Medytations

Friday, June 12, 2009

More Loving on Alana

"Aunt" Melissa loving on Alana

Sister Laughter loving on Crown Princess

"Auntie" loving on Crown Princess

Sister Rainbow loving on Crown Princess

Our Family

Here we all are at my cousin Jennifer's wedding last Saturday.
Reesa, Paul, Rayne, Alana, Cedar, Kole, and Michelle (with Tayan inside). We are in awe of God's blessings!

Our five blessings: Reesa, Rayne, Alana, Cedar, and Kole

The happy grandparents with all their grandkids!
Grandparents: Oma, Gramma, GoPa
Grandkids: Annica, Alana, Marcus, Aaron, Daniel, Ethan, Joel, Caleb, Reesa, Micah, Rayne, Cedar, Rebecca, and Kole

And my beautiful sister, Charlotte, the photographer for the previous pictures and mother of Annica, Micah, Marcus, and Caleb. (Holding our precious Alana.) Thank you for the pictures, Charlotte!

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Alana is 3 Weeks Old Today ...

... and in celebration, she gave me a present! When I was holding her during breakfast, she looked at me, made eye contact, and smiled (her eyes even crinkled up)! She giggled too! I love being her Mommy. I'm in love. :)

Sunday, June 07, 2009

At Home: Brothers and Sisters Loving Alana

Daddy, Alana, brother Kole and Mommy

Alana and brother Cedar

Alana and sister Reesa

Alana and sister Rayne

At Home: Cousins Loving Alana

Cousins Annica, Caleb, Marcus, and Micah with Alana

(We'll have to get pictures of her with her other five cousins soon!)

At Home: Aunts and Uncles Loving Alana

Alana and Aunt Laura

Aunt Charlotte, Cousin Marcus, and Alana

Aunt Christal, Sister Rayne, GoPa, and Alana

Uncle Mike and Alana

At Home: Great-Grandparents Loving Alana

Poppa and Alana

Alana and Mimi

Gramma, Gigi (actually in the Grandparent generation), and Alana

Gramma and Alana with the new puppy gift from Gramma

At Home: Grandparents Loving Alana

Alana and Oma

Alana and GoPa

Alana and Grammie

Meeting Alana at the Airport

Here are pictures of the family that met us at the airport. They couldn't wait to see Alana! (Neither could everyone else, but we asked them to meet us at our house with our kids - see next post.)

Oma, Mommy, and Alana

Mimi, Poppa, Mommy, and Alana with the new blankie Mimi knitted for her.

Alana, Mommy, and Auntie Laura

Grampie, Alana, Mommy, and Grammie

Thursday, June 04, 2009

On the Way Home

Here we are, on the airplane coming home!

Visiting with Jennifer

Before coming home, we took the opportunity to meet with Jennifer one more time. We had another great visit, talking for almost two hours! We just love Alana's birth mother.