The New Arrivial of Our Sweet Baby Girl!!

Isabel Noss was finally born April 25th at 8:42 p.m. She weighed 7 pounds 5 ounces and is 19 inches long. She is very sweet and very alert for being so little, and already full of smiles. In fact, we went to our first pediatrician appointment today and he said that she's as alert as a one-month-old baby! Here are some pictures:

The Tulip Festival

Brad and I met up with Candice and the girls, Lauri, Tyler & Emma at the Tulip Festival at Thanksgiving Point. I have to admit it was somewhat disappointing. Only 20% of the tulips at the festival had opened. It was fun to hang out with everyone though, and all the girls looked adorable as usual. Brad and I were there for about 3 hours, and boy can I feel it now! Note to self...take it easy on the walking when you're 9 months pregnant...Ouch!

A Work in Progress...

Well, here are the "before" and "in progress" pics of the baby's room that I've promised to post. Hopefully, I'll be able to post the "after" pics by Monday. Brad with the help of Cory, Tyler, Clay and his dad, has retextured the ceiling, fixed the walls, painted, added beadboard, trim (base, crown & corner blocks), a new custom window sill, custom closet, added the new light fixture with fan & ceiling medallion, and installed new blinds. All that's left to do is caulk, and paint the trim, beadboard, & closet. Brad's mom is also making us a hamper and basket liners to match! It's coming along...

The Babies Room.

Alright so Robin keeps telling me that this is our blog and that I need to contribute. So here it goes... We are at our final week of the pregnancy and it looks like she's going to be late... huh... like mother, like daughter. We are both so excited to meet her that it's starting to feel like a fever almost. After nine months of waiting I think its about time we get that chance. We had a doctors appointment today and we are going to go in on Monday, if she doesn't come before then, to have some tests done, and an ultrasound. Then if she still hasn't come on Thursday then we go in and plan with the doctor when we'll be induced. The doctor seems to think that at the latest it will be, is by weeks end we will have our precious little baby girl.

The room is about 85% complete just calking, painting and moving the mound of baby gifts piled in our living room. I've been working the last couple of days on the closet and I think it looks pretty good... Not to toot my own horn but yes, I am amazing. :-)

Times have been stressful lately with me trying to find a new job, Robin coming close to ending her academic career, preparing for the little one, and trying to figure out which out of my 4 vehicles will be the cheapest to fix and use... I think the Jeep is going to win, but we still have each other and our faith and of course the free baby stuff. Thanks y'all!!

I know Robin's posts are a lot better than mine, and I'm hoping that she'll hate this and say that she'll write all the rest. :-)

Peace!!!