Happy Anni to Us

 

• 1000 trips
• 1 condo sold
• 2 kids
• 1 house bought
• 0 $$$ in our bank account
• 9 years

Happy Anni to Us.

P.S.  We don't have internet and school and dance started.  So, we fell of the face off the earth for a while.

We have a beautiful baby!

 After much trial and traumatic tribulation,
 we finally convinced our baby to join us!

 

I'll spare you the details because, let's face it, I wouldn't want to hear them, but suffice it to say, delivery was rough.  It wasn't quite Breaking Dawn, but it was close.  I couldn't even hold our perfect baby until the next day.  Lots of blood and guts.  Lots of labor (15 hours), lots of recovery still ahead.  Ouch!

Thank heaven I had some awesome designer hospital gowns to make me feel a little better.

 Annie was a trooper.  Q and I went in @ 9:00 am.  Annie arrived about 6 pm, but we still didn't have the baby until after 11 pm.  Even then, baby and I had to get patched up for over an hour after delivery so Annie didn't get to meet the new baby until after 1 am.

 Introducing: VIOLET PAULINE HADLEY

We are once again shocked to be bringing a girl home to a room full of blue!

Violet isn't even a name we carried in our back pockets, but Violet it is.  7.3 and 20 inches.

 Violet was born 6.26.2012 but I was basically delirious and outright hammered for a while so we didn't grab this photo until the next night.  Q has a house full of girls to protect now.  We are so excited!  Quite a bit of recovery ahead, but we are heading home within the hour. Good luck to us and plenty of photos to come but for now we wanted to post at least something since we've been so secluded (and sedated) these last 3 days.

Love you all and thank you for your prayers.

We really couldn't have made it to today without them!