Our Sleeping Beauty

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Pulmonary Embolism

Can things really get worse?
Kelly has a PE. Spent the weekend inpatient - all the staff was so accomodating to letting Peter and the baby stay with Kelly while she was started on Heparin IV and oral Coumadin.

Photoshoot

Maggie had her first photoshoot with me the other day. We needed to get a birth announcement photo... of course none of these are the one. Keep looking in the mail for you own picture of our perfect baby!





P.S. My cankles went away! Let's hope the rest of the fluid goes away soon.

Changes

I was pretty swollen after the birth... Check out the cankles.

Freaked me out!!

This is Maggie in her "coming home" outfit...

Mum captured this adorable picture of her sleeping.

She's just so darn cute! She loves to sleep all cuddled up.

Dad and baby bonding...

Labor, Deliver and Beyond...

The joy of having a new little baby girl!!!

Dad looking quite tired after a long yet wonderful day.

Looks like Maggie's trying to give mom a kiss... AWWWWW!

Nana and little Maggie. She loves her Nana!

Daddy's little girl!

9+ months...

Ummmm, yes. This is me ( I KNOW I LOOK TIRED) very pregnant. Can not believe how large and uncomfortable I am these days. Today I bought some Breathe Right strips (on the advice of my BFF - Shontel, Shontel, Shontel) so Peter and I are hoping that we both won't be woken up by my snoring tonight!

P.S. I'll be 37 weeks on Wednesday.

Wisconsin Trip

We visited some friends from college last weekend. Although there was a wicked storm and it took 2 1/2 hours more than we anticipated it was definitely worth it!
Thanks for the fun time Williams' family!!!


Good thing Stephen and Nicki make beautiful boys (Soren and Sawyer pictured) - they are expecting their 4th this spring!!!

Baby Shower

A few of my girlfriends here in the Roch had a very beautiful baby shower for baby Maggie and I. It was so sweet of them!! Of course I received a lot of pink... Can't wait until she arrives and gets to wear and play with it all!

(and yes, my friend Kristi made that cake!! Yum.)

My sister and her youngest daughter Annaleigh came all the way from Iowa to attend. It was great to spend the weekend with them.

X Country Skiing

Pete went for a long ski in the beautiful snow on Monday. I was so jealous, but stayed home and rested my feet. It is wonderful to have trails right in our backyard!

Thanks to the 'rents!

Kelly's parents have showered us with love and generosity. The latest being this amazing jogger stroller that includes a car seat!!! Hurray. Now we are officially ready to come home from the hospital. If only we had the nursery even remotely ready. HA! The crib is still sitting in a box in the living room. Oh well. I'm sure the fairies will come and put it together for us...

Gourmet Club

Once a month we meet with these friends and share our love of cooking... well, we try recipes that we are forced to make. But it gives us a good excuse to get together and have fun. It usually ends up boyz in one room and girlz in another. Weird how we do that.

Bryan, Fred, Antolin, Pete (just look at my sexxy man!!!), Alex and Brian.

Emily, Valerie (pregnant), Cece (Grace - 3 months), Kristi (preggers), Marci and Kelly (hiding the humongous belly).

8 months strong and growing...

8 months and 1 week. It is going by so quickly!

Christmas Time is Here Again!

Since getting my new camera (Nikon D40 - love it!) we take hundreds of pictures at each occasion. We have so many pictures of Christmas I just don't know which ones to post. So here are a couple. We were able to get to Kelly's parents house for Christmas but had to leave on "Boxing Day" as Peter had to get back to work... It was nice to visit with the WHOLE Medhurst family. We hadn't all been together in 3 years. There were, of course, 3 new additions!!

Unfortunately we were unable to get to Georgia for any holiday festivities. Perhaps next year...

Here are Allie, Jack and Amanda playing with the old record player in the living room. After choosing the record they would dance around together. It was adorable!

The Leverentz girls on Christmas morn.

Silly Jack!

Yes that is Peter giving little Maggie (aka. big momma's belly) a Christmas kiss!

Growing...

I swear this little lady has grown SO much this weekend. It's crazy how she's now sticking out so far. These aren't the most flattering pictures (especially b/c you can see the ties from my pants through the shirt!) but are they ever flattering? Had I known that Peter was going to take a picture with my face in it I would not have washed my make up off. YIKES!

28 weeks and counting

Ain't she a beauty?

I personally like the deoderant on the black shirt - but belly pictures are few and far between in this house...

Thanksgiving

The Canadians came down to enjoy the American feast and shopping...

New Orleans

We went to New Orleans this past weekend.

We visited with Peter's brother Jonathan and his wife Sarah and went to Peter's friend Phip's wedding. It was quite the interesting time...

I love fall weather!

Although my foot is broken/fractured/whatever-it-is we just HAVE to get outside and enjoy the beautiful fall weather. You can see how baby Bailey is growing... and me along with her. Yikes!


The tree outside our back door: