Hannah and Isabella

I sent Linds our favorite outfit with Hannah so this is a picture of Hannah and Isabella in the same outfit. I just can't wait to hold and love on her in person.

One week Old

Isabella turned one week old today. We think she is such a cutie! Hannah loves getting new pictures.

Isabella Vaughn Kerstetter

I am so excited to announce that my sister and her husband welcomed their first baby into the world yesterday, Isabella Vaughn Kerstetter. She weighed 7lbs 11 ounces and was 21 1/4' long. I can not wait to meet her. Hannah is very excited about her first cousin, "bella". She tries to say Isabella but it comes out Bella. Hannah was so cute last night. Hal had texted me my first picture and Hannah holds my phone and rocks and kisses her. We can not wait until December when we can hold and rock her in person plus give tons of kisses.
Hannah is finally feeling better. We are so thankful for all the prayers that were lifted up while she was sick. Monday and Tuesday were really scary but yesterday she perked up and today she ate her first meal since last Friday. Hopefully, by the end of the weekend we will all be well and ready for a normal week!

Our sick Baby

We had to take Hannah to the Emergency Room yesterday afternoon. She went to the clinic on Friday and was diagnosed with "flu like symptoms". Chris came home sick Friday night with the same thing. We thought she was feeling better on Sunday and then she crashed yesterday. We have struggled all weekend to get her to eat and drink and she just wouldn't do it. We have offered her every thing in the book and she says "no, I not want it" and pushes your hand or cup away.
They gave her some IV fluids yesterday, diagnosed her with H1N1, upper respiratory infection and dehydration. She is still pretty yucky today so please pray that she will drink and get better soon. It is taking it's toll on mommy and daddy. Thankfully, Chris has been here to help and even allow me to go to work for a couple of hours. We have an appointment at the clinic tomorrow morning to make sure she is doing better and does not need to more fluids from the hospital. We will keep you posted.

Slideshow

I was so excited to get the CD of pictures from our Abilene Going Away Party. I am sure you can tell that I was teary eyed in a lot of the pictures. We had such a good time that night! Thanks Jessica for sending the pictures!

Snow

Well, the snow is here. This week started with slushy snow, which was incredibly nasty and yucky. Then on Thursday it lightly snowed but by noon it was gone with sunshine. Today, it is snowy and the highs over the weekend are in the 20's with lows in the teens. I think it will be snowy all weekend. It is nuts. I can not believe it is the first of October and we are having snow. We will be going to Target this weekend to purchase our snow gear. I will try to take some pictures. I took a couple this afternoon but you can't really see the snow blowing around and right now it has not accumulated much on the ground.

On another note, not sure if all of you know that I have gone back to work. I accepted a part time position with Bethany Christian Services. They are a christian adoption agency providing counseling services to birthparents and assisting adoptive couples in becoming parents. I started last week and have already met 3 birthmoms. I am very excited for this new opportunity. Hannah is still adjusting to her new school but I think it will come with time.

Chris is here for now but still staying incredibly busy. We are hoping that he will not have to go on any more trips until deployment but there is one potential field trip to the desert next week. Never a dull moment here.

Happy Birthday Hannah!

I can not believe that Hannah turned 2 on Monday. I guess you say that every year but it just seems like yesterday that we were in MS having her first party. She has grown so much since then. Chris and I gave her a retro red kitchen. She loves it and goes downstairs to cook for us all the time. We gave it to her right after she woke up so not the best of pictures and she wasn't interested in looking at the camera. I was so glad that Chris was able to be home and we got to hang out all day.




I have never really been into character birthdays but Elmo is Hannah's favorite right now. She loves watching Sesame Street but mainly for Elmo's World. When I went to pick out the cake I decided that Hannah would love Elmo so we went with it. She kept saying, "elmo cake, elmo cake".
This is Maia and Hannah playing before the rest of the kids got to our house.

I love this picture. They are just now figuring out that they can be friends.

Hannah got all shy when we started to sing Happy Birthday. Even though she had asked me and Chris to sing it to her all day.

She blew the candle out by herself and did not scare us to death this year by grabbing at the lit flame!






This is a tired girl after a big day of partying!!

We had such a good time and were glad that our friends could come and celebrate with us. We missed our Texas friends and of course our family but it was a great day.