Christmas at our house

Christmas at our house was totally fun...of course. Poor Isaiah woke up early and we made him watch cartoons until Joshua woke up so I could sleep in a little longer. He had to wait for over an hour before we finally got up and decided we'd tortured him long enough and woke Joshua up so we could unwrap.

The boys are a little on the obsessed side with Star Wars and the jammies seemed to fuel the craziness even more.












We had to put her in a stocking...she was our favorite present of all!



What an incredible year it was! I'm so grateful for all these little squirts. They make holidays so much more fun...I can't even imagine how life was without them.

The princess has arrived!

Alayna decided she just couldn't wait any longer to see us and decided to grace us with her presence. There has never been anything so sweet that has existed on earth thus far. We are completely smitten by her!

Monday afternoon I went for an unscheduled appointment to ask some questions about a few things that were going on and they ended up doing an ultrasound and notice that...
1. My amniotic fluid was quite low
2. She was measuring very small--only four pounds, which is where she should have been a few weeks before. It seemed to make the doctor nervous so he made a decision that she would be better off here and so they walked me right over and admitted me. I called Mike, who had just left for Vegas hours before and told him the news. He got here as quick as he could.

They started pitocin at 5:30pm and she was here at 1:30am. Weighed 5lbs 4ozs. 18in. long. They had the whole NICU and respitory clan in my room waiting just in case there were any complications but she was a total champ and surprised us all. So happy she was finally here and as healthy as can be.

Pictures are SO deceiving. She doesn't look half as small as she really is.



This was totally Joshua's reaction to her...he came in the room and saw her and couldn't stop giggling. He's doing awesome with her.




Plus one more makes FIVE!


She's already got him wrapped pretty tightly around her teeny little finger.






There will be many more pictures to come. Now if I can just wrap my head around how life is going to be now I'll be in a good place. It takes a mentally tough woman to do this...I hope I can.