New Phone

Last week my phone broke in two. So I bought a new phone and all is good. In fact, all is great! I got an iPhone just like Matt, so he is teaching me about all of the fun things it can do.

I do not have a picture of the phone, but I can show you my background of the phone...

This is what I see each time I turn on my phone :)

Love it!

Grace is 3 weeks old!

Grace turns 3 weeks old today. There have been some requests of more pictures of her on the blog.

We got some pictures during bath time last night.

Cuddling with Mommy.

I love this picture.

Math Problem

Flip open cell phone + concrete porch floor = cell phone that is two pieces!

I will be out of communication with the outside world till this evening when Matt and I will be getting me a new phone. Which is kind of funny because we were planning on getting one for me tonight anyway.

Visitors

This message has been brought to you by: GRACE!
I am sure that many of the following messages are also going to be on the same topic, but here is one that is about some special visitors that have come by to see her.

This is a rare occasion, Grace wide eyed and happy at the same time (while not being in somebodies arms). I thought it was a great pic.

Another quick family photo.

And finally the visitors. Grace's grandparents from TN came for the week. Above is Grandma Sue loving on her, while below is Grandpa Steve relaxing with her.

I guess they must have thought her quite a gift for they brought her a stocking of her own and placed her under the tree :)It has been a fun week of introducing the family members to Grace!

Christmas Greetings

Merry Christmas from the Daniels Family....
Wait, someone else wants to be added into this greeting...Merry Christmas from all three of us.

Matt, Lana, and Grace

MOUSE!

Now typically I would be yelling and screaming and running around if I saw a mouse in my house...

But this has to be the cutest little Christmas mouse ever.


Check out that tail!
Merry Christmas to all

Home

We have been in the hospital since Friday morning at about 5:00 am so when Monday about 3:00 pm came and we finally were able to leave the hospital it was such a great feeling.

Here is a short version of the past few days events:

Friday 12/18
- water broke at 3:30 am
- Amy and Dad quickly got in the car to drive from Harrisonburg to Roanoke so that Amy could be with us.
- Admitted to the hospital
- Nothing happening...absolutely NOTHING!
- 11:00 am started getting Pitocin to start labor
- From 1:00 pm on Friday to 2:45 am Saturday hard labor with contractions coming about 2-3 minutes apart the whole time. :(

Saturday 12/19
- 2:45 am got an epidural
- Had a 2 hour nap...Heavenly!
- Woke up feeling GREAT! I am learning that epidurals are nice (especially after 14 hours of contractions...)
- After 30 minutes of pushing....
- Grace arrived at 10:21 am


Mom, Dad and Baby are all doing fine....
But we had to stay in the hospital so long because it was so long between when my water broke to when delivery happened. So monitoring had to take place.

The important thing is that now we are home, happy and learning how to do this parent thing :)