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On January 10th, my son was born and just 5 days later his twin cousins were born at 28 weeks. In one week, our family was so blessed to have 3 little guys come into this world. Even with all the joy and happiness of life; we had a scare with the twins being so young. Any baby born this early is more at risk let alone twins being born at this age! This is when the journey began.

One of the twins, Owen, began to have some setbacks and complications while his brother Even started to fight his way home from the NICU. Without getting in to details, baby Owen began his journey to recovery. Owen had a few surgeries that would help him progress to where he needed to be to come home. He has had more surgeries than some people have in a lifetime, but that did not stop him from coming home. His brother came home first and then a few weeks later mom got a call to come pick up her second little guy. This was great news but very unexpected news in such short notice.

We were holding back our son’s baptism so his cousins could come enjoy the celebration all together. Now that both twins were at home and doing better, it was time to plan for another special occasion. This past weekend, we finally got to invite the “Team Ripper” crew to our home to celebrate not only our sons baptism but also the journey home for little Owen and Evan.

Owen and Even are such lucky little guys with having such a great big sister Rylee to help get them strong. Mom and dad have to be some of the strongest people I know! With every bad thing that happened, they made the most of it and made the situation turn around into an even stronger positive situation. Having to go through any situation like this is rough, let alone living 4 hours away from family. Mike and Becky stuck together and stayed strong while we could come out and help when we could. They win parents of the year award for being such great people and never letting ANYTHING hold them back.

With them demonstrating such determination, love, joy, faith, and strength; we felt they were more than qualified to be our son’s godparents! We are honored to have such wonderful people be our son’s godparents. What makes it even better; they are our family! I always said, family is what makes the world turn round!

So almost 4 months after the birth of these 3 boys, my son’s baptism was this past Sunday. We really enjoyed having them stay with us for the weekend. The entire weekend was a celebration and we even got to take a few fun family photos of “Team Ripper”.

Here are a few photos from the shoot and from my son’s baptism.

Thank you for viewing and enjoying the story of the journey of the twins to my son’s baptism. Thank you everyone who has sent prayers and thoughts for my godsons and Ripchinski family. Please continue to send your love because this is just step 1 of our family journey. But with your help and all of us sticking together, this will help make our journey easier.

Enjoy the photos!!!

A few from my son’s baptism. I took all the photos posted here except for the ones I am in of course. One of my assistants, Tony, took those.