Christmas is coming!!! :D :D :D


Well, it's seriously been over six months since I've posted on my blog, and in that time, we had our sweet baby Jane, celebrated our first Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year in our home, and have been adoring watch our little babies grow. Since it's taken me forever to finally get to this, I'm just going to put up a bunch of pictures from the last 6 months and put some captions on them here and there, and then I'll hopefully post again sooner! :)

We're so excited to be planning the next few months of work around the house. We're going to get the exterior painted, hopefully get a swing set for the girls and plant some trees, berry bushes, and a larger garden than the one we did last year!


This is what I wrote after Jane was born:
This entire birthing experience has been so beautiful and miraculous, I'm so grateful! We are overjoyed and so happy to welcome Baby Jane into our family, and I love how much Lydia loves her already! I was having contractions all day yesterday, but at about 3:30pm they were about 5 minutes apart, and then got stronger and I could hardly walk, Jane was so low. We weren't quite sure if we should go to the hospital, but it was a good thing we did, because we arrived at 6:20 and Jane was born 27 minutes later! Mitch was overjoyed that she was born on Prime Day, 7/11/2017, all prime numbers!😀
I was able to give birth naturally without an epidural and there wasn't even time for an IV! It was a dream come true, with Lydia's birth, I was induced and it took 21 hours, 4 of which were pushing! ðŸ˜Œ My doctor, Dr. Russell, was amazing (thanks again for recommending her, @britney_stevens!). She was such an advocate for what I wanted and all the nurses were fantastic!
Though it was hard, I feel so much better this recovery and so thankful. We had an hour of skin to skin after birth and Jane is nursing great. My Mom took fantastic care of Lydia at our house while we were at the hospital, and now we are all at home and doing wonderfully! ❤️❤️❤️ 











First family picture!




















 

























On the ferry headed to Jetty Island 














Happy first Thanksgiving for Jane!!!




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