Happy B-day big man. My daughter turned 3 on Easter and my son was born on Good Friday.
I wish we had our wedding on video so our kids could watch it and see how skinny daddy used to be.

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Our first daughter was born 4 months early weighing 1 pound 8 ounces and was delivered by emergency c-section.

I was allowed to sit by my wife’s head as the two teams of doctors worked feverishly to save my daughter’s life. It was a gruesome and amazing experience. I watched them cut my wife open and move different parts of her anatomy out of the way in order to get to her uterus. The most vivid memory I have of that experience is when the doctor reached into my wife and lifted my daughter out of the womb. The first thing that came out was her little hand with all five fingers outstretched as if she was reaching to grasp heaven.

She couldn’t breathe on her own so they had to whisk her away for specialized care. Part of that preparation was stabilizing her enough to be transported to a Childrens hospital to have her first operation. Before they took her, they gave my wife and I our first moment to say ‘hi’ to our firstborn. I can remember how my wife, who was so groggy from the surgery that she could barely keep her eyes open, reached into the incubator and so gently stroked Lauren’s skin with her delicate fingers. I looked down at my own hands and noticed the calluses and cuts from working in the construction field and wondered how I could touch my daughter without breaking her. She was so tiny and fragile. Eventually, I reached my hand into the incubator and placed the tip of my pinky into the palm of her hand, that hand that had reached to grasp heaven, and her five fingers wrapped around just the tip of my finger and squeezed so tight that the little tendons in her arm stood out. I fell in love with her in that moment. She was and is a fighter.

I wish I had either of those moments on video.

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Beautiful video – I cried, too! We have an entire closet full of videos from our kids growing up – never missed a moment. But as far as the births…sadly, nothing. My husband sat in a closet praying during the first one (it was a different era), passed out for the second one, and the third…he barely got his clothes changed before he got there! I hope you keep a copy of all of these precious videos in your lock box. You don’t ever want to lose them!

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How wonderful that video was. Thank You for sharing! I love having those moments on videos. We get out our family videos and watch them alot. I don’t record as much as I used too now that they are older but I need too – they grow up WAAYYY to fast!

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Beautiful. It is sad to me that we had our babies before cameras were on phones and before we could afford them anyway. But the moments still play out in my mind like an old grainy Wonder Years video. Three little girls frolicking around…

Some days we still capture those moments.

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@Sherri, I totally agree.

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That is beautiful, Pete. My kids turn 17, 14, and 9 this summer. I beleive that we see the love of God best through our children. They teach me more than Bible college ever did.

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Ummm….I’ll have to watch it again. I’m crying so dang hard I can’t see him clearly!!! I don’t know if there is anything more beautiful than the birth of our children.

I do wish I had more videos of vacations. These kiddos grow up and I miss ‘em when they are little.

Happy birthday Gage!!!!

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I wish we had the day my husband came home from Iraq on video. I am the photographer in the family and I was so excited and nervous I could not hold the camera still. My sister in law took over the camera and got a few good pictures, but I wish it would have been on video.

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I’d pay to see the pet rooster video Pete

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goodness gracious, why did you let me color my hair go so blonde??? next time i make that mistake please send me back for a new color job!!!

thanks!

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Really not nice to make a grown man cry!! God willing, we’ll have one of these videos coming in July!!
Thanks for sharing!!

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Beautiful video! Thanks for sharing!

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beautiful! I love the emotion!

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It would be great if we all had a “Matt” to document those moments that we thrilled in but whose image fade with time. It also helps having a cool soundtrack too.

Yeah, yeah, I cried too and I had seen it before. What got me as much as anything was seeing Tucker again. He was ready to play with his second boy I am sure.

It all goes by so fast. Thanks for reminding me Peter John, thanks for reminding me.

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I’m not a big cryer but that just brought me to tears!

Happy Birthday Gage!

Happy Birthday Brandi!

You looked absolutely amazing and calm the entire time!!!

I can’t get over how beautiful the L&D room was!

What an awesome memory to cherish over and over again!

Hugs and love to your family!
Jill

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Such a precious moment to capture! Neither of our births are on tape…it was only me and him when they came (along with the team of dr’s & nurses, of course) so I would have liked to have shared that moment with our families!
We got our first vid camera when DD1 was 6 mo old and I wish we had more video of DD2…the camera broke before she came along and we could not afford to replace it!
Thanks for sharing.

