Enjoying a Sunday breakfast at Panera!


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Sneak Peek Pictures

Today we had Ellie's pictures taken with Miss Trish. Here's a little peek!





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Ellie is ONE!

I can't believe our sweet little girl is one!! We celebrated with a trip to the zoo on her birthday. Her birthday was Wednesday....the day 18,000 people decided to attend the zoo. Despite the crowd we all had a good time! On Saturday we had a 'small' party with immediately family. I say 'small' because around here immediate family means 25 people. Ellie did surprisingly well and had a great time! Thank you to everyone that helped us celebrate!!!

Ellie's Invites

The Birthday Girl!

So proud of everyone singing to her!

With my parents

Steven's Parents

This year has flown by and we couldn't be more blessed to be Ellie's parents!

Make-up

This sweet little girl will sit and play with a container of make-up all morning. Love her!



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Hello!!

I'm sure I have very few followers left!!!! I could make lots of excuses for my lack of blogging but it doesn't really matter!!!

Life has been hectic and we are quickly approaching Ellie's first birthday...whoa!!! How'd that happen?!? Steven and I had a long discussion about her first party and we've decided to keep it small!!! With the JUST Ellie's grandparents, great-grandparents, aunts, and uncles our guest list is at 19 people....not including ourselves! We would love nothing more than to invite all of our HUGE extended family but we decided this was best at this point in her life!!! We will save the big extravagant parties for when she can remember them ;).

I promise to update more soon and with some sweet pictures of our growing girl!!!!

Here's the sweet thing opening valentines day gifts!!




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Location:N Meridian Ave,Oklahoma City,United States

May 7, 2011

On May 7, 2011 we will be walking to celebrate our sweet girl and the journey she faced to come into this world. We are super excited to be a part of the March of Dimes - March for Babies walk. We have experienced first hand the complications that can arise from being born too soon.

We have started a team to walk with our sweet girl and to work towards the goal that one day all babies will be born healthy!

We would LOVE for you to join are team or help out in any way possible. You can join or donate to our team by visiting HERE. I have set a personal goal of $250 and we have also set a team goal $1500! PLEASE join us on this special day and honor our Ellie and all of the babies that were born TOO SOON!!!

Ellie getting a little help breathing right after she was born.

3 days old....patiently waiting to hold my sweet baby.

Thank you all!

with love,

Can someone please tell me how the sweet thing below is 10 months old?!?!

I know I have lots to catch up on the blog. Ellie got very sick the Sunday before Christmas and it seems things have been a whirlwind ever since! Our poor girl had croup and the start of pneumonia...she VERY NARROWLY avoided spending her first Christmas in the hospital. After a strict regimen of two antibiotics, steroids, and breathing treatments every four hours she was on the mend and we got to enjoy Christmas as a family! I plan to sort through the millions of Christmas pictures this weekend and hopefully post some...of course only between all my 1st birthday party planning!

brand new!

first time to hold my sweet girl! I don't know that these have ever been posted. one of our fabulous nurses knew i was dying to get my hands on her. due to how sick ellie was i hadn't held her at all until she was over a week old. dad held her very little from the or to the regular nursery before she had to be admitted to the nicu. this was the night before she was extubated and was technically breaking the rules but we had a wonderful night nurse that called just after midnight that said she is awake get down here. i walked into the nicu and little did I know they had been preparing for our first holding session and i got to hold my sweet girl until 4 am when a new baby was arriving to the nicu and therefore i was kicked out! the next day she was extubated and everyone got to take their turn!!

FINALLY rooming in together 3 long weeks after ellie arrived in preparation for going home!

1st photo session with miss trish!

with love,