Coming home from hospital

The Zahorka girls (Kara, Nichole, Crystal and Heidi), Oliver and Dad


Heather and Aaron visit. Thanks for all your help.


The outfit is a little big ... but it is cute. Thanks Grandma Z.


Oliver and Grandma Z.


Mom is ready to go home.

Here are a few more pictures. These pictures were taken Dec 22. She was in the hospital for 2 days. Mom has been busy as you can probably guess. So Dad is taking over for a short time. I did not size these pictures down so the quality will be better. Hope everyone is having a great Holiday. ttfn (ta ta for now) quote from Tigger.

Oliver James has arrived!!

Oliver James :)


Father and Son ... aaahhhh


The Family and a very tired and happy Mommy.

Oliver was born at 4:47PM , 7 lb 13 oz, 50 cm ~19 3/4 in.
Mom and baby are doing great. Labor was 12 hours staring at 5:00 AM.
Baby is very content cried twice. Once right after birth and when he got the two shots.
They were both very short.

The hospital kicked Dad out of the hospital (no place for dad to sleep in the room). So I am at home with Amy (Heidi's mom). I will drive back with Grandma in the morning. She is staying the night. Heidi is at the hospital (poor Heidi ... no Ethan to help). We expect her to be comming home tomorrow. That is all for now time to get some zzzzzz. ..... Thanks to all for any and all support, gifts and other given.

Ethan

Hangin' out with Zayden

Here are some photos that I took from this last Sunday evening when Ethan and I went over to Nichole and Aaron's and from a month or so ago when we were over at their house.

Baby Shower - November 17th

Brenda & Ginny had the shower for me.

The how big is Mum game

Leslie won

The diaper wreath Denise made

The candy bar diaper game.

Barbara & William

Aunt Nancee, Kara, Heather & Alicia

Melanie & Sariah

Denise

The Baby shower was on Saturday, November 17th. It was at my close friend Ginny's house. I am posting the photos a bit late but I was waiting to get them. I had a wonderful time. Mom and Heather came to Phoenix Friday night and stayed with Ethan and I through the weekend.
The shower was great! Heather brought the materials to paint onesies, which was the best idea. She brought the paints and white onesie's and they set up a table so people could go over and paint a onesie for the baby when they wanted to during the shower. There were some very talented artists.

Also we played several games such as the - guess what candy bar is in the diaper (yum, yum), how big is Mum and the clothesline game (how many clothes can you hang in a certain amount of time.

As you can see there were kids there.-So I got a lot of help opening presents! :)

My cousin Ryan's wife Alicia brought her new son who was 8 weeks old, and Denise (who goes to meeting) brought her little son who isn't that much older.

Thanksgiving Weekend

Jeff & Annika

Annika & Ethan

Annika

Ethan & Annika

On the Friday after Thanksgiving Heather, Aaron and Ethan and I met up with Jeff and the kids (Annika & Trevor) at a park in Tucson. Stephanie was suppossed to join us but she wasn't feeling well.
Then before we were going to leave on Sunday Heather and I decided to show off our baby bellies, only thing tho' is that Heather isn't showing yet! - So basicly we are just showing off my giganic belly. -It was really funny, but you might have had to have been there. The next time I see Heather will probably be right after I have the baby.

Thanksgiving

The Feast

The Bro's

The new parents! :)

Thanksgiving at Mom and Dad's house!
We had Thanksgiving at Mom's house this year. Heather and Aaron were in Tucson all week and Ethan and I drove down Wednesday afternoon. Joan, Karlan and Kara came for Thanksgiving day.

The food was yummy and it was fun to spend time with our family. I am very excited for Heather and Aaron, it is neat that Heather and I are pregnant at the same time! Our kids will be only 6 months apart. Her due date is the first week of June.

Update on our house!

We went and looked at our house on Sunday the 1st of December. As you can see they have painted the stucco on the outside of the house and put in the light fixtures and put in the driveway and garage door.
In the inside they have put in the flooring, tile etc., except for the carpet, they have painted the walls, put in the cabinets and countertops etc.

So the newest on the house is that we have a walk through date scheduled for the 21st of December. They really want to close on the house before the new year. We would like to close in January, since we are paying rent through January on our apartment. The good thing is that we will have a whole month to move in! It's all so exciting! Yoohoo