Little Ava Faith is Hungry

SOMEBODY PLEASE FEED ME!


AVA'S BEDROOM

Nanny Meets Ava

This is my mom, Hazel, who with my dad just arrived in England for a visit.

Our precious baby girl is here...

Ava Faith came into the world Jan 14th at 3:20 A.M weighing 7 lbs 12 oz. She measured 21 inches long and she is absolutely beautiful.

I got to the hospital and 5 1/2 hours later she was born.

She is so sweet and even though I can already tell she is a bit on the dramatic side (dont know where that comes from), she is a good baby.

We were blessed by God with a healthy little girl and we could not be happier:) Thank you everyone for your prayers throughout my pregnancy. Your prayers were answered.

I will be posting again quite soon since I have a little one who will be fun to write about but for now I must go and attend to her. Bye!

Am I in labor?

Seriously...am I in labor? How in the world do you know if you are in labor or not? Okay so I understand that giving birth is going to be painful and being in labor apparently is painful as well but how do you know when you should go to the hospital? This is the question I asked my lovely, helpful mother. Her ever so helpful response scared me more than not knowing. She had no idea she was in labor ever except with one of her five children and when she did finally know, she went to the hospital and had him fifteen minutes later. Not helpful. Very scary. She didn't even know when she was having contractions either. They had to tell her she was having contractions. Well the other day I went because I had a false alarm and thought my water broke. It turned out to be something else but as I was being checked they had me hooked up to the contraction machine. I don't know what the numbers mean but I went from 17 (resting and no contraction) to 77 and had no idea. Gregg was like, "Heidi do you feel that"? I calmly replied that no I did not feel anything and then after sitting and thinking about it I realized I did feel something but I would have never even noticed it had he not pointed it out. I AM MY MOTHER. So basically I guess I am never going to know when it is time to be at the hospital until it is too late. My husband is going to be the person delivering my baby. Wow that's just lovely. Lol seriously this is nuts. I guess I will be having my baby in my home. Yay!

Thank you!!!!

Hello:) I recently received a shower for my baby in the mail. My home congregation in Minnesota was very kind and generous in making sure my baby has all of her needs taken care of. I want to thank everyone for everything you have done for Gregg, Ava and I. We appreciate your kindness and generosity more than you know. We really are not lacking anything that we need for the baby. Thank you! It was so exciting getting the packages in the mail. Its hard being away from home but receiving packages from your loved ones back home sure does make it easier. We want to thank you all again for your kindness. Thank you Mom and dad, Tom and Sarina, Dawn and Jerrod, Jim and Susan, Dan and Linda, Mark and Mandy, Jim and Mary, Jennifer and Jason and Lindsay and Andy. Also, there are not pictures for these gifts but thank you Bill and Barb and Tom and Vicki for the gift cards. We are so thankful for everything! Thank you!!!!!!!

P.S. The first pic is just me pregnant at 37 weeks. I am very very ready.

SNOW in England

IT SNOWED! IT SNOWED IN ENGLAND. AND IT IS STICKING! Apparently its not very common for it to snow in England and its even more uncommon for it to stick to the ground and not immediately melt away. Well tonight it has been snowing for a few hours and its sticking. We hope it stays but we are not holding our breath. We went outside tonight and decided we should make a snowman and I absolutely loved our snowman so much that I decided to share him with you. We didn't have carrots or anything to really make him a snowman so we used a Cheetos chip for the nose and M&M's for the eyes and buttons. It works. He is our little British snowman:)

The most recent addition to Ava's room

Hello! OKay so the most recent thing we have added to Ava's room is her crib and this adorable decal I ordered off of etsy. The crib I have in the last posting is not her crib. That is just a stock photo off of the website I ordered the bedding from. This is her actual crib in her room with her bedding. I love it:) Gregg and I had to go through quite an ordeal to get the decal to stick to the wall but finally we got it. We almost gave up but eventually it worked. I am glad her room is finally coming together. I am still waiting for the rocking chair and I need to find some sort of shelving unit and wicker baskets for toys and storage but after that and some finishing touches with decorations I think we will be done. I cant wait to see what the finished product looks like:) I love it so far.