***Our Sweet Baby Boy Is HERE*** :)

As most of you already know, our sweet Baby Eli is here and was born January 16, 2009 at 12:26 pm!!! 7 lbs 14 oz, and 20.5 inches long! The moment he was born was one of the most amazing experiences in Noah's and my life! He is such a lil precious blessing to us SO much and we absolutely LOVE parenthood!!!! Noah, Eli, and I got home from the hospital Sunday January 18th and are still adjusting to a schedule, but so far it is going great! Mommy and Daddy don't get a whole lot of sleep at night... but it is all TOTALLY worth it and I love to be up with my lil man any chance I can:) Eli looks a lot like Daddy for sure!!! He is pretty much a lot like Daddy, with Mommy's nose, chin, and skin color :) We loooove our lil man SO much!!!! He is our lil hero, and makes me smile nonstop when I look at him no matter what he is doing! We are soooo glad he is FINALLY here!!!! I was in labor for 12.5 hours... not toooo bad at all (other then the pain haha). It actually seemed faster then that too. I will say the whole labor in general wasn't the greatest, but I stayed strong for our lil man and made it through!!!

Noah and I want to send out a special thank to everyone SO much who came to visit us, brought gifts, and for all the amazing comments from everyone and in general, just everything you have done for us!!! We have such amazing families and friends and appreciate everything SO much... it means a ton to us!!!

Words can not explain one bit what we feel for our lil man and the start of a family together! It is truly a blessing for sure and we are very excited to be Eli's parents and learn together the joys and special memories of parenthood. He is simply perfect to us... so perfect words can not even explain enough how perfect it seriously feels. He is such a great baby, and it literally makes me cry with tears of joy to look at him, think of lil things we will go through with him in our lives, and see how he is 5 days old today, and smiles at us already :) Life is so great, and our baby is something we have been looking for SO long, and is truly such a blessing to our lives. We love you soooo much lil man and always will. <3

You're our world lil man <3

FIRST sponge bath-- He didn't like this as you see!!!

BUT afterwards he realized it wasn't so bad after all :)

Daddy and Eli during the Steelers game-- WOO HOO and headed to the Super Bowl :) Eli is our *special charm* for sure! We love you baby boy <3

Mommy loves you SO much... words can't even explain!!! <3

My sweet lil hero <3

Daddy loves you!!! This is Daddy's first pic with Eli :)

Eli's coming home outfit!! <3

Our first family pic together <3>

Sweet Elijah Andrew :)