My Son Is Here!

ISAAC JOEL FORD

Born: 1-29-09 at 11:34am / 6 pounds 11 ounces / 20.5 inches

The Story: The short version is that we had an induction planned for 1/28 and a little less than a week from then, we moved it to 1/30 so we would have a couple extra days to get our new house in order before the baby came. Well, Tami was feeling some pretty strong contractions about 3-6min. apart early Thursday(1/29) morning as I was getting ready for work. After a call to the doctor and an hour of strong contractions, we were off to the hospital. After checking her out, we were told that today was the day. We didn't get 'our' doctor because he was off, but the doctor we had turned out to be fantastic. We were very pleased. The nurse said it was a perfect natural birth. Tami is doing super along with Isaac. Olivia has really enjoyed Isaac and has been a great big sister. Praise the Lord! God is good...ALL the time!

A HOUSE!!!!!!!!!!!

Just a quick "let you know"....

We are finally moved into a house as of last Monday for Justin and Wednesday for Olivia and I!!! It's been a huge PRAISE THE LORD.....more details will come later...

And another fyi: Boy Ford (name will be posted after birth when one is decided on...) will be coming this Friday the 30th...unless he decides he wants to see us sooner!

Keep us in your prayers!
Thanks!

Puking 101

Ok.....so here's a question:

What do you do when you are driving down the road, with your 1 1/2 year old, 20 miles from home (which is still far from anything), and she pukes all down her front, has a puddle she's sitting in, and is crying?

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Well, I know it's a little late, but here's a few pictures from Christmas. We traveled from TN to Centerville Ohio to St. Louis MO to Milan MO to Macon MO to St. Louis MO and back to TN. We were zonked when we got home and Olivia followed up with a cold/congestion...which we are still trying to conquer. We had a great time though and Olivia got to play with lots and lots of cousins.

Yes, Olivia got up super early to see Uncle Will off to work!

We got everybody to smile!

We played the Wii in Ohio and ending up getting it as a Christmas present in St. Louis. Thanks Nana & Gramp!

Olivia was so excited when she opened all the rocks Aunt Tara & Uncle Will got her!

Check out the feet....always nice to have an extra hand when opening presents!

Sharing a snack with cousin Karsen.

Carpet on the stairs was sooo nice...Olivia learned how to slide down backwards thanks to Karsen!

Nate, Olivia, Cara, & Aleah. Sweet.

Did I mention they became good buddies?

This is Princess.....Justin's sister's dog. She lost all her teeth so her tongue hangs out like this all the time. Too funny.

Some of the Fam that showed up at Grandma Blankenship's house.

We managed to see Nana one day in St. Louis.....she had the shingles and didn't get to spend all of Christmas vacation with us.

Justin helped Nate put together a cool car when we watched Katie's kids one evening.

I got to help color!

Olivia LOVES her new stroller for her babies! Thanks Aunt Katie & Uncle Greg!

Olivia was reading to her babies on her cool new couch she got from Grandma & Grandpa.