Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Welcome Baby Evie!

Baby Evie ( middle name still undecided!) was born at 3:11pm on February 15th, 2011. We were sooo surprised to have been given another baby girl! I am such a lucky momma! I hope Olive and Evie enjoy each other and are best friends like my sister and I!
Jason loves his baby Evie! He is the best Dad!

I got to hold Evie close for a whole hour before the NICU had to take her away to give her some special care. She is 5+ wks early and her lungs are premature. She will be spending some time there, even after I am released which will be hard, but I am grateful for the care she is receiving and it means she gets to spend the rest of her life with me. I can handle her needing to be away from me when I think of it that way.



Overall, Evie is doing ok. She is healthy and well developed in all other areas, just her lungs are weak and premature. She came out a wonderful 5Lbs 5ozs which will help her pull through a little better than some. I miss her so much- its amazing how someone so small who has only been in my sight for one day can have such a hold on your heart. We love her so much! We will try to post updates but we dont have internet at home so it may be awhile! Keep praying for our little Evie to come home to us!

Saturday, December 25, 2010

Sneak peek of our new house!

Soon I will post all the before and afters!
Living room!
Our new kitchen....almost complete!
Front door! (and Lucy!)

It twas a Merry Christmas!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Post Santa and pre-Olivia!

Upon release, she ran directly to investigate!
Wow! Papa gave me a Chewbacca to hug! What is in all these packages?
OPen pleaSe!


Trying out her new car seat from Grandma Susan and Grandpa John!
Olive LOVES her books!

Papa and Olive reading her new books together!

We had a wonderful christmas together in our new house and then headed to Grandma and Grandpa R's house to be with all our cousins and aunts and Uncles! Merry Christmas everyone!

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

She has an addiction...




....to hats!
Anytime there is a hat within reach it must be on Olive's head. She loves to point out EVERY person who is wearing a hat when we go to the store. She loooooves hats!

Craft night updates

So I havent posted our craft night projects for a few months.
In September Meryn hosted and we made these adorable wooden pumpkins for Fall!

In October, I hosted and we made festive fall hair clips!

Michelle hosted in November and we made these adorable snowmen out of boxes. My big snowman is made out of a fruit snck box and the little one out of a mac & cheese box!
Craft night is about so much more than just crafting! Good friends, good food, good times! =)

Our Adorable Olive

When we went to Utah in September to visit Grandma Susan and Grandpa John, they took her to an old fashioned photo shoot! Olive was still in her stanger anxiety stage so we didnt get any toothy grins but they turned out very cute!


Such a sweet little face!

Thursday, November 4, 2010

15 months and 20 weeks

Today was an eventful day in our household! We first went to Olive's 15mth appointment at the pediatrician. She is such a petite little thing!
Here are her 15mth stats!
Weight: 19.0 lbs
Height: 30.25 inches
Head: 17.75 inches
At her One year appointment:
Weight: 17.63 Lbs
Height: 28.50 inches
Head: 17.50 inches
She is doing great cognitively. Speaking and signing! We are loving this age!
We came home for a quick nap then just as we were leaving to go to my Doctors appointment, Olive fell and got her first major goose egg from the corner of a table :( It has left a nasty mark and we felt so bad for her. After some hugs and snuggles, she seemed to have had a full recovery. We headed to the Doctors where we got to see baby R all snuggled in a ball in my tummy. This did not allow for very good pics but I posted what we got. We saw all the necessary parts and that what matters! Baby looks healthy and happy and we are halfway to meeting this sweet little one!