Welcome Baby Harper - I'm an Auntie!

My sister finally had her baby, the morning of July 20th she had little Harper Rae, weighing in at 7lbs 5 oz. It was great, I went with my mom to see my sister when she was laboring the night before, then got to see baby Harper in the morning when she was freshly born. It was so strange to be back in the hospital after 3 months when I gave birth to my little Noah James.

Our family is so blessed to now have two new little ones, and so close in age! The cousins met for the first time yesterday and it was pretty funny to see how huge Noah was compared to Harper...what a difference 3 months makes! Babies are pretty amazing...they completely change your life in so many ways and watching them develop so quickly into unique little people is pretty awe-inspiring.
I can't wait as the months and years progress to see Noah & Harper grow up, along with their older cousins Lake & Logan. I can just picture them running around having so much fun together!
And I love that my sister & I have been able to share in this experience of creating our own families, I am so blessed!  

Noah Bear

Well it's been a while since my last post but a lot has gone on in the last year with our family...
I finished out my pregnancy with not too much difficulty...though obviously toward the end it got a bit uncomfortable. And I gave birth to our son Noah James on May 2nd, 2012 at 11:22pm (he came 10 days after his due date). It was a fairly swift labor, about 10 hours, and after experiencing quite a bit of labor I opted for the epidural. He came out at a whopping 8 lbs 12 oz and 20.5, and we laughed & cried tears of joy that he finally came out to greet the world.
Shortly after we got home from the hospital, we discovered our beloved dog (and our first "child") Roman was in so much pain with some kind of tumor/calcified obstruction in his ear that we had to make the difficult decision to put him to sleep. We were so sad, he was the happiest dog around, so loving! And let me say there were a lot of tears that first week, both from lack of sleep & thinking about the loss of Roman. So strange the feelings of loss and celebrating new life with little Noah...
We quickly got busy trying to balance sleep & life with the additional needs that come with a newborn. The first month of parenthood is tough! And then we started to see the light...as Noah grew & as we started to understand some of his cries and get to know him. And by 6 weeks he even started smiling at us! Oh it's the best feeling in the world to be acknowledged by this little bundle of joy!
And now our Noah Bear is 10 weeks old and life is so different & Noah is changing & growing so quickly...and the adventure continues, the joys, the trials, all the moments...and I hope to document them as much as I can so I don't forget the moments of Noah's life. We are so blessed, thank the Lord!