Bella's 1st time at the lake!

We went to the lake this weekend with Bella for the first time, it was awesome! So much fun. She said she loved it :) We went down to the village with Mike, Kristin, Dan and Colin for the Balloon Fest..it was alot of fun..awesome weather!

Happy Anniversary!!!!

Today is our 5th anniversary and the best gift i could (n)ever have imagined is we are taking our daughter to the lake for the first time! I am seriously so excited! Plus we haven't been there in forever, or so it seems. Tomorrow we're going to the Adirondack Balloon Festival, should be awesome!

Here are some new pics, Enjoy!! I'll have ALOT more after this weekend!

Bella's First Bath and Meeting her Aunties!

Our Baby Shower!

Bella and I had our baby shower yesterday and it was AWESOME. Nothing different from any other baby shower, we all agree there is nothing overly exciting about any type of shower but for me it was one more thing to help convince me of the reality that i DO have a baby now. Even though I see her and hold her every day it's still hard to believe at times.
When Jamie and I were still in NC i told him how I pictured driving home with Bella for the first time and "It's a Girl" balloons would be hanging out in front of our house, in my mind that's what happens when people come home from the hospital for the first time with their baby. Does it really happen? I don't know but it does in the movies, lol. Anyway no balloons when we came home, of course not, Jamie was with me and our families do not live close by, no biggie. So the day of the shower I go to get my hair cut, i'm driving home, turn down my street and I can see beautiful shiny balloons swaying outside my house. Seriously the smile on my face was so huge, I could have cried (first of many times that day!).




















About 20 minutes later I'm in my room changing Bella when out of the corner of my eye I see my shiny pink balloons float away!!! haha..I was sooo upset I yelled "my balloons are flying away!"...the next thing I see is Jamie getting in the car. About 15 minutes later he comes home with new It's a Girl balloons. I'm not sure he knows how much that meant to me, I know it seems so simple, it's usually the smallest details that are so important and for me that was huge.

The shower was great. The weather was awesome. I had a great time seeing everyone and them meeting Bella for the first time. I have waited and dreamed of this day for so long and honestly it was a bonus having Bella there vs being pregnant, I absolutely loved it. We received so many awesome gifts, two won the Tear Jerker Award! lol

My Aunt Annie knew I wanted to remember this whole journey so she printed my blog and made it into a book...YUP, tear jerker! I absolutely love it!

How she found this, i have no idea. Mel, this is so awesome!!

Night Time Creatures

i'm holding a crazed little monster in my arms and have 2 little fur balls circling my ankles like sharks...it's 445 and it's feeding time

09/01/08 HOME SWEET HOME

Wow, we're home with our daughter, totally amazing..and unreal. Actually it's quite real as i sit here trying to type one handed!lol
Our drive home yesterday was very uneventful, we got home about 10pm. Today we unpacked and did some errands. Jamie has to go back to work tomorrow, so i'm on my own. We wish his "paternity leave" could start now and we could all just hang out at home together but it's been long enough and he needs to go back. You would actually think after spending almost 2.5 straight weeks together we'd be sick of each other but thankfully we're not!!

I know I owe so many phone calls, I'm so sorry. When we were down in NC there was always so much going on. And like I said today was just us trying to get back to normal and get food in the house :)

Time for bed...Miss Bella's favorite time of day is 2am-4am...straight :)