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Pete how many pieces of fruit did you eat that morning? I was cracking up that every frame in the beginning had you with some fruit in your hand! Very nice video! Jett looks the same then as he does now, just bigger. Can’t say the same about Gage!

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Thanks for sharing — that was amazing and I was crying from beginning to end.

We didn’t buy our video camera until our oldest was 3 months old and I totally regret that we don’t have any of those months on video. But we’ve definitely made up for it since then. LOL

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My aunt, cousins, and I got in a tupperware fight a few Easters ago that I wish someone had on tape for two reasons. 1. It was funny, 2. I’d like to find out how it actually started!

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That was a beautiful video. Sometimes in the madness of day to day life, I forget about those moments God has given me that have COMPLETELY taken my breath away. Thanks to your video, I’m replaying many of those moments in my mind over and over today. Thanks for sharing that with us. SOOO precious!! (and, yes, Brandi did look great!)

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So beautiful! I hope Gage had a happy birthday!

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Happy birthday to Gage!

I wish I had video footage of my husband and myself from when we were in college band together. The kids hear about it all the time, how Dad played the sax and mom was on the drill team. How Dad was in a special guys group that would sometimes run up in front of the crowd and do a funny dance routine, a la “king Tut” from the old Saturday Night Live days. I’m convinced they would see us as a whole lot more fun and be able to relate to us better if they could see us from back in our youth, before we got married.

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Gage and I are sort of birthday buddies! Mine was just on the 18th … I’m a bit older than 5, though. ha!

With the recent happening in our family, I know we all wish we had videos of my Dad. Not one incident or event in particular, just videos. To hear his voice again, to see his smile, to hear his laugh. You don’t realize when they’re with you to try to take in and remember every little thing about them.

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We were just talking about this video last night while discussing Gage’s birthday. That was the first time I had ever heard anybody use the phrase “oh my stars” – such a southern thing! What a beautiful video!

i wish I had more video of my grandma – she is now in the throws of Alzheimer’s and I’ve forgotten how spunky and funny and full of life she used to be – I miss her.

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I wish that there were more videos of my grandparents. I know its not really a moment but they died when I was so young and I remember them but not that great. Sometimes I wish I had videos that I could watch.

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@Amy and other. I agree. I wish I had more video of my grandparents when they were younger.

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ahhhhh…that was beautiful!

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That was fabulous! I cried!
Thank you guys for sharing.

And how old are y’all? That was 5 yrs ago-you two look like kids!

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WOW! That is amazing! Thanks for sharing!!

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Definately the most exciting time in the life of a parent. I am crying so I can’t think of what I wish I had on video of my kids but it made me think of when I had my children—Boy I had no idea at that time what a Blessing! Thanks for sharing and bringing back some of my greatest memories!

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The death of my father so I could see how he actually died. I’d like to know who pulled the trigger of the gun.

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very moving. i’m definitely in tears.

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what a sweet video. and pete you look like a kid there.

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Nice try Pete!!! I…did not….cry.

Awesome video. Thanks for sharing.

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@John Wright, Come on! I bet you got a little misty.

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Once when our boys were very young (6 & 9), we were all snuggled up in our bed on a rainy Saturday morning. We gave each other Indian names. My hair was long & curly then so they called me “lotsa hair”. Ryan said Daddy had to be called “tender foot” because his feet are sensitive and he never goes outside in his bare feet.

We called Ryan “strong warrior” because he’s so passionate and fights for what he wants.
Drew was “tender heart” because he’s the peacemaker in the family.

I wish a camera had beenr rolling.

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Started crying the second the music started playing…oh my gosh that was just nothing short of sacred…I know it sounds stupid but I believe somehow we’ll be able to relive these profound moments of our lives when we get to heaven…
And I’d love to have my mom on tape interacting with each of my children. She was such an amazing “Nanny” I want them to remember…

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That was beautiful, thanks for sharing. What a gift to have such a well-done video of that special day. I wish I could go back and re-live the 3 days that my children were born. Someone commented above that they hope that’s an option in heaven … to not only read your stories but see video clips of the special moments in your life. I’m gonna hold out for that : )

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