Ella June Glanville has finally arrived!

After almost 29 hours of natural labor she made her apperance on 9/20/09 at 7:12 pm. She was 7 lbs 1 ounce and 19 inches long and has a face full of expressions already. It's apparent that she has her daddys hair and ears, and the shape of my eyes and possibly my stuborness. (you got your wish mom I have a daughter just like me) The first week home has been a challenging one filled with sleepless nights, and concern over her jaundice. But we are happy to say that her jaundice is getting much better and Ben and I are getting more sleep because we are getting a schedule down. It's amazing that she has only been apart of this family a week and she already has us trained! It seems so unreal that she is here already. We are so in love with her! So is Baxter. Anytime she makes a peep he comes running up to make sure she is ok. Dont worry there will be more pics to come soon. The camera is always out ! So keep posted!

Only moments after she was born...

The family, back at home at last!

The view up our street, it's such a great place to live, clean and quiet...

Baxter loves having stairs and carpet, here he's seen reigning supreme over all his peons (Alyssa and Me)...

Heres a view of our small backyard and garage.

I've been experimenting with shooting through my 5" Parabolic telescope. This is the moon the other night, it's VERY difficult to shoot the moon accurately because a white object against a black sky almost always "washes out". Ben

Holy pregnant and tired!!!! Looks like Im about to fall over.

Here is a couple of photos of the completed nursery. Later on we might be adding a book shelf or a night stand but for now the room is complete. I think Ben and I have had our share of setting up the house and decorating. We are ready to take a break and put other tasks on hold. Well.... I am but Ben keeps adding things to his list of "To Dos". Ben did a great job adding the chair rail and painting. We were hoping to stain the rocking chair to match the rest of the furniture but I'm fine with it the way it is currently. Hopefully in just a few short weeks I will be sitting in that chair with Ella!

Here's our hummingbird. He's always hanging out by our front porch. We are going to get a few more feeders and see if we can get a flock of them around our house.