Home!

We got home from the hospital around noon yesterday and everyone is doing good. Here are some pictures from yesterday....

Introducing,...

Our new little daughter - Jorja Lynn.

We were scheduled to have our c-section today at 7:30am, but she was a little too impatient to wait! My water broke Wednesday night at 11pm. We were at the hospital a little after midnight and she was born at 1:50am. 7 pounds, 9 oz's - 21 inches. lots of dark hair and a loud set of lungs!

We are both doing good and expect to head home sometime tomorrow.

We'll post more information and pictures later, but just wanted to send out a quick introduction!

Updates...

I've been slacking on the posts lately...just been busy and trying to get ready for this baby #2 that is on its way THIS WEEK!

A couple saturdays ago, Geoff and Jerra washed cars...I thought it was too cute!

And Jerra's Godfather Case came in town for a visit...
Poppy Bill and Becky also came in town for a visit...


And we had our landscaping redone!




For those that follow our family thru our blog and don't live in texas...this has been a record breaking summer as far as the heat goes! It has been over 100 for weeks and we have been miserable! Especially me! 3rd trimester and 100+ weather do not mix! We spend most of our days indoors, only venturing out in the early morning hours or after dinner (when its still close to 100). I feel a bit stir-crazy most days, its even too hot to just go and run errands. And I have been running out of ideas to keep J entertained.

Baby #2 comes this week, as mentioned above. We are scheduled for a c-section on Friday July 10th at 7:30am. I will post updates and pictures just as soon as I can. I am going to have Geoff bring me the laptop at some point in time while at the hospital, so hopefully I will be able to post this weekend. We are ready to meet our new addition and maybe a little bit nervous at the same time.

Froggy!

the other day, J was out swimming in her "froggy pool" in our front yard... When something caught her eye a few yards away...

What do you see JJ??...
A real life froggy!!!

So, we had to run in and get daddy to get him out for us!
Louis, you should have been there!

Bounce, bounce, bounce

typically on friday mornings I take Jerra to a place here in town called "the bounce." Its basically a huge room filled with bounce houses and friday mornings are what they designate as toddler time. So she runs around to different bounce houses with other little kids and just has a blast. (plus, it wears her out which is good for me at nap time!)

This past weekend, our neighbors bought a trampoline and Jerra was right at home! She bounced and bounced all weekend!

AYC - our magazine

Check out our magazine's Blog - the link is to the right in my blog list. I will be doing my best to updating it on a regular basis...adding the articles that are published during the month as well as spotlighting some of our great customers! We have seen AYC grow more than we could have imagined in the last 6 months and are very excited about our future!

This is our June cover:

Updated Family Pictures...

I find myself constantly the one behind the camera, taking the pictures...which is fine by me, I enjoy it...but it does present the problem that I am never in the pictures. So, my kids will always have tons of pictures of themselves growing up and their daddy, with very few ones of mommy in the mix.

With baby #2 only weeks away, I wanted to try and get some updated pictures of just the 3 of us before we become 4. It's not so easy to convince a husband that we need to pay someone else to take our pictures when people pay me to take pictures all the time! But he went with it and was a very good sport.

I have to admit, 2 year olds are the most difficult age group to photograph - they have very short attention spans, don't follow directions well and just want to do pretty much anything other than look at the camera - especially when mom is behind the camera. Jerra did really well during our photo shoot and I am very pleased with the outcome! (other than I wish I had them done before I started showing! I am 30 weeks here. Oh, well!) thanks to Sarah Giles at Butterfly Chaser Photography for capturing my family!

slip n slide

yep, jerra loves swimming...she apparently loves the slip n slide as well!

Happy Birthday!

We decided to have a little birthday celebration after dinner for J's new cousin! We sang Happy Birthday to Gavin and Jerra blew out the candle for him. It was the best way we could celebrate since we can't be with them. And it doesn't hurt that J loves her some cake!

Welcome!

We would like to welcome the newest member of our family - Geoff's sister and husband, Kristin and Tim, had their 1st baby this morning.
Introducing Gavin John! Jerra is a big cousin now!
8#13oz and 20 inches long. They live in Michigan, so it will be a couple months before we can meet him in person, but we are so excited for them! Congrats!!!

Swim Lessons

Today was the 1st day of swim lessons and Jerra loved it! We expected as much. She did such a good job, kicking and paddling, blowing bubbles and putting her head under water. She is going to love the next couple weeks and we can't wait to take her up to Nana/Papa's house to show off what she has learned at their pool.