Long time no blog!

So I've been wanting to blog again for so long now, but life gets a bit busier when you have a baby around! I want to keep doing this because it will be so great to have a journal of our lives to look back on, and also hopefully our families will still enjoy keeping up with what is going on with us. There is no way to write about everything that has happened in the last 4 months, but I will hit some of the highlights! Life is a bit crazier now, but we are loving Reese so much and she is a lot of fun. I absolutely cannot believe she is almost 5 months old! It is ridiculous how fast time flies by and we are trying to enjoy every moment.

We got to go to a Buffalo Bisons (minor league baseball) game and I was so excited. A friend from church was playing in a band before the game and he got us free tickets. It was fun and Reese enjoyed her first baseball game!

We have been loving all the warm weather we have had so far, and we love to sit out on our balcony.

Reese is really starting to love her jumparoo! (Thanks to Jennifer and Alex for lending it to us!)

In June we had Reese's dedication at Restoration Church. It was a really special time where we committed ourselves to raising Reese well and to teach her and show her Jesus in our lives, and the church family committed to praying for us and supporting us in that.

As you can see she screamed during the entire prayer... bless her little heart, she was sick that day, had a fever, and didn't feel well at all. She never cries during church and they always say she is perfect in the nursery, so of all mornings to have her dedication this was probably not the best one! She actually projectile vomited in the car on the way to church ALL OVER her dress and I (first time parent) did not bring a back up - yikes. So when we got there, I stripped her down and my great friend Gina (Pastor Dan's wife) took her dress to the bathroom and washed it out in the sink and dried it under the hand dryer! It all worked out in the end, but it was a bit of a stressful morning!

Here is our little fam after church:

On Wes's first Father's Day he just wanted the three of us to go to dinner, so we walked down to a restaurant at the end of our street and ate at their outside tables because it was a great evening.

Bathtime is so much fun with all her hair to play with!

June 26th was our 10 year dating anniversary! So we decided to go spend the day in Erie, PA so we could eat at Chick-fil-a! We had a fun day walking around the mall and then a delicious supper at Chick-fil-a. Wes surprised me with flowers he had ordered and had delivered there - it was so sweet!!

Reese wore her Auburn outfit in honor of where it all began 10 years ago!

Wes has been playing a good bit recently, and Reese and I are his groupies. Here he is playing at a really cute coffee place outside on July 3rd.

We walked to Delaware Park one beautiful day recently and enjoyed sitting by the lake for a while.

Reese had her first pigtails at 4.5 months old! Can you even believe it?! It's the cutest thing ever.

And I will leave you with a picture of the most beautiful little baby girl in the world.

Finally...

Well, finally ONE MONTH LATER, I am getting a chance to announce on the blog that Reese is here! Of course, I'm sure if you're reading this you already knew that. Anyway, after 30 hours of labor and an unplanned C-section, Reese Karley Walters was born on February 20, 2010! And she weighed 8 pounds 12.5 ounces - much bigger than we expected!

Here we are in the hospital, still pretty early in the day on the 19th:

And here she is, just moments after she was born, holding her daddy's finger:

I can't believe I'm putting this on here, but here is our first family photo shortly after the C-section (my husband did not tell me I still had the lovely cap on my head):

Just born in Buffalo:

All dressed and ready to go home in the pretty dress and bracelet from Gram:

First time in the car seat:

Napping with Daddy. So sweet.

Me with my mom, sister, niece Rylie, and of course Reese:

Just after her first bath. Can't you tell she loved it?!

Reese with her cousins Rylie and Bailey:

Looking at Daddy:

I cannot believe she is now one month old!! Hopefully I will be able to update more often now. We are taking so many pictures and she is already changing a lot, so I will try my best!

The Nursery is Finally Complete!

Well, here we are - one week until the due date! I just can't believe it. Wes and I finally got the nursery all done this past week and we are pretty happy with it. We have all our family and friends to thank for being able to furnish this nursery with everything Reese needs and everything we wanted to make it cute!

As you can probably tell from the pictures, the bedrooms in our house are extremely tiny, so we really wondered how we were going to fit everything in here and have enough storage for all the clothes, blankets, supplies, etc. Somehow we made it work! Hope you enjoy the pics!

This is taken from the doorway into the nursery: (it looks sort of like we have mint green blinds in this window, but that is just the house next door)

The changing table our friends Jennifer and Alex are letting us use. Great to have and great for storage underneath. The beautiful painting above it was painted and given to us by a dear friend in Nashville, Chanda. She gave it to us when we moved from Nashville because I loved it so much - little did I know it would end up in our daughter's room! It looks so great in here with the flowers and the pinks and greens. The words in the background are Galatians 6:8-9.

The doll on the left I got at my Buffalo shower was handmade by a friend here, Stacy. The bunny on the right was handmade by Nana (Wes's mom).

The frames are her initials, RW.

The "Reese" was made and painted by Aunt Ashley (my sister) and matches perfectly.