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.

Getting close...

Well... here it is. A new belly shot for those of you who like looking at pale beach ball size bellies. The last pic we took before this was about 31 weeks, and this photo here is the end of the 36th week. This week I will be 37 weeks. In case I have not updated any of you personally on the Ultrasound we had last week everything went well. Originally the MD sent me for a third US because he thought I was a bit small for the gestational period but Ella is proportionate, and looks healthy. The Ultrasound Tech said that it wouldn't be surprising if she was late by a week. So we are thinking she will make her apperance the end of Sept or beggining of Oct. Obviously Im hoping for Sept but I know she will come when she wants. I think I might have "dropped" this weekend because I can walk across the house without feeling short of breath now, and my pelvis and low back are EXTREMLY uncomfortable. Sorry no pic of the house or Ellas room yet. I haven't been much help to Ben with the finishing touches, not like he would let me help anyways. I've been sleeping like a champ all weekend. I took two naps today! But as soon as the room is complete I will take some pics and post them. And as soon as I can get into photoshop I will post some pics of our new friend the humming bird. He loves to hang out by our front porch. Anyways thats all for now. I'll try and keep you updated on the progress.

August 21,2009

Hey everyone! Thanks to Shannon I'm getting a grip on blogging and created a family blog to keep everyone updated on the all the new events in our life. And there will be alot of new events here in the next few months ;) Hopefully I can keep up with the site, and learn how to use it as Ben and I are kind of new to blogging. So for now postings will be brief and uneventfull while we are learning, and still setting up the house, preparing for baby. But I hope we will get lots of visitors, and I cant wait to start sharing photos with everyone once Ella arrives.