The family visit

We don't have a name yet soooo...  The baby was able to be out of NICU today and be in the room with Ariel and nick.  We are so thankful she is doing so well!  We took the boys with us to see her too.  I even got to hold her today.  She is so sweet and it truly felt awesome to get to hold her.

Off oxygen!!

Yea today she is off the oxygen and only has one more treatment of antibiotic tonight.  They are hoping to have her in a regular bed in the NICU by tomorrow.  Eric got to hold and feed her today so we are pretty excited.  Thank you for prayers!!

Look at this sweet face, just look at it:).

A little one!

After a long couple of days for our sweet birth mom, this "little" girl made it to the world February 22, 2013.  She weighs in at 8 lbs 12 oz and is 21 inches long.  Love her already and her sweet birth family.  We don't know when we get to bring her home but hopefully next week.

Disneyland

We were in Phoenix one week before Kylie's due date and started trying to figure out what to do to kill time.   Awhile ago I had looked up how far Disneyland would be from Phoenix and turns out it is only 5 hours which seems really short after the long drive from Houston.   So we decided what better way to spend time while waiting for Kylie to be born then to get on the road again and drive to Disneyland? 

It turned out to be such a fun trip.  We left on a Wednesday night and drove most of it while the kids were sleeping.  Really good idea on our part as we avoided the hourly potty/stretch breaks:)    We woke up early and went straight to Cars Land and to the Cars ride.   We ended up going on this ride three times that day thanks to the fast pass and losing our park hopper tickets.  (It took so long to locate the old ones in the system that they felt bad and gave us another fast pass).  It worked out great for us as we got to use it on Cannon's favorite ride Buzz Lightyear.   We got to "meet" lots of characters which the boys loved.  They were such a fun age to go and it really was a perfect Disneyland day.  We rode whatever the kids wanted to ride and the lines were typically about 20 minutes which I think is pretty awesome for Disneyland.

 

 

 

 

The next day we woke up and went to Disneyland.  It was quite a bit more crowded as it was a Friday, but we had a great day.  We found that there is another buzz lightyear ride which the boys loved.  Cannon was just at 40 inches so he was able to go on all the rides too.  The boys were super excited about going on the Star Wars ride so we took them and I am still not totally convinced that they loved.  If you ask them they did. 

 

 

 

By far the most memorable ride of the day came at the very end when we took the boys on Splash Mountain.  Yes we get the awesome parenting award for this one.  We will let you be the judge whether or not we have scarred our children for life:)