a lovely couple. OK Great...it was like a huge weight was off my shoulders.
Got thru the weekend, fly home Tues night, Wed 7:15 AM I get a call from Zach's ( the father) mother. He told her literally 15 minutes earlier...we need to meet. Yes, they all come over that night. They look like we did the week before

We all agree adoption is the best thing. Call the agency get a meeting for the following Tues to meet the couple go over everything...Get thru the next few days...Blake has to fly to Memphis and has to miss the meeting

Bree and I get there...Zach's parents and Zach are there...no couple. His parent's have decided they want the baby but they will go along with whatever Bree wants. I look like someone hit me in the face with a brick!!
We go home have long conversations...adoption is best for the baby...go back to new meeting...tell everyone that...make another meeting to meet the couple....2 days later meet the couple...darling people...come home feeling like they are a gift from God!!
It is now last Friday...David, Lesa, my sister Melissa and Lesa's girls all come home...we spend Friday night together, everything is fine...
Sat morning I come down at 9, Bree meets me and says she is in labor

We get her to the hospital at 10:30, at 11 she is 4 cm, at 12 she is 7cm, at 12 she is 9cm, the doctor arrives about 12:20 and breaks her water...there is meconium! This baby has to come soon...at 12:40 she is complete and is told to start pushing there is a chance for a c-section...baby girl born at 12:55 Sat afternoon.
Briana did great, and baby is in great shape! Whole family comes...
All weekend Briana kept changing her mind...keep her, don't keep her....she knew what was best but she also knew she really wanted to keep her...Monday morning we were all there to say goodbye when Bree breaks down and says she can't do it....we are taking home a baby!!!
Blake runs out to get a car seat! ( Gets the wrong kind...we get her home and take it back later)
So we now have 7 lb 8 oz, 20 in Lillian Marie ( Lilly) living in our house which is completely unprepared!! We have been going crazy getting the things that a baby needs.
I am torn...the thought of saying goodbye to someone I saw be born, was heartbreaking, but...I am still so concerned about my baby's( Bree) future

I don't know what to think right now! Literally taking it minute by minute. I stayed at the hospital both nights and slept in Bree's room to help her so have had very little sleep. Crashed like the dead last night.
Please keep us all in your prayers...we may need them!!
Oh here she is...
Hopefully this all made sense....and to those who were on the trip....Thank you...you have no idea how much I needed that weekend....when can we go back? I need it again!!