like mother like son???

1983

2010

Many, O Lord my God, are the wonders you have done, the things you planned for us, no one can recount to you; were I to speak and tell of them, they would be too many to declare. (Psalm 40:5)

Everett Aaron Windle

Last Tuesday night started out like any other. I ate dinner (a huge portion of cheese tortellini by the way) and was headed out to hang out with my lovely friend Sara Wise. She was treating my pregnant self to a pedicure and I was pumped! We were in Walmart before the pedis looking at (what else) baby stuff when all of a sudden, I realized that my water had broken and it was running down my leg! This was a surprise since I had just been at the doctor that afternoon with no signs of impending labor. After going back and forth with Sara  "I think my water broke (me) No it didn't!? (her) Yea, I think my water broke? (me) No, it didn't?! (her)"  I became panicked wondering how exactly I was going to get out of Walmart without someone snapping a picture of me and putting it on peopleofwalmart.com. ha! Sara calmly walked behind me as I frantically called Aaron. Luckily, Sara was driving her husband's car with leather seats, so I didn't do too much damage to the car (thanks Bry!). We headed back to my house to my equally frantic husband and called my doctor. We were told to report to the hospital and so we finished packing our hospital bags and were on our way. I wasn't really feeling any contractions at that point, just the nervous anticipation of labor and finally meeting our little man. We made phone calls to our parents and (me) to my work on the way to Reading Hospital. They held us in triage while I was being admitted and hence the pictures, I was still feeling just fine:

After being admitted around 8pm, we settled into our room, took a 25 minute walk, and watched episodes of Criminal Minds and 16 and pregnant... Around 11:30, they gave me a pill to jump start my contractions- and let me tell you - that's exactly what happened. After about an hour and a half of sheer pain, I was dialated to 3 cm and was given an epidural in the middle of contractions. By 5 am I was fully dialated and we frantically called our parents to get to the hospital! In the end, my doctor had us wait until the baby was ready and Everett decided to show up at 8:20 that morning, March 3, 2010! Our little man ended up weighing only 7lbs. 7ozs. and was 20 perfect inches. We could hardly believe how small he was. Just a little peanut :) Now, 7lbs. may not seem small to you, but coming from a family where 10lb. babies are common, we were expecting a jumbo baby!

an hour before Everett showed up

the whole family a little after Everett was born

getting checked out

world's best grandpa (times 2)

grandmom

mimi

a little haggard after 12 hrs of labor- but it was totally worth it!

in love already

daddy- wrapped around everett's little fingers already :)

our first night together

so stinkin cute

last day at the hospital

time to go home!

sleepy

no seriously, hug me, or pick me up, or something!

Marley, not sure what to think, but thoroughly interested

:)

looking like a little old man

I'm adorable

daddy is smitten

wide eyed, for once!

I love hugs...

The past week has been quite an adventure. We are so grateful for the support of our families and friends and for all of their help! (Especially Mimi who came to stay and get up in the middle of the night to help change dirty diapers and rock Everett back to sleep!) We can't wait to see what the rest of this adventure has in store for us. Either way we are excited and thankful for this little blessing!

Sons are a heritage of the Lord, children a reward from him--- Psalm 127:3

photo shoot

A friend of a friend is starting a photography business and needed to build her portfolio. One way she wanted to build her portfolio was to get a maternity photo shoot, so I jumped at the chance for free pictures and more documentation of my growing belly! I am full term in the pictures (37 weeks) and wondering if this belly could really get any bigger?! Denise got some great photos despite the fact that Aaron and I were probably less than perfect models, laughing often (I know you're surprised) and trying not to pose awkwardly ;) Below are some of the great photos that Denise took:

our little family of four... soon to be five!

love!

one of my favorites

big belly:

loving our little man already :)

Congrats Bro!

The last weekend in January Seth graduated from West Chester University. We're really proud of him and all his hard work and perseverence! CONGRATS BRO :)

34 down, 6 to go!

the holidays

Aaron and I couldn't get over how fast the holidays went this year! December flew by and along with it Christmas and New Years. We spent Christmas in Pittsburgh and were so excited to get to spend time with everyone, especially Kels in from Nevada! We drove out to Pittsburgh on the 23rd, which made Christmas Eve and Christmas Day really fun and relaxing for us. Erika, Todd, and the boys moved in with Grandma to take care of her, so we ended up having our Anderson Family Christmas at Grandma's house for the first time in a long time. It was really nice celebrating in the house that I spent so many holidays in as a kid. We drove back to Philly on Saturday night and got to celebrate Christmas with the Windles on Sunday. Diane made chicken papikash, a traditional Hungarian meal, which is my absolute favorite! New Years was spent with 65 of our closest friends ;) haha Jess, Faith, and Revee threw a party at the Farm and we had lots of fun with plenty of sparkling grape juice involved... well at least for Sara and I.

our christmas card

christmas at our house!

only our dogs pose like this for food...

30 weeks!

after 7 years of asking, Erika finally gave in and let Aaron buy Aidan a gun ;)

to which Aidan was obviously excited about

Ethan too!

and Bebe :)

all of the Anderson cousins at Gram's house

prego for new years ...

only Aaron...

 New Years with Bry and Sara... haha and as Aaron said... hmm, one of these things is not like the others (in a sing song voice) ---hey, we can't all be 6'4!

We are looking forward to quite an eventful year and are starting the countdown to the arrival of our little guy - only 8 weeks to go! Happy 2010 Everyone :)