Catching Up

I have a ton of pictures to share from Addie's first two weeks of life. I will try and catch up in the next couple of days. First of all, I have to share the video of Greta meeting Addie at the hospital. Thanks Mom for making the video!


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Facelift

Due to inspiration from my friend Amber's blog, I decided to add a little facelift. Black was getting a little boring and with 2 girls I need a little more pink in my life :-)

Welcome Addie!

Adelaide Anne (Addie) Peters was born Tuesday, June 17 at 11:29 am. She weighed 7 lb 2 oz and was 20 inches long. So far she has been a sweet baby, even putting up with a few "love pats" from her sister. Here are just a few pictures :-)

A few seconds old...trying out her lungs

A very proud daddy

Her first bath from nurse Nancy and daddy

She liked having her back rubbed

Clinging to daddy's hand

Meeting the grandparents...




Our first family photo

A few more...

Itsy Bitsy

Greta's favorite song is definitely Itsy Bitsy Spider - she always sings along in her high soprano voice. (thanks Grandma Connie for the video :-)


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A fine Spring day

Some pictures from earlier in May...

It's hard to share

Yesterday I had the chance to take some pictures of our good friends Aaron and Heather and their daughter Olivia. After the photo session and some lunch Olivia and Greta "played" together for a little bit. I am not so sure Greta is ready for a sibling to share with - she definitely has the "it's mine" facial expression down!

Mexico

For some reason, I am having a hard time keeping up with my blog. Maybe it's because it is finally nice enough outside to actually want to be there, or it could be the very active toddler I spend most of my day chasing around. For those of you who are unaware of the toddler language, here are a few translations: "come here" means go, "go" means go, "sit down, please" means go, "wait for mommy" means go, etc! All that to say, Greta is a ton of active fun :-)

Here are a few pictures from our Mexico trip at the end of April. It was so great to see Dave, Shelly and Zoey and experience a brief snapshot of what their life has been like this past year.

Zoey and the lambs on the Rancho

Zoey and her best friends, Regina and Danny

Sharing a smoothie, Mmmmm!

Jon and Dave, deep in conversation

Me and Zoey

A highlight of the trip...lots of pool time!


Riding in true Hollywood style (in the back of the pickup)


Zoey posing for her photoshoot

And more babies...!

Congrats to my cousin Renee and her husband Chas on the birth of their new baby girl. Caroline Ruth Sample was born a week ago Monday! Check out their blog: http://crsample.blogspot.com/

My good and oldest friend (we go all the way back to kindergarten) Heather, is expecting any day now. I had the chance to take some maternity pictures for her a month ago. Here are a couple of my favorites.

Just loungin'

Here are a few recent pictures of Greta. I'm not sure where she learned to kick her feet up and relax (her momma never does that!), but recently that is the only way she sits in her chair.

"I love to read"

"I'm ready for my senior portraits!"

"Texting all my friends"

"This baby chair fits pretty well too!"

My Famous Friend

Wow! My college roommate Allison has just become the face of Chevron! Click here www.chevron.com to view the entire website. I think this makes her the most famous person I know!

Wow! Sorry for the long time between posts. The past 6 weeks have been wonderfully filled with family and babies. I will try to catch up on it all in one long post, which will probably be the longest blog post ever, so feel free to just skim :-)

Starting with...
February 26
Our niece Ava Joy was born. She has already lived up to her name and brought our family a lot of joy. Here are a few pictures taken when she was just a couple of weeks old.







The pictures I took when we visited in the hospital can be seen here:
http://hollypetersphotography.com/babymuench/

After Ava was born, we enjoyed having Ellie and Graham with us for a couple of days. Greta loves spending time with her cousins!




Please continue to keep little Ava in your prayers - specifically that she would continue to gain weight. If you are interested in reading more, Carrie and Carter have started a blog here.

March 4
Another prayer request...one week after Ava was born, good friends of ours from church had a little girl named Geneva Joy Selvig. She was born with a diaphragmatic hernia. Unfortunately we haven't been able to meet her yet because she is still at the Children's hospital in Minneapolis. They have a website for Geneva here.

March 10
Jon's brother and family came home from Mexico (and yes, I will call wishingly call Eau Claire home for them). We hadn't seen them since September, so it was fun to see how much Zoey had changed and how Zoey and Greta interacted (and they did just as you would imagine two stubborn red heads would :-) We got to spend the majority of the week up at the family cabin. Here are a few highlights:








March 11
Our niece, Olivia Lynn Sprouse was born. It was hard to be so far away from Heidi during this time, especially since she ended up having a c-section. I was fortunate to be able to use my frequent flier miles to visit her a week later. On Sunday the 16th we celebrated my mom's birthday with the Kohlhepps and got to meet Olivia for the first time via webcam.

Greta was fascinated with both the computer and Olivia.

Greta and Great Grandpa Kohlhepp


March 18
One week after Olivia was born I flew out (by myself!) to visit Heidi. My parents flew out with Greta on Saturday night before Easter. We enjoyed going to Heidi and Bill's church for Easter and watching Olivia be a quiet and sweet baby and Greta be a wild and crazy toddler.

Sweet Olivia





Olivia bundled and ready to go

Olivia and Grandma K.

The Girls

Aunt Heidi and Uncle Bill read to Greta

Grandpa and his granddaughters

Grandpa teaches Greta how to ride Uncle Bill's cycle

Greta "enjoys" a stroller ride

Uncle Bill gives Olivia a sponge bath - love those lil cheeks!

All clean!


A few more babies...

My college roomie Amber is expecting in October! Congrats!
The Roberts' Blog.


Our good friends Aaron and Heather Jones are in Korea right now picking up their daughter. We can't wait to meet baby Liv! You can read more about their story here.

That's all for now. Thanks for reading the longest post ever if you made it this far!