Here she is

The long awaited arrival of our daughter has come. Avery Grace Stone was born to us on September 26th, 2007 at 7:37am. She was 7lb 5oz at birth and 20.5in long. We came home from the hospital on Friday. Here is a sample of some of the pictures we've taken.

Sofia Mae is here:-)

We were so excited to meet my new little cousin(I know it sounds weird!) Sofia Mae Andrade today. She was born early this morning (9/09) her due date and weighed in at 7lbs 14oz

Here is the new little family!
Sofia was sleeping the whole time we were there. She is such a cute baby! Gavin and I both enjoyed holding her and it truly made us both so so excited about Avery coming! It's going to be so hard to wait now! We're very happy for Lisa and Felipe, luckily Lisa had a fairly smooth delivery, so I was not too scared off by her story. Hopefully I will be lucky enough to have such a nice experience with my own. Congrats again guys!

More Baby Showers!

This past Saturday night, Gigi and Matt threw us a Jack and Jill shower/BBQ. It was really nice to make it a co-ed event. We had a great time, a great meal, and got some great gifts for Avery! We appreciate everyones generosity, we cannot wait to use everything with Avery. Also thanks to Gigi and Matt for hosting the event. We really had a great time. Don't mind the lack of pictures with me in them, I am now realizing how fat my face has gotten toward the end of pregnancy...oh well! While we were at the party, we also learned that Lisa was on her way into the hospital to have little Sofia! It made it much more real for us that our little baby is not too far behind!!

Avery's room

We've been working a lot on putting together a nice baby room for Avery and I think we have definitely succeeded. I would go as far to say that she has the nicest room in the house now! We've had a good time putting it together and cannot wait for her to be in it! The shelf in the shape of a doll house my Dad built for Avery, it looks so nice. Pictures below-

We've been nesting.....

We've been doing lots of things lately in preparation for Avery's arrival! Last weekend, Gavin and I spent lots of time cleaning out closets and getting rid of clutter, wiping out cabinets, organizing, all kinds of fun stuff like that. Since then we have been trying to do our best to just maintain the cleanliness we achieved so we don't have to do such a heavy duty job before we bring Avery home. Gavin also took on a new project of tearing up the linoleum in our first level (entry way, office, and small bathroom) and replacing it with tile. He has become quite the tiler and did an awesome job! We also put in a new toilet and sink in the bathroom and painted it. No matter what complaints I hear, I think Gavin truly enjoys all of these little projects since he always has something else in mind coming up. Below are some pictures of the new tile and bathroom work.

Baby Shower!

I never really got to posting anything from my baby shower thrown by my Mom back in July and since I have now had 2 more, I figured it was about time!! We had a great cookout with lots of friends and family. Avery was very spoiled, we received lots of great gifts. We truly appreciate everyone's generosity. If anyone has already been to my Mom's blog, they saw the awesome baby cupcakes that my Mom and Deidre and Nicole created. My Mom always goes to great lengths to make things very nice for me and her efforts do not go unappreciated! Also pictured is the awesome diaper cake that Lisa made for Avery, I thought it was pretty creative!