Happy Anniversary to US!

Today is our 3 year anniversary! Its been a crazy fun 3 years. We've moved into our 1st house, Justin won the State's Att election and moved home, we had our son Aydan, we had our daughter Emma, took many trips (1 being our 1st drive to FL).... but most of all we've had a wonderful 3 years of our marriage! I look forward to what we have in store for us in the years to come!

March 22, 2008

Photo Shoot Day

Emma had her 1st photo shoot today. She was a trooper with all the different posses and outfits I brought for her. Bethany had the studio nice and warm when we got there. She didn't sleep through it as much as I thought she would.. but that's ok, we got to see her big eyes in most of them.

So... of course we did...
*the knit cocoon and hat outfit, laying in a long bowl
*just the diaper on her yellow blanket with her name on it
*tried some close ups of her holding my finger, me clasping my hands around her feet, and my feet and her feet together
*her in a cute little dress outfit
*close up of her wearing sunglasses and a passy that said Supermodel, ha...  it should be cute, and prob a little too diva, ha
*little pink outfit with big pink bow in hair
*naked wrapped in a bowl with a pink blankie

The 2 hr session was a blast. With 2 feedings in that time to try to get her to sleep.
I can't wait to see the pictures. Beth posted 2 of them already on facebook for a preview for me.. and they look amazing! In a couple weeks, I get to see the rest of them.

Emma is 9 days old already!

Emma Jane is 9 days old already! That's why I haven't blogged much lately. My new life has consisted of feeding her and trying to sleep when I can... which to be honest is not much, but that's ok.. still love my little girl to death.
She is a very sweet little girl. She is a good baby and hardly cries... except when hungry : )
She has a lot of features from me... yay! My chin, my color, hair color, and face. She has her daddy's nose, just like her brother. She also looks a little like her brother when she has a hat on that completely covers her hair.
Its def been fun dressing her.. girl clothes are so much more fun! We went shopping today (our 1st outing) and I got her Easter dress... oh how cute.

Had to add this! Caught he smiling while sleeping, it was sooo cute!

She was sleep (of course), waiting to go to the hospital to re-take her hearing test.. which she passed, thankfully!

Big brother on the ground laying on the edge, so far.. he's a great big brother!

Our sweet little girl!

We took Aydan home yesterday from the hositpal. We had a good 1st night with her last night. She squeaks a little big and moves a lot while sleeping, but stays asleep. We got up twice to eat, the 2nd time once a great feeding, but overall I think she was such a good girl last night!!

My last picture pregnant with Emma

Emma Jane Hood

The 1st day she had a mohawk!

Hanging with her daddy.... snuggling

1st time Aydan sees Emma!!! What a moment! : )

My little princess getting ready to go home!

That's its for today... pretty tired still!

Emma is here!!

Emma Jane Hood was born on March 7, 2011 at 7:42 am. She weighed 8 lbs, 7 oz, and 19 1/2 in long. She has a full head of hair and it stood up like a mohawk the 1st day. She's the sweetest thing ever, and we all love her to pieces!
Aydan is a proud big brother. He smiled really big when he saw her! We'll see if that changes when she comes home with us!
I'll post more and some pictures when I go home tomorrow or Thursday.

Less than 15 hours!

Well in less than 15 hours we will have our little new bundle of joy! We're very excited... as is the rest of the family!
I will get a few pictures up as soon as I get home later in the week. My husband doesn't know how to use this thing and the hospital doens't have internet.

I hope everyone has a good week and I'll be seeing you later!!
(Sorry, have a lot more to do tonight before going to bed early!)

Love, the Hoods (to be family of 4!)

2 days!!

We're down to 2 days now!!

We had a nice family day. We went to the pancake breaksfast at the high school in town. We then took Aydan to see the new movie Rango. He didn't like it as much as we thought he might.. but he did like going to the "movies" and getting to get popcorn. We then went to dinner with Justins parents. We had an excellent steak dinner and some excellent strawberry cheesecake for dessert!!

Have some last minute things to do tomorrow before we go to the hosptial on Monday!

3 days!!!!

Well really.. only 2 days, because today is almost over.. and then 3 nights. We go in Monday morning at 5 am to start getting prepped for surgery.. which won't be until 7:30 am.

Today was a long day. I had to pre-cert reg at the hosptial today. I had to go through admitting, blood work, meet with the anestheisa doctor, and go through all the info/paper work with the maternity ward.
Then it was back to work (late because the hosptial took so long) for the afternoon. We got our very long art project I started done and I meet with my maternity leave teacher to go over late minute things.

We plan on relaxing and having some 3 person family time this week... until Monday when we become a 4 person family!