Pool Fun???

When my family was in town for Eva's blessing my brother and his family went with Avery and I to the rec center pool to swim. As any normal family, we wanted to take a few pictures.....well Avery has this camera obsession that is so annoying and so stupid! Here are the best ones we got at the pool. Then we have some of her with Grandma and Grandpa Gray with the other grandkids..... I really want to get family pictures done of us with our two daughters now, but not until she gets over this thing with cameras!

Eva's 2 month picture

We are doing the same thing we did with Avery, by taking a picture of her each month to see her growth over her first year. It was so fun with Avery to see how she changed in each month, so we wanted to do the same with Eva.

Eva's Baby Blessing

We blessed Eva on July 31st, it was so nice, and all our family was here for her day except my brother Richie couldn't make it. After church we had a waffle bar at our house full of sugary toppings for our awesome waffles! Super yummy and it was fun to have ALL the cousins from both Brandon's side and my side together! My brother Jeff and his family came too and it was so fun to spend time with them. Shelby who is 1, had fun swimming with Avery at the rec center on Saturday and kissing baby Eva. I loved having my family here! My mom is staying with me for the next couple weeks to help out and be with me, Brandon will be in and out of town for the next few weekends so that will be great to have her here as I am still adjusting to having two kids.

Avery turns 2!

Avery turned two on July 24! Yay she is officially a toddler! She can say most words...her favorites being thunder cloud, firefighter truck, elmo, doctor, and many more!! She is so smart and she is just getting to be so much fun despite her terrible two tantrums! hahaha For her b-day we had all our family over for a bbq and even my parents were here too! Avery got a lot of books, a doll, a pop up toy, a radioflyer tricycle, wooden puzzle train and some other toys! Brandon and I got her a play kitchen and she loves it! She likes to pour us drinks from the coffee pot it came with and make us pie and pizza! Its so fun to see her have an imagination and play.

Uncle Richie

My parents came 2 weeks ago for a visit and to meet their new granddaughter, but before they got here my brother Richie and his fiance Katie came to see us.... and let me say Avery LOVES her Uncle Richie! She went and sat on his lap and gave him high fives and hugs right away and wasn't even timid. He took her out front to play in the water and was running around with her in the sprinkler. It was soooo cute and fun to see them play! I only got a couple pictures because Avery has this weird thing right now with cameras and if she see s one she HAS to have it and will scream bloody murder and cry forever so we try to aviod that fight. So I didn't get any pictures of my parents with her on my camera, I'll have to get them from dad later....but for now here are these.

More of Eva

Little Eva is doing so great! We think she is soooo cute and we love her so much especially Avery! She is always looking for "baby" as she calls her and she has to be with us at all times! Its so cute and I couldn't be happier that she loves having the new baby at home, since it was my biggest fear of having another baby! She has gained a full 2 pounds in her first 3 weeks of life- well almost a month now, but she is so healthy and eating great. She is very calm and is happy!

Eva

Eva B. Luke was born on June 17 at 3:40 AM, she weighed 6 lbs 4 oz and 18 1/4 inches long. My water broke at home the night of the 16th at 8 pm. I was just waiting for dinner to get out of the oven and was playing on the computer when all of a sudden it broke and I quietly shut down the computer and oven and thought "here we go" and called downstairs for Brandon. I had most of my bag packed for the hospital so we just pretty much left after his mom got here for the night. We had already put Avery to bed so it was an easy out for us. After getting checked in at the hospital and waiting to dilate more ( I was at a 4 when I went in) I got an epidural around 11 pm, and it was great! I thought wow one little needle poke isnt that bad compared to the amounts of pressure and pain that would get worse! So we just waited and tried to sleep a little. At about 3:15 I was feeling a ton of pressure and some sharp pains so I called for the nurse and she said I was ready to go. Then the doctor and nurses came in and got all set up and I was so excited to get this baby out because I had been in so much pain for months with the pregnancy- plus I was SO hungry, I was too nervous to eat dinner before we left. We pushed 3 times with each contraction- I pushed through 3 sets, so maybe 10 times total and at 3:40 am here came little Eva!! When I looked down and saw her I thought she was so tiny!! And she was, at only 6.4 lbs. They got her all cleaned up after I held her for a minute and then gave her back. We compared all her features to Avery and we think she is so cute!! Its so weird to think now we are a family of 4!!! CRAZY!!!