First week home

Well we survived our first week home with baby Livia. Lovely Livia as Grandma has nicknamed her:) we could not have made it this past week with out grandma & grandpas help. I was soooo very sad to see them go! Bekah had a great time with them especially when I was in the hospital she got to spend the night with them! and she loved grandmas oatmeal and riding in the car with them to and from. I was so happy to be home after only 3 days!!! with Bekahbear I was there for 1 week so this was a nice change. However I compared the two and thought I was strong enough to do more than I should...so I had to really take it easy! I really could not have relaxed like I did without their help. Mom even got up with me on some of those early morning feedings. My parents are awesome!!! Wish they could stay forever:)

As you can see Bex is a great helper

Grandpa is great to cuddle with
Nothing beats daddys chest

Reading baby sister a book

Sisters

Look at Liv stretch! she is soooo long!

helping with a feeding

1 week old already

loving daddy

one for each now:)

While Grandma was here we decided to get Bekah her first hair cut! She did great sitting still on the bar stool while Grandma trimmed.

looks great!

Proud big Sis

Love my parents!!!

Love my family!!!

Introducing Livia Elise Rogers

The long awaited day is here! Friday morning John & I arrived at the hospital at 6 am and started getting ready for my csection. I had to have another since Rebekah was born by emergency csection. I did not sleep well the night before because I was so worried about how it would all go. Last time it all went really fast since it was an emergency and I was sick most of the delivery. I was hoping this time everything would go differently and it did!
Mom and Dad came into town Thursday afternoon to help watch Bekah. They got to the hospital ~7am and it was great to give my first little pooh bear a big hug & kiss before going into surgery.
The nurses were all really great and comforting through the whole process. After telling them our story from last time they agreed to try and make it different this time. I was so very anxious to get through the surgery and meet my little girl. I know John was anxious and pacing the floor waiting to come see me and meet our little girl. It was great this time John came in right before the baby was born and got to see her first! Dr. Reddy held her up and I got to see her too from over the drapes. She screamed soooo loud and kept screaming the whole time she was getting cleaned up. John got to take lots of pix and then finally hold her! I got to then kiss her before they took her off to get all cleaned up and weighed/measured.

Livia Elise Rogers was born August 6th at 8:05 am. We were soooo very excited to meet her! She shocked us all and weighed 9 lb 11 oz and was 22 inches long!!!

our sleeping beauty

peekaboo
Proud Daddy

all clean

Bex ready to pick up sister:)

getting her hair done

After getting all cleaned up and Mommy getting all fixed up we met again in the recovery room for some much needed alone time with mommy and baby. My little baby girl is so beautiful and looks a lot like my first beautiful baby girl! She is perfect! So healthy and happy!

Later we then went to our room and started having visitors. It is always fun to show off your new little one:)

proud Grandpa and Grandma

Sister Love

Proud Grandpa Rogers

Proud Grandma Ginny

On Sunday morning the nurses asked if we were ready to go home (and of course we were) so we left right after lunch! Mommy was feeling good and baby was doing great!

All ready to go home!

Proud Mommy

Ready to go home!

These are some of my favorite pix from our first couple days with Livia. Please click on the following link to see more. You can never have too many pix:)

http://picasaweb.google.com/boscobingo/LiviaEliseRogers

Prego Pix

So I thought I would group the belly bump pix all together since I was behind in updating:)
Here I am at 38 weeks (one week before baby girl is born). Bex has been so excited to hug and kiss my belly/baby sister. She is going to be a great big sis!

38 weeks

36 weeks
33 weeks

31 weeks - baby love

31 weeks

28 weeks

22 weeks

Our Princess is 3 !!!

I can't believe our little baby girl is three already! Seems like it was just yesterday that she was born and seems like she has always been here:) Bekah is such a joy to have around and in the past year she has grown so much! well weight wise not really:) but she is so talkative & friendly- says hi to people where ever we go, asks people their names, and just loves to make new friends. She is mostly outgoing but can be a little shy when she first meets someone or first arrives somewhere. I think being at preschool has been great for her! It is great for me too have days home with her so we can do fun things too. This summer we have been going to the pool, the library, and playing in our own backyard. She has been really looking forward to having a princess party this year! We decided to have a party with friends and family this year since it will be our last with just her. We also decided to have her party early just in case baby sister comes early (she has been measuring ahead for weeks now) Bex has requested a princess party although when we went to pick her cake she wanted hello kitty! which is also fun:)
We were lucky to also have my parents and brother Michael & family stay with us for the weekend! It is so fun to have the house packed with constant fun:) The kids had a great time playing with each other. It was sad to see them go as always.
So greatful for all our family and friends that came out to celebrate! We had the best time!!
Click on the link below to see all the pictures from her party:
http://picasaweb.google.com/boscobingo/rebekahs3rdbirthday

Our sweet Princess

Bex helped me pick out and fill the donkey with candy. I was a little worried she got a little attached and was gonna have a hard time hitting it open but no such problem:)
Pelfrey cousins playing in the pool
Blowing out candles
Since it starting raining in the middle of the party we decided to have the pinata contest inside! Daddy was a brave one:)

Bex loves her new babydoll and stroller! Getting ready to be a big sister!

For her actual birthday John and I took Rebekah to ChuckyCheese. She had a great time playing on all the toys and loved collecting the all the tickets! John and I also had fun playing games too:)

Daddy and Bekah in a friendly game of air hockey

and she scored!

I heart ChuckyCheese

Shooting some hoops

Happy July 4th

This was our first Fourth of July in Flower Mound. We found the local fireworks show at the park and could actually see 3 shows from where we were at. It was pretty cool. The first shot is one John took. The truck in front of us had the flag up.

Bekah was enjoying the show!
here is a shot where you can see that she fell at school on a book shelf! ouch!

the sky looked so neat that night

Celebrating the Twenties

Celebrating the Twenties

We were invited to a friends 3oth birthday party and the theme was celebrating the twenties, like his twenties but dressed up as 20's era! Such a great fun way to celebrate turning 30:)

I was not sure how we were going to pull it off but after visiting a few costume shops in the area it all seemed to come together! I was really impressed that John wanted to dress up since all the years I have known him he has never dressed for halloween or anything like that. Together we had a great time coming up with our outfits and especially getting Bekah-bear one!

The first pic is my favorite one of her. We found the dress at goodwill and I sewed on the fringe to the bottom. She just loved getting dressed up! She was adorable!!!

I think her favorite part was putting on the make-up. Here I have to say look at her gorgeous long eye-lashes! (thanks to her daddy:)

Here she is with her full costume

Posing with Daddy

Now with Mommy

Here is all of us. We were the only family that all dressed up.

Now our sexy pose:)

Bekah playing with her friend Audrey

Just the 2 of us

When I came out that night with my wig on the first thing Bex said was "mommy you look like dora!" I was sooo bummed. So the next day Bex also wanted to put on the dora wig:)

John's Birthday!!

This year John turned 35!! We surprised him after work with a cake. Bekah had a great time decorating with sprinkles. She kept saying "daddy is 5 and I am 3" very cute!!

For John's birthday dinner we went to Chef Point Cafe in Watauga. It is a restaurant that started in a gas station...I know sounds different and it was to eat dinner in a convenience store but the food was so yummy! It has also been featured on the food network channel. There was also an hour wait and it always really busy. Something to try out if you are in the Ft. Worth area.

The next weekend We celebrated his birthday again with friends with a surprise cake and pool party at Stu & Maria's house. It was very relaxing and yummy food!
Below is a pic of Bex trying out John's new wakeboard from King. What great friends we have!!