Time to Celebrate!

Now that we're home and happy it's time to Celebrate!  The celebrating started with showers for our sweet baby Maya!  We had a friend shower, a family shower, a work shower and many presents from excited family, friends, co-workers, and neighbors in between!

top left: special present from Grandma Shelia and Auntie Sky-lar in Missouri
Bottom Right: pick with special blanket from Grandma Great Maxine

Our baby girl got pretty spoiled!

And that's not even all of it!  You wouldn't believe how much my family keeps giving too!

And then came Mother's Day!  I'm so excited to celebrate this special day thanks to our sweet baby girl!

For Mother's day Brandon gave me some gorgeous roses and took me on a hot date the night before!

Last, but not least, my birthday!  All this last year I would always say how I did not want to turn 37 and still not be a mom - well, I got to be a mom just before the big day ... how lucky am I?  It was a pretty special weekend!  Brandon got me some gorgeous roses and took me shopping, and we had a big celebration on Sunday with family!

My sis made my all-time favorite cake - yum!

Homecoming

We were so excited when we got word we could come home - as a family - with our beautiful baby girl Maya!  We got right online and purchased our plane tickets.  Even though we loved our time as our small family unit in Michigan, the time to get home just couldn't come fast enough when we got the word!  We had a layover in Denver and Maya slept the entire time on both flights - what a good girl!

We flew in late Saturday night (actually arrived early Sunday morning).  Then we spent the day Sunday with our family!  It feels so good to watch other's adore our baby girl - one of the best feelings in the world if you ask me! By the way, "Grape" (Grandma Great Maxine) got the first genuine smile!

Her pets love her too - they're very gentle and curious!

Maya is so loved and we are so blessed!

Michigan Visitors

Even though we were far away from home in Michigan to get our baby girl, we did have some visitors!  My sister Amy and her family drove 3 hours from Ohio to see our sweet Maya and they even got a hotel room next to ours and spent the night, and then the next day with us!

My cousin Josh came from Chicago to visit on his way to a baseball game in Detroit!

And, along with the many phone calls from family we also got some Face-time visitors as well!

It sure made the distance seem not so far away when we were ready to get our beautiful girl home!

Lazy Family Sunday

Yes, we're still in Michigan (probably for another week)!  We're having a lazy Sunday today with our little family and it feels so good! I've been getting some much needed laundry done and I love seeing these little girl clothes in our laundry basket!

It's been a week and a few days here in Michigan as our little family of three and we are still in heaven!  We've spent much of our time on the phone/texting with family, snuggling, and a lot of fun in our quiet moments learning how to be mom and dad.  I wonder if I'll ever stop get all teary-eyed looking at our little girl -- especially in those peaceful moments when I glance over to see my pretty amazing husband holding our daughter!  Ours!

It's been nice having all of the extra cuddle time with our little princess!

Maya lost her umbilical cord yesterday (can't bring myself to throw it away just yet)  so she had her first "official" bath last night of actually getting her tiny little body in the water (rather than sponge baths) and she loved it!  She stayed wide-eyed, calm and quiet the whole time!  We caught this sweet pic right after the bath!

Brandon snuck this little pic of her the other night before bed ... I do believe it's perfect!

I caught this one today - she makes this face a lot when she is first waking up.

And ... I quite often can't stop singing the primary song:
I love daddy, he loves me,
We love Maya yes-sir-ee,
She loves us and so you see,
We are a happy family!

Yep!  Happy!  We hope you have yourself a happy Sunday!