Leah Rae is finally here!

The Lord has blessed us with another baby girl. Leah Rae was born on February 19th at 11:51 pm by c-section. She weighed in at 7lbs 15oz and 20 inches. We are so excited and love her very much. Mom and baby are doing well. Jess is taking very good care of us and Annella loves her "baby Leah."

Beach Day

We have been having such great weather lately we decided to take advantage of it and spend some time at the beach. At 39 weeks pregnant it sure felt good to get some sun. I hope you like my enormous belly!

Christmas

We had fun on Christmas Eve walking Naples and looking at all of the Christmas decorations. Annella loves playing with her baby and her new lounge "chay," as she calls it. She also enjoys showing everyone her "button" and finding your belly button as well. She has quite a vocabulary, including a very enthusiastic "yeah!" and "peasey." We just love her she is so fun.
We had a very blessed Christmas, and we hope you all had one as well.

It's looking a lot like Christmas

We went Christmas Tree shopping in Nipomo. We cut down our tree, drank hot chocolate, Annella had her first roasted marshmallow, and road on the tractor.

Fall pictures

Here are some pictures of Halloween. Annella was a kangaroo and even had a little joey in her pouch. Isn't she so cute!


I am 24 weeks along now and feeling every bit of it. The baby moves all the time and my belly is really starting to show.





Her cousin Dustin was a lion.

















Annella and Ava.

























Cousin Katelyn

Annella learning guitar from Dad



Picking pumpkins at Summerset Farm in Los Olivos

Playing dress up with Grandma Mackie and Katelyn.

On August 25th Jess performed his first wedding for his good friend Chris and his new wife Luisa. I was so proud of him, he did a great job!

As most of you know we are starting a church here in the Santa Ynez Valley. Last Sunday was our first Sunday doing church. Afterwards, we went out for pizza and Annella was so tired she fell asleep right at the table on top of her pizza.

I just got Annella some new PJ's and as you can see, she was less than stoked about them at first, but by the end of the night she was contorting her body so that she give each orange fish a kiss before going to sleep.