1 whole year!!

I have been really bad lately keeping my blog up to date. I promise one of these day's I'll get caught up! In the meantime I couldn't pass up the opportunity to announce that...
Audrey is 1 year old today!!
My how time has flown. It seems like just yesterday that we brought our sweet baby girl home. She is such a sweetheart and love to give hugs to mom and dad. She even seems to like her brother quite a bit, although at times (when he's trying to squash her, etc) he's not as nice as he should be too her...I guess I've got more of that coming don't I.
Audrey isn't quite walking yet, but loves to stand and has taken up to 2 steps at a time. I know soon we won't be able to keep her down and she'll be all over he place. She loves her brother and smiles everytime she sees him. She get's super excited when we go to get Nathan from his class at Daycare and she gets to see him. I have a hard time keeping her from falling out of my arms she's so excited.
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We sure do love this little girl and are so glad that we have her in our lives. She brings such joy to our family.
She's got us all wrapped around her little fingers....
and we wouldn't have it any other way!
Love you Baby Girl!!! Happy 1st Birthday!!!

Audrey 1 year ago today....
Audrey this morning...

I'm home!!!

Introducing the newest member of the Hepworth Family:

Audrey Aline
Born May 28, 2008
12:20 pm
6 lbs 3 oz
20 inches long

Even Nathan thinks she pretty neat...

and loves to give her kisses!

We were able to finally get both myself and Audrey home Sunday afternoon. We had planned on leaving on Saturday and were getting everything packed and ready when we were told that my discharge had been canceled.
Friday night the nurse had noticed that I a had a pretty good sized red patch on my skin above where my incision was. The doctor on call at the hospital put my on an antibiotic and had some blood drawn to see what might be going on. Well, the blood test came back positive for an infection and what they thought it was is life threatening if found in your blood, which it was. They wanted to get me immediately on IV antibiotics and would have to stay at least overnight, possibly 3 days. This was not exactly what I had been hoping for. I was really looking forward to getting home and being able to spend time with Nathan.
So shortly after finding out I wouldn't be leaving the nurse came in to put in the IV. I really hate needles and every time have had to had blood drawn or an IV put in it usually takes them 2 or three tries. Well I had three separate nurses try to get the IV in, each of them with 2 tries before the last nurse got it in finally. OUCH!!! It was not pleasant at all. I just want to say that if I never need an IV again I will be ok with that.
Well we were lucky and after staying an extra night in the hospital and getting antibiotics all night we got a call from the doctor and found out that I only have a skin infection (the red patch, which has now gone away, thanks to the antibiotics) and not what they had feared. Yay! So we are finally home and enjoying the new little person in our family.

The day has arrived!!

As you may have noticed on our baby day counter that it's now at zero days to go. Chris and I will be heading into the hospital later to finally add this new little girl to our family.
Thanks to everyone who has wished us well as this new phase in our life is starting. We are looking forward to see how she will change our lives and to see her with her big brother Nathan!
We are really excited and as soon as we have pictures available we'll share with everyone.

We finally know!

We've decided to finally get a blog going and share our great news. I think we are still in a little shock, at least I am, but we are getting a little girl to add to our family.
When we asked Nathan if he was happy about his baby sister, he nodded his head. Of course we either get a nod or back and forth shake so it's hard to say.






See our excitement!!!!!