Our Little Angel!!

Hallee is finally here! It took some convincing... but she joined our little family on June 1st at 6:52 p.m. She came out beautiful, weighing 8 lbs 6 oz, and measuring 21 inches long. It has been the most incredible experience. I am treasuring every moment with her! I just don't want her to ever grow up!



Labor was the most amazing experience! Everything went well!The whole day had a peaceful feel. There couldn't be a more amazing feeling than holding your baby for the first time. Eric was wonderful. The second best thing was watching him hold our little Hallee for the first time.











The hospital was wonderful! The nurses and my doctor were fabulous! They were very understanding of us, the over-worried, protective partents! But there was nothing better than bringing her home!



Here is Hallee, all ready to go home!



Here is Daddy welcoming Hallee home!


We are just so glad Hallee is here! We love her sooo much!! Being a parent is the greatest thing in the world! I am sure than will be many more post to come. We have already taken hundreds of pictures of out little beauty! We love you Hallee!

STILL NO BABY!!

Just in case any of you have been following our baby countdown widget... you may have noticed that it is no longer counting. Which in turn means that our baby should be here, right? Not yet. I guess she has something else in mind! That's ok... we better get use to life on her schedule instead of ours!! :) We love you Hallee! Can't wait for you to join our little family!

BIG BELLY!

CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS BELLY! Hallee is getting so big! It is SO fun! She is moving ALL the time! It is making me so excited! I just don't know where she is going to go as she grows these next few weeks. But I thought I better post a pic. because there isn't going to be much more time. So there is the belly! ENJOY!

SETTING UP THE NURSERY!

Our furniture for our nursery finally came. We ordered our crib and changing table a few months back. It came this week. Eric was so wonderful! He woke up Saturday and put together the crib and changing table. I don't know how much fun he had, but he did a great job, and now are it feels like our little baby is that much closer to coming to our family!







Onto the changing table!


I love you sweetie! You did a great job! Can't wait for our little Hallee!!

I love the West

Hey everyone-- Usually Heather is all up getting her blog on, but I'm on day 10 of a 3 week business trip so I'm lonely, bored, and have nothing to do but read SLTRIB.com, foxnews.com, utefans.net, and everyone else's blogs. Sooooooooo, since Heather has been so busy with school, church, and taking a trip to see me, I thought I'd toss a line in and say hello from BEAUUUUUUUUUtiful Hartford, CT. Yeah right!

Let me show you how it goes down in the CT-- here are a couple of the first few pics that come up when I google Hartford, CT:


This is what I would have thought I would have seen:

And here is what I've actually seen a lot of:




You might think I'm exagerating a little, but guess what... I'm right and you're wrong. I love my home back on the West siiiiiiiiiide. Never coming back here again unless forced.

Heather was able to make it out here for this last weekend. That made things much better. We drove to Boston and took some detours (not on purpose really) that took us through small-town Connecticut and Massachusetts which was kind of fun, but it added a bit of unexpected time in our car. We were just looking for an IHOP and instead we ate Lunchables from a gas station in an unknown town. That's how we roll.

Anyway-- due to my slow internet connection, I've been able to use up a half hour of my night and that helped a little. I vote that Heather keeps doing all the blogging.

Baby Bump!

Ok, so I know it has been like FOREVER since I have posted anything. But frankly, since I have been pregnant, I just don't like taking pictures. I would take them of just Eric, but he doesn't like that. So pretty much you can expect some new pics, sometime at the end of May, when our little baby is here. But to document the pregnacy, here is the baby bump... that my little second graders tell me is growing everyday! (Which just means that it is getting closer, right??).

I am loving being pregnant, and just can't wait to have our little baby here!!!

IT'S A GIRL!!

On Thursday we had our ultrasound to find out how are cute baby was doing. We found out everything was growing just right! We also found out that we are going to have a little GIRL! It was the neatest experience! I just cried as I saw her cute little hands and feet. I just couldn't believe it was real!

I can't believe how much I already love this little girl! I just keep telling Eric how excited I am!! I am so happy we are already almost half way there!

Now we can start getting ready! Yippee!!