Happy Birthday Emily!

(I am sorry it has taken so long to get back here--we've been busy with....well....life.  And before I share our big news I have to pause because...)

Today, we celebrate Emily's 12th birthday!

Twelve years ago I was lying in the hospital eager to hear the nurse's report each time she checked on me.  

Waiting for your first child to be born is a feeling like no other.  

(I'm not even talking about labor pains!)

Thanks to an epidural and being dialated to 4 cm when I arrived at the hospital, Emily came rather easily.

Good thing because Jeremy was pretty much useless.

I lost him when he watched the epidural needle get placed in my back.

Poor guy--the nurses attended to him more than me!

Twelve years ago, we became parents.

Jeremy prayed for a beautiful daughter that we would call Emily.

He picked her first name. 

If he or his brother had been girls, Emily was the name his parents had picked out.

I picked Noel for her middle name.

I love Christmas!

 Emily Noel

simply beautiful

 

Happy Birthday, Emily!