Sunday best

Anna dressed up for her first Sunday at church...she was a hit, although she slept the entire time.

We have plenty to praise God for; a wonderful church family

Fun visitors

Last Friday my best friend Mindy came to visit with her son Zane, 11mo.  Maria had fun playing with him, especially now that he is a mobile one.  She brought a delicious meal and we had a great time catching up as the 3 kiddos slept, yes, all three at the same time!  

Saturday we also had visitors.  Larry's childhood friend Matthew and his wife Terra, with their kids Peter and Thomas...but I unfortunately forgot to break out the camera.  Maria had a blast playing with Peter, who is just a couple weeks younger than her and Thomas, who is around 7 months old.  

We have plenty to praise God for; good friends.

reading lessons

Maria likes to read to Anna,...don't mind that Anna was asleep the whole time...she learns best that way!

We have plenty to praise God for; a loving big sister.

Our Sweetheart

We love when she makes her cute smiling faces during sleep!
tiny hands
so peaceful

Birthday boy

We love you Trey, have a great 8th birthday!

and Happy 1st birthday Charlotte-Amelie!

grocery store

"I going to grocery store" as Maria often says. Maria has recently started "shopping" in the kitchen, I mean grocery store. She will load up her basket and then bring it into the living room and line it up on the floor or maybe the couch. But today Daddy was the recipient of the groceries right on his lap. She has a fun time going through all the stuff telling us what it is and pretending to eat it.

Larry also took Maria to the grocery for a few things the other day and he said she was "helping" shop by putting random things in the cart, a head of cauliflower, some broccoli, and cabbage.  Hey at least she was putting vegetables and not boxes of cookies!

We have plenty to praise God for; a girl who can use her imagination.

Firsts

Maria helping to give Anna her first bath at home.

She actually didn't scream until the very end...she was pretty content while we washed her, it was the lotion that did her in!

some visitors

G-G (great Grandma)

Grandpa Unger

Doesn't she look like she is thinking about something deep?

Aunt Michele

Uncle Ryan, Aunt Lisa and Cousin Easton

We have plenty to praise God for; loving family.

Quilted Love

My mom has become quite the quilter...and we have become the beneficiaries much to our delight. She made a quilt for our bed a while back and one for Maria at birth. Now she has made another for Maria, the one with the dolls. It even has doll clothes to dress the dolls on the quilt. The green/pink flowered quilt is Anna's birth quilt, which hangs in her room as decoration.

We have plenty to praise God for; talented grandma's who spoil their grandkids!

Today was D-day

Yep, today was the original due date...but our sweetheart has already arrived...here are some more pictures. 

*Edited to add: Larry's sister was due yesterday, but her newest blessing arrived today.  Zachariah David 7lb 1oz 19" at 10:21pm.  Here is a sneak peak at our newest nephew and the rest are of Anna.  What fun to have two cousins so close in age once again.  (Maria and their first son Joshua are only 6 weeks apart!)  Congratulations Emily, Justin and Joshua!

Grandma Saunders

Grandpa Saunders

Going home outfit...i'm swimming even in this newborn size! It has duckies on it, just like Maria's did.

Happy Mom and Dad heading home with baby.

We have plenty to praise God for; a healthy new daughter to add to our family.

Pigtail envy

My friend Lee had posted some pictures of her little girl in pigtails. I was jealous, the last time I had tried Maria's in pigtails she had too many loose hairs to make it work...so I thought, let's try again...and sure enough it was long enough...so we are over our pigtail envy and have a new way to do Maria's hair.
We have plenty to praise God for; pigtails...it sure is the little things in life that make me happy!

First fruits

Yum, Yum, Strawberry Shortcake here we come!
We have plenty to praise God for; strawberries from our garden!

sister love

Maria was singing to Anna, it was so precious!

Happy Anniversary Honey

Our wedding day

One year

Two years

Three years

4 years today and I couldn't be happier!

We(I) have plenty to praise God for; the joy of marriage to a wonderful, loving, caring, intelligent, patient, understanding, and honorable man.

more of Anna

Anna Elizabeth

7lb 8oz 20 inches
9:14 am

She has a little bit of dark hair and blue eyes.

She is named after her grandmother's. Ann is Grandma Unger's middle name and Elizabeth is Grandma Saunder's middle name.

I was having some stronger contractions last night and thought we might be heading to the hospital sometime during the night. I went to bed and was up and down several times, but until about 4 in the morning I was able to sleep. I got up and was dealing with contractions and talked to the doctor, who told me to head to the hospital if they were 5 minutes apart or meet at the office at 8:20 for him to check me. I originally had a 9:10 appointment anyway, which ironically was the case with Maria too. I had her on a Friday morning and had an appt. scheduled that day too. So, anyway, I decided that at about 6:15 I better call my mom and have her start to head this way. We ended up leaving for the hospital at about 8, after dropping Maria off at the neighbor's to stay until mom could come get her. On the way to the hospital I had to remind Larry that he could go a tad faster, since I was in labor! When we got to the hospital I told Larry that he had better get a wheelchair since I didn't think I could walk the whole way to OB. Then they made up go through registration, much to our frustration as we were supposed to be preregistered. Someone from OB came to get me and when we got back and I was checked I was already at about 9 1/2...so they called my doctor and he started to make his way over. We were in the labor room settled at about 8:20 and by 9:14 I was looking at my beautiful new daughter. It's a good thing this hospital was closer than where I delivered Maria, because if I had been trying to break my labor record I did it!
She seems to be a healthy little girl, hungry and tired too. Dad is holding her now as he calls to share the good news. I think I am ready for a little nap!
We have plenty to praise God for; a second beautiful daughter!

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