Born August 8 at 2:17am

7lbs 4oz, 20 inches long

Perfectly healthy and extrememly loved!

20 pages of water color painting= 1 hour of their devotion= a good start on the laundry pile this morning

We love you, big girl! 

I have a friend who thinks of everything cute and helpful...she brought me this hospital survival kit last night :) I haven't packed yet for the hospital, but now my plan is to just put this whole bucket in a suitcase along with a few clothes, and I'll be ready to go!! Thanks, Ashely!

Waiting at the restaurant for our girl's lunch to begin!

 This is a picture of me.

The zigzag lines on the legs are the dress.

Daddy is the big orange one, Vivian is the one to the right that's red, Kate is in the bottom left corner in purple (both V and K have braids in their hair, that's why it looks so messy), and Mommy is in the bottom right in pink. I think one of the little ones at the top is Hank, but I don't know why there are 3 of them ?? :)

This is one of those fun things to keep a record of so we can come back and see how she changes it up!

I took a few videos for the grandparents and other family who might be interested to see. The first one is the ballet dance they performed (halfway through Kate decided that she did, in fact, want her tutu on), the second is with pom poms, and the third is their tap dance. You might have to watch a second time once you figure out where they're standing in each video. This was on Friday at the end of class...all of the parents came to watch what the kids had learned all week. I was proud of them!

 Kaitlyn, Mattie (the bride), and Allison

 Brett, Toph, Ian, Jonathan, and Nick

 Listening to Jimmy (father of the groom) give a short speech

 I didn't get any "before" pictures except for this one after Wayne had already started working. This was taken at the beginning of January. I can't remember exactly when he finished, but it took about 8 weeks. 

 We love our new bathroom! It's so clean!

 Aaron picked out all the tile. The toilet is the same as we had before, but everything else is new. 

The walls are called "bungalow gold" and the other accents in the room such as the shower curtain are soft blues.

 It's hard to tell in this picture, but the vanity doesn't take up that whole wall like it did before. There is some space on either side of it to make the room seem a little bigger. And we did exchange our two sinks for only one (you think we're crazy :)), but we both agreed that we always used just one anyway, and this would give more counter space and keep us from having to get a vanity that took up the whole room. It has worked well.

And here is one to show how Wayne did the tile in the shower...we love it. I enjoy having a clean tub (the one he took out was the original 1939 tub, we realized)!

 Here are some pictures of the nursery. I did all of this the week that they were in NC with Mike and Peggy.

 It's pretty simple, I think.

 It's just a combination of brown, white, light blue, navy blue, and airplane stuff. There is a little red in the room, too.

 I don't think I've said anything about baby's name on the blog, but mostly everyone knows by now...it's Hank! The girls say baby Hank, of course. And his middle name will be Michael.

 Can't wait to put a newborn baby in that crib!

And from Erin letting me look at her yard sale clothes a while back, and several gifts from the baby shower, we definitely have enough clothes for him :) Yes, we are ready!