Happy Halloween!!

proof that we have been spending way too much time in the Belle dress!!! I know I didn't put her down for a nap in that thing, she got it out of her closet during rest time. This is how we found her.

sleepy mommy ventured out just a week after Chloe was born for the big fall party at her preschool. Wouldn't have missed it!!

Abigail and her good buddy (also a princess!) Katie

This is her 3 yr old preschool class heading out to trick or treat at the church



We had a fun Halloween this year, especially with the addition of our new little pumpkin to play with!! We went to Deana and Greg's house whose neighborhood really goes all out for the holiday. The street was absolutely beautifully peppered w/ the fall leaves, it was warm at close to 70 degrees after sunset and their were kids and parents all up and down her well decorated block. All her neighbors had their houses all done up, several w/ fog machines and spooky sounds coming into the front lawns. Abigail got a good first taste of true trick or treating this year. We are a little sick of the Belle dress. She wears it non stop and every surface of our house looks like it's been attacked by Tinkerbell and her pixie dust with the gold glitter that has dropped off of it over the past week. Even poor Chloe has it all in her shiny black hair. Oh well it's a memory for the year. And the Bit absolutely has loved prancing around in it. Good times for the fam here in 2009!

hanging out at home...

Abigail playing peek-a-boo w/ Chloe!

Doing some sunbathing to get rid of some jaundice early on, we got rid of those nasty mellow yellows though!

Brian set up a web cam so Aunti D could check in with her sweet neices on a lazy Sunday morning. :)

The Bit got a big ole kick out of Chloe's first bath. Chloe however was not that into it.

Happiness is Grammie and her girls, what a face!

One pooped out daddy just enjoying our little muffin

Meeting her Aunt Amy, ...."sounds like mommy's voice but that's not my mommy??" :)







A new way to wake up the Bit, plop Chloe into bed with her and she's a lot nicer about getting up.

Homecoming night

These were our shots from the grand introduction of the girls to each other. So special, a little late night but good memories. We bolted for the exit as soon as we could at the hospital and met up w/ a sleepy set of babysitters Deana and Greg and a wide awake Abigail when we got home around 11 Thursday night. Abigail was thrilled to meet her new sister and we had fun staying up late together and getting in lots of squeezes and pictures. :)

Chloe Brianne!!!

Well our sweet girl made her grand arrival with style and grace last Tuesday. I fretted and fretted over all the details that preceeded delivery day, only to find out that God absolutely answered every prayer and made it just as perfect as only He could do!! I started contracting over our morning coffee, went into the office for a check around lunch and found out we were on our way to her coming. My best buddy Vicki of 8 1/2 yrs, who started the same week as me in L&D asked her manager and left her 2nd job early to come and be my personal labor nurse! My doctor, who wasn't on call said she'd go home and get her kids settled and head over to be my personal doctor for the delivery that evening! Who'd have thought I got my own personal picks of delivery team! By 10 o'clock that night I was moving along nicely, by 10:15 I started pushing and at 10:49 we welcomed our girl into the world. It was a beautiful moment, I got to cut the cord, and Brian and I both enjoyed (once she was out!) the wonderful gift that God was giving us. We were much more with it this time around. Not having been up all night as with Abigail's delivery we weren't zombies and got some really good pictures and videos. Vicki was a doll to stick it out with us, it meant the world to me for her to be there. She was also my nurse for Abigail's delivery so it was very special. Our stay in the hospital went by fast as I remember with Abigail. We had limited visitors due the joys of delivering a baby amidst a swine flu pandemic! But it was ok, we made a mad dash for the door as soon as our 48 hours was up at 11pm Thursay night. We raced home to introduce our sweet Chloe to her very excited big sister. We stayed up till almost 1 in the morning just being together as a new family of 4, taking turns holding the little peanut and taking lots more pictures. :) It was a beautiful week and we praise God for just making it more special then we could have imagined. Welcome home and into our world Chloe Brianne!!!