Just the 3 of us

The night before at the hospital (4 days past due)

Minutes old....proud daddy

Minutes old....proud mommy

Our new family

(BTW - i was looking through my pics and realized we really didn't get a good pic at the hospital. I'll have to have the make sure we have a good one next in March!)

A crazy comparison!

Strummer 2 days old...and...Strummer 368 days old!

I noticed today when I put Strummer's bib on that you can really tell how much he has grown in the past year. Thanks for the bib Trisha!

PS ~ he has a weird look on his face, b/c i took the pic after he was done eating since I didn't get it while he was eating. He really didn't want it back on and kept on taking it off :P

A Day out with Sondra and Amelia

A few weeks ago Strummer and I spent the day w/Sondra and Amelia. We met at the Samp's house, loaded up Sondra's car and headed off to Des Moines! First Stop ~ Babies R Us. Where we both bought some things for Strummer and Amelia. Neither Sondra nor I know the sex of our 2nd babies, so we couldn't buy anything for baby #2 (all though, very tempting, since I saw a REALLY cute girl guitar shirt on clearance....hee-hee-hee)

Next stop was FOOD! We went to the Olive Garden where we both ordered the soup, salad and breadsticks lunch. it was DELICIOUS. Strummer and Amelia had their 'first date' of eating oyster crackers, gold fish and breadsticks. It was nice eating w/a fellow prego b/c then I didn't feel so bad about eating so much! :P

Our last stop was the mall. This is where the kids had the most fun. We both had them in their individual strollers and they kept on looking at each other, laughing and trying to grab each others hands. They were not only entertaining for us to watch, but also for other mall-goers that were around us. It was a successful shopping trip! We both found clothes for our kids and for ourselves! (We both bought some new maternity wear!) We ended the day by going to Cookies Etc and buying some cookies!!!

Here are some pics and videos of the day.












The kids were talking to each other while we were waiting for Sondra to get the rest of her things from the house.



This is just the first time they did this. They also were trying to hold hands and giggling the entire time we were in JCPenny looking at clothes for ourselves. :D